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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-puerto-rican-museum-staff-says-homeland-security-surveyed-area-ahead-barrio-arts-fest-humboldt-park/17036923/

NBC5
— Video captures scene that closed suburban pool over Fourth of July weekend. In the footage, a large crowd can be seen surrounding the Glen Ellyn Park District’s Sunset Pool Saturday, with officials estimating between 200 and 300 people entering the facility.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/video-captures-scene-that-closed-suburban-pool-over-fourth-of-july-weekend/3785826/

FOX32
— Chicago sues Trump admin over crackdown on sanctuary cities
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-sues-trump-admin-immigration
— Chicago Teachers Union demands action: ‘Trump-proof’ Illinois schools now!. At a press conference Wednesday, the Chicago Teachers Union urged Pritzker and state lawmakers to protect school funding from federal cuts and invest in equitable, fully staffed public education.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1671740

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/09/planned-parenthood-illinois-braces-medicaid-cuts-closures-are-not-table

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/09/federal-officers-puerto-rican-museum/
— Chicago’s City Council must protect the inspector general from political influence. GAO audits IRS. The Democrats who run GAO and IRS do not want Republicans to audit IRS. I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS for almost 9 years and then for Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years. They succeed in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997. I had worked for IRS 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had earned an MBA in 1976. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I had become a licensed CPA in 1981. I had earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I had earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/10/opinion-deborah-witzburg-chicago-protect-inspector-generals/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, etc.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/09/audit-finds-state-agency-fell-short-on-social-equity-initiatives-outlined-in-gov-jb-pritzkers-landmark-climate-bill/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dhs-visit-humboldt-park-museum-sparks-fears-ice-raids

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more preference giving.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/07/09/chicagos-summer-jobs-program-sees-another-year-of-growth-following-pandemic-era-dip

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Who are the highest paid earners for Springfield School District 186? Here’s the list. Who are the highest paid in your school district?
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/education/2025/07/10/here-are-the-highest-salaries-at-springfield-public-schools/84496218007/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER & JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government handouts. What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precent are dependent on government handouts?
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/09/cuts-to-medicaid-could-lead-to-9-illinois-hospitals-closing/84497471007/
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/illinois-snap-benefit-cuts-20763139.php

STATELINE
— AS ILLINOIS EVER-INCREASINGLY CRASHES AND BURNS UNDER PRITZKER: Free summer meals available in 13 Illinois counties for kids in need. Anticipate/expect that under Pritzker, the number of kids in need in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/food-bank-offers-free-meals-summer/

ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
— Democrats run Illinois. They ever-increasing blame Republicans for problems that minorities have and that everyone has.
https://dph.illinois.gov/resource-center/communications/this-is-public-health/s2/e4.html

BULWORK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-chicago-churches-on-the-frontline-trump-mass-deportation-immigration

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/10/its-a-sanctuary-showdown-00446223
— Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller posted her views about people who speak other languages: “In America, we speak ENGLISH — and that goes for truck drivers, construction workers, factory employees, store clerks, delivery drivers, warehouse crews, and everyone in between,” she posted on X.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/10/its-a-sanctuary-showdown-00446223

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-548/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-341/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Between 2022 and 2024, Rivian filed over 2,000 H-1B and 400 green card applications while receiving significant Illinois state incentives. A researcher says this raises concerns about replacing American workers and the use of taxpayer dollars.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_445481b5-6577-4ff8-890a-9a5e99b26c91.html
— IL may boost abortion funding if federal support is cut
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_0aeec326-ce8b-428d-9d85-9e1673dcb9a5.html
https://www.aol.com/news/il-may-boost-abortion-funding-214800814.html
— Homan says ‘good luck’ as Johnson vows Chicago won’t work with ICE
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_393f2eb4-93cc-43ed-bc37-2131766bb370.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— 99% of Biden’s illegal immigrant ‘parolees’ still in U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/9/going-nowhere-case-study-finds-99-bidens-illegal-immigrant-parolees/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Minnesota says government agencies must ‘justify’ hiring white men. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 when I was 31, IRS in 1971 when I was 22, and the Post Office in 1966 when I was 18 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. Because they have dramatically lowered hiring standards to hire Democrats, minorities, females, and veterans, they not hire me today if I was 31, 22, or 18.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3466825/tim-walz-minnesota-hiring-justification-government-agencies/

AMAC
— Democrats Smear ICE Facility As “Concentration Camp” to Defend Open Borders
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/democrats-smear-ice-facility-as-concentration-camp-to-defend-open-borders/

BARRETT MEDIA
— AM 560 The Answer Host Dan Proft Addresses Exit of Amy Jacobson: ‘It’s a Business Decision and a Difficult One’
https://barrettmedia.com/2025/07/09/am-560-the-answer-host-dan-proft-addresses-exit-of-amy-jacobson-its-a-bussiness-decision-and-a-difficult-one/

BREITBART
— Sanctuary States Released More than 25K Criminal Illegals Without Alerting ICE
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/09/study-sanctuary-states-released-more-than-25k-criminal-illegals-without-alerting-ice/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Department Of Homeland Security Slams Journos For Defending Illegal Immigrant Pedophiles
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-department-of-homeland-security-slams-journos-for-defending-illegal-immigrant-pedophiles

FOX BUSINESS
— Retirement gold rush: 32,000 Illinoisans rake in $100K+ in state pensions while state runs huge deficit. The revelation comes as Illinois’ government pension debt nears a record $145 billion. My Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is only $66,780/year. But my critics/opponents continue to viciously condemn it as being far too generous. In my defense, I stress that I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS and while I worked for the federal government and I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/retirement-gold-rush-32000-illinoisans-rake-100k-pensions-while-state-runs-huge-deficit

FOX NEWS
— Mamdani scores key union endorsement
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-politics-newsletter-mamdani-scores-key-union-endorsement
— Blue city resident vows to keep pro-Trump political displays on home despite second shooting attack. Second politically motivated attack in 2 years fails to intimidate homeowner.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-city-resident-vows-keep-pro-trump-political-displays-home-despite-second-shooting-attack
— Trump’s immigration crackdown prompts California bishop to excuse Catholics from Sunday mass. San Bernardino diocese issues rare dispensation from Sunday mass obligation as administration steps up border security.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trumps-immigration-crackdown-prompts-california-bishop-excuse-catholics-sunday-mass

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Eight Discriminatory Scholarships. My critics/opponents have always looked down on me for my not having gotten any scholarships.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/eight-discriminatory-scholarships-including-daca-undocumented-only-at-western-michigan-u-challenged-by-equal-protection-project/

NEWSMAX
— Charlie Kirk breaks down Trump admin’s dispute with MAGA on Epstein files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3aEG6be-xw
— High Court Likely Ends Bogus Asylum Claims
https://www.newsmax.com/stevelevy/supreme-court-immigration-asylum/2025/07/09/id/1218196/

PJ MEDIA
— Legal Immigrants Say No Amnesty for Illegals
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/09/legal-immigrants-say-no-amnesty-for-illegals-n4941573
— The Loony Left Would Be Protesting Something Even if Kamala Had Won
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/07/10/the-morning-briefing-the-loony-left-would-be-protesting-something-even-if-kamala-had-won-n4941600

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders exist to promote more hatred against trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/opinion-trump-s-treatment-of-immigrants-is-harmful-immoral-un-american/ar-AA1I3QDj

NEWSWEEK
— Trump Slams Democrat-Sponsored Bill To Make ICE Agents Show Faces, IDs. Many, most, if not virtually everyone looks down on/despises/hates federal employees. I know that because I was one for almost 30 years and because I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. I should write about that. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school friend had not invited me to take the postal employment examination with him earlier that year. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-immigration-ice-green-card-visas-trump-live-updates-2096582

CBS NEWS
— Supreme Court clears way for Trump to move forward with mass layoffs of federal workers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-mass-layoffs-federal-workers/
— Secret Service suspended 6 personnel without pay or benefits after Trump assassination attempt. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. But they stress that they have a) forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me a pension since then, currently $66,780/year and b) forced the federal government to pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance since then.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-assassination-attempt-butler-secret-service-suspension/

NBC NEWS
— Sen. Josh Hawley says he’ll make sure Medicaid cuts in Trump bill he voted for ‘never take effect’  What has kept you off Medicaid? For me, it has been my taking bad jobs, most importantly, my taking federal jobs.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/sen-josh-hawley-says-he-ll-make-sure-medicaid-cuts-in-trump-bill-he-voted-for-never-take-effect-242959941575

NEW YORK TIMES
— Ever-increasingly, I have trouble understanding those who answer toll-free calls.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/trump-liberia-president-english.html
— The more that Trump promotes meritocracy, that is, the more that Trump kills Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, the more prosperous and safe that America will be. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/trump-tariffs-taxes-economy.html

WASHINGTON POST
— California awaits disaster relief as GOP offers full support of Texas. California has always viciously demonized, denigrated, and condemned Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/09/texas-flooding-trump-politics-disaster-relief/
— Trump ends interest subsidy for Biden’s student loan repayment plan. Nearly 7.7 million people enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan, which has been tied up in the courts, will see interest start to accrue on their loans Aug. 1. Did you get a student loan? I did not. If I had, my GPA would have been much higher because instead of studying, I spend far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail to pay for my college expenses. My critic/opponents would stress that I could have worked less hours and drove junkers to/from school and work instead of a 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint 1966-1967, a 1968 Oldsmobile 442 1967-1968, and a 1969 Dodge Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/09/trump-ends-interest-subsidy-bidens-student-loan-repayment-plan/
— Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast.’  Next steps aren’t clear, but the White House says it plans to resume mass government layoffs. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, because of Gingrich budget cuts, I was ever-increasingly toast. The following helped me survive: a) I had earned an MBA in 1976, b) I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) I became a licensed CPA in 1981, f) I earned four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/09/trump-mass-firings-federal-workers-supreme-court/
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down. Previously, it existed to drive Biden’s approval rating up.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/09/trump-approval-polls/84526896007/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: With new power, Trump will move immediately to lay off federal workers. Arguably, Gingrich’s greatest achievement was gutting GAO.  If he had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee. For sure, my Democrat GAO superiors could/would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, and  e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/09/trump-wins-broad-authority-to-lay-off-federal-workers-without-congress/84520149007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump has seized the authority to lay off federal workers and reorganize the federal government in a way that critics say no president has been able to do in more than 100 years. The power, which the Supreme Court gave temporarily in a July 8 order, puts at risk thousands of federal jobs across the country at agencies that collect taxes, provide health care to veterans, and help administer retirement benefits. Labor unions say the cuts fly in the face of established law and decades of tradition, but a senior White House official told USA the layoffs are legal, and the administration intends to immediately reduce the size of government. While the court did not rule on the underlying question of Trump’s ability to enact widespread job cuts, the justices said they were likely to affirm that power.)

PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE
— Number of national Black conventions not inviting Trump grows
https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/number-of-national-black-conventions-not-inviting-trump-grows/article_150bbd12-7e84-46f0-a842-db635ad530ea.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-mass-deportations-workforce-immigrants-economic-growth-brooke-rollins-f1e1999d?mod=opinion_lead_pos1
— We’ll All Pay for New York’s Mamdani Folly. The state will lose wealthy taxpayers, and the federal government will have to cough up more aid.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/well-all-pay-for-new-yorks-mamdani-folly-16eeebde?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

POLITICO
— Supreme Court disabuses federal workers who thought their jobs were safe. Civil servants told POLITICO they’re anxious and exhausted, but holding out hope their lawyers can still save their jobs. When I was 49 years old In 1997, I thought that my GAO job was safe, but I WAS WRONG. I erroneously thought that my job was safe because of Civil Service protections and because I had earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But I caved in and took my Democrat GAO superiors’ forced early retirement “offer.” After I did that, I erroneously hoped that Bush, Hastert, Fitzgerald, and Hyde would come to my defense, but they did not.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/federal-workers-supreme-court-doge-musk-layoffs-00445234

FEDERAL NEWS NEWORK
— Updated ‘PLUM’ book offers deeper look at Trump administration officials working governmentwide. The latest PLUM book contains 9,151 entries with space for each official’s name, agency, title and pay rate, although some data is still missing or outdated. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. Many, most, and at times, virtually all of them were minorities, females, and/or veterans.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/07/updated-plum-book-offers-deeper-look-at-trump-administration-officials-working-governmentwide/

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN
— All those who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me and/or b) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://now.org/media-center/press-release/observing-black-womens-equal-pay-day/

ED SOURCE
— California Bill to provide descendants of slavery preference in college admissions moves forward. What about meritocracy? What about those whose are descendants of slavery but whose parents are wealthy? What about those whose ancestors died fighting slavery?
https://edsource.org/2025/bill-to-provide-descendants-of-slavery-preference-in-college-admissions-moves-forward/736146

MEDIUM
— People aren’t leaving bad jobs because the risk of no job is worse. Because of negative federal employee stereotypes, the longer that you are a federal employee, the more difficult/impossible that it is to get a job in the private sector. I became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966. Private sector employers look down on federal employees. Private sectors employers were not interested in me a) when I earned a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, b) when I earned an MBA in 1976, c) when I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) when I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, e) when I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, f) when I became a licensed CPA in 1981, g) when I earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and h) when I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997. Because of Affirmative Action and DEI, my not being a minority, female, younger, or veteran made things even worse. I should write about that.
https://medium.com/@404jmnf/is-the-job-market-really-this-bad-yes-d970904b5df5

GUARDIAN
— Trump to cut 2,145 NASA employees. Cuts further the push to slash federal government through early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations. Gingrich cut 3,000 GAO jobs, half of the agency’s employees. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me viciously for that. They a) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/nasa-workforce-cuts

INDEPENDENT
— Trump bill gives ICE $45 billion for detaining immigrants – more than it received in the last 15 years combined.
https://www.aol.com/trump-bill-gives-ice-45-172334060.html
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promise to use more Affirmative Action and DEI to give them more preference over Whites.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-black-voter-approval-rating-b2785963.html