FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Italian-American residents blast deal to move Christopher Columbus statue indoors: ‘Hiding history’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italian-american-chicago-residents-criticize-settlement-move-christopher-columbus-statue-indoors-arrigo-park-little-italy/16323384/
NBC5
— Trump rejects concerns about prices, economic uncertainty as he defends his agenda
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/trump-rejects-concerns-prices-economic-uncertainty-defends-agenda/3737411/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders promote Wisconsin Governor Evers
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tony-evers-donald-trump-border-immigration-threats/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/cannabis-entrepreneurs-urge-state-lawmakers-to-enact-industry-reform/
WGN RADIO
— Settlement reached regarding the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue in Arrigo Park
https://wgnradio.com/karen-conti/settlement-reached-regarding-the-removal-of-a-christopher-columbus-statue-in-arrigo-park/
— Retirement planning when you’re on the home stretch. My Democrat GAO destroyed my retirement planning when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was when I was 24 years old in 1972.
https://wgnradio.com/the-alpha-wealth-hour/retirement-planning-when-youre-on-the-home-stretch/
WBEZ
— Solution for Chicago’s empty office buildings could be microapartments. In 1974, when I was 25 years old, when IRS promoted me to a GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) Revenue Officer job in the Loop, I bought a 650 square foot studio condo in the Outer Drive East building ( https://www.homesbymarco.com/properties/2809824/400_e_randolph_st_1322_chicago_il_60601 ) so that I could walk to/from work and graduate business courses at Loyola. I traded it in to the building’s developer in 1976 for a one bedroom condo. I sold it when I got married in 1978 and we bought a home in Wheaton.
https://www.wbez.org/housing/2025/05/03/solutionchicago-empty-office-buildings-microapartments-gensler-pew-study
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker and AOC: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/pritzker-ocasio-cortez-trump-resistance/
— How the stock market made back all its losses after Donald Trump escalated the trade war
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/stock-market-trump-trade-war/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/05/04/pot-business-owners-relief-regulations-legal-recreational-medical-cannabis
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/alton-trump-protest-illinois-lincoln-douglas-20309437.php
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DeSantis sets pace for GOP governors on immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/florida-gov-ron-desantis-sets-pace-gop-governors-immigration/
— Kamala Harris talks party unity while Democrats brawl in leadership vacuum she left
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/kamala-harris-talks-party-unity-democrats-brawl-leadership-vacuum/
— MAGA doesn’t need more RINOs
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/maga-doesnt-need-rinos/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Proposal would deduct from Illinois paychecks to create new state agency
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3400469/proposal-illinois-paychecks-new-state-agency/
BREITBART
— Pritzker Angling for 2028 While Taking Aim at Trump with Questionable Attacks
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/04/gov-jb-pritzker-angling-for-2028-while-taking-aim-at-trump-with-questionable-attacks/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Abrego Garcia: The Poster Child for the Left’s Demands of Endless ‘Due Process’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/04/abrego-garcia-the-poster-child-for-the-lefts-demands-of-endless-due-process/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders. Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pritzker-ocasio-cortez-billionaire-former-bartender-emerge-trump-121444008
NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders want the next Pope to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/pope-francis/cardinal-tagle-philippines-lgbtq-catholics-conclave-rcna203837
MSN & COMMERCIAL APPEAL
— How marginalized are you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are marginalized by Republicans: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-first-100-days-target-diversity-policies-civil-rights-protections/ar-AA1DUdpR
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/05/01/pope-francis-medicaid-medicare-head-start-social-security/83365758007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump: I’m Not Looking at a Third Term
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-im-not-looking-at-a-third-term/60F2B9B7-11EF-49A1-80EF-1B30CEFAB647
— The Affirmative Action Myth
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-the-affirmative-action-myth/43875715-6B37-45C5-B000-ED4C67B13C54
INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire those who are the following and b) to get rid of their employees who are the following: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO organizations use DEI a) to not admit those who are the aforesaid and b) to get rid of their members who are the aforesaid.
https://www.inc.com/mandy-gilbert/91183943/91183943
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
— Pope Francis: Champion of EVs. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Of course, my critics/opponents stress that it is not eligible for a federal rebate because it costs too much, that it weighs 6,000 pounds, and that it can do the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH..
https://www.autonews.com/technology/mobility/an-pope-francis-electric-vehicle-0424/
MOPAR INSIDERS
— Stellantis to Halt Windsor Charger Production for One Week. 3,800 Workers Temporarily Laid Off as Stellantis Reacts to U.S. Tariff Fallout.
https://moparinsiders.com/stellantis-to-halt-windsor-minivan-and-charger-production-for-one-week/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This is the second time in just over a month that production has been halted at the facility, which builds the Chrysler Pacifica, Chrysler Grand Caravan, Chrysler Voyager, and both the gas-powered Dodge Charger and electric Charger Daytona. Stellantis had previously shut the plant down for two weeks in April to evaluate the impact of new 25% U.S. tariffs on imported vehicles. The tariffs, introduced by the Trump administration on April 3, apply to vehicles with a significant amount of non-U.S. content. They’ve already shaken up the North American auto industry, especially for companies like Stellantis that rely on cross-border production. . .But behind the scenes, it’s clear the broader trade environment is weighing heavily. During the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call, Stellantis CFO Doug Ostermann acknowledged that the automaker is actively looking at relocating some production and supply chains to the U.S. to avoid the steep import duties. “It’s something that we’re working very hard on,” said Ostermann. “To think through how quickly can we make those changes to mitigate any tariff impacts?” Meanwhile, workers at the Windsor plant—many of whom were just called back from a two-week layoff in April—are once again facing an uncertain week ahead. With both minivan and Charger output affected, this could be a sign of bigger shifts coming for Stellantis’ North American operations.)
AUTO EVOLUTION
— 96-Year-Old Kept 1968 Dodge Charger in Storage for 30 Years. I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger in 1968 and owned until it was stolen in 1971. I drove it to Daytona Beach from NIU in 1969 and 1970 for spring breaks. I bought a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T show car in 1994 and owned it until I sold it in 2005 to buy a 2005 Corvette. I bought a new 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max in 2012 and I continue to own it. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/96-year-old-kept-1968-dodge-charger-in-storage-for-30-years-his-wife-hated-the-car-250906.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A senior gentleman has been keeping the Dodge Charger in a storage facility for he can’t even remember how long. The car hides under a thick layer of dust that leaves its original color to the imagination. Will it shine and drive again, or should it already be on its way to the scrap yard? The 96-year-old owner of the 57-year-old Dodge Charger is Peter. He has big plans for the car he used to drive and rock the streets with back in the day. He remembers that his wife didn’t like the car. “It was a little louder than necessary,” he recalls. He wants to restore it to its former glory. The time has come for that car to run and drive again. He can’t even remember the last time he drove it, but assumes that it has been in the storage facility for around 30 years. That’s three decades away from the sunlight and off the road. Surprisingly, the tires still hold air and a few more goodies of the era. The Fratzog logo shows up on the dashboard. It is the iconic triangle-like badge that Dodge brought back with the Charger Daytona EV.)
TOP SPEED
— Why The Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Great Weekend Getaway EV. I recently bought a new red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.topspeed.com/ideal-ev-weekday-commutes-weekend-adventures/
MASS MEDIA
— How oppressed are you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are oppressed by Republicans: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://umassmedia.com/38691/opinions/the-importance-of-student-activism-in-an-increasingly-oppressive-world/
Tag: minority
May 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois officials react to death of embattled former Gov. George Ryan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-officials-gov-jb-pritzker-democrats-republicans-react-death-embattled-former-governor-george-ryan/16305092/
— Kankakee pays tribute to native George Ryan after death of former Illinois governor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4foWxiVu7oE
NBC5
— Here’s what your monthly student loan bill could be under a new Republican plan
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/heres-what-your-monthly-student-loan-bill-could-be-under-a-new-republican-plan/3735367/
WGN9
— Family, friends remember Former Illinois Governor George Ryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uydDXos3x1s
FOX32
— Trump admin ramping up investigations into Chicago-area public schools
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1634987
— Democrat leaders say “Trump pushes deep spending cuts as tariffs poised to hit everyday purchases.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkcopjljTuU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sB_GJlLI78
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump’s Justice Department sues Illinois over E-Verify worker privacy provisions feds say interfere with immigration enforcement
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/trumps-justice-department-sues-illinois-over-worker-privacy-provisions-feds-say-interfere-with-immigration-enforcement/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The United States has preeminent authority to regulate the administrative processes governing Form I-9 (federal employment eligibility verification forms) documentation and inspection, and E-Verify,” the Justice Department wrote. “Illinois therefore has no authority to enforce laws that obstruct or otherwise conflict with federal immigration enforcement efforts by imposing additional regulations, requirements, and possible sanctions on employers that seek to participate in the federal ‘E-Verify’ program.”)
— Pritzker mocks his weight, tells TV host Jimmy Kimmel he’s undecided on third term.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/gov-jb-pritzker-mocks-his-weight-tells-tv-host-jimmy-kimmel-hes-undecided-on-third-term/
— Former Chicago Blackhawks player Patrick Kane sells Trump Tower condo for $2.11M. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Trump. In 1978, I made a $10,000 profit when I sold my Outer Drive East condo. That is about $50,000 in today’s dollars.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/blackhawks-patrick-kane-trump-tower-condo/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Kane has taken a nearly $1 million loss on the 69th-floor condo. He first listed it for $3 million in May 2024, and he cut his asking price to $2.7 million in November and then to $2.5 million in February. He struck a deal to sell the unit on March 12.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Here’s how Trump’s order to cut federal funding to NPR and PBS could impact Illinois. His order seeking to cut off funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting affects about 1,500 stations, including Chicago’s WBEZ and WTTW. But it’s likely headed for the courts or for drama in Congress.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/02/trump-executive-order-cut-federal-funding-npr-pbs-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/05/02/the-first-homosexuals-exhibit-wrightwood-695-chicago-museum
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Stratton
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250503/news/strattons-top-priority-in-senate-campaign-fighting-back-against-trump/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Leaders recall Ryan’s successes, flaws
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250502/illinois-state-politics/im-sure-he-felt-that-all-his-life-leaders-recall-ryans-successes-flaws/
— Krishnamoorthi leads panel at Harper College on value of public service careers under attack from DOGE. Democrats run the federal government. My critics/opponents disapprove of, if not despise, if not hate my getting the federal jobs and promotions that I did. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969. They were furious when IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and when GAO promoted me in 1986. According to my critics/opponents, Democrats should have gotten those jobs and promotions, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250502/news/krishnamoorthi-leads-panel-at-harper-college-on-value-of-public-service-careers-under-attack-from-do/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/uchicago-faculty-push-proactive-defense-amid-trump-blitz
— George Ryan governed — and lived — with empathy. What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/george-ryan-remembered-hedy-ratner
— Patrick Kane loses nearly $1 million in Trump Tower condo sale. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Trump. In 1978, I made a $10,000 profit when I sold my Outer Drive East condo. That is about $50,000 in today’s dollars.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/patrick-kane-loses-nearly-1m-trump-tower-condo-sale
— Democrat leaders say “Amid Trump attacks on higher ed, UChicago faculty want to see more from leadership.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/uchicago-faculty-push-proactive-defense-amid-trump-blitz
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight all Trump’s cuts.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-02/trump-cuts-demolish-agency-focused-on-toxic-chemicals-and-workplace-hazards
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois lawmakers mark 50th anniversary of Vietnam War’s end
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/02/illinois-lawmakers-mark-50th-anniversary-of-vietnam-wars-end/
WREX
— Vietnam Veterans to be honored in event marking 50th anniversary of the end of war
https://www.wrex.com/news/vietnam-veterans-to-be-honored-in-event-marking-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-war/article_7009c2b0-c01e-4e1f-b7b3-03525f5e33ca.html
WJBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/05/02/on-may-day-thousands-march-for-immigrant-labor-women-and-lgbtq-rights/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Tim Cook says Trump tariffs could cost Apple more than $900M in June quarter
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/tim-cook-says-trump-tariffs-could-cost-apple-more-than-900m-in-june-quarter/
— Trump says he’ll strip Harvard of tax-exempt status. Most, if not virtually all, tax-exempt organizations exist to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-says-hell-strip-harvard-of-tax-exempt-status/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use May Day to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/on-may-day-thousands-march-for-immigrant-labor-women-and-lgbtq-rights/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-297/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sadly, there are far too many reasons to not help elect candidates. Far too often, the more that you do to help elect a candidate, if that candidate is defeated, you will be blamed for their defeat. I have done much to help elect Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000. I should write about those that have suffered defeats and that I have been blamed the most for their defeats. They blame what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. They following lead the blaming, that is, the following lead the scapegoating: major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans avoid nation’s 7th-highest gas prices whenever they can. My brother used to drive from Crete to Indiana to fill up.
https://wirepoints.org/illinoisans-avoid-the-states-7th-highest-gas-prices-whenever-they-can-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Feds seek to strike down IL law that threatens employers for using E-Verify
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/671128992-feds-seek-to-strike-down-il-law-that-threatens-employers-for-using-e-verify
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump proposes cuts of $163 billion in new budget, seeks sharp increase in defense
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/2/donald-trump-proposes-cuts-163-billion-new-budget-seeks-sharp/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Wait until you see what’s coming’: Homan delivers ominous message for those harboring illegals.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/02/wait-until-you-see-whats-coming-homan-delivers-ominous-message-for-those-harboring-illegals-1540674/
BLAZE
— Trump’s DOJ files lawsuit against Illinois for restricting E-Verify, a program meant to bar illegal alien workers
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-lawsuit-illinois-everify-law
CHRISTIAN POST
— Over a dozen Christian leaders urge Trump to protect Afghan Christians from deportation
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-leaders-tell-trump-not-to-deport-afghan-christians.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Rightly Defunded PBS and NPR’s Long History of Anti-Conservative, Pro-Leftist Content
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/02/trump-rightly-defunded-pbs-nprs-long-history-anti-conservative-leftist-content/
DAILY WIRE
— Here’s What Trump’s Team Wants To Accomplish In the Next 100 Days
https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-trumps-team-wants-to-accomplish-in-the-next-100-days
FEDERALIST
— Here Are 12 Reasons Why NPR And PBS Deserved To Be Defunded
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/02/here-are-12-reasons-why-npr-and-pbs-deserved-to-be-defunded/
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump is defunding Biden’s ‘woke and weaponized’ bureaucracy
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6372231045112
FOX NEWS
— Musk: It was essential for Trump to win to ensure the US remained great
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372228946112
MRC TV
— Trump’s Deporting Illegals, and Pro-Crime Leftists Can’t Stand It
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/trumps-deporting-illegals-and-pro-crime-leftists-cant-stand-it
— The First 100 Days Of Media Rage!
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/eric-scheiner/first-100-days-media-rage-wacky-mole
NEWSMAX
— Somber White House Video Highlights Angel Parents
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigration-angel-parents-white-house/2025/05/02/id/1209338/
TOWNHALL
— Trump Eliminates Another Vestige of Racial Discrimination— the Fraud of Disparate Impact. Of all the many tests that I have taken, fewer Blacks, Hispanics, and/or females a) took those tests than I did and b) fewer passed those tests than I did. According to my critics/opponents, that was because I benefitted from discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and/or females. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college. The many tests that I took and pasted enabled me a) to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, c) to get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, by IRS when I was 22, and by GAO when I was 31, and d) to get promoted by IRS when I was 23, 24, and 25 and by GAO when I was 38..
https://townhall.com/columnists/print/2656399
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump proposes steep cuts in first budget request of second term
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5279446-trump-proposes-steep-cuts-in-first-budget-request-of-second-term/
NEWSWEEK
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls-2067414
MSN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against Trump and against those who share Trump’s demographics.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cannot-unify-with-evil-here-s-what-really-drives-evangelicals-support-for-trump/ar-AA1DMnIt
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-waited-for-trump-to-crumble-now-they-re-starting-to-fight-back/ar-AA1E5zVp
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/new-poll-shocker-majority-of-americans-now-view-donald-trump-as-a-dangerous-dictator-amid-mounting-public-concern/ar-AA1E3Pje
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-s-100-day-approval-rating-hits-historic-low-new-poll-reveals/ar-AA1DSXat
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/no-floor-for-trump-s-approval-rating-cnn-analysts-detail-data-that-s-scaring-the-white-house/ar-AA1E3ZLP
REUTERS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-deflects-blame-economy-contraction-says-be-patient-2025-04-30/
ABC NEWS
— Steelmaker Cleveland Cliffs to idle 3 steel plants in Pennsylvania and Illinois
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/steelmaker-cleveland-cliffs-idle-3-steel-plants-pennsylvania-121415395
NBC NEWS
— White House brings conspiracy theorists, former Trump officials and a family friend to its ‘influencer briefings’ A review of attendees to the first three influencer briefings shows an overwhelming right-leaning guest list.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-influencer-briefings-conspiracy-theorists-rcna204437
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Could Apple Exist Without Its Ties to China? Probably Not. The world’s most valuable company has become so reliant on Chinese suppliers and sales that it would be worth half as much or less without them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/technology/apple-china-tariffs.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly do everything that they can to keep Republicans out of parades. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have had the most success in keeping Republicans out of Wheaton Independence Day parades. I would focus on those who succeed in ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades in 2021, a role that I had since 2005.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/01/birthday-bash-president-donald-trump-and-army-plan-june-14-parade/83401058007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/03/trump-lowest-approval-rating-president-unpopular/83345826007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/is-trump-winning-dei-fight/83368731007/
COMMERCIAL NEWS
— Duckworth and Durbin ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.commercial-news.com/news/state_news/duckworth-durbin-reintroduction-equality-act-to-ban-discrimination-against-lgbtq-americans/article_ba7e2a82-6eca-4738-9588-fc87e3aaf857.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Tragedy of Affirmative Action. Blacks were making rapid progress before the 1960s. Racial preferences didn’t help, and if anything they slowed the improvement.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-tragedy-of-affirmative-action-black-mobility-racial-preferences-merit-b1ca70e3
— The End of the Free College Lunch. The GOP begins to rein in student loans and forgiveness plans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/house-republicans-higher-education-reform-reconciliation-bill-student-loans-colleges-7bfcd3c8
— Most, if not virtually all, tax-exempt organizations promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-officials-explore-ways-of-challenging-tax-exempt-status-of-nonprofits-94ff0c6e
POLITICO
— Trump’s budget asks Congress for unprecedented federal funding cuts. The request for obliterating many domestic programs sets up a clash with Congress ahead of the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/02/trumps-budget-asks-congress-00323256
— More than 15,000 USDA employees take Trump’s offer to resign. Their departures will affect how the department administers food safety and nutrition programs, conducts research and offers services to farmers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/03/more-than-15000-employees-resign-agriculture-department-trump-00324834
May 2, 2025
WHITE HOUSE
— ENDING TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZATION OF BIASED MEDIA
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/president-trump-finally-ends-the-madness-of-npr-pbs/
— TRUMP EFFECT: Mercedes to Shift More Vehicle Production to U.S.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/trump-effect-mercedes-to-shift-more-vehicle-production-to-u-s/
— JOBS BOOM: More Americans Working for Higher Pay
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/jobs-boom-more-americans-working-for-higher-pay/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/chicago-shelter-systems/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/cps-deportation-fears-impact/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/01/may-day-rally-underway-in-union-park-with-march-planned-to-grant-park-later-in-the-day/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/01/photos-thousands-march-through-downtown-chicago-for-may-day/
— Advocates press for continued funding to college test prep support program. Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses and got an ACT score of 24.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/01/advocates-press-for-continued-funding-to-college-test-prep-support-program/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/opinion-donald-trump-garden-of-american-heroes/
— McDonald’s store traffic falls unexpectedly. Have Democrat leaders unofficially/officially called for McDonald’s to be boycotted because of Trump?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/01/mcdonalds-store-traffic-falls/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Columbus statue removed from Arrigo Park going to Italian American group. The statue will be indefinitely “loaned” to the Joint Civic Committee for Italian Americans for display at a building on Taylor Street.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/01/columbus-statue-removal-arrigo-park-potential-agreement
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Pritzker.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/05/02/gov-jb-pritzker-creates-nicknames-for-trump-to-call-him-including-jbeefy-in-jimmy-kimmel-appearance
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/01/meet-the-chicagoans-who-came-out-to-protest-trump-on-may-day
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/02/trump-immigration-policy-undocumented-villified-crime-misinformation-tom-homan-mona-charen
— Hate-fille Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/01/world-press-day-elon-musk-donald-trump-media
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250501/news/we-need-to-voice-our-concerns-suburbs-join-in-on-global-may-day-rallies/
— The mainstream news media in America is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250502/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-world-press-freedom-day-a-threat-to-press-freedom-is-a-threat-to-democracy/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/may-day-2025-thousands-expected-protest-march-rally-downtown-chicago-union-park-grant/16292225/
— Dept. of Education investigating Evanston-Skokie school district for alleged racial discrimination
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-education-investigating-evanston-skokie-school-district-65-allegations-racial-discrimination/16298331/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/may-day-rallies-marches-trump-polices-chicago-evanston/
— Pritzker team calls congresswoman ‘damaged goods’ to stop Senate run. Multiple sources confirmed the governor’s team is trying to dissuade U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood from running for U.S. Senate, with Pritzker denying any interference.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/sources-pritzker-calls-congresswoman-damaged-goods-senate/3735712/
CBS2
— Chicago Park District to loan Columbus statue to Italian American group for museum, end lawsuit
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-park-district-columbus-statue-italian-american-group/
FOX32
— Christopher Columbus statue finds new home as Chicago Park District plans fresh start for Arrigo Park
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/christopher-columbus-statue-chicago-arrigo-park
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1634485
WTTW
— Columbus Statue Will Not Return to Grant Park
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/01/columbus-statue-will-not-return-grant-park-officials-announce
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/arts/2025/05/01/the-first-homosexuals-exhibit-wrightwood-695-chicago-museum
CHAMPAIHN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & WGLT & FOX2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/may-day-demonstrations-in-us-and-around-the-globe-protest-trump-agenda/article_394c8641-a109-5c43-a76a-5437b80fc227.html
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-05-01/hundreds-in-bloomington-join-another-nationwide-anti-trump-protest
https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/illinois-protesters-call-for-government-accountability/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois GOP lawmakers want to ban transgender athletes from women sports through legislation
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-01/republican-lawmakers-in-illinois-seek-to-ban-transgender-athletes-from-women-sports-through-legislation-and-the-trump-administration
WAND TV
— Illinois House GOP strongly oppose potential tax hikes in FY26 budget
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-house-gop-strongly-oppose-potential-tax-hikes-in-fy26-budget/article_f2a04c50-4d77-47e8-8660-36312d4a00b1.html
LEGACY
— Carol Smith Donovan, a former vice chair of the Republican State Central Committee in the 7th District, has died.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/carol-donovan-obituary?id=58278688
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting hatred against Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://chicagocrusader.com/not-in-our-state-illinois-urgently-calls-on-residents-to-help-stop-hate/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/01/may-day-protesters-in-chicago-rebuke-trumps-agenda-we-will-never-bow/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Chicago’s WGN Radio adds Ted Cruz to lineup
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/30/chicago-wgn-radio-ted-cruz-lineup-verdict
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-504/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-296/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— If you try to make the rich pay for tax hikes, it hurts jobs and job creation. It chases wealthy people away from the state… meaning less investment in Illinois.
https://wirepoints.org/if-you-try-to-make-the-rich-pay-for-tax-hikes-it-hurts-jobs-and-job-creation-it-chases-wealthy-people-away-from-the-state-meaning-less-investment-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-wttw/
— $27,000 per student, yet not one is proficient in math?
https://wirepoints.org/27000-per-student-yet-not-one-is-proficient-in-math-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Justice Department files second anti-sanctuary lawsuit against Illinois
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/1/justice-department-files-second-anti-sanctuary-lawsuit-illinois/
— The best DEI policy is no DEI policy. Hire the best people, and don’t worry about a person’s skin color or gender.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/1/best-dei-policy-no-dei-policy/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Liberal city councils continue transgender activism amid Trump executive orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3397795/liberal-city-councils-transgender-sanctuary-cities/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Why Trump Wants Truckers to Speak English
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-trump-wants-truckers-to-speak-english/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— We Need a Government That Obeys the Law. If it takes an executive order to enforce laws that already bar illegal immigrants from Social Security, the problem isn’t policy—it’s a government that’s given up on enforcement.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/02/we-dont-need-an-executive-order-to-bar-illegals-from-social-security-we-need-a-government-that-obeys-the-law/
AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Blue City prints red cards for illegals, informing them of their ‘rights’
https://americanwirenews.com/blue-city-prints-red-cards-for-illegals-informing-them-of-their-rights/
— DeSantis asks DHS for permission to fly 10,000 illegals to El Salvador
https://americanwirenews.com/desantis-asks-dhs-for-permission-to-fly-10000-illegals-to-el-salvador-i-can-set-up-at-a-moments-notice/
— Homan delivers ominous message for those harboring illegals. How many illegals are Democrat and RINO leaders harboring in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://americanwirenews.com/wait-until-you-see-whats-coming-homan-delivers-ominous-message-for-those-harboring-illegals/
DAILY CALLER
— ‘Cost A Lot Of People Their Jobs’: JD Vance Slams Biden Admin For Deciding Products Would No Longer Be Made In America. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulations.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/01/jd-vance-biden-american-manufacturing-nucor-steel/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump administration is all over Chicago schools Black-only ‘Success Plan’ Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. There was no success plan for me. But nevertheless, I took college preparatory classes, earned an ACT score of 24, graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and got accepted by UIC.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/01/trump-administration-is-all-over-chicago-schools-black-only-success-plan-1540519/
— FBI reportedly reassigns agents who took a knee for George Floyd. My Democrat superiors in the federal government took the knee for Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they took the knee for race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/01/fbi-reportedly-reassigns-agents-who-took-a-knee-for-george-floyd-1540420/
BREITBART
— Trump Justice Department Budget Request Depoliticizes FBI and ATF, Supports Law Enforcement, and Focuses on Fighting Crime
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/01/exclusive-trump-justice-department-budget-request-depoliticizes-fbi-and-atf-supports-law-enforcement-and-focuses-on-fighting-crime/
— First Look Inside Trump’s Historic Deportation Operation Targeting Gang Members, Criminals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/01/exclusive-footage-first-look-inside-trumps-historic-deportation-operation-targeting-gang-members-criminals/
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
— The Department of Justice Files Complaint Against Illinois for Encroaching on Federal Immigration Authority
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-complaint-against-illinois-encroaching-federal-immigration
EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla Says Report Its Board Is Looking to Replace CEO Elon Musk Is False
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/tesla-says-report-its-board-is-looking-to-replace-ceo-elon-musk-is-false-5850622
— US Ends Trade Exemption That Enabled Flood of Cheap Chinese Goods. What percent of everything that you own was made in China?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/us-ends-trade-exemption-that-enabled-flood-of-cheap-chinese-goods-5845670
FOX NEWS
— Acting ICE director says agency will ‘ramp up’ raids if sanctuary jurisdictions don’t cooperate. ‘How can anyone argue with you when you’re deporting violent gang members, sex offenders and fentanyl traffickers?’ Lyons said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/acting-ice-director-says-agency-ramp-up-raids-sanctuary-jurisdictions-dont-cooperate
— DOJ sues four blue states over ‘unconstitutional’ climate laws threatening US energy security. In a push to defend US energy production, the DOJ challenges aggressive state climate laws.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-sues-four-blue-states-over-unconstitutional-climate-laws-threatening-us-energy-security
— Trump declares May 8 as ‘Victory Day’ for World War II: ‘Going to start celebrating our victories again!’ President Donald Trump also declared Nov. 11 as World War I Victory Day. My uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. My father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F. My grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declares-may-8-victory-day-world-war-ii-going-start-celebrating-our-victories-again
— Trump tells University of Alabama graduates not to be a victim. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that they are victims of Republicans: non-Republican, citizen of America, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time, citizen of a foreign country, boozer, gambler, stoner, prostitute, criminal, etc.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tells-university-alabama-graduates-not-victim-urges-them-beat-odds
— Trump claps back at courts for ‘interfering’ with job, asks ‘how you can give due process’ to illegal migrants. ‘How can you give due process to people who came into our country illegally?’ Trump asked.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-claps-back-courts-interfering-job-asks-how-you-can-give-due-process-illegal-aliens
— Southern Illinois University administrators caught on tape pledging to ignore Trump’s executive orders on DEI and other areas
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unearthed-footage-exposes-medical-school-administrators-pledging-resist-trump-executive-orders
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/blue-state-university-administrators-caught-on-tape-pledging-to-ignore-trump-s-executive-orders-on-dei-and-other-areas/vi-AA1E0Jsx
— Trump DHS slams more ‘sob story’ reporting after Tren de Aragua gang members send SOS signal. Tren de Aragua – also known as ‘TdA’ – is a brutal international criminal group linked to Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-dhs-slams-more-sob-story-reporting-after-tren-de-aragua-gang-members-send-sos-signal
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Illinois Targeting Glock Handguns in Its Latest Gun Grab. Illinois Democrats will stop at nothing until the state government bans all guns.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/illinois-targeting-glock-handguns-in-its-latest-gun-grab/
LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER
— Major Win for Equal Opportunity: Bally’s Overhauls Casino IPO, Drops Race and Sex Requirements
https://libertyjusticecenter.org/pressrelease/major-win-for-equal-opportunity-ballys-overhauls-casino-ipo-drops-race-and-sex-requirements/
NEWSMAX
— Homan Hints at More Arrests for Harboring Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/homan-sanctuary-states-illegals/2025/05/01/id/1209194/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— White House: “Children Will Be Taught To Love America,” Not “Cancerous, Communist Woke Culture”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/01/white_house_children_will_be_taught_to_love_america_not_cancerous_communist_woke_culture.html
— Trump’s Push for Equal Rights and Against Quotas. Virtually all employers are Democrats or RINOs. They do not want to hire, retain, or promote Republicans. They especially do not want to hire, retain, or promote Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/02/trumps_push_for_equal_rights_and_against_quotas_152739.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders say that Trump is weakened, but they are still divided over how to battle him.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5275979-democrats-divided-trump-resistance/
— Trump threatens sanctions on countries that buy oil from Iran
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5278691-trump-threatens-sanctions-on-countries-that-buy-oil-from-iran/
— I should write about my critics/opponents who claim to be Republican, who are White, male, and/or older, who reject the equal opportunity plank in the Republican Party platform, that is, who promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, who promote discrimination against Republicans who are White, male, and/or older. They are really Democrats who want to curry favor with minorities, females, and those who are younger by getting rid of Republicans who are White, male, and/or older. They have had great success in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. According to them, Republicans who are White, male, and/or older cause all the problems that minorities, females, and younger people have.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5277823-bill-oreilly-diversity-inclusion-newsnation-town-hall/
— Pritzker campaign launches video series on Illinois residents impacted by Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5273424-pritzker-campaign-trump-impact/
UPI
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/9f33a0ce410e2adf6d97dbb4355ed594/May-Day-protests-in-Chicago-Illinois/
CNN
— Trump repeats that the government will revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Far too many tax-exempt organizations are fronts for the Democrat Party.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/us/white-house-harvard-tax-status
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have joined with foreign countries to destroy America. They want America to be totally dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/economy/europe-lower-inflation-us-tariffs-analysis-intl
— What the House GOP is proposing in its first draft of Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/politics/what-is-in-trump-tax-spending-cuts-package
— What percent of everything that you own made in China? China wants to conquer America and has made great progress doing that.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/economy/de-minimis-packages-tariff
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Army plans for a potential parade on Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers
https://apnews.com/article/army-parade-trump-birthday-96bb9c8e9af1ef285c56fdc3d1ba4b35
— Trump tells University of Alabama graduates that “You’re the first graduating class of the golden age of America.” I graduated from NIU in 1970. Because of Affirmative Action and because of DEI, that is, because of Democrat and RINO political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, opportunities for who were the following ever-increasingly diminished: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-alabama-commencement-address-protests-6bcea5b4058c819c26a8135b41d73dd1
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/may-day-protesters-across-us-rally-against-trump-policies-urge-rule-law-2025-05-01/
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders say “Donny 2 Dolls Trump’s cruelty ignores little girl who asked him to make Barbies cheaper.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP_BJisSuBc
MSN
— US manufacturing activity shrinks by most since November. What percent of everything that you own was manufactured in foreign countries?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/us-manufacturing-activity-shrinks-by-most-since-november/ar-AA1E1Qwz
CBS NEWS
— Migrant crossings at U.S.-Mexico border stay at historically low levels 3 months into Trump crackdown
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-crossings-u-s-mexico-border-historically-low-levels/
— McDonald’s says tariffs are hurting sales after reporting largest decline since pandemic
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-tariffs-hurting-sales/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/may-day-protests-trump-photos/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/millions-of-asylum-seekers-left-waiting-in-immigration-court-backlog/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/may-day-trump-protests.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/01/us/trump-news#may-day-protests-trump
— Appeals Court Allows Trump to Block Money for Federally Funded Newsrooms, for Now. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. No one calls my tunes because I have enough motivation, time, money, ability, experience, and good health to put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Everyone in the news media should fully disclose where their money comes from. The money I need to put the newsletter together and to send them out comes from my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and Social Security (SS). Previously, my money came from what I earned working for GAO (1980-1997), IRS (1971-1980), Firestone Stores (1970-1972), Chrysler (1970), Post Office (1966-1969), John’s Sinclair, Thrall Car, and Flossmoor Country Club (1966), and S.S. Kresge (1964-1966). Of course, my critics/opponents want Trump to cut CSRS and SS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-blocks-federal-news-funding.html
— Democrat and RINO justices and judges ever-increasingly destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/supreme-court-justice-jackson.html
— House Votes to Block California’s Plan to Ban New Gasoline-Powered Cars. I have owned gasoline-powered cars since I was 16 in 1964.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/climate/california-gas-cars-waiver-house-vote.html
WASHINGTON POST
— JD Vance: What President Trump achieved in his first 100 days. The president and I campaigned on reversing Joe Biden’s failures. And we’re delivering.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/02/jd-vance-trump-hundred-days/
— Stephen Miller touts Trump’s war against ‘cancerous, woke culture’ in fiery remarks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/01/trump-stephen-miller-immigration-transgender-diversity/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/gaza-israel-trump-crisis-100-days/
— As Trump attacks higher education, some students avoid U.S. colleges. Virtually all employers are Democrats or RINOs. They do not want to hire, retain, or promote Republicans. They especially do not want to hire, retain, or promote Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/02/colleges-international-students-trump-visas-deportations/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-us-economy-republicans-congress/83290133007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-approval-rating-polls-down-economy/83349237007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have joined with foreign countries to destroy America. They want America to be totally dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/30/will-tariffs-cause-shortages-high-prices/83371447007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/02/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-economy/83364760007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “They love a parade: President Trump and US Army to celebrate their June 14 birthdays.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/01/birthday-bash-president-donald-trump-and-army-plan-june-14-parade/83401058007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/30/trump-shut-down-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-kids/83334766007/
— ‘Victory of faith’, Vietnamese celebrate 50 years since end of Vietnam War. I should write about those who have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me the most.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/30/vietnamese-celebrate-50-years-since-end-of-vietnam-war/83362123007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Despite lashing, DEI still has grip. Groups ‘fly below the radar’ to stay focused. For college graduates, the more of the following that you are, the harder it still is to get a good job: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. It is called race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/is-trump-winning-dei-fight/83368731007/
IAFF
— Financial tips to help you plan post-WEP/GPO repeal. Needless-to-say, my critics/opponents will be beyond furious if my application for spousal benefits is approved. Prior to the WEP/GPO repeal, my Social Security (SS) was only $3,000/year. My post-WEP/GPO SS might increase from $6,000/year to $20,000/year. Since 1978, my critics/opponents have been beyond envious of my wife’s salaries. In my defense, I paid into SS 1964-1973 while I washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, and pumped more gasoline.
https://www.iaff.org/news/financial-planning-tips-after-the-wep-gpo-repeal/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Married People May Be Eligible for Spousal Benefits. If your Social Security benefit is small, you may also be entitled to spousal benefits. However, you must be at least 62 years old, and your spouse must be drawing benefits before you can apply. Calculate your spousal benefits here.)
DURBIN & DUCKWORTH
— Durbin, Duckworth Colleagues Reintroduce Assault Weapons Ban
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/durbin-duckworth-colleagues-reintroduce-assault-weapons-ban
POLITICO
— Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for swift deportations is illegal, Trump-appointed judge rules. The Alien Enemies Act applies only when the country is facing an armed, organized attack, the judge ruled.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/trump-deportations-court-ruling-00321455
NPR
— Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. No one calls my tunes because I have enough motivation, time, money, ability, experience, and good health to put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Everyone in the news media should fully disclose where their money comes from. The money I need to put the newsletters together and to send them out comes from my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and Social Security (SS). Previously, my money came from what I earned working for GAO (1980-1997), IRS (1971-1980), Firestone Stores (1970-1972), Chrysler (1970), Post Office (1966-1969), John’s Sinclair, Thrall Car, and Flossmoor Country Club (1966), and S.S. Kresge (1964-1966). Of course, my critics/opponents want Trump to cut CSRS and SS.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/pritzkers-total-war-message-is-a-hit-among-angry-democrats.html
ADVOCATE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-voters-blood-on-hands
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Is The Man’s Party
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_is_the_man_s_party
INKL
— Trump administration investigating Illinois school district for discrimination over ‘privilege walks’ and diversity training
https://www.inkl.com/news/trump-administration-investigating-illinois-school-district-for-discrimination-over-privilege-walks-and-diversity-training
COUNTER CURRENTS
— What is the Purpose and Potential Impact of Caste Census in India? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always painted me as being lower Caste. They stress 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, e) that I had to work my way through college, f) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, g) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, h) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, i) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, and j) that I am Protestant and German American.
https://countercurrents.org/2025/05/what-is-the-purpose-and-potential-impact-of-caste-census-in-india/
May 1, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders organize May Day protests
https://abc7chicago.com/post/may-day-2025-thousands-expected-protest-march-rally-downtown-chicago-union-park-grant/16292225/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Senate votes down resolution to block Trump’s global tariffs amid economic turmoil
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/senate-vote-tariffs/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— How dependent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct on federal spending?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/04/30/trump-americorps-cuts-include-grant-terminations-for-12-million-in-illinois-programs
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their foreign students. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/30/uic-student-has-legal-status-restored-but-only-after-leaving-us
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in Mundelein.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250430/business/company-shifts-plans-for-new-cannabis-dispensary-in-mundelein-to-different-site/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing-logistics/rivian-stockpiled-batteries-asia-trump-tariffs
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— A crackdown on diversity programs is reshaping college graduation ceremonies. Some colleges are canceling graduation ceremonies that recognize individual cultures or groups. Diversity is divisive.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/a-crackdown-on-diversity-programs-is-reshaping-college-graduation-ceremonies/article_0c8f7250-9f85-59f7-9342-c4d5921b0fee.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-30/may-day-protesters-will-rally-nationwide-against-the-war-on-working-people
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Senate resolution to scrap Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs fails despite some GOP support
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/senate-resolution-to-scrap-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-fails-despite-some-gop-support/amp/
WAND TV
— For Black men, fashion has been a tool of self-expression — and a way they’ve been judged. Clothing as message.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/for-black-men-fashion-has-been-a-tool-of-self-expression-and-a-way-theyve/article_96dbc781-4929-55d9-a211-1aa0642395e7.html
EVANSTON NOW
— To get more votes from renters, some Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that homeowners discriminate against them. How many rental units are there in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://evanstonnow.com/new-council-heavy-with-homeowners/
EVERGREEN PARK PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Casten.
https://patch.com/illinois/evergreenpark/sean-casten-tells-ep-town-hall-fight-our-democracy-or-lose-it
ILLINOIS TIMES
— I should write about those Republican leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who are the most anti-conservative, that is, who are the most anti-Republican. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/illinois-republicans-need-diversity-of-views-a-bigger-tent-20101601
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/recognizing-the-spirit-of-abraham-lincoln-20102511
DICK DURBIN
— Durbin ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyAn-YX4NQ
CHUY GARCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Jesus is a liberal Democrat, that is, that Jesus is anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and b) that Jesus promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, that Jesus promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. How strongly have Democrat leaders taken control of your church?.
https://x.com/RepChuyGarcia
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-503/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Jesus is a liberal Democrat, that is, that Jesus is anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and b) that Jesus promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, that Jesus promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. How strongly have Democrat leaders taken control of your church?. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Newly elected Cook County GOP chairman Del Mar seeks to breathe new life into party: ‘We’re just going to cut the bull****’
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671055397-newly-elected-cook-county-gop-chairman-del-mar-seeks-to-breathe-new-life-into-party-we-re-just-going-to-cut-the-bull
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— State legislators oppose Chicago mayor’s desire for more taxpayer dollars
https://www.dailygazette.com/news/business/nerd_wallet/watch-state-legislators-oppose-chicago-mayor-s-desire-for-more-taxpayer-dollars/article_9d089685-b288-501b-84d5-040e0bc68cd1.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Marter Says Underwood Supporter Wishes Him Dead
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/marter-says-underwood-supporter-wishes-him-dead/
— Blago as GOP U.S. Senate Candidate?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/30/blago-as-gop-u-s-senate-candidate/
— POW/MIA Honor Chair Donated to Courthouse by Rolling Thunder Chapter 2
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/29/pow-mia-honor-chair-donated-to-courthouse-by-rolling-thunder-chapter-2/
— LaHood on Trump’s First 100 Days, NPR Disagrees, Sun-Times’ Take
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/29/lahood-on-trumps-first-100-days/
— Americans for Prosperity Use Mail To Bring Pressure on Ness Not to Vote for Costly Pension Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/americans-for-prosperity-use-mail-to-bring-pressure-on-ness-not-to-vote-for-costly-pension-bill/
— UPDATE: McHenry County Attendees at Illinois GOP Bryon Donalds Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/mchenry-county-attendees-at-illinois-gop-bryon-donalds-fundraiser/
— Debate Continues Between Republican and Democratic Party Board Members
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/debate-continues-between-republican-and-democratic-party-board-members/
— Ex-District 300 Superintendent Norm Wetzel Has 28th Highest Public Pension
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/ex-district-300-superintendent-norm-wetzel-has-28th-highest-public-pension/
— Intriguing Fire Protection District Intergovernmental Cooperation in Western McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/intriguing-fire-protection-district-intergovernmental-cooperation-in-western-mchenry-county/
— More on the Closure of a Rockford Abortion Clinic
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/27/more-on-the-closure-of-a-rockford-abortion-clinic/
— Demonstrators and LaHood in Different Parts of His District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/demonstrators-and-lahood-in-different-parts-of-his-district/
— Deep State – 1967 — Goldwater Supporter in Johnson Administration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/deep-state-1967/
— Still Another Unfunded Mandate on the Horizon for Schools
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/still-another-unfunded-mandate-on-the-horizon-for-schools/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Bondi celebrates arrests that ‘make America safe again’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3396145/pam-bondi-100-days-celebrates-arrests-make-america-safe-again/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump admin to charge asylum application fee, Dems in an uproar
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/30/trump-admin-to-charge-asylum-application-fee-dems-in-an-uproar-1540083/
BLAZE
— Illegal aliens aren’t just ‘guests’ — they’re future voters
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/illegal-aliens-arent-just-guests-theyre-future-voters
BREITBART
— Trump’s Mass Deportation Goals Require Advanced Technology
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/30/ice-chief-todd-lyons-trumps-mass-deportation-goals-require-advanced-technology-akin-to-amazon-fedex/
COLLEGE FIX
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn pro-lifers.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/pro-lifers-misuse-bible-to-consolidate-white-political-power-ucla-event/
— Harvard ends racially segregated grad ceremonies, renames DEI office amid battle with Trump
https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-cuts-funding-for-racially-segregated-graduation-ceremonies/
— Northwestern University edits job titles to erase references to DEI
https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-university-edits-job-titles-to-erase-references-to-dei/
DAILY CALLER
— The Democrats’ New Fad Is Violent Rhetoric
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/30/opinion-the-democrats-new-fad-is-violent-rhetoric-haley-kennington/
— Trump Addresses Liberal Spin On Whether He’ll Gut Entitlements. To what extent are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on entitlements?
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/01/trump-chris-cuomo-medicaid-entitlements/
FOX NEWS
— Kamala Harris comes knives out against Trump in first speech since leaving office: ‘Absolute chaos’ Harris claimed that under the Trump administration ‘we are seeing the wholesale abandonment’ of American ideals. According to Democrat leaders, America exists to give more preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-comes-knives-out-against-trump-first-speech-since-leaving-office-absolute-chaos
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Illegal Aliens Aren’t Fugitive Slaves
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/illegal-aliens-arent-fugitive-slaves/
NEWSMAX
— Trump’s First 100 Days Causing Dems to Have ‘Mental Breakdown’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/craig-shirley-donald-trump-democrats/2025/04/30/id/1208936/
— Military Rebounding Under Trump Leadership
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-sean-parnell/2025/04/30/id/1209026/
PJ MEDIA
— Woke Judge Tramples Law With New Border Enforcement Ruling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/04/30/woke-judge-tramples-law-with-new-border-patrol-ruling-n4939380
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— To promote diversity is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/news/thomson-reuters-drops-diversity-inclusion-201922820.html
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote May Day protests against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/activists-rally-worldwide-day-us-protests-targeting-trump-121345294
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America to destroy Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/u-s-economy-slowed-sharply-this-year-under-second-trump-administration/
CNN
— According to Democrat leaders, America exists to give more preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/kamala-harris-speech-trump/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/politics/video/kamala-harris-trump-performance-digvid
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/trump-gdp-economy-golden-age-recession-perception/index.html
— Vance casts tie-breaking Senate vote to kill bipartisan effort to rebuke Trump’s trade policy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/senate-republicans-democrats-trump-tariffs/index.html
MSN
— Tesla board searching for new CEO to replace Musk
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/tesla-board-searching-for-new-ceo-to-replace-elon-musk-report/ar-AA1DXKFT
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to Blacks. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against other groups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-chicago-schools-black-students.html
— Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/business/bank-of-japan-gdp-forecast.html
— Student Debt Collections Restart on May 5. More than five million borrowers are in default, and millions of others are projected to be on the precipice. Did you get a college loan? I did not. If I had gotten one, my GPA would have been higher. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying. If my GPA had been higher, that would have helped me get a better job after I graduated debt-free from NIU in 1970.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/student-loans-collections.html
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government had great success getting my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly a) side with America’s enemies, and b) promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/100-days-trump-world.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/01/march-holiday-may-day-labor-workers-union/3389a3cc-2642-11f0-ae6d-e4db528eba27_story.html
USA TODAY
— 77 million Americans voted for Trump. After 100 days, few of them regret it. President Donald Trump is delivering on what he said he would do, and, for the most part, his voters appreciate it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/29/trump-polls-approval-rating-voters/83271813007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in driving the economy down to punish Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-us-economy-republicans-congress/83290133007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-approval-rating-polls-down-economy/83349237007/
— Democrats and RINOs use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/is-trump-winning-dei-fight/83368731007/
— Return on a college investment: These majors pay the highest premiums. In retrospect and with benefit of hindsight, I would have majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970. I erroneously thought that I could never pass the CPA examination. But I not only passed it, I passed it on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. But by then, the accounting profession viewed me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/24/is-college-degree-worth-it-graduate-income/83216369007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk. Hate filled Trump-haters ever-increasingly punish Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-musk-ceo-search-board-0ce61af9
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future. I should write about the factory jobs in Chicago Heights that my brother lost when his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulations.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1-2025-1f82f689
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/first-quarter-gdp-economy-tariffs-donald-trump-trade-policy-ee60db88
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/are-factory-jobs-worth-protecting-economy-manufacturing-production-fa969bea
NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382560/may-day-protests-history-trump
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America to destroy Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/30/democrat-group-trump-economic-messaging-warning-00314778
FED SMITH
— House Oversight Committee Advances Benefits Cuts Package
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/04/30/house-oversight-committee-advances-benefits-cuts-package/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Among the cuts in the legislation are raising the FERS contribution rate to 4.4% for all federal employees, eliminating the FERS annuity supplement and switching from a high-3 average salary to high-5. There also is a provision that would give newly hired federal employees the option to elect to serve as at-will employees in exchange for higher take home pay with a lower FERS contribution rate. Accepting the at-will status option would keep the FERS contribution rate at 4.4%, but retaining civil service protections would add 5% to the retirement contribution (9.4% total). Another provision would require federal employees to pay a $350 fee to reduce frivolous employee appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) regarding agency disciplinary adverse actions. The proposed cuts were being considered as the House Oversight Committee looked to slash $50 billion from the overall federal budget as it debated its portion of the larger overall FY 2025 spending bill. In remarks he made at Wednesday’s markup session, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said: World-class employment benefits provided to federal employees are well-known, which can include eleven paid holidays; various incentives and awards; health, life, and long-term care insurance; flexible spending accounts; student loan repayment and forgiveness plans; generous leave and workplace flexibilities; and childcare, professional development, and commuter subsidies. The simple truth is that a significant amount of the costs associated with all of these benefits are funded by hardworking taxpayers in the private sector and increasingly now federal government borrowing. The legislation before us today advances important budgetary reforms that will save taxpayers money. Democrats as well as one Republican voted against the legislation in Wednesday’s markup session. Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH) opposed cutting pensions for federal employees as part of the deficit reduction, and he had said prior to the markup session that he would be voting against the bill. He wrote in a statement on X: The goal of reconciliation should be to reduce overall government spending by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse and reducing needless and unnecessary spending. I oppose any and all efforts to reduce federal spending by taking money from the hard-earned pensions of federal workers. Employee benefits are not a gift. They are earned. I will not support and will not vote for the Oversight Committee’s current budget reconciliation proposal reducing earned pension benefits for current federal employees. In remarks he made at the markup session, Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) said: This partisan bill threatens to further undermine the federal workforce, by reducing the take-home pay, benefits, and workforce protections of 2.4 million federal employees, most of whom are middle-class American workers and a third of whom are military veterans. This is more of the same; an unprecedented assault and political purge of the civil service. The legislative package now advances to the House Budget Committee. Turner also said he thinks that changes are likely to be made to the legislation as it progresses through the legislative process, namely that the cuts to federal employee pensions to which he was opposed would ultimately be eliminated. During Wednesday’s markup session, he reiterated his opposition to the legislation, saying, “I believe that making changes to pension retirement benefits in the middle of someone’s employment is wrong. Changing the rules, especially when someone’s already been vested, is wrong.” He also added, “I have talked to enough people on the House floor that I do think that this [pension cuts] will not be included in the final bill, and that this bill ultimately will have to be changed if it’s going to be included in the ultimate budget reconciliation.” Whether any of these proposed cuts become reality will be determined by what makes it into the final budget legislation if and when it becomes law. As Congressman Turner noted, changes are likely to be made as it goes through the legislative process. FedSmith will continue to provide any updates as they become available.)
PHYS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use diversity to get rid of Republicans.
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-trump-diversity-undermine-merit-decades.html
April 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump targets sanctuary cities like Chicago with new orders
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/04/29/trump-executive-orders-sanctuary-cities-law-enforcement
— Andrew Boutros is the new U.S. Attorney. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/29/andrew-boutros-us-attorney-chicago-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that Jews have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/04/29/antisemitism-dei-university-jewish-robert-crimo-iii-neil-steinberg-kristi-noem-purse-littering
— Native American mascots should be phased out of K-12 schools in Illinois. What about the Crete-Monee Warriors?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/30/native-americans-mascots-logo-illinois-elementary-high-schools-sports-matthew-beaudet
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson sues Trump over cuts to federal workforce. Democrat leaders defend Democrat federal employees. Republican leaders do not defend Republican federal employees. I should write about that. I would use myself as an example.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/mayor-brandon-johnson-lawsuit-trump-federal-worker-firings/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLDF WITH PICTURE: Andrew Boutros is the new U.S. Attorney. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/chicagos-new-u-s-attorney-balances-offices-tradition-with-new-directives/
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/feds-probe-chicago-public-schools-over-alleged-racial-discrimination-in-black-student-success-plan/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s spending cuts against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/head-start-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-efforts-to-dismantle-early-childhood-development-program/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/column-donald-trump-100-days-approval-rating-washington/
— Where did the money come from to pay for your bachelor’s degree? Mine came from what I earned doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assembly line. That enabled me graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But that was the good old days when tuition was much lower.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/college-loans-frerichs-debt/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving the economy down to punish Trump and to punish those who voted for him.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250430/economy/u-s-economy-shrinks-0-3-in-first-quarter-as-trump-trade-wars-disrupt-business/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-news-today-chicago-il-involved-100-lawsuits-filed-administration-1st-days/16280838/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-immigration-news-ice-detains-lyons-illinois-father-abel-orozco-wife-battles-breast-cancer-family-says/16280691/
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-education-investigating-chicago-public-schools-black-students-success-plan-defending-complaint/16281583/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-economy-news-donald-trump-tariffs-hurting-small-businesses-black-owned-chicago/16281385/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-news-today-how-presidents-tariffs-1st-100-days-could-contribute-ongoing-price-increases-housing-groceries/16280607/
NBC5
— Trump aide: Pritzker’s call for protests could be seen as ‘inciting violence’
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-aide-pritzkers-call-for-protests-could-be-seen-as-inciting-violence/3733550/
— Chicago joins suit against Trump administration over firing of federal employees. Democrat leaders defend Democrat federal employees. Republican leaders do not defend Republican federal employees. I should write about that. I would use myself as an example.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-joins-suit-against-trump-administration-over-firing-of-federal-employees/3733402/
FOX32
— Chicago sues Trump admin over cuts to federal workforce. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1632939
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/29/chicago-may-day-rally-planned-trump-ramps-attacks-immigrants-sanctuary-cities
WBEZ
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/29/trump-education-department-cps-investigation-black-student-success-plan
NPR ILLINOIS
— Who has targeted you? I should write about those who have targeted me. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-29/trump-has-used-government-powers-to-target-more-than-100-perceived-enemies
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-29/100-days-into-office-views-about-trumps-job-performance-are-on-the-decline
NORTHERN STAR
— NIU’s removal of DEI language is a strategic shield against federal retaliation. NIU accepted me when I was 20 years old in1969. But because of my terrible demographics, NIU would not accept me today if I was 20 years old today.
https://northernstar.info/125858/opinion/editorial-nius-removal-of-dei-language-is-a-strategic-shield-against-federal-retaliation/
CAPITOL NEW ILLINOIS
— After-school programs continue push for state aid. What did you do while you were in grade school and high school? I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. That enabled me to buy a 1958 Chevy Bel Air in 1964 and a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/after-school-programs-continue-push-for-state-aid/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-502/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrat Judges Spit on Rule of Law
https://johnkassnews.com/democrat-judges-spit-on-rule-of-law/
WIREPOINTS
— We’re talking 18,000 kids unable to read or do math, with a hard future, just in these 80 zero-schools alone
https://wirepoints.org/were-talking-18000-kids-unable-to-read-or-do-math-with-a-hard-future-just-in-these-80-zero-schools-alone-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— West Coast gas prices for Rust Belt Illinoisans.
https://wirepoints.org/west-coast-gas-prices-for-rust-belt-illinoisans-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How has Affirmative Action and DEI been used against you? All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about my coworkers who were promoted over me. I would focus on those who were virtually all of the aforesaid, if not all of the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘We’ve just gotten started:’ Trump takes Michigan victory lap at 100-day mark
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/29/trump-takes-michigan-victory-lap-100-day-mark/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Don’t fall for the DEI sleight of hand
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3395570/dei-critical-social-justice-civil-rights-act/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— The process due illegals is deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/29/victor-joecks-the-process-due-illegals-is-deportation-1539719/
BREITBART
— Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/29/venezuela-prepares-marxist-may-day-rallies-demanding-release-of-u-s-deported-tren-de-aragua-illegals/
DAILY WIRE
— Here’s How Trump Crippled Radical Gender Ideology In His First 100 Days
https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-everything-trump-did-on-gender-ideology-in-his-first-100-days
— ‘Just Getting Started’: Trump Vows More Action In ‘100 Days Of Greatness’ Rally
https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-getting-started-trump-vows-more-action-in-100-days-of-greatness-rally
FOX NEWS
— Democrats are no longer defined by principles, but by hatred of Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372091573112
NEW AMERICAN
— ICE in First 100 Days: Almost 70K Illegals Arrested, Nearly 66K Removed; 75 Percent Dangerous Criminals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/ice-in-first-100-days-almost-70k-illegals-arrested-nearly-66k-removed-75-percent-dangerous-criminals/
NEWSMAX
— Education Dept. Investigating Chicago Public Schools. Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/education-chicago-schools/2025/04/29/id/1208846/
— Postal Service Assisting With Deportations
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/usps-inspection-service-deportations/2025/04/29/id/1208879/
— ICE: 66,463 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Trump’s First 100 Days
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-criminal-aliens-arrests/2025/04/29/id/1208808/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5273836-trump-second-term-abortion-access/
— UPS to cut 20K jobs amid Trump tariff uncertainty
https://thehill.com/business/5273014-ups-job-cuts-donald-trump-tariff-agenda/
ABC NEWS
— Federal cuts gut food banks as they face record demand. How dependent on food banks are those in the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/federal-cuts-gut-food-banks-face-record-demand/story?id=121234012
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-trump-democrats/index.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Saigon fell 50 years ago. Back then, I was a 26-year-old IRS employee. Virtually all of my superiors and supervisors were Democrat veterans. They blamed non-veteran Republicans for the fall of Saigon. I was one of an extremely few non-veteran Republicans in the office. My Democrat IRS superiors and supervisors who were veterans held my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me big time. They had disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They had made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://apnews.com/article/saigon-vietnam-war-americans-50-years-f6b8b5823b99038fcdb87bdbcd4c0125
REUTERS
— Trump touts economy at Michigan 100-day rally
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-touts-100-day-achievements-michigan-amid-concerns-about-economy-2025-04-29/
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbSMcIDwdmg
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump. What Republican leaders had sued Biden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUCmpAFEKs
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down and his disapproval rating up.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Housing on Federal Lands Aims to Ease Affordability Crisis. During the 1960s and 1970s, Democrat leaders spent many millions of dollars making housing in University Park affordable. My critics/opponents have always been furious that I took advantage of that and bought a new town home in University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972. According to them, Blacks should have bought the town home that I did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/housing-federal-land-trump.html
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-chicago-schools-black-students.html
— GAO Reveals Dozens of Inquiries Into Trump’s Withholding of Funds. Democrats run GAO. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-funds-gao.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: According to those who have taken many big adverse actions against Trump, Trump is driven by vengeance.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/04/30/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf
— Democrat leaders to ever-increasingly capitalize on Trump federal spending cuts. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/28/democrats-to-capitalize-as-gop-outlines-spending-cuts/
WASHINGTON POST
— USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/29/usps-immigration-trump-deportations/
— Hegseth ‘proudly’ terminates Women, Peace, and Security program supported by Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/29/hegseth-wps-rubio-noem/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/dei-companies-sec-filings/
USA TODAY
— Donald Trump signs two new executive orders on immigration enforcement
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2025/04/29/trump-signs-new-executive-orders-aiming-at-sanctuary-cities/83339906007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Canada against America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/30/canada-election-liberals-win-trump-referendum/83329799007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/28/trump-anti-trans-lgbtq-executive-orders/83248377007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/30/trump-shut-down-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-kids/83334766007/
— Already more than 1,000 workers down, EPA tries to convince others to depart. EPA will try again in another round of offers to convince its employees to take deferred resignations or early retirements. My Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly use Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/28/epa-staff-cuts-voluntary-retirement-resignation/83329753007/
KWQC
— Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/04/30/duckworth-trump-making-americans-weaker-sicker-less-secure/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pence: What the 47th President Can Learn From the 45th. Time-honored conservative principles guided the first Trump administration. America needs them now.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-the-47th-president-can-learn-from-the-45th-trump-second-term-policy-ea1bf83e
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-hemorrhages-support-100-days-in-policy-second-term-presidency-014d6dd3
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/amazon-tariff-prices-karoline-leavitt-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-d085537c
BLOOMBERG
— Trump’s New Orders Targeting Sanctuary Cities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-04-29/trump-s-new-orders-targeting-sanctuary-cities-police-reform-citylab-daily
NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193040/trans-federal-employee-discrimination-trump
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-immigration-enforcement-100-days-due-process_n_6810f2bae4b0241e22ed2cae
CONVERSATION
— All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about my coworkers who were promoted over me. I would focus on those who were virtually all of the aforesaid, if not all of the aforesaid.
https://theconversation.com/trump-says-diversity-initiatives-undermine-merit-decades-of-research-show-this-is-flawed-255100
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White Afrikaners.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/a-godsend-the-white-afrikaners-lining-up-to-accept-trumps-offer-of-asylum
April 23,2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— RESTORING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND MERITOCRACY
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US Sen. Dick Durbin says he won’t run for sixth term. I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, distributing campaign literature and getting sign locations in my precinct for Durbin’s Republican opponents Curran in 2020, Oberweis in 2014, Sauerberg in 2008, and Durkin in 2002. Further, I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, doing that for Duckworth’s opponent Salvi in 2022, for Kirk in 2016 and 2010, and Keyes in 2004. Because they all were statewide races, my critics/opponents had a harder time blaming me and blaming my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for Republican defeats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/us-sen-dick-durbin-says-he-wont-run-for-sixth-term/
— Democrat leaders say that orders to leave the country — some for US citizen — sow confusion among immigrants
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/orders-to-leave-the-country-some-for-us-citizen-sow-confusion-among-immigrants/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Senate race to replace Durbin boasts ‘at least a dozen’ serious contenders
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-senate-reelection-decision-krishnamoorthi-underwood-stratton
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Durbin’s retirement sets off a stampede — and a massive generational shift in Illinois politics
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-retirement-sets-race-open-seats-illinois
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The GOP appears less poised to field a competitive Senate candidate in what is now a heavily Democratic state, but there has been some discussion about Richard Porter, an attorney who serves as the state’s Republican national committeeman. Also being touted by some Republicans is Rep. Ray LaHood, who represents Peoria and other downstate areas.)
— Durbin makes it official: He won’t seek re-election
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-will-not-seek-re-election-senate
ABC7
— Illinois among 12 states suing Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-among-12-states-suing-president-donald-trumps-administration-stop-tariff-policy/16232793/
— Trump administration looking at $5K ‘baby bonus’ to incentivize public to have more children
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-looking-baby-bonus-incentivize-public-have-more-children/16231863/
FOX32
— Trump says he’ll reduce tariffs against China ‘substantially’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1629873
WTTW
— Long-Stalled Push for Reparations in Chicago Moving Forward
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/23/slow-moving-push-reparations-chicago-moving-forward-johnson-says
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/
STATELINE & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-is-still-resisting-the-judges-orders-in-abrego-garcia-deportation-case/
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— The 10 Pols Who Could Replace Dick Durbin
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2024/the-10-pols-who-could-replace-dick-durbin/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When U.S. senator Peter Fitzgerald announced his retirement in 2004, 16 candidates ran to succeed him. “Don’t you think it would be cool to be a senator?” one remarked. (Barack Obama, a state senator at the time, won — you might have heard of him.) . . . 5. Darin LaHood
The GOP will run a candidate, too, and LaHood is likely to be it. The last two times an Illinois Republican won a Senate race were 1998 and 2010 — nonpresidential years when a Democrat was in the White House, which seems to indicate that a Joe Biden reelection would help LaHood. (The Democrats also ran weak candidates those years.) Of the three Illinois Republicans in Congress, LaHood, elected to the House in 2015, is the most moderate. He’s from Peoria, which is Middle America personified. “He’s a guy who is politically disciplined and has not alienated the base,” says a conservative activist. “He can appeal to independents, too. He’s not a crazy MAGA.” Democrats would attack LaHood on abortion (he opposes) and voting with Trump on issues such as repealing Obamacare. He needs “to keep the race on economics and the lack of federal leadership, particularly with the border crisis,” the activist says.)
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/trump-immigration-actions-are-only-latest-in-white-supremacy-tradition-20072014
PRITIZKER
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred.
https://gov.illinois.gov/news/press-release.31180.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Question of the day: If LaHood does run for US Senate, what do you believe are his chances in both the primary and the general?
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/question-of-the-day-3727/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-291/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Aaron Del Mar Returns as Cook County GOP Chairman After Overwhelming Vote
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/aaron-del-mar-returns-as-cook-county-gop-chairman-after-overwhelming-vote/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Campaign Says Durbin Retirement “Long Overdue”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/lahood-campaign-says-durbin-retirement-long-overdue/
— Durbin Retiring, Second Tier Dems Ready for Fight
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/durbin-retiring-second-tier-dems-ready-for-fight/
— Second Old Illinois Member of Congress–Jan Schakowsky–Says Bye-Bye, People Lining Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/second-old-illinois-member-of-congress-jan-schakowsky-says-bye-bye/
— Month after Characterizing Trump to Nazis Pritzker Calls for End to Hate Crimes, Reports Big Hike Since Biden Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/month-after-characterizing-trump-to-nazis-pritzker-calls-for-end-hate-crimes-big-hike-since-biden-took-office/
— Passenger Pot Citation in Cary after Car Stopped for Missing Headlight, Bill To End Smell Test Passes Illinois Senate (with Roll Call)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/passenger-pot-citation-in-cary/
— McHenry Awarded $771,000 to Revitalize Riverside Drive, Woodstock Gets $1 Million for Opera House Block
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/mchenry-awarded-771000-to-revitalize-riverside-drive-woodstock-gets-1-million-for-opera-house-block/
— State Claims 6 to 1 Benefit from Subsidizing Filming
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/state-claims-6-to-1-benefit-from-subsidizing-filming/
— Randi Freese Reports McHenry County Share of Most Recent Opioid Settlement Unknown at This Point
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/randi-freese-reports-mchenry-county-share-of-most-recent-opioid-settlement-unknown-at-this-point/
— Illinois Pot Taxes Drive Pot Shop Growth in SW Michigan
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/illinois-pot-taxes-drive-growth-in-sw-michigan/
— Trump-Endorsed Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Bryon Donalds Speaking to State GOP Fundraiser Friday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/trump-endorsed-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-bryon-donalds-speaking-to-state-gop-fundraiser-friday/
— Details on Walgreen’s Whistleblower Opioid Settlement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/details-on-walgrens-whistleblower-opioid-settlement/
— Congressional Dems Vote to Keep Taxing Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/congressional-dems-vote-to-keep-taxing-tips/
— Court Shuts Down Rockford Abortion Clinic
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/court-shuts-down-rockford-abortion-clinic/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— An abortion clinic operating in a residential neighborhood in Illinois lost its legal fight with neighbors after a state court reversed the facility’s zoning approval.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/23/neighbors-win-court-battle-home-based-abortion-clinic/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Britain bans French philosopher who conceptualized the ‘great replacement’ theory, from entering country
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/britain_bans_french_philosopher_who_conceptualized_the_great_replacement_theory_from_entering_country.html
BREITBART
— Americans Overwhelmingly Side with Trump on Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/23/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-side-with-trump-on-deportations/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Durbin Announces Retirement, Leaving a Power Vacuum
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/23/prospect-durbins-retirement-shakes-up-illinois-democrats/
FOX NEWS
— If we can’t deport illegals, here’s how we can make it impossible to stay
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-we-cant-deport-illegals-heres-how-we-can-make-impossible-stay
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Durbin retirement tees up competitive Senate primary in Illinois
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5263818-dick-durbin-retirement-senate/
NEWSWEEK
— Who Might Run for Dick Durbin’s Soon-to-Be Vacant Senate Seat?
https://www.newsweek.com/dick-durbin-retirement-potential-candidates-illinois-senate-2063156
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the Republican side, Representative Darin LaHood also told NOTUS he would not “close the door” on a Senate run. “I’ve had a lot of people encourage me to think about doing it,” he told the publication.)
CNN
— Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in Senate, announces he won’t seek reelection.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/politics/dick-durbin-senate-retirement
CBS NEWS
— Trump signs executive order to influence college accreditation process
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-executive-order-to-eliminate-woke-ideology-in-college-accreditation-process/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Durbin, No. 2 Senate Democrat, to Retire After 44 Years in Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/dick-durbin-retires-senate.html
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in manipulating/dominating young people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/trump-presidency-news/
POLITICO
— Durbin was first elected to the Senate in 1996, succeeding Democratic Sen. Paul Simon. In the primary that year, Durbin defeated Pat Quinn, who would later become governor of Illinois. In the general election that year, Durbin defeated Al Salvi, the husband of Kathy Salvi, who now chairs the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-retiring-from-senate-illinois-00305833
WIKIPEDIA
— 2026 United States Senate election in Illinois
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican primary: Declared: John Goodman, former police officer ( https://goodmanforillinois.com/meet-john/ ). Publicly expressed interest: Darin LaHood, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 16th congressional district (2015–present) Potential: Jim Durkin, former minority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives (2013–2023) from the 82nd district (2006–2023) and 44th district (1995–2003), Mary Miller, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 15th congressional district (2021–present). Declined: Mike Bost, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 12th congressional district (2015–present))
April 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Some 5 million Americans with defaulted student loan payments will have their loans sent for collections on May 5. Where did the money come from to pay for your undergraduate degree? Mine came from my washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assemble line. The aforesaid enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charge SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/default-student-loans-debt-collection-trump-administration-announces-end-period-leniency-began-during-covid-pandemic/16217800/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-student-visas-revoked-illinois-indiana-college-students-celebrate-order-donald-trump-admin-reinstate/16225550/
FOX32
— ‘It’s unsafe’: Chicagoans sound off about migrant crowds outside Home Depot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhpIMM2iy0
WTTW
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/pritzker-balances-messaging-some-dems-encourage-party-avoid-lgbtq-issues
— Ever-increasingly, leaders of universities in Illinois reject Trump’s election.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/illinois-university-leaders-join-condemnation-trump-administration-s-unprecedented
WLS AM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wlsam.com/2025/04/22/gorka-to-newsmax-due-process-push-for-illegals-strange/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois GOP has to do better than the likes of Thomas DeVore, lockdown critic
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/devore-misconduct-attorney-general-gop/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson will head to Springfield again, to demand Chicago ‘receives its just due’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/mayor-brandon-johnson-springfield-chicago-just-due/
— Several police departments disperse large crowd of juveniles from Sky Zone in Orland Park
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/police-disperse-juveniles-sky-zone-orland-park/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/opinion-illinois-immigration-crackdown-protect-communities/
— Pritzker calls it ‘ironic’ that inaugural committee accepted donation from Chinese firm Trump has criticized.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/gov-jb-pritzker-calls-it-ironic-that-inaugural-committee-accepted-donation-from-chinese-firm-trump-has-criticized/
— What did you do for Earth Day? I spent about an hour pulling out blown-in plastic trash from the wetlands west of my Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/orland-grasslands-earth-day/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Gotion, a Republican target, gave big to Trump inaugural
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/gotion-target-trump-gave-1-million-inauguration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly attack Musk to attack Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-treasurer-co-signs-letter-tesla-board
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, everyone in America will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/
SOUTHERN
— How marginalized are you? Who marginalizes you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans marginalize you: Democrat, RINO, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizen of a foreign country, have less money than others, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozer, gambler, stoner, prostitute, etc.
https://thesouthern.com/life-entertainment/faith/siu-s-father-brown-pope-francis-legacy-is-advocating-for-the-marginalized-forgotten/article_139e56eb-5ede-52eb-a9ee-448ac0f406c4.html
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat universities will ever-increasingly oppose Trump.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/23/opinion/harvard-is-resisting-the-trump-administrations-invasive-demands-nu-should-follow-suit/
JOURNAL GAZETTE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/judgment-day-drawing-nigh/article_ba1d63e7-b9fd-4210-a47b-0577c76944c8.html
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/illinois-legislative-black-caucus-condemns-trumps-attack-on-dei-pledges-to-defend-racial-equity-in-the-workplace/
WJBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/04/22/his-dad-would-be-ashamed-of-him-large-rally-in-uptown-normal-to-protest-rep-lahood/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote AOC.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/the-next-aoc-young-democrats-are-aiming-to-topple-incumbents-inside-their-own-party
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-22/nationwide-anti-trump-protests-arrive-in-small-town-northern-illinois
WAND TV
— Public education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/multiple-university-presidents-in-illinois-sign-letter-criticizing-federal-government-overreach/article_4762b0ab-a8a7-4a5b-bcee-f54282cb9674.html
WIFR
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/23/illinois-voting-advocates-worry-bill-requiring-citizenship-proof-vote/
WVIK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote globalism, that is, they ever-increasingly promote cheap foreign labor and making America more and more and more dependent on foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly promote the destruction of America.
https://www.wvik.org/2025-04-22/the-global-economy-will-be-hit-hard-by-trumps-tariffs-imf-warns
25 NEWS NOW
— Trump administration mulls $5,000 baby bonus to boost population
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/22/trump-administration-mulls-5000-baby-bonus-boost-population-report-says/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s policies.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/23/trump-policies-dominate-peoria-town-hall-with-rep-sorensen/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/pritzker-balances-messaging-as-some-dems-encourage-party-to-avoid-lgbtq-issues-20068650
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/22/chicagos-venezuelan-community-in-limbo-amid-trumps-push-to-end-deportation-protections/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-497/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-290/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker
https://johnkassnews.com/escaping-illinois-doesnt-mean-youve-escaped-pritzker/
WIREPOINTS
— It’s hard to tell when Illinois will ‘break,’ but eventually Illinoisans will connect the dots and demand change.
https://wirepoints.org/its-hard-to-tell-when-illinois-will-break-but-eventually-illinoisans-will-connect-the-dots-and-demand-change-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Illinois metro areas have the nation’s 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-highest property taxes. People leave because they simply can’t pay that anymore.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-metro-areas-have-the-nations-1st-2nd-3rd-and-4th-highest-property-taxes-people-leave-because-they-simply-cant-pay-that-anymore-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slo/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and 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. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you consider majoring in accounting? Did you consider a career in accounting? The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years (the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year) and for GAO for almost 18 years (the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The left’s hatred of Trump boils over: Death threats spread to just about anyone working for him. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/22/lefts-hatred-trump-boils-death-threats-spread-anyone-working/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump slams SCOTUS for ridiculous idea of giving trials to all illegals. Democrat and RINO judges and justices deny Republicans their 7th Amendment right to trials. I should write about that.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/22/trump-slams-scotus-for-ridiculous-idea-of-giving-trials-to-all-illegals-1538008/
BLAZE
— Trump lashes out at Supreme Court for blocking deportations
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-lashes-out-at-supreme-court-for-blocking-deportations
DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Lawmakers Showcase How Trump ‘Restored Law and Order’ to US Borders
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/22/exclusive-gop-lawmakers-showcase-how-trump-restored-law-and-order-to-us-borders/
EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla’s First-Quarter Profits Tumble 71 Percent. Will Democrat leaders succeed in driving Tesla out of business, and if so, how soon? How will that impact the EV industry? How will that impact America?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/teslas-1st-first-quarter-profits-tumble-71-percent-5845648
FOX NEWS
— Gore compares Trump admin to Hitler’s Third Reich. Trump faced similar comparisons from political rivals during 2024 presidential campaign.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-gore-compares-trump-admin-hitlers-third-reich
PJ MEDIA
— SCOTUS Sides With Illegal Aliens Again
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/04/22/breaking-scotus-again-sides-with-illegal-aliens-n4939139
REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Trump’s Migrant Hunt Digs Into the IRS and Social Security
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/23/trumps_migrant_hunt_digs_into_the_irs_and_social_security_1105145.html
TOWNHALL
— Young Conservatives Rise Against Wokeness. Liberals and moderates use wokeness to get rid of conservatives.
https://townhall.com/podcasts/townhallreview/2025/04/23/the-pendulum-swings:-young-conservatives-rise-against-wokeness–%7C-charlie-kirk-with-megyn-kelly
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Gore compares Trump administration to Nazis
https://thehill.com/homenews/5260405-gore-compares-trump-third-reich/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Harvard.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/harvard-takes-lead-in-fight-against-trumps-higher-ed-agenda/amp/
NBC NEWS
— Gore likens the Trump administration’s ‘attacks on liberty’ to Nazi Germany
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/al-gore-likens-trump-administrations-attacks-liberty-nazi-germany-rcna202357
— Gore compares Trump administration’s actions to Nazi Germany’s attacks on the truth
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/gore-compares-trump-administration-s-actions-to-nazi-germany-s-attacks-on-truth-238082629661
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html
— How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I then accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/eeoc-trump-dei-law-firms.html
— To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements.’ Some young people are spending their savings on an extended break earlier in their careers rather than waiting until retirement. I did not take any days off at all while I worked for Firestone Stores August 1970-December 1972 and for IRS June 1971-June 1973.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/young-people-work-mini-retirement.html
USA TODAY
— New York Times compares Trump to Hitler. Media allows an ugly double standard. It’s extremely insulting to the 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump for The New York Times to publish an opinion piece that compares the president to Adolf Hitler.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/larry-david-essay-hitler-trump/83209680007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/22/musk-tesla-first-quarter-earnings/83217370007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about the success that they had importing their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/trump-afghanistan-refugee-resettlement-immigration/83126557007/
LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER
— Kentucky among the ‘most federally dependent states.’ How will Trump cuts affect it? How dependent on federal spending are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article302508724.html
WOAI
— Return to Sender: More Illegals Self-Deporting
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-04-22-return-to-sender-more-illegals-self-deporting/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Tesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Backlash Over Elon Musk’s Political Role. CEO says he will spend significantly less time on DOGE starting in May; electric-vehicle maker’s net income falls 71%. How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-tsla-q1-earnings-report-2025-f7120a39
— How America Lost Manufacturing. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and less regulation.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-america-lost-manufacturing-reporter-1980s-watched-us-industries-fail-to-adapt-926753f0?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
FORBES
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D-IL) ever-increasingly promotes more class warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dk2pmRluDiuQ
HUFFINGTON POST
— Gore Likens Trump Admin To Nazi Germany: ‘Trying To Create Their Own Version Of Reality’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-gore-donald-trump-administration-nazi-germany_n_68078b17e4b00edf27f4ce86
GOVERNING
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans.
https://www.governing.com/policy/the-conservative-case-for-dei
ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— The Rise and Retreat of DEI. The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years (the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year) and for GAO for almost 18 years (the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49.
https://www.icpas.org/information/copy-desk/insight/article/spring-2025/the-rise-and-retreat-of-dei-navigating-the-uncertain-future-of-workplace-culture
NARFE
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/04/22/opm-proposed-rule-aims-to-remove-competitive-service-protections-for-50000-feds/
TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Liberal and moderate Jews ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative Jews.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-100-chicago-area-rabbis-cantors-condemn-trumps-crackdown-on-campus-antisemitism/
INDEPENDENT
— Musk to ‘significantly’ step back from DOGE role after Tesla profits plunge
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-doge-tariffs-china-stocks-live-updates-b2737788.html
— Gore compares Trump team to Nazi Germany saying they are ‘trying to create their own preferred version of reality’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/al-gore-trump-nazi-germany-b2737278.html
GURADIAN
— Gore draws parallels between Trump and early Nazi Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/apr/22/al-gore-trump-early-nazi-germany
April 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Powell against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/04/21/wall-street-dollar-tumble-trump-repeat-attacks-federal-reserve-chair-powell
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/22/rep-jesus-garcia-advocates-slam-purge-of-immigrants-from-social-security
— Democrats always want more government money for education because Democrats use education to crank out good little Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/22/illinois-funding-higher-education-politics
FOX32
— Illinois Dems slam Trump admin over Social Security staff cuts. Democrat and RINO leaders did not slam Gingrich over his GAO staff cuts during the 1980s and 1990s. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. 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.fox32chicago.com/video/1628597
STATELINE
— Pritzker poised to run for president in 2028. How does that impact Republican decisions to run for governor in 2026?
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-2028-presidential/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— A growing number of Republican-led states are taking aim at driver’s licenses issued by other states to illegals. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/some-gop-states-are-targeting-drivers-licenses-issued-to-immigrants-illegally-in-the-us/article_76f63623-d923-5777-b0c4-f2915029fa43.html
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot and promote reparations.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/22/city/poetic-justice-how-cannabis-fuels-evanstons-reparations/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— School districts must follow stringent background checks when considering potential employees. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/04/18/roll-call-school-districts-must-follow-stringent-background-checks-when-considering-potential-employees/
WSPY
— Conservative Group looks to form Kane DOGE. Should I form a DuPage DOGE? I would draw on what I learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) becoming a licensed CPA, d) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant, Financial Services Auditor, Government Financial Manager, Fraud Examiner, Internal Auditor, and Public Accountant, and e) earning master’s degrees in finance, accounting, and business.
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/conservative-group-looks-to-form-kane-doge/article_89dc72fb-597d-497a-9b84-585366768479.html
WCPT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/04/21/illinois-lt-gov-juliana-stratton-talks-administrations-successes-standing-up-to-trump-with-wcpts-richard-chew/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders use Durbin to promote more hatred against Hegseth and against Trump.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/22/durbin-derides-hegseth-as-petty-00302356
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-496/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— ‘Record’ number of Illinois jobs: Don’t be a chump.
https://wirepoints.org/record-number-of-illinois-jobs-dont-be-a-chump-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— Illinois metro areas take the top four spots for nation’s highest property taxes. Rockford takes the crown.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-metro-areas-take-the-top-four-spots-for-nations-highest-property-taxes-rockford-takes-the-crown-wirepoints/
ILLINOIS RECORD
— Cook County GOP Chair Candidates
https://www.illinoisrecord.com/p/cook-county-gop-chair-candidates
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly slam Trump budget cuts. Democrat and RINO leaders did not slam Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts during the 1980s and 1990s. The agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Trump administration is resuming collections from student loan borrowers in default. If you had to work your way through college, how would your life have been different if you had not had to do that? My high school, undergraduate, and graduate GPAs would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes while I was a Crete-Monee student 1964-1966. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours a) delivering mail while I was a UIC and NIU student 1966-1969, b) selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances while I was a UIC student in 1971, c) pumping gasoline while I was a Loyola student in 1972, d) collecting delinquent taxes while I was a Loyola and DePaul student 1972-1980, and e) auditing federal agencies while I was a DePaul student in 1980 and an IIT student 1992-1997. Further, my 1979 CPA examination scores would have been higher if I had studied instead of collected delinquent federal taxes. Further, my 1981 Certified Internal Auditor examination scores would have been higher if I had studied instead of audited federal agencies. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you could do it over again, would you have had the same college major? I would have majored in accounting instead of management. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30 years old in 1979. By then, the accounting profession considered me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called reverse discrimination and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Should I form a DuPage DOGE? I would draw on what I learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) becoming a licensed CPA, d) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant, Financial Services Auditor, Government Financial Manager, Fraud Examiner, Internal Auditor, and Public Accountant, and e) earning master’s degrees in finance, accounting, and business. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Catholic Church faces ideological crossroad after Pope Francis’ death.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/21/catholic-church-faces-ideological-crossroad-pope-francis-death/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Powell against Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-needs-to-end-his-war-with-jerome-powell-now-one-way-or-another/
— Democrat leaders used the Pope to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-pope-francis-history-of-criticizing-trump-and-embracing-lgbtq-rights-rankled-conservative-catholics/ar-AA1DiUr6
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Harvard Law School Professors Politicize the Rule of Law
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/22/harvard-law-school-professors-politicize-the-rule-of-law/
BLAZE
— Mayo Clinic rebrands woke DEI initiatives to dodge Trump’s ban
https://www.theblaze.com/news/mayo-clinic-rebrands-woke-dei-initiatives-to-dodge-trumps-ban
BREITBART
— Trump Successfully Gets Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport from U.S.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/21/reports-trump-successfully-gets-illegal-aliens-to-self-deport-from-u-s/
— Trump has successfully stopped the inflow of economic migrants via the southern border, so he should invite more economic migrants via the nation’s airports, says the Wall Street Journal.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/21/wall-street-journal-trumps-less-illegal-migration-allows-more-legalized-migration/
— Four More Democrats Travel to El Salvador to ‘Pressure Trump Administration’ to Return Illegal Migrant
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/21/four-more-democrats-travel-el-salvador-pressure-trump-administration-return-illegal-migrant/
FEDERALIST
— The Left’s Sudden Crusade For ‘Due Process’ Is A Political Smokescreen To Defend Mass Migration
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/21/the-left-sudden-crusade-for-due-process-is-a-political-smokescreen-to-defend-mass-migration/
— Republicans In Congress Look To Stop ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat’
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/21/republicans-in-congress-aim-to-stop-judicial-coup-detat/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Trump Administration Moves to Block Illegal Aliens From Collecting Social Security Benefits
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/trump-administration-block-illegal-aliens-social-security
FOX NEWS
— Trump will attend Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome despite contentious past: ‘Look forward to being there!’ Trump’s relationship with Pope Francis was one marked by ideological differences and sometimes tension.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-attend-pope-francis-funeral-rome-despite-contentious-past-look-forward-being-there
NEWSMAX
— World Now Needs a More Conservative Pope
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/pope-francis-fred-fleitz-conservative/2025/04/21/id/1207764/
— Trump: Radical Left ‘Always Threatening Our Judges’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-posts-immigration/2025/04/21/id/1207769/
— With Voter Support, Trump Moves Forward With His Agenda
https://www.newsmax.com/jeffcrouere/democrats-courts-trump-agenda/2025/04/21/id/1207695/
— Why Is U.S. Giving Billions to Private Universities Like Harvard?
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/harvard-public-funding-trump-administration/2025/04/21/id/1207706/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5259657-trump-courts-migrant-deportations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to destroy Trump.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5259208-if-trump-flouts-the-abrego-garcia-rulings-the-constitution-is-done/
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ask “Who are the top contenders to be the next pope?” and say “Experts weigh in.”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/top-contenders-pope-experts-weigh/story?id=121011243
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Hegseth against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFblPSNamas
— Democrat leaders ask “Who will be the next pope?” and say “Here’s a list of some of the possible top candidates.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-will-be-the-next-pope-list-of-possible-candidates/
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/us/harvard-lawsuit-trump-administration-explainer/index.html
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval ratings down.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-rating-dips-many-wary-his-wielding-power-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-04-21/
— Public education exists in America to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-academic-leaders-unite-against-trumps-higher-education-policies-2025-04-22/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-visa-cuts-tariff-hikes-turn-chinese-students-away-american-dream-2025-04-22/
— Democrat leaders used the Pope against conservatives.
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/world/pope-francis-shook-up-church-with-simplicity-raising-conservative-ire/ar-AA1DiHIq
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-administration-missteps.html
— Democrat leaders used the Pope against conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/21/world/pope-francis-updates-vatican#francis-faced-defiant-conservative-us-catholic-leaders
— Democrat law firms ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/eeoc-trump-dei-law-firms.html
— Democrat leaders ask “Is the Era of Student Loan Forgiveness Officially Over?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/podcasts/the-daily/student-loan-forgiveness.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Hegseth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/21/pete-hegseth-signal-chat-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s tariffs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/21/trump-tariff-recession/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/21/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-antisemitism/
— Democrat leaders say “What Pope Francis’s papacy meant for the U.S. church.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/21/pope-francis-us-catholic-church-vatican/
— Democrat leaders ask “Who will be next pope after Francis?” and say “Key contenders ahead of conclave.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2025/04/21/next-pope-after-francis-conclave-contenders/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/21/supreme-court-aclu-deportations-alien-enemies-act/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders crow about their success in moving the Pope to the left.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/pope-francis-legacy-us.html
— Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Are Behind on Payments
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/business/student-loan-borrowers-payments.html
— Gen Z Re-evaluates Its Budgets. What have you spent more money on than your peers? For me, it includes tuition and books, real estate, and new cars. What have you spent less money on than your peers? For me, it include immediate pleasures and dogs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/tariffs-gen-z-budgets.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-powell-ocasio-cortez-birthright.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/supreme-court-childrens-books-gay-trans.html
USA TODAY
— Harvard shunned conservatives. It deserves to be defunded by Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/21/trump-harvard-federal-funding-freeze-dei/83138590007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/04/22/supreme-court-lgbtq-books-case/83159626007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/20/supreme-court-lgbtq-storybooks-religion/83123106007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/22/supreme-court-childrens-books-lgbtq-issues-parents-rights/82977579007/
— Democrat leaders used the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/02/pope-francis-lgbtq-issues-legacy-catholic-church/80338152007/
EYEWITNESS NEWS
— Pritzker likely to run for 2028 presidential election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRQTlOnsRY
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Dow Heads for Worst April Since 1932. How far down will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters drive the stock market to destroy America to destroy Trump?
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-22-25/card/dow-heads-for-worst-april-since-1932-aAYmUHTfFPxPtuWmxty4
— Accountability Returns to Student Loans
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/accountability-returns-to-student-loans-forgiveness-borrower-debt-payment-9508da8d
FORTUNE
— Not all degrees are a waste of time and money: These majors will lead to six figure salaries after college. If you could do it over again, would you have had the same major? I would have majored in accounting instead of management. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30 years old in 1979. By then, the accounting profession considered me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called reverse discrimination and age discrimination.
https://fortune.com/article/not-all-degrees-are-a-waste-of-time-and-money-these-majors-will-lead-to-six-figure-salaries-after-college/
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjfXVUozQ2Q
NPR
— Trump administration is resuming collections from student loan borrowers in default. If you had to work your way through college, how would your life have been different if you had not had to do that? My high school, undergraduate, and graduate GPAs would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes while I was a Crete-Monee student 1964-1966. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours a) delivering mail while I was a UIC and NIU student 1966-1969, b) selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances while I was a UIC student in 1971, c) pumping gasoline while I was a Loyola student in 1972, d) collecting delinquent taxes while I was a Loyola and DePaul student 1972-1980, and e) auditing federal agencies while I was a DePaul student in 1980 and an IIT student 1992-1997. Further, my 1979 CPA examination scores would have been higher if I had studied instead of collected delinquent federal taxes. Further, my 1981 Certified Internal Auditor examination scores would have been higher if I had studied instead of audited federal agencies.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371723/trump-administration-collections-on-defaulted-student-loans
POLITICO
— Anticipate/expect Democrat leaders to ever-increasingly compare the Trump administration to Nazi Germany. How soon will governments, employers, organizations, etc. officially ban German Americans?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/al-gore-compares-trump-administration-to-third-reich-hitler-00302348
NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194029/fascist-trump-resembles-incompetent-mussolini
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-trump-pope_n_680721ade4b052543c13cd8a
HR DRIVE
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/exclusive-job-offers-protected-groups-present-greatest-legal-risk/745875/
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/04/22/will-trump-follow-law-punishing-harvard
GUARDIAN
— Public education exists in America to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration
April 21, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/el-salvador-government-rejects-lawmakers-request-visit-abrego-garcia/16218278/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-pope-francis-said-controversial-issues-gay-rights-immigration/16217684/
CBC2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pope-francis-remembered-for-his-commitment-to-social-justice/
WGN9
— How low will Democrat leaders drag the stock market down to destroy America to destroy Trump?
https://wgntv.com/news/stocks-and-the-dollar-tumble-as-investors-retreat-from-the-us/
WBEZ
— The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more homelessness.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/21/the-trump-administration-could-change-housing-policies-what-does-this-mean-for-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/theater-stages/2025/04/21/wake-of-a-dead-drag-queen-play-raven-theatre-hiv-art-nea
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more welfare for those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/21/most-in-illinois-want-more-funding-for-higher-education
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DePaul president called to testify to Congress on antisemitism
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/21/depaul-president-called-to-testify-to-congress-on-antisemitism
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/18/federal-program-liheap-utility-bills-cut-trump-budget-plan
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Congress calls on DePaul president to testify in antisemitism probe
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/depaul-president-called-testify-antisemitism-probe
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/responsible-gambling-legislation-needed-illinois-op-ed
JOURNAL & TOPICS
— People Paying More In State Income Taxes, But Getting Less
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/study-shows-people-paying-more-in-state-income-taxes-but-getting-less/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/04/21/no-kings-550-protest-trump-in-downtown-freeport-rockford/83196052007/
CITIES 92.9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/21/illinois-officials-share-concerns-tariffs-will-impact-states-agricultural-sector/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters are doing everything that they can to destroy America to destroy Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-21/sell-usa-why-trumps-tariffs-may-be-sparking-a-historic-storm-on-wall-street
— Trump Administration to resume collections on student loan borrowers in default
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-21/trump-administration-to-resume-collections-on-student-loan-borrowers-in-default
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly spend more tax dollars to defeat Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-attorney-general-requesting-15-million-budget-increase-to-address-trump-actions/article_1f5d57a9-98a5-49b9-8206-1ebe0572caed.html
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-04-21/u-s-farmers-trump-tariffs-trade-war
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, farmers are ever-increasingly dependent on government spending.
https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-04-21/illinois-scrambles-to-boost-locally-produced-farm-products-after-trumps-funding-freeze
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-21/protesters-in-normal-urge-congressman-darin-lahood-to-protect-medicaid-funding
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Homeschool Act proposer accused of ghost-voting.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/homeschool-act-proposer-accused-of-ghost-voting/article_3cd5b537-a1b7-4f88-9c28-d59427b694a6.html
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, farmers are ever-increasingly dependent on government spending.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-scrambles-to-boost-locally-produced-farm-products-after-trumps-funding-freeze/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-289/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— New State Senator Casts Controversial Vote
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/new-state-senator-casts-controversial-vote/
— Trump-Endorsed Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Bryon Donalds Speaking to State GOP Fundraiser Friday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/trump-endorsed-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-bryon-donalds-speaking-to-state-gop-fundraiser-friday/
— REBUTTAL FROM JOHN COLLINS ON TIM BECK’S “Logic Behind NOW’s ‘We Resist Rally’ Analyzed”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/logic-behind-nows-we-resist-rally-analyzed/
— RTA Seems To Be Using Tax Dollars to Raise Tax Dollar
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/rta-seems-to-be-using-tax-dollars-to-raise-tax-dollars/
— Idea That Failed on State Street Advanced for Michigan Avenue
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/6537/
— Trump v. Pritzker Feud from the Start
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/trump-v-pritzker-feud-from-the-start/
— Report on Abortion Tourism
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/report-on-abortion-tourism/
— McHenry County Doesn’t Make Top of the List of Highest Taxes Illinois Counties, But Kendall, Lake, Macon, Rock Island, Will and Winnebago Do
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/mchenry-county-doesnt-make-top-of-the-list-of-highest-taxes-illinois-counties-but-kendall-lake-macon-rock-island-will-and-winnebago-do/
— Remembering the Start of the American Revolution
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/remembering-the-start-of-the-american-revolution/
— More Anti-Trump Protests in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/more-anti-trump-protests-in-mchenry-county/
— Advice to Newly-Elected Officials
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/advice-to-newly-elected-officials/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— China says it will punish countries that use U.S. trade talks to ostracize Beijing
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/21/china-says-punish-countries-use-us-trade-talks-ostracize-beijing/
EPOCH TIMES
— China Issues Retaliatory Sanctions on U.S. Congress Members Over Hong Kong
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/china-issues-retaliatory-sanctions-on-u-s-congress-members-over-hong-kong-5844967
FEDERALIST
— The More Christian That America Is, The Better Off American Jews Will Be
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/21/the-more-christian-that-america-is-the-better-off-american-jews-will-be/
FOX NEWS
— David Hogg and Reince Priebus clash over Trump deportation policies
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371733004112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Student loan borrowers in default face garnished wages
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-loan-debt-default-garnished-wages-payments-education-department/
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-21/pope-francis-vance-gaza-refugees-migrants
CNN
— Harvard sues the Trump administration, taking the fight over federal funding and academic freedom to court
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/us/harvard-white-house-funding
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-congress-housing-voucher-assistance-funding-cuts-26f9a716af6731e3c6445015488bab3a
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-fertility-birthrate-sexism.html
— Democrat leaders say Hegseth shared sensitive military data
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/21/us/trump-administration-news
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Mexico’s president wants to ban U.S. ads warning against migration. How soon will Mexico officially declare war on America?
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-21/mexicos-president-says-u-s-ads-warning-against-migration-are-not-welcome
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— As Catholic Church Enters New Era, Conservative U.S. Members Push It Right. The conservative wing is reviving old practices and growing more assertive in the battle for the future of the Church—and the nation.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/conservative-catholic-maga-pope-vance-b2a4497b
— Harvard Is Suing the Trump Administration
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-sues-trump-administration-lawsuit-0f00e894
BLOOMBERG
— Behind Trump’s imperial presidency (and Elon), there’s Russell Vought
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-russell-vought-doge-musk-trump/
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2024-07-29/white-men-the-most-likely-to-get-hired-even-with-dei-finds-research
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 66% Agree: Deport Illegals to ‘Liberate’ America
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/66_agree_deport_illegals_to_liberate_america
April 20, 2025
How much success have Democrat leaders had organizing protests against Trump in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE IN THE NAPERVILLE SUN: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/18/420-cannabis-holiday-alcohol/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-cuts-threats-fuel-protests-025500813.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/19/supreme-court-blocks-deportations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Lightfoot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/19/editorial-no-president-trump-lori-lightfoot-is-neither-evil-nor-a-dope/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for high drug prices.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/20/illinois-drug-intermediaries-pharmacies/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/20/cook-county-jails-population/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/04/19/50501-chicago-protest-trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/04/18/easter-sermons-chicago-priests-pastors
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/17/donald-trump-detain-deport-pro-palestinian-el-salvador-prison-immigrants-kilmar-garcia-mona-charen
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/04/18/chicago-manufacturer-freedman-seating-reels-devastating-tariffs
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250419/news/anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-across-country/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-protesters-daley-plaza-downtown-oppose-trumps-policies-immigration-federal-funding-reproductive-rights/16204461/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-pastor-leads-event-support-black-owned-business-amid-dei-rollbacks/3726185/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/50501-protest-daley-plaza-chicago-donald-trump/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/anti-trump-50501-movement-protest-fills-daley-plaza/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgNbAvAGdP0
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-in-new-york-washington-and-other-cities-across-country/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/50501-protests-april-19-2025
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-trans-athlete-ban-response
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote international students over American students.
https://wgnradio.com/news/aclu-sues-trump-administration-for-targeting-international-students/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders use Trump tariffs to get companies to charge their customers more.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/19/these-companies-said-they-will-raise-prices-in-response-to-trumps-tariffs/
DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/04/20/hundreds-march-in-dekalb-to-declare-no-kings-at-anti-trump-protest/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/04/19/protesting-the-protestors-counter-protesters-at-hands-off-rally-condemn-their-treatment/
KENDALL COUNTY NOW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kendall-county-now/2025/04/19/this-is-a-moment-in-history-hundreds-protest-trump-administration-at-yorkville-rally/
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Foster.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/04/17/at-rep-foster-town-hall-concerns-about-social-security-tariffs-and-if-dems-wants-to-impeach-trump-again/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.rrstar.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/04/19/no-kings-no-tyrants-300-protest-trump-in-rockford-see-photos/83179321007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-new-york-washington-and-elsewhere-across-the-country/article_6e4ae27b-456e-5a16-b9e4-5ad9a00c95e5.html
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/community/belleville/article304590666.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-19/anti-trump-protests-this-weekend-turn-focus-to-community-action
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-19/protesters-unite-against-trump-in-hundreds-of-rallies-across-the-u-s
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-in-new-york-washington-and-other-cities-across-country/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/peoria-protest-trump-musk/
25 NEWS NOW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/19/hundreds-gather-downtown-peoria-oppose-trump-musk/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-new-york-washington-and-elsewhere-across-the-country/article_a01213d3-5ae5-5ec7-a77a-84bcf069b4c2.html
WGEM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wgem.com/2025/04/19/anti-trump-protestors-rally-outside-white-house/
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-marijuana-holiday-4-20-coincides-with-easter-and-passover-this-year-heres-what-to-know/
WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsiu.org/politics-elections/2025-04-19/trump-administration-and-the-courts-continue-to-clash-over-immigration
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-19/bloomington-among-cities-in-series-of-nationwide-protests-against-trump-administrations-policies
WVIK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wvik.org/2025-04-19/protesters-unite-against-trump-in-hundreds-of-rallies-across-the-u-s
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/photoshundreds-demonstrate-against-the-trump-administration-in-urbana/
ILLINOIS PUBLIC RADIO
— To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group. To give preference to illegals is to discriminate against Blacks.
https://will.illinois.edu/dialogue/episode/a-dialogue-about-why-many-black-people-are-staying-home-from-political-protests
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. I just bought a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in the car. I continue to own a 2013 Charger R/T Max that I bought new in 2012. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. I also own a 2005 and a 1972 Chevrolet Corvette and a 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Drag queen group mocks Jesus, Christianity in Easter show marketed to kids
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/drag-queen-group-mocks-christianity-in-easter-show-for-kids/
— The huge outpouring of support for Karmelo Anthony — who allegedly stabbed another teen in the heart — should scare all of us
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/opinion/support-for-alleged-stabber-karmelo-anthony-highlights-victim-industrial-complex/
— NYC woman who left swastika brick on Cybertruck is a woke therapist who blamed Elon Musk for tantrum. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk. To promote hatred against Musk is to promote more hatred against EVs and more hatred against EV owners. I just bought a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/nyc-woman-charged-in-cybertruck-hate-crime-is-woke-therapist/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/20/us-news/trump-white-house-releases-tren-de-aragua-gang-members-rap-sheets-photos-after-scotus-deportation-freeze/
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/supreme-court-blocks-new-deportations-of-of-venezuelans-under-18th-century-wartime-law-alien-enemies-act/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illinois’s insane leftism now propping up bordering states!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/illinois_s_insane_leftism_now_propping_up_bordering_states.html
— DOGE shows just how deep illegal immigration rot goes
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/doge_shows_just_how_seep_illegal_immigration_rot_goes.html
BLAZE
— Telling America’s story is too important to leave to radicals.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/telling-americas-story-is-too-important-to-leave-to-radicals
— Trump’s border blitz puts military muscle to work
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trumps-border-blitz-puts-military-muscle-to-work
BREITBART
— Stephen Miller Urges Reparations for Migration’s Damage to Americans. My critics/opponents promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/19/stephen-miller-urges-reparations-for-migrations-damage-to-americans/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/thousands-protest-trump-across-u-s-in-second-day-of-action/
— UK Bans French ‘Great Replacement’ Philosopher Renaud Camus From Entering Country. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, and have financial, health, and/or other problems.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/04/19/uk-bans-french-great-replacement-philosopher-renaud-camus-from-entering-country/
— Therapist Who Committed Tesla Hate Crime Blames Elon Musk
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/04/19/nyc-police-therapist-who-committed-tesla-hate-crime-blames-elon-musk/
DAILY CALLER
— Blue States Are Keeping DEI On Life Support
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/19/blue-states-keeping-dei-life-support-trump-admin/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Tesla Continues to Reign Supreme Despite Leftist Violence
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/19/tesla-continues-to-reign-supreme-despite-leftist-violence/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/19/supreme-court-issues-order-pausing-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-blocks-trump-from-deporting-alleged-tren-de-aragua-gang-members
FOX NEWS
— Illinois trans athlete policy brewing conflict within state. Rep. Blaine Wilhour called on Illinois school districts to take action and ban trans athletes.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/illinois-transgender-athlete-policy-sparks-controversy-state
— Expert sounds alarm on Trump’s tariffs: ‘Too high, too fast’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54HVgd9oitw
NEWSMAX
— Trump is ‘prioritizing the American people’ and not ‘illegal aliens’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc4c0zKRHcA
TOWNHALL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/19/federal-judge-denies-emergency-request-to-block-imminent-deportation-flights-under-alien-enemies-act-n2655793
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5257441-anti-trump-demonstrators-rally-across-the-us/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5256292-schools-parents-trump-trade-war-trump-tariffs/
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/politics/video/anti-trump-protests-hands-off-protesters-musk-digvid
— Trump administration sent letter of demands to Harvard University in error
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/us/harvard-trump-administration-letter-mistake/index.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/politics/supreme-court-alien-enemies-act-order/index.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly turn Canada against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/americas/canada-election-carney-poilievre-intl-latam/index.html
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-protesters-rally-against-trump-across-us-2025-04-19/
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.newsweek.com/anti-trump-50501-protesters-warn-theyre-fighting-fascism-2061821
MSNBC
— Cheap labor isn’t China’s only advantage over the United States. China graduates almost twice as many STEM-oriented Ph.D.s in science and technology programs than the U.S. does.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-tariffs-china-education-deficit-rcna201951
MSN
— Musk’s Tesla Zapped by Trump’s Tariff Storm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/shock-charge-musk-s-tesla-zapped-by-trump-s-tariff-storm/ar-AA1DfkTi
— Tesla to delay US launch of affordable EV, a lower-cost Model Y
https://www.msn.com/en-in/autos/news/tesla-to-delay-us-launch-of-affordable-ev-a-lower-cost-model-y-reports/ar-AA1DcH6s
— Tesla delays affordable Model Y release until 2026. Needless-to-say, my critics/opponents are furious that I could afford to buy a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/tesla-delays-affordable-model-y-release-until-2026/ar-AA1DeC4Y
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk. To promote hatred against Musk is to promote more hatred against EVs and more hatred against EV owners. I just bought a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/pure-evil-tesla-whistleblower-slams-monster-elon-musk-and-wants-to-drag-him-to-court/ar-AA1DecXN
AOL
— Since 1965, Democrat and RINO leaders have ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/trump-revokes-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613130.html
YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protesters-target-trump-admin-policies-222704745.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-trump-50501-protests-ahead-175204493.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-trump-protesters-mobilize-hundreds-192544875.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/no-kings-protesters-across-country-march-against-trump-musk/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-trump-rallies-hands-off-administration-washington-new-york-boston/
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-protest-today-trump-no-kings/
— Car buyers say they are not racing to the dealership amid tariffs
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/car-buyers-not-racing-dealership-amid-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/supreme-court-blocks-trump-deporting-alleged-gang-members-migrants-texas-facility/
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-trump-administration-not-deport-venezuelans-now-rcna201949
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/trump-protests-nyc-florida-la.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/supreme-court-deportation-protocol-venezuela.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/trump-deportation-courts-venezuelan-migrants-texas.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/19/us/trump-news
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/economy/tariffs-business-strategy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/tariffs-china-us-farmers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000010111503/how-china-and-the-eu-are-reacting-to-trumps-tariffs.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.” The Democrats who ran GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized in 1997, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/economy/government-union-trump-musk.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/20/trump-clashes-with-courts-immigration/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-19/anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-in-new-york-washington-and-other-cities-across-country
DETROIT FREE PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/04/19/metro-detroit-protesters-rally-against-trump-administration/83142535007/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Fed chief Powell
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/18/trumps-critcism-powell-rates/83144615007/
— To get more votes from Latinos, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give Latinos more preference over non-Latinos.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/19/despite-trump-anti-dei-push-latino-museum/83162003007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders and the rest of America’s enemies want America to be totally dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/19/trump-tariffs-america-economy-jobs-china/83143659007/
— Democrats and RINOs cause everything that is bad and then blame Republicans for everything that is bad.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/19/trump-easter-egg-hunt-prices-ruined/83121697007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/20/trump-tariff-trade-wars-2028-china-economy/83096052007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/20/trump-insurrection-act-1807-military-border/83142329007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pritzker Is Acting Like He Wants to Be President. He is one of the top Democrats being watched as the party searches for a way out of the political wilderness. Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump and against those who share Trump’s demographics.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/americas-second-richest-elected-official-is-acting-like-he-wants-to-be-president-8b30efa0
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-migrant-deportations-alien-enemies-act-759f25dd
FORBES
— Tesla Protests And Vandalism Surge: Justice Department Announces Charges Against Sixth Alleged Vandal. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk. To promote hatred against Musk is to promote more hatred against EVs and more hatred against EV owners. I just bought a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/04/19/tesla-protests-and-vandalism-surge-justice-department-announces-charges-against-sixth-alleged-vandal/
NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/nx-s1-5369483/anti-trump-protests-50501-tesla-takedown
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-trump-from-deporting-more-venezuelan-migrants
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/donald-trumps-deportation-obsession
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/19/anti-trump-protesters-new-york-washington-00299718
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s tariffs.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/first-shockwaves-of-trumps-tariffs-are-about-to-hit-the-world-economy/articleshow/120449995.cms
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/no-kings-in-america-anti-trump-protests-erupt-across-the-us-from-new-york-to-washington-and-beyond/articleshow/120446663.cms
DAILY MAIL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14628887/Appalling-rap-sheets-cartel-thugs-Trump-deport-judges-demand-process-ILLEGALS.html