April 26, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— A Milwaukee County circuit judge was arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-fbi-allegedly-helping-undocumented-immigrant-evade-arrest/16247147/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-988-hotline-suicide-prevention-service-lgbtq-youth-would-eliminated-leaked-budget-proposal/16248201/

NBC5
— Who is Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge arrested by the FBI?  The FBI took Dugan into custody Friday on the courthouse grounds — the same building federal immigration agents entered last week in search of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/who-is-hannah-dugan-milwaukee-judge-arrested-by-the-fbi/3730907/

WTTW
— Stratton Secures Pritzker’s Backing in Senate Bid, Positions Herself as ‘Fighter’ of Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/25/stratton-secures-pritzker-s-backing-senate-bid-positions-herself-fighter-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/federal-judge-blocks-trump-yanking-funding-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-ruling-could

WBEZ
— ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around U.S.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/25/ice-international-students-legal-status-visa-reversal

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee judge arrested in deportation case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arresta-a-jueza-de-milwaukee-acusada-de-ayudar-a-un-hombre-a-evadir-a-autoridades-migratorias/
— Who is Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/who-is-milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan/
— Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/kennedy-centers-lgbtq-celebration-canceled/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/illinois-academics-relieved-after-trump-administration-restores-legal-status-of-some-international-students/
— Cutting candy from SNAP won’t fix the bigger problem of growing dependency. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/snap-sugar-soda-benefits-ban-health/
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/judge-blocks-trump-administration-federal-employees/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/26/trump-trade-war-illinois-soybean-farmers/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want more success in getting Blacks hate Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/25/anti-donald-trump-protests-black-participation
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/16/americans-victimhood-doge-cuts-joker-batman-elon-musk-trump-dannagal-young-kevin-arceneaux
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/25/trump-administration-motherhood-marriage-sexual-assault-sexist-ivf-baby-bonus-adultry-mona-charen
— State treasurer offers no-cosigner loans to Illinois students trying to pay for college. The Funding U Illinois No-Cosigner Loan program is open to Illinois residents attending public or private colleges and universities. The fixed annual percentage rate ranges from 7.99% to 9.49%, and the program won’t take a student’s credit score into account. If I had not had to work my way through college, my GPA word have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/25/education-no-cosigner-loans-college-money
— Casino crime logs show thefts, fights, patrons passing counterfeit bills
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/casino-crime-illinois-chicago-ballys-rivers-harrahs-gambling

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of helping a man evade immigration agents and is arrested
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/crime/fbi-arrests-wisconsin-judge-on-charges-of-obstructing-immigrant-arrest/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Car condo project pitched for Lake Zurich would include clubhouse, luxury car dealership. I should write about Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville and its unit owners. I have attended many events there since its opening. I bought a small unit there in 2020. I sold it and bought a bigger unit in 2023. I sold it and bought a bigger unit this year. If you are interested in muscle cars, especially Corvettes, Chargers, Mustangs, and Thunderbirds, please let me know.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/business/car-condo-project-pitched-for-lake-zurich-would-include-clubhouse-luxury-car-dealership/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The developer of the Sanctuary of Lake Zurich residential community wants to build a different kind of condo project in town. Luxury still would be the watchword but these units would be used to store classic and rare cars, some worth millions of dollars. And there is a ready market, says Romeo Kapudija. “It’s shocking to me how many rare cars are out there and how much they’re valued at but this is a very popular business model right now and type of development and they’re selling out across the country,” he explained to the Lake Zurich village board this week during a courtesy review of Luxe Corsa Car Condominiums. . .Kapudija said the market is hot for these types of developments, referencing Iron Gate in Naperville and another planned in Barrington as examples of their popularity. Iron Gate Motor Condos was among the first in Illinois to offer space exclusively for classic, collector or exotic vehicles. Ground was broken on 50 acres near Interstate 88 and Route 59 in 2014. “Proof of concept didn’t exist when I started,” said commercial builder, car enthusiast and founder Tom Burgess. “I had to go out of state and bring in people who could explain it” to city officials. Popularity fueled expansion to include 40,000 square feet of auto-related retail. “It turned into more than just the condos,” he said. “There’s a huge car community in Chicagoland. It’s deep and broad. It’s amazing.”)

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINSS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-win-block-trump-funding-freeze

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/25/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-trump-tariffs-with-inflation-a-broad-concern-poll/

STATELINE
— Pritzker criticizes arrest of Wisconsin judge for aiding migrant sought by ICE
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-criticizes-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-for-aiding-migrant-sought-by-ice/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-25/rep-underwood-says-call-republicans-with-concerns-about-cuts-during-dekalb-town-hall

CITIES 92.9
— IL U.S. Rep. LaHood reacts to protesters’ Medicaid concerns
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/25/il-u-s-rep-lahood-reacts-to-protesters-medicaid-concerns/

FOX ILLINOIS
— USDA tells states to boost SNAP verification so illegal immigrants don’t get benefits. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/usda-tells-states-to-boost-snap-verification-so-illegal-immigrants-dont-get-benefits-department-of-agriculture-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-food-stamps-taxpayer-benefits-immigration

WAND TV
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-nixing-collective-bargaining-for-most-federal-employees/article_2a462dc8-36e1-5881-aeae-e66095a3053c.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/tariffs-could-devastate-illinois-economy/article_8c48d537-572e-4890-87eb-c115234d14da.html

WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2025/04/23/niu-rally-defends-international-students-after-trump-administration-revokes-visas/

WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-25/congressman-raises-concerns-about-tariff-chaos-and-uncertainty-during-stop-at-farm-south-of-bloomington

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-how-the-publics-shift-on-immigration-paved-the-way-for-trumps-crackdown/
— As IRS Collections Rise, Clear Start Tax Urges Taxpayers to Take Advantage of the Fresh Start Initiative. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division 1971-1980, 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 my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most. In my defense, I would not have become an IRS employee a) if Oldsmobile had not offered me a job in 1971, b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me because I accepted that offer, c) if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn its job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint, and d) if I didn’t have to have a job.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1017175/as-irs-collections-rise-clear-start-tax-urges-taxpayers-to-take-advantage-of-the-fresh-start-initiative/
(COMMENT: With IRS Enforcement Increasing in 2025, Clear Start Tax Reminds Americans They Still Have Time to Resolve Back Taxes Through Relief Programs. As the IRS steps up its collection efforts in 2024, more Americans are receiving notices, facing wage garnishments, or dealing with tax liens. In response, Clear Start Tax is urging taxpayers with unresolved IRS debt to act quickly and explore relief options under the IRS Fresh Start Initiative, a program designed to help individuals and businesses resolve back taxes affordably. The IRS recently announced renewed funding and a more aggressive stance on collections, which means taxpayers who have ignored or delayed addressing their debt could face heavier enforcement actions in the months ahead. The Urgency of Exploring Debt Resolution Programs  As IRS collection efforts intensify, it’s critical for taxpayers with unresolved debt to act before enforcement escalates. The IRS Fresh Start Initiative offers structured programs designed to ease that burden, including Offer in Compromise, Installment Agreements, and Currently Not Collectible (CNC) status. These options can reduce penalties, halt wage garnishments or levies, and in many cases, allow taxpayers to resolve their debt for significantly less than the full amount owed.)

WEST CHICAGO
— Call for Community Organization to Coordinate the 2025 West Chicago Mexican Independence Day Festival
https://westchicago.org/news/call-for-community-organization-to-coordinate-the-2025-west-chicago-mexican-independence-day-festival/

CHALKBEAT
— Chicago Public Schools floats hundreds of layoffs as one option to close $529 million budget gap
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/25/cps-faces-529-million-budget-deficit/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-293/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Wants Puppet to Replace Durbin in U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/pritizker-wants-puppet-to-replace-durbin-in-u-s-senate/
— Democratic Party State Senator Gets Hung Jury in Bribery Trial
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/democratic-party-state-senator-gets-hung-jury-in-bribery-trial/
— Defenders Push for RTA Tax Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/defenders-push-for-rta-tax-hike/
— County Board Member Terri Greeno Rebuts County Board Member John Collins’ Rebuttal of Tim Beck’s Take on Now “We Resist” Picketing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/county-board-member-terri-greeno-rebuts-county-board-member-john-collins-rebuttal-of-tim-becks-take-on-now-we-resist-picketing/
— Compensation for Home Value Loss Due to Tax Sales Being Litigated against Illinois Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/compensation-for-home-value-loss-due-to-tax-sales-being-litigated-against-illinois-counties/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Teachers Union pushes kids to miss school for political rally, protest McDonald’s. According to Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-pushes-kids-to-miss-school-for-political-rally-protest-mcdonalds/
— Vallas: Pritzker, Johnson keep playing Trump card
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzker-johnson-keep-playing-trump-card/
— Parents beware: Chicago Teachers Union contract is anti-student
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/parents-beware-chicago-teachers-union-contract-is-anti-student/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hegseth tells military leaders at Pentagon to review their equal opportunity programs. Democrat leaders reject equal opportunity a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/25/pete-hegseth-tells-military-leaders-pentagon-review-equal-opportunity/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico instructs broadcasters to ban Kristi Noem’s ad on illegal immigration. Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3391499/mexico-instructs-broadcasters-ban-kristi-noem-ad-illegal-immigration/

NEW YORK POST
— School district won’t allow child to graduate over LGBTQ health class. How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/us-news/school-district-wont-allow-child-to-graduate-over-lgbtq-health-class/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— President Trump just delivered a knockout blow for meritocracy. Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/president-trump-just-delivered-a-knockout-blow-for-meritocracy-1538925/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump signed a groundbreaking executive order Thursday eliminating the use of disparate impact theory by the feds. The order “restores the true promise of the Civil Rights Movement—a system that does not differentiate between Americans based on race and where success is determined by individual merit, free from discriminatory practices that prioritize group outcomes over personal achievement.” Disparate impact theory says that any disparity must be the result of discrimination, bigotry, and racism of some kind or another. So for example, if more white people than non-white people pass a firefighter’s exam, then it must be because of racism. Or if more non-white people than white people are pulled over for speeding, that too must be the result of racism and bigotry.)
— New York Times’ fake news headline slammed for fueling media’s information war
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/new-york-times-fake-news-headline-slammed-for-fueling-medias-information-war-1538939/

DAILY SIGNAL
— USDA Makes It Tougher for Illegals to Get Food Stamps.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/25/usda-makes-it-tougher-for-illegals-to-get-food-stamps/

DAILY WIRE
— Red States Consider Bills To Push Illegals To Self-Deport. Experts say that mandatory E-Verify policies are one of the most effective ways to prompt illegal alien self-deportations. Democrat and RINO employers vehemently oppose E-Verify. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-consider-bills-to-push-illegals-to-self-deport

FEDERALIST
— The Nonprofit Hijacking America’s 250th Birthday Celebration Is The 1619 Project On Steroids.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/the-nonprofit-hijacking-americas-250th-birthday-celebration-is-the-1619-project-on-steroids/
— Three Rogue Judges Block Trump Admin Efforts To Eradicate Discriminatory DEI From Schools
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/three-rogue-judges-block-trump-admin-efforts-to-eradicate-discriminatory-dei-from-schools/

FOX BUSINESS
— Lara Trump: We have to cut out this woke ideology from schools
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371944312112

LIFE NEWS
— More Illinois Women Face Medical Emergencies After Botched Abortions
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/04/25/more-illinois-women-face-medical-emergencies-after-botched-abortions/

MRC TV
— Dems Demand ‘Due Process’ for Illegal Aliens, But Obama Deported 83% Without a Judge
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/dems-demand-due-process-illegals-obama-deported-83-without-judge

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Dismantles Desperate Impact
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/president-trump-dismantles-desperate-impact/

REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— Illinois Lawmakers Push Teachers Unions’ Agenda
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/04/23/illinois_lawmakers_push_teachers_unions_agenda_1105991.html

TOWNHALL
— Democrat Chicago Mayor Uses Trump Tariffs As Opportunity to Raise Taxes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/chicago-mayor-uses-trump-tariffs-as-opportunity-to-raise-taxes-n2656098
— Trump Admin Demands Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants Exploiting Food Stamp System
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/trump-administration-demands-crackdown-on-illegal-immigrants-at-grocery-stores-n2656115
— ‘Disparate-Impact Liability Is Dead’ Thanks to New Executive Order
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/04/25/disparate-impact-liability-executive-order-n2656073

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5268303-court-ruling-trump-anti-dei-mcmahon-harvard/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been anti-Trump, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-francis-funeral-vatican-rome-italy-9895e156b90aea1dde7f7ea19bf7b3e1

MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-civil-rights-act-walk-back-pete-hegseth-rcna202857

MSN
— Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-meritocracy-lie-is-coming-for-the-civil-rights-act/ar-AA1DDcOg

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/04/25/in-first-100-days-trump-tells-migrants-leave-the-united-states-2/

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-poll-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-deported.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-migrants-due-process.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/upshot/trump-poll-numbers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-100-days-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-blackpilled.html
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/26/thousands-attend-pope-francis-funeral-ceremony-helped-reimagine/

WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-independents-second-term-soured/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/26/trump-economy-tariffs-federal-reserve-wall-street/
— Canada as hypothetical 51st state would be a ‘nightmare’ for Trump. Not that Canadians want to join the country anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-canada-51st-state-politics/

USA TODAY
— Musk risked Tesla’s health to help our country. We should thank him, not hate him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/25/tesla-earnings-musk-doge-trump/83230018007/

WJBF
— RINO Removal Project Launches Nationwide Effort to Promote Voter Engagement and GOP Candidate Accountability. All my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform and b) get rid of Republicans like me who support the planks that they reject, that is, they are RINOs.
https://www.wjbf.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/806006349/rino-removal-project-launches-nationwide-effort-to-promote-voter-engagement-and-gop-candidate-accountability/

WHBL
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://whbl.com/2025/04/25/how-pope-francis-touched-a-migrants-heart-saying-were-all-the-same-people/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in driving the stock market down to punish Trump and to punish those who voted for him.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economic-sentiment-spending-23d95f36
— Many Big Law Firms Shun Conservative Clients. They denounce Trump for targeting causes he opposes, but they’re guilty of the same thing.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/many-big-law-firms-shun-conservative-clients-politics-attorneys-6bf4db08
— Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.wsj.com/world/the-high-stakes-in-choosing-the-next-pope-1a3d5bc0

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Probationary employees face stricter review process under new executive order. If my Democrat GAO superiors could have used probationary procedures to get rid of me, they would have. My doing the following after I transferred from IRS to GAO in early 1980 frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/probationary-employees-face-stricter-review-process-under-new-executive-order/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Probationary employees will now have an additional hurdle to clear before they can solidify their federal employment, according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday evening. Trump’s new order calls for the creation of “Civil Service Rule XI,” which will require agencies to review and actively sign off on probationary workers’ continued employment before they can be moved out of a probationary period. Federal employees are put into probationary periods when they first enter the civil service, or when they begin a new position, for example after getting a promotion. Once a probationary period ends — usually after one or two years of federal service — employees will automatically transition out of probationary status. “Instead of these employees becoming tenured civil servants by default, Rule XI requires agencies to affirmatively certify that finalizing their appointment after their probationary or trial period concludes advances the public interest,” the White House wrote Thursday in a fact sheet detailing the intentions of the executive order. Under current federal regulations, agencies can only remove probationary employees for issues with performance or conduct. Those rules around probationary periods spurred litigation involving the recent mass terminations of tens of thousands of probationary employees. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an order for the Trump administration to reinstate the probationary employees. Trump’s new executive order, however, adds a new reason that probationary employees can be removed from their jobs. Under the new “Civil Service Rule XI,” agencies can also determine whether a probationary employee should remain in their job based on agency needs and the interest of the public. “It alters the reason for letting a probationer go to include the generic needs and interests of the agency, as opposed to the individual’s performance or conduct,” Debra D’Agostino, an attorney and partner at Federal Practice Group, said in an interview. “It adds this generic reason where the agency can decide that it’s not in the needs or interest of the agency to keep this person.” “Usually, if someone’s not going to satisfy their probation, it’s going to be because of performance or conduct,” Kevin Owen, a partner at Gilbert Employment Law, added. “If the administration is going to start interjecting some sort of ideological component, we’re going to start again sliding into some level of a spoils system here.”)

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Holds Wide Lead Over Democrats on Immigration.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_holds_wide_lead_over_democrats_on_immigration

INSIDE PHILANTHROPY
— Class Matters Most: So Why Do Foundations Focus More on Race? What class were you born into? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/class-matters-most-so-why-do-foundations-focus-more-on-race

April 24, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois and 11 other states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/lawsuit-tariff-policy/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rep. Darin LaHood considering GOP primary bid for Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat. LaHood is considering and is open to a primary run for the U.S. Senate seat, according to a source with direct knowledge of the congressman’s thinking. The congressman has about $5.8 million cash on hand to help a potential bid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/darin-lahood-gop-primary-bid-consideration-senate-dick-durbin
— Stellantis still on track to reopen Belvidere plant, as automakers adjust for tariffs. The company said it still plans to reopen the plant near Rockford in 2027, which is expected to employ 1,500 union workers.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/04/24/stellantis-track-reopen-belvidere-plant-uaw-automakers-adjust-tariffs
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Tinson said the Windsor assembly plant in Ontario, Canada, is resuming operations this week on two shifts. “As a result, more than half of the employees from Sterling Stamping, Indiana Transmission, Kokomo Transmission and Kokomo Casting who were put on temporary layoff when production was paused the week of April 7 also will return to work to support the Windsor operations,” she said.)

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-executive-orders-april-23-2025-live-updates/3728421/

CBS2
— Pritzker weighs possible boycott of El Salvador over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/governoer-jb-pritzker-el-salvador-possible-boycott-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

NPR ILLINOIS
— President Trump on Wednesday signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and university accreditors, organizations the White House says have “abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based standards.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/trump-signs-executive-actions-on-education-including-efforts-to-rein-in-dei

WGLT
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone in America will be om Medicaid.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-23/mclean-county-health-providers-worry-about-medicaid-cuts

ILLINOIS TIMES
— What percent of farming is dependent on federal spending?
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/a-loss-for-illinois-farmers-and-food-banks-20073034

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-498/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Political Earthquake Rocks Illinois as Dick Durbin Announces Retirement, Triggering a Scramble to Replace No. 2 Democrat in U.S. Senate
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/04/political-earthquake-rocks-illinois-as-dick-durbin-announces-retirement-triggering-a-scramble-to-replace-no-2-democrat-in-u-s-senate.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrats used disparate impact against you? According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and females do. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and females, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. To hire and promote Democrats who were Black, Hispanic, and female, they also stopped requiring other qualifications. That rendered worthless my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Why do fewer Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females take the CPA examination than Republican White males? Why do fewer Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females pass the examination on their first attempt than Republican White males? According to Democrats, it is because Republicans discriminate against Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females. That is why Democrats make Republican White males pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents a) attribute their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about my critics/opponents. 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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Social media reacts to Dick Durbin’s ‘long overdue’ retirement
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3389144/dick-durbin-retirement-reaction-social-media/

NEW YORK POST
— Deported alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving convicted smuggler’s car during Tennessee traffic stop
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/deported-alleged-ms-13-gangbanger-kilmar-abrego-garcia-was-driving-convicted-smugglers-car-during-tennessee-traffic-stop/
— Paramount, CBS settle discrimination lawsuit over DEI policies punishing straight white males
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/media/paramount-cbs-settle-discrimination-lawsuit-over-dei-policies-punishing-straight-white-males/

BLAZE
— Mass deportations are critical to America’s future
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mass-deportations-are-critical-to-americas-future

BREITBART
— Harvard Fights to Continue Racial Discrimination
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/04/23/schweizer-harvard-fights-to-continue-racial-discrimination/

CENTER SQUARE
— Many colleges, universities ignore Trump’s warning to ditch DEI or lose funding
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_265c6fe2-0385-40c6-a98f-2dd83ac09f47.html

DAILY CALLER
— El Salvador Has Become Democrats’ New ‘Epstein Island’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/23/greg-gutfeld-democrats-el-salvador-visit-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump’s Nationalism Signals a Return to Strength
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/interview-r-r-reno

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Considering Auto Tariff Exemptions. What about Dodge Chargers? I just bought a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trump-considering-auto-tariff-exemptions-white-house-confirms-5846599

FOX NEWS
— Chicago residents blast a possible Pritzker presidential run: ‘No chance to win.’  Chicago residents didn’t hold back when asked what a Pritzker presidency might mean for the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-residents-blast-possible-pritzker-presidential-run-no-chance-win
— Pritzker moves to boycott El Salvador for aiding Trump over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention. Pritzker said the move was in response to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-moves-boycott-el-salvador-aiding-trump-over-kilmar-abrego-garcias-detention
— Trump praises Elon Musk as ‘patriot, a brilliant guy, and a friend of mine’ amid DOGE exit. Trump praised Elon Musk during an Oval Office exchange Wednesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-praises-elon-musk-patriot-brilliant-guy-friend-mine-amid-doge-exit

NATIONAL REVIEW
— President Trump Signs Three Really Good Executive Orders on Civil Rights. The first targets the “disparate impact” approach to civil-rights enforcement. According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and women, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/president-trump-signs-three-really-good-executive-orders-on-civil-rights/

TOWNALL
— Trump Signs Multiple Executive Orders on Education, Including Against Accreditors Using DEI
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/04/23/new-trump-executive-order-goes-after-dei-used-by-higher-education-accreditors-n2656007

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker orders Illinois to boycott El Salvador over Abrego Garcia’s detention
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5264139-pritzker-orders-illinois-to-boycott-el-salvador-over-abrego-garcias-detention/

CNN
— Russia launches deadly strikes on Ukraine’s capital as Trump accuses Zelensky of harming peace talks
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/europe/russia-strikes-kyiv-trump-zelensky-crimea-intl-hnk/index.html

MSN
— Trump says “”We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars.” What is Trump’s position on my buying a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that was made in Canada?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-now-says-he-doesn-t-want-canadian-cars-how-his-anti-canada-rhetoric-is-boosting-mark-carney-s-chances-ahead-of-the-vote/ar-AA1DvJPU
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump said on Wednesday he doesn’t want Canadian cars and claimed Canada would “cease to exist” without the United States — remarks that extend his sharp criticism of the country just days before Canadians head to the polls on Monday. “We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars,” Trump said. Trump also suggested that he might increase import taxes on cars from Canada. “So when I put tariffs on Canada, they’re paying 25%, but that could go up in terms of cars. When we put tariffs on, all we’re doing is we’re saying, ‘We don’t want your cars, in all due respect.”)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-pope-francis-history-of-criticizing-trump-and-embracing-lgbtq-rights-rankled-conservative-catholics/ar-AA1DiUr6

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/podcasts/the-daily/trump-venezuela-gang-members-deportations.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/nyregion/deportation-trump-jamaica.html
— Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts. Leaders of the union representing government workers say their battle is galvanizing but also alarming. “It’s insulting to say,” one said, “that we are lazy.” I worked for GAO 1980-1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized, it would not have been able to take the adverse actions against me that it did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/economy/government-union-trump-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opinion/us-china-asia-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote a) same sex marriage and b) interracial marriage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/same-sex-marriage.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump orders changes to civil rights rules. According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and women, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/23/trump-executive-orders-education-accreditation/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The new order Trump signed Wednesday instructs the attorney general to “repeal or amend” Title VI regulations that include disparate impact liability.)

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/04/23/trump-approval-poll-economy-100-days/83217866007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/22/pope-francis-world-affairs-impact-influence/83191480007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Elite Universities in Trump’s Crosshairs Are Drumming Up Cash. Princeton, Harvard and Brown are among the schools issuing debt. They are counting on the next U.S. President to be a Democrat or a RINO.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-universities-cash-federal-funding-fa001311
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-24-25/card/china-says-no-talks-ongoing-with-trump-administration-yXdly6y82T1iyWKYug3F
— Will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters succeed in driving Tesla out of business to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish those who voted for Trump?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-has-a-deep-hole-to-pull-out-of-15815d7e
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whos-afraid-of-renaud-camus-home-office-united-kingdom-free-speech-immigration-aacafc8a
— The Class of 2025 Tries to Crack a Chilly Job Market for College Grads. What frustrated your job search? For me, it included potential employers viewing me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Further, my GPA was not that great because I had spent far too many hours delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office instead of studying.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-class-of-2025-tries-to-crack-a-chilly-job-market-for-college-grads-0589c4af

ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Trump to destroy those who voted for Trump to destroy America.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/tesla-earnings-elon-musk-doge/682551/

April 21, 2025

CNN
— Pope Francis dies at 88
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/europe/pope-francis-dies-intl/index.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Pope Francis dies at 88
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-camerlengo-announces/16213828/
— Democrat leaders divide those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/american-revolution-anniversary-250-years-america-went-war-independence-divided-nation-battles-legacy/16205829/
— Video shows cars drag racing, drifting in Lakeview street takeover. Lakeview today, your street tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-street-takeover-racing-video-shows-cars-drag-drifting-ashland-avenue-west-diversey-parkway-lakeview/16212001/

CBS2
— 4 dead, 11 others hurt in Chicago shootings during Easter weekend
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-april-18-to-21/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/20/column-donald-trump-abrego-garcia-deportations-immigration-page/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more booze.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/geneva-liquor-license-ban-highland-park/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) reject Trump’s election and b) fight Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/democratic-state-lawmakers-start-to-move-on-promise-to-be-a-check-on-donald-trump/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/04/20/4-20-pot-cannabis-weed-holiday-easter-thc
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be low income.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/18/federal-program-liheap-utility-bills-cut-trump-budget-plan
— What do you do? I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out. What do my critics/opponents do? They discourage me from putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/20/birding-glenview-park-district-techny-reservoir

JOUNAL COURIER
— My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/the-rich-need-pay-taxes-dean-baker-20272732.php

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/04/20/hundreds-protest-trump-and-musk-in-red-mchenry-county/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/article_84d2c1eb-2537-415c-9819-6954b195aefc.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Senate GOP braces for primary headaches after 2024 break. Which Republicans do you anticipate/expect will run for U.S. Senate in Illinois in 2026?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/senate-gop-braces-for-primary-headaches-after-2024-break/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-marijuana-holiday-4-20-coincides-with-easter-and-passover-this-year-heres-what-to-know/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/where-do-efforts-to-legalize-reschedule-marijuana-stand/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/marijuana-holiday-4-20-coincides-with-easter-and-passover-this-year-heres-what-to-know/article_8f03cfef-f09d-53e0-9e8b-e95ab58f4cec.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-20/trump-faces-bipartisan-criticism-over-abrego-garcia-deportation

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-04-20/protestors-across-the-u-s-rally-against-the-trump-administration

WSIL TV
— Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years. Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/marijuana-hospital-visits-linked-to-dementia-diagnosis-within-5-years-study-finds/article_25b902f0-4a72-541b-b4b9-7b0a69a068a4.html

NORTHERN STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://northernstar.info/125465/news/residents-from-dekalb-and-sycamore-rally-to-protest-the-trump-administration/

DAILY ILLINI
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/champaign-urbana/2025/04/20/budzinski-trump-medicaid/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/21/pritzkers-national-brand-00300745
— Joseph Severino says he plans to run for governor in 2026 as a Republican. He made his announcement on conservative podcaster Shaun Thompson’s show on AM 560. Severino previously ran for Congress in the 10th District in 2022 as a Republican and 2024 as an Independent. Severino has yet to file paperwork with the state. Also in the GOP race for governor is DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who announced in February and has $100,000 in his campaign fund, according to filings with the state.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/21/pritzkers-national-brand-00300745

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-495/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Which offices will be on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct? Do you anticipate/expect helping elect candidates for those offices? What discourages you from doing that? For me, it includes far too many Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their losses and/or near losses. I should write about those candidates and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers. Most commonly, they have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I painted them as being more conservative than they wanted to be painted and that caused them to lose. I would focus on the aforesaid candidates who rejected the most planks in the Republican Party platform. I have long since stopped helping elect candidates in nonpartisan elections and  Republican primary elections a) because far too many of those candidates who lost those elections and primaries blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats and b) far too many of those candidates who won Republican primaries buy lost general elections blamed their defeats on my support for their opponents in the primaries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are the following doing to elect Republicans on November 3, 2026: the leaders of a) the Illinois Republican Party, b) your Republican county party organization, and c) your Republican township party organization? They need to defend and advance the Republican Party platform, that is, they need to defend and advance conservative principles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you stress to defend and advance conservative principles? I stress the successes that I have had because I have always followed conservative principles. I earned a bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47. I earned professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a professional license when I was 32. I bought new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. I bought real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc. I got married when I was 29.  I was able to do the aforesaid notwithstanding my parents never having attended college, my father having been only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never having attended high school, and my having to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you promote that your critics/opponents use against you? My critics/opponents use my promoting the Republican Party platform, that is, my promoting conservative principles. They especially use my promoting the platform’s personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents do? My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
—  What jobs have you had? According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and that should have been given to minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. I did yard work 1962-1964, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are your demographics? My critics/opponents look down on, if not despise, if not hate those who share my demographics. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. Further, I was a Crete resident 1948-1972 and I have been a Wheaton resident since 1978. Further, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years working for IRS, and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How envious were your coworkers? My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were full of envy. They always painted themselves as being financially disadvantaged. They decried my earning a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, my earning master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47, my earning professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, my earning a professional license when I was 32, my buying new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., my buying real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., my getting married when I was 29, etc. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I would never have been able to do the aforesaid a) if I had not avoided the draft and b) if my wife and I had children. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents stress a) that my parents were Protestant and German American, b) that neither of my parents attended college, c) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, d) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, e) that my mother never attended high school, f) that I had to work my way through college, g) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, h) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, i) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, and j) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court makes ‘unprecedented’ intervention to block Trump’s latest round of gang deportations. Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/supreme-court-makes-unprecedented-intervention-block-trumps-latest/
— Democrats would rather destroy America than support Trump.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/18/democrats-would-rather-destroy-america-support-trump/
— My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/250-years-lexington-concord-still-fight-freedom/
— If America abandons Israel, God will abandon America. Democrat leaders want America to abandon Israel.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/america-abandons-israel-god-abandon-america/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— New York chooses DEI over students
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3380175/new-york-public-school-officials-refuse-dei-mandate-trump/

NEW YORK POST
— Conservatives rage against Supreme Court for reining in Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/20/us-news/conservatives-rage-against-supreme-court-for-reining-in-trump-time-to-start-deporting-rogue-judges/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Higher Education Should Learn From Hillsdale
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/21/higher-education-should-learn-from-hillsdale/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Malicious compliance bedevils our military
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/malicious_compliance_bedevils_our_military.html

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Jobs Americans Will Do: Just About All of Them. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and that should have been given to minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. I did yard work 1962-1964, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://cis.org/Report/Jobs-Americans-Will-Do-Just-About-All-Them

EPOCH TIMES
— Made-in-America Entrepreneurs See Opportunities in Global Tariffs. By sourcing materials domestically and thinking locally, U.S.-based companies say they’re in a better position to survive—and thrive.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/made-in-america-entrepreneurs-see-opportunities-in-global-tariffs-5842569

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— JD Vance Was Right: Cheap Foreign Labor Is an “Addiction.”  My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/04/10/jd-vance-cheap-foreign-labor-addiction

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Trump Admin Should Unleash The False Claims Act To End Discrimination In Higher Education. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because of my bad demographics, I doubt that they would today.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/trump-admin-should-unleash-the-false-claims-act-to-end-discrimination-in-higher-education/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Many schools (including almost all “elite” universities) view their maintenance of Kendian “discrimination for the right reasons” programs in admissions, hiring, promotions, tenure, and funding to be moral imperatives, and thus either are flatly refusing to abide by the Trump administration’s demands, and/or are continuing their discriminatory programs sub rosa.)

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wokeness in Medicine Hasn’t Been Cured Yet
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/wokeness-in-medicine-hasnt-been-cured-yet/

POWER LINE
— Who Says Democrats Aren’t Pro-Crime?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/who-says-democrats-arent-pro-crime.php

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Harvard Law School Professors Politicize the Rule of Law
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/20/harvard_law_school_professors_politicize_the_rule_of_law_152680.html

TOWNHALL
— New CNN Poll Shows American Support Deporting All Illegal Aliens
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/04/21/new-cnn-poll-shows-american-support-deporting-all-illegals-n2655744
— The Radical Left’s Plan to Stop Trump and His Agenda
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2025/04/21/the-radical-lefts-plan-to-stop-trump-and-his-agenda-n2655823

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump takes aim at Biden, “Radical Left Lunatics” and the courts in Easter Sunday message.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-easter-sunday-message-biden-courts-left/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-college-bbe09c081d8a47fcb5616c8fa3b23cee

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/churches-easter-ice-sensitive-locations-rcna201825

NEW YORK TIMES
— TOP OF FOLD: State Dept. Faces Plan for Big Cuts. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee. Virtually all GAO employees are Democrats. Reforms could have included a) requiring that at least one-third of GAO employees at each grade level be Republican and b) requiring that all requests for GAO to do work be bipartisan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/business/china-deflation-trump-tariffs.html
— Carmakers Highlight American Roots in Bid to Influence Trump. Wary of directly criticizing the president’s trade policies, automakers are emphasizing how much they have already invested in U.S. manufacturing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/cars-trump-tariffs-us-manufacturing.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly manipulate and dominate religion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/opinion/easter-christianity-jesus-trump.html
— With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will. Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that. I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors. I should focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) stopped me from being promoted beyond GS-12, d) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, e) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO in 1980, and f) stopped GAO from assigning me to audits of IRS except 1986-1988.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/trump-irs.html

USA TODAY
— Trump names fifth person to lead IRS this year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/18/trump-replacing-irs-acting-commissioner/83163716007/
— Harvard shunned conservatives. It deserves to be defunded by Trump. President Donald Trump is trying to reform an education system that excludes conservative students and faculty while promoting a leftist agenda that most Americans have rejected.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/21/trump-harvard-federal-funding-freeze-dei/83138590007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH GRAPHIC: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/trump-tariffs-us-markets-treasurys-dollar-7d9777d7
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-us-economic-relations-tariffs-cold-war-ddb43fca
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly polarize those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-polarization-prior-beliefs-bias-information-b7b0e99f
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly make their students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gender-storytime-at-the-supreme-court-first-amendment-parental-rights-opt-out-04a15281
— I Really Like Electric Cars. These Technologies Would Make Me Love Them. I’ve been buying EVs for more than 10 years. But innovations on the horizon will make a big difference to me—and lots of other skeptical consumers. Diersen asks how will my critics/opponents use my buying a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV against me?
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/ev-technology-innovation-4e25c1d5
— Washington State’s Tax on Tesla. Olympia designs a tax targeting Elon Musk and his company’s carbon emissions credits. How soon will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters drive Tesla out of business?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/washington-state-tesla-tax-elon-musk-electric-vehicles-4441b8e2
— Government Jobs Insulated DC From Economic Volatility. Not Any More. Spending cutbacks hurt local business; ‘This is our Detroit moment’
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/washington-dc-economy-trump-job-cuts-359c8645

BUSINESS INSIDER
— In an Easter post, Trump said the businessmen who’ve criticized his tariffs are bad at both business and politics. What percent of wealth that rich people have has been from exploiting cheap labor and lack regulations in foreign countries? My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-businessmen-against-tariffs-are-bad-at-business-and-politics-2025-4

KIPLINGER
— What are your demographics? My critics/opponents look down on, if not despise, if not hate those who share my demographics. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. Further, I was a Crete resident 1948-1972 and I have been a Wheaton resident since 1978. Further, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years working for IRS, and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years.
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/can-you-define-baby-boomers-look-at-trump-and-harris

AMERICAN PROSPECT
— We Never Had Free Trade. The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main culprits are the American capitalists who devised the system, not foreigners. My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-08-we-never-had-free-trade/

GOOGLE AI
— Envious coworkers. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were full of envy. They always painted themselves as being financially disadvantaged. They decried my earning a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, my earning master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47, my earning professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, my earning a professional license when I was 32, my buying new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., my buying real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., my getting married when I was 29, etc. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I would never have been able to do the aforesaid a) if I had not avoided the draft and b) if my wife and I had children.
https://www.google.com/search?q=envious+coworkers

GOOGLE AI
— Caste system. What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents stress a) that my parents were Protestant and German American, b) that neither of my parents attended college, c) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, d) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, e) that my mother never attended high school, f) that I had to work my way through college, g) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, h) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, i) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, and j) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Caste+%22born+into

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/pritzker-tktktk-00296824

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/photos-anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-cities-and-towns-across-the-country

INTERCEPT
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/20/trump-racism-white-demographic-fears-immigration/

DAILY MAIL
— Trump official calls for Americans to be paid reparations over trauma caused by Biden’s migrant crisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14630377/stephen-miller-americans-reparations-illegal-migration.html
— Drag queens slammed for mocking Christians and hosting ‘hunky Jesus’ contest at woke Easter show for kids
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14630709/Drag-queens-mocking-Jesus-woke-Easter-kids.html

April 8, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Downers Grove police investigating over 20 commercial burglaries in area
https://abc7chicago.com/post/downers-grove-police-investigating-20-commercial-burglaries-butterfield-road-ogden-avenue-retail-corridors/16140454/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use foreign students to promote more hatred against Trump
https://abc7chicago.com/post/student-visas-being-revoked-several-college-students-us-including-south-sudanese-passport-holders/16139991/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt13qInmVbI

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-tariffs-stock-market-netanyahu-april-07-2025-live-updates/3715350/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump-defends-tariffs-and-market-volatility/3716437/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/as-tariffs-roil-stock-market-is-there-a-safe-way-to-invest-experts-weigh-in/3716120/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyOGWtHaNpk

FOX32
— Democrat leaders use a Chicago boutique owner to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1621218

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/07/tens-thousands-illinoisans-take-streets-protest-trump-musk-agenda
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use libraries to promote more hatred against Trump
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/07/how-federal-funding-cuts-libraries-could-impact-illinois-communities
— I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors. They all had children. They all strongly decried the significant time and cost needed to raise their children. Their spouses had limited or no earning potential. According to them, because my wife and I did not have children, we had tremendous unfair advantages over them. According to them, if my wife and I had children, a) I never would have been able to pass the CPA or Certified Internal Auditor examinations, become a licensed CPA, earn master’s degrees in accounting or finance, or earn four more job-related professional certifications and b) my wife never would have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree in finance or earn as much money as she did.  Further, according to them, we never would have been able to have a home built, buy collector cars, etc.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/07/column-new-mothers-rushing-back-congress-part-job-should-it-be

WLS AM
— Illinois House Passes Bill to Allow Abortion Pills
https://www.wlsam.com/2025/04/07/illinois-house-passes-bill-to-allow-abortion-pills/

WGN RADIO
— Growing opposition from House conservatives threatens to derail Trump’s agenda
https://wgnradio.com/hill-politics/growing-opposition-from-house-conservatives-threatens-to-derail-trumps-agenda/amp/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Supreme Court lifts order blocking deportations under 18th century wartime law
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/07/supreme-court-deportations-18th-century-law/
— An uproar in Hyde Park and Kenwood over an old hotel turned into a homeless shelter
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/editorial-homeless-shelter-hyde-park/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/07/trump-global-markets-tariffs/
— Bob Kustra: A shiny floor gives away corruption in Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/opinion-illinois-corruption-rule-of-law/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/recovery-home-funding/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Federal judge rules part of Illinois ‘right of conscience’ abortion law is unconstitutional. The plaintiffs had argued that the law imposed unconstitutional conditions — forcing anti-abortion advocates to talk about “benefits” of abortion that they do not believe in. They also argued that abortion counseling would “encourage the procedure.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/07/illinois-right-of-conscience-abortion-law-federal-judge-ruling-unconstitutional
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/07/illinois-medicaid-cuts-children-health-musk-trump-senator-richard-dick-durbin
— Democrat leaders use a Chicago gynecologist to promote more hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health-medicine/2025/04/07/fulbright-funding-cut-uganda-africa-trump-nicole-williams
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://chicago.suntimes.com/economy/2025/04/07/panic-stock-market-wall-street-monday-tariff
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/08/ending-sexual-violence-prevention-rape-consent-gender-equality-trump-cuts-rachel-jackson-gordon
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/08/cook-county-board-president-toni-preckwinkle-guaranteed-income-pilot-program

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge rules Illinois ‘conscience act’ can’t require abortion speech
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/judge-rules-illinois-conscience-act-cant-require-abortion-speech

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Canadians to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.wbez.org/business/2025/04/07/canadians-tourism-chicago-trump-summer-tourist-season

STATELINE
— Federal court overturns Illinois law requiring pro-life centers to promote abortion
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-abortion-law-struck/

SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/04/06/northern-illinois-hands-off-protests-rally-thousands-against-government-overreach/

WAND TV
— Illinois House Passes Bill to Allow Abortion Pills
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-house-passes-bill-ensuring-access-to-medication-abortion-amid-uncertainty-with-trumps-fda/article_fb8ce1f6-a4ed-43f5-afca-69a1ace988df.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use federal employees to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-07/they-had-left-their-dei-roles-trump-still-fired-them
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use humanities funding to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-04-07/abrupt-1-million-loss-for-illinois-humanities-after-trump-cuts-funding

WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/politics/illinois-politics/tens-of-thousands-illinoisans-protest-trump-musk-agenda-capitol-news/526-cb2a4b10-e0c5-4d55-932d-14076f83086d

HINSDALE & ELHURST PATCH
— Will Hinsdale D86 Answer Trump DEI Mandate?  The administration requires school systems to sign letters certifying they do not “advantage one’s race” over another. What about your school district? My critics/opponents have always given tremendous preference to those who are moderate/liberal, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://patch.com/illinois/hinsdale/will-hinsdale-d86-answer-trump-dei-mandate
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/will-elmhurst-d205-answer-trump-dei-mandate

WHEATON RECORD
— According to Democrat leaders, GOD wants Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, GOD wants race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/04/07/religiously-exempt-from-dei-changes/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/tens-of-thousands-of-illinoisans-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-trump-and-musk-agenda/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-284/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN BIVER
— The Lame Excuses for Failure from the Illinois Republican Conservative Complex
https://johnbiver.com/the-lame-excuses-for-failure-from-the-illinois-republican-conservative-complex/

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois increasingly surrounded by school choice states
https://wirepoints.org/school-choice-is-spreading-like-crazy-for-a-reason-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
— Manteno voters delivered new blow to Gotion’s battery plant project linked to CCP
https://wirepoints.org/manteno-voters-delivered-new-blow-to-gotions-battery-plant-project-linked-to-ccp-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s war on woke marches on
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3372565/trump-war-on-woke-continues/

NEW YORK POST
— Start talking trade deals, Mr. President — and end the tariff meltdown.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/opinion/start-talking-trade-deals-mr-president-and-end-the-tariff-meltdown/

CHRISTIAN POST
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/most-immigrants-vulnerable-to-deportation-are-christian-report.html

NEWSMAX
— Illinois House Passes Bill to Allow Abortion Pills.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mifepristone-safety-abortion/2025/04/07/id/1206032/
— Trump will win on ‘merits and the substantive power’ to deport illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNQHch243UY

TOWNHALL
— ‘Liberation Day’ Evens the Playing Field, But Targeted Approach is Needed to Win Trade War with China
https://townhall.com/columnists/gavinwax/2025/04/08/liberation-day-evens-the-playing-field-but-targeted-approach-is-needed-to-win-trade-war-with-china-n2655139

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump threatens to impose an additional 50% tariff on China. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, globalists, ever-increasingly side with foreign counties against America.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-china-50-percent-tariff-retaliatory/
— Luna reaches deal with Johnson after standoff over remote votes for new parents. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors. They all had children. They all strongly decried the significant time and cost needed to raise their children. Their spouses had limited or no earning potential. According to them, because my wife and I did not have children, we had tremendous unfair advantages over them. According to them, if my wife and I had children, a) I never would have been able to pass the CPA or Certified Internal Auditor examinations, become a licensed CPA, earn master’s degrees in accounting or finance, or earn four more job-related professional certifications and b) my wife never would have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree in finance or earn as much money as she did. Further, according to them, we never would have been able to have a home built, buy collector cars, etc.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anna-paulina-luna-mike-johnson-proxy-voting-new-parents/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Globalism is a) making America more and more and more dependent on foreign countries and b) exploiting cheap foreign labor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/opinion/globalization-collapse.html
— Can Musk Pull Trump Back From the Tariff Ledge? Musk has been criticizing Trump’s tariff policy — and publicly. Could there be a strategy? Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, globalists, ever-increasingly side with foreign counties against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/elon-musk-tariffs-trump.html
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/trump-k-12-education.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat and RINO leaders fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/tren-de-aragua-venezuela-maduro.html

WASHINGTON POST
— China says it will not be intimidated by Trump’s tariff ‘blackmail. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, globalists, ever-increasingly side with foreign counties against America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/07/trump-tariffs-china-asia-europe-markets/

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with foreign counties against America.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/08/tariff-man-vs-the-world/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/07/what-to-know-about-hands-off-protests-in-illinois-cities-springfield-rockford-chicago/82972209007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with foreign counties against America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/06/trump-tarriff-impact/82964313007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/06/trump-biden-migrants-legal-status-border-crisis/82740159007/

SPRINGFIELD NEWS LEADER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2025/04/07/springfield-mo-rally-refugees-uplifted-welcomed-faith-leaders/82966195007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, everything in America is made by foreign countries.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-production-china-tariffs-6cc37f40
— Globalists oppose tariffs
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/auto-industry-tariffs-china-cars-ford-stellantis-tesla-donald-trump-ef7e235a
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trade-is-a-two-way-street-tariffs-policy-economics-global-2f2b5f2a
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-trump-wants-tariffs-trade-policy-personal-power-e61a1368
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-trashing-americas-global-good-name-foreign-policy-tariffs-trade-economy-b2d63350
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/calling-trumps-bluff-on-reciprocal-tariffs-trade-economy-vietnam-70bdc47b
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-win-win-exit-strategy-for-trump-on-tariffs-offer-reciprocal-free-trade-fbfbedb1
— Trump Gives Democrats a Voting Gift. They can’t wait to use his recent executive order for a federal election takeover.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-gives-democrats-a-voting-gift-executive-order-federal-election-takeover-6f335394
— Democrat and RINO leaders fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia-trump-administration-supreme-court-paula-xinis-pam-bondi-d2d394e7

FORBES
— The Workplace Gap: Supporting Parents Of School-Aged Children. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors. They all had children. They all strongly decried the significant time and cost needed to raise their children. Their spouses had limited or no earning potential. According to them, because my wife and I did not have children, we had tremendous unfair advantages over them. According to them, if my wife and I had children, a) I never would have been able to pass the CPA or Certified Internal Auditor examinations, become a licensed CPA, earn master’s degrees in accounting or finance, or earn four more job-related professional certifications and b) my wife never would have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree in finance or earn as much money as she did. Further, according to them, we never would have been able to have a home built, buy collector cars, etc.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinecarter/2025/02/05/the-workplace-gap-supporting-parents-of-school-aged-kids-and-teens/

NPR
— All my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they all promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Further, all my critics/opponents have always promoted the aforesaid.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5348922

POLITICO
— Andy Beshear has some advice for Dems on hammering Trump over tariffs
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/andy-beshear-trump-tariffs-interview-031819

LGBTQ NATION
— LGBTQers ever-increasingly take the lead in promoting more hatred against Trump
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/the-fallout-tariffs-is-overwhelming-all-the-other-damage-donald-is-causing/

March 28, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say that Illinois has too many townships and that Pritzker-backed bills to prune them should get action.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/27/township-consolidation-pritzker-springfield/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Jenner & Block
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/jenner-block-should-stand-strong-against-trump-order-hinz

CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Rep. Davis: ‘We’re in a social war vs. Trump and his puppeteers’
https://chicagocrusader.com/rep-davis-were-in-a-social-war-vs-trump-and-his-puppeteers/

ABC7
— Illinois AG joins calls for unity against Trump administration’s retaliation on law firms
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-joins-calls-unity-trump-administrations-retaliation-law-firms/16092800/

NBC5
— Prices of new cars expected to rise with tariffs, but by how much?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/prices-of-new-cars-expected-to-rise-with-tariffs-but-by-how-much/3707990/?amp

CBS2
— Chicago car dealers, repair shops prepare for new Trump tariffs on imported vehicles, car parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwGdSl4PNlQ
— Chicago car dealerships say President Trump’s auto tariffs will trickle down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYDvdFxUaPI
— Chicago car dealerships, repair shops brace for Trump’s tariffs on imported vehicles and auto parts
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-car-dealerships-repair-shops-trump-tariffs/

FOX32
— Chicago mayor fires back at border czar’s ‘reprehensible’ threats to prosecute him over ICE raids
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-fires-back-border-czars-reprehensible-threats-prosecute-him-over-ice-raids
— Trump cuts finding for Illinois health departments
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1615467
— How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1615467

WTTW
— Chicago Muslim Civil Rights Group Condemns Trump’s Immigration Crackdown of Pro-Hamas Students
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/27/chicago-muslim-civil-rights-group-condemns-trump-s-immigration-crackdown-pro-palestinian
— Federal Judge Struggles With Scope of Relief for Fired Federal Employees in Lawsuit Filed by Illinois, Other States. My critics/opponents despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees. They not only do not want me to get any relief for my being forced to retire, they object to my Civil Service Retirement System pension and the 72% federal health insurance subsidy that my wife and I get.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/27/federal-judge-struggles-scope-relief-fired-workers-lawsuit-filed-illinois-other-states
— Trump Administration Blocks More Than $400M in Funding for Illinois Health Programs
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/27/trump-administration-blocks-more-400m-funding-illinois-health-programs

WBEZ
— Cuts to public health program hit Illinois
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/03/27/the-rundown-cuts-to-public-health-program-hit-illinois

HERALD REVIEW
— Illinois Democrats vow to defend state elections law against Trump’s executive order
https://herald-review.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_e589cc97-f517-5f8b-b137-e97de33bfead.html

NORTHERN STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://northernstar.info/124222/opinion/banning-same-sex-marriage-is-unconstitutional/

WCIA
— Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done
https://www.wcia.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-anti-abortion-groups-mount-effort-to-strip-planned-parenthood-funding-ahead-of-supreme-court-hearing/
— What to do if you can’t pay the taxes you owe. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years. I worked on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years.
https://www.wcia.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-what-to-do-if-you-cant-pay-the-taxes-you-owe/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/top-stories/federal-funding-cutbacks-public-health/

NPR ILLINOIS
— How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nprillinois.org/health-harvest/2025-03-27/trump-administration-blocks-more-than-400m-in-funding-for-illinois-health-programs
— What percent of foreign students are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, and/or anti-American?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-28/u-s-revokes-hundreds-of-visas-to-repress-student-activism-and-hhs-cuts-jobs
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-28/trump-administration-advances-immigration-crackdown-on-foreign-student-protesters

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Despite Trump order, Illinois won’t require voter proof of citizenship. April 1 elections being conducted under existing state, federal law. Illegals vote for Democrats.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/despite-trump-order-illinois-wont-require-voter-proof-of-citizenship/

AXIOS CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders promote hatred against Tesla to promote hatred against Musk to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/28/tesla-takedown-protests-chicago-sales-drop-illinois

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-484/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-277/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-483/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they reject Trump’s election and they reject the rule of law. Constructively, they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and illegals are their soldiers in their army.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_363fe78a-b06d-4550-a904-325f3792401f.html

JOHN KASS
— How Corporate Media Narratives Distort Reality About Ukraine
https://johnkassnews.com/how-corporate-media-narratives-distort-reality-about-ukraine/

WIREPOINTS
— Do Illinois and Chicago really need to sweeten Tier 2 pension benefits? My critic/opponents hold against me big time my getting a Civil Service Retirement System pension and the federal government paying 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. I should write about that.
https://wirepoints.org/do-illinois-and-chicago-really-need-to-sweeten-tier-2-pension-benefits-wirepoints-in-the-chicago-tribune/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Embarrassing displays of media blindness
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3361771/embarrassing-displays-media-blindness-katherine-maher-npr/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump more popular than ever – percentage of Americans who think country is on the right track ‘through the roof’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/27/us-news/trump-more-popular-than-ever-percentage-of-americans-who-think-country-is-on-the-right-track-through-the-roof-says-cnn-analyst/
— Trump orders elimination of ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian institutions. Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly anti-American. Democrats run the federal government. Co, The de
https://nypost.com/2025/03/28/us-news/trump-orders-elimination-of-anti-american-ideology-from-smithsonian-institutions/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Bill to require public colleges offer ‘medication abortion’ advances to Illinois House
https://www.campusreform.org/article/bill-require-public-colleges-offer-medication-abortion-advances-illinois-house/27747

FOX NEWS
— Criminal illegal aliens face justice for the first time in years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjyTrtqPiN8

LIFE NEWS
— Planned Parenthood Gets $2 Million of Our Tax Dollars Every Single Day
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/28/planned-parenthood-gets-2-million-of-our-tax-dollars-every-single-day/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— ‘Restoring Meritocracy’: Trump Administration Cuts DEI as Factor in State Department Promotions
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/restoring-meritocracy-trump-administration-cuts-dei-as-factor-in-state-department-promotions/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Trump signs executive order ending collective bargaining rights for many federal workers. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors could not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/politics/executive-order-collective-bargaining-national-security/index.html

REUTERS
— US car buyers face higher prices, less choice under Trump’s tariffs
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-car-buyers-face-higher-prices-less-choice-under-trumps-tariffs-2025-03-28/

AOL
— Broad Categories Of Government Workers Eligible To Lose Civil Service Protections. Because Democrats run the federal government, constructively, federal employees who are Republican have no Civil Service protections. If I had been a Democrat, my Democrat superiors would not have and could not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did. The more of the following that Democrat federal employees are, the more Civil Service protections that they have: minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/broad-categories-government-workers-eligible-212903755.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly highlight Republican federal employees who have been harmed my Trump’s actions. Since the 1980s, Democrat leaders could have highlighted how I have been harmed by Gingrich’s budget cuts. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Gingrich ever-increasingly cut GAO’s budget. GAO was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s budget cuts to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.aol.com/finance/heart-just-sank-former-federal-120300308.html

NBC NEWS
— Vance and second lady visit Greenland amid Trump takeover talk
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-vance-greenland-musk-doge-live-updates-rcna197448

NEW YORK TIMES
— Auto Stocks Rattled as Investors Assess Hit From Trump’s Tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/business/auto-trump-tariffs-stocks-futures.html
— Trump Moves to End Union Protections Across Broad Swath of Government. An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors could not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/politics/trump-unions-executive-order.html
— FRONT PAGE: What Happens to Your Brain When You Retire? What helps you stay sharp? For me, it includes putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS together and sending them out every day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/well/mind/retirement-brain-mental-health-tips.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian. The executive order also calls for the replacement of memorials and monuments removed since 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025/03/27/trump-issues-executive-order-eliminate-anti-american-ideology-smithsonian/
— Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly highlight Republican federal employees who have been harmed my Trump’s budget cuts. Since the 1980s, Democrat leaders could have highlighted how I have been harmed by Gingrich’s actions. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Gingrich ever-increasingly cut GAO’s budget. GAO was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s budget cuts to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/federal-worker-layoffs-government-agencies/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal officials are preparing for agencies to cut between 8 and 50 percent of their employees as part of a Trump administration push to shrink the federal government, according to an internal White House document obtained by The Washington Post that contains closely held draft plans for reshaping the 2.3-million-person bureaucracy.)

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Trump executive order targets the Smithsonian over ‘divisive, race-centered ideology’
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-03-27/trump-executive-smithsonian-museums-race-public-monuments

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/trump-tariffs-automaker-prices-warning-928bc7a9
— Trump’s Giant New Car and Truck Tax. He’s dead set on remaking the economy on his import substitution model.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-auto-tariffs-general-motors-usmca-e7d72e04
— The Federal Workers Who Are Not Quite Fired, Not Quite Working. Thousands of people fired then rehired by the Trump administration remain in limbo. ‘They want to get rid of us one way or another.’  All my Democrat superiors in the federal government always wanted to get rid of me because I was a Republican, but more so because I was conservative, White, male, older (born in 1948), Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American and my ancestors have been in America since 1844, but even more so because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, but even more so because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with some of the aforesaid discrimination when I was 40 years old in 1988.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/trump-federal-employee-layoffs-rehired-plans-06e85f78

March 27, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders reject Trump order that requires voters to show proof of US citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-election-news-today-voting-rights-groups-urge-local-voters-follow-il-law-despite-presidents-executive-order/16087064/
— Democrat leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-immigration-advocates-rally-loop-possible-travel-ban-president-donald-trump-administration/16087244/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-initiative-could-use-terror-laws-college-students-protesting-war-gaza-sparks-free-speech-concerns/16087394/

NBC5
— How to get election results in Chicago-area elections Tuesday
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/how-to-get-election-results-in-chicago-area-elections-tuesday/3707107/

CBS2
— Democrats leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-immigrant-rights-groups-possible-new-travel-ban/

FOX32
— Trump imposes 25% tariff on imported cars: ‘This is permanent’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/money/trump-tariffs-auto-imports
— Democrats leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1614866

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Democrats vow to defend state elections law against Trump executive order
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/illinois-democrats-vow-to-defend-state-elections-law-against-trumps-executive-order/
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/27/opinion-black-americans-donald-trump-civil-rights/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump cuts $153 million in Illinois public health, substance abuse programs. The Illinois cuts are part of $12 billion in grants that the federal Department of Health and Human Services canceled this week.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/03/26/trump-administration-cuts-illinois-mental-health-and-substance-abuse-programs-28-million
— Race, wealth disparities underlie turnout for ballot questions hitting voters’ wallets. Anticipate/expect that voters want tax increasers that they will not have to pay.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/03/26/tax-referendum-race-wealth-disparity-cook-county
— Democrat leaders always want higher taxes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/03/26/illinois-education-funding-poll-public-schools
— Democrat leaders glorify and praise Lake View high school senior Bella Brown. What leadership skills did you show in high school? I showed none. Because I needed money for college, I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School and the summer in between. I used the money that I earned and saved to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966 that I used to commute from my parents’ home in Crete to a) summer jobs in 1966, b) classes at UIC 1966-1967, and c) delivering mail in Park Forest 1966-1967.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/03/26/education-bella-brown-national-honor-society-scholarship

DAILY HERALD
— District 200 school board race pits incumbents against challengers questioning middle school projects
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250326/local-politics/district-200-school-board-race-pits-incumbents-against-challengers-questioning-middle-school-project/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— As Trump’s attack sets in, Chicago’s Jenner & Block faces a choice: Fight or fold? GAO is just a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it and/or if Bowsher had reformed GAO and/or successfully fought Gingrich, there would be no need for a DOGE today.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/trump-executive-order-forces-hard-choices-jenner-block
— Illinois EV sales surged, fueled by incentives
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-ev-sales-surge-early-2025-fueled-incentives


WBEZ
— Democrat leaders always want higher taxes.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/03/26/new-poll-shows-most-in-illinois-want-more-funding-for-public-schools
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/curious-city/2025/03/26/dnp

WGN RADIO
— The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/how-has-the-trump-administration-affected-illinois/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the ever-increasingly profane Duckworth.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/03/26/us-senator-tammy-duckworth-calls-pete-hegseth-a-f-liar/82677446007/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Federal workers targeted for DEI-related activities file class action complaint. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/politics/article/federal-workers-targeted-for-dei-related-20242710.php

RIVER BENDER
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/on-equal-pay-day-duckworth-durbin-join-senate-democrats-in-reintroducing-paycheck-fairness-act-to-help-end-wage-discrimination-close-gender-pay-gap-80977.cfm?

WAND TV & PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against non-Republicans, and because of that, non-Republicans cannot succeed without massive government assistance.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/founders-of-black-owned-brands-adapt-their-hopes-and-business-plans-for-a-post-dei/article_9b6c8758-1614-5a7c-baf5-132208171197.html
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-03-26/senior-issues/facing-funding-hurdles-il-march-for-meals-event-moves-forward/a95992-1

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-276/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at voters to punish Trump by voting for Democrat and RINO candidates in the April 1, 2025 election. How much success have they had doing that 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. What do you say to RINO leaders who display yard signs for Democrat and RINO candidates? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I oppose mass/illegal immigration. All of my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have and I had to work my way through college. None of my critics/opponents can say that because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To promote Affirmative Action, DEI, and/or wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www/gopillinois.com
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Another Democrat Uses the “F” Word
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/another-democrat-uses-the-f-word/
— Text Reveals Kat Abughazaleh’s Anti-Israel Views
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/text-reveals-out-kat-abughazalehs-anti-israeli-views/
— Kat Abughazaleh Upsets the Democratic Party Establishment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/kat-abughazaleh-upsets-the-democratic-party-establishment/
— The Key Difference in the Schakowsky v. Abughazaleh Primary Election
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/the-key-difference-in-the-schakowsky-v-abughazaleh-primary-election/
— Democrats Shut Off Rep. Jeff Keicher’s Microphone
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/democrats-shut-off-rep-jeff-keichers-microphone/
— Lesperance Mails in Support of His Campaign for Nunda Township Road Commissioner Re-Election
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/lesperance-mails-in-support-of-his-campaign-for-nunda-township-road-commissioner-re-election/
— 26-Year Old Chicago Resident, TicTok “Influencer” Challenging 80-Year Old Jan Schakowsky
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/26-year-old-chicago-resident-tictoc-influencer-challenging-80-year-old-jan-schakowsky/
— Former Nunda Township Clerk Endorses Parrish for Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/former-nunda-township-clerk-endorses-parrish-for-road-commissioner/
— Bill Maher Sems to Say Blue State Dems Too Stupid to Save Themselves, Illinois Set To Lose One or Two Seats in Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/bill-maher-sems-to-say-blue-state-dems-too-stupid-to-save-themselves/
— Wilcox Opposes Shopping Bag Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/wilcox-opposes-shopping-bag-tax/
— Pharmacies Must Sell One Hundred Needles Upon Request to Anyone Over 18 under Bill That Had No Committee Opposition
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/pharmacies-must-sell-one-hundred-needles-upon-request-under-bill-that-had-no-committee-opposition/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The Democratic Party Exposes its True Allegiance. Democrat leaders want their illegals to vote.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/opinion-the-democratic-party-exposes-its-true-allegiance.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago aggravated batteries hit 5-year high; 3 in 5 victims are Black
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-aggravated-batteries-hit-5-year-high-3-in-5-victims-are-black/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pritzker puts himself forward as the Democrats’ anti-Trump champion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/25/jb-pritzker-puts-forward-democrats-anti-trump-champion/
— Why women are struggling with marriage. Finding ‘Mr. Right’  What did you do to make yourself marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, I had a) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree from NIU when I was 21, b) earned and a job-related master’s degree from Loyola when I was 27 , c) started earning more than $100,000/year in today’s dollars when I was 25, and c) bought a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building when I was 27.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/women-struggling-marriage/
— Military academy leaders find ‘woke’ classes after combing through curriculum for DEI violations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/military-academy-leaders-find-handful-possibly-woke-courses-offered/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin bars illegal migrants and non-permanent residents from receiving taxpayer-backed mortgages. I got my first mortgage when I was 24 years old in 1972. I there had been as much pressure back then to give mortgages to illegals as there is now, I might not have gotten that mortgage.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/26/us-news/trump-admin-bars-illegal-migrants-and-non-permanent-residents-from-receiving-taxpayer-backed-mortgages/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— If Judges Can Stymie the Will of the People, We Don’t Have a Democracy Anymore. The Trump administration is right: Judge Boasberg has no authority to direct the national security operations of the United States.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/if-judges-can-stymie-the-will-of-the-people-we-dont-have-a-democracy-anymore/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Hegseth boards plane flanked by two ‘bada**’ women, and the politically correct capitulation tour continues
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/hegseth_boards_plane_flanked_by_two_bada_women_and_the_politically_correct_capitulation_tour_continues.html

BLAZE
— GOP torches NPR, PBS for political bias amid public funding scrutiny
https://www.theblaze.com/news/gop-torches-npr-pbs-for-political-bias-amid-public-funding-scrutiny

BREITBART
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the ever-increasingly profane Duckworth.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/26/dem-sen-tammy-duckworth-calls-for-pete-hegseth-to-resign-fking-liar/

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
— Religious Employers in Illinois May Be Compelled to Hire Abortion-Related Employees
https://www.christianitydaily.com/news/employers-in-illinois-may-be-compelled-to-hire-abortion-employees.html

COLLEGE FIX
— No-whites-allowed Illinois scholarship program for future professors under fire. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a stupid son of rich parents because I never got any scholarships. In my defense, I have stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, and e) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/no-whites-allowed-illinois-scholarship-program-for-future-professors-under-fire/

DAILY CALLER
— Companies Backing Out Of Supporting Several Major Gay Pride Events Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/26/companies-backing-out-of-supporting-several-major-gay-pride-events-amid-trumps-dei-crackdown/

FOX NEWS
— Migrants abusing the asylum system have slowed down dramatically
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370602052112

LIFE NEWS
— Illinois Pro-Life March Calls Pritzker the Most Radically Pro-Abortion Governor in America
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/26/illinois-pro-life-march-calls-jb-pritzker-the-most-radically-pro-abortion-governor-in-america/

REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— K-12 Is Getting More Woke, Not Less
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/03/26/k-12_is_getting_more_woke_not_less_1100069.html

TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin Needs to Reverse Biden Wokeness and Weaponization
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/03/27/government-needs-to-root-out-wokeness-all-the-way-down-to-the-root-n2654509
— Rogue Judges Are a Threat to Democracy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeremyfrankel/2025/03/26/gill-comments-on-boasberg-n2654516

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— Trump’s immigration policies find support as he expands crackdown
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-immigration-policies-find-support-he-expands-crackdown-2025-03-26/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-Filled Trump-Hating Trump-Haters Say That Trump Is Taking The Law Into His Own Hands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/opinion/trump-judges-congress.html

FOX NASHVILLE
— PBS and NPR exist to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwYQHJEb5to

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Supreme Court, Race and Redistricting. The Justices have a chance to stop racial gerrymanders. Illinois Democrats horribly gerrymandered Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District to favor Hispanics.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/louisiana-v-callais-supreme-court-redistricting-racial-gerrymanders-brett-kavanaugh-23a099a3

BLOOMBERG
— Pritzker Is Ready to Brawl Through 2028
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-27/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-is-ready-to-brawl-through-2028

BARRON’S
— Democrat And RINO Leaders Say That New Cars Could Become Luxury Purchase as Trump Tariffs Threaten Jump in Domestic Prices. I was able to buy a new car when I was 17 years old in 1966 with money that I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage for 18 months.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-032725/card/new-cars-could-become-luxury-purchase-as-trump-tariffs-threaten-jump-in-domestic-prices-cVEhyHjttRIWsf0LJ5IE

NPR
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, tariffs on auto makers will not bring manufacturing back. I worked on an automotive assembly line in Belvidere in early 1970.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341796/will-trump-new-tariffs-on-auto-makers-bring-manufacturing-back

AMERICAN PROSPECT
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
http://www.gopillinois.com
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-03-27-trumps-simple-racism/

LGBTQ NATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/donald-trumps-anti-dei-crusade-takes-a-page-straight-from-the-authoritarian-playbook/

DAILY MAIL
— DeSantis reveals bombshell plan to replace undocumented migrant workers. All of my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have and I had to work my way through college. None of my critics/opponents can say that because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14541435/Ron-DeSantis-bombshell-plan-replace-undocumented-migrant-workers.html

GUARDIAN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as being Union soldiers in the Civil War and b) paint today’s Republicans as being Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. While all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois and they all were Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/confederacy-trump-republican

March 11, 2025

Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media serves a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders. I do not serve as a mouthpiece for any Republican leader. I serve as a mouthpiece for conservative principles and for the Republican Party platform.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote opposition to Trump budget cuts.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-news-chicago-federal-workers-veterans-sound-alarm-administrations-planned-job-cuts/16004701/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ejCw7aS61k

NBC5
— Democrat leaders say “As recession fears continue, here’s where things stand after stock market takes deep dive.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/what-time-does-the-stock-market-open-recession-where-markets-closed-tsla-nvidia-stock-wall-street/3693770/
— Democrat leaders say “Musk says DOGE is in almost every federal agency and plans to double staff.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/musk-says-doge-plans-to-double-staff/3693470/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois State Police to host first-ever all-women recruitment event.” (COMMENT: All my employers were always been under tremendous pressure from Democrat leaders to hire, to retain, and to promote women. All the women who they promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-state-police-to-host-first-ever-all-women-recruitment-event/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders say “Markets tank after Trump doesn’t rule out recession possibility.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1606221

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly highlight federal employees who lose their jobs because of Republican budget cuts. Why didn’t the Daily Herald highlight me when I was 49 years old in 1997 and lost my GAO job because of Gingrich-led Republican budget cuts, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination? My Democrat GAO superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination (up-or-out) and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in 1988.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250310/nation-and-world-politics/a-shock-fired-federal-worker-army-veteran-fears-for-future-of-va/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Why one suburb is banning EV chargers from public parking garages
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250310/news/why-one-suburb-is-banning-ev-chargers-from-public-parking-garages/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more DEI. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/03/10/cook-county-clerk-birth-certificates-marriage-licenses
— Democrat leaders say “Chicago Ukrainians fear deportations as Trump considers revoking legal status: Everyone’s scared to death.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/ukraine/2025/03/10/ukrainians-chicago-trump-legal-status-deportation

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say “The great tragedy of sleeping through Election Day.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/10/opinion-cook-county-illinois-elections-low-turnout/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders say “Oberweis on campaign trail — again.”
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-four-allegedly-in-running-for-treasurer-post/article_200cb6f0-fad1-11ef-a9ed-f385616e308f.html

JOURNAL & COURIER
— Beware the scare tactics on Medicaid funding
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/commentary-beware-the-scare-tactics-on-medicaid-funding-mark-glennon/ar-AA1AAwaN

RIVER BENDER & 25 NEWS NOW & WAND TV
— Democrat leaders say “Duckworth Introduces Legislation to Reinstate Veterans Who Were Fired in Trump and Elon Musk’s Indiscriminate Federal Employee Purge (COMMENT: Will Duckworth reinstate me? The Democrats who ran GAO fired me because of Gingrich budget cuts.)
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-kim-introduce-legislation-to-reinstate-veterans-who-were-fired-in-trump-and-elon-musks-indiscriminate-federal-employee-purge-80450.cfm?
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/10/duckworth-introduces-legislation-reinstate-veterans-who-were-fired-federal-employee-purge/
https://www.wandtv.com/news/duckworth-kim-introduce-legislation-to-reinstate-veterans-who-were-fired-in-federal-employee-purge/article_09da823a-fdb6-11ef-9642-bb45b695223e.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders say new DHS app says “‘Stay Out and Leave Now” and “Illegal migrants can self-deport’ with new DHS app.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/stay-out-and-leave-now-dhs-launches-new-app-with-self-deportation-feature

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote disagreements between Trump supporters
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-pushes-detente-between-musk-and-rubio/amp/
— Democrat leaders say Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many. (COMMENT: What did your ancestors do during the Gilded Age? On my father’s side, they operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side, they operated a farm in Grant Park alone the Indiana border.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-loves-the-gilded-age-and-its-tariffs-it-was-a-great-time-for-the-rich-but-not-for-the-many/

FREE PRESS
— Democrat leaders say “Jailed. Pardoned. Now Rod Blagojevich Wants to Be a ‘Trumpocrat’  With a presidential pardon in the bag, the disgraced ex-governor may be eyeing a run for mayor of Chicago. ‘I’m at the stage of my life that’s a new beginning.’”
https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-blagojevich-rises-again

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Black pastors to do their bidding.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/11/pastors-take-aim-at-dei-rollbacks-00223301

CAPITOL FAX
— Democrat leaders say “Morning briefing.”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-471/
— Democrat leaders say: “Afternoon roundup.”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-264/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIRE POINTS
— 2024 homicide rankings: Chicago, St. Louis lead nation yet again – A Wirepoints survey of America’s 75 largest cities
https://wirepoints.org/2024-homicide-rankings-chicago-st-louis-lead-nation-yet-again-a-wirepoints-survey-of-americas-75-largest-cities/

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Vallas: Chicago Has Become a Sanctuary City for Criminals
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-sanctuary-city-for-criminals

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
—  Democrats run the federal government. For them, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, but failing that, they want to stop everyone from reading my newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have their operatives and their dupes do everything that they can to stop me from sending out my newsletters and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters. More recently, they had me removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee and they ended by service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents have always painted my federal salary, benefits, and pension as being entitlements instead of earned. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents a) were wealthy, b) paid for their college expenses, and/or c) got them good jobs in the private sector. My parents were not wealthy. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I would focus on my critics/opponents who never applied for a federal job or who applied and were rejected a) because they lacked qualifications and/or b) because they could not pass a background investigation. Even though I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired me in 1966, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.  – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in passing tests to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are moderate/liberal, minority, female, younger, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for as long as my ancestors. The many tests that I passed include those needed to get hired by the federal government, to earn three master’s degrees, and to earn two professional certifications. I passed on my first attempt the CPA examination when I was 30 years old in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLIG
— John Goodman Officially Announces for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/10/john-goodman-officially-announces-for-u-s-senate/
— Regional Planning Commission Seeks Help in Hiking RTA Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/10/regional-planning-commission-seeks-help-in-hiking-rta-taxes/
— Republican Candidate for Governor, DuPage Sheriff James Mendrick, Hit with Negative Frontpage Tribune Story
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/10/republican-candidate-for-governor-dupage-sheriff-james-mendrick-hit-with-negative-frontpage-tribune-story/
— McHenry County Residents Pay 2.5% of the Value of Their Homes in Property Taxes.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/10/mchenry-county-residents-pay-2-5-of-the-value-of-their-homes-in-property-taxes/
— Trump-Endorsed Candidate for Florida Governor Scheduled for State GOP Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/10/trump-endorsed-candidate-for-florida-governor-scheduled-for-state-gop-fundraiser/
— Pritzker Administration Drags Heels on Sue Ness’ Lakewood $250,000 Pork
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/10/pritzker-administration-drags-heels-on-sue-ness-250000-pork/
— U.S. Marshal Reports on Recovery of Missing Children
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/09/u-s-marshal-reports-on-recovery-of-missing-children/
— Possibility of Permanent Daylight Savings Time in Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/09/possibility-of-permanent-daylight-savings-time-in-illinois/
— Former Algonquin Township Congressman Sean Casten Comments on Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/09/former-algonquin-township-congressman-sean-casten-comments-on-congress/
— WGN Notices Oberweis Florida Congressional Candidacy
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/08/wgn-notices-oberweis-florida-congressional-candidacy/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden migrant surge pushed illegal immigrant population to nearly 19 million
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/10/biden-migrant-surge-pushed-illegal-immigrant-population-nearly-19/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Duckworth to introduce bill to rehire veterans laid off by DOGE (COMMENT: Will Duckworth reinstate me? The Democrats who ran GAO fired me because of Gingrich budget cuts.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3342493/democratic-senators-introduce-bill-rehire-veterans/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Resistance Sequel Flops. Defending bureaucrats just doesn’t anger ignorant masses like identity politics.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/11/the-resistance-sequel-flops/

BREITBART
— 18.6 Million Illegal Aliens Living in U.S., Hundreds of Thousands of Anchor Babies Born Annually
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/10/illegal-alien-anchor-baby-population/

COLLEGE FIX
— West Point disbands 12 student groups following Trump’s DEI executive order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/west-point-disbands-12-student-groups-following-trumps-dei-executive-order/

DAILY CALLER
— Medical Schools Press Ahead Answering ‘Clarion Call’ To Wokeness
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/10/exclusive-medical-schools-press-ahead-answering-clarion-call-to-wokeness/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Illegal Alien Population Hits Record 18.6 Million
https://www.fairus.org/news/misc/new-fair-study-finds-illegal-alien-population-hits-record-18-6-million

FOX NEWS
— Dems threatening government shutdown over Elon Musk hate, Republicans say. The government shutdown deadline is Friday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-threatening-government-shutdown-over-elon-musk-hate-republicans-say?lid=e9b0n9cz85u6
— Dem seeks to halt Trump from ‘invading’ Greenland, Canada and Panama. ‘Americans do not support sending troops unnecessary wars, especially with allies of the United States who pose no threat to our country,’ says Rep Seth Magaziner
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-seeks-halt-trump-from-invading-greenland-canada-panama
— Here are Trump’s top accomplishments 50 days into his Oval Office return. ‘We are just getting started,’ Trump said during his address before a joint session of Congress.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-top-accomplishments-50-days-his-oval-office-return

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Breaking the DEI Trance
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/breaking-the-dei-trance

NEWSMAX
— Duckworth Bill Would Force Trump to Rehire Laid-Off Vets (COMMENT: Will Duckworth reinstate me? The Democrats who ran GAO fired me because of Gingrich budget cuts.)
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/veterans-doge-elon-musk/2025/03/10/id/1202223/
— LGBTQ Leaders Demand That Democrat Leaders Do More
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/lgbtq-leaders-democrats/2025/03/10/id/1202244/
— Job Cuts Necessary to Make Dept. Better For Vets (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. For them, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/doug-collins-va-job-cuts/2025/03/10/id/1202252/

PJ MEDIA
— French (Government-Owned!) Media: ‘How Could You Not’ Compare Trump to Hitler?
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/03/10/french-government-owned-media-how-could-you-not-compare-trump-to-hitler-n4937769

TOWNHALL
— Trump Revives CBP One App, Offering Illegal Immigrants Path to Self-Deportation
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/03/10/trump-relaunches-cbp-one-app-n2653554

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— LGBTQ Leaders Demand That Democrat Leaders Do More
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5186943-lgbtq-groups-call-on-democrats-to-do-more-to-protect-their-rights/
— Democrat leaders say “Trump stirs economic uncertainty.”
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5187499-donald-trump-stirs-economic-uncertainty/
— Democrat leaders say “Why Trump’s war on DEI is so diabolical.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5182718-trump-dei-attacks/

MSN
— Democrat leaders say “DOGE Blocks Social Security Administration Employees From Reading the News (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, but failing that, they want to stop everyone from reading my newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have their operatives and their dupes do everything that they can to stop me from sending out my newsletters and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters. More recently, they had me removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee and they ended by service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/doge-blocks-social-security-administration-employees-from-reading-the-news/ss-AA1AtC3U

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/business/economy/trump-economy-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders say “U.S. Stocks Have Worst Day of 2025 as Economic Fears Grow.” Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly drive stocks down.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/10/us/president-trump-news
— Democrat leaders say “Trump has sworn to root out corruption within the government, yet one of his first acts as president was to fire over a dozen independent watchdogs who did exactly that. We spoke to seven of them about the abuses they uncovered, what they really think about DOGE and what all this means for the future of American democracy.” (COMMENT: When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I had the right work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license to work Inspector General Offices in Chicago. But none of them were interested in me. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats.)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/06/opinion/trump-doge-fires-inspectors-general.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders say “Turmoil within DOGE spills into public view as Musk’s group confronts a PR crisis.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/10/doge-musk-rebrand-trump-conflicts/

USA DODAY
— Democrat leaders say “Trump pushes ahead with tariffs as stock market has ‘worst day of 2025’ amid recession fears.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-confirmed-lead-health-170345523.html
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/09/religious-faith-guides-migrants-border-asylum/80875900007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Some Teachers Are Underpaid  (COMMENT: I should start writing about my critics/opponents who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most as being overpaid.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/some-teachers-are-underpaid-merit-based-pay-student-performance-learning-93bd0fd5
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Mark Carney Wins Leadership of a Canadian Liberal Party Revived by Trump. Former central banker poised to call general election that suddenly seems winnable.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mark-carney-wins-leadership-of-a-canadian-liberal-party-revived-by-trump-e8942892

FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say “Stock market implodes as Trump tariffs and recession nightmares spook investors.”
https://fortune.com/2025/03/10/stock-market-implodes-trump-tariffs-recession-nightmares-spook-investors/

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders say “Trump To Meet With Business Executives On Tuesday As Recession Fears Accelerate Stock Market Declines.” (COMMENT: Trump should anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly do everything that they can to drive the stock market down.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/trump-to-address-top-ceos-wall-street-bank-executives-tuesday
— Democrat leaders say “Musk Calls Entitlements the Big One to Cut” (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always painted my federal salary, benefits, and pension as being entitlements instead of earned. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents a) were wealthy, b) paid for their college expenses, and/or c) got them good jobs in the private sector. My parents were not wealthy. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I would focus on my critics/opponents who never applied for a federal job or who applied and were rejected a) because they lacked qualifications and/or b) because they could not pass a background investigation. Even though I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired me in 1966, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/musk-calls-entitlements-the-big-one-to-cut-countering-trump

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders say “Trump says he’s buying a Tesla to support Elon Musk. The president said he will purchase a Tesla as the automaker’s stock price takes a tumble.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/11/trump-buying-tesla-support-elon-musk-00223293

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders say “How standardized tests became part of the DEI debate.” (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in passing tests to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are moderate/liberal, minority, female, younger, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for as long as my ancestors. The many tests that I passed include those needed to get hired by the federal government, to earn three master’s degrees, and to earn two professional certifications. I passed on my first attempt the CPA examination when I was 30 years old in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981.)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2025/03/11/how-standardized-tests-became-part-dei-debate

March 5, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Chicago Mayor Johnson defends spending on migrant crisis during Capitol Hill hearings
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-defends-spending-migrant-crisis-during-sanctuary-city-hearings-washington-dc/15981771/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson testifies in DC at sanctuary city hearing
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-set-testify-washington-dc-sanctuary-city-hearing/15979555/
— Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-issues-last-warning-hamas-release-remaining-hostages-held-gaza/15981541/
— Trump administration plans to fire over 70K employees at Department of Veterans Affairs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-administration-planning-fire-70k-employees-us-department-veterans-affairs-memo-shows/15981426/
— ‘Partisan and divisive’: House leadership on Trump’s joint address
https://abc7chicago.com/post/democrats-republicans-react-president-trumps-joint-address-congress/15980125/
— Illinois legislative revenue estimate more than $700M lower than Gov. Pritzker’s proposed budget
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-legislative-revenue-estimate-737-million-lower-governor-jb-pritzkers-proposed-state-budget/15982106/

NBC5
— House Republicans seek to censure Rep. Al Green after interrupting Trump’s speech
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/house-republicans-seek-to-censure-rep-al-green-after-interrupting-trumps-speech/3689903/
—  LaHood questions Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson during testimony before Congress
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/il-rep-darin-lahood-questions-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-during-testimony-before-congress/3689776/

CBS2
— Mayor Brandon Johnson defends Chicago’s immigration policies on Capitol Hill; “Chicago is and always has been a proud city of immigrants.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/after-prep-mayor-johnson-testify-capitol-hill-immigration/

FOX32
— Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers opening statement in sanctuary cities hearing
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DliSvuXQIHh8

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson defends Chicago’s sanctuary laws in GOP-led congressional hearing
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/mayor-brandon-johnson-congress-committee-sanctuary-laws/
— Democrat leaders say “Trump uses Democrats as stooges at address to Congress” and ask “When will the party learn some common sense?”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/editorial-donald-trump-uses-democrats-as-stooges-at-state-of-the-union-when-will-the-party-learn-some-common-sense/
— City begins rehousing efforts for Gompers Park homeless encampment residents
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/chicago-rehousing-efforts-gompers-park-homeless/
— Aurora mayoral candidates Richard Irvin, John Laesch to answer questions at upcoming forum (COMMENT: While I was the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005 -2012, far too many Republican candidates objected to my asking them after their speeches that if elected, would they defend and advance all the planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/aurora-mayoral-candidates-richard-irvin-john-laesch-to-answer-questions-at-upcoming-forum/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Heavily-scripted Mayor Brandon Johnson survives congressional hot seat on Chicago’s sanctuary city policy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/brandonjohnson/2025/03/05/chicago-sanctuary-city-brandon-johnson-testimony-updates-file

DAILY HERALD
— ‘Insulting and disrespectful’: Suburban Democratic lawmakers slam Trump’s address to Congress
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/us-congress-politics/insulting-and-disrespectful-suburban-democratic-lawmakers-slam-trumps-address-to-congress/
— Illinois lawmakers boycott, bring pointed guests to Trump speech
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250304/nation-and-world-politics/illinois-lawmakers-boycott-bring-pointed-guests-to-trump-speech/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Brandon Johnson argues sanctuary city law keeps Chicago safer in high-profile House testimony
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/brandon-johnson-defends-chicagos-sanctuary-city-law-dc

SOUTHERN
— Trump, Musk raise questions about whether nation’s gold at Fort Knox has been stolen
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/05/trump-musk-raise-questions-about-whether-nations-gold-at-fort-knox-has-been-stolen/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Volunteers help fired federal workers re-enter the job market (COMMENT: No one helped me or my Republican GAO coworkers who were fired because of Republican-led budget cuts during the 1980s and 1990s.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-05/volunteers-help-fired-federal-workers-re-enter-the-job-market

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Republicans push for special master in Illinois redistricting lawsuit
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/republicans-push-for-special-master-in-illinois-redistricting-lawsuit#

KDHL RADIO
— Cannabis Edible Sends Illinois Teen To Emergency Room
https://kdhlradio.com/ixp/722/p/cannabis-edible-illinois/

WHEATON
— Women of Wheaton (COMMENT: What About Men of Wheaton?)
https://www.wheaton.il.us/1069/Women-of-Wheaton

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-261/
— Underutilized CPS schools driving up costs
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/05/report-underutilized-cps-schools-driving-up-costs/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— It all comes out in the wash. As time goes on, it becomes all the more clear that all my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican reject many, most, if not virtually 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. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Antics at speech highlight Democrats’ Trump problem
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/5/antics-speech-highlight-democrats-trump-problem/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Chicago Mayor: Sanctuary Policies Make Cities Safer Because ‘Undocumented Immigrants Come Forward To Report Crimes’
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/chicago-mayor-sanctuary-policies-make-cities-safer-because-undocumented-immigrants-come-forward-to-report-crimes/

BREITBART
— Biden Quadrupled Unvetted Immigration Through Parole Program Abuse
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/report-biden-quadrupled-unvetted-immigration-through-parole-program-abuse/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— USDA employees fired en masse by Trump administration reinstated  (COMMENT: I was among the more than 3,000 GAO employees who Republicans fired during the 1980s and 1990s. What if we had been reinstated?)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/usda-employees-fired-reinstatement/index.html

NBC NEWS
— Trump grants automakers a 1-month exemption on tariffs; Vance visits southern border
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/live-blog/live-updates-trump-vance-musk-doge-immigration-russia-ukraine-rcna194067

CBS NEWS
— JD Vance touts Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration in Texas
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jd-vance-touts-trump-administrations-crackdown-on-illegal-immigration-in-texas/
— House Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff arrested for DUI after Trump speech
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-johnson-chief-of-staff-hayden-haynes-arrested-dui-trump-speech/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Chicago’s Mayor Pushes Back as Republicans Attack Immigration Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/brandon-johnson-chicago-mayor-sanctuary-city-hearing.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Americans don’t love Trump’s methods on Ukraine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/americans-dont-love-trumps-methods-ukraine/
— Trump administration plans 15 percent cut to VA workforce (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO during the 1980s and 1998s, Republicans cut half its workforce.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/veterans-affairs-cut-employees-trump-doge/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Tariff Concerns Paralyze Businesses, Raising Uncertainty
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-tariff-concerns-paralyze-businesses-raising-uncertainty/9883E3CA-F5B0-4DB2-A2FB-0845198B7542

INDEPENDENT
— Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff arrested on DUI charge after Trump’s speech
https://www.yahoo.com/news/speaker-mike-johnson-chief-staff-213942800.html

March 4, 2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— Excerpts from President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress
https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hundreds gather in Daley Plaza Tuesday to protest Trump in ‘pro-democracy’ rally
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/04/hundreds-gather-daley-plaza-protest/
— Effort to house Gompers Park homeless moving forward
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/04/gompers-park-homeless-mayor-brandon-johnson/
— Trudeau slams Trump’s tariffs, says US is appeasing Putin while launching a trade war against Canada
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/04/trudeau-trump-tariffs-putin/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump administration puts several major Chicago federal buildings up for sale. The properties listed for sale Tuesday include two iconic high-rise towers in the Loop: the Kluczynski and Metcalfe federal buildings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/03/04/donald-trump-general-services-administration-sale-chicago-federal-buildings
— Lead Madigan prosecutor leaving U.S. attorney’s office after more than two decades. It’s unclear what prompted the departure of Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu. The news comes in the early days of President Donald Trump’s new administration, but also less than three weeks after a jury found Madigan guilty of a bribery conspiracy and other crimes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-corruption-trials/2025/03/04/lead-madigan-prosecutor-leaving-u-s-attorney-office

DAILY HERALD
— Demonstrators across 50 states look to unify a disparate opposition to Trump and his sweeping agenda
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250304/nation-and-world-politics/demonstrators-across-50-states-look-to-unify-a-disparate-opposition-to-trump-and-his-sweeping-agenda/
— Trump’s trade war draws swift retaliation as Mexico, Canada and China impose tariffs on the US
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250304/business/us-tariffs-take-effect-mexico-canada-and-china-retaliate-with-their-own-tariffs-on-the-us/

NBC5
— After taking down Mike Madigan, top Chicago prosecutor is taking Trump buyout. Amar Bhachu is considered a tough-as-nails questioner and an advocate for ethics, justice and cleaning up Chicago’s halls of power.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/after-taking-down-mike-madigan-top-chicago-prosecutor-is-taking-trump-buyout/3688730/

CBS2
— Questions remain about immigration enforcement in Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-speech-congress-immigration-enforcement-chicago/

WGN9
— Chicago’s history as a sanctuary city spans 40 years, 7 presidents and 5 mayors
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicagos-history-as-a-sanctuary-city-spans-40-years-7-presidents-and-5-mayors/
—  Quigley, Schakowsky, Casten did not attend President Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday evening.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-representatives-to-skip-president-trumps-address-to-congress/

FOX32
— IRS could cut up to half of its 90,000-person workforce
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/irs-workforce-cuts-trump-administration
— ACLU of Illinois: Hearing on sanctuary cities is about ‘much more than immigration policy’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/aclu-illinois-hearing-sanctuary-cities-is-about-much-more-than-immigration-policy
— LaHood: Congress will vote on DOGE cuts
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-republican-doge-cuts

WBEZ
— Venezuelans in Chicago face Trump’s decision to end protected status. Many intend to stay in the U.S. But uncertainty from losing the status is putting pressure on business owners and straining relationships.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/03/04/venezuelans-in-chicago-face-trumps-decision-to-end-protected-status

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump seeks to put 443 federal properties up for sale — including 11 in Chicago
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-seeks-put-443-federal-properties-sale

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-the-irs-is-drafting-plans-to-cut-as-much-as-half-of-its-90000-person-workforce-ap-sources-say/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Trump administration ends reimbursements for Illinois food programs. USDA funds are part of nearly $2 billion being withheld from Illinois, Pritzker says. (COMMENT: To what extent are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on food programs?)
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/trump-administration-ends-reimbursements-for-illinois-food-programs/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-260/
— A month later, ICE still won’t reveal who it arrested in Chicago
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/04/a-month-later-ice-still-won%e2%80%99t-reveal-who-it-arrested-in-chicago/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois legislators differ on Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada, Mexico
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e0dba010-f939-11ef-b6d1-e365c30349d5.html
— Illinois Republicans pleased redistricting lawsuit moving forward
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_5ff3f8f4-f93d-11ef-a1ed-532e1f5769a9.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans cheer, Democrats stand still as Trump walks in for joint address to Congress
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/4/republicans-cheer-democrats-stand-still-trump-walks-joint-address/
— White House says fired veterans among federal workers are ‘perhaps’ not fit for the jobs (COMMENT: If I was still working for the federal government, my many superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who were veterans would be beyond furious. They would kill me figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/4/white-house-says-fired-veterans-among-federal-workers-perhaps-fit/
— Trump’s personnel office walks back order to fire probationary employees
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/4/trumps-personnel-office-walks-back-order-fire-probationary-employees/

NEW YORK POST
— United Auto Workers union praises Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico
https://nypost.com/2025/03/04/us-news/united-auto-workers-union-praises-trumps-tariffs-on-canada-and-mexico/

FOX NEWS
— Illinois educators turn our kids into political pawns in war against Trump. Rooftop Revelations: It was no surprise when I learned that the Illinois State Superintendent told districts to defy Trump’s orders to dismantle DEI.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/illinois-educators-turn-our-kids-political-pawns-war-against-trump
— Activist gives illegal migrants heads up about ICE raids
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369572924112

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump’s Early Success at the Border Exposes Biden Lies
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/trumps-early-success-at-the-border-exposes-biden-lies/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED P{RESS
— Trump touts Elon Musk and DOGE in joint address to Congress
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-address-congress-updates

ABC NEWS
— Republicans target 4 ‘sanctuary’ cities as Trump pushes mass deportations (COMMENT: The list includes Chicago.)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/republicans-target-4-sanctuary-cities-trump-pushes-mass-119421896

NBC NEWS
— Trump addresses Congress as his policy overhaul tests the economy and key alliances. The Russia-Ukraine war and U.S. tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China are likely to be among the focuses of President Donald Trump’s speech, which began at 9:20 p.m. ET.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-administration-speech-congress-live-updates-rcna194006

NBC WASHINGTON
— Democrat and RINO leaders stress difficulties in deporting their illegals.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/immigration-courts-clogged-for-years-as-trump-vows-to-deport-millions-more/3858328/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Chinese Company to Single Workers: Get Married or Get Out (COMMENT: According to my Democrat GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have 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 and become a licensed CPA in 1981, d) earn additional job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. None of my Democrat GAO superiors had anything close to the number of job-related degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I had. They all decried the time and money needed to raise children. According to them, my not having children gave me a tremendous unfair advantage over them.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/world/asia/china-marriage-companies-childbirth.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The ideal worker at the Chinese chemical manufacturer, according to the internal memo, is hardworking, virtuous and loyal. And — perhaps most important — willing to have children for the good of the country. That was the message that the company, Shandong Shuntian Chemical Group, sent to unmarried employees recently, in a notice that spread widely on social media. It instructed them to start families by Sept. 30, or else. “If you cannot get married and start a family within three quarters, the company will terminate your labor contract,” the memo said.)

KHOU
— Congressman Al Green from Houston removed from Trump’s speech to joint session of Congress. The president was addressing Congress when Green disrupted the speech.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/politics/al-green-trump-speech-removed/285-5ef5f2c9-76e7-471d-adcf-2db10c1041ef

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Addresses Joint Session of Congress. The president sets his agenda for Ukraine, inflation, deportations and other issues, including the shrinking of the federal government.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-speech-congress-joint-session

February 28, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Democrats plan to boycott major corporations during ‘Economic Blackout’ protest. The one-day event is designed to bring attention to dissatisfaction with the Trump administration’s push to eliminate DEI initiatives at U.S. companies. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagoans-plan-to-boycott-major-corporations-during-economic-blackout-protest/3685163/

WGN9
— DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick announces GOP run for Illinois governor
https://wgntv.com/news/dupage-county/dupage-county-sheriff-james-mendrick-announces-gop-run-for-illinois-governor/

WBEZ
— Illinois Democrats have bold words for Trump. What action can they take? The U.S. Constitution gives federal law authority over conflicting state law, but state lawmakers have some means to push back.
https://www.wbez.org/springfield/2025/02/28/illinois-democrats-have-bold-words-for-trump-what-action-can-they-take

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/opinion-transgender-children-sports-donald-trump/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— How Trump is taking an ax to federal government in Chicago and the State of Illinois (COMMENT: I should write about how Republican-led budget cuts took an ax to GAO’s Chicago office while I worked for it 1980-1997.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9VN4HU489g

DAILY HERALD
— Amy Erkenswick: 2025 candidate for Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 board
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250226/local-politics/amy-erkenswick-2025-candidate-for-wheaton-warrenville-unit-district-200-board/
— Brooke Gennaro: 2025 candidate for Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 board
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250226/local-politics/brooke-gennaro-2025-candidate-for-wheaton-warrenville-unit-district-200-board/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois and Chicago economies on shaky ground
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-and-chicago-economies-shaky-moodys-cogfa-report

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Duckworth.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2025/02/27/tammy-duckworth-is-usa-today-women-of-the-year-honoree-for-illinois/77679604007/

SOUTHERN
— Education Department launches ‘END DEI’ website (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used DEI to get rid of Republicans 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.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/27/dei-needs-to-go-education-department-launches-end-dei-website/

JOURNAL COURIER
— To get more votes from voters who have less money than others, Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly promise to use government to give more money to those voters who have less money than others. Those voters are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly shout at the aforesaid voters that Republicans cause all their financial and other problems.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/more-americans-of-all-political-stripes-support-20191490.php

HERALD REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Edgar.
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/article_b8cdf40f-05fb-582d-8af6-f00a62210b23.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump poised to sign order making English the official US language
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-poised-to-sign-order-making-english-the-official-us-language-reports-suggest

WAND TV
— DOGE cuts 2400 VAs jobs, Illinois veterans lose access to services (COMMENT: I should write about the tremendous damage caused by Republican-led gutting of GAO. If Republicans had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/doge-cuts-2400-vas-jobs-illinois-veterans-lose-access-to-services/article_b7e54534-f575-11ef-9fd1-57a21ce38ff1.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Legislation aims to help first-time homebuyers. Bill would create tax deductible accounts to save for down payment.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/legislation-aims-to-help-first-time-homebuyers/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The sheriff who wants to be governor
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/28/the-sheriff-who-wants-to-be-governor-00206652
(FROM THE ARTICLE: AND SO IT BEGINS: DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick took the low-key approach to roll out his announcement that he’s running for the Republican nomination for governor in 2026. It was a message on Facebook. And it created plenty of buzz. Mendrick’s been receiving calls and emails ever since, including donation offers. It’s still in the works. Mendrick doesn’t even have a campaign manager yet. His wife, a psychiatric nurse, filled the role in his two bids for sheriff, “but this will be too big for her to do alone so we’re going to figure all that out this weekend,” he said in an interview with your Playbook host. Mendrick doesn’t have Ken Griffin or Dan Proft working behind the scenes for him. And didn’t even think to call Republican Chair Kathy Salvi before he made his announcement. “I did not plan on running for sure,” Mendrick said. He made the surprise move after choosing not to leave Illinois because he didn’t like how it’s being run. He’s now staying put in Woodridge after his 25-year-old son said he wasn’t budging. Mendrick and his wife also have a 22-year-old son with autism and are active in the disability community, he said. His campaign should be taken seriously, according to a GOP insider we talked to. Mendrick has been a police officer since 1996, following in the footsteps of his father. He’s been sheriff since 2018. Now, instead of retiring outright, he’s going to enter the state’s biggest political ring: the governor’s race. It doesn’t scare him. Mendrick currently oversees the county-wide correctional facility, where he says he sees first-hand how crime and immigration has challenged the state. Mendrick is focused on the SAFE-T Act. He disagrees with letting potential offenders out on bail instead of letting them clean up their addictions and get mental health assistance in jail. “I do believe that we’re doing God’s work,” he said. The sheriff opposes the state’s TRUST Act, which makes Illinois a sanctuary state. He calls it an “unfunded mandate” that prompts new immigrants from all over the country to move to Illinois, putting a strain on services. As for the state budget, Mendrick says, “I very much believe everything should be done within our economic footprint. You should never go outside what you can afford.” His politics: “I’m a Republican with a lot of conservative values,” Mendrick said, adding he doesn’t want to be labeled in a political way, though his social media posts suggest he leans far right. “It’s hard to be a slave to the politics,” he said. “It’s just about doing the right thing.” Mendrick is the first Republican officially in the race, but there will be others. Aaron Del Mar, a 2022 lieutenant governor candidate, is mulling a bid. Also mulling: Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has yet to announce whether he’ll run for a third term in 2026 — and/or if he’ll make a run for president in 2028.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-464/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Johnson responds to congressional probe
https://www.aol.com/news/illinois-quick-hits-johnson-responds-214000056.html

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois’ own auditors admit they don’t know where all the state’s money goes (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who have ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed my auditing experience the most. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt. I became a licensed CPA and a certified fraud examiner, financial services auditor, and forensic accountant. I earned a master’s degree in accounting. I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year.  I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I would focus on my critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.)
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-own-auditors-admit-they-dont-know-where-all-the-states-money-goes-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
—  Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. My critics/opponents have always used DEI to get rid of Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. To get more votes from voters who have problems, Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly promise to use government to give them more preference and more money. Those voters are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly shout at the aforesaid voters that Republicans cause all their problems. I should write more about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you attribute your financial success to? I attribute my financial success to following conservative principles. I earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA). But my critics/opponents attribute my financial success to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my critics/opponents who have ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed my auditing experience the most. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt. I became a licensed CPA and a certified fraud examiner, financial services auditor, and forensic accountant. I earned a master’s degree in accounting. I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I would focus on my critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The more planks in the Republican Party platform that candidates on ballots in my precinct promise to defend and advance if elected, the more that I do to help elect them. According to my critics/opponents, the more that I do to help elect those candidates, the fewer votes that they get. My critics/opponents reject some, many, most, if not virtually all the planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject the 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Jeanne Ives, Who Backed DeSantis for President, Now Throws Support Behind DuPage County Sheriff Mendrick for Governor
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/02/sources-jeanne-ives-who-backed-desantis-for-president-now-throws-support-behind-dupage-county-sheriff-mendrick-for-governor.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Multiple sources also confirmed with this publication early this morning that Republican State Central Committee member Jeanne Ives – also a DuPage County resident, is supporting Mendrick’s candidacy and also serving in a behind-the-scenes advisory role. Ives is also rumored to be eying a run for governor or Lt. Governor.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Experts break down how Trump’s illegal immigrant registry will help ICE round up millions – and why migrants may register
https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/us-news/how-trumps-illegal-immigrant-registry-will-make-it-easier-for-ice-to-round-up-millions-more-migrants/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Morning Greatness: ICE Arrested More Than 20,000 Illegal Aliens in Trump’s First Month
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/28/morning-greatness-ice-arrested-more-than-20000-illegal-aliens-in-trumps-first-month/

COLLEGE FIX
— Professor sues University of. Illinois for discriminating against him as a White male. (COMMENT: If I had been a minority or a female, my Democrat superiors in the federal government would not have taken the adverse actions against me that they did. They would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service before I was 40 years old. None of my coworkers who they promoted over me did what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a professional license.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-sues-u-illinois-claims-it-discriminated-against-him-as-a-white-male/

DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE Arrests of Illegal Aliens Up 627% Under Trump
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/27/ice-arrests-illegal-aliens-increase-627-under-trump/

FOX NEWS
— Blue state governor’s ‘gross mismanagement’ cost taxpayers $1.6B for illegal immigrant healthcare. Illinois GOP’s Senate leader wants to see state’s liberal governor be more ‘cooperative’ with Trump migrant crackdown.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-govs-gross-mismanagement-cost-taxpayers-1-6b-illegal-immigrant-healthcare-audit

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Trump administration set to launch mandatory registration program for illegal aliens
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/trump-administration-set-to-launch-mandatory-registration-program-for-illegal-aliens

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise illegals and b) blame Republicans for all the problems that illegals have.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/confinement-unbearable-migrants-describe-held-guantanamo/story?id=119270282

NEW YORK TIMES
— What to Know About Filing Taxes as the I.R.S. Sheds Workers (COMMENT: I was involved in IRS’s 1974 tax season big time. Have you ever phoned IRS with a tax question? If you did during the 1974 filing season, the IRS employee who answered your call was one of my subordinates. Back then, as a 25-year-old GS-11 (currently $82,655/year) IRS Revenue Officer, I supervised all of the IRS employees, which included a rotating staff of about 90 IRS Revenue Agent trainees, in IRS’s new downtown Chicago office who answered taxpayer questions using IRS’s new tollfree CentiPhone system. Because of my job performance, the IRS manager who had given me that developmental opportunity and who had promoted me in 1972 and 1973 promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) in 1974.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/irs-tax-refund.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump officials start gutting civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s plan. Legal experts said that unwinding a civil rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check on institutional power. (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Ever-increasingly, since the 1960s, they have used Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/28/doge-trump-civil-rights-office-closing-eeoc/
— Federal workers could get a second email Saturday. It might require a response. A new strategy might compel employees to respond with bulleted lists of what they did in the past week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/28/federal-workers-second-email-elon-musk/
— Transgender troops will be removed from U.S. military, Pentagon says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/27/transgender-ban-us-service-members-military-pentagon/

USA TODAY
— Commendations, cash awards, positive reviews. Then they were fired for poor performance. (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. The job performance appraisal systems that they use are extremely subjective. My Democrat superiors took many big adverse actions against me. To justify that, they used the aforesaid subjectivity and hinted/implied that I was a poor performer. But my doing the following frustrated that. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-relate professional license.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/27/federal-employees-firing-letters-claim-poor-work/80269905007/
— US household income growth is slowing, posing risks for consumer spending and economy. (COMMENT: Because my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, in today’s dollars, my income has been $86,371/year (56%) less since then.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/24/income-growth-slowing-economy/79339787007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE OF TRUMP: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/27/dei-backlash-erase-black-executives-gains/78475480007/

NBC PHILADELPHIA
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise illegals and b) blame Republicans for all the problems that illegals have.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/panama-costa-rica-turning-black-hole-migrants-deportees-from-us/4121338/

CBS19
— Senator Cruz reintroduces act to abolish sanctuary cities in Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAWBQGmUWVg

ECONOMIST
— Democrats run the mainstream new media
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/02/27/america-has-never-had-state-media-like-it-does-today