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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders say that there are life-and-death stakes in the debate over Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies.  ACA is a mecca for fraud. GAO has shown how easy it is for the ineligible to sign up.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/opinion-aca-subsidies-obamacare-congress-vote/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise Somali and Somalians.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/column-donald-trump-somalis-ilhan-omar-christopher-rufo-page/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly generates more homeless people.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251207/news/they-always-provide-journeys-offers-a-lifeline-and-a-path-out-of-homelessness/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO:  DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will forever do everything that they can to illegally bring citizens of foreign countries into America illegally and to illegally keep them in America illegally. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251207/news/travesty-elgin-mayor-blasts-federal-agents-actions-against-protesters/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— At this downtown condo building, second-home buyers are back. DD: In Money Magazine’s February 1978 4-page article on me ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ), to paint me as being grossly overpaid by IRS, it stressed that I owned a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East (ODE) building in downtown Chicago as well as a 5-year-old townhome in University Park. But I was renting out that townhome because I could not sell it without taking a big loss. I bought that ODE condo so that I could walk to/from it and my IRS job in the Loop and graduate evening accounting classes at DePaul.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/sales-cirrus-show-uptick-second-home-buyers-downtown

NPR ILLINOIS
— After Texas ruling, Trump and Republicans head to 2026 with a redistricting edge
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-08/after-texas-ruling-trump-and-republicans-head-to-2026-with-a-redistricting-edge

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Irish influence lives beyond the machine
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/12/08/irish-influence-lives-beyond-the-machine-00680500

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-643/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Expert blasts Illinois Congressman’s push to double H-1Bs as ‘tone-deaf’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1ac402b4-140f-401c-b5cb-0fa70098d5a7.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Republican Scandals
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/republican-scandals/
— Outrageously High Cost Taxpayer Subsidized Housing in Alton
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/outrageously-high-cost-taxpayer-subsidized-housing-in-alton/

REPUBLICANS OF MAINE TOWNSHIP
— Candidate Forum  DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would still be hosting candidate forums. If I was still an Illinois Center Right coalition Steering Committee member, the organization would still be hosting candidate forums.
https://romt.nationbuilder.com/candidate_forum_pickwick

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s firing power faces major test at the Supreme Court. DD: Trump could cite Diersen v. GAO. The 7th Circuit ruled that my Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire, that is, that they had the power to fire me, when I was 49 years old in 1997, because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court/3907415/trumps-firing-power-faces-major-test-at-the-supreme-court/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Mamdani Transition Adviser’s Nonprofit Under Congressional Investigation for Allegedly Teaching Illegal Aliens How To Evade ICE. The news comes after a campaign in which the New York City mayor-elect vowed to prevent ICE from carrying out deportations.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/mamdani-transition-advisers-nonprofit-under-congressional-investigation-for-allegedly-teaching-illegal-aliens-how-to-evade-ice/
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/mamdani-transition-adviser-under

NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani gives advice to thwart, evade ICE in video message calling to ‘stand up’ to feds
https://nypost.com/2025/12/07/us-news/zohran-mamdani-gives-advice-to-thwart-evade-ice-in-video-message-calling-to-stand-up-to-feds/
— Protesters hurl icy snowballs at immigration agents trying to cuff man fleeing car crash outside Chicago. DD: Democrats make it ever-increasingly clear that they will a) never stop bringing illegals into America and b) never stop fighting to keep them in America. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/07/us-news/protesters-hurl-snowballs-at-immigration-agents-near-chicago/
— Younger generations are making riskier investments and spending more recklessly as they give up on the American dream of owning a home. DD: Did you have the American dream? I did. Where did the money come from for your first down payment? For me, back in the good old days, it came from what I earned a) working for IRS for 15 months and b) working for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. I bought a new townhome in University Park ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ ) when I was 24 years old in 1972. In addition, I bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971 and I paid for graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/07/business/younger-americans-making-riskier-investments-nonessential-purchases-for-tragic-reason/

AMERICAN THINKER
— New chant: ‘Assimilate or Repatriate’  DD: All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Sadly, they did not assimilate as fast as they could/should have. Consequently, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. All my grandparents spoke German. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/new_chant_assimilate_or_repatriate.html
— Minnesota Proves that Politics is a Spoils System. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 because I refused to become a Democrat. My ending salary in today’s dollars was $153,151/year, but only because I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. With those qualifications, I would have earned much more in the private sector.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/minnesota_proves_that_politics_is_a_spoils_system.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Back at the Dawn of the Progressive Age in 1883 our representatives in Congress passed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act and promised a Golden Age with a civil service hired on merit instead of the corruption of the Spoils System. With the average federal worker now earning benefits and a pension far higher than the average private sector worker, does anyone still think that the civil service system is anything other than a corrupt spoils system? Only now the jobs in the spoils system are lifetime jobs for Democrats, and Republicans need not apply, whereas in the bad old days the spoils were switched from one party in a fair and equitable manner after each election.)

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Mamdani posts video tipping illegals on how to evade ICE, ‘stand up’ to feds
After Texas ruling, Trump and Republicans head to 2026 with a redistricting edge

www.bizpacreview.com

BLAZE
— NYC councilwoman lays into ‘rich,’ ‘entitled’ Mamdani voters as mayor-elect plans to leave homeless encampments alone.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/mamdani-homeless-camp-sweep-ban

COLLEGE FIX
— Social work accreditor says colleges should teach students to advocate DEI. DD: My critics/opponents advocate DEI. To advocate DIE is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/social-work-accreditor-says-colleges-should-teach-students-to-advocate-for-dei/

FOX NEWS
— Mamdani tells New York City residents how to resist ICE agents knocking at their door in new video after Manhattan immigration raid. DD: Mamdani ever-increasingly proves that he is anti-American if not an America-hater. That ever-increasingly proves that those who voted for Mamdani are anti-American if not America-haters. How soon will New York City succeed from America?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-mayor-elect-tells-residents-how-resist-ice-agents-knocking-door-new-video
— Republicans divided over whether to salvage Obamacare — or replace it — ahead of subsidy deadline. DD: The 72% healthcare insurance subsidy that the federal government gives its employees and retirees and their spouses helped me deal with my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-remain-deeply-divided-whether-replace-reform-obamacare-policies-ahead-subsidy-deadline.amp

PJ MEDIA
— Is There Hope for the GOP in 2026? DD: How much money will Pritzker spend to defeat the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct? Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.  So far, how successful has Pritzker been in your county, township, municipality, school district, precinct, neighborhood, and block?
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/07/is-there-hope-for-the-gop-in-2026-n4946788
— DD: How welcome are you in America, in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, in your school district, in your precinct, in your neighborhood, and on your block? Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those who are the following are ever-increasingly more unwelcome: American, Republican, conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, heterosexual, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thepostmillennial.com/gop-sen-john-curtis-urges-americans-to-help-immigrants-feel-more-welcome-breaks-with-trump-over-somali-comments

POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump to charge illegals $5,000 ‘apprehension fee.’ “Illegal aliens age 14 or older who entered the United States without inspection will be assessed a $5,000 apprehension fee.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-admin-to-charge-illegal-immigrants-5000-apprehension-fee

TOWNHALL
— Trump Administration is Sweeping Minneapolis for Illegals After Somali Fraud Exposed
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/12/07/trump-admin-sweeping-minneapolis-for-illegals-after-somali-fraud-exposed-n2667499
— Democratic Lawmakers Big Mad That Trump Admin is Fighting NarcoTerrorists. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal drug use.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/12/07/democratic-lawmakers-big-mad-that-trump-admin-is-fighting-narcoterrorists-n2667501

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrats see an opening to win the Miami mayor’s race in the latest test of the US political mood. DD: When your mayor is up for reelection, who will Democrat leaders run?
https://apnews.com/article/miami-mayor-election-democrats-trump-republicans-florida-ffffea54bb56ad0ed3bee2840b70c615

STAR TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite religious leaders against Trump, that is, against Protestants.
https://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-religious-leaders-unite-to-support-somali-community-and-condemn-trump-attacks/601539354

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Abortion Access Became a Major Sticking Point in the GOP Healthcare Fight. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/aca-subsidies-abortion-funding-ebda5459
— ObamaCare Is a Mecca for Fraud. GAO shows how easy it is for the ineligible to sign up.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/obamacare-is-a-mecca-for-fraud-96fe6c29
— I Have a Positive Net Worth. Now I Just Can’t Let It Go to My Head. DD: According to Money Magazine, my net worth was $60,000 when I was 29 years old at the end of 1977. That is $322,000 in today’s dollars. In Money Magazine’s February 1978 4-page article on me ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ), it hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I had that net worth because IRS grossly overpaid me ($108,978/year in today’s dollars) and because I had avoided the Vietnam War draft. In my defense, my net worth at that time came from money that I had earned a) doing yard work 1962-1964. b) delivering newspapers 1962-1966, c) washing dishes 1964-1966, d) cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966, e) delivering mail 1966-1969, f) working on an automotive assembly line in 1970, g) selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, h) pumping more gasoline 1971-1972, and i) collecting delinquent federal taxes for IRS since 1971. In my defense, I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/positive-net-worth-wealth-effect-bccf310c

POLITICO
— The government’s top watchdog is retiring — but the Trump probes continue. The comptroller general is wrapping up his term after an unprecedented year checking the Trump administration. DD: My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed my having been a GAO employee for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. They have also ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) my earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) my earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and c) my becoming a licensed CPA. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on past and present Republican a) federal candidates and elected officials and b) Illinois, DuPage County, and Milton Township party leaders.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/07/gene-dodaro-gao-trump-impoundment-00679550
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Gene Dodaro started his career at what is now the Government Accountability Office in 1973, as then-President Richard Nixon was battling Congress for control of federal cash. More than a half-century later, Dodaro runs that watchdog agency amid another epic clash between Capitol Hill and the White House over President Donald Trump’s funding moves. Now, with his 15-year term as comptroller general coming to an end in late December, he’s getting ready to retire. “I’m going into witness protection,” Dodaro, 74, said in a recent interview of his upcoming departure from the independent office with a workforce of more than 3,000. He meant it as a joke. But Dodaro’s agency, which is tasked with auditing federal programs and helping lawmakers fulfill their constitutional duties, has been under an unprecedented level of scrutiny this year as conservative lawmakers and the White House publicly challenge GAO’s objectivity and seek to undermine its influence. Adding to the pressure on Dodaro, the Supreme Court this fall appeared to endorse the view that only the comptroller general has the authority to sue the Trump administration for flouting impoundment law — not the groups losing out on federal cash. Dodaro has declined to take such legal action, despite the urging of some lawmakers, including Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins. “People are already suing in many cases,” he reasoned, adding that the court’s decision “surprised” him and that he won’t be “cajoled” into suing. “We’ll see what we need to do. But we need to be prudent and make sure that — when we do it — we’re in the strongest possible position to prevail,” he added. Following the Supreme Court’s opinion, Collins said in a brief interview that it “goes without saying” this dynamic underscores the need for the lawmakers involved in the selection process to find a strong candidate to succeed Dodaro. Dodaro’s last day is Dec. 29, at which point he will hand-pick an acting comptroller general to take the reins of the agency until the Senate confirms a permanent replacement. A panel of 10 lawmakers seated on a bipartisan commission is supposed to suggest candidates for Trump to nominate. Whoever succeeds Dodaro will have to direct ongoing probes into Trump’s funding moves. To date, the agency has issued 11 opinions — five concluding the administration illegally withheld money, two citing some wrongdoing. Dozens are ongoing. “The worst thing for GAO is to look like you have an agenda. That’s what concerns me about allegations like we’re against the current president’s agenda. We’re not,” he said. “Our job, and most of what we’re doing, is in response to actions they’ve taken. It’s not things we’re bringing up out of nowhere.” Because the Office of Management and Budget has stonewalled GAO’s requests for information, the agency is forced to rely on evidence in the many lawsuits against the administration, Dodaro said. Moreover, the GAO head said he has never spoken to Trump’s budget chief, Russ Vought. Multiple attempts to make contact during the first Trump administration were unsuccessful, he added. “His public comments have led me to believe that wouldn’t be a successful approach here,” Dodaro said of Vought, who on social media this spring accused the office of taking a “partisan role in the first-term impeachment hoax,” a reference to GAO’s conclusion that Trump illegally withheld aid to Ukraine in 2019. The past 11 months have been politically difficult for Dodaro in other ways. Earlier this year, top Republicans derided GAO for not blessing Senate GOP efforts to skirt filibuster rules to overturn state waivers issued under former President Joe Biden for pollution standards — and ignored the agency’s conclusion to boot. Dodaro fended off Elon Musk’s attempt to send a downsizing team to GAO as part of the president’s now-disbanded Department of Government Efficiency initiative, before House Republicans proposed cutting the agency’s budget in half for the current fiscal year. It’s not the first time the comptroller general has irked a party in power. During the Biden administration, GAO delivered its first-ever estimate of fraud in the federal government, pegging losses at between $233 billion and $521 billion dollars a year. “OMB wasn’t happy,” Dodaro recalled. Dodaro’s agency doesn’t always disappoint Republicans. Just last week, GOP lawmakers cheered a new GAO report reinforcing their arguments about fraud in the Obamacare insurance marketplace. To investigate this claim, GAO set up 24 fake accounts; 22 successfully enrolled in plans. It ended up costing the federal government thousands of dollars a month. And Congress has averted several crises as a direct result of the watchdog’s warnings. That includes action to replace crucial weather satellites before they fail and to buoy the federal insurance program designed to protect Americans whose pension benefits are at risk. “GAO is incredibly valuable … the ability for Congress to ask a hard question and ask them to chase it,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), who added that Dodaro has for years aided him in a running effort to compel federal agencies to identify and describe each program they oversee. Dodaro also started a partnership with experts at the National Academy of Sciences and launched an international effort to help developing countries run audit offices. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), who is supposed to serve on the commission to recommend candidates for a Senate-confirmed comptroller general, said lawmakers “won’t find anybody as experienced and as knowledgeable” as Dodaro. “The integrity and professionalism he brought to the job, I thought, was exceptional.” Dodaro attributes any praise to decades of relationship maintenance, including with top Trump administration officials who used to be members of Congress and senators who formerly served in the House. “I try to pull out all the stops on my Italian charm,” he joked. “We’re not only in the auditing business. We’re in the relationship business.” The next comptroller general could be anyone, and it could be a long time before that person is seated. Dodaro is the only Senate-confirmed GAO chief who was picked from inside the agency, and he held the position in an acting capacity for more than two years before then-President Barack Obama nominated him upon the recommendation of lawmakers. The Senate confirmed him by unanimous consent in 2010. “If it can be done quickly, that’s fine. If it can’t, then they need to take their time to get the right person in the job, because it’s 15 years,” Dodaro said of the selection process for his successor. “I have great confidence in the people at GAO … and I have confidence in the Congress to take their responsibility seriously and pick someone. This is their person — to serve them.”)

WEEK
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do everything that they can to discourage/end traditional marriage. Ironically, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had not gotten married in 1978, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) afford to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO in 1980, c) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, or e) become a licensed CPA in 1981. While I was an IRS employee for almost 9 years and a GAO employee for almost 18 years, I ever-increasingly had more job-related education, more job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license than my IRS and GAO superiors had.
https://theweek.com/articles/528746/origins-marriage

FINANCIAL TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame affordability problems on Trump, that is, they ever-increasingly blame inflation problems on Trump.
https://www.ft.com/content/e569454d-ea51-42c5-86ed-d2d61fa47edc

HR DRIVE
— Workers from lower socioeconomic backgrounds face barriers. DD: What is your socioeconomic background? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never made more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He 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.hrdive.com/news/workers-from-lower-socioeconomic-backgrounds-face-barriers-to-inclusion/805246/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

FEDERAL
— ‘Know Your Rights’: Mamdani urges New Yorkers to push back against ICE raids.
https://thefederal.com/category/international/know-your-rights-mamdani-urges-new-yorkers-push-back-against-ice-raids-219708

TIMES OF INDIA
— ‘Every illegal alien, foreigner and visa scammer…’: Stephen Miller weighs in on US birthright citizenship
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/every-illegal-alien-foreigner-and-visa-scammer-stephen-miller-weighs-in-on-us-birthright-citizenship-amid-trumps-clash-with-sc/articleshow/125817595.cms
— Homan defends Trump’s ‘garbage’ line, claims Minnesota has ‘large illegal Somali community’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/tom-homan-defends-donald-trumps-garbage-line-claims-minnesota-has-large-illegal-somali-community/articleshow/125823971.cms

SOCIALIST WORKER
— Exploitation is capitalism’s dirty secret. DD: My critics/opponents want socialism. According to them, capitalist employers exploit their employees. According to them, if had spent my career in the capitalist private sector instead of the socialist federal government, I never would have made $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. What if I had spent my career in the capitalist private sector? I earned a bachelor’s degree in management. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I earned a CPA license. I anticipate/expect that someone in the capitalist private sector with my credentials and my work experience would have earned at least $200,000+/year. To advance in the socialist federal government, you have to be a Democrat.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/teach-yourself-marxism/exploitation-is-capitalisms-dirty-secret/