FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly concede that they will never retake control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House without a) illegally bringing in more citizens of foreign countries to America and b) illegally keeping those illegals in America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/opinion-chicago-ice-agents-schools-whistles-operation-midway-blitz/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker asks Noem to pause ICE enforcement for Halloween. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly concede that they will never retake control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House without a) illegally bringing in more citizens of foreign countries to America and b) illegally keeping those illegals in America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/29/gov-pritzker-letter-kristi-noem-ice-enforcement-pause-chicago-halloween
CBS2
— 2 Illinois National Guard members say they won’t obey Trump’s orders to deploy in Chicago. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS’s and GAO’s Chicago offices for almost 27 years, all my subordinates who they assigned me to supervise were Democrat, minority, female, and/or younger than me. I always followed their orders and I always gave them preference big time. But that was not enough for them. They wanted my subordinates to have my job. When I was 49 years old in 1997, they succeeded in forcing me to retire so that they could give my job to my Black subordinate, and that is what they did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N_GeaKZWa0
RIVER BENDER
— Durbin Slams Republicans For Having No Plan To Reduce Health Care Costs For Americans. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health care insurance premiums since 1966 and paying 72% of my wife’s health care insurance premiums since 1978 helped me endure my Democrat superiors wasting my career, taking many big adverse actions against me, and forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/durbin-slams-republicans-for-having-no-plan-to-reduce-health-care-costs-for-americans-87708.cfm?
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— GOP criticizes Democratic push for Illinois redistricting
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/end-gerrymandering-illinois-republican/amp/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/video/peoria-republican-criticizes-move-to-change-maps-in-illinois/11214959/
— 6 ways the government shutdown could get worse for Americans
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/here-are-six-ways-the-shutdown-could-get-worse-for-americans/amp/
WDRB
— Louisville airport among several in US feeding federal workers during government shutdown. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. Federal workers have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.wdrb.com/news/louisville-airport-among-several-in-us-feeding-federal-workers-during-government-shutdown/article_500daabe-2f8a-487e-893b-3af0c904e7a9.html
NORTHERN STAR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their ever-increasing success in getting college students promote illegal immigration, that is, to do their bidding, that is, to serve as their operatives and their dupes. I graduated from NIU in 1970. All my employers before and after that would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://northernstar.info/129580/opinion/opinion-theyre-humans-not-aliens-dont-use-dehumanizing-language/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-622/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Those who are the following ever-increasingly vote for Democrats because Democrats ever-increasingly give them more preference over Republicans: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, and/or are in America illegally. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
DUPAGE REPUBLICANS
— 2026 Primary Candidate Petitions DD: I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. I used to always collect 30 petition signatures from registered Republican voters in my precinct for all the candidates who wanted to be on Republican primary ballots in my precinct. That took a lot of time and effort. But I stopped doing that because ever-increasingly, Republican candidates om ballots in my precinct who lost elections blamed me for their loses. They blame what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. They blame what I did as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. They blame what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012. They blame what I did as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2019.
https://dupagegop.com/primary-candidate-petitions/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Feds Press Release on Kat’s et al Indictment for Conspiracy against ICE and More
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/29/feds-press-release-on-kats-et-al-indictment-for-conspiracy-against-ice-and-more/
— UPDATE: Kat Gets More Free Publicity by Getting Arrested for Pounding on ICE Vehicle, Tribune and NORTHWEST HERALD, PART OF INDICTMENT
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/29/kat-gets-more-free-publicity-by-getting-arrested-for-pounding-on-ice-vehicle/
— Jan Schakowsky Replacement Hopeful Comments on Opponent Kat’s Arrest
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/29/jan-schakowsky-replacement-hopeful-comments-on-opponent-kats-arrest/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois House Democrats push first-in-the-world wealth tax, streaming, concert taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-house-democrats-push-first-in-the-world-wealth-tax-streaming-concert-taxes-in-1-5-billion-tax-hike/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Shutdown reveals how out of control illegal immigration has become. Democrats welcome foreign freeloaders while punishing taxpayers.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/29/editorial-shutdown-reveals-control-illegal-immigration-become/
AMERICAN THINKER
— More than the National Guard is needed in US cities
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/more_than_the_national_guard_is_needed_in_us_cities.html
— Immigration: The Impending Inferno
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/immigration_the_impending_inferno.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Biden administration opened the border, allowing millions of unvetted foreign nationals to enter the country illegally. Biden may not have comprehended the extent of this policy but the figurative politburo that operated the autopen fully understood the scope, scale, and repercussion of their actions. Democrat politicians walk the party line contrived by this politburo. This is clarified by the efforts of Democrat mayors and governors to keep the millions that illegally entered the country safely ensconced in their sanctuary cities and states. Maintenance of these sanctuaries comes at a high cost. The open border attracted criminal aliens like moths to a flame. Stories of murder, rape, child molestation, deadly DUI driving, prostitution, and drug trafficking are so numerous they have become cliche. Newsweek estimates illegal immigration costs taxpayers $150 billion annually. Why do Democrats defend a policy that presents so much danger at such great expense to the American people? Many Democrats don’t consider illegal entry into the country to be criminal behavior. Kamala Harris said, “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.” Be assured, though, that if illegal aliens were entering the country clamoring to support conservative causes, Democrats would insist that all entrants possess proper identification and carefully follow the laws of the United States. Behind the gentle façade that Democrats expose to the public lies a political motivation. The number of House representatives that states send to Congress is based on the state’s population. The U.S. Census has traditionally counted individuals in the country regardless of citizenship status. During his first term, President Trump changed this in a memorandum saying, “For the purpose of the reapportionment of representatives following the 2020 Census, it is the policy of the United States to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status under the Immigration and Nationality Act.” Biden revised Trump’s immigration policies and made sure illegal aliens were included in the 2020 Census. Blue state governors and mayors attract illegal aliens to their sanctuaries with promises of cash, health care, food, and shelter. The more illegal immigrants that reside in a state, the more representatives the state will receive. Electoral votes are based on the number of representatives a state has, so presidential elections are also impacted. Democrats will admit illegal aliens, verse them in liberal activism, and make them citizens who vote for their Democrat sponsors. In his farewell address, President Washington warned of a dangerous political faction attempting, “to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government”. The American people elected President Trump to defend the republic from the Democrats’ subversive scheme. During the 2024 campaign, Trump promised the largest deportation effort in U.S. history. Democrats now fight the government to keep their scheme in place and bring it to fruition. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is “willing to fight to the death” to protect illegal aliens in his state. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker draws moral equivalence between Trump’s immigration policies and Hitler sending Jews to death camps. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called ICE agents, “a modern day Gestapo.” These governors and a plethora of other Democrat politicians are toeing the party line. The politburo ordered the border open and allowed millions of aliens into the country. Democrats spent hundreds of billions of dollars to attract these aliens even though they overwhelmed the legal and social infrastructure of their states. Yet one of the primary reasons for Democrats’ loss to Trump was their inane immigration policy. After expending huge sums of money and political capital, Democrats are now using all available means to keep illegal aliens in their sanctuaries. ICE and other federal agents enforcing immigration law find themselves in difficult situations. Democrats have threatened to release an app that tracks the movement of ICE agents. Blue state politicians are not only undermining ICE but call on their constituents to actively interfere with the work of federal agencies. This is obstruction of justice. More seriously, Democrats are inviting liberal activists to engage in violent behavior to assure illegal aliens remain in their states. A cross-sectional group that has worn Che t-shirts and clutched Mao’s Little Red Book believing that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” while visions of the Weather Underground dance in their heads is a group willing to do whatever it takes to advance the cause. Far left groups search for reasons to launch a revolution. When Democrat politicians paint Trump as a fascist who will suspend the 2028 election and make himself king, leftist lunatics will resolve the matter with violence. At least two attempts have been made to assassinate Trump. Charlie Kirk, the bright future of the conservative movement, was killed by an assassin who etched “hey, fascist! CATCH!” on bullet casings found with the gun used to kill him. Mexican drug cartels have placed bounties on the heads of ICE agents. A Minnesota man was recently arrested for posting an offer of $45,000 for the death of Attorney General Pam Bondi on the internet. Radical leftists have attacked ICE facilities all over the country. The John Brown Gun Club is a Marxist organization dedicated to the proposition of revolution. After Kirk’s assassination, the Club’s Washington DC branch advertised with a flyer reading, “Hey, fascist! Catch” to attract new members. Willem van Spronsen, a member of the Puget Sound branch, was killed in Seattle in 2019 while attacking an ICE detention facility with Molotov cocktails, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. Van Spronsen proudly proclaimed, “I am antifa.” Leftist groups will riot against any version of oppression anyone can conjure. Last year it was Palestine, this year immigration, who knows what comes next? They are the gasoline that leftist politicians, educators, and media have distilled. A cadre of Democrat politicians play with fire, striking matches as they dance blithely around their volatile followers. The basis of our political system is the rule of law. Enforcement of immigration law is the responsibility of the federal government. Democrats have thumbed their noses at the law and demand that Trump do the same. Trump will enforce the law because it is the right thing to do and enforcement fulfills a promise he made to the American people. It is likely Democrats will continue to ratchet up the pressure. They will either fan the flames of violence or ignite the inferno of insurrection. Their dance continues. The matches they strike are in the air.)
— “Walking nightmare” is what President Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, called AOC after she spewed a nonsensical word salad calling him “short.” Miller is five-foot-ten, and looks like a kick-your-butt-Bruce-Willis character from one of the RED movies. Recently Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) explained her weirdo-dislike for men she calls “short”, even though they are taller than her. She hurled insults at Steven Miller saying, “Laugh at them. Steven Miller is a clown. I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s like, four-ten. And he looks like he is angry about the fact that he is four-ten.” What a bizarre rambling.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/does_the_o_in_aoc_represent_her_walking_nightmare_mouth.html
BREITBART
— Chicago Mobs Throw Rocks, Shoot Fireworks at Police
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/29/watch-chicagos-pro-migrant-mobs-throw-rocks-shoot-fireworks-harass-law-enforcement-officers/amp/
FOX NEWS
— DHS shares ‘video evidence’ to justify Border Patrol’s tear gas use during chaotic Chicago immigration raid. The video shows up to 100 protesters confronting agents, with some throwing rocks at them.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-shares-video-evidence-justify-border-patrol-tear-gas-use-chaotic-chicago-immigration-raid
— Top medical school moved DEI office to secret location as it tries to ‘evade accountability.’ Washington University School of Medicine has long been criticized for promoting a ‘woke’ agenda.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-medical-school-moved-dei-office-secret-location-tries-evade-accountability-legal-group.amp
NEWSMAX
— SNAP’s Empty Plates Will Feed Unimaginable Violence. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that if you are in America, you are “entitled” to free housing, free food, free clothing, free healthcare, free transportation, free education, free etc.
https://www.newsmax.com/briggenblaineholt/patriot-hoover-dulles/2025/10/29/id/1232283/
TOWNHALL
— At Berkeley, 1619 Lives on As Part of US Immigration Policy
https://townhall.com/columnists/iramehlman/2025/10/30/at-berkeley-1619-lives-on-as-part-of-us-immigration-policy-n2665659
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats not swayed by call to end shutdown from largest federal workers’ union. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. Federal workers have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.aol.com/articles/democrats-not-swayed-call-end-225109821.html
NEWSWEEK
— Trump Admin Makes Abrupt Change to Thousands of Immigrant Work Permits. DD: Will Trump a) identify the bad jobs in America that Americans ever-increasingly refuse to take and b) let those illegals who take those bad jobs stay in America? According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964. 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 assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1971-1972. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous.
https://www.newsweek.com/uscis-ending-work-authorization-ead-automatic-extensions-10958565
NEW YORK POST
— Nearly 37,000 VA employees furloughed or working without pay amid government shutdown
https://nypost.com/2025/10/30/us-news/department-of-veterans-affairs-furloughs-37000-employees-part-of-government-shutdown/
WASHINGTON POST
— How much baggage can voters forgive? DD: Candidates should disclose all their baggage before they run.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/how-much-baggage-can-democratic-voters-forgive/2025/10/29/96db19e0-d449-46ea-bb3f-679a77f2d6ae_video.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Evidence Backs the Transgender Social-Contagion Hypothesis. The share of young people claiming another ‘gender identity’ exploded. Now surveys show it is receding. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been getting everyone in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct to be sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/evidence-backs-the-transgender-social-contagion-hypothesis-40937876
— Are Women to Blame for Wokery? American society has been transformed in the last half century by the entry into the workforce of large numbers of women. Equal gender opportunity has commanded a large consensus for most of that time, but there are some dissenters. DD: All the many women who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. My critics/opponents not only have no problem with that, they want that.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-free-expression/are-women-to-blame-for-wokery/b531e7b6-3c29-4628-a794-0042dc8308b6
USA TODAY
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, boys are ever-increasingly failing. Because of Affirmative Action and DEI, the more of the following that boys are, the bleaker that their futures are: White, conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/12/boys-falling-behind-girls-school-parenting/86422169007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: According to The Brookings Institution, “Girls outperform boys in reading by 40% of a grade level in every state.” On our recent national writing exam, only 18% of eighth-grade boys were considered proficient writers. According to the Pew Research Center, 44% of college students ages 18-24 are men, and that percentage is dropping. When we take a look at the mental health of young men, we see real tragedy. Among men ages 18-23, two-thirds say no one really knows them well. Men are four times as likely to die from suicide as women. In a study of men ages 18-45, nearly 50% say their online lives are “more engaging and rewarding” than their offline lives.
ACCOUNTING
— What Does an Internal Auditor Do? DD: The internal auditing profession saw me as being too old because I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27, I did not take and pass on my first attempt the CPA examination until I was 30, I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass on my first attempt the Certified Internal Auditing examination until I was 32, and I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. The internal auditing profession ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year and for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. The internal auditing profession would not have done that if I had been a minority or a female.
https://www.accounting.com/careers/internal-auditor/
COLLEGE RECRUITER
— 20 most popular jobs upon graduation for those with business administration / management majors. DD: When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970, I wanted a career in the automotive industry. But potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Consequently, I took the only job offer that I got — Retail Sales Manager for the Chicago Heights Firestone Store. The job did not really require a college degree. Advancement opportunities were bleak. The store manager disapproved of my demographics. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My store manager rudely fired me because I had accepted that job offer. I had to have a job. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from IRS. Surprisedly, my Firestone Store manager offered me a part-tine job pumping gasoline which I took and held until he fired me again at the end of 1972.
https://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2025/10/29/20-most-popular-jobs-upon-graduation-for-those-with-business-administration-management-majors
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Illinois has launched a statewide effort to re-enroll students who stopped out of college. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I was able to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because the Post Office, IRS, and GAO grossly overpaid me, c) because of my wife’s income, and d) because we gave up trying to have children. I paid lots of money for tuition, books, and room and board to earn a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I paid lots of money for tuition and books to earn an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/30/illinois-launches-effort-re-enroll-adult-learners
(FROM THE ARTICLE: ReUp has established a re-enrollment marketplace in Illinois that will connect stopped-out learners with 19 participating community colleges and universities and provide them with live coaching and other resources. The platform will be accessible to 200,000 Illinois residents who have earned some college credits but not completed a degree. Nationwide, about 43 million Americans fall into that category.
U.S. COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS
— The Loss of America’s Truckers: The Revocation of Commercial Driver’s Licenses from Refugees and Asylees. DD: Will Trump a) identify the bad jobs in America that Americans ever-increasingly refuse to take and b) let those illegals who take those bad jobs stay in America? According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964. 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 assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1971-1972. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous.
https://refugees.org/the-loss-of-americas-truckers-the-revocation-of-commercial-drivers-licenses-from-refugees-and-asylees/
SPLC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame all problems on Republicans, and especially on Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/demand-lawmakers-governors-act-shutdown-threatens-snap/
Tag: pension
October 28, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-house-minority-leader-hakeem-jeffries-brings-redistricting-push-illinois-sources-say-local-democratic-leaders-not-biting/18078389/
NBC5
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/why-hakeem-jeffries-wants-illinois-congressional-maps-redrawn/3844198/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-redistricting-why-hakeem-jeffries-wants-congressional-maps-redrawn/3844157/
FOX32
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1730889
WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/10/27/illinois-redistricting-hakeem-jeffries-donald-trump-congress
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/editorial-ice-kristi-noem-immigration-enforcement-tear-gas-lakeview-irving-park/
— Dillard: The real consequences of not funding transit in Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/opinion-illinois-transit-funding/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CPS lunchroom workers say wages are so low they can barely feed their own families. The workers, most earning $18.42 or less an hour, picketed outside CPS headquarters Monday. They’ve been working without a contract for three months. DD: In today’s dollars, the Post Office paid me $19.37-$20.67/hour to deliver mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, I was grossly overpaid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/10/27/cps-lunchroom-workers-wages-so-low-they-can-barely-feed-own-families-chicago-public-schools
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Primary races emerge for DuPage county clerk, sheriff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251027/news/primary-races-emerge-for-dupage-county-clerk-sheriff/
— Primary battle for U.S. Senate seat gets real
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251027/nation-and-world-politics/primary-battle-for-u-s-senate-seat-gets-real/
— Palatine police defend officer who assisted federal agents
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251027/news/palatine-police-defend-officer-who-assisted-federal-agents/
KANE COUNTY CLERK
— Candidates List DD: Why hasn’t the DuPage County Clerk posted similar information?
https://clerk.kanecountyil.gov/Elections/Pages/Candidates-List.aspx
SHAW LOCAL
— Everything you need to know for the March 2026 Illinois primary. This Monday candidates will start filing their petitions to appear on the ballot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/10/22/everything-you-need-to-know-for-the-march-2026-illinois-primary/
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Illinois U.S. Senate race adds 7 candidates for Dick Durbin’s seat
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/illinois-senate-race-new-candidates-don-tracy-21116208.php
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Indiana governor calls a special session to redraw US House maps as redistricting battle spreads
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-indiana-gov-mike-braun-calls-a-special-session-to-redraw-the-states-congressional-boundaries/
— Heated discussions at PPS board meeting on racist group-chat, board member comments
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/video/heated-discussions-at-pps-board-meeting-on-racist-group-chat-board-member-comments/11208295/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump administration says emergency funds can’t be used to keep SNAP benefits going
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-27/trump-administration-says-emergency-funds-cant-be-used-to-keep-snap-benefits-going
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect illegal drug dealers
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-27/trump-administrations-strikes-on-boats-off-venezuela-coast-cause-concern-from-lawmakers
— Trump administration relying on unmarked vehicles in immigration enforcement. DD: The Post Office paid me to use my 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, my 1968 Oldsmobile 442, and my 1969 Dodge Charger SE to deliver mail in Park Forest 1966-1969. IRS paid me to use my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air, my 1974 Dodge Dart, and my 1978 Chevrolet Chevette to collect delinquent taxes in the south suburbs and Chicago 1971-1980.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-28/trump-administration-relying-on-unmarked-vehicles-in-immigration-enforcement
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/u-s-house-minority-leader-jeffries-accelerates-illinois-redistricting-push/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrats want to gerrymander Illinois even more than it already is.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/28/pressure-mounts-for-an-illinois-remap-00624394?nname=illinois-playbook
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Republican Party cried foul, saying, “JB Pritzker and Illinois Democrats have already gerrymandered Illinois to hell and back, creating one of most partisan maps in history.” The Illinois congressional delegation now has 14 Democrats and three Republicans.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-620/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Candidates should know that their opponents will do opposition research on them and that they will put the results of their opposition research in the public realm. I should write about Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 whose opponents have put the results of their opposition research in the public realm. I would focus on those candidates who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me because I included links in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to articles that they do not like. They believer that because I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, they have every right to tell me what to do and to destroy me if I do not do what they tell me to do. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Do you know any federal employees? Do you know any federal retirees? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 28 year. Federal employees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous. Federal retirees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as having pensions and health insurance subsidies that are far too generous. I should write about my critics/opponents who have demonized, denigrated, and condemned me the most. In my defense of my federal salary, pension, and benefits, I stress that while I was a federal employee, I used my own time and my own money a) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) to earn three job-related master’s degrees, c) to earn six job-related professional certifications, and d) to earn a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Precinct Committeepersons Filing on First Day in McHenry County. DD: Why hasn’t the DuPage County Clerk posted similar information?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/28/precinct-committeepersons-filing-on-first-day-in-mchenry-county/
— Only One Challenge So Far to Five Incumbent Republican County Office Holders. DD: Why hasn’t the DuPage County Clerk posted similar information?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/27/only-one-challenge-so-far-to-five-incumbent-republican-county-office-holders/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_040d5f10-ffa3-49fa-9196-a4bfaddcf78f.html
— Illinois agency buys incompatible computer system meant to ‘streamline’ diversity efforts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1d388202-7dda-4687-a573-d94e12f1554c.html
WIREPOINTS
— New Poll: Big share of Illinois Dems say violence against ICE acceptable; most say Trump and many of his supporters are ‘like Nazis’ DD: Democrat leaders make it ever-increasingly clear that they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and that illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://wirepoints.org/new-poll-big-share-of-illinois-dems-say-violence-against-ice-acceptable-most-say-trump-and-many-of-his-supporters-are-like-nazis-wirepoints-quickpoint/
RAY HANANIA
— Saving the Republican Party and Illinois from the failed GOP losers who lead it. The Republican Party had strong roots in Illinois, but in recent years has been falling apart because of selfish leaders who are more concerned with themselves than with serving the public. DD: Should I write about those Illinois Republican Party leaders who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately?
https://hanania.substack.com/p/saving-the-republican-party-and-illinois
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Trump Offers Condolences, Urges Darren Bailey to Stay in the Fight
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/president-trump-offers-condolences-urges-darren-bailey-to-stay-in-the-fight.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3865632/black-lawmakers-hold-illinois-redistricting-representation-fears/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Obama Bros Described Hegseth Tattoo as ‘Dog Whistle’ Before Helping Maine’s Platner Fend Off Scrutiny for Nazi Tattoo. Platner, a candidate for Maine’s Senate seat, admitted to keeping a Nazi tattoo on his chest for nearly two decades but said he didn’t know the meaning. DD: Candidates should know that their opponents will do opposition research on them and that they will put the results of their opposition research in the public realm.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/pod-save-platner-obama-bros-described-hegseth-tattoo-as-dog-whistle-before-helping-maines-platner-fend-off-scrutiny-for-nazi-tattoo/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/27/republican-redistricting-push-hits-gas-as-indiana-joins-party-1595735/
BREITBART
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/27/gov-mike-braun-calls-special-session-indiana-redistricting-tax-code-alignment/amp/
DAILY CALLER
— Democrat Senate Candidate Graham Platner Denies His Uncovered Tattoo Is Nazi Symbol. DD: Candidates should know that their opponents will do opposition research on them and that they will put the results of their opposition research in the public realm.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/graham-platner-maine-nazi-symbol-tattoo-susan-collins-reddit/
FEDERALIST
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/27/indiana-governor-calls-special-session-to-redraw-congressional-maps/
FOX BUSINESS
— Largest federal workers’ union calls for immediate end to shutdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2k6FZYo2nw
FOX NEWS
— Pritzker says ICE ‘harassing people for not being white’
https://www.aol.com/news/jb-pritzker-says-ice-harassing-082654876.html
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Academics have long tried to have it both ways in claiming to support diversity and robust debate while excluding views that challenge left-wing orthodoxy. Now an influential academic publication is abandoning all pretense.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/so-much-for-diversity/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Richard Porter: The Party of ‘Whatever It Takes’: Illinois Democrats’ Descent Into Defiance
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/28/the_party_of_whatever_it_takes_illinois_democrats_descent_into_defiance_153455.html
TEXAS INSIDER
— Democrats Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Candidates. DD: Candidates should know that their opponents will do opposition research on them and that they will put the results of their opposition research in the public realm.
https://texasinsider.org/articles/democrats-scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel-for-candidates
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Democrats are really reaching into the bottom of the barrel in a desperate search for political candidates these days. The daily headlines have this column almost writing itself. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, we have the recent revelations of Democratic candidate for attorney general, Jay Jones, sending text messages to a colleague in 2022 wishing that someone would put “two bullets” in the head of then-Republican Speaker of the House of Delegates, Todd Gilbert. Jones went on to say that Gilbert and his wife were raising their two toddlers to be “little fascists,” that Gilbert was a “POS” whose grave he wished to “piss on,” and that he wished one of Gilbert’s children would die in his mother’s arms. He could be my state’s next chief law enforcement officer. Then, in the state of New Jersey, we have Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Michelle “Mikie” Sherrill facing questions over the circumstances of the discipline she received while a Naval Academy midshipman, which reportedly prevented her from walking with her class at graduation. Ms. Sherrill, who serves as a congresswoman from New Jersey, apparently graduated from Annapolis and went on to serve as a Navy helicopter pilot. Her military service was honorable, and perhaps whatever her infraction was — apparently a cheating scandal involving a number of midshipmen on an engineering exam — should not be disqualifying for the governorship. However, the voters of New Jersey are entitled to make that decision based on a full airing of the evidence. To date, Sherrill has refused to release her disciplinary records from the Academy, which would go a long way toward clearing the air. As they say in Washington, it’s not the crime – it’s the cover-up. As long as she refuses to release the records, the issue remains a cancer on her campaign. Ms. Sherrill had to have known that this issue lurking in her background would likely come back to haunt her campaign for governor, given the harsh light of a gubernatorial election in a major state. Perhaps her prior successful campaigns for Congress convinced her the Academy scandal was behind her. The opposition research, however, for the governorship of the Garden State, which has been hotly contested in recent years, is likely much more robust than the one in a less well-funded congressional contest. Another Democratic candidate for a powerful seat is in the glare of the Klieg lights. This time it is Bernie Sanders-endorsed Marine Corps veteran Graham Platner, who is vying for the Democratic nomination to replace the U.S. senator from Maine, Susan Collins, in that state’s 2026 Senate race. Mr. Platner was discovered to have posted a number of things on Reddit that haven’t aged very well. When you’re running in a statewide race to be Maine’s next U.S. senator, for example, it’s probably best not to have posted online that rural Mainers are “actually” racist and stupid, as the Washington Post reported Mr. Platner to have written in 2020. The Post also reported that Mr. Platner had described himself as a “Communist” on the Reddit platform. Now, I know that the Democratic Party’s “New Left” has taken a hard turn toward Karl Marx, but even New York’s radical mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, tries to distance himself from the Communist label. I can’t imagine that the denizens of the Pine Tree State are ready to embrace a self-avowed Communist. But things really veered toward darkness when it was revealed that Mr. Platner had the famed Nazi symbol of a skull-and-bones known as the Totenkopf (Death’s Head) tattooed on his chest. In what had to be one of the most disingenuous political spin jobs ever, Mr. Platner claimed not to have realized it was a Nazi symbol when he was in the Corps and had himself inked while in Croatia with some buddies. Problem is, Mr. Platner reportedly told a friend in D.C. ten years ago, “Oh, this is my Totenkopf.” Even Platner’s former political director, Genevieve MacDonald, who resigned last week over the disaster, said, “He’s not an idiot, he’s a military history buff.” Even worse than the political spin was perhaps the worst tattoo clean-up job ever, in which Mr. Platner had some shlock tattoo artist stick some legs and a dog’s head on the skull, now telling Vanity Fair the tattoo is “a Celtic knot with a dog.” Okaaayyyy… As my brother, Jim, hilariously said to me, it looks like a tick that was irradiated at Chernobyl. Get a lot of popcorn as the Democratic Party scrambles to field candidates over the next year or two. The party is in a bad way and scraping the barrel’s bottom. Several decades ago, I was an investigator for a prominent D.C. investigative firm that was hired by politicians to do opposition research on their opponents. One prominent Democrat considering a run for president had us do a self-due diligence of him in which I was involved. Smart man. Always know what the opposition can find out about you before the opposition does. Our client didn’t run for the presidency.)
TOWNHALL
— The Dem Maine Senate Candidate With Nazi Tattoos Reveals How He ‘Removed’ Them. DD: Candidates should know that their opponents will do opposition research on them and that they will put the results of their opposition research in the public realm.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/10/22/dems-finally-get-their-own-naziand-the-reactions-have-been-a-mess-n2665295
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Democrats and RINOs have always used Affirmative Action to discriminate against Republicans who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5574902-supreme-court-affirmative-action-colleges-universities-black-enrollment/
CNN
— Democrats not swayed by call to end shutdown from largest federal workers’ union
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/politics/democrats-afge-union-shutdown
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republican leaders for the high cost of healthcare. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly increase illegal immigration, and that ever-increasingly increases the cost of healthcare. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been ever-increasingly furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums because of my federal employment. Since I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been ever-increasingly furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums because of my federal employment. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly make it clear a) that they despise/hate past/present/future federal employees and retirees, b) that they would never stoop to take a federal job, and/or c) that they lack qualifications for federal jobs. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that federal employees are grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://apnews.com/article/health-care-subsidies-obamacare-shutdown-e94d96a8a837a5f7f681dc6893872d3b
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-gerrymandering-voting-maps-congress-trump-2ba53ae1f492f8e293f0fa261604e8c6
MSNBC
— GOP blasted for abandoning federal workers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0UAYsXVa-U
— Largest federal workers’ union calls for immediate end to government shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 820,000 people, is pressuring lawmakers as its members go without pay.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/largest-federal-workers-union-calls-immediate-end-government-shutdown-rcna240047
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trumps-redistricting-push-hits-roadblocks-indiana-kansas-republican-126874363
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/opinion/immigration-enforcement-latino-discrimination.html
— Top Federal Workers’ Union Breaks With Democrats on Shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees, in a shift, called on Congress to immediately reopen the government without the health care measures sought by Democratic lawmakers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/politics/afge-federal-workers-union-government-shutdown.html
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How strongly is this playing out in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/us/politics/trump-free-speech.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Largest federal workers union calls for ‘clean’ bill to end shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for a stopgap funding measure to bring employees back to work with back pay.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/27/largest-employees-union-end-shutdown/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Union Pressures Democrats to End Government Shutdown. ‘Both political parties have made their point,’ AFGE president says.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/union-pressures-democrats-to-end-government-shutdown-6028b2b1
MONEY
— Few ‘Quality’ Jobs? 60% of Workers Dissatisfied With Pay and Opportunities. DD: Those considering federal jobs who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran should be advised that their careers will be wasted and they will be gotten rid of if they do not make GS-13 ($117,807)by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. It is called up-or-out, Affirmative Action, DEI, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://money.com/us-job-market-quality-crisis/
HARVARD CRIMSON
— DD: Ever-increasingly since the 1960s, Democrats and RINOs have used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/28/editorial-harvard-admissions-data-socioeconomic/
PBS
— Federal workers union calls for end to shutdown
https://www.pbs.org/video/news-wrap-1761593289/
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot regain control of the White House, U.S. Senate, or U.S. House unless they gerrymander even more.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/27/democrats-get-aggressive-on-remapping-congressional-lines-00624231
HUFFINGTON POST
— Largest Federal Employee Union Calls On Democrats To End Government Shutdown. Nearly four weeks into the shutdown, hundreds of thousands of workers are furloughed and missing paychecks. DD: Do you know any federal employees? Do you know any federal retirees? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 28 year. Federal employees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous. Federal retirees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as having pensions and health insurance subsidies that are far too generous. I should write about my critics/opponents who have demonized, denigrated, and condemned me the most. In my defense of my federal salary, pension, and benefits, I stress that while I was a federal employee, I used my own time and my own money a) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) to earn three job-related master’s degrees, c) to earn six job-related professional certifications, and d) to earn a job-related professional license.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-democrats-trump-afge_n_68ff7da8e4b0fb1b951554fa
October 26, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Naperville is the second-safest city in the United States for kids going trick-or-treating this Halloween. DD: Yesterday, Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville hosted an outstanding major Halloween event for children of its unit owners and their friends. 40 unit owners opened their doors. The event drew more than 400 children.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pair-of-chicago-suburbs-among-safest-cities-in-u-s-for-trick-or-treating/3843733/
CBS2
— Federal agents break car window, detain 2 people during traffic stop in Addison
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-people-detained-by-federal-agents-during-traffic-stop-addison/
— Federal agents deploy tear gas, detain delivery worker in separate operations on Northwest Side
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-agents-deploy-tear-gas-detain-delivery-worker-northwest-side/
— Federal food aid will not go out starting Nov. 1 amid government shutdown. DD: What percent depend on federal food aid in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-food-aid-govenrment-shutdown/
— Demonstrators face off with federal agents at hospital in Aurora
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/demonstrators-face-off-with-federal-agents-at-hospital-in-aurora-illinois/
WGN9
— SNAP funding expiration set to hit 40 million people. DD: What percent depend on federal food aid in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/snap-funding-expiration-set-to-hit-40-million-people/
FOX32
— Outrage after federal agents use tear gas just before Halloween parade in Old Irving Park
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/outrage-after-federal-agents-use-tear-gas-just-before-halloween-parade-old-irving-park
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration posts notice that no federal food aid will go out Nov. 1. DD: What percent depend on federal food aid in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/26/trump-administration-federal-food-aid-nov-1/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump makes the war on drugs a reality
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/26/trump-makes-war-drugs-reality-boat-strikes/
— Senators demand answers as Trump expands campaign against drug cartels
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/26/senators-demand-answers-trump-expands-military-campaign-drug-cartels/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats try to keep up with Republicans in national redistricting war
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3863824/democrats-try-to-keep-up-with-republicans-in-national-redistricting-war/
NEW YORK POST
— How Democrats threw a government shutdown and no one cared
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/opinion/how-democrats-threw-a-government-shutdown-and-no-one-cared/
— It’s Cuomo or catastrophe for New York
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/opinion/its-cuomo-or-catastrophe-for-new-york/
BREITBART
— America Will Have More Zohran Mamdanis if We Do Not Secure Border, Send Illegal Aliens Back
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/26/exclusive-nate-morris-america-will-have-more-zohran-mamdanis-if-we-do-not-secure-border-send-illegal-aliens-back/
DAILY CALLER
— Republican lawmakers are pushing for permanent fixes to address the startling number of illegal migrant truckers wreaking havoc on American highways. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/26/gop-locking-in-on-truck-driver-crackdown/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Predominance of One Demographic at ‘No Kings’ Protests
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/expert-notes-the-predominance-of-one-demographic-at-no-kings-protests-draws-an-amusing-conclusion/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSNBC
— Frustrations rise as federal workers miss first full paycheck of government shutdown. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/frustrations-rise-as-federal-workers-miss-first-full-paycheck-of-government-shutdown-250633797991
MSN
— There’s a war on the bachelor’s degree. Can anything replace it? DD: If I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in 1970, I would not have been able to a) earn an MBA in 1976, b) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, or e) become a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ar-AA1PaQoQ
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ever since the government began tracking the share of the American population with a bachelor’s degree, that figure has grown. At last count, about 2 million people across the country were receiving one each year. But a loose-knit movement has emerged that wants to dramatically reduce the number of these degrees issued by U.S. colleges and universities. Republican politicians and conservative firebrands have made that goal explicit. Christopher Rufo, whose ideas have been a driving force behind the Trump administration’s assault on higher education, told the Wall Street Journal that he wants to see the number of Americans enrolling in four-year colleges cut in half. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has said Americans should be rethinking the role of a four-year degree in American life — perhaps reserving it to train people for a small number of professions. The message is also coming from elsewhere. Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, which is strongly aligned with Democrats, urged New York Times readers to “stop trying to make everyone go to college.” During her presidential campaign, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris said that if elected, she would get rid of any unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs. And it’s not just rhetoric. Congress recently opened up more government funding for students who want to pursue very short-term programs. In its settlement with the White House, Brown University agreed to pay $50 million to workforce-development organizations. President Donald Trump has said he’d like an agreement with Harvard University to include funding for trade schools. In a document laying out their workforce strategy, Trump administration officials said “the ‘college for all approach’ has failed” and pledged to use the might of the government and its funds to bolster alternatives. A growing number of colleges and universities are looking to appeal to those who doubt the value of a traditional bachelor’s degree by offering three-year programs. In a perhaps more subtle attack on college-going, changes coming from the Republican megabill passed this summer will, for many people, make student loans harder to repay. The war on the bachelor’s degree is the culmination of a broad skepticism of higher education that has been building for years. Factors like rising student debt and high-profile examples of people becoming successful without a degree have helped fuel questions about the value that colleges and universities deliver. Peter Thiel, the prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist, has been paying high-achieving kids to skip college through his fellowship program since 2011. There’s reason to be concerned. About half of students who earn a bachelor’s degree from a public or private nonprofit four-year college use debt to finance it, borrowing roughly $30,000 on average, according to the College Board. That’s manageable if you have a job, but the unemployment rate for young college graduates is the highest it’s been in more than a decade, outside of the pandemic, and colleges broadly don’t appear equipped to prepare students for a labor market powered by artificial intelligence. Still, the proponents of tearing down the bachelor degree from its prominent role in American life offer few viable substitutes that can be applied broadly today, experts say. The absence of widely available good alternatives to achieving financial stability means a bachelor’s degree remains the best shot at a decent financial life for many Americans. In the next seven years, the U.S. will need 4.5 million more workers with at least a bachelor’s degree, according to Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce. Right now, more than 500,000 students from the top half of their high school class don’t go on to complete a college credential every year, the center found. “All else being equal, getting a bachelor’s degree is still going to be the best return on investment for most students,” said Rajeev Darolia, an economist at the University of Kentucky who is studying the returns for alternatives to the bachelor’s degree like shorter-term programs. “It also leads to potentially more flexible and lucrative career paths.” He added: “What worries me is that we could be diverting students away from investments, longer-term degrees that are likely to have higher returns,” noting that he’s particularly concerned about poorer students being pushed toward the cheaper option.)
AOL
— 15 Highest-Paying Jobs with a Bachelor’s Degree DD: I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. My starting IRS salary in 1971 was $55,850/year in today’s dollars. But my salary was $112,280/year in 1980 in today’s dollars after I earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.aol.com/15-highest-paying-jobs-bachelor-150000628.html
CBS NEWS
— Continued government shutdown could be “devastating” to federal workers. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/continued-government-shutdown-could-be-devastating-to-federal-workers-union-rep-says/
FOX DC
— Federal workers line up for food assistance. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1730138
BLOOMBERG
— Will Foreign MBAs Win or Lose With Trump’s H-1B Reforms? DD: My Democrat IRS superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA from Loyola when I was 27 in 1976. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or younger. My Democrat coworkers who they wanted to promote over me were minority, female, and/or younger than me and they had no master’s degree.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/trump-s-h-1b-visa-reforms-will-have-mixed-effect-on-mbas
GREELEY TRIBUNE
— Where are you on the wealth ladder?
https://www.greeleytribune.com/2025/10/26/money-matters-where-are-you-on-the-wealth-ladder/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: You begin in the Building the Foundation stage when your net worth is less than your annual salary. . .When your net worth exceeds your annual salary, you reach Early Accumulation. . .At around three times your salary, you enter Rapid Accumulation. . .You reach Financial Independence once your investments equal about seven times your annual spending. . .At 10 times annual spending, you move into Conservation, where work becomes optional depending on age, obligations and access to Social Security or a pension. )
POST GAZETTE
— Is college worth the cost? DD: It certainly was for me. But I spent lots on money for tuition and books to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2025/10/26/is-college-worth-the-cost-universities-work-to-show-the-return-on-investment-of-a-degree/stories/202510260005
NEW REPUBLIC
— DD: What do your critics/opponents use to justify their taking adverse actions against you? My critics/opponents use my refusing to be manipulated or dominated by them, to glorify or paise them, to pander to them, to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, to cover up their wrong doing, and/or to give them money. Consequently, they have their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202187/trump-republican-party-rise-politics-revenge
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
TIMES OF INDIA
— No dual citizens in US Congress: Republican leader’s new bill in ‘America First’ push
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/no-dual-citizens-in-us-congress-republican-leaders-new-bill-in-america-first-push/articleshow/124829573.cms
October 25, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Immigration enforcement on North Side leads to tense confrontations, soft lockdowns at schools. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UArzAIw14Oc
NBC5
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/judge-rules-in-case-of-chicago-father-detained-amid-daughters-cancer-battle/3843328/
CBS2
— Federal immigration agents target North Side neighborhoods. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/federal-immigration-agents-target-north-side-neighborhoods/
WGN9
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ze_OQguc4
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/10/24/pritzker-illinois-will-never-back-down-on-protecting-reproductive-health-care
DAILY HERALD
— Elgin joins communities looking to ban use of their property for ICE activities. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251024/news/elgin-joins-communities-looking-to-ban-use-of-their-property-for-ice-activities/
— Batavia considers ban on ICE using city property. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251024/news/batavia-considers-ban-on-ice-using-city-property/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DD: Under the Democrats, soon, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare,
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/10/24/central-illinois-foodbank-braces-for-potential-halt-of-snap-program/86859388007/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— The new leader of the Illinois Federation of Teachers says state lawmakers should consider raising taxes on the wealthy. DD: Ever since I became an IRS Revenue Officer when I was 22 years old in 1971, my critics/opponents have wanted me to pay more taxes. Since 1972, they have been furious that I paid less federal income tax because I itemed and even more furious since 1978 that my wife and I paid less federal income tax because we itemized. Further, they want my wife and I to pay more taxes because we gave up trying to have children. According to them, because we have never had to pay the tremendous cost of raising children, we can and should pay more taxes. Further, according to them, if my wife and I had children, I never would have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, or d) become a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/education/article_e6c39b1a-4822-43aa-b5e7-ee2c0489dc0c.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Champaign County Board passed $25,000 support for reparations commission. How much in reparations do Democrats want you to pay? Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://foxillinois.com/newsletter-daily/champaign-county-board-passed-25000-support-for-reparations-commission
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly protect illegal drug dealers
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-24/as-strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats-grow-so-do-questions-about-their-legality-and-goal
COUNTRY HERALD
— Downtown Naperville annual Halloween Hop is this Sunday, October 26. DD: Today, Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville is hosting a major Halloween event for children of its unit owners and their friends. 40 unit owners will be opening their doors. The event is limited to 400 children.
https://countryherald.com/news/naperville-il-traffic-alert-downtown-roads-closing-for-halloween-hop-sunday/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— A Not-So-Special Report with Governor Pritzker. Excuses, Deflection, and Denial
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/a-not-so-special-report-with-jb-pritzker/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Swim Against the Current. This year’s keynote speaker, as you may have already seen, is Riley (Gaines) Barker – a 12-time All-American swimmer, 2-time Olympic Trial Qualifier, and 5-time SEC Champion.
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/swim-against-the-current/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous. Do you agree with my critics/opponents? In today’s dollars, my Post Office salary increased from $19.37/hour in 1966 to $20.67/hour in 1969. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary increased from $55,850/year in 1971 to $112,280/year in 1980. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary increased from $88,808/year in 1980 to $153,151/year in 1997. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970. I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997. I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a job-related professional license in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that those who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time have always benefitted from discrimination against those who are minority, female, younger, non-Protestant non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Do you agree with my critics/opponents? 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. I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pensions take up money that should go to Illinois classrooms. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. That is, so far, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pensions-take-up-money-that-should-go-to-illinois-classrooms/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Chicago Activists Accuse Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino of Violating Judge’s Use of Force Ban After He Deploys Tear Gas at Violent Anti-ICE Rioters
https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/24/chicago-activists-accuse-border-patrol-chief-gregory-bovino-of-violating-judges-use-of-force-ban-after-he-deploys-tear-gas-at-violent-anti-ice-rioters/
BREITBART
— Federal Workers Line Up at Food Banks After Dem Whip Calls Them ‘Leverage’ DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/24/federal-workers-line-up-at-food-banks-after-dem-whip-calls-them-leverage/
— AG Pam Bondi Warns Pelosi, Democrats for Threatening ICE Officers
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/24/ag-pam-bondi-warns-pelosi-democrats-as-they-threaten-ice-officers/amp/
FEDERALIST
— New York High Court Blocks Race-Grifters From Using Courts To Indoctrinate Children
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/24/new-york-high-court-blocks-race-grifters-from-using-courts-to-indoctrinate-children/
FOX NEWS
— Pritzker’s message to Chicago is ICE agents are the bad guys. DD: I was an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years. I should write about how people view/treat IRS Revenue Officers.
https://www.aol.com/news/jb-pritzkers-message-chicago-ice-172229482.html
— DD: Democrats question Border Patrol tactics in Illinois
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6383825294112
— 1.4 million federal employees without a paycheck as shutdown continues. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.aol.com/news/1-4-million-federal-employees-221605085.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Federal workers form line down the block for food pantry as shutdown hits third-week mark. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.aol.com/articles/federal-workers-form-line-down-234055064.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders cause the shutdown and then blame it on Republican leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/mike-johnson-speaker-congress.html
— Immigration Crackdown Spreads Through Chicago, Including Wealthy Neighborhoods
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/trump-immigration-crackdown-chicago-lakeview.html
— Trump Administration Plans a Shake-Up at ICE to Speed Deportations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/trump-deportations-ice.html
NBC NEWS
— Federal workers line up at food banks ahead of first missed check since shutdown. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp-video/mmvo250607173910
— Federal workers flock to D.C. food bank as they miss first full paycheck of shutdown. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/federal-workers-dc-food-bank-miss-first-full-paycheck-shutdown-rcna239698
NBC WASHINGTON
— Furloughed feds miss first full paycheck amid shutdown standoff, surge at food banks. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/government-shutdown/furloughed-feds-miss-first-full-paycheck-amid-shutdown-standoff-surge-at-food-banks/4006398/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Tensions Mount as Agents, Including Gregory Bovino, Clash With Chicagoans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/gregory-bovino-chicago-immigration.html
— Food Banks Offer Groceries for Furloughed Federal Workers. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/food-banks-federal-workers-trump.html
WKYC
— Get a job, get married: Ohio Senate passes ‘Success Sequence’ bill focused on poverty prevention in schools. DD: My critics/opponents fail/refuse to promote personal responsibility. From the beginning, because my father had brittle type 1 diabetes, I knew that his days were numbered. That, and the fact he lacked money, put me on track when I was 16 years old in 1964 to work my way through college. To buy a new car to commute to/from classes at UIC, I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights four evenings a week plus Saturdays during my junior and senior years and full-time during the summer in between. In bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966. SEE: https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf My father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969.
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/ohio-senate-success-sequence-bill-poverty-prevention-schools/95-73b9bf47-cf6c-4ef0-b2e9-179180fee773
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What’s the Future of Racial Gerrymandering? The problem lies not with the statute but with Thornburg v. Gingles’s (1986) framework for vote dilution. DD: The Illinois 3rd Congressional District is racially gerrymandered.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whats-the-future-of-racial-gerrymandering-vra-court-maps-47f3a5f8
FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans White supremacists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkzL4maY3D0
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luZB1TmRPV8
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— DD: My Democrat superiors in federal government used the extreme subjectivity in their performance evaluation systems a) to favor their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and b) to disfavor their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors were furious when I did the following because it frustrated their efforts to disfavor me: I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-most-performance-evaluations-are-biased-and-how-to-fix-them
SIRM
— DD: If you are a Republican, anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO employers will not hire you. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Democrats who ran GAO 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, veteran, or younger person who would take the job. The Democrats who ran the Post Office, IRS, and GAO wrongly anticipated/expected that I would become a Democrat.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/fired-political-affiliation-activity
ATLANTIC
— DD: Hopefully, my Crete-Monee High School class of 1966 will have its 60th reunion next year. Sadly, my interaction with my classmates was dramatically reduced because I could not run because I had a bone disease and because I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights four evenings a week plus Saturdays during my junior and senior years and full-time during the summer in between. Further, I was not viewed as being college material. But nevertheless, I took college preparatory classes, I got an ACT score of 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/09/high-school-reunion-attendance/684097/
PBS
— As federal workers miss paychecks, many turn to food banks. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://www.pbs.org/video/shutdown-impact-1761339544/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Furloughed federal employees seek help at food banks amid govt shutdown. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/its-a-challenge-furloughed-federal-employees-seek-help-at-dc-food-bank-amid-govt-shutdown/amp_podcast/124797922.cms
I PAPER
— I’m scared the state pension age could rise to 70 – both my parents died younger. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. That is, so far, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/i-m-scared-the-state-pension-age-could-rise-to-70-both-my-parents-died-younger/ar-AA1P9Jd8?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds
October 24, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DOJ appealing dismissal of sanctuary city policy lawsuit against Illinois, Cook County, Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/united-states-department-justice-appealing-dismissal-sanctuary-city-policy-lawsuit-illinois-cook-county-chicago/18066785/
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-news-demonstrators-broadview-facility-dhs-defends-apparent-tear-gas-use-little-village-protesters/18066452/
— Federal workers are bearing the brunt of the government shutdown, with more than 1 million of them going unpaid while Democrats and Republicans in Congress argue over funding federal agencies for the current fiscal year. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid and that my benefits were far too generous.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/heres-getting-paid-isnt-during-federal-government-shutdown/18065522/
— US House subcommittee hosts ‘shadow hearing’ in Chicago on immigration enforcement tactics
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-democrats-us-house-subcommittee-hosts-shadow-hearing-chicago-immigration-enforcement-tactics/18067828/
NBC5
— Elementary school in Chicago on soft lockdown amid reports of ICE agents in area. “Together, we will look out for one another and make sure everyone is protected.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/elementary-school-in-chicago-on-soft-lockdown-amid-reports-of-ice-agents-in-area/3843138/
CBS2
— Federal agents on North, Northwest Sides prompt soft lockdowns at schools; tear gas fired in Lakeview
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-ice-lakeview-tear-gas-wicker-park-school-lockdown/
WGN9
— Federal agents reported in multiple North Side neighborhoods as Chicago schools tighten safety protocols
https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/federal-agents-reported-in-multiple-north-side-neighborhoods-as-chicago-schools-tighten-safety-protocols/
FOX32
— Federal agents targeted during violent ICE raids across Chicago
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/federal-agents-targeted-ice-raids-chicago-officials-say
WTTW
— State Senator Terri Bryant said she gave a list of undocumented individuals currently being held in Illinois state prisons to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/24/illinois-lawmaker-wants-help-federal-immigration-officials-id-undocumented-people-state
WBEZ
— Cicero, Berwyn students demand more school district support as immigration enforcement escalates. They are sitting out this week’s homecoming events and protesting after they say their concerns have been dismissed. The leader of the heavily Latino Morton High School District says they are there to support every student.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/24/cicero-berwyn-students-demand-more-morton-school-district-201-support-ice-immigration-enforcement-escalates
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Federal immigration agents tear-gas Lakeview, raid Lincoln Park as feds focus on city’s affluent North Side
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/federal-immigration-agents-chicago-north-side/
— DD: To keep up with political and government news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans from a conservative perspective, read GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/opinion-news-cycle-information-mental-health/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Feds make arrests across North and Near West sides, deploy tear gas on residential street in Lake View. “It was terrifying,” said one woman, who witnessed the arrest of a soon-to-be father outside the Erie Family Health Center in West Town.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/24/immigration-agents-arrest-lake-view-protest-tear-gas
— Federal judge orders Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino into her courtroom. The order came one day after Bovino was accused of tossing tear gas into a crowd in Little Village without justification.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/24/federal-judge-orders-border-patrol-commander-greg-bovino-into-her-courtroom
— Durbin and Duckworth blast Trump for playing ‘political games’ in denying Illinois disaster assistance. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government always played political games with their Republican employees. That is, they gave them bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals. They ranked them in the bottom half of their coworkers for pay-for-performance. They delayed their promotions and rarely if ever promoted them beyond GS-12. They forced them to retire as soon as they were eligible. I never would have made GS-13 and survived until I was 49 years old in 1997, which was 4 years after I became eligible for early retirement, if I had not a) earned three job-related master’s degrees, earned six job-related professional certifications, and earned a job-related professional license.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/24/dick-durbin-tammy-duckworth-donald-trump-denial-illinois-disaster-assistance
— CPS investigator claims in lawsuit she was fired for digging into politically and racially charged cases. The CPS law department investigator says she refused to bow to pressure to change her reports. The principals association’s former leader criticized her work as subpar. DD: To hint/imply/argue/shout that my work was subpar, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign and disallowed my sick leave requests. In my defense, I earned three job-related master’s degrees, I earned six job-related professional certifications, and I earned a job-related professional license.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/10/23/cps-investigator-claims-fired-politically-racially-charged-cases-lawsuit-racist-dunbar-lindblom
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Former Illinois GOP leader Lee Daniels’ $7 million New Buffalo home sells in under a week
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/illinois-gop-leader-lee-daniels-new-buffalo-home-sells-fast
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL PUBLISHING
— Ray Hanania: Can Conforti overcome GOP problems to unseat Casten?
https://southwestregionalpublishing.com/2025/10/24/ray-hanania-can-conforti-overcome-gop-problems-to-unseat-casten/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-410/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
TED DABROWSKI
— Dabrowski Calls for Audit of CDL Licenses Issued in Illinois and All Sanctuary States After Crash in CA That Killed Three.. DD: This harkens back to George Ryan.
https://mailchi.mp/tedforillinois/dabrowski-calls-for-audit-of-cdl-licenses-issued-in-il-and-all-sanctuary-states-after-crash-in-ca-that-killed-three?e=c4ad197eda
DON TRACY
— Krishnamoorthi Doubles Down on Dems’ Position: Shutdown is “Our Leverage”
https://dontracyforil.com/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Does the McHenry County Republican Party Have a Death Wish?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/24/does-the-mchenry-county-republican-party-have-a-death-wish/
— Bruce Johnson Proposes County Efficiency Task Force Committee for McHenry County To Avoid 13% Tax Levy Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/24/bruce-johnson-proposes-county-efficiency-task-force-committee-for-mchenry-county-to-avoid-13-tax-levy-hike/
— Fundraising Results in Democrat’s Bradley Schneider’s 10th Congressional District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/24/fundraising-results-in-democrats-bradley-schneiders-10th-congressional-district/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pensions make homeownership unaffordable in Illinois. DD: I began earning credits toward a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension when I was 18 years old in 1966. I have been getting a CSRS pension since 1997. My critics/opponents use that against me. According to them, CSRS pensions are much too generous. In my defense, I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS and I might still be paying into the CSRS if my Democrat superiors had not forced me to retire.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pensions-make-homeownership-unaffordable-in-illinois/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Dabrowski Changes Campaign Plans After Mendrick Pauses to Honor Bailey Family
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/dabrowski-changes-campaign-plans-after-mendrick-pauses-to-honor-bailey-family.html
— As Bailey Mourns, Dabrowski Moves Into His Southern Illinois Backyard
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/as-bailey-mourns-dabrowski-moves-into-his-southern-illinois-backyard.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— U.S. conducts its 10th strike on drug boat, killing six
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/24/us-conducts-10th-strike-alleged-drug-boat-killing-six/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The ick of immigration law enforcement
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3859636/charleroi-pennsylvania-mass-migration-immigration-law-enforcement/
CAMPUS REFORM
— University of Washington still requires ‘diversity statements’ for wide range of positions. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They waste the careers of their Republican employees and get rid of them, and especially those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/-university-washington-still-requires-diversity-statements-wide-range-positions/28838
COLLEGE FIX
— University of Illinois won’t accept any more race, sex-based scholarships under new policy. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-illinois-wont-accept-any-more-race-sex-based-scholarships-under-new-policy/
FEDERALIST
— Radical Dogma Being Taught At The No. 1 Elementary Teaching School
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/24/heres-an-inside-look-at-the-radical-dogma-being-taught-at-the-no-1-elementary-teaching-school/
— NBC Is Helping Run Anti-ICE Ops For Dems
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/24/nbc-is-helping-run-anti-ice-ops-for-dems/
FOX NEWS
— Dems urged to ‘stop siding with illegal aliens’ after activist rams agents in sanctuary city
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-urged-stop-siding-illegal-aliens-after-activist-rams-agents-sanctuary-city
NEWSMAX
— Trump Ended Immigration Caravans, Democrats Can’t Handle It
https://www.newsmax.com/kenbuck/biden-newsom-sanctuary/2025/10/23/id/1231635/
PATRIOT POST
— DD: It Is Racist to Draw Congressional Districts Based Upon Race
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/122046-is-it-racist-to-draw-congressional-districts-based-upon-race-2025-10-24
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Asserts Authority to House Migrants at All Overseas U.S. Bases
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/dhs-ice-guantanamo.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Asylum seekers face deportation over failure to pay new fees
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-24/new-fees-for-asylum-seekers-leave-many-panicked-over-when-how-to-pay
AMERICAN REFORMER
— Baby Boomer Generation. DD: I am a Baby Boomer. My Democrat superiors in the federal government blamed Baby Boomer Republicans like me for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://americanreformer.org/2025/10/the-boomers-world/
(GOOGLE AI: The Vietnam War profoundly impacted the Baby Boomer generation, leading to widespread military service, draft evasion, and a massive counter-culture movement that challenged the establishment. Over 10 million baby boomers served in the military, with many facing the draft, while others changed their life trajectories to avoid it, creating deep societal divisions. The conflict also fostered a lasting distrust in government, a critical reassessment of patriotism, and the emotional and psychological trauma for returning veterans who sometimes faced public hostility.)
HUFFINGTON POST
— Pritzker Says Trump Will 100% Try To ‘Steal’ 2026 Election
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jb-pritzker-trump-steal-2026-election_n_68fa9b16e4b071f32a279d37
October 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE OF DABROWSKI: Republican race for Illinois governor already spiraling downward over questionable campaign tactics. DD: The Chicago Tribune ever-increasingly does everything that it can a) to determine which candidates win Republican primaries in Illinois and b) to defeat those candidates in general elections.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/illinois-gop-governor-race-infighting/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republican-race-illinois-governor-already-024200832.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The devolution of Illinois’ Republican Party continued Tuesday as a candidate for governor refused to denounce two political operatives tied to a right-wing fake newspaper website that published a story containing an internet link detailing salacious allegations against a rival, while a new candidate emerged with a controversial background as a gambling mogul. At a brief news conference, GOP governor candidate Ted Dabrowski refused to discuss the public disclosure of a years-old draft harassment complaint involving rival Darren Bailey and his 2022 campaign. The allegations, stemming from Bailey’s failed 2022 bid for governor, were never formally filed in court and have not been verified, but were linked to a politically motivated news article shared online. Dabrowski, former president of the conservative research and advocacy group Wirepoints, also would not answer questions about Jeanne Ives and right-wing radio talk show host Dan Proft, both of whom supported Bailey in 2022 but are now backing Dabrowski. Ives is an acolyte of Proft, and Proft has been a business partner of Brian Timpone, who oversees one of many so-called “pink-slime” publications — fake newspapers used as a political tool — that included a link to the unverified claims. Ives, who has lost previous bids for governor and Congress, also posted the article with the link on her Facebook page. “Ordinary Illinoisans, Chicagoans, Illinoisans, don’t care about political infighting between campaigns. And I’m not going to get into that,” Dabrowski said during the news conference, which lasted less than 10 minutes. The GOP race for governor in the March 17 primary and the right to take on billionaire second-term Democrat JB Pritzker began spiraling late last week when a Timpone-run publication posted the link to a 37-page confidential draft lawsuit within an online article about a political action committee called the Save Illinois PAC. That PAC, which spent over $39,500 to help launch Bailey’s second bid for the Republican nomination for governor, is run by Brett Corrigan, a former political worker for Bailey who made the allegations during Bailey’s first run for governor in 2022, when he was 17 years old. The Tribune is not detailing the allegations contained in the draft lawsuit because it was never filed in court and not verified, and the legal dispute apparently ended in a closed-door resolution between Corrigan and Bailey. The Chicago Tribune first reported on the dispute between Corrigan and the Bailey campaign days before the November 2022 general election. At the time of the 2022 campaign, Proft was supportive of Bailey and used his People Who Play By The Rules PAC to back the Republican former state lawmaker from downstate. Proft, of Naples, Florida, also has been the conduit of tens of millions of dollars in contributions to Illinois candidates from conservative megadonor Richard Uihlein of Lake Forest, who founded the Uline office supply distribution firm. Uihlein, in 2022, overwhelmingly funded the People Who Play By The Rules PAC, but this year has given $250,000 to Dabrowski’s campaign. In 2022, Proft sought to inject himself into the potential litigation between Corrigan and Bailey. By law, the PAC was not supposed to coordinate its spending activities with Bailey’s campaign but text messages show efforts by Proft to try to intercede in the legal matter, raising questions over whether Proft was closer to the campaign than previously acknowledged. After Corrigan retained Orland Park attorney Scott Kaspar to pursue a proposed confidential settlement agreement, Proft weighed in, apparently in an effort to quash the filing of a possible lawsuit that could become public ahead of the 2022 general election. Pritzker ended up defeating Bailey by about 13 percentage points. The Democratic Party of Illinois filed a complaint with the Illinois State Board of Elections the day after the Tribune story was published, alleging Proft and Bailey’s campaign illegally coordinated their efforts to oppose Pritzker’s reelection bid. But the board rejected the complaint last year, in part, because Illinois law does not specifically define what activities constitute “coordination” that would render the actions of an independent expenditure PAC and the candidate it supports illegal. “While Darren Bailey and (his lieutenant governor running mate) Aaron Del Mar are focused on defeating Democrats and fixing Illinois, it’s unfortunate that Jeanne Ives is once again reprising her role as the Democrats’ favorite ‘Republican,’” Bailey campaign spokesman Jose Durbin said in a statement. “Jeanne Ives is a sore loser who’s been bitter ever since she couldn’t even beat (former one-term GOP Gov.) Bruce Rauner in a Republican primary. She’s made a career out of attacking fellow conservatives instead of fighting Democrats. At this point, she’s nothing more than a political grifter looking for attention.” Besides sharing the faux-news article and link on her Facebook page, Ives also commented on it by writing, “The Bailey Clown Show and Grift.” Appearing at Dabrowski’s news conference Tuesday, she denied being the source of the draft complaint. “I have no idea who leaked it. Zero idea,” Ives said. “I was concerned about the ‘Save Illinois PAC.’ They raise monies for reasons that they never told the donors at all. And then they gave $40,000 to the Bailey campaign. I mean, that was the bigger concern for me.” Despite hosting a Bailey kickoff event earlier this year in Oak Brook, Corrigan has now left Bailey’s 2026 campaign, signing up as chair for a new contender, Rick Heidner of Barrington Hills, a real estate developer and founder of Gold Rush Gaming. Heidner filed campaign finance paperwork Tuesday to run for the GOP governor nomination with Homer Glen Mayor Christina Neitzke-Troike as his running mate. He also disclosed that he had seeded his campaign with $1 million. In October 2019, a Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that for nearly two decades, Heidner owned numerous commercial properties via shell companies in several states with Rocco Suspenzi, the longtime chairman and part owner of Parkway Bank and Trust in Harwood Heights. In 2003, the Illinois Gaming Board and the FBI exposed Suspenzi and son Jeffrey for concealing their own ownership stake, as well as that of a reputed mob figure, in the infamous Emerald casino project. Suspenzi and his son invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in 2005 when the Gaming Board sought to question them about their role in concealing the ownership stakes of reputed Outfit-linked investors Vito Salamone and Nick Boscarino. At the same time, Heidner had a similar real estate partnership with convicted bookmaker Dominic Buttitta. Together, they owned a building in Elgin that was leased to a bar licensed for video gambling that used Heidner’s Gold Rush machines. In 2012, Buttitta pleaded guilty to federal charges of running an illegal sportsbook from the South Elgin strip club he controlled. The revelations led in part to Pritzker’s decision to cancel the sale of the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center property, which Heidner had sought to purchase for a horse racing and casino facility. In April 2021, Heidner and state gaming regulators reached a settlement after the state withdrew allegations that he had offered an illegal $5 million inducement to purchase a rival video gambling chain. Heidner has been a frequent political donor, in February giving $25,000 to the conservative Republican group McHenry GOPAC and in 2022 he gave $25,000 to Richard Irvin, the former mayor of Aurora, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor that year. But Heidner has also contributed to Democratic candidates, including $25,000 to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and $5,000 to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in 2023, as well as $5,000 to Don Harmon, now the president of the Illinois Senate, in 2017. Corrigan confirmed that he’s supporting Heidner, stating that he and Heidner have been good friends for a long time. But Corrigan said he still considers Bailey a friend, though there are people who could take their previous falling out “to make a mess of politics.” “It seems like Republicans attack each other harder than the opposition does,” Corrigan said. Kaspar echoed that sentiment, saying the infighting is “a sad testament of the state of the Illinois Republican Party.” “It’s a very fractured party,” said Kaspar, the general counsel for the Illinois Review, a conservative website that published an article about the draft complaint saga this week.)
— DD: Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/column-selle-column-lake-county-no-kings/
— DD: Democrat leaders want to suppress why Katie Abraham was killed.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/opinion-katie-abraham-operation-midway-blitz/
(DHS: DHS is launching Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in Illinois by a criminal illegal alien who should have never been in our country. This operation will target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Chicago.)
— City of Harvey declares itself effectively bankrupt. Look for more Cook County municipalities to do the same. DD: Under the Democrats, every city will be like Harvey.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/22/editorial-harvey-insolvency-property-taxes-pensions/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/22/letters-102225-immigrants/
— Naperville D203 board member Kelley Black censured again for ‘unprofessional’ actions. DD: In 2006, my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes do everything that they could to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They failed. I should write about my critics/opponents from back then who continue to do everything that they can to destroy me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/black-kelley-censured-again-naperville-d203/
DAILY HERALD
— Democratic incumbents dominating fundraising in suburban congressional races. DD: To discredit me, my critics/opponents stress that no one gives me money to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out. In my defense, I have never asked for money for that and I never will. I value my independence. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. Further, I have enough money, time, experience, ability, and motivation to put the newsletters together and to send them out. I have more time because my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship and end my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251021/article/democratic-incumbents-dominating-fundraising-in-suburban-congressional-races/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In Illinois’ 3rd District, which encompasses parts of suburban Cook and DuPage counties and some Chicago neighborhoods, Democratic U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez of Chicago is the only one of four candidates who filed a quarterly financial report by the deadline. Ramirez’s campaign has raised $990,874 this election cycle and spent $408,995, the latest records show. It started the quarter with $976,477 and finished September with about $1 million in the bank. Also running are Democrat Kip Knutson and Republican Angel Oakley, both of Wheaton, and Republican Spomenka Vajic of Chicago.)
— DD: My Democrat and RINO superiors in government and in politics have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me. Should name my Democrat and RINO superiors and write about the big adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251022/syndicated-columnists/trumps-political-enemies-list-and-vindictive-prosecutions/
ABC7
— A U.S. congressional candidate and current state representative said Customs and Border Patrol agents surrounded and harassed him in his vehicle Tuesday on Chicago’s Northwest Side. State Rep. Hoan Huynh, a Democrat from Chicago who is running to represent the 9th District, was in his vehicle about 11:30 a.m. near Montrose and Kimball avenues in Albany Park, a news release from his campaign said.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-rep-hoan-huynh-says-customs-border-patrol-agent-pulled-gun-montrose-kimball-albany-park-chicago/18053996/
SOUTHERN
— Illinois video gambling mogul Rick Heidner to seek GOP gubernatorial nomination. Heidner owns the third-largest video gaming terminal operator in Illinois. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/22/letters-102225-immigrants/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/champaign-county-board-weighs-supporting-proposed-reparations-commission/article_a0525375-0814-423c-872a-8a6a9b52cd8c.html
INDIANAPOLIS STAR
— Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson debated attendees on a variety of hot-button issues for hours at a sold-out Turning Point USA event at Indiana University on Oct. 21.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tucker-carlson-spars-audience-trump-025129767.html
ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
— Celebrate Pro Bono Across Illinois. DD: What percent of pro bono is done to defend and advance the Democrat Party platform?
https://www.isba.org/barnews/2025/10/spotlightonprobonocelebrateprobonoacrossillinoison
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Illinois video gambling mogul to seek GOP gubernatorial nomination. Rick Heidner owns the third-largest video gaming terminal operator in Illinois. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-video-gambling-mogul-to-seek-gop-gubernatorial-nomination/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois families struggle while Pritzker wins in Las Vegas. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f93f4ac2-0917-44d6-9ad4-9d910f1d07e5.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— County Board Proposes 13% Tax Levy Increase
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/21/county-board-proposes-13-tax-levy-increase/
— Dems Threaten to Eliminate Darin LaHood’s District Through New Gerrymandering
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/21/dems-threaten-to-eliminate-darin-lahoods-district-through-new-gerrymandering/
— DeWitte Summarizes Pritzker Budget Shortfall
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/21/dewitte-summarizes-pritzker-budget-shortfall/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Johnson’s “Protecting Chicago” budget proposes nearly $500M in tax hikes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/johnsons-protecting-chicago-budget-proposes-nearly-500m-in-tax-hikes/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ICE to Pursue Federal Charges After Bolingbrook Police Fail to Arrest Attackers—Officials Now Under Investigation for Stand-Down Order
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/ice-to-pursue-federal-charges-after-bolingbrook-police-fail-to-arrest-attackers-officials-now-under-investigation-for-stand-down-order.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DHS blames left-wing rhetoric after illegal immigrant rams ICE officer with car
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3858667/dhs-left-wing-rhetoric-illegal-immigrant-rams-ice-officer-with-car/
NEW YORK POST
— How Donald Trump can show his support for immigrants who do it right. DD: What about offering more work permits for citizens of foreign countries who will take bad jobs that citizens of America ever-increasingly refuse to take? But wait, citizens of foreign countries can get bad jobs in their motherlands. How many citizens of foreign countries would take the bad jobs that I took? I did yard work 1962-1964. 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 assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1971-1972. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take and b) I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/opinion/trump-show-your-support-for-legal-immigrants-at-citizenship-ceremonies/
BLAZE
— Thousands of illegal aliens found on Texas voter rolls
https://www.theblaze.com/news/thousands-texas-illegal-aliens-vote
BREITBART
— ICE Nabs Illegal Alien Cabbies, Rideshare Drivers at O’Hare Airport
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/21/ice-nabs-illegal-migrant-cabbies-rideshare-drivers-at-ohare-airport/amp/
— ‘No Kings’ Rallies Pressure Moderate Democrats to Prolong Government Shutdown
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/10/21/nolte-no-kings-rallies-pressure-moderate-democrats-to-prolong-government-shutdown/amp/
— ICE Arrests 100 Illegal Aliens in Idaho at Horse Race Event
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/21/ice-arrests-100-illegal-aliens-idaho-horse-race/
CENTER SQUARE
— Majority of Americans do not support National Guard to deter crime. But half of voters support deploying the National Guard to their city or state.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_9742fb2f-c11d-40cd-87a0-c66807b12eed.amp.html
CHRISTIAN POST
— Woke isn’t dead, dying, hospitalized or even hiding
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/woke-public-schools-are-brainwashing-your-kids.html
FOX NEWS
— US Marshal, illegal alien shot in Los Angeles immigration operation. Federal agents opened fire after suspect allegedly rammed vehicles in escape attempt, both hospitalized.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-marshal-illegal-alien-shot-los-angeles-immigration-operation
— Schools simply rebrand DEI
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/undercover-video-reveals-red-state-university-employee-suggesting-dei-simply-being-rebranded.amp
NEWSMAX
— 40 Percent Back Deporting Illegals With No Criminal Record. DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is criminal. Everyone has always known that Biden’s parole programs were always illegal.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/yougov-poll-immigrants-ice/2025/10/21/id/1231331/
PJ MEDIA
— Texas Let HOW MANY Illegals Register to Vote?
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/10/21/texas-let-how-many-illegals-register-to-vote-n4945085
POST MILLENNIAL
— ICE arrests 51 criminal illegal immigrants in Portland amid ongoing Antifa-linked protests. The operation targeted illegal migrants with extensive criminal histories, such as sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence, drug trafficking, and manslaughter.
https://thepostmillennial.com/ice-arrests-51-criminal-illegal-immigrants-in-portland-amid-antifa-linked-protests
TOWNHALL
— Democrats have sworn up and down for years that we didn’t need legislation like the SAVE Act to clean up our voter rolls. “It’s already against the law for illegal immigrants to vote,” they argued. They also insisted illegal immigrants weren’t voting in elections. But that thing that never happens happened again.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/21/texas-illegals-on-voter-rolls-n2665270
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) withdraws after offensive text messages revealed. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat superiors in the federal government took many prohibited personnel actions against me. OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year pay cut to transfer from IRS. OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education expenses, and disallowed my travel vouchers. OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign and disallowed my sick leave requests.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-21/trump-pick-to-lead-watchdog-agency-withdraws-after-offensive-text-messages-revealed
(OSC: The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency. OSC’s statutory authority comes from four federal laws: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). OSC’s primary mission is to safeguard the merit system by protecting federal employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices (PPPs), especially reprisal for whistleblowing. For a description of the 14 PPPs, click here. OSC also operates as a secure channel for federal employees to blow the whistle by disclosing wrongdoing. Federal law establishes a unique process for disclosures made to OSC, intended to protect the confidentiality of the whistleblower and ensure that the alleged wrongdoing is investigated and, where necessary, corrected. For a description of the six types of covered wrongdoing, click here. In addition, OSC enforces the Hatch Act, which puts certain restrictions on partisan political activity by government employees (learn more). It also protects the civilian employment and reemployment rights of military service members under USERRA (learn more).)
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/opinion/trump-degredation-maga.html
USA TODAY
— What car does Mark Zuckerberg drive every day? One of the richest people on Earth drives an American luxury car instead of a foreign supercar. DD: The American nameplate muscle cars at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville are ever-increasingly being replaced by expensive foreign supercars. But my unit there has a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona Plus, a 2013 Dodge Charger R/t Max, and a 2005 Corvette.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/cars/news/2025/10/17/mark-zuckerberg-drive-drive-car/85270401007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: What would you drive if you had millions of dollars in the bank? Last summer, Forbes published a list of the richest people in every state. Unsurprisingly, Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder of Facebook and CEO of Meta Platforms, is listed as the richest person in California as of July 2025. Zuckerberg’s current net worth is over $242 billion dollars according to Forbes, making him the third-richest person on the planet at time of publication. So, what does a multibillionaire drive? Furthermore, is it a vehicle average Americans can afford? Mark Zuckerberg daily drives a Cadillac CT5 V-Blackwing, according to an article by automotive publication AutoEvolution.)
MIAMI HERALD
— Cubans with criminal records in the U.S. are being quietly deported to Mexico
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312432237.html
HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA
— Houston residents, officials push back against rainbow crosswalk removal. DD: How soon, if not already, will Democrat and RINO leaders paint rainbow crosswalks in your county, township, municipality, school district, precinct, and neighborhood?
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgbtq/2025/10/21/533919/rainbow-crosswalk-houston-chalk-art-protest-heights-montrose-lgbtq/
KABC
— 40% Back Deporting Illegals With No Criminal Record. DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is criminal. Everyone has always known that Biden’s parole programs were always illegal.
https://www.kabc.com/2025/10/21/yougov-poll-40-back-deporting-illegals-with-no-criminal-record/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Mamdani Mayoralty Threatens New York’s Jews. DD: Virtually all of my Democrat GS-14 GAO Chicago office superiors were antisemites. They were furious when GAO promoted a Democrat Jewish woman instead of them to GS-15, currently $163,749-$195,200/year, to lead the office’s group that would to audit federal financial industry regulators in 1990. They wanted her to fail. Virtually none of my GS-13 coworkers volunteered to work for her. The GS-14s were furious that I volunteered to work for her. I volunteered to work for her because they would not assign me to the group that would audit IRS and auditing federal financial industry regulators was my best alternative. But beyond that, I was impressed by the fact that she had earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and she had passed the CPA examination on her first attempt. The GS-14s were intimidated by that; but I was not. While the GS-14s did everything that they could to make her fail, I did everything that I could to help her succeed. But nevertheless, in when I was 49 years old in September of 1997, she took the lead in forcing me to retire.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-mamdani-mayoralty-threatens-new-yorks-jews-cbee614d
— DD: RINOs promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-was-peacefuland-even-patriotic-59d9f2be
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— DD: Needless-to-say, if you are Republican, you should limit your job searches to Republican-run employers. If Democrat employers do hire you, they will waste your career and get rid of you if you do not become a Democrat.
https://hbr.org/2016/07/almost-all-managers-have-at-least-one-career-limiting-habit
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always bragged about their success in hiring, retaining, and promoting young minorities and young females, that is, their success in getting rid of older Whites and older males.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2025/10/22/fewer-colleges-publicized-racial-demographic-data-year
NEWS ONE
— The Trump Admin’s Focus On Fertility Is All About Social Control. The Trump administration has passed policies this year that represent a concerning trend toward pronatalism. Making IVF more affordable alone isn’t an issue. People should be able to have families on their own terms and of their own design. But it’s yet another false crisis created by the administration to justify its racist, anti-immigration, white nationalist agenda. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF against me big time. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors and what they did to punish me. Of course, Duckworth would approve of what they did to punish me.
https://newsone.com/6551199/trump-admin-focus-fertility-about-social-control/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— Woke teens erupt after conservative students at Portland’s most diverse school sets up Charlie Kirk club. DD: Who leads the opposition to Turning Point USA clubs in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15212745/Teenagers-Turning-Point-USA-Portland-protest.html
October 13, 2025 Evening Edition
Democrat leaders ever-increasing make it clear that they always have done and that they always will do everything that they can to flood America with their illegals.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns
https://abc7chicago.com/post/vice-president-jd-vance-warns-deeper-cuts-ahead-federal-workers-shutdown-continues/17997267/
— Democrat leaders call for fence around Broadview ICE facility to be torn down
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-fencing-around-broadview-facility-set-removed-live/17997242/
— Columbus Day parade marches through downtown Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/abc7-broadcast-2025-christopher-columbus-day-parade-downtown-chicago-monday-indigenous-peoples/17998220/
NBC5
— Northwestern University ranked 10th and University of Chicago ranked 17th. DD: According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless. That is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2-illinois-universities-make-list-of-best-in-u-s-for-2026/3837894/
CBS2
— Broadview, Illinois shrinks area where protests are allowed outside ICE facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-illinois-shrinks-area-protests-ice-facility/
WGN9
— Suspicious device with anti-ICE message found at Chicago’s Midway Airport
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/suspicious-package-with-anti-ice-message-found-at-chicagos-midway-airport/
FOX32
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/no-kings-protest-returns-chicago-saturday
— Chicagoans celebrate Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1723444
WTTW
— Broadview Mayor Shrinks Designated Protest Area Outside ICE Facility
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/13/broadview-mayor-shrinks-designated-protest-area-outside-ice-facility
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Federal immigration agents step up activity in Lake County.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/lake-county-federal-agents-arrests/
— ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him. Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ice-fines-chicago-man-for-not-having-papers-on-him/
— Michelle Obama’s Girls Opportunity Alliance pledges $2.5 million for grassroots education for girls.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/michelle-obamas-girls-opportunity-alliance-pledges-2-5-million-for-grassroots-education-for-girls/
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ev-electric-vehicles-china-detroit-automakers-manufacturing/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/13/poll-chicagoans-national-guard-policing-deportation-campaign-norc-university-of-chicago
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/12/arrival-national-guard-troops-chicago-area-what-readers-say
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County clerk goes to court to get two election vendors paid
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251013/news/dupage-county-clerk-goes-to-court-to-get-two-election-vendors-paid/
— Glenbard school board president appointed to state House seat
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251013/news/glenbard-school-board-president-appointed-to-state-house-seat/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/cardinal-cupich-raps-trumps-immigration-raids-chicago
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— ‘No Kings’ protests return Oct. 18 to ‘fight dictatorship.’
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/13/no-kings-rallies-oct-18-list-of-illinois-protests-times-locations-near-me-chicago/86624492007/
SOUTHERN
— Bailey, Del Mar bring campaign stop to Marion
https://thesouthern.com/news/bailey-del-mar-bring-campaign-stop-to-marion/article_ff61b34b-55a3-57a8-a0e9-15893a3f6b49.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FREEDOM CAUSUS
— Veto Session This Week In Springfield
https://substack.com/home/post/p-176045108
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Don Tracy Celebrates Historic Gaza Hostage Release and Calls for Continued Peace
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/republican-candidate-for-u-s-senate-celebrates-trumps-peace-victory/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Budget gimmicks, pension debt and late financial reports are leaving Illinois taxpayers in the dark, according to Truth in Accounting which gives Illinois another “F” grade.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1aeb5bba-eeea-4b1e-b745-f8befe9ab6bd.html
— Illinois House Speaker: ‘Mr. Trump, tear down this fence!’ DD: Back then, East Germany stopped its citizens from leaving. Today, foreign countries dump their unwanted citizens on America.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_011592ec-68c1-4e1c-a696-9165b9bab8d5.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois checks, balances? Not under Pritzker.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-checks-balances-not-under-pritzker/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Leftists refuse to help ICE and then blame murderous illegals on Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/13/leftists-refuse-help-ice-blame-murderous-illegals-trump/
— Legislation seeks to save Columbus Day from being replaced by Indigenous Peoples’ Day
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/13/legislation-seeks-save-columbus-day-replaced-indigenous-peoples-day/
— Speaker Johnson says no quick fix to Obamacare subsidy ‘boondoggle’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/13/speaker-mike-johnson-says-no-quick-fix-obamacare-subsidy-boondoggle/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Broadview, Illinois reduces ICE protest zone after ‘chaos,’ 15 arrests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3848374/broadview-illinois-reduces-ice-protest-zone-after-chaos-arrests/
— Virginia’s proposed abortion ‘right’ would take power from parents
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3848533/virginia-abortion-fundamental-right-to-protective-freedom-takes-power-from-parents/
— ‘We’re back, Italians,’ Trump proclaims in recognition of ‘hero’ Christopher Columbus
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/3847895/were-back-italians-trump-proclaims-in-recognition-of-hero-christopher-columbus/
BREITBART
— Illinois State Police Arrest Unlawful Anti-ICE Protesters
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/12/illinois-state-police-arrest-unlawful-anti-ice-protesters/
— ‘Incompatible Ideology’: Rep. Chip Roy’s Bill Aims to Protect U.S. from Illegals Who Observe Sharia Law
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2025/10/13/incompatible-ideology-rep-chip-roy-aims-to-protect-u-s-from-illegals-who-observe-sharia-law/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Trinity Washington University hosts event honoring convicted cop killer Assata Shakur
https://www.campusreform.org/article/trinity-washington-university-hosts-event-honoring-convicted-cop-killer-assata-shakur/28757
CHRISTIAN POST
— A day of remembrance for assassinated conservative Christian figure Charlie Kirk is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, which would have been the political activist’s 32nd birthday.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/charlie-kirk-national-day-of-remembrance-to-be-held-this-week.html
DAILY WIRE
— Portland Protesters Stage Nude ‘Die-In’ To Stop Trump’s Deportations
https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-protesters-stage-nude-die-in-to-stop-trumps-deportations
FOX BUSINESS
— Billionaire Ken Griffin says Citadel’s Chicago exodus was ‘not hard,’ cites crime, taxes. Ken Griffin’s hedge fund relocated global headquarters to Miami in 2022 citing crime and tax concerns
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/billionaire-ken-griffin-says-citadels-chicago-exodus-not-hard-crime-taxes-drove-workers-away
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Evanston Has Doled Out Millions in Housing Reparations
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/this-illinois-town-has-doled-out-millions-in-housing-reparations-but-ownership-remains-out-of-reach/amp/
TPUSA
— Left-Wing University of Minnesota Club to Honor George Floyd in Protest of Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance. DD: Democrats promote George Floyd. Republicans promote Charlie Kirk.
https://tpusa.com/live/left-wing-university-of-minnesota-club-to-honor-george-floyd-in-protest-of-charlie-kirk-day-of-remembrance/
TOWNHALL
— During the Schumer Shutdown, Democrats Are Using Americans As Pawns
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/13/schumer-says-trump-and-russell-vought-using-americans-as-pawns-n2664864
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Hegseth touts push to replace heavyset National Guard troops in Illinois
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5553001-hegeseth-emphasizes-military-fitness/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Vance warns of deeper cuts ahead for federal workers
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-vance-trump-furlough-congress-fired-6179d3359c0d6f547e963822d67c28b4
CBS NEWS
— Newsom signs law banning new Glock sales in California
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/newsom-to-decide-bill-glock-sales-california/
— Pain for federal workers as government shutdown continues. DD: Federal employees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid. Since September of 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, no one has had any sympathy for my losing 56% of my annual income. In today’s dollars a loss of $86,371/year ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension. They have always stressed my wife’s income, our not having any dependents, our being debt-free, our retirement and other savings, the federal government paying 72% of our health insurance, our home in Wheaton, our cars, etc.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/pain-for-federal-workers-as-government-shutdown-continues/
WASHINGTON POST
— Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government. Tens of thousands of federal employees have taken retirement or other voluntary departures on top of the Trump administration’s latest layoffs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/13/retirements-buyouts-federal-government-trump/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: In Diersen v. GAO, the courts abolished federal Civil Service protections and gave the federal government the power to force its employees to retire, that is, to fire them. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.aol.com/news/opinion-trump-wants-supreme-court-110028479.html
BALTIMORE SUN
— Trump to award Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom on what would’ve been his 32nd birthday
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/13/trump-to-award-charlie-kirk-medal-of-freedom-on-what-wouldve-been-his-32nd-birthday/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Furloughed Federal Workers Turn to Side Hustles to Survive Shutdown. Gig jobs for Lyft and others are helping employees across the government stay afloat until paychecks resume. DD: Federal employees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid. Since September of 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, no one has had any sympathy for my losing 56% of my annual income. In today’s dollars a loss of $86,371/year ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension. They have always stressed my wife’s income, our not having any dependents, our being debt-free, our retirement and other savings, the federal government paying 72% of our health insurance, our home in Wheaton, our cars, etc.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/federal-worker-side-hustles-government-shutdown-bd55612c
CEO TODAY
— DD: For Democrats, government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all government employees are Democrats. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who would take the job. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and an earning a job-related bachelor’s degree. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning a job-related master’s degree and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2025/10/trump-federal-purge-washington-civil-service-collapse-2025/
FED SMITH
— Going for Broke? This Shutdown is Different, May Last Longer and Reshape the Federal Government.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/10/13/shutdown-is-different-may-last-longer-and-reshape-federal-government/
PBS
— Some Indigenous Peoples Day events strike conciliatory tone as Trump focuses on Columbus
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/some-indigenous-peoples-day-events-strike-conciliatory-tone-as-trump-focuses-on-columbus
ATLANTIC
— Trump’s Costly Cuts to the Civil Service. The administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce. DD: Needless-to-say, I have never been viewed as being one of the best and the brightest federal employees. My critics/opponents stress the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me. They stress that my IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 even though I earned an MBA and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. They stress that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 even though I earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, became a licensed CPA, earned four more job-related professional certifications, and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/worst-way-cut-government-spending/684478/
October 11, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Appeals court upholds ruling blocking Trump admin. from deploying National Guard in Illinois. DD: Democrat leaders and their criminals and their illegals are overjoyed.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/protest-chicago-area-broadview-ice-facility-faith-march-expected-saturday-trump-admin-appeals-national-guard-ruling/17985076/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Meanwhile, another federal judge ruled the metal fence outside the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility must come down by early next week. On Saturday morning, faith leaders marched to the facility. At 10 a.m. Saturday, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said one person has been arrested near the facility. They are charged with Criminal Damage to Government Property. The Department of Justice says the National Guard is needed to protect federal officers from violent attacks and called Judge April Perry’s move to grant the temporary restraining order “extraordinary.”)
WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their Saturday October 18 NO KINGS protests
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/what-to-know-about-upcoming-no-kings-protests/
— Chicago city leaders hand out ‘ICE-free zone’ signs to local businesses, residents
https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/chicago-city-leaders-hand-out-ice-free-zone-signs/
FOX32
— Sweeping layoffs ‘have begun’ as government shutdown drags on. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, GAO shrank from over 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees because of Gingrich-led budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious. They took their fury out on me.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/sweeping-layoffs-have-begun-government-shutdown-drags
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting Hispanic religious leaders to hate Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/procession-to-broadview-ice-facility/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at minorities and at women that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/trumps-indictment-letitia-james/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Broadview’s mayor.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/refusing-position-of-fear-broadviews-mayor-deals-with-ice-and-a-national-spotlight/
— Civic leaders: State lawmakers should reject massive pension benefit sweetener. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, condemned my Civil Service Retirement System pension and my and my wife’s 72% federal health insurance subsidy as being much too generous. My critics/opponents either a) would never stoop to take a federal job and/or b) failed/refused to qualify themselves for federal jobs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/opinion-illinois-pension-benefit-bill/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Democrats call for investigation of Chicago ICE raids. After a chaotic month of federal immigration enforcement in the Chicago area, Democratic leaders asked top federal watchdogs to review actions by the Department of Homeland Security.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/ice-investigation-chicago-illinois-congressional-democrats-robin-kelly
— Democrat leaders crow that “National Guard deployment still blocked in Illinois after federal appeals court steps in Saturday.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/10/trump-asks-appeals-court-to-intervene-after-judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-illinois
— Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility. Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting Hispanic religious leaders to hate Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/11/broadview-detention-immigration-enforcement-ice-religious-leaders-communion-fence-protests
NPR ILLINOIS
— India is forcibly deporting Muslims, including its own citizens, after Kashmir violence
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-11/india-is-forcibly-deporting-muslims-including-its-own-citizens-after-kashmir-violence
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Pritzker Reports From ‘War-Torn Chicago’ On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The Illinois governor said, “there is no hellscape I’d rather be in” during a Kimmel segment mocking Trump’s latest attacks on Chicago. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly downplay crime in Chicago.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/10/jb-pritzker-reports-from-war-torn-chicago-on-jimmy-kimmel/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois has among highest-paid state employees
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_347479b5-0797-49b2-b45f-04cbd2d28423.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Armed Alleged Antifa Northeastern Illinois Professor Arrested, Homeland Security Press Release
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/11/armed-alleged-antifa-professor-arrested/
— Why the Property Tax Will Not Be Abolished
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/11/why-the-property-tax-will-not-be-abolished/
— Huntley Police Reports Twelve Months of Enhanced Enforcement Results
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/10/huntley-police-reports-twelve-months-of-enhanced-enforcement-results/
— Best Parade in the County in Marengo Sunday at 2PM
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/10/best-parade-in-the-county-in-marengo-sunday-at-2pm/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The deadly danger of marijuana legalization
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/10/deadly-danger-marijuana-legalization/
— DHS reveals grand plan for border: 1,422 miles of wall along Mexico boundary. The $4.5 billion in new contracts issued in September covers 10 projects.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/10/dhs-reveals-grand-plan-border-1422-miles-wall-along-mexico-boundary/
BLAZE
— From West Point to Woke Point: The long march through the ranks
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/from-west-point-to-woke-point-the-long-march-through-the-ranks
FOX NEWS
— Blagojevich says Chicago crime issues are ‘life or death,’ Democrats need new leadership, and gives his thoughts on how to handle crime in Chicago.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382599395112
— One month after Charlie Kirk’s murder, key questions remain unanswered
https://www.foxnews.com/us/one-month-after-charlie-kirks-murder-key-questions-remain-unanswered
— Leftist club smears Charlie Kirk on campus flyers spotted ahead of their event honoring George Floyd instead
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/leftist-club-smears-charlie-kirk-campus-flyers-spotted-ahead-event-honoring-george-floyd
— Charlie Kirk’s friends debunk out-of-context clips about slain conservative icon
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirk-friends-feel-moral-120015873.html
— Erika Kirk posts tribute to Charlie Kirk one month after his assassination
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382593867112
— Steak ‘n Shake’s giant flag initiative meets growing appetite for patriotic displays. Flags will be ‘tallest and biggest’ that local governments allow, Steak ‘n Shake says, even as some object. DD: I displayed an 18′ X 12’ – foot American flag in my first and second Iron Gate Motor Condo units in Naperville, but not in my third unit because of lack of wall space.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/steak-n-shakes-giant-flag-initiative-meets-growing-appetite-patriotic-displays
— Democrats are ‘afraid of the far-Left’ amid government shutdown
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382626469112
NEWSMAX
— Blagojevich: Senators ‘Pandering for Cameras’ With ICE Protest
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rod-blagojevich-dick-durbin-tammy-duckworth/2025/10/11/id/1229951/
REAL CLEAR HEALTH
— Free Healthcare for Illegals Would End America
https://www.realclearhealth.com/2025/10/11/free_healthcare_for_illegals_would_end_america_1140408.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrat candidates and b) to defeat Republican candidates.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5549251-gop-trump-media-challenge/
REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/chicago-ice-raids-national-guard-troops-prompt-new-school-leaflets-know-your-2025-10-10/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote poverty and crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/opinion/ice-trump-safety-crisis.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/nyregion/schools-immigrant-children-deportation.html
— DD: What have you done that your critics/opponents use to justify their having their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you? I have always promoted conservative principles and the Republican Party platform. I fought the installation of a stoplight hat Harrison and President in Wheaton. I filed lawsuits against them. I brought Fox News Channel on Comcast to Wheaton. I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000. I backed Republican candidates who ran against them. I served as an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer. I served as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman. I promoted Republican participation in Wheaton Independence Day parades. I fought the sale of booze in Wheaton. I stopped video gambling in Wheaton. I stopped the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/trump-letitia-james-comey-revenge.html
DESERET NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/10/11/better-stories-about-immigrants/
KRIS
— Charlie Kirk memorial billboard goes up in Corpus Christi. Local Republican groups fund $5,000 billboard honoring late conservative activist Charlie Kirk on busy Corpus Christi highway. DD: How successful would fundraising be for billboards honoring Kirk in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/charlie-kirk-memorial-billboard-goes-up-in-corpus-christi-to-promote-unity
KTXS
— Trump to award Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom on what would’ve been his 32nd birthday
https://ktxs.com/news/nation-world/trump-to-award-charlie-kirk-medal-of-freedom-on-what-wouldve-been-his-32nd-birthday-political-activist-shot-killed-deadly-shooting-murdered-assassinated-homicide-investigation-fbi-tyler-robinson-guns-turning-point-usa-president-donald-trump
NPR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote poverty and crime and b) protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5567987
BILLBOARD
— Turning Point USA Announces MAGA-Approved Super Bowl Halftime Show to Protest Bad Bunny
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/turning-point-usa-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-1236085982/
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— DD: Socialists side with Democrats
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/11/tecb-o11.html
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters ever-increasingly use Kirk’s assassination to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies
ECONOMIC TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote poverty and crime and b) protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/deploying-troops-would-add-fuel-to-fire-judge-blocks-trump-national-guard-plan-in-illinois/videoshow/124443827.cms
October 9, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Troops arrive at Broadview ICE facility as federal court to weigh Trump’s National Guard deployment
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-guard-chicago-area-thursday-federal-court-weigh-trumps-deployment-troops-protect-ice-officers-broadview/17970024/
— Hammond city officials shut down ICE staging at police department
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-hammond-indiana-mayor-thomas-mcdermott-jr-says-city-officials-shut-down-staging-police-department-thursday/17971934/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get the Pope a) to not promote personal responsibility, b) to promote dependency on government and charity, and c) to get people to blame their problems on those who have more money than they have.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/vatican-document-news-pope-leo-xiv-condemns-economies-marginalize-poor-wealthy-live-bubble-luxury/17973300/
NBC5
— Federal officials to buy Chicago buildings in immigration enforcement operations. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the purchases indicate the resolve of federal agents to continue immigration enforcement actions.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/federal-officials-to-buy-chicago-buildings-in-immigration-enforcement-operations/3836191/
— Judge orders new guidelines for agent encounters with protesters and press. Just Sara Ellis said the order goes into effect immediately and will be in force for 14 days while arguments in the overall complaint continue.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/judge-orders-new-guidelines-for-agent-encounters-with-protesters-and-press/3836141/
CBS2
— U.S. District Court chief judge says National Guard not needed at Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/u-s-district-court-chief-judge-national-guard-dirksen-federal-building/
FOX32
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly urge the Pope to advance the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pope-meets-chicago-union-leaders-urges-migrant-welcome-crackdown
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Federal judge blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/09/trump-national-guard-restraining-order/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly urge the Pope to advance the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/09/pope-leo-chicago-union-migrant/
— Will County puts off immigration resolution vote as leaders seek compromise
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/09/will-county-immigration-resolution-delay/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their criminals and their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/09/immigrant-crime-donald-trump-deportation-campaign-chicago-national-guard
— Bally’s warns video gambling in Chicago would cost the city $74M in yearly revenue and up to 1,050 jobs
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/10/09/ballys-casino-anthony-beale-video-gambling-proposal-chicago-lost-revenue
DAILY HERALD
— Security increased around National Guard base in Elwood as activity draws public’s attention
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251009/news/security-increased-around-national-guard-base-in-elwood-as-activity-draws-publics-attention/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251009/news/community-leaders-in-speak-out-on-ice-activity-in-will-county/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Trump puts America first even if that harms his personal finances.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/trumps-chicago-crackdown-hurts-business-chipparoni
WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pat Brady against Trump.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-i-dont-know-what-the-end-game-is/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— Iowa Gov. Reynolds orders E-Verify checks for state hires, licenses
https://qctimes.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_954518ec-03a5-42fa-bb04-f00d8074b419.html
RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth, Durbin Join Schatz, Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Protect Federal Workers and Their Families During Shutdown. New legislation aims to shield federal employees from eviction, defaults amid ongoing government shutdown. DD: So far, in today’s dollars, my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 has cost me $86,371/year or $2.9 million. That is, $153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension. To paint my wife and I as being filthy rich, my Democrat GAO superiors stressed my wife’s income, that we had no dependents, that we had no debts, that had retirement savings, that we owned a 13-year-old home in Wheaton, that we owned a 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, 1990 Thunderbird LX, 1972 Corvette, 1968 Dodge Charger R/T, and 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-durbin-join-schatz-colleagues-in-introducing-legislation-to-protect-federal-workers-and-their-families-during-shutdown-87063.cfm?
WQAD
— Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signs executive order requiring state departments to use E-Verify
https://www.wqad.com/video/news/politics/iowa-politics/kim-reynolds-signs-executive-order-requiring-state-departments-to-use-e-verify/526-b3dbb4fb-2f48-43fa-8aad-5f2630c3005c
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more mass/illegal immigration. To promote mass/illegal immigration is to destroy the world.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-09/pope-leo-says-faith-and-love-for-migrants-are-connected
AXIOS CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly create more poverty and crime.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/10/09/trumps-chicago-jail-pritzker-johnson-illinois-ice-police-agents
CAPITOL FAX
— Mendrick: ‘These ICE raids are JB Pritzker’s raids’
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/09/mendrick-these-ice-raids-are-jb-pritzkers-raids/
— Feds handed third court loss in a row
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/09/feds-handed-third-court-loss-in-a-row/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-400/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Federal judge grants Illinois restraining order against Trump for Guard deployment
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f3859f5a-bd8d-4710-8ac2-a49725120b69.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Congressman Mike Bost’s Suit against Accepting Ballots after Election Day – Transcript Linked
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/09/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-congressman-mike-bosts-suit-against-accepting-ballots-after-election-day/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Without reforms, pension insolvency will eat Chicago alive
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/without-reforms-pension-insolvency-will-eat-chicago-alive/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Judiciary chairman says impeachment is ‘on the table’ for anti-Trump judges
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/9/jim-jordan-judiciary-chairman-says-impeachment-table-anti-trump/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DHS eyeing buildings in Chicago and Portland for immigration operations
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3844754/dhs-eyeing-buildings-chicago-portland-immigration-operations/
— Chicago has no sovereign right to its own immigration policy
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3842691/chicago-no-sovereign-right-immigration-policy/
— Donald Trump Jr. swears off ‘RINO network’ Fox News
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/entertainment/3841171/donald-trump-jr-rino-network-fox-news/
NEW YORK POST
— Turning Point USA to air its own ‘All American’ Super Bowl LX halftime show to compete with NFL’s Bad Bunny
https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/turning-point-usa-to-air-its-own-all-american-super-bowl-lx-halftime-show-to-compete-with-nfls-bad-bunny/
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE
— Shutdown Costs Americans Jobs, Services, and Economic Security
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/shutdown-costs-americans-jobs-services-and-economic-security
BREITBART
— Confederate Mayor Brandon Johnson Won’t Say He’d Deport Someone Who Raped His Wife
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/09/nolte-confederate-mayor-brandon-johnson-wont-say-hed-deport-illegal-if-wife-raped/amp/
FEDERALIST
— Democrats Rebelling Against Trump Resurrect Confederate Talking Points
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/09/dems-rebelling-against-trump-resurrect-confederate-talking-points/
— Democrats Are Holding The Government Hostage To Get Taxpayer-Funded Health Care For Illegals
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/09/democrats-are-holding-the-government-hostage-to-get-taxpayer-funded-health-care-for-illegals/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— America’s Adversaries are Exploiting U.S. Immigration Policies
https://www.fairus.org/two-new-fair-reports-expose-how-americas-adversaries-are-exploiting-us-immigration-policies
FOX NEWS
— ‘Pritzker is a joke’: Texas Gov. Abbott mocks sanctuary governor for opposing National Guard troops. Texas National Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Tuesday, tasked with protecting federal personnel and property amid anti-immigration protests
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-joke-texas-gov-abbott-mocks-sanctuary-governor-opposing-national-guard-troops
— ‘Operation Midway Blitz’: Inside DOJ’s push to tackle crime, illegal immigration in Chicago. FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche visit field office during massive immigration operation.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/operation-midway-blitz-inside-dojs-push-tackle-crime-illegal-immigration-chicago
–DD: Trump is fighting big problems that Democrats created.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-tammy-duckworth-trumps-domestic-troop-deployments-betray-military-nation
HOMELAND SECURITY TODAY
— ICE and Oklahoma Highway Patrol Arrests 91 Illegal Aliens Driving 18-Wheelers in I-40 Operation
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/border-security/ice-and-oklahoma-highway-patrol-arrests-91-illegal-aliens-driving-18-wheelers-in-i-40-operation/
ISSUES & INSIGHTS
— Democrats, Call Off Your Animals
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/10/08/democrats-call-off-your-animals/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The GOP Is Letting Democrats Win the Shutdown
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-gop-is-letting-democrats-win-the-shutdown/
NEWSMAX
— Federal Judge: Chicago’s Warrantless ICE Arrests Unlawful
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-ice-dhs/2025/10/09/id/1229686/
— GOP Govs Must Back Trump on Census, Redistricting
https://www.newsmax.com/us/david-bossie-gop-governors/2025/10/08/id/1229536/
ZERO HEDGE
— Democrat Claims Trump Crime Crackdown Is “The Very Same Thing” As The Rise Of Third Reich
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-claims-trump-crime-crackdown-very-same-thing-rise-third-reich
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— GOP senators urge RFK Jr. to crack down on medication abortion
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5548128-gop-senators-rfk-jr-medication-abortion/
MSN
— The 20 best conservative places to live in the US. DD: Buyer beware. Republicans create prosperity and safety. Democrats create poverty and crime. When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-20-best-conservative-places-to-live-in-the-us-according-to-data/ss-AA1O6vC4
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— ICE to Expand Footprint in Chicagoland, Homeland Secretary Noem Pledges. Illinois Gov. Pritzker says feds ‘just looking for ways to provoke people.’
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-to-expand-footprint-in-chicagoland-homeland-secretary-noem-pledges-c057b08b
POLITICO
— Illinois judge blocks federal authorities from using force against Chicago journalists
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/chicago-journalists-ice-lawsuit-00600209
October 8, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gov-jb-pritzker-says-president-233400557.html
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative haters dominate Illinois. Anticipate/expect that they will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/opinion-fired-social-media-posts-charlie-kirk-cancel-culture/
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/column-charles-selle-banned-booksrevolutionary-act/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Lake County Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/news/great-fear-and-uncertainty-lake-county-leaders-speak-out-against-escalating-ice-operations/
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/editorials/daily-herald-editorial-a-war-of-words-we-need-leaders-to-tone-down-the-rhetoric-before-things-get/
ABC7
— Insurrection Act explained: How 1807 law could be used as Trump deploys National Guard in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-is-insurrection-act-1807-us-president-donald-trump-threatens-law-heres-how-been-used-could-work-2025/17959363/
FOX32
— Trump says Johnson, Pritzker ‘should be in jail’ for not protecting ICE
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-brandon-johnson-pritzker-ice
GO PRIDE CHICAGO
— Protest planned Oct. 8 downtown Chicago as Texas troops enter Illinois
https://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/139873329
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-607/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Confederate Chaos in Chicago
https://johnkassnews.com/confederate-chaos-in-chicago/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Cuban-led caravan en route to Mexico City as Trump policies deter migrants from US
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/world-news/cuban-led-caravan-en-route-to-mexico-city-as-trump-policies-deter-migrants-from-us/
— Parents flex their power with anti-woke ‘Cancel Netflix’ boycott
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/opinion/parents-flex-their-power-with-anti-woke-cancel-netflix-boycott/
AMAC
— HIJACKED: The Radical Left Takeover of the Democrat Party
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/hijacked-the-radical-left-takeover-of-the-democrat-party-amac-magazine-exclusive/
— Charlie Kirk: America Must Choose: MAGA or Mamdani-ism
https://publication.amac.us/view/864872783/8/
— Netflix in Crisis as Subscribers Flee Over Woke Kids Shows
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/netflix-in-crisis-as-subscribers-flee-over-woke-kids-shows/
BLAZE
— 8 things Chicago has done to put illegal immigrants first
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-helping-illegal-aliens-history
BREITBART
— Speaker Johnson Shows What Democrats Are Demanding in Order to Reopen Government: Taxpayer-Funded Illegal Alien Health Care, $1.5 Trillion in Partisan Spending
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/07/speaker-johnson-shows-what-democrats-are-demanding-to-reopen-government-taxpayer-funded-illegal-alien-health-care-1-5-trillion-partisan-spending/
— Democrat Spending Proposal Funds Woke Programs, Upends Trump Executive Order to End Crime, Fix Homeless Crisis
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/07/democrat-spending-proposal-funds-woke-programs-upends-trump-executive-order-to-end-crime-fix-homeless-crisis/
FOX NEWS
— Trump drives the shutdown coverage, but leaderless Democrats have broken through with healthcare message. White House stays above the fray as congressional leadership dukes it out.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-drives-shutdown-coverage-leaderless-democrats-have-broken-through-healthcare-message
— You never see the left fight this hard for Americans
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382230908112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Trump Calls for Chicago Mayor, Illinois Governor to Be Jailed
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-10-08/trump-calls-for-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor-to-be-jailed
ASSOCIAED PRESS
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly side with their criminals and with their illegals against America.
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/national-guard-deployment-portland-chicago-084e526027510d3f7501f475f737bc81
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://apnews.com/article/trinidad-us-military-venezuela-strikes-fishing-fcd24c441f58162b811a24b247334fc5
REUTERS
— Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-threat-invoke-insurrection-act-escalates-showdown-with-democratic-cities-2025-10-07/
CNN
— Trump compares Democrats to ‘insurrectionists’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCZMMIp4IQ
— India has a festival where a Hindu goddess slays a demon. This year the demon is Trump. DD: In WWIII, will India side with China and Russia or with America?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/india/india-hindu-festival-demon-trump-intl-hnk-dst
MSNBC
— DD: Democrat leaders say “Neighbors push back as Trump’s ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs.” Those who run the mainstream news media are Democrat leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dx266qOOic
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Chicago Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/fear-ice-chicago.html
— National Guard Troops Assemble in Chicago Area as Trump Officials Make Visits. Troops from Texas arrived in Illinois and are expected to deploy in the Chicago area on Wednesday, a U.S. military official said. Officials there and in Portland, Ore., are trying to block the deployments in court.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/07/us/trump-national-guard-illinois-texas
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly replace citizens of America with citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-universities.html
— Supreme Court to Consider Illinois Mail-In Balloting Lawsuit. The case, one of several challenges to mail-in ballot rules lodged by allies of President Trump, involves an effort to exclude votes received after Election Day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/supreme-court-mail-ballots-illinois.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— Shutdown Politics Has G.O.P. Singing Government’s Praises. As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/shutdown-republicans-trump-government.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump declares English the official language
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/08/trump-univision-youtube/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration and abortion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/09/16/trump-immigration-14th-amendment-supreme-court/85977588007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: $1.5M is a retirement ‘magic number.’ Here’s how long it lasts in every state. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the deferral government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/10/06/retirement-savings-social-security-florida-arizona/86550681007/
BOSTON HERALD
— Democrats’ dream, America’s nightmare
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/10/08/howie-carr-democrats-dream-americas-nightmare/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Oct. 7 Warning for the U.S. on China. Israel got complacent, thinking war would never come. Are we doing the same with Taiwan?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-oct-7-warning-for-the-u-s-on-china-5a60023a
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— 6 Red Flags That Keep Good Candidates from Getting Hired. DD: From what I see, ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or if you have ancestors who had been in America for a lone time. I should write about that.
https://hbr.org/2025/10/6-red-flags-that-keep-good-candidates-from-getting-hired
INC.
— DD: What did you do that your superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates did not do? Mine did not earn job-related master’s degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license like I did. Instead. they focused on helping their superiors get rid of their employees like me who were conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a lone time. I should write about that. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.inc.com/roy-dekel/stop-caring-about-college-degrees-when-youre-hiring/91249033
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Trump Officials Reportedly Discussing Selling Off Student Loans. DD: If you got a student loan, a) you did not work your way through college, b) your GPA should have been higher, c) you should have gotten a job that required a college degree faster, and d) your pay should have been higher. I did not get a student loan. My GPA was lower because I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying. I did not get a job that required a college degree until 10 months after I graduated and my salary was only $55,850/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/08/trump-officials-reportedly-discussing-selling-student-loans
— DD: For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree (management), b) three job related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), c) six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and d) a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/08/how-trumps-compact-threatens-higher-ed-funding
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— House Republicans advance plan to undermine civil service protections. DD: If you are a federal employee, the more of the following that you are, the fewer protections that you have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/04/house-republicans-advance-plan-cut-federal-worker-benefits-and-undermine-civil-service-protections/404969/
DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that conservatives cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/7/2347210/-Black-Kos-It-doesn-t-have-to-be-Black-History-month-to-learn-and-celebrate-Black-History
AXIOS
— DD: Do you know any past or present federal employees or retirees? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for 28 years. I should write about the attitude that people have toward federal employees and retirees. Overwhelmingly, they believe that federal employees are overpaid, their benefits are too generous, and that federal pensions are too generous. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, 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. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. My Civil Service Retirement System Pension is $66,780/year.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/government-shutdown-federal-workers