FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/rev-al-sharpton-young-activist-reflect-social-justice-impacts-george-floyds-death-5-years-later/16520771/
CBS2
— Chicago Jewish leaders warn of dangerous trend, announce increased security measures after deadly D.C. shooting. Democrats run Chicago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-jewish-leaders-washington-dc-shooting/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s budget cuts
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/05/24/health-social-services-cuts-israel-gaza-holocaust-trump-black-students-jim-gardiner-rahm-jan-6-sox
DAILY HERALD
— Dan and Ada Rice’s legacy lives on in revamped Danada House
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250523/news/its-a-castle-dan-and-ada-rices-legacy-lives-on-in-revamped-danada-house/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump is set to give the commencement address to West Point graduates
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-president-donald-trump-is-set-to-give-the-commencement-address-to-west-point-graduates/
WBEZ
— Under the Democrats, more and more and more will be on Medicaid
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/05/23/how-medicaid-cuts-from-congress-could-affect-every-cook-county-resident
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more and more and more interracial marriage
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/g-s1-68211/loving-day-virginia-interracial-marriage
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Republicans cause Black crime and b) that police are racist.
https://mailchi.mp/chicagoreader/arrest-rates-drop-when-shooting-victims-are-black?e=c968c7978e
CHOOSE CHICAGO
— Choose Chicago Foundation Announces Largest-Ever Class of Scholarship Recipients. Did you get a scholarship? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes.
https://www.choosechicago.com/press-media/press-releases/choose-chicago-foundation-announces-largest-ever-class-of-scholarship-recipients/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND
— State GOP Chair Salvi applauds Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2025/05/23/state-gop-chair-salvi-applauds-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/
WIREPOINTS
— The Bloomington area is at the very bottom of the country for economic growth. Other Illinois metros are almost as bad.
https://wirepoints.org/the-bloomington-area-is-at-the-very-bottom-of-the-country-for-economic-growth-other-illinois-metros-are-almost-as-bad-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What did Biden do? Biden made it clear that the next Democrat President would use DEI get rid of non-Democrats once and for all, and especially non-Democrats who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is why Trump got elected. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— DEI forces Americans who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time to first see themselves as being members of the aforesaid groups instead of first seeing themselves as being Americans. Further, DEI forces those who are members of the aforesaid groups to see themselves as being victims of those who are not members of the aforesaid groups. I am not a member any of the aforesaid groups. The more of the aforesaid groups that my critics/opponents are, the more/bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are members of the following groups that they are marginalized by those who are not members of the following groups, that is, that all their problems are caused by those who are not: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I am not a member any of the aforesaid groups. The more of the aforesaid groups that my critics/opponents are, the more/bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, a) only Whites can be racist and b) only non-Whites can be victims of racism. Further, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, only men can be sexists, only older people can be ageist, and only heterosexuals, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time can be bigoted. Further, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, a) those who are the aforesaid can never be the victims of discrimination and b) because I am all of the aforesaid, by definition, I have never been discriminated against. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) 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. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who do you know who is/was an internal auditor? When I was 32 years old in 1981, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt and I became a licensed CPA. Only about 20% of those who take the CIA examination pass it on their first attempt and very few, if not extremely few, CPAs become licensed CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the aforesaid. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. I had worked for GAO for a year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Only about 20% of those who take the CPA examination pass it on their first attempt. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Auditees have always challenged internal auditors’ objectivity. I have always been a Republican. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. GAO audits IRS. The Democrats who ran IRS and GAO back then did not want Republicans to audit IRS. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS until early 1986. But then, in late 1988, they succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Supreme Court is deciding Trump’s Agency Firings. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), federal courts ruled that the Democrats who ran GAO during the 1980s and 1990s could legally waste the careers of and force to retire their employees a) because they became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) because they complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination, and/or c) because they were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid. Further, federal courts ruled that having three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license was no defense.
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Indiana to explore redrawing state line with Illinois despite opposition from Pritzker
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/23/indiana-explore-redrawing-state-line-illinois-despite-opposition-gov/
— OMB Director Russ Vought slams GAO for calling pause of funding EV charging program ‘illegal’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/23/omb-director-russ-vought-slams-gao-calling-pause-funding-ev-charging/
AMAC
— DEI: The Real Threat to American Unity. DEI forces Americans who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time to first see themselves as being members of the aforesaid groups instead of first seeing themselves as being Americans. Further, DEI forces those who are members of the aforesaid groups to see themselves as being victims of those who are not members of the aforesaid groups. I am not a member any of the aforesaid groups. The more of the aforesaid groups that my critics/opponents are, the more/bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://amac.us/better-for-america-podcast/unmasking-dei-dr-carol-swain-on-the-real-threat-to-american-unity/
BREITBART
— Noem Gives Fiery Response to Dismissal of Illegals’ Gitmo Lawsuit
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/23/suck-it-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-gives-fiery-response-to-dismissal-of-illegals-gitmo-lawsuit/
— Trump’s DHS Pressures Thousands of Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport with Billions in Fines
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/23/trump-pressures-thousands-of-illegals-to-self-deport-with-billions-in-fines/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Media Hypocrisy on Afrikaner Refugees
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/23/media-hypocrisy-afrikaner-refugees/
— Here’s How the SPLC Suggests ‘White Christian Supremacy’ Is Taking Over the Government
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/23/heres-how-splc-suggests-white-christian-supremacy-is-taking-over-government/
FOX NEWS
— Sen Mike Lee accuses Chicago mayor — who called Trump a ‘monster’ — of ‘bragging about’ violating the law. DOJ launches probe to examine whether Chicago is engaging in race-based discrimination. In Diersen v. GAO, GAO argued that it treated me the way that Congress wanted it to, that is, that it followed Affirmative Action law, that is, that it gave preference to its Democrat employees who were minority and/or female, that is, that it discriminated against its Republican employees who were White and/or male.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-mike-lee-accuses-chicago-mayor-who-called-trump-monster-bragging-about-violating-law
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Richard Porter: Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Make Midterms Harder for Democrats
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/23/richard_porter_trumps_one_big_beautiful_bill_makes_midterms_harder_for_democrats.html
TOWNHALL
— From Hate Crime Hoax to Handshake Settlement — Jussie Smollett Walks Away
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/23/jussie-smolletts-to-pay-50000-to-settle-fake-hate-crime-lawsuit-n2657553
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Trump to address West Point graduates following DEI crackdown. The school removed diversity related curriculum after Trump order.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-address-west-point-graduates-dei-crackdown/story?id=122116685
CNN
— Trump’s IRS layoffs will lead to billions in lost tax revenue as agency sheds auditors. GAO audits IRS. Gingrich’s gutting of GAO instead of reforming it resulted in billions if not trillions of not only lost tax revenue, but trillions of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/irs-staffing-cuts-revenue-loss-trump-dg
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-doge-cuts-layoffs-31-percent-auditors-tax-revenue-impact/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/world/harvard-international-students-trump-intl
MSNBC
— White House eyes primaries for GOP members who opposed the Trump agenda megabill. The president seems less interested in persuading GOP members like Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson and more interested in threatening them. I should write about those who continue to punish me the most for my supporting Pat O’Malley in the 2002 Republican gubernatorial primary. They continue to blame me for Jim Ryan’s defeat in 2002. In my defense, I did everything that I could to help Jim Ryan win the general election.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-primaries-gop-republicans-house-2026-rcna208759
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Immigrant arrests at courthouses signal new tactic in Trump’s deportation push. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been instructed to arrest people immediately after a judge has ordered them to be deported or after prosecutors move to drop their cases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/23/immigration-court-arrests-ice-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/23/trump-harvard-international-students/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/23/harvard-international-students-trump/
— Judge extends order blocking Trump’s mass federal worker layoffs. A federal judge said the president needs to seek congressional cooperation for such widespread changes. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years and my being a federal retiree for almost 28 years against me the most.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/23/federal-workers-trump-administration-layoffs-block-extended/
SACRAMENTO OBSERVER
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are members of the following groups that they are marginalized by those who are not members of the following groups, that is, that all their problems are caused by those who are not: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I am not a member any of the aforesaid groups. The more of the aforesaid groups that my critics/opponents are, the more/bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://sacobserver.com/2025/05/trump-administration-inequality-effects/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Supreme Court Showdown on Trump’s Agency Firings. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), federal courts ruled that the Democrats who ran GAO during the 1980s and 1990s could legally waste the careers of and force to retire their employees a) because they became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) because they complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination, and/or c) because they were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid. Further, federal courts ruled that having three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license was no defense.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/humphreys-executor-supreme-court-nlrb-mspb-gwynne-wilcox-cathy-harris-donald-trump-5f40818b
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/george-floyds-death-almost-consumed-america-in-revolution-fdb9d785
— Race, Hiring and Chicago’s Mayor. Brandon Johnson brags about diversity. The Justice Department launches an investigation. My Democrat superiors in the federal government bragged about their success in meeting/exceeding their Affirmative Action and DEI quotas, targets, and goals, that is, they bragged about their success in getting rid of their employees like me who were Republican, white, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/brandon-johnson-donald-trump-chicago-hiring-dei-investigation-harmeet-dhillon-7d38d7b5
— Woke Education Is Going Strong, Even in Middle America. Schools in Wauwatosa, Wis., embrace far-left fads from ‘gender identity’ to ‘restorative justice.’ Democrat teachers focus on cranking out good little Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/woke-education-is-going-strong-even-in-middle-america-schools-sexuality-gender-5d1ccd11
RECORD
— Trump to speak at West Point graduation
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/local/2025/05/23/west-point-graduation-when-trump-will-speak-protests-planned/83770478007/
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
— Democrat leaders use government to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/05/24/who-gains-from-the-promises-trump-keeps-letter/
REASON MAGAZINE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, a) only Whites can be racist and b) only non-Whites can be victims of racism. Further, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, only men can be sexists, only older people can be ageist, and only heterosexuals, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time can be bigoted. Further, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, a) those who are the aforesaid can never be the victims of discrimination and b) because I am all of the aforesaid, by definition, I have never been discriminated against. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) 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. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/
AUTO NEWS
— Dodge says it’s eliminating Canada-made Charger Daytona R/T for 2026 because of tariffs. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. I am one of 1,266 who did during the first 3 months of this year. Please let me know if you share my interest in the car. I own a 2013 Charger R/T Max. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T show car 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://www.autonews.com/stellantis/an-dodge-charger-daytona-rt-dropped-0519/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The electric Charger Daytona, which is made in Canada, began arriving at dealerships in January as a 2024 model in two varieties: the R/T and the higher-end Scat Pack. The 670-hp Scat Pack, which starts at $75,185 with shipping, will be the only electric Charger available as a 2026 model. Mopar Insiders first reported the decision to eliminate the R/T, which starts at $61,590 with shipping. “Production of the Dodge Charger Daytona R/T is postponed for the 2026 model year as we continue to assess the effects of U.S. tariff policies,” Dodge CEO Matt McAlear said in a statement. “The Charger’s flexible, multi-energy STLA Large platform allows us to focus on the Charger Daytona Scat Pack’s performance as the world’s quickest and most powerful muscle car, add the new four-door model to the Charger mix for the 2026 model year and lean into the new Charger SIXPACK models that will launch in the second half of the year.” Sign up to get our monthly Done Deals newsletter focused on the latest dealership transactions and insights into the buy-sell market. The Charger is produced at Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario along with the Chrysler Pacifica and Voyager minivans for the U.S. market. It also builds the Pacifica and Grand Caravan for the Canadian market. The plant shut down for two weeks in April, just hours after President Donald Trump imposed 25 percent duties on vehicles imported to the U.S. The Daytona made up 65 percent of Charger sales in the U.S. in the first quarter with 1,947 deliveries. Stellantis is still selling off remaining ICE versions of the previous Charger model, which saw production in Brampton, Ont., end in 2023. The Daytona is available only as a coupe, but it will get a four-door variant this year. The gasoline-powered Sixpack models are slated to debut this year as well, in two-door and four-door configurations.)
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTANCY
— Internal pressures challenge internal auditors’ objectivity. I have always been a Republican. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. GAO audits IRS. The Democrats who ran IRS and GAO back then did not want Republicans to audit IRS. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS until early 1986. But then, in late 1988, they succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career.
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2015/jun/internal-audit-objectivity/
PWC
— The evolving role of Internal Auditors. When I was 32 years old in 1981, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt and I became a licensed CPA. Only about 20% of those who take the CIA examination pass it on their first attempt and very few, if not extremely few, CPAs become licensed CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the aforesaid. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. I had worked for GAO for a year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Only about 20% of those who take the CPA examination pass it on their first attempt. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.
https://www.pwc.com/mt/en/publications/other/the-evolving-role-of-internal-auditors.html
GUARDIAN
— To get more and more and more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint White Republicans as being White supremacists.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/trump-threat-far-right-white-supremacist
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May 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump confronts South Africa’s president in Oval Office, shows evidence of genocide
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-host-south-africa-president-cyril-ramaphosa-amid-tensions-resettlement-afrikaners/16492596/
WGN9
— Federal budget cuts threaten academic support for at-risk Chicago youth. What did you do while you were in high school? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, and washed dishes.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/federal-budget-cuts-threaten-academic-support-for-at-risk-chicago-youth/
FOX32
— Johnson calls Trump ‘a monster’ while defending diverse hiring amid DOJ probe
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-calls-trump-monster-defends-diverse-hiring-doj-probe
— LaHood urges party to put aside differences on Trump’s tax bill. LaHood is vowing that President Trump’s tax bill will not kick any Illinoisans off Medicaid or food stamp programs, and that it’ll just root out waste, fraud and abuse.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1645209
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa/
— Firearm arrest No. 10 made at Naperville Topgolf parking lot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/naperville-police-topgolf-gun-arrest-2/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/first-homosexuals-exhibit-returns-chicago/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with South Africa against America
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa/
— Speak incautiously about race, Mr. Mayor, and you invite federal scrutiny. Brandon Johnson still has to learn there are some things a mayor should not say.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/editorial-mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-contracting-trump/
— Waukegan parade organizer accuses alderman of intimidation. I should write about my critics’/opponents’ success in ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades in 2021, a role that I had since 2005.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/waukegan-council-victor-felix/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/21/trumps-anti-immigrant-ice-raids-deportation-chicago-rainbow-push-ben-jealous
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Naperville police chief says the city will have ‘zero tolerance’ to unlawful conduct at gatherings
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250521/news/naperville-police-chief-says-the-city-will-have-zero-tolerance-to-unlawful-conduct-at-gatherings/
— Defense Department accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s use
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250521/nation-and-world-politics/defense-department-accepts-boeing-747-from-qatar-for-trumps-use/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/22/mayor-calls-trump-a-monster-00364698
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-518/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-310/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Broken cities, bad governance: Blue state city residents voting with their feet
https://wirepoints.org/broken-cities-bad-governance-blue-state-city-residents-voting-with-their-feet-fox-news/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Votes for, Explains Federal Budget Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/22/lahood-votes-for-explains-federal-budget-bill/
— Keicher School Safety Bill Passes Both Houses
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/keicher-school-safety-bill-passes-both-houses/
— Could Republicans Be Taking U.S. Senate Race Seriously?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/could-republicans-be-taking-u-s-senate-race-seriously/
— Florida and Illinois Black Leaders Trade Places at Republican Events
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/florida-and-illinois-black-leaders-trade-places/
— McHenry Organization Gains Housing Subsidy
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/mchenry-organization-gains-housing-subsidy/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump puts evidence of ‘White genocide’ in front of South African leader
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/21/trump-plays-video-south-african-leader-showing-purported-evidence/
— House passes Trump agenda bill, sending massive tax and spending cut package to the Senate. Blue-state moderates get more on SALT exemption; conservatives win on green energy, immigration, firearms.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/21/house-republicans-tweak-big-beautiful-bill-ahead-floor-vote/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Hillary Clinton wants immigrant women to do the job American women aren’t doing. I was the only White male who washed dishes in the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights. I did that 1964-1966.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3417646/hillary-clinton-immigration-foreign-women-do-job-americans-arent/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/supreme_court_children_of_illegal_aliens_or_tourists_are_not_u_s_citizens.html
— Can You Be a Trump-Supporter and a Good Christian? The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/can_you_be_a_trump_supporter_and_a_good_christian.html
BREITBART
— Illinois GOP Calls for Federal Intervention as Tensions Mount Over the State’s Trans Athlete Rules
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/05/21/illinois-gop-calls-for-federal-intervention-as-tensions-mount-over-states-trans-athlete-rules/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Forces South African President To Watch Video Of Country’s Leaders Calling For Genocide
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/21/trump-forces-south-african-president-to-watch-video-of-countrys-leaders-calling-for-genocide/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Confronts Ramaphosa Over ‘Afrikaner Genocide’ in Oval Office Meeting
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-ramaphosa-clash-over-afrikaner-genocide-in-white-house-meeting-5861261
— 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed in DC Shooting Near Jewish Museum. The FBI says the attack is being investigated as a potential federal hate crime.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/two-israeli-embassy-staffers-shot-in-dc-near-jewish-museum-noem-5861621
— House Passes Trump Agenda Bill in Early Morning Vote. After weeks of negotiations, in a tight vote just before 7:00 a.m., the House approved the ‘big beautiful bill’ central to the president’s agenda.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/house-passes-trump-agenda-bill-in-early-morning-vote-5861273
FOX NEWS
— Naperville trans athlete conflict grows after tense track meet as state Republicans call for Trump’s help. State representative calls situation ‘disgusting’ as calls grow for the Trump administration to pull federal funding.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/illinois-trans-athlete-conflict-grows-after-tense-track-meet-state-republicans-call-trumps-help
FOX SPORTS
— Illinois state lawmakers get hostile during debates on trans athletes in girls’ sports. Democrat accused Republicans of being ‘obsessed with children’s genitalia’ as tensions mount following Naperville track controversy.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/illinois-state-lawmakers-get-hostile-during-debates-trans-athletes-girls-sports
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chicago Resident Confronts Mayor Johnson: ‘Why are You a Racist?’ Mayor Johnson is a despicable human being.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/chicago-resident-confronts-mayor-johnson-why-are-you-a-racist/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— No, Ending DEI Programs Would Not Be a Loss to Education
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/no-ending-dei-programs-would-not-be-a-loss-to-education/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump’s cultural overhaul throttles local arts, humanities programs nationwide
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/politics/trump-culture-arts-humanities-grants-funding
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/frank-kameny-lgbtq-gay-rights-100th-birthday-rcna207654
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with South Africa against America
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africans-praise-ramaphosa-keeping-cool-amid-trump-attack-2025-05-22/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/under-attack-by-trump-south-africas-ramaphosa-responds-with-trade-deal-offer-2025-05-21/
NEWSWEEK
— Trump Responds to Israeli Embassy Staff Killings in DC: ‘Must End’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-responds-isreali-embassy-shooting-washington-dc-2075553
NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump. The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/qatar-plane-trump-air-force-one.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump confronts South African president over violence against White farmers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-violence/
WALL STREET JOIRNAL
— The GOP’s SALT Deal Folly. Republicans make it easier for Democrats to raise state taxes. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/salt-cap-house-republicans-mike-johnson-mike-lawler-nick-lalota-tax-bill-7a6ef2ca?mod=opinion_lead_pos2
— You Can Still Negotiate a ‘Best and Final’ Job Offer. Job hunters can talk their way into a better deal, even if the salary is set. Ever since I was 31 years old in 1980, my critics/opponents have used against me big time my taking a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that pay cut proved a) that IRS had grossly overpaid me, that is, that IRS should not have promoted me in 1972, 1983, and 1974 and b) that was an extremely bad person because I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069/year, because much of what I would do for GAO was similar to what I did for IRS, because GAO audits IRS, because I has almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting, because I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and because I had earned an MBA in 1976. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-offer-negotiations-82550489
BLOOMBERG
— Trump Ramps Up Criminal Charges Against Migrants in California
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/trump-ramping-up-criminal-charges-against-migrants-in-sanctuary-cities
POLITICO
— Trump administration accepts Qatari jet for Air Force One
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-administration-accepts-qatari-jet-for-air-force-one-00362805
— Trump puts South Africa’s president on the defensive over ‘genocide’ claims
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa-defensive-genocide-00362831
— Trump admin deportation flight to South Sudan violated court order, judge rules
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-deportations-south-sudan-00362919
MEDIAITE
— Reporter William Kelly Slams Chicago Mayor for ‘Black Power Rhetoric’ and Asks Him: ‘Why Are You a Racist?’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/far-right-reporter-slams-chicago-mayor-for-black-power-rhetoric-and-asks-him-why-are-you-a-racist/
DAILY KOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/21/2323597/-Surprise-Trump-s-base-is-motivated-by-racist-hate-and-deep-bigotry-not-economics
May 21, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Huntley Trump store owner claims fines from village, eviction notice are ‘political’ Village says store owner cannot keep items in right-of-way.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-truth-store-owner-claims-fines-village-huntley-illinois-eviction-notice-are-political-im-gonna-fight/16486152/
— Chicago mayor Johnson says Trump administration reflects ‘country club’ in response to DOJ investigation of Chicago’s hiring practices. How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trumps-administration-reflects-country-club-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-says-response-doj-investigation/16482731/
— Multiple citations issued, 2 arrested in large Naperville teen gatherings. Naperville today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/naperville-illinois-news-multiple-citations-issued-2-arrested-downtown-another-teen-takeover-police-say/16483549/
— Chicago committee approves controversial ‘snap curfew’ ordinance; full city council to vote Wednesday. Chicago today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-teen-takeovers-youth-leaders-join-mayor-brandon-johnson-discuss-summer-safety-intitiatives-including-snap-curfuews/16483642/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad including price increases.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-restaurant-association-show-2025-chicago-restaurants-feeling-impact-struggling-us-economy/16486189/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/venezuela-deportation-news-roughly-50k-arrived-chicago-last-2-years-limbo-trump-tps-ruling/16486487/
— Dolton plans to take ownership of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home through eminent domain
https://wirepoints.org/dolton-plans-to-take-ownership-of-pope-leo-xivs-childhood-home-through-eminent-domain-abc7-chicago/
NBC5
— Defiant Chicago mayor calls for investigation into Trump administration hiring.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/defiant-chicago-mayor-calls-for-investigation-into-trump-administration-hiring/3750328/
— Trump fails to convince ‘SALT Caucus’ to back tax bill. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-fails-to-convince-salt-caucus-to-back-tax-bill/3749988/
— Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan. The group of LGBTQ activist climbers said the flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest ever displayed on the face of the world-famous rock climbing destination. By way of contrast, I displayed a 18X12-foot American flag in my previous two Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville. But because my new condo there does not have high or wide enough wall space, I cannot do that there.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/yosemite-climbers-transgender-pride-flag-el-capitan/3750359/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/venezuelans-chicago-temporary-protected-status-deportation-supreme-court/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use alleged hate crimes to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/woman-brutally-attacked-carpentersville-because-lesbian/
— Naperville School District 203 board meeting packed after trans student wins at junior high track meet. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/naperville-school-district-203-board-meeting-trans-student-junior-high-track-meet/
FOX32
— Naperville ‘teen takeover’: Police respond to large gatherings, issue citations and arrest two. Naperville today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/naperville-teen-takeover-police-respond-large-gatherings-issue-citations-arrest-two
WTTW
— DOJ Announces Probe of Mayor Johnson After He Lauds Record of Hiring Black Chicagoans in Senior Positions. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were very proud of their success in forcing me to retire and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/feds-announce-probe-mayor-johnson-after-he-lauds-record-hiring-black-chicagoans-senior
— Mayor Brandon Johnson: ‘We’re Not Going to Be Intimidated’ By DOJ Hiring Probe
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/20/mayor-brandon-johnson-we-re-not-going-be-intimidated-justice-department-hiring-probe
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Naperville councilman McBroom, DuPage GOP, Awake Illinois battle District 203 over transgender female athletes. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/naperville-school-district-203-transgender-sports/
— Victims’ group alleges that Pope Leo XIV failed to ‘properly investigate’ child sexual abuse in Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/pope-leo-priest-sex-abuse/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/illinois-americorps-cuts/
— The more crime in a zip code, the more insurance claims.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/opinion-illinois-car-insurance-credit-score-alexi-giannoulias/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote pro-Palestinian activists
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/05/trump-pro-palestinian-activists-jailing-deporting-immigrants-chinese-asian-american-rick-baldoz
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Naperville parents voice objections after transgender student competes in track meet. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250520/other-sports/naperville-parents-voice-objections-after-transgender-student-competes-in-track-meet/
— Chicago suburbs listed among 250 elite towns by U.S. News & World Report. He who sets the criteria determines the outcome.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250520/news/by-the-numbers-chicago-suburbs-listed-among-250-elite-towns-by-u-s-news-world-report/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Dolton plans to take Pope Leo’s childhood home through eminent domain.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/dolton-plans-take-popes-old-home-through-eminent-domain
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote federal spending and b) fight federal spending cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/durbin-duckworth-question-cuts-illinois-hospitals
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/brandon-johnson-slams-lack-diversity-trump-cabinet
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote federal spending and b) fight federal spending cuts.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-senior-advocacy-groups-department-on-aging-urge-congress-to-fully-fund-older-americans-act/article_cb14c002-c7d8-41bd-b93c-011225a7ff2a.html
WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.wsiu.org/2025-05-21/how-two-women-owned-businesses-are-navigating-trumps-tariffs
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Wheaton Memorial Day Parade:10 a.m. Monday, May 26. Hosted by American Legion Post 76, the parade steps off at Hale and Union streets, proceeds west on Union to West Street, then south on West to Wheaton Cemetery, 1209 S. Warrenville Road.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2025/05/20/where-to-find-memorial-day-ceremonies-and-parades-in-dupage-county/
DES PLAINES PATCH
— Over 25,000 diverse individuals attended the Skokie Cultural Festival. To be diverse you must be liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of me. Diverse Democrats and diverse RINOs get rid of non-diverse Republicans.
https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/over-25-000-diverse-individuals-attended-skokie-cultural-festival
JUST THE NEWS
— Illinois GOP Rep. Mary Miller says SALT deduction is a ‘handout’ to rich donors. SALT is a tax break that allows taxpayers to deduct part or all of what they paid in state and local taxes from their federal tax return. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/illinois-gop-rep-mary-miller-says-salt-deduction-handout-rich-donors
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/statement-doj-investigation/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-517/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-309/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois education officials look to hide their failures by lowering reading, math standards. Just say no.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-education-officials-look-to-hide-their-failures-by-lowering-reading-math-standards-just-say-no-wirepoints/
— Lawmakers’ latest attempt to boost public pension benefits.
https://wirepoints.org/today-join-wirepoints-afp-and-ipi-for-a-virtual-roundtable-all-about-lawmakers-latest-attempt-to-boost-public-pension-benefits/
— Is Mayor Johnson really saying such things aloud?
https://wirepoints.org/is-mayor-johnson-really-saying-such-things-aloud-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Bill Proposes $10,000 for Student Teachers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/bill-proposes-10000-for-student-teachers/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Lawmakers investigate federal spending on gambling, adult entertainment and more
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7fa3a6bf-e87f-4854-8f73-edba9f9e910c.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To be diverse you must be liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of me. Diverse Democrats and diverse RINOs get rid of non-diverse Republicans. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference that they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When were you under the radar? I was under the radar at IRS until I was 25 years old in 1973 and my IRS manager gave me a big high-profile developmental assignment and promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) because of my performance on it. Because of the aforesaid, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him and a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and e) ever-increasingly made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. According to them, that development assignment should have been given to a Democrat who was a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I got the assignment because of my job performance and because I was taking graduate evening business courses. The aforesaid and Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me drew attention to the fact that I was conservative, Republican, a Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident 1948-1972. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What were your superiors proud of? When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were very proud of their success in forcing me to retire and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, says he will cut political spending. I should write about a) the biggest donors to the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party since 2000 and b) what they think of me. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Too much local government makes Illinois inefficient, raises property taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/too-much-local-government-makes-illinois-inefficient-raises-property-taxes/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Resentment of ICE, backlash against its agents and mission rise alongside Democrats’ condemnations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/20/attacks-ice-rise-alongside-democrats-anti-ice-comments/
— Colleges dump ‘segregated’ graduations after Trump DEI ban
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/20/colleges-dump-segregated-graduations-trump-dei-ban/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Top IRS division appears packed with anti-Trump officials
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3417397/trump-irs-democrat-officials-bias/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley Tells College Grads: ‘Freedom of Speech is Under Attack’ By Trump Administration. Pelley’s speech came just before CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon announced her resignation amid clashes between the network and parent company Paramount. Democrat leaders run the mainstream news media in America. The mainstream news media in America is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://freebeacon.com/media/60-minutes-scott-pelley-tells-college-grads-freedom-of-speech-is-under-attack-by-trump-administration/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Race Fatigue in the United States. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote minorities, females, and younger people because they vote for Democrats and b) get rid of Whites, males, and older people because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/race_fatigue_in_the_united_states.html
— Putin’s cold and dark soul
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/putin_s_cold_and_dark_soul.html
— Trump’s ‘big’ and ‘beautiful’ tax bill retains hundreds of billions (maybe trillions?) in ‘Green New Deal’ spending
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_s_big_and_beautiful_tax_bill_retains_hundreds_of_billions_maybe_trillions_in_green_new_deal_spending.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump’s historic first $1,000 self-deportation flight takes off. Here’s how it’s going …
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/20/trumps-historic-first-1000-self-deportation-flight-takes-off-heres-how-its-going-1544944/
BREITBART
— 1.4 Million Illegals Ordered Deported but ‘Roaming Free’ in U.S. Due to Lack of Detention Space
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/expert-witness-tells-congress-1-4-million-illegals-ordered-deported-but-roaming-free-in-u-s-due-to-lack-of-detention-space/
— Spike Lee Slams Trump at Cannes Film Festival
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/05/20/spike-lee-slams-trump-at-cannes-film-festival/
DAILY CALLER
— GOP Pushes Tax To Pay For Trump Agenda And Depress Illegal Immigration In One Fell Swoop
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/gop-tax-pay-for-trump-agenda-disincentivize-illegal-immigration/
— The Biden Cover Up Is Worse Than You Can Possibly Imagine
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-rebelcast-media-cover-up/
FOX NEWS
— Naperville board meeting erupts over transgender athlete policy: ‘Clear divide on this issue’ Awake Illinois founder Shannon Adcock joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the debate over transgender athletes in girls’ sports after female track runners were defeated by a biological male. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373126420112
NEWSMAX
— DOJ Investigating Chicago Mayor Over Black Hires. How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference that they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-justice-department-brandon-johnson/2025/05/20/id/1211653/
PJ MEDIA
— DHS Slams Walz’s ‘Gestapo’ Comments, Highlights Criminals Arrested
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/20/dhs-slams-walzs-gestapo-comments-details-criminals-arrested-n4939960
REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
— Buh-Bye West Point
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/05/20/buh-bye_west_point_1111220.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Walmart Responds To Trump’s Order To ‘Eat The Tariffs’
https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-responds-donald-trump-eat-tariffs-trade-policy-2075063
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newsweek.com/talk-suspending-habeas-corpus-hand-grenade-americas-heart-opinion-2074845
REUTERS
— Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, says he will cut political spending. I should write about a) the biggest donors to the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party since 2000 and b) what they think of me. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me lately.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-musk-says-he-is-still-committed-being-tesla-ceo-5-years-time-2025-05-20/
CNN
— Trump’s IRS layoffs could lead to billions in lost revenue as agency sheds auditors
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/irs-staffing-cuts-revenue-loss-trump-dg
MSN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/u-s-hits-brakes-on-trade-war-with-china/ar-AA1F9pdS
CBS NEWS
— Biden’s last prostate cancer blood test was in 2014, spokesperson says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-prostate-cancer-blood-test-2014/
NEW YORK TIMES
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, only non-Whites can be refugees.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000010169282/inside-trumps-exception-for-white-south-african-refugees.html
— Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism. Jews in America are overwhelmingly liberal. Jews in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Liberals get rid of conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/antisemitism-israel-palestine-esther.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregion/nyc-pride-sponsors-trump-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders encourage Democrats to move into Elmhurst.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/realestate/elmhurst-illinois-real-estate-guide.html
— Democrat Leaders Say How Trump Has Targeted New Groups for Deportation
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/21/us/trump-immigration-policy.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump drafts America’s business titans to burnish his image at home and abroad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/21/trump-apple-walmart-tariffs-ceos-middle-east/2b609ad6-35f9-11f0-9c9e-0db2d748bea7_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/20/transgender-pride-flag-yosemite-el-capitan-lgbtq/83750904007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Joe Biden Had Unrivaled Medical Care. How Did His Cancer Go Undetected? Other presidents, including Donald Trump, have undergone and released their prostate screening results.
https://www.wsj.com/health/joe-biden-had-unrivaled-medical-care-how-did-his-cancer-go-undetected-93d735d4
FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/scrapping-dei-without-benefits-morally-unjust-bankrupt/
BLOOMBERG
— When were you under the radar? I was under the radar at IRS until I was 25 years old in 1973 and my IRS manager gave me a big high-profile developmental assignment and promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) because of my performance on it. Because of the aforesaid, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him and a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and e) ever-increasingly made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. According to them, that development assignment should have been given to a Democrat who was a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I got the assignment because of my job performance and because I was taking graduate evening business courses. The aforesaid and Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me drew attention to the fact that I was conservative, Republican, a Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident 1948-1972. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/5-affordable-under-the-radar-vacations-to-take-this-summer
ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/third-country-deportations/682857/
HR BREW
— Democrat and RINO employers will forever use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/05/20/why-dei-is-not-disappearing-any-time-soon-for-hr
PEW RESEARCH
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy Republicans who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/how-much-discrimination-do-americans-say-groups-face-in-the-u-s/
GOOGLE AI
— The Illinois Republican Primary in 2026 will be held on March 17th, 2026. This primary will determine the Republican candidates who will appear on the ballot for the November 3rd, 2026 General Election. Here’s what you need to know:
https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+primary+illinois+2026
(FROM THE POSTING: Governor: Some potential or declared Republican candidates include James Mendrick, Joseph Severino, Aaron Del Mar, Richard Porter, Jeanne Ives, and Blaine Wilhour. Attorney General: The Republican primary for Attorney General in 202(2) saw Thomas DeVore win with 44.2% of the vote, followed by Steve Kim and David Shestokas. Secretary of State: Dan Brady won the Republican primary for Secretary of State with 76.4% of the vote, defeating John Milhiser.)
GOOGLE AI
— DuPage Countywide Republican Primary 2026
https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+primary+dupage+%222026%22+%22countywide%22+offices
(FROM THE POSTING: DuPage Countywide Offices: Generally, DuPage Countywide offices that would be on the ballot include: County Board Chairman, County Clerk, Sheriff, Treasurer. Republican Candidates (as of May 21, 2025): It’s still early in the election cycle, and a complete list of Republican candidates for DuPage County offices in 2026 is not yet available. However, there is news about the Sheriff’s race: Sheriff James Mendrick has announced he will not be seeking re-election as DuPage County Sheriff. He is instead running for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois. Mendrick has endorsed Undersheriff Eddie Moore as his successor for DuPage County Sheriff.)
WIKIPEDIA
— Illinois U.S. Senate election 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elections#Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Among Republicans, former police officer John Goodman has announced his candidacy. Potential Republican candidates include Congressman Darin LaHood and state Representative Tom Demmer.)
— 2026 Illinois gubernatorial election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Illinois_gubernatorial_election#Candidates
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican Primary Candidates: Declared: James Mendrick, DuPage County Sheriff (2018–present), Running mate: Robert Renteria, author and businessman; Phil Perez, member of the Posen Park District Commission; Joseph Severino, capital management professional and nominee for Illinois’s 10th congressional district in 2022. Publicly expressed interest: Aaron Del Mar, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner, chair of the Cook County Republican Party, and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2022; Richard Porter, former member of the Republican National Committee and the Illinois State Police Merit Board. Potential: Jeanne Ives, former state representative, candidate for governor in 2018, and nominee for Illinois’s 6th congressional district in 2020; Blaine Wilhour, state representative.)
May 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 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Medicaid to promote more hatred against Trump. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republicans-proposing-medicaid-cuts-part-president-donald-trump-spending-bill-leaving-americans-worried/16439037/
— DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-homeland-security-says-beginning-stages-vetting-process-immigrant-reality-show-citizenship/16447461/
NBC5
— Joliet surpassed by fellow Chicago suburb as Illinois’ third-largest city. Naperville is now the state’s third-largest city, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joliet-surpassed-fellow-chicago-suburb-illinois-third-largest-city/3748213/
FOX32
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tells-walmart-eat-tariffs
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/south-africa-afrikaners-refugee-white/
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me a) to paint me as being stupid and b) to paint my parents as having been filthy rich. They stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/federal-dei-crackdown-threatens-illinois-graduate-student-scholarship-program/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/16/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents
DAILY HERALD
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly paint the Pope as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/pope-leo-xiv-not-registered-as-a-republican-in-illinois/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Candida Cain leaves GOP, announces run for Kane treasurer as a Democrat. Move could lead to potential 2026 contest against her former boss.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/18/candida-cain-leaves-gop-announces-run-for-kane-treasurer-as-a-democrat/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Candida “Connie” Cain on Saturday declared her intent to seek the Democratic nomination in the March 17, 2026 primary for Kane County Treasurer. A Certified Public Account from Gilberts, Cain had worked for current Treasurer Chris Lauzen as Director of Financial Operations from May 2023 until he fired her Nov. 22. In an email, Lauzen, a Republican elected as treasurer in 2022, did not state if he planned to seek a second term. If Lauzen goes for another term, and Cain wins the Democratic nomination, the contest would pit Cain against her former boss in the general election on Nov. 3, 2026. A former Republican, Cain said she has now transitioned to the Democratic Party.)
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-investigations/2025/05/17/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents
LOOP NORTH NEWS
— Bally’s drops racial preferences for Chicago casino IPO. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that. Further, since I have been involved in Republican politics since 1999, those above me have been under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.loopnorth.com/news/casino0518.htm
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/article_48b5b309-272a-5089-a031-5ad51d5443d8.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/article_70550ee6-0906-5acd-9d87-56f31d030b0e.html
KWQC
— Battle over video gaming terminals in Illinois. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/05/17/battle-over-video-gaming-terminals-illinois/
WMBD
— LaHood reacts to Trump Administration announcements
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/17/lahood-reacts-to-trump-administration-announcements/
CITIES 92.9
— SEIU spends big on politics, little on members
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/17/report-seiu-spends-big-on-politics-little-on-members/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders use Walz to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-walz-calls-trump-a-tyrant-who-is-trampling-americans-rights-and-violating-the-rule-of-law/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries who have demographics that vote for Democrats to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, socialist, communist, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, etc.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-asylum-seekers-still-arrive-at-the-us-border-but-what-will-happen-to-them/
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-clash-with-the-courts-raises-prospect-of-showdown-over-separation-of-powers/
NPR ILLINOIS
— The Democrats who run Congress run GAO. They do the bidding of Democrat leaders against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/how-doge-has-tried-to-embed-beyond-the-executive-branch
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-doj-focuses-in-on-voter-fraud-with-a-murky-assist-from-doge
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-attacks-on-dei-are-complicating-corporate-sponsorship-of-pride-events
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write about the success that they have had in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-05-16/attorneys-general-ask-educators-for-courage-on-dei-policies
CWB CHICAGO
— DuPage judge refuses to detain man accused of robbing postal worker, trafficking checks stolen from the mail
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/judge-refuses-to-detain-man-accused-of-robbing-postal-worker-trafficking-checks-stolen-from-the-mail.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fleeing persecution, South African arrivals scramble refugee politics. The next Democrat or RINO President will send them back.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3414599/fleeing-persecution-south-african-refugees-scramble-politics/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/assessing-the-wreckage-of-affirmative-action/
AMERICAN THINKER
— 86 47 and what madness the U.S. is coming to
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/86_47_and_what_madness_the_u_s_is_coming_to.html
— Robert De Niro’s Trump obsession and Hollywood’s hypocrisy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/robert_de_niro_s_trump_obsession_and_hollywood_s_hypocrisy.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Democrats push misleading ‘cuts to Medicaid’ narrative after enrolling 1.4 million illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/dems-push-misleading-cuts-to-medicaid-narrative-after-enrolling-1-4-million-illegals-1544202/
— Trump blasts SCOTUS for blocking effort to deport illegal Venezuelan ‘gang members’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/trump-blasts-scotus-for-blocking-effort-to-deport-illegal-venezuelan-gang-members-1544193/
BREITBART
— Court allows Trump to stop collective bargaining for thousands of federal workers. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been tremendously overpaid by the federal government. In today’s dollars, between 1966 and 1997, my federal pay increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151 /year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) I earned a job-related professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they could done, but failed to do, to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/court-allows-trump-to-stop-collective-bargaining-for-thousands-of-federal-workers/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Columbia College Chicago says DEI values remain despite program rebranding
https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-college-chicago-says-dei-values-remain-despite-program-rebranding/27913
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Refusing Radical Demands Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/refusing-radical-demands-week-in-education/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/05/18/assessing_the_wreckage_of_affirmative_action_646859.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct.
https://apnews.com/article/institute-museum-library-services-funding-cuts-trump-d3a236243b3a5c2b04e85d2004d1a946
MSN
–Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will foist the sins of your ancestors on you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-knew-the-pain-of-apartheid-how-dare-trump-embrace-afrikaners-as-refugees/ar-AA1EWbdx
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-judge-rules-it-s-ok-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-people/ar-AA1EVI6U
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-funding-cuts-to-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-will-have-lethal-consequences/ar-AA1EI5C1
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate/expect that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI preference that American citizenship gives minorities and females over Whites and males.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-freaks-after-scotus-trashes-his-birthright-citizenship-arguments/ar-AA1EUxfs
— Those who promote muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/dodge-is-already-pulling-the-plug-on-its-cheapest-muscle-car/ar-AA1EW4Jt
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2025/05/17/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-canceled-slow-sales/83675336007/
https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-r-t-discontinued-ram-ev-delays
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/you-arent-buying-it-so-dodge-might-kill-the-electric-charger-daytona-r-t/
https://moparinsiders.com/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-scat-pack-brings-big-changes/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/denying-due-process-pritzker-sends-clear-message-in-blow-to-trump/ss-AA1EYa6X
MSNBC
— Episcopalians help Democrat leaders promote hatred against South African Whites.
https://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/episcopal-church-refuses-trump-and-says-it-won-t-help-resettle-white-south-africans-239823942002
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zL9mESgmU
NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-latest-polls-2072624
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-democrats-trump-2028-president-2073019
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders are overjoyed that Pence criticizes Trump on tariffs and key foreign policy issues as he watches from afar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/mike-pence-criticizes-trump-tariffs-key-foreign-policy-issues-watches-rcna206755
NEW YORK TIMES
— A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency was happy to review “out-of-the-box pitches.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/trump-politics-corruption.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
— DOJ’s defense of GAO in Diersen v. GAO was politically motivated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/17/trump-justice-department-prosecutions/
— Democrat leaders use college newspapers to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/17/college-newspapers-trump-international-students/
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/17/walmart-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders say Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/18/trump-enforcement-halt-regulations-laws/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/18/usaid-withdrawal-africa-healthcare/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-17/bruce-springsteen-president-trump-manchester-concert
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote student loans. I never got any student loans. If I had, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes 1964-1966 and delivering mail 1966-1969. But that enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-17/student-loans-have-been-confusing-lately-heres-a-guide-to-know-where-you-stand
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/18/supreme-courts-decisions-trump-religion-transgender-care/83675865007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/trump-big-beautiful-bill-immigration-tax/83697340007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the Pope despises/hates Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/donald-trump-jd-vance-pope-leo-marco-rubio/83672296007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/
— Democrat leaders say that Vance is a brawler for Trump who avoids Harris and Pence mistakes and his assertive public profile sets him up for 2028 Republican support.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/vice-president-jd-vance-visibility-outspoken/83630581007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-attacks-walmart-for-tariff-related-price-increases-63ef9db8
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say that major companies are anxiously awaiting to see whether or not they will be targeted by the federal government for a DEI investigation.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-dei-deadline-investigation-companies-federal-government/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-walmart-tariffs-trade-rising-prices-2025-5
NPR
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/18/1252312214/us-competitive-autocracy
BILLBOARD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-trump-unfit-president-stage-speech-1235974885/
PRESS READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sunday-world-8839/20250518/281711210554249
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/making-of-elon-musk-childhood-apartheid-south-africa
May 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 13, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope’s oldest brother against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/12/pope-leo-brother-louis-prevost-magna-facebook-nancy-pelosi
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Which Democrat leaders want Pritzker to run for President. Which want him to instead run for Governor again?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/05/13/gov-jb-pritzker-reelection-third-term-president
— The Catholic church’s social service arm in Chicago uses lobbying firm that also represents abortion provider. Catholic Charities uses Cozen O’Connor for state government lobbying. So does Rush University Medical Center, which performs abortions, and CVS Health, whose pharmacies dispense prescriptions that end pregnancies.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/12/catholic-charities-lobbyist-abortion-provider-chicago-cardinal-blase-cupich-rush-university-cozen-oconnor
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/editorial-jb-pritzker-house-republicans-sanctuary-states/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/mundelein-cannabis-store-proposal/
— Illinois homeowners insurance premiums up 50% over three years
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/illinois-homeowners-insurance-premiums/
— Depression, isolation and substance use all are up. Are Illinois teens OK? Back in the good old days, back when I was in high school in the 1960s, I could be optimistic about earning a college degree even though no one saw me as being college material. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease, my vision could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. During my junior and senior years, I spent my weekday evenings and Saturdays and full-time during the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my graduating class. Nevertheless, I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/teens-depression-drinking-drugs-technology/
— The school board president is trying to nix the superintendent requirement. Why does it matter? While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/cps-superintendent-explainer/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/opinion-pete-hegseth-naval-academy-books-removed/
ABC7
— Harvey residents seek investigation into mayor’s office after alderwoman arrested during meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUDlrc5TVOg
— Trump defends Qatar jumbo jet offer, says would be ‘stupid’ to turn away free plane
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-defends-qatar-jumbo-jet-offer-says-would-stupid-turn-away-free-plane/16393995/
NBC5
— ‘We will not hide’: Little Village committed to Mexican Independence Day parade. The recent wave of rising political tensions is not stopping the community from hosting its annual event.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/we-will-not-hide-little-village-committed-to-mexican-independence-day-parade/3743882/
WGN9
— Little Village Mexican Independence Day Parade to proceed despite ICE concerns
https://wgntv.com/news/little-village-mexican-day-parade-2025-chamber-commitment/
— Illinois ranks 36th out of the 50 states. Under the Democrats, for those in Illinois, the more of the following that they are, the bleaker that their future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that the more of the aforesaid that those in Illinois are, the sooner that they will leave Illinois.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/where-illinois-ranks-among-best-states-in-country-in-list-by-u-s-news-world-report/
FOX32
— House GOP unveils spending bill that includes massive Medicaid cuts. What percent are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Why are they on Medicaid?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/money/house-republicans-medicaid-cuts
— Illinois teens say they drink nearly twice as much as U.S. average. I have never been a drinker. I discourage drinking. If I had been a drinker, with all my limitations, I would not have been able to earn an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, earn a bachelor’s degree, earn three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, earn a professional license, etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-teens-say-they-drink-nearly-twice-as-much-as-us-average-survey-finds/ar-AA1EztEo
— Controversy swirls over Trump Qatar trip, gifted plane
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640122
WGN RADIO
— Alder pulls back the curtain on Mayor Johnson’s patronage scheme
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-alder-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-mayor-johnsons-patronage-scheme/
SOUTHERN
— Trump defends Qatar jumbo jet offer, says it would be ‘stupid’ to turn away free plane
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/12/trump-defends-qatar-jumbo-jet-offer-says-it-would-be-stupid-to-turn-away-free-plane/
— Trump administration defends white South African refugee program amid group’s US arrival. Anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/12/trump-administration-defends-white-south-african-refugee-program-amid-groups-us-arrival/
STATELINE
— States are telling sheriffs whether they can — or can’t — work with ICE. Cooperation between sheriffs and ICE lies at the heart of Trump’s immigration policy. Federal law trumps state law. What is your county sheriff’s position on this?
https://stateline.org/2025/05/13/states-are-telling-sheriffs-whether-they-can-or-cant-work-with-ice/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-bill-odor-cannabis-probable-cause/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Ethics experts worry about the implications of Trump accepting Qatar’s luxury plane
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/ethics-experts-worry-about-the-implications-of-trump-accepting-qatars-luxury-plane
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— IRS Ramps Up Collections. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I should write about those who continue to use that against me the most.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1026164/clear-start-tax-warns-taxpayers-irs-ramps-up-collections-amid-office-closures-and-funding-push/
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.wqad.com/article/tech/science/environment/trumps-cuts-federal-climate-research-illinois-impact/526-c4365134-ca06-46a4-8081-e522120ad75c
WHEATON PATCH
— Expansion Sought By St. Michael Church To Accommodate More Students. The church and school is seeking zoning approval to expand its property to better serve its more than 500 students.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/expansion-sought-st-michael-church-accommodate-more-students
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— On the GOP side. Congressman Darin LaHood “said he had been talking with Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chairman of the Senate GOP campaign committee, about entering the race.” And former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he’s weighing a run, too.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/13/tensions-rise-dominoes-fall-00343872
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-511/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-303/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— DOJ asks for preliminary injunction against Illinois over E-Verify obstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqubx_uurNI
— Funding proposal for higher education schools in Illinois meeting opposition
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7ce0769e-4548-484f-9ec7-4c8064712e65.html
WIREPOINTS
— Tax cuts, Gov. Pritzker?
https://wirepoints.org/tax-cuts-gov-pritzker-wirepoints/
— The Bally’s ripoff
https://wirepoints.org/the-ballys-ripoff-wirepoints/
— Illinois politicians will always find new ways to take your money.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-politicians-will-always-find-new-ways-to-take-your-money-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
— Politics Is Threatening to Erode the Quality of the Chicago Fire Department
https://wirepoints.org/paul-vallas-politics-is-threatening-to-erode-the-quality-of-the-chicago-fire-department-chicago-contrarian/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “In both hiring and promotion, the Chicago Fire Department has embraced a DEI-driven agenda that has led to political grandstanding and the dangerous erosion of standards. There is growing pressure on the Fire Academy to carry minority candidates who do not meet basic physical requirements. This is not only irresponsible — it is dangerous.”)
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Eighteen, But Not All Incumbent Black Members of Congress Endorse Robin Kelly for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/eighteen-but-not-all-incumbent-black-members-of-congress-endorse-robin-kelly-for-u-s-senate/
— Fox River Valley State Senator Positioning Himself to Lead the Way to Higher RTA Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/fox-river-valley-state-senator-positioning-himself-to-lead-the-way-to-higher-rta-taxes/
— Parkinson’s Found Higher Near Golf Courses
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/parkinsons-found-higher-near-golf-courses/
— Why Are County’s Proposed Zoning Signs So Small?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/why-are-countys-proposed-zoning-signs-so-small/
— Kat Gets Major Boost from Chicago Tribune
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/kat-gets-major-boost-from-chicago-tribune/
— Moraine Hills State Racks Up 774,000 Visitors
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/moraine-hills-state-parks-racks-up-774000-visitors/
— Prison Rape Returns to the News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/prison-rape-returns-to-the-news/
— Left Out of the Chicago Tribune’s Retrospective Look at the Thompson Center
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/left-out-of-the-chicago-tribunes-retrospective-look-at-the-thompson-center/
— Man Arrested in Marengo with Cock Fighting Paraphernalia & Six Roosters
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/man-arrested-in-marengo-with-cock-fighting-paraphernalia/
— Blacks Doing Worst in Chicago
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/blacks-doing-worst-in-chicago/
— Jack Franks’ Finest Hour
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/jack-franks-finest-hour/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— SEIU Illinois spends just 3% of members’ money representing workers. NTEU spent lots of time and money representing me in Diersen v. IRS. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11-0
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/seiu-illinois-spends-just-3-of-members-money-representing-workers/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3408875/jd-vance-republican-nominee-2028-jim-banks/
NEW YORK POST
— Qatar’s ‘Palace in the Sky’ jet is NOT a ‘free gift’ — and Trump shouldn’t accept it as one
https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/opinion/no-pres-trump-qatars-palace-in-the-sky-jet-isnt-a-free-gift-and-you-shouldnt-accept-it-as-one/
AMAC
— Democrats Normalizing Violence
https://amac.us/newsline/society/democrats-normalizing-violence/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Al Sharpton disapproves of South African refugees fleeing black violence
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/12/al-sharpton-disapproves-of-south-african-refugees-fleeing-black-violence-1542752/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Episcopal Church ends partnership with US gov’t over white Afrikaners resettlement dispute
https://www.christianpost.com/news/episcopal-church-cuts-ties-with-us-govt-over-white-afrikaners.html
DAILY CALLER
— House GOP Plans To Strip Billions From States That Give Illegal Migrants Free Healthcare. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/12/house-gop-plan-would-strip-billions-from-states-that-give-illegal-migrants-free-healthcare/
— House GOP Floats Proposal To Ensure Non-Citizens Do Not Receive Tax-Funded Food Stamps
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/12/exclusive-house-gop-floats-proposal-to-ensure-non-citizens-do-not-receive-tax-funded-food-stamps/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Administration Is Exposing the Hubris of Institutional DEI
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/12/trump-administration-exposing-hubris-institutional-dei/
FEDERALIST
— Medical School Accreditor Suspends ‘Diversity’ Requirements After Trump Executive Order
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/13/medical-school-accreditor-suspends-diversity-requirements-after-trump-executive-order/
FOX NEWS
— Democrats’ bizarre affection for illegal aliens. President Trump was elected president last year by Americans furious that Joe Biden had allowed millions of people to storm across our border illegally
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-democrats-bizarre-affection-illegal-aliens
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Top Medical School Accreditor Suspends Diversity Requirements After Trump Executive Order
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-medical-school-accreditor-suspends-diversity-requirements-after-trump-executive-order/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Admin Rapidly Increasing Weekly Deportation Flights
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-admin-rapidly-increasing-weekly-deportation-flights/
PIERS MORGAN
— ‘My brother the pope is not woke,’ says Louis Prevost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2M9icrrKw
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— GOP to increases the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap from $10,000 to $30,000
https://thehill.com/newsletters/business-economy/5296471-house-gop-unveils-sweeping-tax-plans/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Hate filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/democracy-trump-voice-america-usaid-state-department-f5959e4d3b8d21f22a8c88bfc89842b8
ABC NEWS
— Pope rejects ‘war of words,’ applauds journalists
https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/pope-leo-xiv-live-updates-pope-delivers-anti/?id=121703106
CBS NEWS
— White South Africans arrive in U.S. after Trump administration grants refugee status. Anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-south-africans-afrikaners-arrive-us-trump-administration/
NEWSWEEK
— New Bill Could Ban Pornography Across US
https://www.newsweek.com/pornography-ban-us-bill-2071409
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity. When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-crypto-coin-auction.html
— Trump Declares High-Speed Internet Program ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’ Trump denounced the Biden-era Digital Equity Act as “woke handouts based on race,” raging in a social media post against a broad effort to improve high-speed internet access.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/trump-biden-digital-equity-act.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/harvard-trump-court-case-negotiation.html
— Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/pope-leo-american-catholic.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/world/asia/pope-leo-voice-platform.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/republicans-budget-cuts-medicaid.html
USA TODAY
— $7,500 EV tax credit hasn’t gone away — at least not yet. Eligibility requirements for cars include an MSRP under $55,000. Therefore, my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus is not eligible.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/05/10/ev-federal-tax-credit-2025/83537061007/
— To his classmates in Chicago, Pope Leo was the right pick. How were you viewed when you were in high school? No one saw me as being college material. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease, my vision could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. During my junior and senior years, I spent my weekday evenings and Saturdays and full-time during the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my graduating class. Nevertheless, I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-chicago-classmates-st-mary-assumption/83523767007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/04/guatemalan-mother-immigration-fast-track-deportation/83443273007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GOP Surrenders on Medicaid. The House bill shrinks from a fight over able-bodied men on the dole.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medicaid-reform-house-republicans-budget-bill-gop-entitlements-8201c7e5
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-american-pope-in-the-era-of-trump-prevost-leo-xiv-83d2488b
— Jonathan Clements gave people financial advice. Money Magazine did not select me to be the subject of its February 1978 “One person’s finances” article ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ) to give me financial advice. It selected me because it intended to and it did a) paint me as being grossly overpaid, b) foist negative government employee stereotypes on me, and c) get IRS to disallow my education deductions. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-wsjs-jonathan-clements-wants-to-leave-a-living-legacy-19f1738d
NEBRASKA EXAMINER
— How have you dealt with those who defame you? So far, my policy has been to forgive them. But I am reconsidering that. I am considering writing about them. Possibly suing them. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/18/jury-deliberating-whether-2020-nebraska-gop-campaign-mailer-defamed-legislative-candidate/
SILVER SPRING PATCH
— Free Virtual Workshop for our 50+ Displaced Federal Employees/Contractors
https://patch.com/maryland/silverspring/calendar/event/20250515/97765a5d-61fe-406f-af78-329c6a802c6e/free-virtual-workshop-for-our-50-displaced-federal-employees-contractors
INSURANCE BUSINESS
— Illinois lawmakers question fairness of insurance rates. State targets ZIP codes, credit scores, and age in insurance rate study.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/illinois-lawmakers-question-fairness-of-insurance-rates-532122.aspx
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Supporters of the measure say it responds to long-standing complaints from consumers who believe non-driving-related variables unfairly increase their premiums. According to Wandreeka McBride, chief of staff to Rep. Rita Mayfield, the bill reflects concerns raised by residents who feel burdened by pricing tied to financial or demographic data. “These practices can disproportionately impact low-income communities and communities of color, leading to higher premiums for individuals who may already face economic challenges. Further regulation may be necessary to ensure that underwriting practices are both fair and transparent,” McBride told AM Best.)
— Illinois bill against auto insurance ‘bias’ gets major backing. Insurance industry, on the other hand, expresses strong opposition.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/auto-motor/bill-against-auto-insurance-bias-gets-major-backing-478834.aspx
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
— Is There Any Way to Resuscitate the Seventh Amendment Right to Jury Trial? Law professor Suja Thomas discusses why precious few cases ever make it to a jury and how this trend could be reversed. Have you been denied due process? I have. Four times courts denied my 7th Amendment rights. I should write about that.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/there-any-way-resuscitate-seventh-amendment-right-jury-trial
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Amendment VII: In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. The American Bar Association commissioned a four-year study in 2016 to examine why there are so few federal civil jury trials in the United States. According to its findings, “The percentage of federal lawsuits decided by jury trial dropped from 5.5 percent in 1962 to 0.8 percent in 2013. The percentage of federal criminal cases decided by jury trial dropped from 8.2 percent in 1962 to 3.6 percent by 2013.” The reasons for the decline aren’t hard to discern: jury trials are less predictable, slower, and more expensive for civil litigants. While lawyers and judges say the benefits of jury trials outweigh their costs, they aren’t the ones spending the money to litigate their civil claims. No responsible attorney should ever promise a client that they will win at trial or recommend that a client not at least try to negotiate in good faith to reach a settlement short of trial. Yet there still must be a role for the jury in our legal system. There still must be a way for a litigant to get a jury of peers to render judgment in a dispute. The framers of the Constitution understood this, or at least tried to. One of the least controversial components of the Bill of Rights is the Seventh Amendment’s guarantee of a right to a federal civil jury trial.)
NEWS PRESS
— Have you been denied due process? I have. Four times courts denied my 7th Amendment rights. I should write about that.
https://www.news-press.com/story/opinion/2025/05/11/due-process-under-threat-for-everyone-including-citizens-opinion/83509311007/
WESTLAW
— What adverse actions have been taken against you? My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers and education deductions and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. The aforesaid is more significant a) because I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) because I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) because I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) because I earned a job-related professional license. The aforesaid is more significant a) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My Democrat superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://today.westlaw.com/Document/Ic77f069f2f5d11f0b346bf2b04662841/View/FullText.html
May 11, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-president-donald-trumps-cuts-federal-climate-research-could-mean-illinois/16371824/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote tax increases
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/the-trump-tax-cut-debate-is-heating-up-here-are-the-key-issues-and-who-stands-to-benefit/3742665/
— Your ACT/SAT score impacts you for the rest of your life. My critics/opponents have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/chicago-student-achieves-record-sat-score/
— Nashville group cancels events surrounding MLS game, cites immigration arrests. Many in the group also boycotted the game vs. Charlotte.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/nashville-cancels-events-mls-game-immigration-arrests/3742811/
CBS2
— Trump administration threatens more arrests after showdown outside ICE detention center
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-administration-threatens-more-arrests-after-showdown-outside-ice-detention-center/
FOX32
— Brandon Johnson praises court order blocking Trump’s federal job cuts. A judge on Friday halted Trump’s plan to cut federal jobs. Johnson calls it a win for workers. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats run the federal government. They use budget cuts first to get rid of any remining Republican employees and then to get rid of any remaining non-Democrat employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is what happened at GAO 1980-1997 in response to Gingrich budget cuts. I should write about that. Because I am all of the aforesaid, because I complained about discrimination, and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with discrimination in 1988, I never would have survived those 18 years if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1639280
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-mayor-praises-court-order-215706745.html
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) fight budget cuts and b) promote tax increases
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/republican-economic-priorities-trump-era/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/weather-enthusiasts-illinois-noaa/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/transgender-issues-strength-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote discrimination against Whites in South Africa. According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/trump-white-south-africans-refugees-persecution/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/trump-habeas-corpus-deportations/
— Dolton hopes ties to Pope Leo XIV will burnish town’s image and spur growth
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/dolton-residents-officials-image-pope-leo/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing do everything that they can to use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/column-pope-leo-xiv-page/
— The Vietnam War has had a tremendous impact on me. I should write a book about that. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me the most.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/opinion-vietnam-lessons-us-50-years/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders crow that “Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/05/10/judge-pauses-much-of-trump-administrations-massive-downsizing-of-federal-agencies
— Credit the Chicago nuns for Robert Prevost’s rise to pope. Pope Leo XIV is this: a Catholic schoolboy of a certain age and era who was taught by the nuns.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/08/credit-the-chicago-nuns-for-robert-prevosts-rise-to-pope
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/09/homeownership-race-black-white-inequities-mortgage-lending-great-recession-alden-loury
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250510/nation-and-world-politics/trump-team-mulls-suspending-the-constitutional-right-of-habeas-corpus-to-speed-deportations-can-it/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing do everything that they can to use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250510/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-chicago-pontiff-new-popes-origins-are-a-source-of-pride-but-it-is-his-mis/
WBEZ
— What was your childhood home? Mine was an apartment atop my grandfather’s hardware store in downtown Crete 1948-1953. The building was torn down in 1966 for a gas station. Then it was his home at 1286 Wood Street in Crete. My parents inherited it, then my brother and I inherited it, and then I inherited it.
https://www.wbez.org/religion/2025/05/10/chicagoans-want-pope-leo-xiv-to-remember-his-humble-beginnings
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Dems will have to fight each other for right to fight Trump
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-dems-will-have-to-fight-each-other-for-right-to-fight-trump/article_6598c7a6-4576-40b0-ae9c-a7a98df2eab9.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/transgender-issues-are-a-strength-for-trump-ap-norc-poll-finds/article_54dc6d2e-2bdd-5b97-babe-2c8c48bcd4ee.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/10/do-trumps-tariffs-put-small-businesses-at-greater-risk-experts-weigh-in/
ST. LOUIS TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/column/article_24ef8087-cef0-4b3c-864e-ff01fe90d61c.html
NEWS CHANEL 20
— Democrat Illinois lawmakers ever-increasingly push for healthcare funding for illegals amid budget cuts
https://newschannel20.com/newsletter-daily/illinois-lawmakers-push-for-immigrant-healthcare-funding-amid-budget-cuts#
25 NEWS NOW
— To promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, that is, to promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.25newsnow.com/video/2025/05/11/diversity-display-peoria-schools-host-multicultural-fair/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them. I was a union member while I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969 and for IRS 1971-1980. I should write about my critics/opponents who use that against me the most.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-11/federal-employee-unions-fight-for-survival-as-trump-tries-to-eviscerate-them
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/world/ap-trump-is-bringing-white-south-africans-to-the-us-as-refugees-but-what-persecution-are-they-facing/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders and for other hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, everything will come out in the wash. Sooner or later, it will become clear that all my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks, b) 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 dudes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money, c) blame me for all of their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems, and/or d) despise/hate those who share my demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in the parades. I would focus on those who have worked the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation. I served as the Republican fundraiser for the parades 2005-2021. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged the Milton Township Republican Organization to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parade. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ and https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-2023/ – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— JULY 5, 2017 FLASHBACK: Republicans who participated in Wheaton’s outstanding Independence Day Parade this morning were: DuPage State’s Attorney Bob Berlin; DuPage County District 4 officials Grant Eckhoff, Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, and Tim Whelan; James Mendrick for DuPage Sheriff; Frank Bibbianno for DuPage Sheriff; Karen Wilson for DuPage Judge; and the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC). Republicans who walked with entries included Ron Almiron, Lori Carlson, Joseph Caruso, Flo Dangelo, Sal Falbo, Chris Heidorn, Pat Hinchey, Marty Keller, Larry LaVanway, Antonio Lollino, Paula McGowen, Ron Menna, David Norck, Thommen Poozhikunnel, Mary Rash, Pat Ryan, and Janet Shaw. Gary Muehlfelt drove the truck that pulled the outstanding MTRCC float. Peter Breen, Mike Connelly, and Jeanne Ives could not participate in the parade because of the Democrats. Peter Roskam participated in a different parade. This year, for the 12th year in a row, “DuPage Republicans” helped sponsor the parade and fireworks. “DuPage Republicans” was one of the two $2,500 “Star” sponsors and again sponsored the Wheaton high school bands and the Tunes of Glory Pipes and Drums parade entries. Because of a last minute shortage of banner carriers, I had the honor of helping carry the “Sponsored by DuPage Republicans” banner ahead of the Tunes of Glory Pipes and Drums. Outstandingly, again this year Tim Whelan coordinated Republican use of the “DuPage Republicans” booth at the fireworks. This year again, I delivered flyers to the residences and businesses on the parade route. The flyers listed the Republican entries in the parade and the Republicans who helped sponsor entries. Outstandingly, the flyers were printed courtesy of Alpha Graphics. This year, outstandingly, Roger Claar is a $500 contributor, Chris Nybo is a $250 contributor, Phil Suess is a $150 contributor, and Bob Berlin, Peter Breen, Mike Connelly, Grant Eckhoff, Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, Gwen Henry, Paul Hinds, Jeanne Ives, Marty Keller, Deanne Mazzochi, Paula McGowen, James Mendrick, Peter Roskam, Darlene Ruscitti, and Tim Whelan are $100 contributors. Please thank them for helping sponsor the parade and fireworks. This year was the 10th anniversary of an elephant walking behind Roskam in the parade. For that 2007 parade, I had the honor of raising $2,000 on short notice from DuPage Republicans to sponsor that elephant. – Dave Diersen
https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal judge warns Trump can’t sidestep his order with latest sanctuary city play
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/10/federal-judge-warns-trump-cant-sidestep-order-latest-sanctuary-city/
WAHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3407546/transgender-issues-strength-for-trump-ap-norc-poll/
— Republicans are afraid to defund Planned Parenthood
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3406464/republicans-afraid-defund-planned-parenthood/
— US Customs and Border Protection employees told not to use DEI terms. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3407031/customs-border-protection-employees-told-no-dei-terms/
— Media can blur faces, but not the effects of illegal immigration
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3406858/media-cannot-blur-effects-of-illegal-immigration/
TOWNHALL
— Throw The Book At Illegals-Loving Insurrectionist Democrats
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/05/11/throw-the-book-at-illegals-loving-insurrectionist-democrats-n2656870
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Big Government Is Chaos: Trump’s 2026 Budget Is a Step Toward Sanity
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/10/big-government-is-chaos-trumps-2026-budget-is-a-step-toward-sanity/
FOX NEWS
— Will President Trump protect the Christian Afghan refugees who fled here to escape martyrdom? President Trump is a champion for persecuted Christians
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-trump-protect-christian-afghan-refugees-who-fled-here-escape-martyrdom
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Leo XIV looks like a Never Trumper Republican, based on his voting record
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/leo-xiv-looks-like-a-never-trumper-republican-based-on-his-voting-record/ar-AA1EslB4
— Democrat leaders blame Trump for Chicago’s Michelada Fest being cancelled
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/why-cancelling-michelada-fest-will-leave-a-gaping-hole-in-chicagos-summer-season-our-culture-is-being-targeted/ar-AA1Els2G
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/chicago-s-michelada-fest-cancels-2025-edition-over-artist-visa-uncertainty-under-trump/ar-AA1EhBnJ
— I should write about being forced to retire early. It has a tremendous negative impact on the rest of your life.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/what-if-you-had-a-plan-to-retire-comfortably-by-age-60/ar-AA1Ecvzr
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Whoopi Goldberg
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/whoopi-goldberg-schools-trump-wh-press-sec-with-a-brutal-lesson-on-wokeness/ar-AA1y70E9
AOL
— I should write about being forced to retire early. It has a tremendous negative impact on the rest of your life.
https://www.aol.com/americans-1-26-million-retire-110023927.html
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting the mainstream news media to drive Trump’s approval ratings down.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-economy-plunges-new-low-2070511
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about all the lawsuits that they have filed against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trumps-legal-woes-deepen-with-major-lawsuit-from-15-states/ar-AA1ExgmK
YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-deportation-database-puts-students-103000423.html
— According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-south-african-refugees-arrive-131805439.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders want to keep disparate impact. Those who are the following are negatively impacted by Democrat laws: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Jeanine Pirro.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-pirro-interim-prosecutor.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Russia and China against America
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000010157380/how-xi-and-putin-got-closer.html
–Democrat teachers ever-increasingly crank out good little Democrats
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/education-politics-learning.html
— How Much Are We Paying for Newsletters? GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscriptions are worth at least $3,000/year. But I send them our free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. All the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation needed to put the newsletters together and to send them comes from me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/substack-newsletter-subscription-costs.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago’s South Side. That community is gone now. My parents had me baptized in Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete in 1948. They sent me Trinity Lutheran Grade School 1953-1961. But then transferred to Hope Lutheran Church and Grade School in Park Forest in 1961 to stay with the Missouri Synod. Hope Lutheran is gone now, but Trinity Lutheran continues on. SEE: https://www.trinitycrete.org/ .
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/pope-leo-childhood-chicago-catholics.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/11/trump-government-operations-halt-funding-cuts/
— Hegseth ever-increasingly fights Affirmative Action and DEI in the military, that is, he ever-increasingly fights race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in the military.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/09/hegseth-affirmative-action-service-academies/
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
— College Majors That Lead to Low Paying Jobs. What were your majors? Mine were business (1966-1976), accounting (1976-1980), and finance (1992-1997). If I could do it over again, I would have majored in accounting first because I was able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. But by then, according to the accounting profession, I was much too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.universitymagazine.ca/college-majors-that-lead-to-low-paying-jobs/
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Whites and men will forever discriminate against non-Whites and against women, and because of that, non-Whites and women will forever need massive Affirmative Action and massive DEI, that is, they will forever need massive race and gender preference giving, that is, Whites and men will forever have to be gotten rid of.
https://www.epi.org/blog/trump-led-attacks-on-equity-are-setting-the-stage-for-our-next-public-health-crisis/
GOOGLE AI
— Sooner or later, everything will come out in the wash. Sooner or later, it will become clear that all my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks, b) 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 dudes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money, c) blame me for all of their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems, and/or d) despise/hate those who share my demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22sooner+or+later%22+%22come+out+in+the+wash
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
— Canadian car show kicks out Tesla, citing safety concerns amid Musk protests. Tesla was at the Iron Gate Motor Condo car show yesterday in Naperville.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/canadian-car-show-kicks-out-tesla-citing-safety-concerns-amid-musk-protests-20250319-p5lkvr.html
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