FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago Bears consider new stadium sites in Hammond as IL Republican lawmakers make new proposals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-bears-new-stadium-update-il-rep-martin-mclaughlin-arlington-heights-proposal-calls-25b-team-13-state/19264540/
— CPD setting up Emergency Assistance Center in Cornell Square Park after mass shootings. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-department-setting-emergency-assistance-center-cornell-square-park-mass-shootings/19263600/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Community leaders said around 300 teens had gathered near 45th Street Indiana Avenue before shots rang out, leaving an 11-year-old, two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old boy wounded. . .”Whenever there are mass gatherings, whether they’re teen takeovers or a family picnic, there’s always a danger and bullets don’t know one from the other,” Pastor Price said.)
CBS2
— 2 Illinois lawmakers offer new proposals to keep Chicago Bears from moving to Indiana.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-lawmakers-new-proposals-chicago-bears-stadium-legislation/
WGN9
— State Rep. Dan Ugaste (R-Geneva) proposes new legislation aimed at keeping Bears in Illinois, urges state legislature to act before fall session.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/state-lawmaker-to-outline-legislation-to-help-keep-bears-in-illinois-after-teams-vote-to-advance-stadium-project-in-hammond/
FOX32
— New Illinois bill could keep the Bears in Chicago
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-uzcr4qazqnyi8b6f
WTTW
— Chicago Bears Are ‘80% of the Way’ Toward Hammond Stadium.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/09/chicago-bears-are-80-way-toward-hammond-stadium-sports-consultant
— Immigration Advocates Condemn Trump Administration Over ‘Discriminatory’ Treatment of World Cup Teams.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/09/immigration-advocates-condemn-trump-administration-over-discriminatory-treatment-world
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Aldermen push for stiffer penalties on marijuana smoking, sales around schools and parks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/09/aldermen-penalties-marijuana-schools-parks/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— City Council committee backs crackdown on selling pot near schools, parks.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026/06/09/marijuana-sales-parks-schools-crackdown-city-council-public-safety-committee-gilbert-villegas
— Immigration advocates slam Trump administration over World Cup entry treatment.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/09/world-cup-soccer-immigration-trump-ice-border-patrol-iran-iraq-team-ohare
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker opens door to new Bears talks, blames team for stadium stumbles.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-pritzker-chicago-bears-stadium-20260609/
— Condo on highest floor at Hancock Center coming on the market for $9.5 million. DD: When I was 25 in 1974, when I was a newly promoted IRS employee, I almost bought a studio condo in that building, but instead, I bought a studio condo in the Outer Drive East building.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/residential/ccb-john-hancock-coupon-cabin-20260609/
SOUTHERN
— DD: Democrats boo Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2026/06/09/trump-booed-at-madison-square-garden-as-he-and-mamdani-attend-knicks-game/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://pantagraph.com/life-entertainment/article_d5f150bc-e326-5ba7-80f7-4af034befbc9.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Republicans hope to reengage Bears with new proposals
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2026-06-09/republicans-hope-to-reengage-bears-with-new-proposals
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrats boo Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/sports/ap-nyc-imposes-stringent-security-as-trump-becomes-1st-sitting-us-president-to-attend-nba-finals-game/
WIFR
— Darren Bailey targets Pritzker’s possible presidential ambitions in Illinois governor’s race.
https://www.wifr.com/2026/06/10/darren-bailey-targets-pritzkers-possible-presidential-ambitions-illinois-governors-race/
CHICAGO READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more LGBTQ.
https://mailchi.mp/chicagoreader/chicago-drag-shows-up-and-shows-out
CWB CHICAGO
— 13-year-old shot four victims at large youth gathering in Bronzeville. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/06/13-year-old-shot-four-victims-at-large-youth-gathering-in-bronzeville-police-say.html
DURBIN
— Congressional Democrats Release GAO Report Detailing Dangerous Expansion Of Immigration Detention Under Trump
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressional-democrats-release-gao-report-detailing-dangerous-expansion-of-immigration-detention-under-trump
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-539/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The Real Story Isn’t the Bears — It’s Why Everyone Is Leaving Illinois.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/the-real-story-isnt-the-bears-its-why-everyone-is-leaving-illinois.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Nearly 50% of Americans say UFC event tarnishes White House image.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/9/nearly-50-americans-say-ufc-event-tarnishes-white-house-image/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Deportation hits illegal immigration supply. Mandatory E-Verify will address demand.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4600680/katie-britt-mandatory-e-verify-act-illegal-worker-demand/
NEW YORK POST
— ICE blasts ‘reckless’ Mamdani, Hochul as agency IDs criminal illegal migrants picked up in NY.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/us-news/ice-blasts-reckless-mamdani-hochul-as-it-releases-ids-of-criminal-illegals-picked-up-in-ny/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Ex-Border Patrol official dreams big on deportations—really big.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/09/ex-border-patrol-official-dreams-big-on-deportations-really-big-1644995/
BREITBART
— Trump’s Redistricting Moves Give GOP a Shot at Holding the House
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/08/nolte-trumps-redistricting-moves-give-gop-a-shot-at-holding-the-house/
— Biden’s ‘Backdoor Amnesty’ to Protect over 1M Illegals.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/09/brandon-gill-tps-joe-biden/amp/
FOX NEWS
— Four dead and 29 shot in Chicago weekend violence as leaders tout crime progress. Victims include four children between ages 12 and 14 shot by an unknown gunman who opened fire and fled the scene.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/four-dead-29-shot-chicago-weekend-violence-leaders-tout-crime-progress
NEW AMERICAN
— Cultural Revolution: GOP Support for Same-sex “Marriage,” and “LGBT” Generally, Collapses.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/cultural-revolution-gop-support-for-same-sex-marriage-and-lgbt-generally-collapses/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
JD SUPRA
— A Review of the EEOC’s Priorities. DD: For Democrat employers, their top priority is a) hiring, retaining, and promoting 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 and b) getting rid of their Republican employees 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.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-latest-from-the-eeoc-a-review-of-1505819/
Tag: minority
June 9, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Teen takeovers are spreading across the U.S. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/national-international/teen-takeover-across-us-explained/3945492/?amp
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Over 100 ex-federal prosecutors call out ‘failure of leadership’ by Chicago’s embattled U.S. attorney Boutros. DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating ex-federal prosecutors attack Boutros. They charge him with letting political considerations infect his prosecutorial decisions. The Republicans who ran DOJ under Bush sided with my Democrat GAO superiors in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf To side with my Democrat GAO superiors is to promote the Democrat Party platform. That is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/08/broadview-six-andrew-boutros-federal-prosecutor-justice-department-doj
— Northwestern researcher among group kicked out of conference for distributing paper critical of Trump. DD: I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they because they were critical of them or reported their wrong doing.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2026/06/08/northwestern-researcher-among-group-kicked-out-of-conference-for-distributing-paper-critical-of-trump
WGN9
— Judge blocks $100,000 fee for H-1B visas imposed by Trump. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/judge-blocks-100000-fee-for-h-1b-visas-imposed-by-trump/
WTTW
— Teen Takeovers Prompt Discussion About Community Engagement, Police Intervention. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/08/teen-takeovers-prompt-discussion-about-community-engagement-police-intervention
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/factcheck/2026/06/09/did-a-wisconsin-gop-governor-sign-the-nations-first-lgbtq-rights-law/90462420007/
DECATUR DAILY
— Cal Thomas: Lessons from Graham Planter. DD: Far too often, far too many candidates have run for offices as Republicans, but they should not have because they have far too much personal baggage. Voters hold Republican candidates to far higher standards than they hold Democrat candidates. I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they were critical of them or reported their wrong doing.
https://www.decaturdaily.com/opinion/columnists/cal-thomas-lessons-from-graham-platner/article_e209c6f0-5b47-4e42-a9c2-06d22304be48.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: How can Graham Planter, who might win the Democratic nomination for senator from Maine in next Tuesday’s primary election ever be seriously considered for such a job, given the amount of personal baggage he carries? The answer is we have so lowered our standards and think so little of our politicians that, as the saying used to go, anyone can grow up to be president, or senator.)
WSIL TV
— Teens Struggling to find Summer Jobs. DD: While I was in high school and college, few of my peers did what I did. I took bad jobs. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser. My critics/opponents had wealthy parents.
https://www.wsiltv.com/video/teens-struggling-to-find-summer-jobs/video_eb52f5f0-c021-54ba-bc03-72d88ac5e851.html
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL
— ‘Pay Attention to the World Around You.’ Remarks Offered by Judge David S. Tatel, ’66, at the 2026 Law School Diploma and Hooding Ceremony. DD: The fastest, easiest, and least costly way for Illinois Republicans to stay up to date with Illinois government and political news and commentary from a conservative perspective is to read GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/pay-attention-world-around-you
ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— Streamline Your Hiring Process. DD: Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if not already, employers will officially post signs that say those who are following need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://learn.icpas.org/Public/Catalog/Details.aspx
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/09/no-pride-in-mary-millers-proposal-00954034
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-753/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois Lawmakers Thumb Noses at Constitution to Impose New Taxes
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-thumb-their-noses-at-constitution-to-impose-new-taxes-wirepoints/
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago’s Pathway to Real Pension Reform
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-pathway-real-pension-reform
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Jeanne Ives Publishes Cartoon of JB’s Punting Bears to Indiana
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/08/jeanne-ives-publishes-cartoon-of-jbs-punting-bears-to-indiana/
— Would You Want a DEI Doctor? Illinois State Rep. Bill Hauter, a Republican physician and graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, sharply criticized reports that the school is promoting “equitable assessments” in medical education. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use the subjectivity in their performance management systems to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my attention was drawn to the aforesaid because my undergraduate degree was in personnel management and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/08/would-you-want-a-dei-doctor/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Google AI, “The top political newsletters in Illinois for Republican and conservative news include Illinois Review, the Illinois Conservative Union, and state politics staple Capitol Fax.” What does that say about Google AI? I have been sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000. Since 2004, those newsletters have included links to more than 541,500 articles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. For Democrat leaders, 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. Far too many Republican leaders accept the aforesaid. I should write about that. I would show how my career in the federal government would have been dramatically different if the Republican U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives who represented me had fought political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old. All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats dodge Platner scandal — after years of ‘believe all women.’ DD: My Democrat GAO superiors had their female GAO Chicago Office manager and my female supervisor force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/8/democrats-silent-platner-misconduct-allegations-despite-believe-women/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Ex-Border Patrol official Bovino not ruling out 2028 run if that’s ‘what it takes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/4599700/gregory-bovino-2028-president-bid/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Britain’s Anti-White Wokeness. No one prominent has taken the knee for Henry Nowak, the young man stabbed to death in Britain.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/britains-anti-white-wokeness-americas-pro-israel-madness/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump team faces growing threat of investigations and criminal referrals. DD: If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, my Democrat superiors in the federal government would not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/08/trump-team-faces-growing-threat-of-investigations-and-criminal-referrals-1644787/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Loyola University Chicago faculty donate almost exclusively to Democrats during 2026 midterms. The university’s faculty gave over $34,000 to the left, representing 99% of total donations. Only one individual donated to Republicans, making a single contribution of $25.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/loyola-university-chicago-faculty-donate-almost-exclusively-democrats-2026-midterms/29994
CENTER SQUARE
— DC schools use sex ed curriculum that avoids using ‘male,’ ‘female,’ promotes abortion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_cd674363-d2f8-4a13-baf8-351bde0ff738.html
DAILY CALLER
— Bears Set To Leave Democratic Chicago After Over 100 Years. DD: The aforesaid is because the Bears failed/refused to do enough to elect Democrats.
https://www.aol.com/news/bears-set-leave-democratic-chicago-174615602.html
— Bernie Sanders lashes out at GOP ‘morality’ while rallying behind Dem with Nazi-linked tattoo
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-lashes-out-gop-morality-while-backing-dem-nazi-linked-tattoo
FEDERALIST
— GOP-Run Indiana City Considers Democrat-Run, California-Style Homeless Center. Hundreds of billions spent nationwide on homeless services have only resulted in more homelessness. Councilman Russ Jehl says Fort Wayne should try a third option besides doing nothing or enabling addicts.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/09/gop-run-indiana-city-considers-democrat-run-california-style-homeless-center/
FOX NEWS
— ‘You’re destroying your countries’: Is Europe finally heeding Trump’s warning on illegal immigration?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/youre-destroying-your-countries-europe-finally-heeding-trumps-warning-illegal-immigration
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
— The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/southern-poverty-law-center-manufacturing-hate-part-ii
POST MILLENNIAL
— Patriots chant ‘USA’, leftists boo Trump as he attends NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden.
https://thepostmillennial.com/patriots-chant-usa-leftists-boo-trump-as-he-attends-nba-finals-at-madison-square-garden
TOWNHALL
— Deranged Man Re-Enacts Charlie Kirk’s Murder Outside of TPUSA Women’s Summit Hosted by Erika Kirk.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/julia-cassidy/2026/06/08/man-re-enacts-charlie-kirks-murder-outside-of-tpusa-womens-summit-hosted-by-erika-kirk-n2677414
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: For Democrats, democracy exists to take opportunities, money, and everything else away from Republicans and to give it all to Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/ap-poll-america-250-democracy-exceptional-474874cbb88c08908c8b6c01e386ba91
YAHOO
— As teens seek summer jobs, finding roles becomes more challenging: ‘Hard work of life.’ DD: While I was in high school and college, few of my peers did what I did. I took bad jobs. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser. My critics/opponents had wealthy parents.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/teens-seek-summer-jobs-finding-233937948.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Vance Blames Migrant ‘Invasion’ for Henry Nowak Stabbing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/world/europe/vance-uk-stabbing-migrants.html
— Veterans. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran federal government for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and/or subordinates were veterans who blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. My Democrat superiors preferred veterans because they wanted employees who “followed orders.” The most important order that they wanted followed was to get rid of their employees who were Republican, and especially those who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid. And on top of that, I was 1-A for Vietnam War draft, but had avoided it with draft deferments. Further, earlier in my federal career, many of my superiors and supervisors had parents, siblings, grandparents, relatives, friends, etc. who had been killed by Germans in WWI and WWII.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/opinion/veterans-politics.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-06-09/school-programs-to-aid-black-students-under-increased-scrutiny-as-illegal-dei-under-trump
BOSTON GLOBE
— DD: To get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat candidates and Democrat elected officials ever-increasingly promise to use government to give them more preference. To give preference to one demographic is to discriminate against another demographic. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote Republicans include conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/09/opinion/race-dei-survey-democrats-politics/
PRESS HERALD
— Platner’s ex tells New York Times about Nazi tattoo, ‘toxic’ relationship. The latest scandalous report on Platner comes days after stories about sexually explicit texts he had previously sent several women while married.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/04/platner-bragged-of-nazi-tattoo-to-ex-physically-threatened-another-new-york-times-report-says/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Adverse Actions. DD: My Civil Service Retirement System pension is dramatically less a) because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and b) because they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about the adverse actions that my Democrat GAO superiors would have taken against me if I had tried to work to my regular retirement age of 55 in 2003. They had made it clear that they would constructively, if not literally, demote me and that they would have given me adverse transfers, bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance evaluations. I continue to ask myself what exactly would have happened if I had not succumbed to their threats. Would Speaker Gingrich, Speaker Hastert, U.S. Senator Fitzgerald, U.S. Representative Hyde, and/or the Bush Administration have come to my defense? The aforesaid did not come to my defense in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf To not come to my defense was a) to reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform, that is, b) to promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/06/opm-details-changes-for-federal-employees-in-schedule-policy-career/
JD SUPRA
— EEOC Releases New National Enforcement Plan. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC had a tremendous impact on me. When I was 22 in 1971, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had accepted that offer, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me. Because of that, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eeoc-releases-new-national-enforcement-4768151/
PEW RESEARCH
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies against America.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/05/01/americans-remain-critical-of-trump-administrations-approach-to-iran/
RESEARCH GATE
— Transparency in journalism: Meanings, merits and risks. DD: At a minimum, everyone involved in journalism should be required to disclose their sources and amounts of income. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $68,640/year. My Social Security is $18,712/year.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353597370_Transparency_in_journalism_Meanings_merits_and_risks
PBS
— Teen Takeovers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.pbs.org/video/a-look-at-teen-takeovers-and-efforts-to-keep-kids-safe-this-summer-rr2zch/
POLITICO
— Democrats are furious after latest Platner revelations. A New York Times report with new allegations about the Democrat’s Nazi symbol tattoo and conduct with women has the party freaking out over its Maine Senate chances. DD: Political parties should have the power to stop candidates from running for government offices as members of their party. But I acknowledge if the RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party had that power, and if I had tried to run for a government office, they would have stopped me. According to them, I am far too conservative, that is, I defend and advance far too many planks in the Republican Party platform. They would have stressed my bad demographics, the lawsuits that I filed, and that I was forced to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/platner-democrats-furious-new-york-times-report-00951496
MEDIUM
— Retirement Bravery: Criticizing Trump After Stepping Down. Politicians lack the courage while still in office. DD: I did not sue my Democrat GAO superiors for political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination until after they had forced me to retire in 1997. Since I was 40 in 1988, I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://aninjusticemag.com/retirement-bravery-criticizing-trump-after-stepping-down-d5dfa24c349a
COMPACT MAGAZINE
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Henry Nowak.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/there-will-be-more-henry-nowaks/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
SPECTATOR
— Ten reasons why the murder of Henry Novak was an example of Wokeness
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/06/ten-reasons-why-the-murder-of-henry-novak-was-an-example-of-wokeness/
DAILY STAR
— DD: Governments ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/wisdom/news/why-more-people-are-choosing-stay-single-4192891
June 6, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago Bears’ stadium tactics over years of negotiations leave some Illinois leaders frustrated
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/06/bears-stadium-indiana-reaction/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/06/06/61-percent-white-americans-fox-news-viewers-immigrants-invade-colonize-eichen-rhodes-nteta-umass
— New test to get into selective CPS high schools is longer, only in English. The district’s eight graders will take the PreACT 9 Secure exam in October instead of the current HSAT. The new test is more than twice as long and won’t be offered in multiple languages, like the current exam.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/06/05/new-test-to-get-into-selective-cps-high-schools-is-longer-only-in-english
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260601/submitted-content/summer-meals-campaign-gets-major-boost-with-matching-gift-from-naperville-business/
SOUTHERN
— Senate approves $70 billion immigration enforcement bill
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2026/06/05/senate-approves-70-billion-immigration-enforcement-bill/
WGLT
— Trump administration blocks wind farm development in Illinois and across the nation
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-06-05/trump-administration-blocks-illinois-and-national-wind-farm-development
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
10TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT REPUBLICAN NEWSLETTER
— DD: It would be great if each Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee member would send the Republican Precinct Committeemen in their district such newsletters.
https://mailchi.mp/bfe5d2ae66f1/the-new-il-10th-republican-newsletter-14207171
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Homosexuality Redefining Reality
https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/redefining-reality/
— The State Makes a Bad Parent, But It’ll Keep Trying
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/the-state-makes-a-bad-parent-but-itll-keep-trying/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pence kept his oath. Many in MAGA never forgave him.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/4595067/mike-pence-kept-oath-maga-never-forgave-him/
NEW YORK POST
— The moral woke abyss that got Henry Nowak killed
https://www.aol.com/news/moral-woke-abyss-got-henry-104500539.html
AMAC
— What Is Your Opinion on the Anti-Weaponization Fund? DD: Just kidding, but should I apply? Democrat leaders in Illinois had my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors waste my career and take many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. My critics/opponents have always stressed that in Diersen v. GAO, not only Bush’s DOJ sided with my Democrat GAO superiors against me, but that no Republican federal elected officials in Illinois came to my defense, that is, they sided with my Democrat GAO superiors against me. To side with my Democrat GAO superiors, is to promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://amac.us/poll/president-trump-anti-weaponization-fund/
BREITBART
— ICE Workplace Raid Detains 50 Illegal Migrants, Managers
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/06/05/ice-workplace-raid-detains-50-migrants-managers/amp/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Bogus Asylum Case. DD: It is all too easy to claim fear of persecution.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Purported-Bogus-Asylum-Case-Out-Hoosier-State-Thats-All-Too-Common
— Texas Nabs Six Camo-Clad Chinese on Border Ranch. The border is now so secure that their apprehension is ‘newsworthy’ — unlike under the last administration.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Texas-Nabs-Six-CamoClad-Chinese-Border-Ranch
FEDERALIST
— SPLC Paid KKK Members. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes do the most to destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and Illinois Center Right Coalition in 2007.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/03/splc-paid-kkk-members-who-wanted-out-to-stay-with-racist-group-doj-says/
FOX NEWS
— NJ taxpayers on the hook for $12M more as Dem governor protects illegal aliens battling deportation
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nj-taxpayers-hook-12m-dem-governor-protects-illegal-aliens-battling-deportation
— Noncitizens on voter rolls. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because that had wealthy parents.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6397660511112
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Four GOP Senators Join Dems to Stop SAVE Act. “There’s no other reason to say you don’t have to have an ID. It just makes cheating easier. Who wants a noncitizen voting in our election…” Four Republican senators joined every Senate Democrat Thursday night to block an amendment that would have attached the SAVE America Act to the Republican budget reconciliation package. The amendment failed on a 48-50 vote, falling short of the 60 votes required under Senate rules.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/four-gop-senators-join-dems-to-stop-save-act/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Karen Bass Wants To Explore Letting Non-Citizens Vote. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because that had wealthy parents.
https://www.nationalreview.com/videos/karen-bass-wants-to-explore-letting-non-citizens-vote/
TOWNHALL
— Trump Just Got the Last Laugh on Immigration
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cameron-arcand/2026/06/05/democrats-went-bold-on-immigration-demands-trump-just-got-the-last-laugh-n2677311
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Paying for Klan Hoods, Cross Burnings, And an Imperial Wizard – The 6 Worst SPLC Sins Alleged in New Indictment
https://www.westernjournal.com/paying-klan-hoods-cross-burnings-imperial-wizard-6-worst-splc-sins-alleged-new-indictment/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Fear the Mamdani Effect: AI’s liberal bias could destroy American patriotism. DD: What makes you patriotic? For me, it includes my being able to earn enough money to do the following even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, he died when he was 47 and I was 21, and my mother never attended high school: a) work my way through college and earn a bachelor’s degree in management, master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, a CPA certificate, a Certified Internal Auditor certificate, four more job-related professional certifications, and a CPA license, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., and c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5909906-ai-bias-american-narrative/
REUTERS
— Law firm diversity group shutters amid Trump’s DEI crackdown. DD: My IRS employee manual encouraged me to take business, accounting, and/or law courses. Reasons why I did not take law courses included a) their being more expensive, b) their not being tax deductible, c) the well-known anti-conservative and anti-Republican bias of law professors, and d) the tremendous pressure on law schools to admit and to graduate students who were minority and/or female.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/law-firm-diversity-group-shutters-amid-trumps-dei-crackdown-2026-06-05/
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— 25 Law Schools That Offer the Most Tuition Help. At least 62% of students who received grants at these schools got enough to cover half or more of tuition and fee costs. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships to stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class, and c) that my parents were not poor.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/paying/slideshows/law-schools-that-offer-the-most-tuition-help
MSN
— 12 people who can rightfully claim reparations
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/12-people-who-can-rightfully-claim-reparations-and-who-can-t/vi-AA24V8KX
NEW YORK TIMES
— Tracking the Battle to Reshape Congress (and Pick Up Seats) for the Midterms
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/politics/midterms-house-maps-redistricting.html
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want unrestricted immigration. Democrat leaders because noncitizens vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because RINO leaders want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because that had wealthy parents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/asylum-immigration-ruling.html
— A Job Market Leaving Young Graduates Behind Could Scar Them for Years. DD: I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in August of 1970. My not being able to get a job appropriate for that degree until 1971 set me back. The Democrats who ran IRS who hired me as a GS-7 in June of 1971 used their up-or-out rule to get rid of me. While I got promoted as fast as time-in-grade rules allowed to GS-9 in 1972, to GS-11 in 1973, and to GS-12 in 1974, that was not fast enough for them. They used their up-or-out rule to deem me to be too old to be promoted to GS-13 because they had not promoted me to GS-13 by the time I was 25. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/business/college-graduates-job-market.html
— DD: To get more votes, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton and in 2019 I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/illegal-drugs-cheap-prices.html
WFAA
— DD: Democrat Texan leaders protest removing their illegal truck drivers Texas Roads. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because that had wealthy parents.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/lawmakers-protest-removing-immigrant-truckers-from-texas-roads-inside-texas-politics-june-7-2026/287-8992e988-20a9-45b8-b022-3a12caa56ff7
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Illinois Bar vs. Free Speech. Illinois punishes a state judge who wrote a pro-Trump op-ed.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/judge-james-brown-free-speech-illinois-supreme-court-cook-county-a082dd23
— Vance: What I Learned About Faith and Fatherhood from Charlie Kirk.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-book-excerpt-fatherhood-080541c7
— Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer Than Ever—and Remaking the Auto Industry. Automakers, dealers and repair shops are changing business practices to adapt to a new normal: the 13-year-old car. DD: I have owned my 1972 Chevrolet Corvette since 1971, my 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX since 1995, my 2005 Corvette since 2005, my 2013 Dodge Charger R/T since 2012, my 2018 Chevrolet Cruze LT since 2022, my 2019 Ford Escape Titanium since 2019, my 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premiere since 2021, my 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium since 2023, and my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T since 2025.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/americans-are-keeping-their-cars-longer-than-ever-and-remaking-the-auto-industry-c169e494
— Parents Aren’t Waiting to Pass Down Wealth. DD: My critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/parents-arent-waiting-to-pass-down-wealth-fd615a4a
NPR
— DD: Democrat leaders racially gerrymander to destroy Republicans. I live in the racially gerrymandered 3rd Congressional District in Illinois.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/05/nx-s1-5836682/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-state-redistricting
REASON
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want unrestricted immigration. Democrat leaders because noncitizens vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because RINO leaders want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because that had wealthy parents.
https://reason.com/2026/06/05/this-attempt-by-the-trump-administration-to-cripple-legal-immigration-is-illegal-judge-rules/
GOOD MEN PROJECT
— DD: Democrat leaders racially gerrymander to destroy Republicans. I live in the racially gerrymandered 3rd Congressional District in Illinois.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/this-is-no-time-to-mince-words-partisan-gerrymandering-is-racism-and-its-supporters-are-racists/
LAW
— DD: Democrat leaders racially gerrymander to destroy Republicans. I live in the racially gerrymandered 3rd Congressional District in Illinois.
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2026/06/05/dont-cry-for-the-voting-rights-act-we-can-fix-it-by-ending-partisan-gerrymandering/
PBS
— Treasury warns banks of ‘red flags’ tied to customers in the U.S. illegally
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/treasury-warns-banks-of-red-flags-tied-to-customers-in-the-us-illegally
SIRM
— New Executive Order Could Reshape Federal Employment Protections. DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I transferred from IRS in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many big adverse actions against me that they did. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. But even though I was a union member, a) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. That was because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/new-executive-order-could-reshape-federal-employment
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
TIMES OF INDIA
— DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat elected officials a) to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran and b) to get rid of their employees who were Republican, and especially those who were conservative, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/hegseth-removes-women-black-officers-from-navy-promotion-list-pentagon-denies-bias-report/ar-AA24DJBr
INDIAN EXPRESS
— Trump fuels 2028 buzz, says JD Vance-Marco Rubio ticket would be ‘unbeatable.’ Vance and Rubio have taken turns to take the stage at White House briefings to defend the Trump administration against a wide range of questions, including the increasingly unpopular Iran war. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government 1966-1997 who were veterans ever-increasingly blamed Republicans like me for America losing the Vietnam War. They ever-increasingly blamed Republicans like me a) who were 1-A for the draft but avoided the draft with deferments and/or b) who were conservative, White, male, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. They hinted/implied/argued that I was an unmitigated hypocritical coward because if I had served, I would not have been sent into combat because I could not run because I had a bone disease, because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and because I had partial red/green colorblindness.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/us-news/donald-trump-vance-rubio-2028-presidential-run-unbeatable-10722311/lite/
ECONOMIC TIMES
— ‘Who wants noncitizens voting in our election?’: 4 GOP Senators join Dems to block SAVE America Act. Despite strong support from President Donald Trump and House Republicans, the Save America Act failed to advance in the U.S. Senate, falling short in a 48–51 vote and missing the 60-vote threshold required to move forward. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want unrestricted immigration. Democrat leaders because noncitizens vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because RINO leaders want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because that had wealthy parents.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/who-wants-noncitizens-voting-in-our-election-4-gop-senators-join-dems-to-block-save-america-act/amp_videoshow/131534801.cms
SKY NEWS
— Henry Nowak never stood a chance against Western authorities’ allegiance to critical race theory post-George Floyd. Murdered student Henry Nowak was judged by an ideology imported from the Black Lives Matter movement as cops let him bleed out while blindly believing the racism lies told to them by his killer.
https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/henry-nowak-never-stood-a-chance-against-western-authorities-allegiance-to-critical-race-theory-postgeorge-floyd/news-story/8c4ce2d3bf77da7ab22d9428d7ad3ba5
June 4, 2026 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride. In some Republican-controlled states it’s now officially Fidelity, Nuclear Family or Strong Families Month.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/republican-rebranding-june-conservative-pride/3944299/
FOX32
— Chicago braces for large teen takeovers at Foster Beach. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-braces-large-teen-takeover-foster-beach
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/04/rebranding-pride/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/06/04/teen-takeovers-black-south-west-sides-chicago-public-schools-robert-jordan
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/06/04/trump-name-kennedy-center-institute-peace-gold-card-visa-jacob-sullum
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/06/04/trump-tower-new-greek-restaurant-prasino-lagrange
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/ccb-abortion-travel-chicago-abortion-fund-06042026/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Man running for Illinois governor includes Nazi salute in ballot name
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/06/04/illinois-lawmakers-challenge-sieg-heil-candidate-governor-richard-mayers/90389805007/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/man-running-illinois-governor-includes-080433223.html
WMBA RAIDO
— Polls give little hope, but Illinois Republican candidates and leaders still believe in November victories
https://wmbdradio.com/2026/06/04/polls-give-little-hope-but-illinois-republican-candidates-and-leaders-still-believe-in-november-victories/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride. June is Pride Month across the U.S. But in some Republican-controlled states it’s now officially Fidelity, Nuclear Family or Strong Families Month.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/some-republican-governors-are-rebranding-june-with-conservative-alternatives-to-pride/article_1e982144-69e5-5454-8a37-7cd4f6adc43c.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— LaHood no, Sorensen yes as House votes to end the war with Iran
www.reuters.com/world/trump-signs-order-make-it-easier-fire-8000-federal-workers-2026-06-03/ww.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/04/trump-strips-job-protections-8000-senior-federal-workers/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent refuses to say whether Trump remains exempt from IRS audits. DD: Has IRS audited you? To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions when I was 29 years old in 1978. I had deducted graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1972-1976 and accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1978. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically argued in tax court a) that the courses I deducted did not relate to my job duties, b) that they did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took them to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took them to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically ignored the fact a) that my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take the courses, b) that the course descriptions and my position descriptions show that the courses are deductible, and c) that I had stated in my applications that I wanted to take the courses to maintain and improve my IRS job skills. They would not have disallowed the courses a) if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran and/or b) if I had not complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-refuses-to-say-whether-trump-remains-exempt-from-irs-audits/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Illinois Passed A Law To Keep ICE Out Of Courthouses. It’s Not Working. Advocates and experts say Illinois must navigate new legal questions about the extent to which state law can supersede federal authority.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/03/illinois-passed-a-law-to-keep-ice-out-of-courthouses-its-not-working/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Roadway disasters pile up as states buck Trump administration’s call to end non-English CDL tests
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/4/roadway-disasters-pile-states-buck-trump-administrations-call-end-non/
NEW YORK POST
— Miranda Devine: The Dems launch more fake rumors about Trump’s health — but the president is at the top of his game
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/opinion/miranda-devine-the-dems-launch-more-fake-rumors-about-trumps-health-but-the-president-is-at-the-top-of-his-game/
FEDERALIST
— Race Grifters Yanked Tests From UC Admissions, Boosting STEM Students Who Can’t Do Middle School Math
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/04/race-grifters-test-blind-uc-admissions-boosting-stem-students-cant-do-middle-school-math/
NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
— Illinois Puts Women’s Health at Risk by Hiding Abortion Records
https://nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2026/06/illinois-puts-womens-health-at-risk-by-hiding-abortion-records/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Harley-Davidson Descends Further Into Wokeness Despite Previous Vow to Change Course
https://www.westernjournal.com/harley-davidson-descends-wokeness-despite-previous-vow-change-course/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
— Illinois Diocese Asks Court to Block Law Requiring It to Hire Nonbelievers
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/illinois-diocese-asks-court-to-block-law-requiring-it-to-hire-nonbelievers?amp
ATLANTIC
— America’s ‘Marriage Material’ Shortage. Adults are significantly less likely to be married or to live with a partner than they used to be. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/america-marriage-decline/681518/
June 4, 2026
DAILY SIGNAL
— Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced a resolution to end the official celebration of Pride Month and rename June in honor of traditional families.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/congresswoman-ditches-pride-month/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/pride-support-lgbtq-issues-slipping/
YAHOO
— At least 5 GOP-led states (Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Tennessee, and Utah) have a new Pride Month tradition — renaming June. Republicans are working overtime to create GOP-branded alternatives to Pride Month that celebrate traditional marriage, “nuclear families,” and what some governors are calling “fidelity.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/least-5-gop-led-states-204511865.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FOX32
— Dozens gather in Horner Park to protest federal immigration arrest in Albany Park. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dozens-gather-horner-park-protest-federal-immigration-arrest-albany-park
WTTW
— Illinois House Republican Leader on State Budget, Bears and Local Government Funding
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/03/illinois-house-republican-leader-state-budget-bears-and-local-government-funding
DAILY HERALD
— RTA chair Dillard meets with Pope Leo at Vatican, talks AI and White Sox.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260603/religion/surreal-rta-chair-meets-with-pope-leo-at-vatican-talks-ai-and-white-sox/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker and Bailey dodge Illinois’ toughest fiscal question.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-jb-pritzker-darren-bailey-hinz-budget-20260602/
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/lumi-astralis-alton-lgbtq-illinois-pride-month-22286287.php
COURIER JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2026/06/04/republican-racism-voting-rights-act-dei-daniel-cameron-black-gop/90385582007/
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/2026/06/03/flowers-sidewalk-message-support-for-homeless-lgbtq-youth/90386382007/
HOMEWOOD FLOSSMOOR CHRONICLE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.hfchronicle.com/2026/06/03/flossmoor-celebrates-pride-month-honors-scholarship-recipients/
IPM NEWS
— Top Illinois Democratic and GOP leaders discuss state budget
https://ipmnewsroom.org/top-illinois-democratic-and-gop-leaders-discuss-state-budget-on-21st-show/
RESTORATION NEWS
— Taxpayers Groomed to Accept Massive Wrongful-Conviction Payouts
https://restoration-news.com/taxpayers-groomed-to-accept-massive-wrongful-conviction-payouts
AXIOS CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2026/06/03/northwestern-study-lgbtq-candidates-gender-presentation-voter-bias
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Aaron Del Mar, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, has filed objections with the Illinois State Board of Elections challenging more than 20,000 signatures submitted by independent gubernatorial candidate Collin Corbett. Validity question: Del Mar and Republican activist Kristina McCloy contend that a review of Corbett’s petitions uncovered “thousands of potentially invalid signatures,” according to a statement announcing the challenge. “Illinois voters deserve fair, transparent and lawful elections,” Del Mar said in a statement. He is running alongside Republican gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey. Corbett’s campaign said it was “reviewing the objection, but we know we have over 25,000 valid signatures, so we’re not worried,” via the Tribune. Why it matters: In Illinois politics, petition season is often the first campaign — and sometimes the most consequential. Ballot challenges can knock candidates out before a single vote is cast. What’s next: Election lawyers, hearing officers and signature experts now take center stage as the Illinois State Board of Elections begins sorting through the competing claims. Petitions must be certified by Aug. 21, according to the Board of Elections.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/04/petition-wars-go-bare-knuckle-00949487
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Debt burden, pensions burden Chicago Public Schools
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_818ee70b-fdc7-45bc-bd3c-dc14299c0b04.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Illinois Policy’s Take on the Democrats’ New State Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/03/illinois-policys-take-on-the-democrats-new-state-budget/
— Observations on Last Week of the Legislative Session: “It Was a Fairly Typical End to Session”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/03/observations-on-last-week-of-the-legislative-session-it-was-a-fairly-typical-end-to-session/
— Two Trump-Endorsed Candidates Lost Tuesday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/03/two-trump-endorsed-candidates-lost-tuesday/
— State Providing $120 per Child for Buying Food During Summer
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/03/state-providing-120-per-child-for-buying-food-during-summer/
— Dems Appropriate $500,000 for Crystal Lake Community Center
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/04/dems-appropriate-500000-for-crystal-lake-community-center/
— Volo Bog and McHenry Dam Tours on June 6th
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/03/volo-bog-and-mchenry-day-tours-on-june-6th/
— “Silent Majority” Demonstration in McHenry – Support of Various Positions
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/02/silent-majority-demonstration-in-mchenry-support-of-various-positions/
— Democrats Pass Bill Giving Minors Birth Control without Parental Consent
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/02/democrats-pass-bill-giving-minors-birth-control-without-parental-consent/
— Illinois Environmental Council Assesses Legislative Session
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/02/illinois-environmental-council-assesses-legislative-session/
— McHenry County’s School Land/Cash Donations on the Chopping Block
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/02/mchenry-countys-school-land-cash-donations-on-the-chopping-block/
— Senator Darby Hills on Budget: “I Voted No Because the Families I Represent Deserve Better.”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/02/senator-darby-hills-on-budget/
— Illinois Freedom Caucus on the Budget: “Less Than 1 Day to Read a 6,000-Page Budget”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/illinois-freedom-caucus-on-the-budget-less-than-1-day-to-read-a-6000-page-budget/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Open-air drug markets a reminder: much work still to do in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/opinion/open-air-drug-markets-a-reminder-much-work-still-to-do-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin/
BLAZE
— One soldier’s fight against creeping Marxism in the military
https://www.theblaze.com/lifestyle/call-sign-courage-one-soldier-s-fight-against-creeping-marxism-in-the-military
DAILY SIGNAL
— Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced a resolution to end the official celebration of Pride Month and rename June in honor of traditional families.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/congresswoman-ditches-pride-month/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/pride-support-lgbtq-issues-slipping/
FOX NEWS
— SPLC faces blowback from ‘hate map’ targets after DOJ fraud indictment. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.aol.com/articles/splc-faces-blowback-hate-map-173113000.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN & REUTERS & WASHINGTON POST & THE HILL & TIME & FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK & FED SMITH & BLOOMBERG TAX
— Trump Makes It Easier to Fire Thousands of Federal Workers. DD: For Democrats, 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. I should write about the many big Prohibited Personnel Practices that my Democrat superiors took against me, not the least of which included a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delaying my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forcing me take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-makes-it-easier-to-fire-8-000-federal-workers/ar-AA24Mko7
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-signs-order-make-it-easier-fire-8000-federal-workers-2026-06-03/
www.reuters.com/world/trump-signs-order-make-it-easier-fire-8000-federal-workers-2026-06-03/ww.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/04/trump-strips-job-protections-8000-senior-federal-workers/
https://thehill.com/homenews/5908761-trump-federal-workers-schedule-pc/
https://time.com/article/2026/06/04/trump-executive-order-schedule-policy-career-classification-fire-federal-workers-at-will/
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/06/trump-moves-about-8000-federal-positions-to-schedule-policy-career/
https://www.fedsmith.com/2026/06/03/what-the-new-schedule-policy-career-order-means-for-federal-employees/
https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/irs-can-fire-more-positions-at-will-with-trump-executive-order
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/video/the-history-of-the-fight-for-lgbtq-rights-runs-through-philadelphia/
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders know they have to gerrymander to win.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/03/southern-states-are-gerrymandering-return-black-voters/
— Pentagon is censoring military newspaper Stars and Stripes, lawsuit alleges. The suit comes after Defense Department officials pledged to overhaul the publication and rid it of “woke distractions.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/03/pentagon-is-censoring-military-newspaper-stars-stripes-lawsuit-alleges/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/06/01/gay-transgender-best-worst-states-2026/90164141007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/06/03/gay-transgender-least-most-welcoming-states/73909721007/
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2026/06/01/best-and-worst-states-for-lgbtq-people/90358360007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2026/06/02/what-the-2026-dc-pride-month-theme-means-for-the-lgbtq-community/90350233007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2026/06/02/pennsylvania-rank-best-worst-states-gay-trans-lgbtq/90352680007/
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/world/2025/05/30/pride-2025-lgbtq-photos-celebrations/83944962007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/05/13/malta-spain-lgbtq-rainbow-map-equality-report-ilga-europe/90069688007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/events/2026/06/01/pride-month-pittsburgh-events-concerts-id-go-to/90264612007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/03/americans-support-same-sex-marriage-declines-poll/90390061007/
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://lasentinel.net/marsha-p-johnson-an-lgbtq-icon-still-inspiring-the-masses.html
FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/06/03/lgbtq-travel-company-queer-scout-says-scouting-america-sued-over-trademarks-amid-political-pressure/
LAW 360
— Illinois Legislators Greenlight Disparate Impact Bias Protections. DD: According to my critics/opponents, when those who vote for Republicans do better at something, it is because they have benefitted from discrimination against those who vote for Democrats. Those who vote Republicans are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents have demographics that vote for Democrats and/or pander to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2484075/ill-legislators-greenlight-disparate-impact-bias-protections
GALLUP
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/710810/support-lgbtq-issues-remains-down-peak.aspx
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. Most if not virtually all of my Democrat superiors in the federal government who were older White males were big drinkers.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/467507/percentage-americans-drink-alcohol.aspx
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
TELEGRAPH
— Anti-white racism is real
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/03/anti-white-racism-is-real-and-its-been-corrupting-britain/
GUARDIAN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/03/lgbtq-support-attitudes-poll
— Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers. DD: For Democrats, 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. I should write about the many big Prohibited Personnel Practices that my Democrat superiors took against me, not the least of which included a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delaying my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forcing me take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/trump-order-federal-workers
ECONOMIST
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/07/18/trump-supporters-need-not-apply
June 3, 2026 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FOX32
— The University of Chicago (UC) Laboratory Schools, an institution associated with the university, will no longer be flying an LGBTQ pride flag outside its courtyard after university administrators determined it would violate institutional neutrality.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-university-removes-lgbtq-pride-flag-over-institutional-neutrality-concerns
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Bailey seeks to block Corbett from Nov. 3 ballot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/03/bailey-garcia-challenge-opponents-illinois-election/
— Republicans won the redistricting battle. Now voters will decide whether they win Congress.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/03/republicans-redistricting-battle/
— DD: Since the 1960s, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those who are minority, female, and/or younger have ever-increasingly received more preference.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/03/trumps-education-department-black-students/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260603/festivals-and-fairs/celebrate-pride-month-with-parades-and-festivals-in-june/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Lawyers for the Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford and the Illinois Catholic diocese have filed a brief in its appeal of an Illinois law that prohibits discrimination based on a person’s reproductive health decisions. The lawyers for an organization called Alliance Defending Freedom argue in court documents that the law forces religious ministries to hire employees who don’t share their religious beliefs, especially on issues like abortion.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2026/06/03/rockford-pregnancy-center-seeks-appeal-of-abortion-rights-challenge/90387132007/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers. DD: For Democrats, 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. I should write about the many big Prohibited Personnel Practices that my Democrat superiors took against me, not the least of which included a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delaying my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forcing me take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-03/trump-strips-job-protections-from-8-000-federal-workers
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Trump has issued an executive order turning an estimated 8,000 federal workers into at-will employees, which means the government could fire them without providing any reason. The move culminates an effort Trump launched during his first term to strip vast numbers of federal employees of civil service protections designed to insulate their work from political interference. Nearly all of the 8,000 people affected are at the highest level of the civil service, known as GS-15. The Trump administration characterizes the roles as senior positions with significant influence over policy. They include leaders of policy offices and their chiefs of staff, heads of regional offices, program managers, senior public affairs officers and those overseeing spending and grants. The number of positions affected by Wednesday’s executive order is smaller than many anticipated. Originally, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) estimated some 50,000 positions could be reclassified. The administration has not ruled out expanding the pool at a later time. Tripling the number of at-will employees. The federal government currently has about 4,000 political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president. Until now, the rest of the workforce of approximately 2 million people could only be fired for certain reasons, such as inadequate performance or misconduct. In those situations, agencies must follow formal processes, including giving the employee an opportunity to appeal. But in February, the administration finalized a rule creating a new category of at-will employees called Schedule Policy/Career. (During Trump’s first term, it was known as Schedule F.) It was facing multiple lawsuits even before Wednesday’s order which spells out which jobs are now at-will. “The people responsible for protecting our public health, safeguarding our environment, delivering our mail, managing our airports, protecting our public lands, and enforcing our laws should be allowed to do their jobs, not targeted by the same government they serve,” said Skye Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, one of the organizations suing the Trump administration over the rule. “When government experts can be fired without cause, it’s not just federal workers who are harmed — it’s the people across the country who rely on these essential services every day.)
UIC
— UIC Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://today.uic.edu/uic-alcohol-and-other-drugs-policy-32/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republican state Rep. Blaine Wilhour: New budget shows ‘addiction’ to taxes.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_93c760e0-c017-4a7c-8cf3-7f46d1ebc170.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Session Ends, But the Cosmic Battle Continues
https://illinoisfamily.org/uncategorized/session-ends-but-the-cosmic-battle-continues/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Pride’ overload: Veterans and parents each get one day; LGBTQ gets 30.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/pride-overload-veterans-parents-get-one-day-lgbtq-gets-30/
— House passes war powers resolution to end hostilities in Iran, weakens Trump’s negotiating leverage
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/house-passes-war-powers-resolution-end-hostilities-iran-weakens/
— Trump refuses to commit to dropping $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/trump-refuses-commit-dropping-18-billion-anti-weaponization-fund/
— America cannot be the world’s welfare office
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/america-cannot-worlds-welfare-office/
NEW YORK POST
— The Southern Poverty Law Center paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate groups — even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a shocking superseding indictment filed Tuesday.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/us-news/liberal-southern-poverty-law-center-reimbursed-klan-members-for-cross-burnings-feds-say-in-stunning-court-documents/
— From Delaney Hall to ‘Freedom 250,’ lefty violence is what real insurrection looks like
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/opinion/from-delaney-hall-to-freedom-250-lefty-violence-is-what-insurrection-looks-like/
DAILY CALLER
— Harley-Davidson Backsliding On Wokeness Despite Previous Policy Reversal
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/03/harley-davidson-backsliding-on-wokeness-despite-previous-policy-reversal/
NEWSMAX
— Democrats Autopsy Far Removed from Reality
https://www.newsmax.com/ericgolub/autopsy-gingrich-warren/2026/06/03/id/1258469/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— House votes to rein in Trump on Iran as war loses GOP support
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-iran-war-powers-4th-vote-trump/
WMAC
— DD: Democrat leaders know they cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.wamc.org/commentary-opinion/2026-06-03/gerrymandering-and-discrimination
HR DRIVE
— Illinois pushes back against Trump in move to ban disparate impact bias. DD: For Democrats, 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. I should write about the many big Prohibited Personnel Practices that my Democrat superiors took against me, not the least of which included a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delaying my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forcing me take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/illinois-pushes-back-against-trump-in-move-to-ban-disparate-impact-bias/821864/
May 31, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump set to headline ‘Great American State Fair’ after artists drop out over ties
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-set-headline-great-american-state-fair-artists-drop-ties/19201064/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump’s physician says the president is in ‘excellent health’ and is ‘fully fit’ to serve
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/30/donald-trump-health/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/30/ice-immigrants-michigan-illinois/
— DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/31/opinion-gun-violence-chicago-prison-sentences/
— DD: The more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, and/or German American.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/31/vintage-tribune-i-am-an-american-day/
— DD: Ever-increasingly, newspapers serve as mouthpieces for the Democrat Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/27/column-charles-selle-newspapers/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote tattooing.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/inking-well-tattoos/2026/05/29/portage-park-man-honors-four-years-sobriety-tattoo
DAILY HERALD
— Ex-Glendale Heights president pleads guilty to perjury
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260530/crime/ex-glendale-heights-president-pleads-guilty-to-forgery/
WBEZ
— Muslim families look to Arabic immersion education to give their children a foundation in faith and identity. Chicago-area Muslim families are flocking to a small southwest suburban school for its rigorous, play-based curriculum taught entirely in Arabic.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2026/05/30/chicago-muslim-families-arabic-immersion-education-faith-identity-bridgeview-quran-mas-blossoms
NPR ILLINOIS
— Pride celebrations struggle as corporate sponsorships dry up. DD: To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-05-30/pride-celebrations-struggle-as-corporate-sponsorships-dry-up
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump calls out Pope Leo for meeting with ‘useless’ Chicago mayor
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-calls-out-pope-leo-for-meeting-with-useless-chicago-mayor/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— State Sen. Dale Fowler says he’ll step down at end of legislative session. The Harrisburg Republican has served his southern Illinois district for a decade.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/state-sen-dale-fowler-says-hell-step-down-at-end-of-legislative-session/
FULCRUM ILLINOIS
— A Year of Resistance, Advocating for Representation in Legislature, at Latino Unity Day. DD: I live in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered it to elect and to reelect Latino Delia Ramirez.
https://thefulcrum.us/illinois-latino-unity-day-2026-advocacy-representation-legislature
IPM NEWSROOM
— Illinois pension divestment repeal sparks debate over free speech
https://ipmnewsroom.org/illinois-pension-divestment-repeal-sparks-debate-over-free-speech/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Mayor’s Political Ideology Is Costing Lives
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-mayors-political-ideology-is-costing-lives
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— “Silent Majority” Demonstration in McHenry – Religious Aspects
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/31/silent-majority-demonstration-in-mchenry/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you do? I use my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to promote conservative principles and the Republican Party platform. Who has the greatest impact on what you do? For me it is Illinois Republican Party (IRP) chairman Bob Grogan, IRP State Central Committee member and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) Treasurer Mike Flynn, DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC) chairman Kevin Coyne, and DCRCC Secretary and MTRO chairman Jeff Castle. What position do the aforesaid have on the many big adverse actions that IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO leaders have taken against me since 2000 a) to stop me from sending out my newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading them? What is going to change under Grogan? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Hold parents, not social media, accountable for teen takeovers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/4586836/hold-parents-not-social-media-accountable-for-teen-takeovers/
— The woke era that began in 2014 ended in 2024. Wokeness, of course, is not dead — it still hangs over many school districts and colleges and will make a comeback with Democratic victories over the next three years — but it no longer is the default mindset. DD: All my critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to be 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.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4583453/out-of-boundaries/
— While teachers unions push politics, reading scores hit historic lows
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/while-teachers-unions-push-politics-reading-scores-hit-historic-lows/ar-AA24pCFm
— Democratic Party activists have long targeted standardized testing by defaming it as a tool of racial oppression. DD: What standardized tests have you passed? I passed all the tests required to earn a) a bachelor’s degree in management, b) master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, and c) a CPA certificate and a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) certificate. I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, something that only about 20% do. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was able to do the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. 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.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4587100/california-right-to-junk-woke-admissions-standards/
NEW YORK POST
— ‘Teen takeovers’ will bring bloody chaos nationwide this summer — because Blue America isn’t bending. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/opinion/teen-takeovers-will-bring-bloody-chaos-nationwide-this-summer/
— Mamdani-tapped NYC sheriff has long history of claiming NYPD is ‘racist’ and tied to slave patrols
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/us-news/mamdani-tapped-nyc-sheriff-has-long-history-of-claiming-nypd-is-systemically-racist-and-tied-to-slave-patrols/
— New York’s new sanctuary state laws are a recipe for chaos
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/opinion/new-yorks-new-sanctuary-state-laws-are-a-recipe-for-chaos/
— In California, public safety loses to open-border theater
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/opinion/in-california-public-safety-loses-to-sanctuary-theater/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— One in Three American Men No Longer Working. Just 66 percent of men age 20 and older were employed or actively seeking work. DD: To get more votes from women, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly dump men who are conservative, Republican, White, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/29/one-in-three-american-men-no-longer-working/
DAILY CALLER
— Clock Ticking On GOP To Pass Literally Anything As Midterms Loom
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/31/clock-ticking-gop-midterms-agenda/
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Selective Outrage and Hypocrisy of Antisemitism
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/28/selective-outrage-of-antisemitism/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Anti-ICE ‘Protests’ are Propaganda Disguised as Citizen Activism
https://www.fairus.org/anti-ice-protests-are-propaganda-disguised-citizen-activism
FOX NEWS
— Dead voter allegation fuels concerns about voting safeguards as Illinois official turns herself in. Sylvia Sims Bolton, an alderman in Waukegan turned herself in on Wednesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dead-voter-allegation-fuels-concern-about-voting-safeguards-illinois-official-turns-herself
— Pope Leo meets with Chicago’s far-left mayor, George Floyd’s family lawyer at the Vatican. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson led the delegation, which included George Floyd family lawyer Antonio Romanucci. DD: Democrat leaders and their operatives and their dupes will forever use George Floy to promote more hated against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pope-leo-meets-chicagos-far-left-mayor-george-floyds-family-lawyer-vatican
— New Jersey agitators bite, kick and punch ICE agents as Delaney Hall clashes continue; 9 more arrested. Federal agents use pepper spray as Newark detention demonstrations intensify.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-jersey-agitators-bite-kick-punch-ice-agents-delaney-hall-clashes-continue-9-arrested-dhs
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
— The Relationship Between Higher Education and Family Formation. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2021/11/examining-the-relationship-between-higher-education-and-family-formation
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As educational attainment continues rising, the presumed price of admission to the middle class increasingly seems to require a college degree. In the United States, more young adults than ever attend college, and more young adults than ever rely on student loans. The percentage of all households with any outstanding student loan debt rose from 8.9 percent in 1989 to 21.4 percent in 2019. And from 2006 to 2020, the average amount of outstanding student loan debt per working-age American grew from under $4,000 to over $13,000. At the same time, a growing cultural emphasis on “individual financial and personal responsibility as a necessary precursor for marriage” has led to a profound shift in attitudes towards family formation. Marriage has become more of a “capstone,” signaling a full transition into adulthood, and less of a “cornerstone,” on which young couples begin to build a life together.)
NEW AMERICAN
— Soul Killers in the Classroom. DD: My teachers were overwhelming conservative. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/education/soul-killers-in-the-classroom/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There has been much talk in recent years about “misinformation” on social media. There’s relatively little focus, however, on the misinformation pumped directly into the most damaging place of all: young people’s minds. Moreover, this misinformation — or “brainwashing,” as a critic puts it — has supplanted real learning to the point where youths now lack basic skills. A major reason why, too, is that while some proclaim “wokeness’” death, it’s alive and well. And this is because, says that critic, independent journalist Emil Hasle, wokeness-mind-virus carriers pervade American education. Publishing at Substack last Sunday, the journalist laments a decades-long ideological transformation in Western education, writing: Conservatives have become vanishingly rare in academia, and even moderates now find themselves marginalized as a fringe group. Data on U.S. faculty ideology from 1969 to 2022 illustrates this shift dramatically: the share of liberals and far-left educators rose from 45% to 74%, while centrists declined to 15% and conservatives to just 11%.)
TOWNHAL
— To hear Democrats talk about black people is a mix of arrogance, racism and more condescension than could be crammed into the Grand Canyon. What do I mean by that? It’s pretty simple, really: the left simultaneously insists black people are perpetual victims with economic hardship thrust upon them by “systemic racism” and the sole builders of everything good and superior to everyone else. None of it is true, but all of it is designed to manipulate. Democrats, even black Democrats, treat the average black American like they’re a child and special; neither is true. They’re just people, like everyone else.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/05/31/black-people-are-not-children-nor-are-they-special-n2676957
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— A proposal by the Trump administration to push federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) has sparked accusations that the White House is trying to silence its workforce, including those who have been speaking to the press. DD: When I was 40 years old in 1988, I went public against my Democrat GAO superiors. I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. To punish me, they a) threw me off audits of IRS, b) gave me bad job assignments, c) gave me unfair performance expectations, d) gave me unfair performance appraisals, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Previously, they had a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in when I was 31 years old in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS until 1986, c) delayed my promotions, and d) never promoted me beyond GS-13. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5901850-nondisclosure-agreements-federal-workers-trump-administration/
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do more to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
AOL
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aol.com/articles/lawsuit-alleges-gender-age-race-121500000.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-immigrants-health-housing.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/us/customs-airports-markwayne-mullin.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/magazine/voting-rights-act-reconstruction-civil-rights-redistricting.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/opinion/israel-palestinians-boycott-eurovision.html?searchResultPosition=1
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/30/ice-immigration-privacy-data-advertising-00939078
FROM OTHER SOURCES
EXP REALTY
— FOR SALE: Iron Gate Motor Condo: 2240 Ferry Road, #108, Naperville – $1,200,000
https://leeernst.exprealty.com/details.php?mls=103&mlsid=12651984
REALTY ONE GROUP
— FOR SALE: Iron Gate Motor Condo: 2112 Ferry Road, #111, Naperville – $579,000
https://www.realtyonegroupimpact.com/commercial/mrd/12653023/2112-ferry-road-111-naperville-il-60563
May 29, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Community organization hosting youth-centered conversation on ‘teen takeovers’ in Chicago. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/community-organization-season-soar-hosting-youth-centered-conversation-teen-takeovers-chicagos-south-side/19187556/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/cps-student-ricardo-hernandez-navarrete-detained-ice-receives-diploma-mather-high-school-graduation-chicago-return/19189259/
NBC5
— ‘Significant police presence’ expected in Naperville ahead of teen gathering. NPD included a flyer for a “Downtown Naperville Teen Takeover” that has been circulating on social media in the warning. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/significant-police-presence-planned-for-western-suburb-on-monday-ahead-of-teen-gathering/3941662/
— DHS Secretary threatens to pull CBP agents from ‘sanctuary city’ airports
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/dhs-secretary-threatens-to-pull-cbp-agents-from-sanctuary-city-airports/3941489/
— Illinois U.S. Attorney denies he’s investigating Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/embattled-illinois-u-s-attorney-now-investigating-trump-accuser-e-jean-carroll-sources/3941585/
CBS2
— South Side youth weigh in on teen takeovers after recent gatherings turned violent. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/teen-takeovers-conversation-south-side-discussion/
FOX32
— Migrant arrivals linked to homelessness spike
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-idxer8y5ndv2ahfm
— Group wants to split Illinois into two states
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-aq7666zdpi2sd3xg
WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more abortion.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/05/28/illinois-lawmakers-look-protect-abortion-care-records
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Possible ‘teen takeover’ has Naperville beefing up downtown police presence. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/28/possible-teen-takeover-monday-has-naperville-beefing-up-downtown-police-presence/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increase promote Springsteen.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/28/bruce-springsteen-power-to-the-people-festival/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/28/ice-cps-mather-graduation/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/28/e-jean-carroll-investigation/
— CTU must put the brakes on excessive political activity and be considerate of its members
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/29/opinion-chicago-teachers-union-dues-political-action/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/05/28/mather-senior-laces-up-his-soccer-shoes-again-after-months-in-immigration-detention
— ‘Broadview Six’ might try to tap Trump’s $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization fund’ after feds’ conduct tanked case. DD: Democrat U.S. Senators and Democrat U.S. Representative weaponized my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-house/2026/05/28/broadview-6-trump-blanche-doj-justice-department-weaponization-fund
SOUTHERN
— DD: How many votes will Corbett take from Bailey?
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2026/05/28/286512/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— New Illinois GOP boss says party rebuild a long-term project. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-new-illinois-gop-boss-says-party-rebuild-a-long-term-project/article_0ed9ba0f-a63b-4c9d-933e-89e814ff76f7.html
WIFR
— DD: How many votes will Corbett take from Bailey?
https://www.wifr.com/video/2026/05/28/former-republican-strategist-collin-corbett-files-run-illinois-governor-independent/
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— Naperville police increasing downtown presence due to possible teen takeover. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.nctv17.org/news/naperville-police-increasing-downtown-presence-monday-due-to-possible-teen-takeover/
ILLINOIS PATCH
— Community Violence Intervention Members Search For Solutions To Prevent “Teen Takeovers.” Police intervened as hundreds of teens came out to 56th Street Beach before spilling into Hyde Park. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/community-violence-intervention-members-search-solutions-prevent-teen-takeovers
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— ‘Teen Takeovers’ Revive Chicago Debate Over Curfews And Parental Accountability. Large Near West Side and Hyde Park gatherings have alderpeople again weighing stricter rules to combat them, while the mayor sees programming and prevention as a better approach. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/28/teen-takeovers-revive-chicago-debate-over-curfews-and-parental-accountability/
CWB CHICAGO
— 15 years of flash mobs, teen trends, and takeovers: Chicago’s repeating summer problem
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/05/15-years-of-flash-mobs-teen-trends-and-takeovers-chicagos-repeating-summer-problem.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Johnson courts pope amid budget crunch
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/05/29/johnson-courts-pope-amid-budget-crunch-00941969
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-534/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republicans claim fake transparency in early budget, demand better.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6cb0ccac-d097-4221-8530-b224b38eec6a.html
— Illinois may take DOJ ‘Anti-Weaponization’ payouts from residents. DD: Democrat U.S. Senators and Democrat U.S. Representative weaponized my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors against me.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_49042d8e-1fa5-49ad-8016-c6a715e767f0.html
THOMAS DEVORE
— Colin Corbett Didn’t “Leave” the GOP — He Planned to Sabotage It
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=thomas%20devore&filters=eyJyZWNlbnRfcG9zdHM6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcInJlY2VudF9wb3N0c1wiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiXCJ9In0%3D
— Illinois Republicans Cannot Afford Another Insider Experiment
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=thomas%20devore&filters=eyJyZWNlbnRfcG9zdHM6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcInJlY2VudF9wb3N0c1wiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiXCJ9In0%3D
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pritzker’s proposed budget shorts pensions by $5.4 billion.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzkers-proposed-budget-shorts-pensions-by-5-4-billion/
— More schools double-dipping taxpayers for teacher pension costs
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/more-schools-double-dipping-taxpayers-for-teacher-pension-costs/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Johnson Brings CTU President Whose Leadership Is Viewed as Hostile to Catholic Education to Vatican Meeting.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/05/johnson-brings-ctu-president-whose-leadership-is-viewed-as-hostile-to-catholic-education-to-vatican-meeting.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— State Legislature Finally Moves to Reform Property Tax Sale Process Three Years after U.S. Supreme Court Decision
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/28/state-legislature-finally-moves-to-reform-property-tax-sale-process-three-years-after-u-s-supreme-court-decision/
— U.S. Attorney Calls Out Media for False Story
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/29/u-s-attorney-calls-out-media-for-false-story/
— AI Regulation Bills Pass Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/29/ai-regulation-bills-pass-senate/
— Tony Colatorti Running for Sheriff Again
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/29/tony-colatorti-running-for-sheriff-again/
— Turkey Harvest Larger This Year Than Last (links to all counties)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/29/turkey-harvest-larger-this-year-than-last/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Go back’: DHS secretary tells hunger-strike migrants to deport back home for better food.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/28/go-back-dhs-secretary-tells-hunger-strike-migrants-deport-back-home/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— As pope apologizes for slavery, remember it was African countries that started slave trade.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4585496/pope-apologizes-slavery-african-countries-started-slave-trade/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Having a wild weekend. “Teens” in Chicago whoop it up and cause mass destruction. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/having_a_wild_weekend.html
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
— Colorado Middle School Student Censored from Reciting Pro-Life Poem
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/colo-middle-school-student-censored-from-reciting-pro-life-poem
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Anti-ICE Activism on Campus. The purpose of abolishing ICE is not to abolish unjust suffering, but to redistribute it onto Americans.
https://cis.org/Cao/FirstHand-Look-AntiICE-Activism-Campus
COLLEGE FIX
— Medical watchdog demands removal of DEI standards in social work education. DD: While worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, their top priority was advancing their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/medical-watchdog-demands-removal-of-dei-standards-in-social-work-education/
FIRST THINGS
— Combating Vice. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice.
https://firstthings.com/combating-vice/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS & CHRISTIAN CENTURY & NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER & CATHOLIC WEEKLY & PALESTINE CHRONICLE
— DD: According to America’s enemies, no war against them is just.
https://www.reuters.com/world/spurning-just-war-pope-leo-ends-catholic-permission-slip-conflicts-2026-05-28/
https://www.christiancentury.org/news/pope-leo-calls-just-war-theory-outdated-new-encyclical-nbsp
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-pope-leo-xiv-says-just-war-theory-outdated-catholics-should-take-heed
https://catholicweekly.com.au/george-weigel-the-peace-we-can-make/
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/unjust-to-remain-neutral-on-popes-algorithmic-peace-and-middle-easts-real-wars/
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders crow about their success in turning Vietnam War veterans against Trump. They stress that Trump avoided the Vietnam War draft.
https://www.aol.com/articles/group-vietnam-vets-standing-trumps-100005000.html
ABC NEWS
— Some federal pensions pay handsome rewards. DD: I got in line for a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension when I was 18 in 1966. Since then, ever-increasingly, my critics/opponents, and especially those who are not in line to get a pension and are not getting a pension, have been increasingly furious about that. In my defense, I paid 7% of my Post Office (almost 3 years), IRS (almost 9 years) , and GAO (almost 18 years) salaries into the CSRS for my $68,640/year CSRS pension. Further, my critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance premiums since 1966 and 72% of my wife’s health insurance premiums since 1978. Further, my critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious that I get $18.711.60/year Social Security. In my defense, I paid into Social Security 1964-1973, and more recently, I have been entitled to about half my wife’s Social Security.
https://abcnews.com/Business/federal-pensions-pay-handsome-rewards/story?id=17007196
(FROM THE ARTICLE: More than 21,000 retired federal workers receive lifetime government pensions of $100,000 or more per year. Of these, nearly 2,000 have federal pensions that pay $125,000 or more annually, and 151 take home $150,000 or more. Six federal retirees get more than $200,000 a year. Some 1.2% of federal retirees collect six-figure pensions. By comparison, 0.1% of military retirees collect as much. The New York State and Local Retirement System pays 0.2% of its retirees pensions of $100,000 or more. The New Jersey retirement system pays 0.4% of retirees that much. Comparable private figures aren’t available. The six-figure pensions spread across a broad swath of the federal workforce: doctors, budget analysts, accountants, public relations specialists and human resource managers. Most do not get Social Security benefits. Retired law enforcement is the most common profession receiving $100,000-plus pensions, including 326 Drug Enforcement Administration agents, 237 IRS investigators and 186 FBI agents. The Postal Service has 714 retired workers getting six-figure retirements. The Social Security Administration has 444. A retired Smithsonian zoologist has a $162,000 annual lifetime pension. The six $200,000-plus pensions include a doctor, a dentist and a credit union regulator, plus three retirees whose occupations weren’t listed. Pensions are a growing federal budget burden, rising twice as fast as inflation over the last decade. Pension payments cost $70 billion last year, plus $13 billion for retiree health care. Taxpayers face a $2 trillion unfunded liability — the amount needed to cover future benefits — for these programs, according to the government’s audited financial statement. “These people are highly trained, highly skilled and often put their lives on the line in law enforcement,” says Julie Tagen, legislative director of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees. “It’s a very, very small portion of retirees at that ($100,000) level.” “Government pensions are vastly more generous than those in the private sector,” says economist Veronique de Rugy of the market-oriented Mercatus Center. “It’s no coincidence that if there is a good plan, it’s available to federal employees rather than in the private sector.” USA TODAY and the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press— both owned by Gannett — analyzed the Civil Service Retirement System database, obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request. The Office of Personnel Management withheld some information, including names, ages and length of service. The records cover 1.9 million federal civilian pensions. Congress members were not included, nor were military retirees. The average federal pension pays $32,824 annually. The average state and local government pension pays $24,373, Census data show. The average military pension is $22,492. ExxonMobil, which has one of the best remaining private pensions, pays an average of $18,250 per retiree, Labor Department filings show. The federal government has two retirement systems: one for those hired before 1984 (Civil Service Retirement System) and another for those hired after. Under the older system, employees did not participate in Social Security. CSRS covers 78% of current retirees and accounts for 96% of six-figure pensions. All federal retirees receive health benefits.)
NBC NEWS
— Teen ‘takeovers’ push cities to take action. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covid-pandemic-blame-teen-takeover-experts-say-rcna347075
AOL
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use buyout and early retirement “offers” to get rid of their employees who are: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/articles/retirement-trend-among-60-olds-162700030.html
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
NEW YORK TIMES
— Does Trump Want to Lose the Midterms? He is intervening in a bunch of Republican primaries to purge people who opposed him in one way or another. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have had their operatives and their dupes purge me. Have your critics/opponents purged you? If so, what have your critics/opponents used to purge you? To purge me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee, from my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, from my Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster position, from TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, from Illinois Center Right Coalition, from etc., my critics/opponents have used a) my using my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to promote conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject, b) my promoting Republican candidates who they reject, c) my encouraging Republican participation in Wheaton Independence Day parades, d) my successfully leading efforts to ban video gambling and the sale of pot in Wheaton, e) my suing them, f) my successfully leading the effort to stop the installation of a stoplight at the intersection of Harrison and President in Wheaton, g) my successfully leading the effort to force Xfinity to carry Fox News Channel in Wheaton, h) etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-liam-donovan.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: IVF. DD: Duckworth has an extremely low opinion of Trump. What does she think of you? Both Trump and I avoided the Vietnam War draft. We are both conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time. In 2006, Duckworth had me throw out of her press conference with Michael J. Fox in Wheaton. SEE: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/10/25/celebrity-and-controversy-mark-6th-race/ Further, my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. We did not adopt. We did not become foster parents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/ivf-embryos-custody.html
— Southern Poverty Law Center Accuses Justice Dept. of Vindictive Prosecution. DD: What adverse actions have been taken against you? I should write about a) my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me and b) why they did that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/southern-poverty-law-center-doj.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn the Pope against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/28/pope-leo-chicago-brandon-johnson-visit-vatican/deedce52-5ab5-11f1-8a9d-afb1148204e1_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/04/29/fentanyl-awareness-day-kids-drug-prevention/89756058007/
SAN ANTONIO FIRST
— Teen takeovers are a result of repeated failures to prosecute juvenile delinquents. DD: Teen takeovers are a result of Democrat leader success in destroying traditional marriage and family.
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2026-05-27-the-main-reason-teen-takeovers-have-been-spreading/
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS
— DD: For Democrats, democracy exists to take opportunities, money, and everything else away from Republicans and to give it all to Democrats.
https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/letters-editor/article/impeach-remove-president-trump-bipartisan-issue-22277275.php
DAILY MONTANAN
— Trump-style loyalty tests fracture Montana’s Republicans. DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://dailymontanan.com/2026/05/29/trump-style-loyalty-tests-fracture-montanas-republicans/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Reparations for Trump and Slavery? Given the precedent of the Anti-Weaponization Fund, a future president could do all sorts of mischief.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/reparations-for-trump-and-slavery-e439ce51
— The GOP Wants to Tax Your Car. A federal registration fee is one of the worst Republican ideas to come along in a while.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gop-wants-to-tax-your-car-e6c78ff6?mod=opinion_lead_pos8
BLOOMBERG LAW
— EEOC Seeks to Revoke Rule Shielding Affirmative Action Plans. DD: Democrats and RINOs have always used Affirmative Action to get rid of Republicans.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/eeoc-seeks-to-revoke-rule-shielding-affirmative-action-plans
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— Guide to Hiring Noncitizens. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/guide-to-hiring-noncitizens-on-temporary-visas/
LAW 360
— EEOC Set To Scrap Decades-Old Affirmative Action Guidance. DD: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/amp/articles/2482950
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use buyout and early retirement “offers” to get rid of their employees who are: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2026/05/as-agencies-try-to-bring-in-new-talent-a-lot-of-current-employees-are-making-tough-decisions/
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
— Political Stress. DD: Putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out has harmed my health, is harming my health, and will ever-increasingly harm my health. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly stress that to discourage/stop me from putting the newsletters together and sending them out.
https://news.syr.edu/2025/03/27/protecting-your-health-in-a-polarized-world-expert-advice-on-political-stress/
REASON
— DD: Democrat leaders, their operatives, and their dupes decry DHS and ICE cracking down on fraudulent asylum claims.
https://reason.com/2026/05/28/dhs-directs-ice-to-crack-down-on-allegedly-fraudulent-asylum-claims/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
EDUCATOR
— It’s time to stop blaming teachers: Students are responsible for their learning. What motivated you to learn things in high school? For me it was getting the highest ACT score that I could, getting highest class ranking that I could, and getting accepted by UIC. But I spent far too much time washing dishes instead of studying.
https://www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/news/its-time-to-stop-blaming-teachers-students-are-responsible-for-their-learning/288964
FROM OTHER SOURCES
CHRISTIE’S INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE
— FOR SALE: 629 West Elm Street, Wheaton – $985,000
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/629-W-Elm-St-Wheaton-IL-60189/4447893_zpid/
May 28, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— US Attorney for Northern District of Illinois leading criminal probe into E. Jean Carroll. Acting AG Todd Blanche recused himself from the investigation.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-attorney-northern-district-illinois-andrew-boutros-leading-doj-criminal-probe-jean-carroll-sources/19183723/
NBC5
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-high-school-soccer-star-reunites-with-team-after-release-from-ice-custody/3941237/
— Chicago faith leaders plan a new kind of ‘teen takeover’ after violent gatherings. It’s all to prevent the dangerous trend that caused chaos in the city over the holiday weekend. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-faith-leaders-plan-a-new-kind-of-teen-takeover-after-violent-gatherings/3941156/
WGN9
— Girl, 14, charged after teen takeover in Hyde Park. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://wgntv.com/video/girl-14-charged-after-teen-takeover-in-hyde-park-cpd-says/11804054/
— Concerns growing over how to put a stop to teen takeovers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSF2VGBo3xs
FOX32
— Alderman pushing to penalize parents in teen takeovers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-yau47ow8m11099j6
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Fundraiser for Illinois GOP governor candidate Darren Bailey delayed after Tribune raised ethics law questions. DD: Anticipate/expect that the Pope will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/27/darren-bailey-fundraiser-ethics/
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use buyout and early retirement “offers” to get rid of their employees who are: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/28/opinion-illinois-voluntary-pension-buyouts/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/28/illinois-hiv-advocates-funding-trump-cuts/
STATELINE
— DD: How many votes will Corbett take from Bailey?
https://www.mystateline.com/news/independent-candidate-enters-illinois-governor-race-challenging-pritzker-and-bailey/
WIFR
— DD: How many votes will Corbett take from Bailey?
https://www.wifr.com/2026/05/27/former-republican-strategist-collin-corbett-files-run-illinois-governor-independent/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders raise questions about Trump’s health.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2026-05-27/trumps-third-check-up-at-walter-reed-raises-more-questions-about-his-health
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Durbin invokes Lincoln in democracy warning. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint Democrats as having been the Union in the Civil War and paint Republicans as having been the Confederacy.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/05/28/durbin-invokes-lincoln-in-democracy-warning-00939505
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: Democratic state Rep. La Shawn Ford has been endorsed by the Congressional Black Caucus’ political organization in his bid for the 7th congressional seat now held by Rep. Danny Davis, who also has endorsed him. Ford survived a competitive primary to emerge as the Democratic nominee in a predominantly blue district. He faces Republican Chad Koppie, a retired farmer and jet pilot, in the November election.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-746/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Republican Candidate to Replace Dick Durbin Comments on His Speech to the Illinois General Assembly
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/28/republican-candidate-to-replace-dick-durbin-comments-on-his-speech-to-the-illinois-general-assembly/
— Taxpayers Subsidizing Teacher Pensions, Often with Teachers Paying Nothing. DD: For my Civil Service Retirement System pension, I paid 7% of my federal salary.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/28/taxpayers-subsidizing-teacher-pensions-often-with-teachers-paying-nothing/
ILLINOIS ANSWERS PORJECT
— A Proposed Law Would Push Wealthy Suburbs to Build More Affordable Housing. Mayors Are Pushing Back.
https://illinoisanswers.org/2026/05/27/proposed-illinois-law-push-wealthy-suburbs-build-more-affordable-housing/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to Criticize Trump Policies, Push Reparations Agenda During Vatican Meeting. DD: DD: Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations. Anticipate/expect that the Pope will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/05/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-to-criticize-trump-policies-push-reparations-agenda-during-vatican-meeting.html
— The Hatred Against the Trump Family Has Turned Dangerous. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting hatred against Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/05/opinion-the-hatred-against-the-trump-family-has-turned-dangerous.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
— Trial Awaits Lifeguard Who Sought Pride Flag Exemption. LA County allegedly refused to accommodate Christian beliefs. The case of a Christian lifeguard in Los Angeles County who was denied a religious accommodation that would have excused him from raising or lowering the LGBTQ+ “Progress Pride Flag” is going to trial after a federal judge’s sealed ruling last week. Capt. Jeffrey Little, a lifeguard with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, first filed a lawsuit against the county and several supervisors in 2024 after the county enacted a policy requiring the Progress Pride Flag to be flown over county facilities, including some lifeguard stations, during LGBTQ Pride Month each June.
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/trial-awaits-lifeguard-who-sought-pride-flag-exemption
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— West Point wake-up call: Hegseth torches DEI obsession in military ranks
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/05/27/west-point-wake-up-call-hegseth-torches-dei-obsession-in-military-ranks-1642715/
BREITBART
— Blue States Starting to Curb ‘Free’ Healthcare to Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/05/27/blue-states-starting-to-curb-free-healthcare-to-migrants-as-budgets-spin-out-of-control/amp/
DAILY CALLER
— GOP Establishment Quietly Memory-Holes Months Of Anti-Paxton Content
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/27/nrsc-deletes-anti-ken-paxton-content/
DAILY WIRE
— Camouflage-Clad Chinese Illegals Caught At Border
https://www.dailywire.com/news/camouflage-clad-chinese-illegals-caught-at-border
— DEI’s Hidden Cost: The Quiet Consequences Of A Flawed Policy. Diversity mandates fracture merit, mental health, and relationships.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/deis-hidden-cost-the-quiet-consequences-of-a-flawed-policy
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
— Older Americans Month: Champion Your Health. DD: Putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out has harmed my health, is harming my health, and will ever-increasingly harm my health. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly stress that to discourage/stop me from putting the newsletters together and sending them out.
https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/events/2026/05/older-americans-month-champion-your-health
FOX NEWS
— Lindsey Graham: Iran became ‘rich and lethal’ under Biden and Obama.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6396807522112
— Trump offers federal help for Chicago’s teen takeovers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6396737300112
— Illinois official charged after allegedly submitting dead mother’s mail-in ballot. Authorities say the investigation began after election officials flagged a vote-by-mail ballot connected to a deceased voter.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-official-charged-allegedly-submitting-dead-mothers-mail-ballot
— Pete Hegseth’s anti-DEI speech at West Point is a template to save American lives. Regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, we need the best of the best to protect us.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/pete-hegseths-anti-dei-speech-west-point-template-save-american-lives
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5897035-trump-control-republicans-paxton/
MS NOW
— DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.ms.now/morning-joe/watch/top-democrat-loyalty-to-trump-only-thing-that-matters-to-gop-2501512771945
ABC NEWS
— DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/americans-democrats-dont-stand-republicans-republicans-support-trump/story?id=133320627
ABC NEW YORK
— DD: How long have your ancestors been in America? According to Democrat leaders, the longer that your ancestors have been in America and the more of the following that you are, the more that you have benefited from slavery, and therefore the more reparations that you should pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I am all of the aforesaid and that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my ancestors’ defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois, they never were in a position to discriminate against Blacks, and they never did discriminate against Blacks.
https://abc7ny.com/post/pope-leo-xiv-makes-historic-apology-vaticans-role-legitimizing-slavery/19175137/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Wants Federal Employees to Sign Nondisclosure Agreements. Lawyers representing federal workers said the move is intended to chill speech and could be challenged on First Amendment grounds. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors’ forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 forced me to disclose lots about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/trump-administration-nondisclosure-agreements.html
— DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/trump-cornyn-paxton-senate-republicans.html
— Vice and the Crisis of Liberalism. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/opinion/vice-liberalism-addiction-gambling-drugs.html
USA TODAY
— 59% retire earlier than planned. DD: The more of the following that you are, the likely that you will be forced to retire early: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/05/25/early-retirement-job-loss-health-layoffs/90218745007/
— DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/05/27/paxton-win-texas-runoff-midterms-trump-endorsement/90211135007/
FED SMITH
— OPM Proposes Eliminating the Time-in-Grade Rule. DD: The Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 hired me as a GS-7 when I was 22. While I got promoted as fast as time-in-grade rules allowed to GS-9 when I was 23, to GS-11 when I was 24, and to GS-12 when I was 25, that was not fast enough for them. They used their up-or-out rule to deem me to be too old to be promoted to GS-13 because they had not promoted me to GS-13 by the time I was 25. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2026/05/27/eliminating-time-in-grade-rule-federal-workforce-impact/
TIME
— DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://time.com/article/2026/05/26/paxton-defeats-cornyn-trump-texas-talarico/
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
— The Case for Prohibiting Vice. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/case-prohibiting-vice
NEW REPUBLIC
— DD: For Democrats, democracy exists to take opportunities, money, and everything else away from Republicans and to give it all to Democrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/210941/southern-states-anti-democracy-gerrymandering
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/green-card-news-uscis-memo/
YALE DAILY NEWS
— Yale reinstates SAT, ACT requirement. DD: UIC would not have admitted me in 1966 if I had not gotten an ACT score of 24.
https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-reinstates-sat-act-requirement-after-six-years-of-flexible-policy
AXIOS
— DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/trump-primary-elections-retribution-loyal-maga
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/trump-republican-party-maga
May 25, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Memorial Day weekend ceremony remembers DuPage County residents killed in U.S. military operations
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/24/memorial-day-dupage-county-veterans/
NBC5
— More than a dozen arrested after teen gathering on Near West side. Among the 13 taken into custody was a teen driver who allegedly struck multiple police officers with a vehicle. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/more-than-a-dozen-arrested-after-teen-gathering-on-near-west-side/3939999/
CBS2
— Teens shot, officers hit by car in violent Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/teens-shot-officers-hit-by-car-violent-memorial-day-weekend-chicago/
RIVER BENDER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote SPLC, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use SPLC to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-urges-funds-to-reevaluate-decision-to-cut-off-donations-to-southern-poverty-law-center-93642.cfm?
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s slush fund goes way beyond bounds of propriety. DD: Just kidding, but should I apply? Democrat leaders in Illinois had my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors waste my career and take many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. My critics/opponents have always stressed that in Diersen v. GAO, not only Bush’s DOJ sided with my Democrat GAO superiors against me, but that no Republican federal elected officials in Illinois came to my defense, that is, they sided with my Democrat GAO superiors against me. To side with my Democrat GAO superiors, is to promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-trumps-slush-fund-goes-way-beyond-bounds-of-propriety/article_7cf44ce9-f366-42db-8003-2e46cf0e621b.html
JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Pritzker and Trump agree housing affordability is a major problem. How do we fix it? DD: My critics/opponents want the north end of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton to be rezoned for public housing.
https://jg-tc.com/opinion/column/article_dfcc5b01-554a-54c9-8da3-b0a01e4ce3ad.html
NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES
— Illinois is closed for business
https://nwitimes.com/opinion/article_c1843271-f1c9-5e16-bc01-6bb9ddc4ff3f.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois DHS appointment sparks backlash over alleged voter registration mailer practices
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_65a52879-f8e6-4ec8-9dc2-7e879a618c91.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— 5 officers struck by car after ‘teen takeover’ hits Chicago’s West Side — as 19 people hurt in shootings. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://nypost.com/2026/05/24/us-news/5-officers-struck-by-car-after-teen-takeover-hits-chicagos-west-side-as-19-peopkle-hurt-in-shootings/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— GAO Report Confirms Everything the Center Told You About Biden’s Parole Schemes. Bland government document that’s chock-full of scary details.
https://cis.org/Arthur/GAO-Report-Confirms-Everything-Center-Told-You-About-Bidens-Parole-Schemes
— DHS and DOJ Begin Imposing (Often Massive) Fines on Aliens Who Refuse to Leave
https://cis.org/Arthur/DHS-and-DOJ-Begin-Imposing-Often-Massive-Fines-Aliens-Who-Refuse-Leave
DAILY SIGNAL
— DNC 2024 Autopsy Reveals Why Democrats Won’t Shake Their Worst Political Liability: Woke Makes Democrats Radioactive. DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents are either woke or are operatives or dupes for those who are woke.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/24/democrats-worst-political-liability/
FOX NEWS
— Scalise urges Pritzker to ‘look at the man in the mirror’ after he blames Trump for political violence
https://www.aol.com/scalise-urges-pritzker-look-man-024806224.html
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Stamping Out Food Stamp Fraud
https://www.heritage.org/welfare/commentary/stamping-out-food-stamp-fraud
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— 50 years since conservatives broke through in the Republican Party. DD: When will conservatives break through in Illinois?
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5892184-ford-reagan-1976-republican-primary/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Conservatives had been marginalized ever since Herbert Hoover’s defeat in 1932. . .Reagan’s popularity showed the ideas of the right — limited government, sound money, liberty, staunch anti-Communism, belief in the traditional family unit — could find a receptive audience. The Republican Party had been transfixed by FDR’s success and had spent decades fielding candidates who seemed to accept the basic architecture of the New Deal. Roe v. Wade, Watergate, stagflation, racial strife, the fall of Saigon, détente, these were the birds now coming home to roost, and increasingly Republican voters accepted that the party needed a correction. Reagan’s performance consolidated a conservative revival which had begun with Goldwater in 1964 and was soon to reach its apotheosis.)
AOL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.aol.com/news/settlement-rnc-requires-nc-elections-185456739.html
MSN
— Hegseth tells West Point class of 2026 they may soon see combat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/hegseth-warns-west-point-grads-they-may-soon-face-war/gm-GME3A1ECEE
— Trump defends ballroom project as GOP unease grows over costs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tillis-warns-trump-feud-risks-gop-midterm-chances/ss-AA23S2HS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. If you are a product of a traditional marriage, you are far more likely to be successful and vote for Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
BOSTON GLOBE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/24/metro/trump-green-card-impossible-choice/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Five Takeaways From the DNC’s 2024 ‘Autopsy.’ Democratic officials disowned their own deep dive on how the party can learn from its election losses.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/dnc-2024-election-autopsy-kamala-harris-b3138cb9
— Did Democrats Learn Anything from Losing in 2024?
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/did-democrats-learn-anything-from-losing-in-2024/0e267af4-fffb-4074-a7e5-1a66383cd76f
— This Summer’s Teen Job Market Is the Toughest in Decades. DD: When you were young, what did you do after-school, weekends, and summers? I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid proves that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/teen-summer-jobs-f3ffdbfa
BARRON’S
— Teens Face Challenging Summer Job Prospects. DD: When you were young, what did you do after-school, weekends, and summers? I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid proves that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/teens-summer-jobs-retail-045ed2c0
— Your Political Affiliation Could Be Hurting Your Returns. DD: Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly destroy Republican businesses in Illinois.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/politics-and-investing-dont-mix-why-your-political-affiliation-could-be-hurting-your-returns-25735778
FORBES
— DD: Employers have always been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give more preference to their Democrat and RINO employees who are minority, female, and/or younger.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2026/05/19/the-myth-of-meritocracy-and-other-outdated-beliefs-women-are-told-at-work/
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Most Performance Evaluations Are Biased. DD: My Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance evaluation systems to get rid of their Republican employees. My Democrat GAO superiors used that subjectivity to a) force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, and d) force me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors used that subjectivity to a) never promote me beyond GS-12, b) disallow my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallow my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors used that subjectivity to a) force me to resign in 1969 and b) disallow my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. They used that subjectivity to ignore/dismiss/belittle a) my 1970 job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, c) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and d) my 1981 job-related professional license. They would not have done any of the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-most-performance-evaluations-are-biased-and-how-to-fix-them
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Challenges federal workers face pivoting into the private sector. DD: My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was forced to retire when I was 49 in 1997 because of performance problems. They have always stressed that my superiors had delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. In my defense, I have always stressed that I had earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I have always stressed that I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit since I was 40 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. I have always stressed that they replaced me with my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-workers-private-sector-job-search-challenge-2025-3
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Fighting stigma. DOGE-led job cuts have pushed layoffs to their highest level since the pandemic, and more positions will likely be cut. DOGE has said that the reductions, in part, have targeted “low performers,” a narrative that some federal employees have pushed back on. Still, any stigma could prove challenging for one-time government staffers, said Ken Crowell, founder of EmployTest, which creates assessments for job candidates. Tropes about bureaucrats and inefficiency could emerge as a headwind, he told BI. “We can talk about fair and not fair, but you know, at a personal level, it’s going to be tough for them to get through,” Crowell said. Still, he said many former government workers have vast experience and substantive leadership and management skills that employers would be foolish to dismiss out of turn.)
FED WEEK
— Reductions in force. DD: My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was forced to retire when I was 49 in 1997 because of performance problems. They have always stressed that my superiors had delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. In my defense, I have always stressed that I had earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I have always stressed that I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit since I was 40 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. I have always stressed that they replaced me with my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/if-opms-proposed-rif-rules-become-final-what-federal-employees-should-do-now/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under current RIF rules, agencies consider several retention factors, including tenure, veterans’ preference, length of service, and performance. Proposed changes could increase the role of performance ratings in that calculation. . .Many employees disagree with a performance rating but never create a written record. That can be a serious mistake. . .If RIF activity appears possible in your agency, ask HR specific questions. General assurances are not enough. . .Many RIF appeals turn on records. Unfortunately, employees often lose access to government systems quickly after separation, demotion, or placement on administrative status. . .The possible expansion of performance ratings in RIF decisions should change how federal employees think about their records. Performance appraisals may no longer be just annual paperwork. They may become a deciding factor in whether an employee keeps a job during a workforce reduction. Federal employees should act now: download records, correct errors, challenge unsupported ratings, document accomplishments, and preserve evidence. If a RIF comes, the employees best positioned to protect themselves will be those who prepared before the notice arrived.)
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
YAHOO UK
— Having wealthy parents leads to young adults being six times better off. DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. I should write about those whose parents were the wealthiest. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/having-wealthy-parents-leads-young-230100398.html
GUARDIAN
— A college degree once ensured prosperity – but gen Z is finding ‘just not much out there.’ DD: What was your entry-level job? When I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970, potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be granted. Further, they were under tremendous pressure to hire minorities, females, and veterans. Further, I had the stigma of having been a federal employee who had been forced to resign. I had to have a job. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores for a sales job that did not really require a college degree. My Chicago Heights store boss would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree. He refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. He disapproved of my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete. Under him, I saw that my Firestone career was bleak, if not nonexistent. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile in early 1971. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely, if not violently, fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. So I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was to be an IRS Revenue Officer.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/may/24/gen-z-college-degree-employment