May 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 30-mile protest against President Trump policies links Aurora to Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hands-chicagoland-rally-30-mile-protest-president-donald-trump-policies-links-aurora-chicago-ogden-avenue/16462021/
— Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-president-joe-biden-diagnosed-prostate-cancer-routine-exam-hospital-philadelphia/16461073/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hands Across Chicagoland event stretches from Aurora to Chicago to protest Trump administration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/hands-across-chicagoland-event-stretches-from-aurora-to-chicago-to-protest-trump-administration/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stuebner was one of over 18,000 gathered over a 30-mile stretch across DuPage and Cook counties from Aurora to Chicago on Sunday to protest Trump administration policies, per a news release from the Hands Across Chicagoland event organized by the Democratic Party of DuPage County, Indivisible Illinois, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and other political organizations across the Chicago area. The idea was to “form a human chain of solidarity against Trump’s illegal and authoritarian actions and the GOP’s failure to defend the Constitution,” per the release. Protestors signed up in advance based on their ZIP code, and lined the sidewalk along Ogden Avenue and 26th Street, from Aurora to the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, on Sunday afternoon. The idea arose out of past protests organized by the DuPage Democratic party, according to the group’s chair Reid McCollum. In March, the group hosted a “Tesla Takedown DuPage” protest against Elon Musk’s efforts to slash and restructure the federal government and decided they wanted to stage a protest that stretched further. Sunday’s demonstration was spurred on by the Trump administration sending individuals — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the United States — to detention centers, McCollum said. The protest’s goal is to reach a significant number of people passing by the protest so that the people of the U.S. won’t “just slide into authoritarianism without fighting back,” McCollum said. Amongst a few dozen protestors gathered in Lisle, several local officials offered their remarks. Standing in front of an inflatable chicken meant to be a caricature of President Trump, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson, told The Beacon-News that these kinds of demonstrations show that people are “ready to resist” the Trump administration. She described concerns about Medicaid, SNAP and tariffs as some of the everyday issues that are affecting ordinary residents’ lives.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. To come into a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/opinion-immigration-us-donald-trump-jb-pritzker/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/19/trump-maga-fake-news-right-wing-media-lies-fox-propaganda-democracy-andy-shaw

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Is Gov. JB Pritzker the wealthiest person in Illinois? Here’s the top 5.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/05/19/top-5-richest-people-in-illinois-according-to-forbes/83669860007/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/19/thousands-line-ogden-avenue-to-protest-trump-administration/

WIFR
— Democrat leaders want Walmart to charge more to punish Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/18/trumps-tariffs-may-mean-walmart-shoppers-pay-more-his-treasury-chief-acknowledges/

TRIBE
— What’s it like to raise teens in 2025? What did you do when you were a teen? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail.
https://thetriibe.com/2025/05/whats-it-like-to-raise-teens-in-2025/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. Democrats object.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-order-targets-barcodes-on-ballots-theyve-long-been-a-source-of-misinformation/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-515/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Open borders + sanctuary status + free benefits + Gov. Abbott = Chicago population growth
https://wirepoints.org/open-borders-sanctuary-status-free-benefits-gov-abbott-chicago-population-growth-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who has had since 2015, who is having, and who will have the biggest impact on you/? For me, because I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, it is Trump. Since 2015, I have ever-increasingly included links to articles that involve Trump in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. My critics/opponents despise/hate Trump, and according to them, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters promote Trump. Since 2015, to punish me, my critics/opponents have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Release of an important IVF report is approaching. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they 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, they have always boasted that they 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

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Federal Dollars Going to Perv-Promoting Institutions of Baser Learning. On May 8, 2025, Northwestern University’s student newspaper the Daily Northwestern cheerily reported on Sex Week, a three-day event during which free sex toys were distributed at the student union, Norris University Center. Students lined up for the freebies which included “phallic-shaped, glitter-covered candles. … dildos and vibrators,” and “cute, little, squishy penis toys.”
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/15/federal-dollars-going-to-perv-promoting-institutions-of-baser-learning

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump unleashes on justices after Supreme Court blocks Tren de Aragua deportations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/18/trump-unleashes-justices-supreme-court-blocks-tren-de-aragua/
— Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/bruce-springsteen-scorns-blessings-born-usa/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Owner of Trump-themed Huntley shop says local officials are targeting her business
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3411133/owner-trump-themed-shop-local-officials/
— There is only one reason Democrats want to make it easier for noncitizens to vote. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3413664/only-one-reason-democrats-want-easier-noncitizen-voting/
— Rubio says people should be ‘celebrating’ US welcoming South African immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3415297/rubio-says-people-should-be-celebrating-us-welcoming-south-african-immigrants/

NEW YORK POST
— The end is near for on-the-job reverse discrimination — another blow to DEI. My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of their Republican subordinates 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://nypost.com/2025/05/18/opinion/the-end-is-near-for-reverse-discrimination-a-blow-to-dei/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people. My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they 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, they have always boasted that they 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.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/

BREITBART
— Tim Walz Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Trump’s Modern Gestapo’ Chasing ‘Folks’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/18/tim-walz-claims-ice-agents-trumps-modern-gestapo-chasing-folks/

DAILY CALLER
— Hillary Clinton Appears To Have Learned Nothing From 2016 ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Remark. I should write about past and present leaders of the following who have ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed/demonized/denigrated/condemned conservatives like me the most: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/18/hillary-clinton-appears-to-have-learned-nothing-from-2016-basket-of-deplorables-remark/

FEDERALIST
— The Ongoing Failure Of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/19/the-ongoing-failure-of-affirmative-action/

PJ MEDIA
— The Spirit Needed to Win Our Culture War
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/18/the-spirit-needed-to-win-our-culture-war-n4939922
— DEI Deathwatch Vol. XXI: Chicago Mayor Explains Black Hiring Preferences. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/05/18/dei-deathwatch-vol-xxi-chicago-mayor-explains-black-hiring-preferences-n4939927

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Trump warns America’s businesses: Eat my tariffs, or pay the price
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/business/trump-tariffs-price-consumers

AOL
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly call Trump and those who voted for him Nazis.
https://www.aol.com/tim-walz-suggests-ice-trump-025837320.html
— ‘My Coworkers Think I’m DOGE’—A Federal Worker Says, ‘I Receive Mean Looks And Conversations Are Straight-Up Dying When I Walk By’ What did your coworkers do to get pay increases and promotions? My Democrat coworkers in the federal government did everything that they could to help their Democrat superiors and supervisors get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aol.com/coworkers-think-im-doge-federal-010031089.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump’s big bill advances in rare weekend vote, but conservatives demand more changes
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-tax-cuts-house-trump-johnson-border-f03b7e9cc3015ef9a0ece37b76bc5f66

NEWSWEEK
— Trump called for a “major investigation” into celebrities who aided Kamala Harris’s 2024 election campaign, including Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé, saying their appearances were potentially illegal contributions.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-investigation-beyonce-bruce-springsteen-performances-2073941

NBC NEWS
— Key House committee advances Trump agenda bill after appeasing conservatives
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-conservatives-rcna207555

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
— Key House Panel Approves Trump’s Megabill After Conservatives Relent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/18/us/trump-news-updates
— Inside the I.V.F. Deliberations at the White House as Key Report Nears. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never have had able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/ivf-policy-white-house.html
— Everyone Hates ‘Debanking’ But Is Unclear on What to Do. What do the leaders of your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-debanking-crypto.html
— DOGE Seeks to Investigate GAO. GAO rejected the request, saying it reports to Congress and is exempt from oversight by Elon Musk’s budget-cutting group. The Democrat who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/doge-musk-gao-accountability-office.html

USA TODAY
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/23/what-is-a-rino-in-gop-politics/73817513007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/red-states-join-trump-dei-fight/83518866007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/

TAMPAS FREE PRESS
— Victor Davis Hanson Predicts Democratic Shift To Centrist In 2028
https://www.tampafp.com/victor-davis-hanson-predicts-democratic-shift-to-centrist-in-2028/

DESERET NEWS
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/05/18/jason-riley-affirmative-action-myth-dei/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-approval-rating-charts-eaf089db

REASON
— According to Democrat leaders a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/

CHRISTIAN SICENCE MONITOR
— Belvidere aims for economic revival – but will Trump tariffs help?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0519/trump-tariffs-midwest-manufacturers?icid=rss

RAW STORY
— Snubbed: Pope gives JD Vance just 17 seconds — but has long meetings with other leaders
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-pope-2672071466/

AUTOPIAN
— Direct competitors of the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the muscle car. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle car’s direct competitors?
https://www.theautopian.com/dodge-is-blaming-the-tariffs-for-killing-the-charger-daytona-r-t-a-car-seemingly-no-one-wanted-anyway/

SAVING ADVICE
— 7 Cars That Only The 1% Can Afford. The 5 vehicles that I have at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville are among the least expensive ones there: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, and 2005 Corvette.
https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2025/05/15/10156332_7-cars-that-only-the-1-can-afford.html

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 10, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s treatment of colleges
https://abc7chicago.com/post/most-americans-disapprove-trumps-treatment-colleges-new-ap-norc-poll-finds/16368168/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-president-donald-trumps-cuts-federal-climate-research-could-mean-illinois/16371824/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “Two dolls instead of 30” to fight Trump’s tariffs.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/toys-latest-symbol-trumps-trade-war/3742615/
— Pope Leo XIV’s past social media posts shed light onto political leanings
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pope-leo-xivs-past-social-media-posts-shed-light-onto-political-leanings/3742270/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-administration-looking-at-suspending-habeas-corpus-stephen-miller-says/3742242/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US to accept white South African refugees while other programs remain paused. White South African refugees should be advised that the next Democrat or RINO US President will send them back.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/09/us-white-south-african-refugees/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in the military
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/09/military-pete-hegseth-transgender-troops/
— Wheaton church group witnesses Pope Leo XIV in Rome
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/09/afternoon-briefing-wheaton-church-group-witnesses-pope-leo-xiv-in-rome/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/09/carmen-rossi-alex-acevedo-bolingbrook-cookies-cannabis-marijuana-weed-jb-pritzker-berner-chicago
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect not only for the rule of law, but for that country.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/08/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary-immigrants-springfield-visit
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/09/two-springfield-men-homeland-security-chief-kristi-noem-deported

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Supper with the pope: Wheaton Ivy Restaurant hosted the future pontiff.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250509/news/supper-with-the-pope-wheaton-restaurant-hosted-the-future-pontiff/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Stellantis yanks plans for Belvidere battery plant and parts hub
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing-logistics/uaw-says-belvidere-battery-plant-parts-hub-table

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Despite GOP congresswoman’s urging, Illinois sheriffs say they will follow state immigration law. Federal law trumps state law. What is your county sheriff’s position on this?
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_5a0a4e82-b7f0-419b-bdea-ab215a7c6da3.html

SOUTHERN
— Congressman Mike Bost Announces He’ll Seek Re-election, Receives Endorsement from President Trump. Which Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct want/have Trump’s endorsement?
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/09/246899/

NPR ILLINOIS
— How dependent on AmeriCorps is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-09/trumps-gutting-of-americorps-hits-hard-for-both-volunteers-and-communities

CITIES 92.9
— Higher teen alcohol use in Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more booze.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/09/illinois-quick-hits-study-shows-higher-teen-alcohol-use-in-illinois-union-mechanic-launches-gubernatorial-bid/

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Illinois senators urge Pritzker to drop proposed $6 billion tax hike
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-senators-urge-governor-to-drop-proposed-6-billion-tax-hike

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Affirmative Action and DEI in the military, 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.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-pentagon-directs-military-to-pull-library-books-that-address-diversity-anti-racism-gender-issues/

LAGRANGE PATCH & WESTERN SPRINGS PATCH
— La Grange To See Anti-Trump Human Chain. The idea is to protest Trump’s “illegal and authoritarian actions.”
https://patch.com/illinois/lagrange/la-grange-see-anti-trump-human-chain
https://patch.com/illinois/westernsprings/western-springs-see-anti-trump-human-chain

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-302/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The March 17, 2026 Illinois Republican primary will be here before we know it. U.S. Senate, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois House offices, some Illinois Senate offices, and countywide offices will be on all the ballots. What ate the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township organizations doing to recruit the best possible candidates? Which candidates will walk in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Pritzker Champions Illegal Aliens at Taxpayers’ Expense
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/pritzker-champions-illegal-aliens-at-taxpayers-expense/
— MAGA Doesn’t Need More RINOs
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/maga-doesnt-need-more-rinos/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Evanston-Skokie School District 65 Teaches That ‘Whiteness’ is Associated With the Devil
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/illinois-school-district-teaches-that-whiteness-is-associated-with-the-devil/

JOHN BIVER
— Political Jobs v. the Jobs Americans Should Avoid According to MoneyInc.com
https://johnbiver.com/political-jobs-v-the-jobs-americans-should-avoid-according-to-moneyinc-com/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Kirk Dillard Leads Still Another RTA Tax Hike Effort Spending $125 per Letter in Tax Dollars to Generate 6,000 Missives
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/09/kirk-dillard-leads-still-another-rta-tax-hike-effort-spending-125-per-letter-in-tax-dollars-to-generate-6000-missives/
— Background of the Six Applying for Appointment to the McHenry County Conservation District Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/08/background-of-the-six-applying-for-appointment-to-the-mchenry-county-conservation-district-board/
— UPDATE: Measles Vaccination Rates by School Released, McHenry County’s Extracted, Lowest Are Richmond-Burton High School and Riley Grade School
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/08/measles-vaccination-rates-by-school-released-mchenry-countys-extracted-lowest-is-richmond-burton-high-school/
— Homeland Security Reveals More about So-Called Columbia University Pro-Hamas Leader: “I Want to Kill Jews”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/09/homeland-security-reveals-more-about-so-called-columbia-university-pro-hamas-leader-i-want-to-kill-jews/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Coverage of illegal immigration news proves the extreme left controls the media. Reporters adopt roles of advocate and protector for illegal aliens.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/8/coverage-illegal-immigration-news-proves-extreme-left-controls-media/
— Trump launches veteran homelessness initiative with new national center. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft the most. I would focus on my Democrat superiors in the federal government.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/9/trump-creates-center-homeless-veterans/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/trump-habeas-corpus.html

NEW YORK POST
— Trump offers illegal migrants an ‘exit bonus’ — and ‘free flight out of our country’ — via self-deport executive order
https://nypost.com/2025/05/09/us-news/trump-offers-illegal-migrants-exit-bonus-free-flight-out-of-us-via-self-deport-executive-order/
— Mexico sues Google for changing ‘Gulf of Mexico’ to ‘Gulf of America’ after Trump’s order
https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/mexico-sues-google-for-changing-gulf-of-mexico-to-gulf-of-america-after-trump-executive-order/
— Hegseth orders service academies to ignore ‘race, ethnicity, or sex’ in admissions
https://nypost.com/2025/05/09/us-news/hegseth-orders-service-academies-to-ignore-race-ethnicity-or-sex-in-admissions/

BLAZE
— LGBTQ bar raided by swarm of cops, and Trump is getting blamed for it
https://www.theblaze.com/news/lgbtq-bar-raided-police-pittsburgh

FOX BUSINESS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Newsom
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/gavin-newsom-takes-aim-trumps-quixotic-trade-agenda-inconsistent-chaotic-approach-tariffs

FOX NEWS
— Trump says tax raises are ‘good politics,’ dismissing GOP critics. My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. According to them, I can and should pay more taxes a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy and who bought them cars, paid for their colleges expenses, and got them jobs. I would focus on those who benefitted the most from Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, who benefitted the most from race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-tax-raises-good-politics-dismissing-gop-critics
— Trump to build national center for homeless veterans with funds previously spent on housing for illegal aliens
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-build-national-center-homeless-veterans-funds-previously-spent-illegal-aliens

NEWSMAX
— Democrats’ Playbook: Weaponize Tragedies to Get Trump
https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/george-floyd-democrats-trump-administration/2025/05/05/id/1209696/
— Pentagon Orders Military to Remove All DEI Books
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pentagon-recruitment-dei/2025/05/09/id/1210348/

PJ MEDIA
— Trump Redirects Funds From Illegals to Homeless Veterans
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/09/trump-redirects-funds-from-illegals-to-homeless-veterans-n4939649

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Affirmative Action and DEI in the military, 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://thehill.com/policy/defense/5293254-pentagon-orders-swift-review-removal-of-library-books-that-address-diversity-anti-racism/

ABC NEWS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, Male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/papal-conclave-live-updates-cardinals-gather-vatican-elect?id=121506573&entryId=121614476

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/top-white-house-adviser-stephen-miller-says-actively-looking-suspendin-rcna205942
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, Male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/the-vatican/us-now-two-world-leaders-not-different-rcna205769

CBS NEWS
— What percent are Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How fast are those percentages growing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AmCRxm6P4o

MSN
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, Male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/woke-pope-trump-reckons-with-a-liberal-american-leader-he-can-t-trash-talk/ar-AA1EuHTk
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-goes-into-meltdown-branding-pope-leo-xiv-woke-marxist-and-never-trump-er/ar-AA1Er6jj
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/pope-leo-xiv-s-old-posts-criticising-trump-and-vance-resurface-following-election/ar-AA1Es4aY

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Calls for 20,000 Extra Officers to Help With Deportation Efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/politics/dhs-deportation-extra-officers.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn traditional Catholics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/pope-leo-xiv-american-church.html
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, Male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/pope-leo-trump.html (FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/jd-vance-pope-leo-xiv.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/conclave-pope-leo-xiv-catholic-church.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/pope-leo-maga-donald-trump-steve-bannon.html
— Virtually all tax exempt organizations exist to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/opinion/trump-harvard-tax.html
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/04/us/trump-american-dream-voters.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/09/trump-immigration-self-deportations-united-nations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Affirmative Action and DEI in the military, 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.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/09/hegseth-affirmative-action-service-academies/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Jeanine Pirro.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/08/jeanine-pirro-trump-us-attorney-fox/
— Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies. Republican Gingrich downsized the Democrat-run GAO from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees during the almost 18 years that I worked for the agency. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely for that. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/09/trump-mass-firings-doge-lawsuit/035dc5e0-2d43-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, Male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/09/pope-leo-us-catholic-church-trump/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Role Does Culture Play in Crime Rates? The prevailing theories of crime causation might need rethinking.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-role-does-culture-play-in-crime-rates-riley-economics-cc9c07ec

NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage asylum
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/is-asylum-still-possible-edgarlys-castaneda-rodriguez

PBS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, Male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJhYPzZDewA

TIMES OF INDIA
— Trump signs executive order allowing illegal immigrants to book ‘free flights out of US’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/donald-trump-signs-executive-order-allowing-illegal-immigrants-to-book-free-flights-out-of-us/articleshow/121047054.cms

THE HINDU
— We want you out of America: Trump announces self-deportation plan for ‘illegal aliens’
https://www.thehindu.com/shorts/watch-we-want-you-out-of-america-trump-announces-self-deportation-plan-for-illegal-aliens/article69560100.ece

May 9, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Facts to know about Chicago native, newly elected Pope Leo XIV
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/facts-to-know-about-chicago-native-newly-elected-pope-leo-xiv/3741733/

WGN9
— Prevost’s boyhood neighbors predicted he would become Pope
https://wgntv.com/news/robert-prevost-neighbors-predict-pope-leo-xiv/

WTTW
— Democrat and RINO leaders forever promote George Ryan.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/08/former-death-row-inmates-complicated-legacy-late-illinois-gov-george-ryan

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders promote Pope Leo XIV criticism of Trump and Vance
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-social-media-criticisms/
— Welcome, Pope Leo XIV, Chicago’s Holy Father
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-chicago-vatican-francis/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The rush in Illinois to become a U.S. citizen amid immigration crackdown. As the Trump administration begins “social media vetting for anti-Americanism” among immigrants and other efforts, growing numbers are choosing to become citizens.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/09/the-rush-in-illinois-to-become-a-u-s-citizen-amid-immigration-crackdown
— Who will the Democrats nominate for U.S. President in 2028? All the current contenders are anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/07/democrats-2028-president-elections-trump-biden-mistakes-harris-candidates-pritzker-s-e-cupp

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Pope Leo XIV is a Democrat. To be a Democrat is to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-whats-in-a-name-pope-leo-xivs-choice-signals-a-commitment-to-social-justice/

NPR ILLINOIS
— First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S. They should fear that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back. Needless-to-say, they should avoid Illinois.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5391815/first-afrikaners-granted-refugee-status-due-to-arrive-in-u-s

25 NEWS NOW
— Senate bill to allow death penalty for illegal immigrants who kill Americans
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/05/08/senate-bill-allow-death-penalty-illegal-immigrants-who-kill-americans/

WINDY CITY TIMES
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://windycitytimes.com/2025/05/06/chicago-teachers-union-codifies-lgbtq-protections-in-new-contract/

CAPITOL FREE BEACON
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-509/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP senators slam the latest push for higher taxes by Illinois Democrats
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cbe4c9d3-c86d-4d6f-8371-c2ea0bfc0b4b.html
— Lion Electric bankruptcy raises concerns over state’s EV incentives
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_309a4583-df72-4cfe-80fb-db65d07d774c.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Pope Leo XIV was selected because he hates Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponent credit meritocracy for their successes, but discredit meritocracy for everyone else’s successes. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, liberal and moderate leaders, have always used “disparate impact” to get rid of Republicans, that is, to get rid of conservatives. Conservatives do better on tests than liberals and moderates. My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. They stress others who passed the examinations on their first attempt and got better scores than I did. Extremely few of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal promoted over me took the CPA examination, let alone passed it, let alone passed it on their first attempt. None passed the CIA examination. I should write about my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all 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) who had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.  According to my critics/opponents, I passed the aforesaid examinations because the tests favored those who share my White male demographics. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a Democrat. The RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) in 2000 let me publish the organization’s first website and serve as its webmaster. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a RINO. They rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— George Ryan, 1934-2025. What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-obituary/3405131/george-ryan-life-obit-illinois-death-penalty/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— University of Chicago Stats Professor Cancels Midterm, Pushes Students To Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead. ‘Marching against this dangerous authoritarian administration is of utmost importance!’ Yali Amit says.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/university-of-chicago-stats-professor-cancels-midterm-pushes-students-to-join-anti-trump-protest-instead/

NEW YORK POST
— Pope Leo XIV was an active Republican primary voter and voted in 2024 presidential election
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/pope-leo-xiv-was-an-active-republican-primary-voter-and-voted-in-2024-presidential-election/
— Pope Leo XIV in his own words: The pontiff on abortion, climate change, homosexuality, and capital punishment
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/pope-leo-xiv-in-his-own-words-the-pontiff-on-abortion-climate-change-homosexuality-and-capital-punishment/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Makes Judge Jeanine Interim US Attorney For DC
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/trump-makes-judge-jeanine-interim-us-attorney-for-dc/

EPOCH TIMES
— What to Know About Robert Francis Prevost: The First American Pope. The Augustinian from Chicago has spent much of his time in Latin America.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/what-to-know-about-robert-francis-prevost-the-first-american-pope-5854705

FEDERALIST
— Read The New Pope’s Far-Left Takes On Immigration, Climate, Covid, And Race Relations
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/08/read-the-new-popes-far-left-takes-on-immigration-climate-covid-and-race-relations/
— There’s No ‘Sanctuary’ For Family Of Chicago Woman Killed By Illegal Alien
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/09/theres-no-sanctuary-for-family-of-woman-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/06/try-telling-this-dad-whose-daughter-was-killed-by-an-illegal-that-open-borders-are-compassionate/

FREE PRESS
— How Can You Be a Cop in a City (Chicago) That Hates You?
https://www.thefp.com/p/chicago-police-suicides

NEW AMERICAN
— New Pope’s X Feed Reveals Far-left Sympathies, but Traditional Catholics Still Hope for the Best
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/new-popes-x-feed-reveals-far-left-sympathies-but-traditional-catholics-still-hope-for-the-best/

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV Previously Criticized Trump’s Deportation Policies
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-previously-criticized-trumps-deportation-policies-while-damning-allegations-of-abuse-resurface/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Newly-Elected American Pope Has Taken Multiple Shots at the Trump Administration in Recent Months
https://www.westernjournal.com/newly-elected-american-pope-taken-multiple-shots-trump-administration-recent-months/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV voted in 2024 U.S. general election — here’s which primaries he’s voted in
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-robert-prevost-voting-records-republican-democratic-primaries/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Chicago-born pope — formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost — is registered to vote in the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, Ill., and has a mixed voting history of participating in primaries for both parties, according to voting records shared with CBS News and data from the Illinois State Board of Elections. There is no party registration in Illinois, but to vote in a primary you have to choose a party’s ballot to vote on. Prevost has voted in more Republican primaries than Democratic, and the last primary election he voted in was the 2016 Republican presidential primary. . .He voted in the Republican primaries in 2012, 2014 & 2016, including the presidential primaries in 2012 and 2016. L2 Data records show he last voted in a Democratic primary in 2010. He had also voted in the party’s presidential primary in 2008. He has voted in at least nine general elections, including in five presidential election cycles: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2024. There’s no record of him voting in the 2016 or 2020 general election. Records show he also voted in a “consolidated general election” in April 2001, when local Illinois offices were on the ballot.)
— Here’s what Pope Leo XIV has posted about politics — and the Trump administration — on social media
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-social-media-account-trump-vance-criticism/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a

MSN
— Pope Leo XIV’s attacks on ‘homosexual lifestyle’ spark fears in Catholic LGBTQ+ community
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pope-leo-xiv-s-attacks-on-homosexual-lifestyle-spark-fears-in-catholic-lgbtq-community/ar-AA1Eqh25

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Catholic Chicagoans Celebrate as Native Son Pope Leo XIV Becomes First American Pope. Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision was announced that a native son, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had been elected pope.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-05-08/catholic-chicagoans-celebrate-as-native-son-pope-leo-xiv-becomes-first-american-pope

NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST & NEWSWEEK & CNN & REUTERS & MSN & POLITICO & DAILY BEAST & PEOPLE & ADVOCATE & MEDIA MATTERS & RAW STORY & UNHERD & IRISH STAR & REASON & DAILY VOICE & NEW REPUBLIC & POLITICO
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will do everything that they can to paint Pope Leo XIV as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq-gay.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-robert-francis-prevost.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-views-political-robert-prevost/
https://www.newsweek.com/what-pope-leo-said-lgbtq-issues-2069889
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leo-sparks-maga-criticism-2069864
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/video/biden-pope-leo-xiv-election-reaction-bash-vrtc
https://www.reuters.com/world/before-becoming-pontiff-pope-leo-levied-criticism-trump-vance-2025-05-08/
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/new-pope-robert-prevost-s-voting-history-as-his-stance-on-abortion-and-party-registration-revealed/ar-AA1EqsIj
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/trump-welcomes-new-american-born-pope-and-says-he-can-t-wait-to-meet-him-despite-leo-xiv-once-blasting-vance/ar-AA1Eq5aK
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-goes-into-meltdown-branding-pope-leo-xiv-woke-marxist-and-never-trump-er/ar-AA1Er6jj
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/marxist-pope-maga-rages-against-new-pope-for-being-critical-of-trump-s-policies/ar-AA1Eqgqv
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/leo-american-pope-worldview-00337247
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-popes-voting-record-reveals-real-thoughts-on-trump-analyst/
https://people.com/where-does-pope-leo-xiv-stand-lgbtq-issues-what-we-know-11731335
https://www.advocate.com/voices/vatican-message-trump-opinion
https://www.mediamatters.org/jack-posobiec/jack-posobiec-criticizes-pope-leo-xiv-promoting-anti-trump-and-anti-bukele-articles-0
https://www.rawstory.com/jack-posobiec-pope-leo/
https://unherd.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-heralds-a-renewal-of-catholic-social-justice/
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/irish-catholics-respond-first-american-35196239
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/presidential-elections-pope-leo-voted-35196053
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-and-immigration/
https://dailyvoice.com/virginia/arlington/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-blasted-trump-on-x/
https://newrepublic.com/post/195017/new-pope-robert-prevost-lgbtq-immigration
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/pope-leo-tweets-social-media-00337322
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/leo-american-pope-worldview-00337247

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/health/migrants-health-care-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Leo XIV’s New Lenox brother recalls feeling of ‘disbelief’ over his sibling becoming pope
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/09/pope-leo-xiv-brother-john-prevost/0772f2be-2c93-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/07/pride-flag-ban-utah-idaho/83493956007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight to keep their control of their colleges
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/08/trump-research-funding-cuts-china/83417543007/

NEW YORK TIMES & BLOOMBERG LAW & ECONOMIST
— My critics/opponent credit meritocracy for their successes, but discredit meritocracy for everyone else’s successes. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, liberal and moderate leaders, have always used “disparate impact” to get rid of Republicans, that is, to get rid of conservatives. Conservatives do better on tests than liberals and moderates. My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. They stress others who passed the examinations on their first attempt and got better scores than I did. Extremely few of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal promoted over me took the CPA examination, let alone passed it, let alone passed it on their first attempt. None passed the CIA examination. I should write about my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all 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) who had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.  According to my critics/opponents, I passed the aforesaid examinations because the tests favored those who share my White male demographics. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html
https://news.bgov.com/litigation/doj-ends-longstanding-disparate-impact-suit-over-nyc-fire-hiring
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/08/trump-knocks-down-a-controversial-pillar-of-civil-rights-law

STATE JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.state-journal.com/opinion/guest-columnist-the-new-barbarians-at-the-gates/article_9382434e-bd53-40da-a0a1-e11d989f392f.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Does Your Car Model Say About You? My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and even more especially American nameplate muscle cars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-does-your-car-model-say-about-you-55f7faa1

FORTUNE
— Pension fund has voted to block new investments in Tesla: ‘Musk has destroyed the brand’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/pension-fund-tesla-lehigh-elon-musk/

FAST COMPANY
— You can buy the new pope’s childhood Dolton home for $199,000. Robert Prevost’s former house is about to become a landmark.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91326862/you-can-buy-the-new-popes-childhood-home-for-199000

BUSINESS INSIDER
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a Democrat. The RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) in 2000 let me publish the organization’s first website and serve as its webmaster. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a RINO. They rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster in 2004.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-left-republican-party-register-democrat-2016-10

DAILY MAIL
— How a humble Chicago schoolboy Robert Prevost with a veteran father rose to become America’s first Pope
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14693031/robert-prevost-american-pope-leo-childhood-beginnings.html

INDEPENDENT
— According to Democrat leaders, Pope Leo XIV is anti-Trump.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-new-robert-prevost-conclave-vatican-live-updates-b2747726.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-woke-american-pope-leo-xiv-b2747600.html

GUARDIAN
— Unearthed comments from new pope alarm LGBTQ+ Catholics. Previous negative remarks by Pope Leo XIV about ‘homosexual lifestyle’ at odds with papacy of Pope Francis.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq

May 8, 2025 Evening Edition

FOX NEWS
— Trump Hails ‘Great Honor’ of First American Pope
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-politics-newsletter-trump-hails-great-honor-first-american-pope
— Pritzker accused of ‘insulting’ ICE with sanctuary policies as Noem, Angel families protest
https://www.foxnews.com/media/illinois-gov-pritzker-accused-insulting-ice-sanctuary-policies-noem-angel-families-protest

ILLINOIS GOP
— ILGOP Celebrates New Pope And Chicago Native, Cardinal Robert Prevost
https://illinois.gop/newsroom/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost elected pope, taking name Leo XIV
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2025-is-new-pope-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost-1st-american-chicago-elected-catholic-church-leader/16358670/
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/2025-papal-conclave-cardinals-gather-elect-pope-vatican-city-rome/16339118/

WLS AM
— New Pope Registered Republican in Illinois; Trump Critic
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wlsam.com/2025/05/08/new-pope-registered-republican-in-illinois-trump-critic/

WBEZ
— DePaul president faces off against GOP members of Congress. Conservative lawmakers who questioned DePaul President Robert Manuel were accused of using antisemitism claims to chill free speech.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/05/07/depaul-president-faces-off-against-gop-members-of-congress

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago native Robert Prevost becomes the first American pope in history
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/robert-prevost-pope/
— Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of every priest and nun’ at St. Mary’s on Chicago’s South Side
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/robert-prevost-chicago-pope-xiv/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders accuse Congressional Republicans of political witch hunt in antisemitism hearing involving DePaul president. University president Robert Manuel faced three hours of heated questions.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/07/depaul-president-faces-off-against-gop-members-of-congress

DAILY HERALD
— At home in New Lenox, new pope’s brother found out like everyone else
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/news/it-was-a-shocking-moment-new-popes-brother-lives-in-new-lenox/
— Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, overcame a taboo against a US pontiff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/religion/prevost-now-pope-leo-xiv-overcame-a-taboo-against-a-us-pontiff/
— Trump says he is naming Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor in DC
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/nation-and-world-politics/trump-says-he-is-naming-fox-news-host-and-former-judge-jeanine-pirro-as-top-federal-prosecutor-in-dc/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— The new pope is from Chicago. Here are some of his ties to Illinois
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/08/new-pope-is-from-chicago-here-are-some-of-his-ties-to-illinois/83516559007/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Central Illinois bishops greet new pope ‘with hearts full of joy and hope’
https://pantagraph.com/life-entertainment/local/faith-values/article_a5c62ee3-422e-42e3-8dd4-23258ad65fdf.html

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders use “social justice” to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/whats-in-a-name-pope-leo-xivs-choice-signals-a-commitment-to-social-justice/article_2ecfa121-cf15-57b1-ad99-3066a475a21e.html
— Wisconsin Republicans kill marijuana legalization
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/wisconsin-republicans-kill-marijuana-legalization-and-tax-increases-for-millionaires/article_a345cc22-1a98-5f33-99aa-3954b9bbcf88.html

RIVER BENDER
— After Sec. Noem’s Springfield Visit, Davidsmeyer Again Calls for End of Illinois’ Failed Sanctuary Policy
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/after-sec-noems-springfield-visit-davidsmeyer-again-calls-for-end-of-illinois-failed-sanctuary-policy-82245.cfm?
— Attorney General Raoul Files Lawsuit To Stop Illegal Termination Of Federal Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Funding
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-files-lawsuit-to-stop-illegal-termination-of-federal-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-funding-82248.cfm?
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are on Medicaid?
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/senator-duckworth-leads-vigil-against-medicaid-cuts-82271.cfm?

WEST SUBURBAN JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://westsuburbanjournal.com/welch-house-democrats-rally-in-response-to-trump-officials-rhetoric-during-illinois-visit/

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/fighting-back-against-trump-20133313

FOX ILLINOIS
— Republicans push college presidents to protect Jewish students
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/house-gop-continues-to-push-colleges-to-do-more-to-combat-antisemitism-on-campus-haverford-college-depaul-university-california-polytechnic-state-university-house-education-committee

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-08/americans-are-already-seeing-trumps-tariffs-kick-in-they-sent-in-receipts-to-prove-it

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote segregation.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trumps-anti-dei-push-doesnt-stop-black-kentucky-grads-from-holding-an-off-campus-celebration/

IPM ILLINOIS
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are on Medicaid?
https://ipmnewsroom.org/republicans-have-medicaid-in-their-crosshairs-and-illinois-residents-who-depend-on-it-are-worried/

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
— Illinois Youth Survey finds troubling substance use trends
https://news.illinois.edu/illinois-youth-survey-finds-troubling-substance-use-trends/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/8/robert-prevost-1st-american-pope-history-catholic-church-take-name/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The SALT terrorists holding Trump’s agenda hostage need to put up or shut up. SALT ended itemization. By itemizing, my wife and I paid less federal income tax starting in 1978 when we got married and I paid less federal income tax starting in 1972.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3405221/salt-deduction-terrorists-holding-trump-agenda-hostage-put-up-or-shut-up/

BREITBART
— Rep. Hageman Introduces ‘No Student Visas for Sanctuary Cities Act’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/07/exclusive-rep-hageman-introduces-no-student-visas-for-sanctuary-cities-act/

FEDERALIST
— Where Was Democrats’ Outrage When Obama And Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers And Gardeners?
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/08/where-was-democrats-outrage-when-obama-and-biden-deported-illegal-alien-housekeepers-and-gardeners/

HUMAN EVENTS
— Jack Posobiec criticizes Pope Leo XIV for “promoting anti-Trump and anti-Bukele articles regarding the deportations of criminal illegals”
https://www.mediamatters.org/jack-posobiec/jack-posobiec-criticizes-pope-leo-xiv-promoting-anti-trump-and-anti-bukele-articles-0

LIVE ACTION
— First American pope in history has strong record of defending sanctity of human life
https://www.liveaction.org/news/first-american-pope-record-sanctity-human-life/

NEWSMAX
— New Pope Registered Republican in Illinois; Trump Critic
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pope-leox-iv-voter-registration-republican/2025/05/08/id/1210160/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Pope Leo XIV Has Voted Often in Illinois, Public Records Show. He voted in November’s presidential election with an absentee ballot, according to records from a suburban Chicago county.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/pope-leo-xiv-politics-voting.html

NBC NEWS
— New pope’s social media posts offer some insight into his politics. On social media before he became pope, Robert Prevost expressed support for gun reform and immigration — and showed some disagreement with the Trump administration.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pope-leo-social-media-posts-vance-rcna205677

NEWSWEEK
— Is Robert Prevost a Republican?
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-prevost-political-afiliation-what-we-know-2069880

CBS NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV grew up in Dolton studied and taught in Chicago area
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-leo-xiv-born-in-chicago-grew-up-dolton-illinois/

WCCS RADIO
— ‘Democracy in crisis?’ DC universities offering Trump-themed class this fall. Democrats and RINOs use democracy to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.wccsradio.com/rss/democracy-in-crisis-dc-universities-offering-trump-themed-class-this-fall/

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow that “Trump’s Policies Have Been Stopped by Courts More Than 200 Times.”
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/cannabis/trumps-policies-have-been-stopped-by-courts-more-than-200-times

TPM
— MAGA Melts Down Over First American Pope
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/maga-melts-down-over-first-american-pope

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 71% of Democrats Want Elon Musk in Prison
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/71_of_democrats_want_elon_musk_in_prison

DODGE GARAGE
— Next-Level Muscle: Why the 2025 Dodge Charger EV Impresses EV Fans
https://www.dodgegarage.com/news/article/owners-clubs/2025/04/next-level-muscle-why-the-2025-dodge-charger-ev-converts-a-loyal-enthusiast.html

TORQUE NEWS
— My Fourth EV Is A 2025 Charger EV, After Owning Model Y, Mustang Mach-E, And F-150 Lightning, This Electric Muscle Car Finally Gets Everything Right
https://www.torquenews.com/17998/my-fourth-ev-2025-charger-ev-after-owning-model-y-mustang-mach-e-and-f-150-lightning-electric/amp

May 4, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Italian-American residents blast deal to move Christopher Columbus statue indoors: ‘Hiding history’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italian-american-chicago-residents-criticize-settlement-move-christopher-columbus-statue-indoors-arrigo-park-little-italy/16323384/

NBC5
— Trump rejects concerns about prices, economic uncertainty as he defends his agenda
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/trump-rejects-concerns-prices-economic-uncertainty-defends-agenda/3737411/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders promote Wisconsin Governor Evers
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tony-evers-donald-trump-border-immigration-threats/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/cannabis-entrepreneurs-urge-state-lawmakers-to-enact-industry-reform/

WGN RADIO
— Settlement reached regarding the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue in Arrigo Park
https://wgnradio.com/karen-conti/settlement-reached-regarding-the-removal-of-a-christopher-columbus-statue-in-arrigo-park/
— Retirement planning when you’re on the home stretch. My Democrat GAO destroyed my retirement planning when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was when I was 24 years old in 1972.
https://wgnradio.com/the-alpha-wealth-hour/retirement-planning-when-youre-on-the-home-stretch/

WBEZ
— Solution for Chicago’s empty office buildings could be microapartments. In 1974, when I was 25 years old, when IRS promoted me to a GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) Revenue Officer job in the Loop, I bought a 650 square foot studio condo in the Outer Drive East building ( https://www.homesbymarco.com/properties/2809824/400_e_randolph_st_1322_chicago_il_60601 ) so that I could walk to/from work and graduate business courses at Loyola. I traded it in to the building’s developer in 1976 for a one bedroom condo.  I sold it when I got married in 1978 and we bought a home in Wheaton.
https://www.wbez.org/housing/2025/05/03/solutionchicago-empty-office-buildings-microapartments-gensler-pew-study

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker and AOC: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/pritzker-ocasio-cortez-trump-resistance/
— How the stock market made back all its losses after Donald Trump escalated the trade war
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/stock-market-trump-trade-war/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/05/04/pot-business-owners-relief-regulations-legal-recreational-medical-cannabis

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/alton-trump-protest-illinois-lincoln-douglas-20309437.php

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DeSantis sets pace for GOP governors on immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/florida-gov-ron-desantis-sets-pace-gop-governors-immigration/
— Kamala Harris talks party unity while Democrats brawl in leadership vacuum she left
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/kamala-harris-talks-party-unity-democrats-brawl-leadership-vacuum/
— MAGA doesn’t need more RINOs
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/maga-doesnt-need-rinos/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Proposal would deduct from Illinois paychecks to create new state agency
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3400469/proposal-illinois-paychecks-new-state-agency/

BREITBART
— Pritzker Angling for 2028 While Taking Aim at Trump with Questionable Attacks
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/04/gov-jb-pritzker-angling-for-2028-while-taking-aim-at-trump-with-questionable-attacks/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Abrego Garcia: The Poster Child for the Left’s Demands of Endless ‘Due Process’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/04/abrego-garcia-the-poster-child-for-the-lefts-demands-of-endless-due-process/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders. Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pritzker-ocasio-cortez-billionaire-former-bartender-emerge-trump-121444008

NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders want the next Pope to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/pope-francis/cardinal-tagle-philippines-lgbtq-catholics-conclave-rcna203837

MSN & COMMERCIAL APPEAL
— How marginalized are you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are marginalized by Republicans: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-first-100-days-target-diversity-policies-civil-rights-protections/ar-AA1DUdpR
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/05/01/pope-francis-medicaid-medicare-head-start-social-security/83365758007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump: I’m Not Looking at a Third Term
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-im-not-looking-at-a-third-term/60F2B9B7-11EF-49A1-80EF-1B30CEFAB647
— The Affirmative Action Myth
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-the-affirmative-action-myth/43875715-6B37-45C5-B000-ED4C67B13C54

INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire those who are the following and b) to get rid of their employees who are the following: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO organizations use DEI a) to not admit those who are the aforesaid and b) to get rid of their members who are the aforesaid.
https://www.inc.com/mandy-gilbert/91183943/91183943

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
— Pope Francis: Champion of EVs. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Of course, my critics/opponents stress that it is not eligible for a federal rebate because it costs too much, that it weighs 6,000 pounds, and that it can do the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH..
https://www.autonews.com/technology/mobility/an-pope-francis-electric-vehicle-0424/

MOPAR INSIDERS
— Stellantis to Halt Windsor Charger Production for One Week. 3,800 Workers Temporarily Laid Off as Stellantis Reacts to U.S. Tariff Fallout.
https://moparinsiders.com/stellantis-to-halt-windsor-minivan-and-charger-production-for-one-week/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This is the second time in just over a month that production has been halted at the facility, which builds the Chrysler Pacifica, Chrysler Grand Caravan, Chrysler Voyager, and both the gas-powered Dodge Charger and electric Charger Daytona. Stellantis had previously shut the plant down for two weeks in April to evaluate the impact of new 25% U.S. tariffs on imported vehicles. The tariffs, introduced by the Trump administration on April 3, apply to vehicles with a significant amount of non-U.S. content. They’ve already shaken up the North American auto industry, especially for companies like Stellantis that rely on cross-border production. . .But behind the scenes, it’s clear the broader trade environment is weighing heavily. During the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call, Stellantis CFO Doug Ostermann acknowledged that the automaker is actively looking at relocating some production and supply chains to the U.S. to avoid the steep import duties. “It’s something that we’re working very hard on,” said Ostermann. “To think through how quickly can we make those changes to mitigate any tariff impacts?” Meanwhile, workers at the Windsor plant—many of whom were just called back from a two-week layoff in April—are once again facing an uncertain week ahead. With both minivan and Charger output affected, this could be a sign of bigger shifts coming for Stellantis’ North American operations.)

AUTO EVOLUTION
— 96-Year-Old Kept 1968 Dodge Charger in Storage for 30 Years. I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger in 1968 and owned until it was stolen in 1971. I drove it to Daytona Beach from NIU in 1969 and 1970 for spring breaks. I bought a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T show car in 1994 and owned it until I sold it in 2005 to buy a 2005 Corvette. I bought a new 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max in 2012 and I continue to own it. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/96-year-old-kept-1968-dodge-charger-in-storage-for-30-years-his-wife-hated-the-car-250906.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A senior gentleman has been keeping the Dodge Charger in a storage facility for he can’t even remember how long. The car hides under a thick layer of dust that leaves its original color to the imagination. Will it shine and drive again, or should it already be on its way to the scrap yard? The 96-year-old owner of the 57-year-old Dodge Charger is Peter. He has big plans for the car he used to drive and rock the streets with back in the day. He remembers that his wife didn’t like the car. “It was a little louder than necessary,” he recalls. He wants to restore it to its former glory. The time has come for that car to run and drive again. He can’t even remember the last time he drove it, but assumes that it has been in the storage facility for around 30 years. That’s three decades away from the sunlight and off the road. Surprisingly, the tires still hold air and a few more goodies of the era. The Fratzog logo shows up on the dashboard. It is the iconic triangle-like badge that Dodge brought back with the Charger Daytona EV.)

TOP SPEED
— Why The Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Great Weekend Getaway EV. I recently bought a new red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.topspeed.com/ideal-ev-weekday-commutes-weekend-adventures/

MASS  MEDIA
— How oppressed are you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are oppressed by Republicans: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://umassmedia.com/38691/opinions/the-importance-of-student-activism-in-an-increasingly-oppressive-world/

April 29, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5 & CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker. To promote Pritzker is to promote more hatred against Trump and against those who share his demographics. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-facing-questions-about-a-possible-presidential-run/3732576/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY2Mccqf-r4

WGN9
— Is a summer of street takeovers ahead for Chicago?
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/is-a-summer-of-street-takeovers-ahead-for-chicago/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats are doubling down on vulgar language.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/democrats-fbomb-politics-swearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Tesla, that is, against Musk, that is, against Trump. If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/28/northbrook-protesters-demand-constitutional-rights-prevention-of-fascism/
— FRONT PAGE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/column-donald-trump-100-days-depetris/
— Political uniformity is bad for democracy — and for Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/28/politics-dnc-republicans-hogg-democrats/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/04/29/donald-trump-first-100-days-presidency-chicago-illinois-impact
— Top White House aide says Pritzker’s call for mass protests ‘could be construed as inciting violence’  President Donald Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller cited assassination attempts and criticized the destruction of property as a protest tactic, saying it “sits directly adjacent to attacks on humans.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/28/white-house-chief-of-staff-says-pritzkers-call-for-mass-protests-could-be-construed-as-inciting-violence
— The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/support-cst?tpcc=FY25-WPFD-Email-PrintSub-

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250428/nation-and-world/white-house-focuses-on-border-crackdown-as-it-marks-100-days-for-trumps-second-term/

EVANSTON NOW
— Local rabbis, Jewish NU profs push back on Trump. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://evanstonnow.com/local-rabbis-jewish-nu-profs-push-back-on-trump/

PBS CHICAGO
— Democrat Leaders Say that Trump is Politicizing the Fight Against Antisemitism. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.pbs.org/video/some-say-trump-administration-is-politicizing-the-fight-against-antisemitism-sycucy/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government spending. To what extent are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on government spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-28/what-happens-when-the-federal-government-stops-funding-university-research

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Tuition, fees rising at Illinois universities. Back in the good old days, I was able to work my way through college and graduate from NIU debt-free in 1970 and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/tuition-fees-rising-at-illinois-universities-as-state-funding-lags-inflation-pace/

ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— 2025 Award Recipients  I should write about my critics/opponents who have ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the 4-part CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979 and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981. I would focus on those who stressed that they and others got better scores on the parts than I did.
https://www.icpas.org/about-us/icpas-awards/2025-award-recipients

CWB CHICAGO
— Adults arrested during downtown ‘teen trend’ failed to appear in court
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/adults-arrested-during-downtown-teen-trend-failed-to-appear-in-court-alderman-says.html

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/27/hamburger-marys-the-iconic-drag-diner-reopening-in-edgewater/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders eve-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/29/stephen-miller-attacks-jb-pritzker-over-new-hampshire-speech-00314775

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-501/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL GOP chair calls to investigate Pritzker for criminal incitement
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a217f5d6-f72f-4220-b11d-9529962fd347.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS

— The mainstream news media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him. – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com

— The more demographics that you share with a candidate, the more likely that you will vote for that candidate. How many demographics do you share with Trump? Anticipate/expect that the more that you do, the more success that Pritzker will have making those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct hate you. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write about the success that Pritzker has had in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the more steps that you should take to protect yourself from hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters. – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com


ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Top Illinois pensioners invest $1, get $25 back in retirement benefits. If my Democrat GAO superiors had not forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and I was still working for GAO at the same salary, in today’s dollars, I would have paid $296,612 into the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) instead of getting $1,847,580 from the CSRS.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/top-illinois-pensioners-invest-1-get-25-back-in-retirement-benefits/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump requires truck drivers to speak English with new executive order
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/28/donald-trump-requires-truck-drivers-speak-english-new-executive-order/

NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker doubles down on calls for people to ‘mobilize’ against Trump: ‘Five-alarm fire’
https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/us-news/jb-pritzker-doubles-down-on-calls-for-people-to-mobilize-against-trump-five-alarm-fire/
— Despite faux fanfare and outrage, DOGE hasn’t even scratched the federal budget monster
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/opinion/despite-faux-fanfare-and-outrage-doge-hasnt-even-scratched-the-federal-budget-monster/
— Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination. My critics/opponents promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-restores-merit-by-slaying-reverse-discrimination/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— The process due illegals is deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/29/victor-joecks-the-process-due-illegals-is-deportation-1539719/

BREITBART
— Pritzker: Trump Has ‘Taken Us Off the Rails,’ He ‘Lied to the American People’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/28/pritzker-trump-has-taken-us-off-the-rails-he-lied-to-the-american-people/

FEDERALIST
— The First 100 Days: Trump Restores The Southern Border
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/29/the-first-100-days-trump-restores-the-southern-border/

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down. What is your approval rating? The more that you promote the Republican Party platform, that is, the more that you promote conservative principles, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders drive your approval rating down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-first-100-days-approval-rating-double-digits-below-biden-obama-poll/ar-AA1DIL8q%3Focid%3Dhpmsn

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use wokeness and wokeism to destroy Republicans
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-war-woke-sides-issue-dividing-country/story?id=121125797

CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders succeed in getting Canada to elect a hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/americas/canada-election-results-carney-poilievre-intl-hnk/index.html

MSNBC
— ‘The reckoning is here’: Pritzker calls out ‘do-nothing Democrats’ Do nothing? What about the Democrats in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct who voted for Democrats in the April 1, 2025 election?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/reckoning-gov-pritzker-calls-nothing-004805453.html

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Best Cars for Recent Graduates in 2025. Did your parents have enough money to buy you cars? My parents did not. Because of that, a) I did yard work 1962-1964 and bought a 1958 Chevy Bel Air in 1964, b) I washed dishes 1964-1966 and bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GTO) in 1966, c) I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail 1966-1967, and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, d) I delivered mail in 1968 and bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, e) I deliver mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, and collected federal taxes 1970-1971 and bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971. My father died suddenly in 1969.
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/best-new-cars-for-recent-college-grads

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use children of illegals to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/us-citizen-children-deported.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/harvard-dei-law-review.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURES: Trump White House Reshapes Media Coverage. I should write about those who have used Jeff Gannon against me the most. SEE: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-blogger-controversy/ and https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/washington/web-site-owner-says-he-knew-of-reporters-2-identities.html
https://nytimes.pressreader.com/the-new-york-times
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) getting welfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/food-banks-trump-cuts-aid.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on making Blacks hate Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/28/trump-black-diversity-dei/

NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST
— Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/28/antisemitism-scapegoat-jews/times.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/29/trump-eggs-prices-immigration-canada-congress-budget-spain-blackout-beyonce-eagles/83339166007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and more hatred against conservatives, Republicans, Americans, Whites, males, older people, married people, non-poor people, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/04/28/pope-francis-joe-biden-mercy/83316390007/

DESERT NEWS
— Republicans unveil plan to charge asylum application fees for first time in history. The more money that citizens of foreign countries have, the higher asylum application fees they should pay.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/28/republicans-unveil-immigration-plans/

TRI STATE PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.tspr.org/2025-04-28/the-trump-administration-continues-to-crack-down-on-illegal-immigration

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Those who benefit the most from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations fight Trump’s tariffs the most.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-100-days-second-term-tariffs-economy-china-ukraine-6abc2198
— MAGA Loyalists Are Gaining a Foothold in D.C. Lobbying. According to hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, I am a Trump loyalist. But Trump loyalists vehemently disagree.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-maga-lobbyists-upending-washington-with-mcdonalds-and-bear-hunting-a37e3d06
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-nationwide-list-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-dbcc5ada

24/7 WALL STREET
— New York May Close Tesla Dealerships. If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://247wallst.com/politics/2025/04/28/new-york-may-close-tesla-dealerships/

FORTUNE
— New York lawmakers are moving to shut down Elon Musk’s Tesla sales across the EV-friendly state.  If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://fortune.com/2025/04/28/elon-musk-tesla-sales-new-york-state-government/

FORBES
— 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. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the more steps that you should take to protect yourself from hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IFU7lvLmM

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91324404/how-trump-has-gutted-dei-in-his-first-100-days

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
—  The ups and downs of electric vehicles over more than a century. What are the demographics of those who my EVs? What are the demographics of those who buy 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EVs? I just bought one.
https://autos.yahoo.com/quiet-quirky-ups-downs-electric-110000070.html

AUTO GUIDE
— Dodge Charger Daytona EV Could Get Better Batteries in 2026. Nevertheless, my 6,000-pound 2025 Dodge Charger R/T Plus does the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH. Level 1 charging is fast enough for me. But because Dodge gave me a free $600 Level II charger, I had it installed along with a 220V 50 Amp outlet in my Iron Gate Car Condo for $1,125.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/dodge/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-could-get-better-batteries-soon-44619442
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stellantis and Factorial Energy have validated a semi-solid-state battery with 375 Wh/kg energy density, offering faster charging and improved cold-weather performance, with real-world testing set to begin in Dodge Charger Daytona EVs in 2026. Weight savings could be substantial, with up to 2,000 pounds cut from total vehicle mass, improving EV efficiency, performance, and reducing manufacturing costs. Production challenges remain, with high costs and manufacturing difficulties still to overcome before the technology can be widely adopted.)
— Should We Worry About The Ford Mustang’s Future? I bought a new 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium in 2023.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/ford/should-we-worry-about-the-ford-mustang-s-future-44619454
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Gasoline-powered Ford Mustang sales fell 31.6% in Q1 2025, while the electric Mustang Mach-E outsold the traditional coupe for the first time. High prices, economic pressures, and a colder-than-average winter contributed to the Mustang’s declining demand. Overall Ford brand sales slipped 1.2%, highlighting growing consumer interest in EVs as traditional models like the Explorer and Expedition also saw sales declines.)

HUFFINGTON POST
— Pritzker Calls For ‘Mass Protests,’ Says Democrats’ Strategy Is ‘Stale’  “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” the Illinois Democrat said in a fiery speech.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jb-pritzker-mass-protests_n_681002d4e4b0c99c9f2412c1

NEW REPUBLIC
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194527/trump-war-higher-education-isnt-just-crushing-dissent

MEDIA MATTERS
— Pritzker “all but threatened half the country with violence”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/hannity-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-all-threatened-half-country-violence

ROLLING STONE
— Trump Shrinks, But Can’t Shake Isaac Hayes Copyright Lawsuit. A judge trimmed some claims but says the allegation Trump “personally selected” the song “Hold On, I’m Coming” for campaign rallies can proceed. Should I write about those “Republican” candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who do not want me to promote them? They paint themselves as being moderate, centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, if not Democrat plant. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/donald-trump-isaac-hayes-copyright-infrintement-lawsuit-1235327134/

JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
— Pritzker accuses Trump of ‘disparaging the very foundation of Judaism’  Pritzker, Illinois’ Jewish governor, also called for mass protest in his address, prompting backlash. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.jta.org/2025/04/28/united-states/j-b-pritzker-accuses-trump-of-disparaging-the-very-foundation-of-judaism

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Over 550 rabbis, cantors sign letter accusing Trump of ‘abusing’ antisemitism issue. American clergy, mostly from non-Orthodox movements, say US administration exploiting real threat ‘to divide Americans, undermine democracy, and harm other vulnerable communities. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-550-rabbis-cantors-sign-letter-accusing-trump-of-abusing-antisemitism-issue/amp/

GB NEWS
— Musk blamed for poor Tesla sales as activists launch boycott over right-wing ties – ‘No product can fix this’  If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars/elon-musk-poor-tesla-sales-boycott

BUSINESS RECORDER
— Government subsidies and tax credits are crucial for a big push in EV adoption. What are the demographics of those who my EVs? What are the demographics of those who buy 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EVs? I just bought one.
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40359786/2nd-ev-conference-brings-together-industry-leaders-policymakers-financiers-others

April 27, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump’s third-term talk freezes the potential 2028 Republican field
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-third-term-2028-republican-field/3731227/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz
— A couple who bought their first home in 2023 on the Northwest Side and soon discovered a “putrid” odor is suing the seller, their inspector and their real estate agent after finding voluminous amounts of cat feces and urine in an unfinished attic.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/homebuyers-nightmare-grandview-capital-living-space-attic-hoarder-cat-poop-pee

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting “faith leaders” to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-federal-government-assault-protests/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Trump voters reflect on controversial first 100 days of second term.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— FRONT PAGE: With US Sen. Dick Durbin retiring, Illinois’ tradition of upstate-downstate senators is in peril
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/with-us-sen-dick-durbin-retiring-illinois-tradition-of-upstate-downstate-senators-is-in-peril/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-america-return-statue-of-liberty-immigration/

DAILY HERALD
— Another risk facing public transit: As hearing showed, lawmakers need to deal with public safety as much as with financial security. I used public transportation in 1971 and 1973-1997. In 1971 and 1973-1980 while I worked for IRS in the Loop and 1980-1997 while I worked for GAO in the Loop.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250426/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-another-risk-facing-public-transit-as-hearing-showed-lawmakers-need-to-deal/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois sues to block Trump from freezing school funding over DEI. Democrat teachers use DEI to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sues-block-trump-school-fund-freeze-over-dei

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— While Durbin runs out his term, others run for his job
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-while-durbin-runs-out-his-term-others-run-for-his-job/article_44e7ba73-6841-47f3-a4f5-2398c2ee6b72.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Even a member of the moribund Illinois Republican Party — Peoria U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood — indicated interest. From the outside looking in, a GOP candidate would appear to be the political equivalent of a kamikaze pilot in this reflexively Democratic state. Perhaps that’s why another Republican, former state Rep. Tom Demmer, issued a statement that parodied candidates’ expressions of interest. “Following today’s announcement from Sen. Durbin, I’m preparing to have conversations to consider the potential formation of a tentative exploratory committee to look in to the possibility of floating my candidacy. I hope to have potential decisions narrowed down sometime within the next 12-24 months. Get ready to stay tuned,” Demmer tweeted.)

STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Pritzker has been contacted by the U.S. Department of Labor to remind him that unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in the country illegally. The letter was sent to all 50 governors in the U.S. Citing the executive order “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” the letter said it is critical that officials ensure American taxpayer dollars do not go toward encouraging or rewarding illegal immigration to the United States.
https://www.starvedrock.media/news/state/illinois-quick-hits-no-unemployment-for-illegals-pritzker-endorses-stratton/article_84e9e2c0-16d6-5234-86e3-3f5f483e12c1.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders claim to speak for Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-only-about-half-of-republicans-say-trump-has-focused-on-the-right-priorities-ap-norc-poll-finds/
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/entertainment-news/ap-white-house-journalists-use-annual-press-dinner-to-celebrate-first-amendment/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight school choice. If my parents had not sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod 1961-1962, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee High School class in 1966, or get accepted by UIC in 1966.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-republican-led-states-keep-adding-school-voucher-programs-even-as-critics-worry-about-cost/

WAND TV
— To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trumps-attack-on-diversity-takes-center-stage-as-boston-remembers-1965-freedom-rally-led-by/article_c4c9b9b9-b545-5004-af74-4f305858cb06.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire in 1997 and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-27/federal-work-shaped-a-black-middle-class-now-its-destabilized-by-trumps-job-cuts

AXIOS CHICAGO
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/25/chicago-college-student-debt-trump-save-money

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Pritzker, Durbin’s “Surprise” and the Musical Chairs of Illinois
https://johnkassnews.com/pritzker-durbins-surprise-and-the-musical-chairs-of-illinois/

JOHN BIVER
— Illinois Republicans and Conservatives are Failing in Every Direction. (COMMENT: I should write about Democrat and RINO success in destroying the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.)
https://johnbiver.com/illinois-republicans-and-conservatives-are-failing-in-every-direction/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have your critic/opponents used you to send messages? Leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) rudely terminated my membership on the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. Republican leaders of Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. Leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. Republican leaders rudely ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007. They almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have your critics/opponent taken adverse actions against you, and if so, why? My critics/opponents have taken many big adverse actions against me a) because 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 wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money, b) because they are Democrats or RINOs, and/or c) because I have sued them. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopilinois.com
— What have your critics/opponents used against you the most? My critics/opponents have used against me the most a) my fighting Democrat promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, b) my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years and especially my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years and my having been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, c) my demographics and especially my being a draft avoider, Protestant, and German American, and/or d) my having sued them. But of course, my critics/opponents use pretexts. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on equal outcome? My critics/opponents promote equal outcome, that is, according to them, no matter what your demographics are, you should be as successful at what you do as those who do not share your demographics, and if you don’t, it is because of discrimination. According to my critics/opponents, if minorities and/or females are less successful doing something than Whites and/or men are, it is because Whites and/or men discriminated against them. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. Few of those who took those examinations were minorities and/or women. Even fewer passwd the examinations on their first attempt. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the examinations because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against women. But in my defense, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What should you tell your children about up-or-out? If your children are White and/or male, you should tell them that Democrats and RINOs will use up-or-out to get rid of them if they are not making at least $100,000 by age 25, $200,000/year by age 30, $300,000 by age 35, $400,000 by age 40, etc.  Because of that, unless your children become Democrats, they should do everything that they can to get good grades, to get the best ACT/SAT score that they can, to get accepted by the best college that they can, and to pick the right major. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors used up-or-out to get rid of me. The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their employees who are not Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran and who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of me because I am not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran and because I did not make GS-12 ($99,069) until I was 25 and I did not make GS-13 until I was 38. They did that notwithstanding my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, low-level federal jobs should be Black jobs. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966 when I was 18, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What’s at stake for Illinois colleges with DEI policies. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3392534/whats-at-stake-for-illinois-colleges-with-dei-policies-under-discussion/
— Democrats need to come to grips with 2030 census reality. Illegals should be counted separately and they should not count for allocation of congressional seats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3391436/democrats-face-2030-census-reality/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Congress Must Repair Biden’s Destructive Immigration Policies
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/27/congress-must-repair-bidens-destructive-immigration-policies/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Woke Ideology Requires Antisemitism
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/woke_ideology_requires_antisemitism.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/26/scott-jennings-says-spectacle-of-arresting-wi-judge-important-a-message-has-to-be-sent-1539253/

BREITBART
— Rod Blagojevich on Running for Senate as MAGA Republican: ‘Never Say Never’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-on-running-for-senate-as-maga-republican-never-say-never/
— Blagojevich: Democrats Are ‘Going to Run Far to the Left’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-democrats-are-going-to-run-far-to-the-left/

DAILY CALLER
— Federal, state and local law enforcement carried out Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, arresting nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the four-day operation.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/26/dhs-spox-touts-major-success-in-florida-after-nabbing-nearly-800-illegals-in-4-days/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Labor Dept Threatens States Giving Unemployment Benefits To Illegals. “Unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in our country illegally.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-labor-dept-threatens-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-to-illegals

FOX NEWS
— Trump Reverses Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness. The Education Department wants its money back. Did you get a student loan? I did not. If I had gotten a student loan, my GPA would have been higher. To earn money for tuition and books, instead of studying, I a) washed dishes 1964-1966, b) delivered mail 1966-1969, c) sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, d) collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and e) audited federal agencies in 1980 and 1992-1997.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371977493112

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lowest-100-day-approval-rating-80-years/story?id=121165473

CBS NEWS
— Kennedy Center cancels week of events celebrating LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-rights-dc-kennedy-center-cancels-week-of-events/

AOL
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-mass-firings-federal-probationary-194951617.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump to promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/marin-tesla-owners-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trump-crypto-musk-spacex.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/100-days-trump-world.html
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/mexico-united-states-migration.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-american-values.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-poll-approval-rating-100-days/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-polls-policies/
— Trump’s team isn’t dissuaded by the challenges of their first 100 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-presidency-100-days/
— Democrats seize on a new issue to use against the GOP: Social Security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/social-security-cuts-democrats-trump-republicans/

POLITICO
— Democrat and RINO leaders disapprove of Trump’s immigration policies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/26/trump-immigration-polling-100-days-00311687

NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/a-hundred-days-of-ineptitude

April 23,2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— RESTORING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND MERITOCRACY
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US Sen. Dick Durbin says he won’t run for sixth term. I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, distributing campaign literature and getting sign locations in my precinct for Durbin’s Republican opponents Curran in 2020, Oberweis in 2014, Sauerberg in 2008, and Durkin in 2002. Further, I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, doing that for Duckworth’s opponent Salvi in 2022, for Kirk in 2016 and 2010, and Keyes in 2004. Because they all were statewide races, my critics/opponents had a harder time blaming me and blaming my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for Republican defeats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/us-sen-dick-durbin-says-he-wont-run-for-sixth-term/
— Democrat leaders say that orders to leave the country — some for US citizen — sow confusion among immigrants
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/orders-to-leave-the-country-some-for-us-citizen-sow-confusion-among-immigrants/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Senate race to replace Durbin boasts ‘at least a dozen’ serious contenders
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-senate-reelection-decision-krishnamoorthi-underwood-stratton

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Durbin’s retirement sets off a stampede — and a massive generational shift in Illinois politics
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-retirement-sets-race-open-seats-illinois
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The GOP appears less poised to field a competitive Senate candidate in what is now a heavily Democratic state, but there has been some discussion about Richard Porter, an attorney who serves as the state’s Republican national committeeman. Also being touted by some Republicans is Rep. Ray LaHood, who represents Peoria and other downstate areas.)
— Durbin makes it official: He won’t seek re-election
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-will-not-seek-re-election-senate

ABC7
— Illinois among 12 states suing Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-among-12-states-suing-president-donald-trumps-administration-stop-tariff-policy/16232793/
— Trump administration looking at $5K ‘baby bonus’ to incentivize public to have more children
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-looking-baby-bonus-incentivize-public-have-more-children/16231863/

FOX32
— Trump says he’ll reduce tariffs against China ‘substantially’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1629873

WTTW
— Long-Stalled Push for Reparations in Chicago Moving Forward
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/23/slow-moving-push-reparations-chicago-moving-forward-johnson-says

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/

STATELINE & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-is-still-resisting-the-judges-orders-in-abrego-garcia-deportation-case/

CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— The 10 Pols Who Could Replace Dick Durbin
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2024/the-10-pols-who-could-replace-dick-durbin/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When U.S. senator Peter Fitzgerald announced his retirement in 2004, 16 candidates ran to succeed him. “Don’t you think it would be cool to be a senator?” one remarked. (Barack Obama, a state senator at the time, won — you might have heard of him.) . . . 5. Darin LaHood
The GOP will run a candidate, too, and LaHood is likely to be it. The last two times an Illinois Republican won a Senate race were 1998 and 2010 — nonpresidential years when a Democrat was in the White House, which seems to indicate that a Joe Biden reelection would help LaHood. (The Democrats also ran weak candidates those years.) Of the three Illinois Republicans in Congress, LaHood, elected to the House in 2015, is the most moderate. He’s from Peoria, which is Middle America personified. “He’s a guy who is politically disciplined and has not alienated the base,” says a conservative activist. “He can appeal to independents, too. He’s not a crazy MAGA.” Democrats would attack LaHood on abortion (he opposes) and voting with Trump on issues such as repealing Obamacare. He needs “to keep the race on economics and the lack of federal leadership, particularly with the border crisis,” the activist says.)

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/trump-immigration-actions-are-only-latest-in-white-supremacy-tradition-20072014

PRITIZKER
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred.
https://gov.illinois.gov/news/press-release.31180.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Question of the day: If LaHood does run for US Senate, what do you believe are his chances in both the primary and the general?
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/question-of-the-day-3727/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-291/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Aaron Del Mar Returns as Cook County GOP Chairman After Overwhelming Vote
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/aaron-del-mar-returns-as-cook-county-gop-chairman-after-overwhelming-vote/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Campaign Says Durbin Retirement “Long Overdue”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/lahood-campaign-says-durbin-retirement-long-overdue/
— Durbin Retiring, Second Tier Dems Ready for Fight
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/durbin-retiring-second-tier-dems-ready-for-fight/
— Second Old Illinois Member of Congress–Jan Schakowsky–Says Bye-Bye, People Lining Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/second-old-illinois-member-of-congress-jan-schakowsky-says-bye-bye/
— Month after Characterizing Trump to Nazis Pritzker Calls for End to Hate Crimes, Reports Big Hike Since Biden Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/month-after-characterizing-trump-to-nazis-pritzker-calls-for-end-hate-crimes-big-hike-since-biden-took-office/
— Passenger Pot Citation in Cary after Car Stopped for Missing Headlight, Bill To End Smell Test Passes Illinois Senate (with Roll Call)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/passenger-pot-citation-in-cary/
— McHenry Awarded $771,000 to Revitalize Riverside Drive, Woodstock Gets $1 Million for Opera House Block
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/mchenry-awarded-771000-to-revitalize-riverside-drive-woodstock-gets-1-million-for-opera-house-block/
— State Claims 6 to 1 Benefit from Subsidizing Filming
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/state-claims-6-to-1-benefit-from-subsidizing-filming/
— Randi Freese Reports McHenry County Share of Most Recent Opioid Settlement Unknown at This Point
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/randi-freese-reports-mchenry-county-share-of-most-recent-opioid-settlement-unknown-at-this-point/
— Illinois Pot Taxes Drive Pot Shop Growth in SW Michigan
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/illinois-pot-taxes-drive-growth-in-sw-michigan/
— Trump-Endorsed Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Bryon Donalds Speaking to State GOP Fundraiser Friday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/trump-endorsed-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-bryon-donalds-speaking-to-state-gop-fundraiser-friday/
— Details on Walgreen’s Whistleblower Opioid Settlement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/details-on-walgrens-whistleblower-opioid-settlement/
— Congressional Dems Vote to Keep Taxing Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/congressional-dems-vote-to-keep-taxing-tips/
— Court Shuts Down Rockford Abortion Clinic
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/court-shuts-down-rockford-abortion-clinic/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— An abortion clinic operating in a residential neighborhood in Illinois lost its legal fight with neighbors after a state court reversed the facility’s zoning approval.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/23/neighbors-win-court-battle-home-based-abortion-clinic/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Britain bans French philosopher who conceptualized the ‘great replacement’ theory, from entering country
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/britain_bans_french_philosopher_who_conceptualized_the_great_replacement_theory_from_entering_country.html

BREITBART
— Americans Overwhelmingly Side with Trump on Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/23/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-side-with-trump-on-deportations/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Durbin Announces Retirement, Leaving a Power Vacuum
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/23/prospect-durbins-retirement-shakes-up-illinois-democrats/

FOX NEWS
— If we can’t deport illegals, here’s how we can make it impossible to stay
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-we-cant-deport-illegals-heres-how-we-can-make-impossible-stay

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Durbin retirement tees up competitive Senate primary in Illinois
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5263818-dick-durbin-retirement-senate/

NEWSWEEK
— Who Might Run for Dick Durbin’s Soon-to-Be Vacant Senate Seat?
https://www.newsweek.com/dick-durbin-retirement-potential-candidates-illinois-senate-2063156
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the Republican side, Representative Darin LaHood also told NOTUS he would not “close the door” on a Senate run. “I’ve had a lot of people encourage me to think about doing it,” he told the publication.)

CNN
— Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in Senate, announces he won’t seek reelection.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/politics/dick-durbin-senate-retirement

CBS NEWS
— Trump signs executive order to influence college accreditation process
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-executive-order-to-eliminate-woke-ideology-in-college-accreditation-process/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Durbin, No. 2 Senate Democrat, to Retire After 44 Years in Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/dick-durbin-retires-senate.html
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in manipulating/dominating young people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/trump-presidency-news/

POLITICO
— Durbin was first elected to the Senate in 1996, succeeding Democratic Sen. Paul Simon. In the primary that year, Durbin defeated Pat Quinn, who would later become governor of Illinois. In the general election that year, Durbin defeated Al Salvi, the husband of Kathy Salvi, who now chairs the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-retiring-from-senate-illinois-00305833

WIKIPEDIA
— 2026 United States Senate election in Illinois
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican primary: Declared: John Goodman, former police officer ( https://goodmanforillinois.com/meet-john/ ). Publicly expressed interest: Darin LaHood, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 16th congressional district (2015–present)  Potential: Jim Durkin, former minority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives (2013–2023) from the 82nd district (2006–2023) and 44th district (1995–2003), Mary Miller, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 15th congressional district (2021–present). Declined: Mike Bost, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 12th congressional district (2015–present))

April 21, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/el-salvador-government-rejects-lawmakers-request-visit-abrego-garcia/16218278/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-pope-francis-said-controversial-issues-gay-rights-immigration/16217684/

CBC2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pope-francis-remembered-for-his-commitment-to-social-justice/

WGN9
— How low will Democrat leaders drag the stock market down to destroy America to destroy Trump?
https://wgntv.com/news/stocks-and-the-dollar-tumble-as-investors-retreat-from-the-us/

WBEZ
— The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more homelessness.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/21/the-trump-administration-could-change-housing-policies-what-does-this-mean-for-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/theater-stages/2025/04/21/wake-of-a-dead-drag-queen-play-raven-theatre-hiv-art-nea
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more welfare for those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/21/most-in-illinois-want-more-funding-for-higher-education

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DePaul president called to testify to Congress on antisemitism
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/21/depaul-president-called-to-testify-to-congress-on-antisemitism
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/18/federal-program-liheap-utility-bills-cut-trump-budget-plan

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Congress calls on DePaul president to testify in antisemitism probe
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/depaul-president-called-testify-antisemitism-probe
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/responsible-gambling-legislation-needed-illinois-op-ed

JOURNAL & TOPICS
— People Paying More In State Income Taxes, But Getting Less
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/study-shows-people-paying-more-in-state-income-taxes-but-getting-less/

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/04/21/no-kings-550-protest-trump-in-downtown-freeport-rockford/83196052007/

CITIES 92.9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/21/illinois-officials-share-concerns-tariffs-will-impact-states-agricultural-sector/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters are doing everything that they can to destroy America to destroy Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-21/sell-usa-why-trumps-tariffs-may-be-sparking-a-historic-storm-on-wall-street
— Trump Administration to resume collections on student loan borrowers in default
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-21/trump-administration-to-resume-collections-on-student-loan-borrowers-in-default

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly spend more tax dollars to defeat Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-attorney-general-requesting-15-million-budget-increase-to-address-trump-actions/article_1f5d57a9-98a5-49b9-8206-1ebe0572caed.html

WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-04-21/u-s-farmers-trump-tariffs-trade-war
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, farmers are ever-increasingly dependent on government spending.
https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-04-21/illinois-scrambles-to-boost-locally-produced-farm-products-after-trumps-funding-freeze
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-21/protesters-in-normal-urge-congressman-darin-lahood-to-protect-medicaid-funding

ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Homeschool Act proposer accused of ghost-voting.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/homeschool-act-proposer-accused-of-ghost-voting/article_3cd5b537-a1b7-4f88-9c28-d59427b694a6.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, farmers are ever-increasingly dependent on government spending.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-scrambles-to-boost-locally-produced-farm-products-after-trumps-funding-freeze/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-289/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— New State Senator Casts Controversial Vote
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/new-state-senator-casts-controversial-vote/
— Trump-Endorsed Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Bryon Donalds Speaking to State GOP Fundraiser Friday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/trump-endorsed-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-bryon-donalds-speaking-to-state-gop-fundraiser-friday/
— REBUTTAL FROM JOHN COLLINS ON TIM BECK’S “Logic Behind NOW’s ‘We Resist Rally’ Analyzed”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/logic-behind-nows-we-resist-rally-analyzed/
— RTA Seems To Be Using Tax Dollars to Raise Tax Dollar
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/rta-seems-to-be-using-tax-dollars-to-raise-tax-dollars/
— Idea That Failed on State Street Advanced for Michigan Avenue
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/6537/
— Trump v. Pritzker Feud from the Start
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/trump-v-pritzker-feud-from-the-start/
— Report on Abortion Tourism
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/report-on-abortion-tourism/
— McHenry County Doesn’t Make Top of the List of Highest Taxes Illinois Counties, But Kendall, Lake, Macon, Rock Island, Will and Winnebago Do
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/mchenry-county-doesnt-make-top-of-the-list-of-highest-taxes-illinois-counties-but-kendall-lake-macon-rock-island-will-and-winnebago-do/
— Remembering the Start of the American Revolution
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/remembering-the-start-of-the-american-revolution/
— More Anti-Trump Protests in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/more-anti-trump-protests-in-mchenry-county/
— Advice to Newly-Elected Officials
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/advice-to-newly-elected-officials/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— China says it will punish countries that use U.S. trade talks to ostracize Beijing
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/21/china-says-punish-countries-use-us-trade-talks-ostracize-beijing/

EPOCH TIMES
— China Issues Retaliatory Sanctions on U.S. Congress Members Over Hong Kong
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/china-issues-retaliatory-sanctions-on-u-s-congress-members-over-hong-kong-5844967

FEDERALIST
— The More Christian That America Is, The Better Off American Jews Will Be
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/21/the-more-christian-that-america-is-the-better-off-american-jews-will-be/

FOX NEWS
— David Hogg and Reince Priebus clash over Trump deportation policies
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371733004112

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Student loan borrowers in default face garnished wages
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-loan-debt-default-garnished-wages-payments-education-department/

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-21/pope-francis-vance-gaza-refugees-migrants

CNN
— Harvard sues the Trump administration, taking the fight over federal funding and academic freedom to court
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/us/harvard-white-house-funding

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-congress-housing-voucher-assistance-funding-cuts-26f9a716af6731e3c6445015488bab3a

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-fertility-birthrate-sexism.html
— Democrat leaders say Hegseth shared sensitive military data
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/21/us/trump-administration-news

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Mexico’s president wants to ban U.S. ads warning against migration. How soon will Mexico officially declare war on America?
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-21/mexicos-president-says-u-s-ads-warning-against-migration-are-not-welcome

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— As Catholic Church Enters New Era, Conservative U.S. Members Push It Right. The conservative wing is reviving old practices and ​growing more assertive in the battle for the future of the Church—and the nation.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/conservative-catholic-maga-pope-vance-b2a4497b
— Harvard Is Suing the Trump Administration
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-sues-trump-administration-lawsuit-0f00e894

BLOOMBERG
— Behind Trump’s imperial presidency (and Elon), there’s Russell Vought
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-russell-vought-doge-musk-trump/
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2024-07-29/white-men-the-most-likely-to-get-hired-even-with-dei-finds-research

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 66% Agree: Deport Illegals to ‘Liberate’ America
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/66_agree_deport_illegals_to_liberate_america