FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DuPage County lawmakers to vote whether to remove Henry Hyde’s name from courthouse
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dupage-county-lawmakers-vote-remove-late-congressman-henry-hydes-name-courthouse/15892352/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The DuPage County GOP Chair Kevin Coyne disagrees with removing Hyde’s name. “Henry Hyde was a titanic political figure in DuPage County for many, many years, He did a lot of wonderful things for our country and for our state over 30 plus years in Congress. He was a bipartisan gentleman, had a lot of support, a lot of friends on the other side of the aisle. He strikes me as the kind of official that we should be looking to model ourselves after.” The DuPage County Board will meet Tuesday at 10 a.m. If the resolution passes, the Hyde family will be given a plaque.)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Orland Park resolution states police will work with ICE on immigration matters, opposes state law on issue (COMMENT: What positions do the leaders of your county, township, and municipality have on enforcement of immigration laws?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/orland-park-police-immigration/
— US judge keeps Trump plan to push out federal employees on hold (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. When federal agencies have to push out their employees, they first push out those who are Republican and then those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. But I nevertheless survived for almost 18 years 1980-1997 as a GAO employee while Republicans ever-increasingly used budget cuts to push out the agency’s employees. The following helped me survive. I earned job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting). I earned a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA). I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (financial markets and trading), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business).)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/trump-plan-push-out-federal-workers/
— Illinois and 21 other states file lawsuit challenging ‘devastating’ cuts to federal health research funding
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/illinois-challengs-research-funding-cuts/
— Judge finds Trump administration hasn’t fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending (COMMENT: How dependent on federal spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? The more financial, health, and other problems that you have, the more dependent that you are on federal spending. Pritzker ever-increasingly a) attracts voters to Illinois who have problems and b) drives voters out of Illinois who do not have problems.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/trump-federal-spending/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell became the first judge to find that the administration had not obeyed a court order. Federal money for things like early childhood education, pollution reduction and HIV prevention research has remained tied up even after his Jan. 31 order to blocking a planned halt on federal spending, he found.)
— Chicago has not been immune from air traffic controller shortages in recent years (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on an audit of FAA that involved air traffic controller staffing in the early 1980s.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/11/chicago-air-traffic-controller-shortages/
— Chicago says it hopes to open city-owned market instead of city-owned grocery store
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-says-hopes-open-city-110000368.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump’s pardon of Blagojevich insults Illinoisans who are fed up with corruption. And can President Trump find no one with a clean record to represent Americans as ambassadors? Crime pays, it seems, in Trump’s orbit — including the Jan. 6 rioters he pardoned. (COMMENT: What is in your record that your critics/opponents use against you? My critics/opponents stress the adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/02/10/rod-blagojevich-donald-tump-presidential-pardon-corruption-joe-biden-hunter-chicago-illinois
— Trump says Palestinians won’t have right to return to Gaza under his US ‘ownership’ plan
https://chicago.suntimes.com/war-in-gaza/2025/02/10/trump-gaza-develop-plan-palestinians-no-right-to-return-united-states-us-ownership
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250210/news/illinois-had-record-2-billion-in-legal-marijuana-sales-in-2024/
— FRONT PAGE: Illinois politicians react to Blagojevich pardon
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250210/nation-and-world-politics/it-sets-a-real-bad-example-illinois-politicians-react-to-blagojevich-pardon/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois Republican Party state central committee member Aaron Del Mar of Palatine didn’t object to Trump ending Blagojevich’s prison sentence early with a commutation five years ago but drew the line at wiping the disgraced politician’s slate clean with a pardon. “I think it sets a real bad example, especially since the jury is still out on the former speaker of the House,” Del Mar said, referring to Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial. “It says that only certain people are going to be held accountable.” . . . “The former governor has served his time, and it’s time to move on,” said Zay, a former chair of the DuPage County Republican Party. While Zay thinks Blagojevich has worn out his welcome with Illinois voters, he said an ambassadorship “would be interesting.”)
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://wgnradio.com/health/ap-what-to-know-about-proposals-to-ban-abortion-pills-and-punish-women-who-seek-abortion/
FOX32
— Illinois leaders slam Trump’s decision to pardon Blagojevich
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/blago-reaction-illinois-leaders
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois Senate Republican Leader John Curran: “I strongly disagree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Illinois taxpayers have and continue to be burdened with the cost of public corruption, and this pardon sends the wrong message.”)
WTTW
— How Trump’s Plan to Shrink the Federal Workforce Could Impact Illinois (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans shrank GAO’s work force in Illinois dramatically. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely for that.)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/10/how-trump-s-plan-shrink-federal-workforce-could-impact-illinois
WGN RADIO
— Democrats say that “With firings and lax enforcement, Trump moving to dismantle government’s public integrity guardrails.”
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-with-firings-and-lax-enforcement-trump-moving-to-dismantle-governments-public-integrity-guardrails/
— Judge orders fired head of whistleblower agency reinstated while fight continues over Trump removal (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. They ever-increasingly punished me for that. My critics/opponents side with the Democrats. They promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-head-of-agency-that-protects-whistleblowers-sues-trump-over-firing/
— Democrats say “News influencers favored Trump over Harris during campaign.” Since 2000, my critics/opponents have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned as being a failed and far too-conservative would-be news influencer. Since 2000, they have blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the general election losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered. According to my critics/opponents, those candidates lost general elections because voters want Democrat-Lite candidates and I paint candidates as being far more conservative than they want to be painted.)
https://wgnradio.com/news/technology-news/ap-news-influencers-favored-trump-over-harris-during-campaign-study-finds/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://wgnradio.com/news/national/ap-migrants-stranded-in-mexico-try-to-restart-life-after-trump-eliminates-legal-pathway-to-us/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-what-to-know-about-proposals-to-ban-abortion-pills-and-punish-women-who-seek-abortion/
WIFR
— Trump’s Blagojevich pardon earns bipartisan disappointment from Illinois lawmakers
https://www.wifr.com/2025/02/11/trumps-blagojevich-pardon-earns-bipartisan-disappointment-illinois-lawmakers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “This is a decision I would not have come to, so it is something I would disagree with President Trump on,” argues Syverson. The Republican hopes Trump sees an improved Blagojevich; he worries the official forgiveness sends the wrong message. “Maybe he’s learned his ways, but he was guilty of what he did and there should be consequences for that,” comments Syverson. . .Syverson says he trusts Trump’s judgment with any further decision. “Hopefully, he [Blagojevich] will use this, and his history has been a learning lesson and that he’ll be able to make good,” exclaims the state senator. Before signing the official forgiveness, Trump characterized Blagojevich’s treatment as a “terrible injustice.” The President declared it time the former governor had a “normal life.”)
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders use against Trump those who Trump pardoned
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-10/presidents-pardons-of-insurrectionists-stoke-worries-in-springfields-jewish-community
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-454/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— One big example of why Illinois badly needs a DOGE of its own
https://wirepoints.org/one-big-example-of-why-illinois-badly-needs-a-doge-of-its-own-wirepoints/
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— IL GOP House Leader Tony McCombie joins Trump’s fight w/criminal aliens
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/il-gop-house-leader-tony-mccombie
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois lawmakers plan to short pensions by $5.1B in July
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-plan-to-short-pensions-by-5-1b-in-july/
— Unfunded mandates keep property taxes high
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/unfunded-mandates-keep-property-taxes-high/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Google axes DEI, progressive-backed markers from its calendar
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/10/google-calendar-axes-dei-labels-black-history-mont/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump adopts Biden’s legal playbook to challenge sanctuary cities
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3315568/trump-adopts-biden-legal-playbook-challenge-sanctuary-cities/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump’s all-out assault on woke is tearing down the left’s cultural sway
https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/opinion/trumps-war-on-woke-is-tearing-down-the-lefts-cultural-sway/
— Anti-woke activist targets Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan for DEI battle
https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/anti-woke-activist-targets-jamie-dimons-jpmorgan-for-dei-battle/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump is just the tip of the iceberg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/trump_is_just_the_tip_of_the_iceberg.html
BREITBART
— Democrats Help Illegal Migrants Avoid Legal Repatriation
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/10/democrats-help-illegal-migrants-avoid-legal-repatriation/
— On Monday, White County Resident Circuit Judge T. Scott Webb ruled against a requirement that Illinois residents must obtain a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card in order to possess a gun in the home for self-defense.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/02/10/circuit-court-judge-strikes-down-illinois-foid-card-requirement-guns-home/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump fires ‘woke’ advisory board leaders at military academies
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-fires-woke-advisory-board-leaders-at-military-academies/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Wasn’t Joking: Some IRS Workers To Help With Deportation. Trump said last month that he might send IRS workers “to the border.” (COMMENT: While I worked for IRS in 1971, I was assigned for 2 weeks to Nixon project to fight inflation.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-wasnt-joking-some-irs-workers-to-help-with-deportation-report-says
FEDERALIST
— Naval Academy Launches Review Of School Clubs To Ensure Compliance With Trump’s DEI Prohibition
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/10/naval-academy-launches-review-of-school-clubs-to-ensure-compliance-with-trumps-dei-prohibition/
FOX NEWS
— Pritzker has a long history of not following the law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8cksnIscE0
— Trump’s Department of Homeland Security looking to deputize IRS agents for immigration enforcement. DHS Secretary Noem requests IRS agents be provided to help ICE. (COMMENT: Fox 3 years, I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trumps-dhs-deputize-irs-agents-immigration-enforcement
— Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich: ‘He was set up’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368623514112
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— NYC teachers’ union defies Trump, coaches teachers to advise illegals how to handle ICE
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/nyc-teachers-union-defies-trump-administration-coaches-teachers-to-advise-illegals-how-to-handle-ice
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— CBS News Poll Shows Overwhelming Positive Approval of Trump
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/cbs-news-poll-shows-overwhelming-positive-approval-of-trump/
POINTS & FIGURES
— Secession Is a Good Idea
https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/secession-is-a-good-idea
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— FEMA halts migrant housing funds in NY after Musk’s criticism
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fema-halting-payments-migrant-housing-new-york-after-118670265
CBS NEWS
— Blagojevich expresses gratitude for pardon by President Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/former-gov-rod-blagojevich-expresses-gratitude-for-pardon-by-president-trump/
MSNBC
— The closer one looks at Trump’s Blagojevich pardon, the worse it appears. The message to politicians convicted or accused of corruption couldn’t be clearer: You have a friend in the Oval Office.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/closer-one-looks-trumps-blagojevich-pardon-worse-appears-rcna191638
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It (COMMENT: My critics/opponents destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, d) who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or e) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/business/media/trump-nixon-media-press.html
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/business/trump-dei-employers.html
— White House Undermines Watchdog for Consumers (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are a) pro-seller and b) anti-buyer.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/business/vought-cfpb-musk-trump.html
— DOGE Is Corrosive to Our Democracy (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opinion/treasure-secretaries-doge-musk.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump pardons Rod Blagojevich, who tried to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat. The former Illinois governor was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011. He served eight years in prison before Trump commuted his sentence in 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/10/trump-pardon-rod-blagojevich-illinois-governor/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats and RINOs stand up for Democrats and for RINOs.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-stand-up-for-the-bureaucrats-protest-dodge-government-policy-d9b18071
MARKETPLACE
— Trump’s purge of federal workers and its historical parallels (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 gave purge lists to all of their new managers of their Chicago office. Of course, I was at the top of all of those lists because I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844.)
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart/trumps-purge-of-federal-workers-and-its-historical-parallels/
POLITICO
— Trump is slashing agencies long hated by the GOP. The next cuts might be harder. “You gotta light things on fire that burn the brightest and have the most distinctive smell of waste fraud and abuse,” said one White House ally. (COMMENT: One reason why I took a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO was to escape hatred against IRS employees.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/11/trump-musk-vought-future-cut-targets-00203444
— ‘JD gets the game’: Vance embraces role as social media provocateur. Vance’s approach to social media isn’t new. But his perch in the presidential line of succession is.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/10/jd-vance-donald-trump-online-trolling-00203429
Tag: political
February 10, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Why Henry Hyde’s name should stay on the DuPage County courthouse. The GOP powerhouse stood for far more than his famous eponymous abortion amendment.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/editorial-henry-hyde-dupage-county-courthouse/
(FROM THE EDITORIAL: History often is complex and resistant to simple narratives. So are people. So it is a needlessly divisive mistake for DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy to push for her fellow board members to remove the name of the late Henry J. Hyde, longtime Republican congressman, from the county courthouse. The board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the issue. Hyde represented DuPage, which until recent years was a Republican power center, in Washington for more than three decades, retiring in 2007. During that time, Hyde wasn’t some low-profile lifer in Congress. He was one of the House’s most prominent members, even when he was serving in the minority, which is to say most of his career there. Conroy’s rationale for removing Hyde’s name from the court building is that the staunchly anti-abortion politician was responsible for the Hyde Amendment, the provision in federal law that for decades barred spending federal taxpayer money on abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or endangerment to the life of the mother. “It’s strictly because of the Hyde Amendment, and it’s very difficult for so many women to walk into the courthouse and see (his name),” she told the Tribune. Abortion rights is an issue that only has grown more intense since Hyde died 10 months after his retirement. We understand the symbolic argument. But to strip his name from the building would be akin to removing Richard J. Daley’s name from the courthouse in the heart of the Loop over a single issue — say, the police beating of protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention on his orders, the culture of corruption that the Daley machine fostered or his brutal segregationist policies. Even many ardent Daley critics wouldn’t suggest doing so. Why is that? Because Daley is a singularly important figure in the history of Chicago and to rename the Daley Center or Daley Plaza would be to try to negate that history. Like Daley, Hyde was a complicated figure and far more than the name adorning a famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) piece of legislation. Memories are short, of course, but for most of his career Hyde was an intellectual heavyweight on the Republican side of the aisle. Agree or disagree, but when Hyde took the floor to speak, people listened. And for good reason. He was a thoughtful conservative. Consider this: Hyde stepped down in 1981 from the advisory board of the National Pro-Life Political Action Committee after Executive Director Peter Gemma Jr. identified incumbent lawmakers the group planned to work to defeat. Hyde objected to targeting officeholders over a single issue. Much the way the DuPage board is considering doing Tuesday. Would the Democratic majority on the DuPage board consider themselves in favor of reasonable gun regulation? If so, against the consensus of his party, Hyde in 1994 voted for President Bill Clinton’s ban on assault weapons, demonstrating that he could be persuaded to change his mind on a monumental issue of the day. Just three years earlier, he had voted against the same ban. Hyde reversed himself after reading detailed accounts of gun victims in Chicago, provided by Democratic Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois. “At the end of reading this list of bloody crimes, I had to conclude these guns have no purpose but to kill a lot of people very rapidly,” Hyde said. “It wasn’t like falling off a horse on the road to Damascus. But like many things complicated and emotional, you don’t dwell on them unless forced to.” Hyde’s change of heart induced Illinois Rep. Bob Michel, then GOP minority leader, and dozens more Republicans to vote for the ban. Such political courage is almost impossible to imagine on today’s Capitol Hill. Of course, four years later Hyde led Clinton’s impeachment proceedings on behalf of the House before the Senate, leading critics to disclose Hyde’s yearslong extramarital affair decades earlier and accusing him of hypocrisy. Hyde admitted to cheating on his wife but claimed Clinton’s alleged wrongdoing was about Clinton’s cover-up attempts rather than his actual affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The public didn’t buy it, and Hyde paid a reputational price in the process. All of this is to say that Henry Hyde was complicated. Just like most people. But what is indisputable is that he was one of the most important political figures to emerge from DuPage County. Ever. His name should stay on that courthouse.)
ABC7
— DuPage County Democrats push to rename courthouse over late Congressman’s abortion views
https://abc7chicago.com/post/local-democrats-push-rename-dupage-county-courthouse-late-congressman-henry-hydes-abortion-views/15890259/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “He had a lot of support, a lot of friends on the other side of the aisle. He strikes me as a kind of official that we should be looking to model ourselves after, not disrespect,” said DuPage County GOP Chair Kevin Coyne. While he was bipartisan on certain issues such as gun control and the Family and Medical Leave Act, Hyde was one of Congress’ biggest opponents of abortion. He authored the Hyde Amendment, which denied abortion access to poor women on Medicaid. . .The board will vote on the resolution to remove Hyde’s name on Tuesday. With a Democratic majority, Conroy says, the proposal will pass. “To cherry-pick this one issue and hold it against a man that was such a big part of our history, to me, is just wrong. It’s short sighted,” Coyne said. Coyne says the decision to remove Hyde’s name may ruin the bipartisanship Conroy says she has proudly created while serving as chair.)
— President Trump pardons ex-Illinois Gov. Blagojevich 5 years after commuting his sentence
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-expected-pardon-ex-illinois-gov-rod-blagojevich-5-years-commuting-sentence-reports/15889540/
FOX32
— ICE operations intensify across U.S. sanctuary cities
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1591008
DAILY HERALD
— Residents protest proposed cuts to Medicaid at DuPage County rally
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250210/news/residents-protest-proposed-cuts-to-medicaid-at-dupage-county-rally/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Blagojevich pardoned on corruption conviction by Trump
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-pardons-rod-blagojevich-corruption-conviction
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Del Mar teases run for ‘higher office,’ sparking 2026 Illinois governor speculation
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_69d594d6-e7c2-11ef-b535-b39343671dce.html
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois circuit judge finds FOID for firearms in home unconstitutional (COMMENT: I have had a FOID card since I was 20 years old in 1968.)
https://www.cities929.com/2025/02/10/illinois-circuit-judge-finds-foid-for-firearms-in-home-unconstitutional/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-246/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION
— FOID Card Found to be Unconstitutional Yet Again
https://isra.org/foid-card-found-to-be-unconstitutional-yet-again/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Migrants turning around and heading back home in ‘new trend’ under Trump border crackdown
https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/new-trend-of-migrants-turning-around-and-heading-back-toward-home-under-trump-border-crackdown/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ‘BETRAYAL’: Lawmaker Responds to FEMA Diverting $59M to House Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/10/fema-using-59-million-house-illegal-aliens-is-betrayal-highest-order-congressman-says/
DAILY WIRE
— Musk Says FEMA Spent $60M Housing Illegal Immigrants In ‘Luxury Hotels’ Last Week. The payments were suspended by acting FEMA Director Cameron Hamilton after Musk’s announcement.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/musks-says-fema-spent-60m-housing-illegal-immigrants-in-luxury-hotels-last-week
— 27% Of National Science Foundation Grants Went To DEI Projects, Study Finds. ‘Congress must end the politicization of NSF funding and restore integrity to scientific research,’ Sen. Ted Cruz says.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27-of-national-science-foundation-grants-went-to-dei-projects-study-finds
EPOCH TIMES
— Musk Says FEMA Spent $59 Million on Housing Illegal Immigrants in NYC Hotels. ‘This stops now,’ said acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton, announcing that all such payments from FEMA were suspended on Feb. 9.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/musk-says-fema-spent-59-million-on-housing-illegal-immigrants-in-nyc-hotels-5807322
FOX NEWS
— Trump expected to pardon former Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich. Trump previously commuted Blagojevich’s sentence in 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-expected-pardon-former-illinois-gov-rod-blagojevich
MRC TV
— Illegal Alien Crossings Have Plummeted 90% Under Trump
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/border-agent-illegal-alien-crossings-have-plummeted-90-under-trump
TOWNHALL
— Trump Ramps Up Purge of ‘Woke’ Ideology in the Military
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/02/10/trump-liquidates-woke-board-of-visitors-for-military-branches-n2651967
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump says ‘too early’ to name Vance as successor
https://www.aol.com/trump-says-too-early-name-215711428.html
CNN
— Trump imposes 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Increasing numbers of Democrats want their party to oppose Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-want-party-oppose-trump-poll-analysis/
— Trump ousts director of Office of Government Ethics
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-office-of-government-ethics-director/
WEEK
— DeSantis signs agreement with ICE to have Florida state troopers detain illegal immigrants
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/02/10/desantis-signs-agreement-with-ice-have-florida-state-troopers-detain-illegal-immigrants/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort. Tax-collecting agency has thousands of special agents in its criminal-investigation division. (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year, for 3 years.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-officers-ice-deportations-ed87c4b5
AUTO GUIDE
— Why Is General Motors Getting Rid Of Key Corvette Personnel?
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/chevrolet/why-is-general-motors-getting-rid-of-key-corvette-personnel-44616109
February 8, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Aurora mayoral candidates share their views on city issues at forum (COMMENT: What are the issues in your township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/aurora-mayoral-candidates-share-their-views-on-city-issues-at-forum/
— Donald Trump orders freeze of aid to South Africa citing country’s land expropriation law
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/07/trump-freeze-aid-south-africa/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/community-leaders-speak-out-under-little-village-arch-hundreds-rally-for-day-of-love-and-resistance/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/nonprofit-warns-of-vigilantism-against-migrants-after-skokie-family-receives-deportation-threats/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/02/07/trump-immigration-executive-order-refugees-resettlement-united-nations-stop-work-order
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/07/illinois-jb-pritzker-revenue-squeeze-trump-congressional-gop-cut-medicaid-expansion-rich-miller
DAILY HEARLD
— Democrats far outspent GOP rivals in suburban U.S. House races — none more than Raja Krishnamoorthi (COMMENT: What discourages you from giving money to Republican candidates? For me, it includes my having less money. In today’s dollars, my federal pension a) is only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 and b) less than what my IRS salary was in 1972. Further, my Social Security is dramatically less because I get a federal pension. Further, far too many unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did much to help elect blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250208/us-congress-politics/democrats-far-outspent-gop-rivals-in-suburban-u-s-house-races-none-more-than-raja-krishnamoorthi/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican candidates in northeast Illinois struggle to compete financially with their rivals across the aisle. Of the eight Republican congressional candidates who ran in the suburbs last year, the 10th District’s Jim Carris of Lake Forest spent the most — nearly $681,000. The campaign spending totals for four others — Rice in the 8th District plus James Marter in the 14th, Jerry Evans in the 11th and Niki Conforti in the 6th — were lower in the six-figure range. Ramirez’s GOP challenger in the 3rd District, John Booras, spent less than $40,000 on his campaign; the 9th District’s Seth Cohen spent less than $8,000 on his race. Postelection and year-end reports weren’t available for 5th District GOP candidate Tommy Hanson.)
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250208/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-in-defense-of-dei-the-phrase-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-may-sound-unga/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250207/nation-and-world-politics/latino-evangelical-churches-gear-up-to-face-possible-immigration-enforcement-in-churches/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois revs up more EV incentives amid uncertain fate of federal rebates
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-revs-more-ev-incentives-amid-federal-uncertainties
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/illinois-generates-17-billion-casino-tax-revenue
ABC7
— Trump announces plans to gut the Kennedy Center board, appoint himself chairman
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kennedy-center-president-donald-trump-says-hes-firing-board-trustees-members-naming-himself-chairman/15882171/
— Trump official’s directive tying transportation grants to birth rates could hinder blue states
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-birth-rates-state-donald-trump-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-circulates-memo-tying-grants-marriage/15881663/
— Chicago Auto Show 2025: Doors open for Day 1 at McCormick Place
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-auto-show-2025-doors-open-saturday-morning-mccormick-place/15881013/
WGN TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/little-village-protest-trump-deportations/
— Illinois faces funding cut-off for electric vehicle charging stations; Pritzker vows to fight back
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/illinois-ev-funding-cuts/
FOX32
— Time magazine cover puts Elon Musk behind Trump’s desk
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/time-magazine-elon-musk-trump-desk
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/06/illinois-farm-workers-consumers-alert-amid-mass-deportation-threats
WBEZ
— Lurie Children’s Hospital pauses gender care surgeries for those younger than 19. The move comes after President Donald Trump’s executive order that said the federal government would not support these procedures.
https://www.wbez.org/2025/02/07/lurie-childrens-hospital-pauses-gender-care-surgeries-for-those-younger-than-19
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-policies-on-gender-affirming-care-and-passports-for-transgender-people-challenged-in-court/article_a7b7c426-ae4e-58d7-934b-d7c89861987a.html
SOUTHERN
— Here are all the agencies that Elon Musk and DOGE have been trying to dismantle so far
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/08/here-are-all-the-agencies-that-elon-musk-and-doge-have-been-trying-to-dismantle-so-far/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/donald-trump-protest-edwardsville-il-20154122.php
WIFR
— Democrat leaders get high school students to promote more illegal immigration
https://www.wifr.com/gallery/2025/02/08/jefferson-high-schoolers-protest-trumps-immigration-policies/
EFFINGHAM RADIO
— IL House Leader McCombie Demands Transparency And Accountability On Immigration
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/02/08/il-house-leader-mccombie-demands-transparency-and-accountability-on-immigration/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-245/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders will use their mainstream news media a) to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform, c) to elect Democrat candidates, and d) to defeat Republican candidates. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Crystal Laker Trevor Keegan in Super Bowl
mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/crystal-laker-trevor-keegan-in-super-bowl/
— Blago Being Talked about as Trump Pick for Ambassador to Serbia
https://wwwhttps://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/blago-being-talked-about-as-trump-pick-for-ambassador-to-serbia/
— Lakemoor Refuses Comment on $40 Million Illegal Search and Seizure Hemp Suit
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/lakemoor-refuses-comment-on-40-million-illegal-search-and-seizure-hemp-suit/
— Pritzker Flips on No New Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/pritzker-flips-on-no-new-taxes/
— Tariffs and How Value Added Taxes Are “Backdoor Tariffs”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/tariffs-and-how-value-added-taxes-are-backdoor-tariffs/
— Correcting County Administrator Pete Austin’s Salary Information — Seeking 5.3% Raise
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/correcting-county-administrator-pete-austins-salary-information/
— Major “Sin” Tax Brings in $1.5 Billion
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/major-sin-tax-brings-in-1-5-billion/
— Schakowsky on Trump’s Early Days as President
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/schakowsky-on-trumps-early-days-as-president/
— Pritzker Purports to Re-Name Lake Michigan “Lake Illinois”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/pritzker-purports-to-re-name-lake-michigan-lake-illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump says DOGE will look into more federal agencies (COMMENTL Will DOGE look into GAO?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/7/trump-says-doge-look-federal-agencies/
— Alaska lawmakers officially oppose Trump’s push to change Denali to Mount McKinley
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/8/alaska-lawmakers-officially-oppose-trump-push-chan/
— Russia is using Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to create a migration crisis. The axis of evil is sending masses of illegal immigrants to flood the southwest border.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/russia-using-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela-create-migra/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump ordered Secret Service to provide ‘every bit of information’ on would-be assassins
https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-ordered-secret-service-to-provide-every-bit-of-information-on-would-be-assassins/
BAPTIST NEWS
— Remember that time Wheaton College congratulated Russell Vought?
https://baptistnews.com/article/remember-that-time-wheaton-college-congratulated-russell-vought/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Want to know how controversial it was for Russell Vought to be confirmed by the Senate as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget? Just ask Wheaton College, where Vought earned a bachelor’s degree. On Friday, Feb. 7, the Christian college posted a note on its Facebook page with Vought’s photo saying, “Wheaton College congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought regarding his senatorial confirmation to serve as the White House Director of the Office of Management and Budget!” Then the alumni base of the Illinois school began to vent their disdain for Vought and their disbelief that their alma mater would highlight someone responsible for creating Project 2025 and saying he wants to make federal employees so miserable they all quit — among other things. By Saturday morning, the post was removed from Facebook.)
DAILY WIRE
— Wheaton College Caves to Woke Mob, Apologizes For Congratulating Alum In Trump Admin. Wheaton College posted, and then retracted, a message congratulating Russ Vought on his confirmation to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/christian-college-caves-to-woke-mob-apologizes-for-congratulating-alum-in-trump-admin
FOX NEWS
— Hegseth to look into ‘what went wrong’ in Afghanistan and pledges accountability, slams diversity motto. ‘We will find strength in unity,’ not diversity, Hegseth says.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-look-what-went-wrong-afghanistan-pledges-accountability-slams-diversity-motto
— Teachers express fears as Trump strips federal funding for schools teaching CRT. ‘Every teacher I’ve talked to is completely freaked out by it,’ one retired teacher told The Boston Globe.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/teachers-express-fears-trump-strips-federal-funding-schools-teaching-crt
NEWSMAX
— Time for Homan to Decisively Act on Defiant Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/homan-cbs-ice/2025/02/08/id/1198327/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-rights-lawsuits-challenge-trump-policies/
WASHINGTON POST
— Attacks on Catholics, Lutherans suggest new Trump approach on religion. Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their efforts to help migrants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/08/catholic-lutheran-vance-flynn-musk-trump/
— Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed, could be resettled in the US. They say no thanks. Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority have responded to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/08/trump-south-africa-afrikaners/ac037124-e633-11ef-ab83-bb30e4340014_story.html
REASON
— America’s enemies want mass immigration.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/02/08/trumps-cruel-assault-on-legal-immigration/
February 7, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Kankakee County sheriff Mike Downey says Illinois laws hinder enforcement, supports DOJ lawsuit on sanctuary status (COMMENT: Hopefully, your county sheriff agrees with Downey.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kankakee-sheriff-says-illinois-trust-act-hinders-enforcement-supports-doj-lawsuit-sanctuary-status/15874853/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Kankakee sheriff said he hopes a lawsuit by the Department of Justice over Illinois’ sanctuary laws can resolve ongoing frustration in the law enforcement community. “Why are we so concerned about these individuals who are not here legally, who have some have committed violent, heinous crimes, and we’re worried about whether or not a local police department is calling ICE to say, hey, this guy’s in our community,” said Kankakee County Sheriff Mike Downey.)
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in pushing pot.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-cannabis-market-new-sales-record-2024
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Federal employees are demonized, denigrated, and condemned, except those federal employees who Trump wants to get rid of. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/06/trump-musk-move-to-oust-epa-staff-in-the-great-lakes-region-including-dozens-responsible-for-protecting-drinking-water-for-30-million-in-u-s-and-canada/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump-proposed tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/07/illinois-braces-for-impact-of-tariffs/
— Chicago Auto Show goes electric with 2 EV tracks, dozens of models and first appearance by Rivian (COMMENT: I am especially interested in how the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV will be displayed.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/06/chicago-auto-show-ev-rivian/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Lawsuit alleges UI Health stopped gender-affirming care for teen after Trump executive order. Part of the nationwide suit against the order alleges that a 17–year-old Illinois boy had been given a date for chest surgery at UI Health, only for it to be canceled one day after Trump’s order.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/02/06/lawsuit-alleges-ui-health-stopped-gender-affirming-care-for-teen-after-trump-executive-order
DAILY HERALD
— Illinois, Trump administration in legal battle over immigration policy
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250206/illinois-state-politics/illinois-trump-administration-in-legal-battle-over-immigration-policy/
— Cannabis is never safe for developing brains (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250207/health-and-fitness/cannabis-is-never-safe-for-developing-brains/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: EVs, hybrids give spark to Chicago Auto Show (COMMENT: I am especially interested in how the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV will be displayed.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250206/transportation/evs-hybrids-give-spark-to-chicago-auto-show/
WBEZ
— Chicago alderpeople want to ban participants in the Jan. 6 attack from working for the city
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/02/06/chicago-alderpeople-want-to-ban-participants-in-the-january-6th-attack-from-working-for-the-city
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in pushing pot.
https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-news/cannabis-sales-higher-than-ever-in-illinois-exceeded-2b-in-2024/
WAND TV
— IL House Dems approve resolution condemning Trump for Jan. 6 pardons, GOP walk out
https://www.wandtv.com/news/il-house-dems-approve-resolution-condemning-trump-for-jan-6-pardons-gop-walk-out/article_c6f54a60-e4db-11ef-9fd5-1f36abe51611.html
— Thousands of cars sold in Illinois have fake odometer readings (COMMENT: I bought a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T collector car from the Chicago Car Exchange (CCE) in 1994. I had owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. I should not have assumed that CCE would not have engaged in odometer fraud. SEE: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1385001.html CCE did not set the car’s odometer back, but it knew that its previous owners had done that. CCE offered to buy the car back from me, but only for what I had paid them for it. I had spent thousands on the car making it “show ready.”)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/thousands-of-cars-sold-in-illinois-have-fake-odometer-readings/article_05d9763e-e3dd-11ef-a40b-6b906b5beb3d.html
TRI STATE PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.tspr.org/illinois-public-radio/2025-02-06/illinois-attorney-general-vows-to-protect-gender-affirming-care-after-trump-order-threatens-to-cut-funding
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker to DOJ: See you in court
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/07/pritzker-to-doj-see-you-in-court-00203066
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-452/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison’s Statement on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Lawsuit against the State of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/cook-county-commissioner-sean-morrisons-statement-on-the-u-s-department-of-justices-lawsuit-against-the-state-of-illinois-cook-county-and-the-city-of-chicago/
WIREPOINTS
— The next absurd bill from Illinois’ legislature: Removing student test scores from teacher evaluations
https://wirepoints.org/the-next-absurd-bill-from-illinois-legislature-getting-rid-of-test-scores-from-teacher-evaluations-wirepoints/
— The covid-era money spigot is turned off. We should get back to normal, but Gov. Pritzker wants to spend even more
https://wirepoints.org/the-covid-era-money-spigot-is-turned-off-we-should-get-back-to-normal-but-gov-pritzker-wants-to-spend-even-more-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s federal employee buyout deadline has been extended until February 10. Have you faced such deadlines? My Democrat GAO superiors’ deadline to take their early retirement “offer” was September 30, 1997. If I had not taken it, I would not have been eligible to retire for 6 years. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have taken it. I should not succumbed to their threats. Yes, if I had not taken it, they would have taken even bigger adverse actions against me than they had before. But I would have sought help from my U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde. I would have sued my GAO superiors. I would have stressed that I had earned job-relate professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting). I would have stressed that I earned a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA). I would have stressed that I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (financial markets and trading), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business). I would have stressed that GAO audits IRS, that I had worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years (1986-1988), and that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years (1971-1980), the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you are considering buying an Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville, consider this one at https://leeernst.exprealty.com/holp/listing/103/12283041 If my wife and I had not bought our unit in 2023, we would be making an offer on this one. Features that it has that our unit does not have include a balcony, windows, forever unobstructed view to the west, wider garage door, and more useable square feet on the second floor. The seller wants $100,000 for his unit than what my wife and I paid for our unit. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Feds spent millions to create ‘transgender’ lab testing animals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/feds-spent-millions-create-transgender-lab-testing/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Musk Vows to Eliminate ‘Wasteful’ Politico Subscriptions for Federal Employees. Government payments to Politico quadrupled to $26 million during the Biden administration. (COMMENT: GOPUSA ILLINOIS subscriptions are worth at least $5,000/year. But I send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters out to anyone who wants them free of charge, without any advertising, and with no donation requests.)
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/musk-vows-to-eliminate-wasteful-politico-subscriptions-for-federal-employees/
— ‘No Immigrant Should Be Detained,’ Says Left-Wing Nonprofit With $769 Million Federal Immigration Contract. The D.C.-based Acacia Center for Justice is squarely at odds with the Trump administration.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/no-immigrant-should-be-detained-says-left-wing-nonprofit-with-769-million-federal-immigration-contract/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Federal Judge Delays Trump’s Worker ‘Buyout’ Deadline
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/07/morning-greatness-federal-judge-delays-trumps-worker-buyout-deadline/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump hauls out the government waste (COMMENT: GAO fights government waste. I worked for GAO for almost 18 years.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-hauls-out-the-government-waste/
DAILY CALLER
— Pam Bondi Sends ‘Clear’ Message To Sanctuary Cities Choosing ‘Illegal Aliens’ Over Americans
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/06/pam-bondi-sanctuary-cities-illegal-aliens-americans-legal-repercussions/
— GOP Lawmakers React to Trump Suing Their State Over Laws That ‘Obstruct’ ICE Arrests
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/06/gop-lawmakers-react-to-trump-suing-their-state-over-laws-that-obstruct-ice-arrests/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago resident pushes back against Dem leaders acting like Trump ‘isn’t welcome’ Chicago resident Vashon Tuncle joins ‘The Ingraham Angle’ with insight on the Trump administration’s embattled immigration policies. (COMMENT: How welcome is Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct. I should write about how welcome Trump is in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368403046112
— Trump’s ICE crackdown could get boost in Florida with DeSantis’ plan to deputize state patrol
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-ice-crackdown-could-see-boost-florida-desantis-plan-deputize-state-patrol
— Over a dozen Venezuelan criminal illegal migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay: ‘Highly dangerous’ people. The US plans to house ‘the worst of the worst’ at the detention facility until they can be flown back to their home countries.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/over-dozen-venezuelan-criminal-illegal-migrants-sent-guantanamo-bay-dangerous-people
PJ MEDIA
— Former USAID Official Liz Cheney Rips Elon Musk for Being a… Foreigner
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/02/06/former-usaid-official-liz-cheney-rips-elon-musk-for-being-a-foreigner-n4936761
(FROM THE ARTICLE: And now you’re throwing shade at Elon Musk for not being born in the United States? . . . Cheney’s sneering at Musk for not being an American just didn’t make any sense, at least apart from the fact that the political establishment claims to be the embodiment of compassion, but actually has nothing but contempt for the American people. The recent revelations about USAID confirm that in spades by showing that taxpayer money that was supposed to go to the poor and needy of the world was actually lining the pockets of “journalists” at AP, Politico, the New York Times, and elsewhere, so as to ensure that the American people were thoroughly saturated with the establishment line. And that was, of course, by no means all that USAID has been up to.)
MRC TV
— Rep. Dan Goldman Advises Illegals How to Evade Authorities…in Three Languages
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/legal-rep-dan-goldman-advises-illegals-how-evade-authoritiesin-three-languages
NEWSMAX
— Trump WH Sues Chicago in Latest Crackdown on ‘Sanctuary’ Cities
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-immigration-chicago-arrests-sanctuary-immigrants-enforcement/2025/02/06/id/1198131/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Black Hawk helicopter in D.C. plane crash had a safety system off
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/black-hawk-helicopter-dc-plane-crash-safety-system-off-senator-says/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Opposition lawmakers protest alleged mistreatment of Indian deportees by US
https://apnews.com/article/indian-illegal-immigration-protest-parliament-deportation-trump-90ae7999040196e3ce25dd3fa8e29137
NBC NEWS
— Trump signs executive order banning men from women’s sports
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trump-executive-order-ban-trans-women-sports-rcna190767
CNN
— White House pressures ICE to pick up pace of migrant arrests
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/ice-arrests-pressure/index.html
NEWSWEEK
— Unemployment in D.C. Nearly Doubles as Trump Aims to Shrink US Government (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans shrank the agency from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me big time for that.)
https://www.newsweek.com/unemployment-washington-dc-doubles-trump-guts-federal-government-2027547
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— What Would a Drastically Reduced Government Workforce Mean for Americans? (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans shrank the agency from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me big time for that.)
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-02-06/what-trumps-federal-workforce-cuts-mean-for-everyday-americans
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting vices. Because I do not spend money on vices, I have more money. My critics/opponents promote vices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/video/more-than-80-of-u-s-adults-spend-money-on-common-vice-report-shows/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 4 in 5 Americans spend money on one of six common vices. That includes alcohol, lottery tickets, casino games, tobacco, marijuana and sports betting.
NEW YORK TIMES
— This Isn’t Reform. It’s Sabotage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/trump-musk-government.html?searchResultPosition=3
WASHINGTON POST
— Federal workers ‘defiant’ on Musk’s buyout (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If I was still working for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now, figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/can-he-do-that/federal-workers-defiant-on-musks-buyout/
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/07/trump-dei-federal-government-discrimination/
— Tulsa mayor backs reparations plan for ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre victims (COMMENT: What about reparations for all the Republicans who Democrats killed during the Civil War?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/tulsa-reparations-race-massacre/
— Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If I was still working for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now, figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders have always used Black History Months to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/trump-hegseth-black-history-cancelled-20149267.php
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s Use of Guantanamo Bay Signals Hard Line Against Migrants
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-use-of-guantanamo-bay-signals-hard-line-against-migrants-32880dac
— Test Scores Fall, Unions Want More (COMMENT: The more illegals that there are in schools, the more that test scores will fall.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-teachers-association-schools-money-covid-david-goldberg-teachers-union-5b21847f
— FRONT PAGE: How Trump’s Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Republican-led budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s Republican employees starting with those who were White, male, older. non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid. I am amazed that I survived for almost 18 years,
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-fbi-firings-immigration-crime-ad7d6b44
KIPLINGER
— Is Your Vice Putting Your Retirement at Risk? From alcohol to gambling, adults spend a lot of money pursuing their vices. Is the cost of a little fun jeopardizing their retirement nest eggs? (COMMENT: Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting vices. Because I do not spend money on vices, I have more money. My critics/opponents promote vices.)
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/is-your-vice-putting-your-retirement-at-risk
HAGERTY
— American Muscle Car Index (COMMENT: Please let me know if you share my interest in American muscle cars. I am especially interested in Chargers, Corvettes, Mustangs, and Thunderbirds. I have ordered a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T. I own a 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 and 1972 Corvette, 2023 Mustang GT Premium, and 1996 Thunderbird LX. I previously owned a 1968 Charger R/T, 1969 Charger SE, 1962 Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1990 Thunderbird LX, 1994 Thunderbird, and 2003 Cavalier LS.)
https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/hagerty-indexes-idle-into-2025/
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
— Scholarships You Should Apply for in February 2025 (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that my not getting any scholarships proves that I am academically deficient and that my parents were filthy rich. I should write about my critics/opponents and the scholarships that they got.)
https://www.universitymagazine.ca/scholarships-you-should-apply-for-in-february/
GLUESENKAMP PEREZ
— Gluesenkamp Perez Introduces Bill to Bring Greater Transparency to College Tuition Costs (COMMENT: Back in the good old days when college costs were much lower, I was able to work my way through college and graduate debt-free and owning a 20-month-old car. But the many hours that I worked to do that instead of studying dragged my GPA down.)
https://gluesenkampperez.house.gov/posts/gluesenkamp-perez-introduces-bill-to-bring-greater-transparency-to-college-tuition-costs
HR DIGEST
— Federal Worker Buyout Deadline Extended Until February 10 (COMMENT: Have you faced such deadlines? My Democrat GAO superiors’ deadline to take their early retirement “offer” was September 30, 1997. If I had not taken it, I would not have been eligible to retire for 6 years. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have taken it. I should not succumbed to their threats. Yes, if I had not taken it, they would have taken even bigger adverse actions against me than they had before. But I would have sought help from U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde. I would have sued my GAO superiors. I would have stressed that I had earned job-relate professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting). I would have stressed that I earned a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA). I would have stressed that I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (financial markets and trading), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business). I would have stressed that GAO audits IRS, that I had worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years (1986-1988), and that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years (1971-1980), the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.)
https://www.thehrdigest.com/federal-worker-buyout-deadline-extended-until-feb-10/
AMERICA MAGAZINE
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Catholics to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/02/06/catholic-church-vulnerable-migrants-trump-249835
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Black Federal Employees Targeted in Public Blacklist as Trump and Musk Continue Assault on Diversity (COMMENT: I should write about the tremendous preference that my Democrat Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates got while I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. I would focus on my Democrat Black GAO subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/trump-allies-identify-federal-employees/
TIMES OF INDIA
— Condoms for Taliban to drag shows in Ecuador: Craziest USAID spends revealed
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/condoms-for-taliban-to-drag-shows-in-ecuador-craziest-usaid-spends-revealed/articleshow/118003488.cms
February 6, 2025
Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly organize, promote, and report on more demonstrations against Trump. How successful have Democrat leaders been organizing, promoting, and reporting on protests against Trump in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago-area experts question US right to make Gaza Strip ‘Riviera of the Middle East’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-gaza-news-heading-springfield-advocate-palestinians-pres-says-he-wants-turn-strip-riviera/15869210/
NBC5
— Rallies against Trump administration held in Chicago, numerous other cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EE5dLjYfZA
— Google scraps diversity ‘aspirations,’ citing role as federal contractor (COMMENT: Google has always steered everyone to websites a) that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/google-scraps-diversity-aspirations-citing-role-as-federal-contractor/3666768/
CBS2
— Palestinian Americans in Chicago area decry Trump’s plan for U.S. to “take over the Gaza Strip”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/palestinian-americans-in-chicago-area-decry-trump-s-plan-for-u-s-to-take-over-the-gaza-strip/ar-AA1yucJ8
— Palestinian Americans in Chicago not pleased with President Trump’s Gaza takeover plan
https://www.yahoo.com/news/palestinian-americans-chicago-not-pleased-013600282.html
WGN9
— Hundreds rally against Trump administration’s Middle East, immigration policies
https://www.aol.com/hundreds-rally-against-trump-administration-225347771.html
FOX32
— Trump tariffs could hit Illinois hard, state treasurer warns
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tariffs-illinois
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hundreds of patients skip appointments at Chicago health clinic amid deportation fears. At CommunityHealth, which serves a large immigrant population, prescriptions for diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions have been left on shelves since President Donald Trump took office.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/02/05/chicago-health-clinic-patient-deportation-fear
DAILY HERALD
— Salvi: JB Pritzker’s ego could cost Illinois
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250206/columns/jb-pritzkers-ego-could-cost-illinois/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Photos of Illinois protestors against actions of President Trump, Elon Musk
https://www.sj-r.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/02/05/hundreds-of-protestors-rally-at-illinois-capitol-against-trump-musk-see-photos/78260501007/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Protestors demonstrate against Trump policies outside Illinois Capitol
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/protestors-demonstrate-against-trump-policies-outside-illinois-capitol/video_241eda7c-9746-51d7-be96-80a0d75c5146.html
— Fear, anger, hope shown at ICE protest by students on ISU campus
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/protest-isu-immigration-ice-students-bloomington-normal/article_a5c3fb6a-e3fb-11ef-919b-6b706dd71e8a.html
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-schools-communities-on-edge-with-rumors-of-ice-raids/
WAND TV
— State Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid (D-Berwyn) said President Donald Trump is enacting an ethnic cleansing after Trump called all Palestinians to leave Gaza. “Let’s call that what it is, ethnic cleansing,” Rashid said.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/donald-trump-is-calling-for-ethnic-cleansing-says-illinois-house-democrat/article_7629d996-e406-11ef-bf60-3f2a156d1588.html
WCIA
— Protesters converge on Illinois Capitol as tensions over Trump actions rise in the chamber
https://www.wcia.com/news/protesters-converge-on-illinois-capitol-as-tensions-over-trump-actions-rise-in-the-chamber/
WGLT
— Advocates ask Illinois lawmakers to increase funding for the unhoused in new budget (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-02-04/advocates-ask-illinois-lawmakers-to-increase-funding-for-the-unhoused-in-new-budget
NPR ILLINOIS
— New attorney general moves to align DOJ with Trump’s priorities. (COMMENT: In Diersen v. GAO, Bush’s DOJ was aligned with GAO’s priorities of using Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and budget cuts to waste the careers of and to get rid of its Republican employees like me who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-05/new-attorney-general-moves-to-align-justice-department-with-trumps-priorities
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always glorified and praised those inside and outside of the federal government who promoted the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-05/nsa-museum-covered-plaques-honoring-women-and-people-of-color-provoking-an-uproar
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Rand Paul knocks Trump Gaza takeover plan
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/rand-paul-knocks-trump-gaza-takeover-plan-i-thought-we-voted-for-america-first/
CWB CHICAGO
— Bystanders slam gate on cops, cheerlead suspects during cross-town chase
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/02/bystanders-slam-gate-cops-cheerlead-suspects-during-cross-town-chase-video.html
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois lawmakers advance measure to untangle student test scores from teacher evaluations (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise all their most problematic employees.)
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/05/illinois-lawmakers-propose-change-to-teacher-evaluation-requirements/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Battle lines in Springfield over Trump
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/06/battle-lines-in-springfield-over-trump-00202827
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-451/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago violent crime numbers up, arrests down across city
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a5a16d6c-e3d7-11ef-aa02-4b09cee8328e.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, how might that have impacted you? If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, my critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP) might not have been able to a) remove me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and c) take other adverse actions against me. If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, my Democrat GAO superiors might not have been able to a) force me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance purposes, c) not promote me beyond GS-13 and delay my promotions, d) keep me off audits of IRS, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, my Democrat IRS superiors might not have been able to a) not promote me beyond GS-12, b) disallow my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallow my travel vouchers in 1974. If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, my Democrat Post Office superiors might not have been able to a) force me to resign in 1969 and b) disallow my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Non-Parental Relatives Caring for Children to Receive Same State Benefits as Foster Parents
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/05/non-parental-relatives-caring-for-children-to-receive-same-state-benefits-as-foster-parents/
— County Offers Paperless Permit Application
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/05/county-offers-paperless-permit-application/
— McHenry County Republicans Announce Darin Bailey as Lincoln Day Speaker on April 5th
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/05/mchenry-county-republicans-announce-darin-bailey-as-lincoln-day-speaker-on-april-5th/
ILLINOIS POLCY INSTITUTE
— Illinois 10th worst state for getting ahead. (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, I was able earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/ranking-illinois-10th-worst-state-for-getting-ahead/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Tom Cotton credits bump in Army recruits to ‘Trump effect’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3311440/tom-cotton-credits-bump-army-recruits-trump-effect/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Colombia’s President Petro calls cocaine no different from whiskey, claims only gringo prejudice gives it a bad rap
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/colombia_s_president_petro_calls_cocaine_no_different_from_whiskey_claims_only_gringo_prejudice_gives_it_a_bad_rap.html
FOX NEWS
— Detaining illegal immigrants at Guantanamo could result in legal challenges, slow deportations, experts say. The Trump administration this week began flying illegal immigrants to a military installation on the island.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/detaining-illegal-immigrants-guantanamo-result-legal-challenges-slow-deportations-experts-say
TOWNHALL
— Mexico Begins Sending Troops to Southern Border After Trump Threatens Tariffs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/02/05/mexico-begins-sending-troops-to-southern-border-n2651711
— DEI Woke Uniparty Deep State Collusion
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2025/02/06/dei-woke-uniparty-deep-state-collusion-n2651705#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— ICE releases some migrant detainees as its detention facilities reach 109% capacity
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-releases-some-migrant-detainees-detention-facilities-reach-109-percent-capacity/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Opposition lawmakers protest alleged mistreatment of Indian deportees by US
https://apnews.com/article/indian-illegal-immigration-protest-parliament-deportation-trump-90ae7999040196e3ce25dd3fa8e29137
NEWSWEEK
— 50501 Movement Fuels Anti-Trump Rallies Across the US
https://www.newsweek.com/anti-donald-trump-protests-50501-project-2025-live-updates-2026503
CNBC
— Have taken a pay cut? GAO audits IRS. In 1980, when I was 31 years old, my GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, that is, I had to take a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10. They used that to shout at everyone that GAO considered the following to be worthless my having: a) 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, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and d) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/14/one-third-of-job-switchers-took-a-pay-cut-for-better-work-life-balance.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/trump-trans-athletes-executive-order.html
— Right-Wing Group Publishes ‘D.E.I. Watch List’ Targeting Federal Workers. The American Accountability Foundation list included names and photos of more than 50 people, many in programs aimed at improving the health of people of color. (COMMENT: Because of my bad demographics and because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government always had me on their purge lists.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/dei-watchlist-federal-health-workers-cdc-nih.html
— As Trump Attacks D.E.I., Some on the Left Approve
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/business/economy/trump-dei-democrats-left-unions.html
— The Trump Crisis Deepens
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opinion/trump-power-constitution.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/05/transgender-students-trump-executive-order/
USA TODAY
— ‘People are feeling galvanized’: Anti-Trump protesters rally in cities across US
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/05/anti-trump-protests-50-states-updates/78239472007/
— Fear and uncertainty in federal workforce as Trump deadline arrives
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/06/trump-federal-workforce-fork-buyout-deadline-musk/78057990007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Disabled federal workers fear for their jobs after Trump remarks (COMMENT: Their employees who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise were Democrats and were many, most, if not virtually all of the following: minority, female, veteran, disabled, and/or had performance problems.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/05/disabled-federal-employees-dei-trump/77976332007/
THE SUN
— What were you doing 50 years ago? I was working for IRS in the Loop, taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, living in my studio condo in downtown Chicago weekdays, living in my town home in University Park weekends, and owning a 1972 Corvette and a 1962 Chevy Bel Air.
https://news.thesunontheweb.com/articles/50-years-ago-220/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DEI and Disparate Impact. The next step in restoring meritocracy is to reject the theory that proportionate outcomes equal fairness.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dei-and-disparate-impact-next-step-toward-meritocracy-is-rejecting-this-theory-b65485ed
— Trump Considers Labeling Migrants a Measles, Tuberculosis Risk. Advisers have searched for disease threats that would merit emergency health law invoked during Trump’s first term for Covid-19 risk.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-asylum-seekers-measles-tuberculosis-risk-0e71a539
KIPLINGER
— Social Security Fairness Act Checklist: Six Things to Know. This Social Security Fairness Act checklist explains what public sector retirees can expect from SSFA, including how much more money they might receive. (COMMENT: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) has dramatically reduced my Social Security since 2010.)
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/social-security-fairness-act-checklist
PLAN ADVISER
— Potential Implementation Delays Face Social Security Fairness Act. Under the SSA’s current budget, the agency expects it could take more than one year to adjust benefits and pay all retroactive benefits. (COMMENT: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) has dramatically reduced my Social Security since 2010.)
https://www.planadviser.com/potential-implementation-delays-face-social-security-fairness-act/
NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://natlawreview.com/article/employment-law-week-how-will-trumps-federal-changes-impact-employers-podcast-video
LEXOLOGY
— Requirements of the New Illinois Pay Transparency Amendment (COMMENT: Federal salaries have always been extremely transparent. GAO audits IRS. In 1980, when I was 31 years old, my IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates shouted at everyone that GAO had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, that is, that I had to take a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10. They used that to shout at everyone that GAO considered the following to be worthless: a) my having 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, b) my having passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my having almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and d) my having earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2cd9088a-1c7c-45d4-adec-57a619e1b71b
NPR
— Democrat leaders charge ICE with arresting “scores of migrants in the U.S. who have no criminal records.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5282379/trumps-mass-deportation-arrests-of-non-criminal-immigrants-no-criminal-record
POLITICO
— Musk aims to hobble federal workers ahead of ‘buyout’ deadline. Countless staffers in the government are now grappling with what to do. (COMMENT: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/federal-workers-musk-buyout-fears-00202768
AXIOS
— Thousands across the U.S. protest Trump and Musk’s policies
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/photos-protest-trump-admin-50501
CANADIAN PRESS
— Protests against Trump and Project 2025 are planned in cities across the US
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/protesters-in-cities-across-the-us-rally-against-trump-s-policies-project-2025-and-elon-musk/ar-AA1yr7tC
DAILY MAIL
— Anti-Donald Trump and Elon Musk protests pop up across the country
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/anti-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-protests-pop-up-across-the-country/vi-AA1yu5Nv
GUARDIAN
— US military aircraft transports 104 deported people to India. Plane departed Texas and landed in Amritsar as Washington prepares to welcome Indian PM Narendra Modi.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/military-flight-india-immigration
— JANUARY 30, 2019 FLASKBACK: ‘How do they expect to run without us?’ Tesla accused of axing key staff to cut costs. Electric car firm slashed 7% of workforce this month and ex-employees say more experienced staff were targeted. (COMMEMT: When the Democrats who ran GAO in 1997 forced me to retire, they flushed down their toilets the experience that I had gained a) working for GAO since 1980, b) working for IRS 1971-1980, c) earning master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business), d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting), and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/30/tesla-factory-elon-musk-layoffs-company
ECONOMIC TIMES
— ‘Deport Elon, DOGE is not legit’: Protests erupt across US against Trump, Tesla CEO and Project 2025
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-protests-against-trump-elon-musk-deport-elon-doge-is-not-legit-protests-erupt-across-us-against-trump-tesla-ceo-and-project-2025-usaid/articleshow/117978132.cms
BUSINESS STANDARD
— ‘Stop attack on democracy’: Protesters rally against Trump, Musk across US
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/us-protests-against-trump-immigration-rights-transgender-gaza-2025-125020600688_1.html
TIMES OF INDIA
— Why the rich risk being illegals in America
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/why-the-rich-risk-being-illegals-in-america/
February 5, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Protestors gather outside Illinois Capitol, call for Trump’s impeachment. ‘50501’ demonstration part of a nationwide event calling for protests at state capitols.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/protestors-gather-outside-illinois-capitol-call-trumps-impeachment-part-national-demonstrations/15870195/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson accepts GOP congressman’s invitation to testify on sanctuary city protections
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/05/mayor-brandon-johnson-to-testify-congressional-committee/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/05/illinois-gender-affirming-care-trump-order/
— Will County clerk removes four from ballot for violations of campaign law
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/05/will-county-clerk-removes-four-from-ballot-for-violations-of-campaign-law/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders to get rid of Republicans
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/02/05/black-history-month-dei-racism-bigotry-trump-lashawn-ford-reversing-river-science
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s cabinet picks
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/05/donald-trump-cabinet-clown-posse-tulsi-gabbard-robert-kennedy-kash-patel-senate-confirmation-se-cupp
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who want Trump to fail
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/05/trump-attacks-federal-workers-democracy-omar-noureldin-mikael-rojas-center-effective-government
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/05/chicago-sanctuary-for-dispossessed-revolution-violence-famine-dominic-pacyga
— What’s true and what’s ‘fake news’? Developing media literacy skills is critical. National News Literacy Week kicked off Monday. Especially for youth, critical thinking skills to analyze what’s read, seen and heard are vital. (COMMENT: I have put GOPUSA ILLINOS newsletters together and sent them out since 2000.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/05/news-literacy-skills-critical-thinking-fake-news-sharon-peshkin-yonty-friesem
DAILY HERALD
— Protesters gather outside Illinois Capitol, call for Trump’s impeachment
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250205/news/protestors-gather-outside-illinois-capitol-call-for-trumps-impeachment/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSWINESS
— Johnson to testify at Congressional probe of sanctuary cities
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/brandon-johnson-testify-congress-sanctuary-cities
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/illinois-will-protect-gender-affirming-care-despite-trump-raoul
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2025/02/05/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-gender-affirming-care-donald-trump-executive-order
— Trump’s immigration arrests in Chicago raise questions about 4th Amendment violations. President Donald Trump has said his administration is targeting dangerous criminals for immigration arrests, but attorneys working with those detained in Chicago say many do not have criminal records.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/02/05/chicago-immigration-lyons-elgin-trump-ice-raids-border-wall-immigration-know-your-rights
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— Illinois Senate Republicans launch legislation; say they want more transparency in state spending for non-citizens
https://muddyrivernews.com/politics/illinois-senate-republicans-launch-legislation-say-they-want-more-transparency-in-state-spending-for-non-citizens/20250205160226/
RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth, Durbin Condemn DoD Decision to End Policy Allowing U.S. Servicemembers to Access Non-Covered Reproductive Health Care Services
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-durbin-condemn-dod-decision-to-end-policy-allowing-us-servicemembers-to-access-noncovered-reproductive-health-care-services-79436.cfm?
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois protestors among those nationwide against actions of President Trump, Elon Musk
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/02/05/hundreds-of-protestors-rally-at-illinois-capitol-against-trump-musk/78209028007/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Protestors demonstrate against Trump policies outside Illinois Capitol
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/protestors-demonstrate-against-trump-policies-outside-illinois-capitol/video_241eda7c-9746-51d7-be96-80a0d75c5146.html
SOUTHERN
— 1st migrant flight lands at Guantanamo Bay, carrying ‘worst of the worst’
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/05/1st-migrant-flight-lands-at-guantanamo-bay-carrying-worst-of-the-worst/
— West Point disbands student clubs related to gender and race
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/05/west-point-disbands-student-clubs-related-to-gender-and-race/
EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/illinois-attorney-helps-immigrant-families-prepare-for-crackdown/article_255152ac-e400-11ef-92d8-c3c330c04c96.html
WAND TV
— Protesters in Springfield join national groups against Trump policies
https://www.wandtv.com/news/protesters-in-springfield-join-national-groups-against-trump-policies/article_71847afc-e408-11ef-8fb5-1b11f6dc7358.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump’s demand that US aid workers return home sparks outrage in Washington and anxiety overseas
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/world/ap-usaid-workers-scramble-for-answers-after-trump-pulls-almost-all-of-them-off-the-job-worldwide/
— IRS workers involved in 2025 tax season can’t take buyout until after the taxpayer filing deadline (COMMENT: I was involved in IRS’s 1974 tax season big time.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-irs-workers-involved-in-2025-tax-season-cant-take-buyout-offer-until-may/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Protestors gather outside Illinois Capitol, call for Trump’s impeachment. ‘50501’ demonstration part of a nationwide event calling for protests at state capitols.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/protestors-gather-outside-illinois-capitol-call-for-trumps-impeachment/
CAPITOL FAX
— House Republicans walk out of chamber as J6/Trump resolutions begin
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/05/house-republicans-walk-out-of-chamber-as-j6trump-resolutions-begin/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-243/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘No threat to public safety’: Federal agents being wasted on arresting illegal immigrants, Dems say
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/5/democrats-say-federal-agents-wasted-arresting-ille/
— Biden pumped $100M into transgender projects like pricey bathrooms for trans federal workers
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/5/biden-pumped-100m-transgender-projects-like-pricey/
— Senate Banking Committee seeks ways to reduce politicized debanking of Americans
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/5/senate-banking-committee-seeks-ways-reduce-politic/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday took on the trend of major financial institutions “debanking” customers because of their politics. At a hearing exploring the trend, senators said new evidence suggested government regulators had leaned on financial institutions to cut off services to digital asset firms, political figures, conservative-aligned businesses and individuals. Committee Chairman Tim Scott called it “alarming and disheartening.”)
— Trump administration axes $8 million in Politico subscriptions paid by taxpayers (COMMENT: GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscriptions are worth at least $5,000/year. But I send the newsletters out free of charge, without any advertising, and without any donation requests.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/5/trump-administration-axes-8-million-politico-subsc/
— House Democrat revives push to impeach Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/5/rep-al-green-revives-push-impeach-donald-trump/
— Trump’s march through Senate an awesome display of raw political power. Aggressive tactics and institutional changes could reshape federal power for decades.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/5/trump-march-senate-awesome-display-raw-political-p/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico’s 10,000 troops begin to arrive at US border
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3311216/mexico-10000-troops-border-trump-tariffs/
— Los Angeles is already tolerating crimes at anti-Trump protests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3311717/los-angeles-is-already-tolerating-crimes-at-anti-trump-protests/
BREITBART
— AG Pam Bondi Orders DOJ to Pause Federal Funding to Sanctuary Cities
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/05/report-ag-pam-bondi-orders-doj-to-pause-federal-funding-to-sanctuary-cities/
DAILY WIRE
— Attorney General Pam Bondi Directs DOJ To Halt Federal Funding For Sanctuary Cities. The move is part of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s day-one directives, which also address cartels and the weaponization of the DOJ.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-directs-doj-to-halt-federal-funding-for-sanctuary-cities
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Local law enforcement officials across U.S. say they lack resources needed to help detain illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/local-law-enforcement-detain-migrants-trump-administration/
— Attorney General Pam Bondi orders review of Trump prosecutions, focuses on “sanctuary” cities
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-review-trump-prosecutions-sanctuary-cities/
WASHINGTON POST
— Google will end a core DEI program and evaluate others, company says. The change comes after President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and a broader DEI pullback at other big companies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/05/google-end-dei-program/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets. Search giant is eliminating goals to hire more minority employees and reviewing DEI programs, part of a pullback across Silicon Valley.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-kills-diversity-hiring-targets-04433d7c
— Trump’s Lightning-Speed Rollback of Transgender Rights Sparks Lawsuits. New stances on military service, medical care and school sports teams set up court battles.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trumps-lightning-speed-rollback-of-transgender-rights-sparks-lawsuits-53f116a5
BLOOMBERG
— Pritzker Warns Federal Workers in Illinois Against Musk Buyout
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/pritzker-warns-federal-workers-in-illinois-against-musk-buyout
February 4, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Senate confirms Pam Bondi as US attorney general
https://abc7chicago.com/post/senate-confirms-pam-bondi-us-attorney-general-putting-trump-ally-justice-departments-helm/15866274/
— Musk is serving as a ‘special government employee,’ White House says. That designation means Musk is not a volunteer but also not a full-time federal employee.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/elon-musk-is-officially-serving-president-donald-trump-special-government-employee-white-house-says/15864075/
— Senate Republicans insist Elon Musk isn’t in charge after whirlwind actions
https://abc7chicago.com/post/senate-republicans-insist-elon-musk-isnt-charge-whirlwind-actions/15865279/
— Trump says US will take ‘take over’ Gaza: ‘We’ll own it’ He said the U.S. would “level the site” and create “an economic development.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-hold-talks-us-president-warns-no-guarantees-fragile-peace-gaza-will/15863738/
— Chicago US Attorneys Office at critical juncture with caseload pile-up, new Trump directives
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-us-attorneys-office-critical-juncture-caseload-pile-trump-administration-chaos/15866230/
— First military flight to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay is set to depart
https://abc7chicago.com/post/guantanamo-bay-first-military-flight-send-migrants-is-set-depart-official-says/15865004/
WTTW
— El Salvador Offers to Accept Deportees From US of Any Nationality, Including American Citizens
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/04/el-salvador-offers-accept-deportees-us-any-nationality-including-american-citizens
WGN RADIO
— 18 House GOP lawmakers back Trump’s birthright citizenship order in court
https://wgnradio.com/news/18-house-gop-lawmakers-back-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-in-court/
WBBM
— Illinois Republicans say illegal immigration remains a crisis, point the finger at Democrats
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/illinois-republicans-say-illegal-immigration-remains-crisis
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Marco Rubio says El Salvador’s offer to jail violent American criminals faces ‘legalities’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/marco-rubio-el-salvador/
— Alderman told to leave City Council meeting after he appeared to call colleague a white supremacist
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/alderman-told-to-leave-city-council-meeting-white-supremacist/
— Once-obscure Bolingbrook company WeatherTech has wild ride with its 13th Super Bowl ad
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/weathertech-super-bowl-ad/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘White supremacist’ remark sparks City Council member’s ouster from hearing on public art dubbed antisemitic. Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez was ejected from the meeting of the Special Events Committee by the normally affable chair, Ald. Nick Sposato: “You can’t call anybody a white supremacist. You gotta go,” Sposato said. “We’re not gonna take that.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/02/04/city-council-public-artwork-committee-hearing-cultural-center-conway-sigcho-lopez
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to seek refugee status in America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/04/trump-targeting-legal-refugees-political-persecution-state-rep-hoan-huynh
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats confront limits of their power in bid to stop Trump and Musk
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250204/nation-and-world-politics/democrats-confront-limits-of-their-power-in-bid-to-stop-trump-and-musk/
SOUTHERN
— Why shutting down USAID could have major impacts on Gaza aid
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/04/why-shutting-down-usaid-could-have-major-impacts-on-gaza-aid/
RIVER BENDER & WSIU
— Pritzker and Illinois Department of Revenue Encourage Taxpayers to Take Advantage of Tax Credits (COMMENT: My father never earned more than $50,000/years in today’s dollars.)
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/governor-pritzker-and-illinois-department-of-revenue-encourage-taxpayers-to-take-advantage-of-tax-credits-79395.cfm?
https://www.wsiu.org/community-updates/2025-02-04/governor-pritzker-and-illinois-department-of-revenue-encourage-taxpayers-to-take-advantage-of-tax-credits
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a benefit for working people with low to moderate income. To claim an Illinois EITC for tax year 2024 (tax returns due in 2025), taxpayers must file an Illinois income tax return, even if they do not owe any tax and are not required to file and: have worked and earned income under $66,819)
WAND TV
— Illinois House Republicans demand Pritzker cut migrant services
https://www.wandtv.com/community/illinois-house-republicans-demand-pritzker-cut-migrant-services/article_5b09c71a-e330-11ef-a749-8bd800e65ff7.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— How much do Illinois school districts rely on federal funding?
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-02-04/how-much-do-illinois-school-districts-rely-on-federal-funding
— Musk and Trump aim to shut down USAID, leaving humanitarian work in doubt
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-02-03/musk-and-trump-aim-to-shut-down-usaid-leaving-humanitarian-work-in-doubt
FOX ILLINOIS
— Border Patrol agents warned cartels might attack with weaponized drones
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/border-patrol-agents-warned-cartels-might-attack-with-weaponized-drones-reports-southern-border-security-cbp-arizona-mexican-drug-cartels-trump-illegal-immigration-crackdown
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump administration adds fine print to ‘Fork’ resignation offer, deepening confusion
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-04/trump-administration-adds-fine-print-to-fork-resignation-offer-deepening-confusion
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Will Trump’s federal hiring freeze affect IRS tax returns? (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency was almost always under Republican-imposed hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat superiors punished me big time for that.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/will-trumps-federal-hiring-freeze-affect-irs-tax-returns/
NAPERVILLE PATCH
— OUTRAGEOUS, DISGUSTING: Democrats push pot in Warrenville
https://patch.com/illinois/naperville/prairie-cannabis-host-grand-opening-naperville-warrenville-area
ELMHURST PATCH
— Elmhurst D205 Hopeful Opposes DEI; Others Back It. Critical race theory also becomes a topic during an Elmhurst election forum. (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. My critics/opponents promote DEI.)
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/elmhurst-d205-hopeful-opposes-dei-others-back-it
IPM NEWS
— Dozens protest on the streets of Champaign for the rights of transgender people
https://ipmnewsroom.org/dozens-protest-on-the-streets-of-champaign-for-the-rights-of-transgender-people/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— New bills would ban school fines, provide working moms paid time to breastfeed (COMMENT: During the 1990s, GAO’s Chicago office gutted its smoking room and turned it into a lactation room.)
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/new-bills-would-ban-school-fines-provide-working-moms-paid-time-to-breastfeed/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-242/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— House Republicans say immigration affecting Illinoisans’ finances, safety
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2d613c70-e336-11ef-a1a2-cb40670ac798.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Sosnowski Takes on Teeny-Tiny Township Governments
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/04/sosnowski-takes-on-teeny-tiny-township-governments/
— Nunda Township Road Commissioner Mike Lesperance Issues Press Release on Charges from Opponent Ron Parish
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/04/nunda-township-road-commissioner-mike-lesperance-issues-press-release-on-charges-from-opponent-ron-parish/
— County Administrator Peter Austin Set for Contract Extension into 2029, Salary Up $39,000 to $250,000
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/04/county-administrator-peter-austin-set-for-contract-extension-into-2029-salary-up-39000-to-250000/
— Ness Proposes Legislation to Allowed Those Unrelated to Live Together, Overriding Local Zoning Ordinances
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/04/ness-proposes-legislation-to-allowed-those-unrelates-to-live-together-overriding-local-zoning-ordinances/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— More than 20,000 federal workers accept Trump’s buyout offer, with ‘largest spike’ yet to come
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/4/20-000-federal-workers-accept-trump-buyout-offer-l/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: More than 20,000 workers would amount to roughly 1% of the two million federal workers. That remains below the 5% to 10% of federal workers the White House initially estimated would resign. The White House says the buyout offer would save the government $100 billion.)
— Illegal immigrant used stolen ID to vote, buy guns while hiding in Florida
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/4/illegal-immigrant-voted-owned-guns-feds/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Harboring illegals could mean decades in jail; Homan responds to blue state dem’s ‘come and get her’ challenge (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly analogize illegals to fugitive slaves.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/04/harboring-illegals-could-mean-decades-in-jail-homan-responds-to-blue-state-dems-come-and-get-her-challenge-1520551/
BREITBART
— Trump: U.S. Will Take Over Gaza, ‘We Will Own It’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/04/trump-u-s-will-take-over-gaza-we-will-own-it/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats Love Illegal Aliens, No Matter How Vicious
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/04/democrats-love-illegal-aliens-no-matter-how-vicious/
EPOCH TIMES
— More Than 20,000 Federal Workers Have Taken Buyout Offer, Surge Expected Before Friday Deadline. Nobody knows now how many employees will ultimately accept Trump’s terms for leaving the government.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/more-than-20000-federal-workers-have-taken-buyout-offer-surge-expected-before-friday-deadline-says-official-5804094
FOX NEWS
— Dozens of illegals arrested in Trump’s home county in Florida. Officials arrested 32 criminal illegal aliens through ‘targeted immigration enforcement operations’ in Palm Beach County.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dozens-illegals-arrested-trumps-home-county-florida
HOT AIR
— Illegals Throwing Anti-ICE Temper Tantrums, Blocking Freeways
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/02/04/illegals-throwing-anti-ice-temper-tantrums-blocking-freeways-making-friends-n3799466
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— FBI turns over names of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/fbi-employees-tuesday
NEW YORK TIMES
— Bondi Confirmed as Attorney General
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/us/politics/pam-bondi-attorney-general-confirmation.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Order Set to Ban Transgender Girls and Women From Female School Sports. The NCAA has indicated it will move rapidly to change its rules in the face of such an order. (COMMENT: Transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete against other transgender athletes.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/transgender-athletes-women-sports-executive-order-6223e414
REAL NEWS
— ‘Don’t open the door’: how Chicago is frustrating ICE’s campaign of fear. Months of know-your-rights work has Trump’s border czar complaining.
https://therealnews.com/dont-open-the-door-how-chicago-is-frustrating-ices-campaign-of-fear
INC
— Companies Are Avoiding the ‘DEI’ Acronym–Even If They’re Not Pulling Back on Diversity Initiatives The White House is wiping diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from the federal government. It’s prompting a shift in the communication used by business leaders who still believe in the concept.
https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/rebranding-dei-companies-tread-carefully-in-the-era-of-woke-politics/91141932
NPR
— Rubio says El Salvador will house deportees from U.S., including Americans
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/g-s1-46352/rubio-el-salvador-deportees-americans
POLITICO
— Trump says US will ‘take over the Gaza Strip’ He provided no details on how this was possible.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/trump-says-us-will-take-over-the-gaza-strip-00202508
LGBTQ NATION
— Pete Buttigieg’s replacement bans diversity celebrations at Department of Transportation. New Secretary Sean Duffy calls them a “distraction”.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/pete-buttigiegs-replacement-bans-diversity-celebrations-at-department-of-transportation/
February 2, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says Americans could feel ‘some pain’ from his new tariffs that are triggering a trade war (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-justin-trudeau-claudia-sheinbaum-respond-says-americans-could-feel-pain/15857363/
— Fans at Raptors game continue trend of booing US national anthem at pro sporting events in Canada (COMMENT: If the past predicts the future, I will hear complaints about Trump when I hand-deliver campaign literature and sample ballots in my precinct for the April 1 election. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris in the November 5 election.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fans-boo-national-anthem-us-toronto-raptors-game-los-angeles-clippers-hours-canada-tariffs-imposed/15858045/
CBS2
— Pritzker says “working families will pay the price” for President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/gov-jb-pritzker-president-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china/
WGN9
— EU warns Trump it would ‘respond firmly’ to tariffs (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://wgntv.com/news/national/eu-warns-trump-it-would-respond-firmly-to-tariffs/
FOX32
— Trump tariffs latest: China to file lawsuit for ‘wrongful practices of US’ (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tariffs-canada-response-china-mexico
WGN RADIO
— The future of electric vehicles in Illinois (COMMENT: I should listen to this.)
https://wgnradio.com/outside-the-loop-radio/otl-955-the-future-of-electric-vehicles-in-illinois-restorative-justice-in-north-lawndale/
WBEZ
— Following lawsuit, McDonald’s no longer requiring Hispanic heritage for its Hispanic college scholarships. The Chicago-based fast food giant changed its scholarship criteria to settle a discrimination lawsuit. (COMMENT: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me.)
https://www.wbez.org/business/2025/02/02/lawsuit-mcdonalds-hispanic-heritage-college-scholarships
— Removing medical debt from credit reports opens door to economic opportunity: ‘It gives me hope’ (COMMENT: The federal government paying 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to get rid of me.)
https://www.wbez.org/money/2025/02/02/medical-debt-credit-reports-home-mortages-housing-opportunity
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Friends say Army captain killed in midair collision was a ‘brilliant and fearless’ patriot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/army-captain-midair-collision/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/02/cps-non-citizen-school-advisory-board-mayor-johnson-appointees-jessica-canas
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Trump’s federal worker buyout offer: What does it mean for Illinois? (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/02/01/what-does-trumps-buyout-offer-mean-for-illinois-federal-employees/78086399007/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-02/trump-used-fentanyl-to-justify-tariffs-but-the-crisis-was-already-easing
WAND TV
— Democrats say: “Trump kept his pledge on tariffs” and ask “Is he ready for the fallout? Are Americans?” (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-kept-his-pledge-on-tariffs-is-he-ready-for-the-fallout-are-americans-heres/article_f5fb599b-e26d-529c-9c4d-79f9b7886556.html
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Homer Township ReSet Slate a “No-Show” at Will County Republican Debate Amidst Democratic Endorsement Controversy
https://thesouthlandjournal.com/homer-township-reset-slate-a-no-show-at-will-county-republican-debate-amidst-democratic-endorsement-controversy/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
REPUBLICANS FOR MILTON TOWNSHIP
— COMMENT: I look forward to hand-delivering campaign literature for the candidates and a copy of the sample ballot to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter.
https://republicansformilton.com/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Milton Township Democrats have ramped up their efforts to keep Milton Township Republican Assessor candidate Chuck Argianas off the April 1 ballot. Another hearing is scheduled for 3:00 PM, Thursday, February 6, in the Wheaton City Hall 2nd Floor Council Chambers. I will be there. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Bishop Budde pushes propaganda with pleas for mercy. A political hissy thinly disguised as Christianity.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/bishop-budde-pushes-propaganda-pleas-mercy/
— Wall Street Journal slams Trump tariffs against U.S. neighbors and trading partners (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/wall-street-journal-slams-donald-trump-tariffs-u-n/
— Trump tariffs spark retaliation from Canada, Mexico and China (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/donald-trump-tariffs-spark-retaliation-canada-mexi/
— Driscoll refuses order to list FBI employees involved in Jan. 6 cases amid ouster of agency leaders
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/brian-driscoll-acting-fbi-director-thin-ice-refusi/
— Trump’s efforts to reshape federal workforce test legal boundaries (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If the federal workforce looked like America, half of it would be Republican.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/31/trump-efforts-reshape-federal-workforce-test-legal/
— Ex-FBI director Comey calls on DOJ and FBI employees to fight Trump administration for lost jobs (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Few in government or politics fought Gingrich’s gutting of GAO.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/james-comey-urges-doj-fbi-employees-fight-trump-ad/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Tom Homan warns sanctuary cities against sheltering illegal immigrants from ICE (COMMENT: How strongly are the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district sheltering illegals?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3308196/tom-homan-warns-sanctuary-cities-against-sheltering-illegal-immigrants/
— Liberal objections to mass deportations go hilariously wrong
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3307032/liberal-objections-mass-deportations-go-wrong/
— DeSantis calls out Florida legislature for ‘defacto sanctuary state’ bill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3308057/desantis-florida-legislature-defacto-sanctuary-state-bill/
NEW YORK POST
— Republicans hold their breath as Trump ignites trade war with Canada, Mexico and China: ‘Tariffs are simply taxes’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/republicans-hold-their-breath-as-trump-ignites-trade-war-with-canada-mexico-and-china-tariffs-are-simply-taxes/
— Transportation chief Sean Duffy claims department traded core mission for DEI, vows to add air traffic controllers (COMMENT: Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans. The Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 traded its core mission for DEI. They ever-increasingly got rid of GAO employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. They would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/transportation-chief-sean-duffy-vows-to-add-air-traffic-controllers-says-department-traded-core-mission-for-dei/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals hinder ICE attempts to arrest and deport them
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/alarming_report_illegals_hinder_ice_attempts_to_arrest_and_deport_them.html
— With Trump imposing tariffs, suddenly the media is concerned about inflation (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/with_trump_imposing_tariffs_suddenly_the_media_is_concerned_about_inflation.html
FOX NEWS
— Trump defends tariffs, accuses Canada of being ‘very abusive of the United States’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-defends-tariffs-accuses-canada-being-very-abusive-united-states-video
NEWSMAX
— Sanctuary City Mayors Must Face Consequences
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/chad-wolf-brandon-johnson-ice/2025/02/02/id/1197517/
— Migrant Crackdown Uses ‘Whole of Government’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/frank-tarentino-dea-immigration/2025/02/02/id/1197511/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump administration ends temporary immigration program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-ends-temporary-immigration-program-venezuela/
— FBI distributing questionnaire probing agents’ work on Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases, sources say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-questionnaire-jan-6-agents/
REUTERS
— Trump curtails protections around diversity, LGBTQ rights (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaiming-there-are-only-two-sexes-2025-01-20/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries. (COMMENT: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, all foreign countries are dangerous, and therefore, all their citizens are marginalized and should come to America illegally.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/trump-venezuela-temporary-protected-status.html
— The Democrat Party’s message is very clear: vote for us and we will use government give you preference big time, and especially if you are liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are a citizen of a foreign country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/democrats-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Disability advocates fear backlash, discrimination after Trump’s FAA comments (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to supervise all their disabled employees.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/02/trump-crash-disabilities-dei/
FORBES
— The Urgent Case For Supporting Marginalized Groups In Today’s Society (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sughnenyongo/2024/06/10/the-urgent-case-for-supporting-marginalized-groups-in-todays-society/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— America is doing retirement all wrong. Retirees look forward to doing nothing all day. Turns out that’s a big mistake. (COMMENT: What do you look forward to do? I look forward to filling a tremendous communication void in Illinois by putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out every morning. I also look forward to hand-delivering campaign literature for the Republican candidates along with a copy of the sample ballot to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. I also look forward to car shows, and especially those at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/america-is-doing-retirement-all-wrong-boomers-aging-longevity-happiness-2024-12
GOOGLE
— Dependent on other countries (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22dependent+on+other+countries
STUDENT AID
— Do You Need Money for College? (COMMENT: I needed money for college. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. I did not apply for aid. I did not apply for scholarships because I had only just barely made it into upper 20% of my high school class and my ACT score was only 24. Instead, I worked my way through college. To earn money for my UIC and NIU expenses and for new cars to get to/from classes and jobs and my parents’ home in Crete, I washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, and worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970. I graduated from NIU in August of 1970 debt-free and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But my GPA suffered because I worked many hours instead of studying.)
https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/do-you-need-money.pdf
COMMON DREAMS
— Progressives Won’t Help the Working Class by Abandoning Marginalized Groups. Leaders must reject false choices rooted in the idea that social and economic advancement is a zero-sum game or that working-class people must spar over scraps while all the spoils go to the elite few. (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/progressives-don-t-abandon-marginalized
February 2, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Conflicting preliminary data raises questions about aircrafts’ altitude at time of DC midair crash. Flight data shows American Airlines jet was at 325 feet, tower data shows Army helicopter was at 200 feet at time of collision.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dc-plane-crash-updates-conflicting-preliminary-data-raises-questions-american-airlines-flight-army-helicopter-altitudes/15855126/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PIOCTURE: Chicago becomes an epicenter of resistance amid Trump’s immigration crackdown (COMMENT: Arguably, Pritzker is the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater in America. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/chicago-ice-trump-immigration-deportation/
— What will Mayor Brandon Johnson’s playbook be against ‘raggedy’ Trump White House? (COMMENT: Arguably, Brando is the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater in Chicago. Anticipate/expect that Brandon will ever-increasingly get rid of the 22% in Chicago who voted for Trump.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/mayor-brandon-johnsons-playbook-trump-white-house/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/heidi-stevens-balancing-act-bishop-budde-trump/
— Evanston ever-increasing promotes more illegal immigration
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/evanston-church-offers-sanctuary-to-immigrants/
— When disaster strikes, Donald Trump’s instinct is to blame DEI first (COMMENT: The adverse impacts of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI on occupations vary and can be difficult to measure. To implement AA and DEI is to lower standards. To meet their AA and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered standards. That rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license. They flushed the aforesaid down their toilets when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/column-donald-trump-plane-crash-washington-dei-page/
WGN RADIO
— Are you in the top 1% of earners in Illinois, Indiana or Wisconsin? (COMMENT: What is the most that you earned? Because I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, my critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a career failure. Further, they have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the federal government grossly overpaid me. When they are not ignoring/dismissing/belittling/badmouthing my having earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related profession certifications, and a job-related professional license, they hint/imply/argue/shout that my having all the aforesaid qualifications and my still earning only $153,151/year in today’s dollars proves that I am a career failure.)
https://wgnradio.com/news/list-are-you-in-the-top-1-of-earners-in-illinois-indiana-or-wisconsin/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Reviewing data from the Social Security Administration, GOBankingRates recently determined that to be among the top 1% of earners in the U.S., you need to make at least $794,129 annually. That works out to about $66,180 a week — for comparison, the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau found the average annual household income in 2023 was $80,610. . .In Illinois, you need to make $811,004 to be in the top 1%. In Indiana, the threshold is $572,403, and in Wisconsin it’s $631,993.)
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Two Illinois legislators support labeling unborn American children as ‘persons’ in bill
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/01/31/illinois-legislators-are-cosponsors-of-federal-abortion-ban/78059289007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trapped in irrelevance, GOP attacks Dems’ legislative maps
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-trapped-in-irrelevance-gop-attacks-dems-legislative-maps/article_45b46aca-df46-11ef-ad88-2704e5b9a6b0.html
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— The more hatred that you promote against Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote you. Arguably, Pritzker is the biggest Trump-hater in America. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump.
https://muddyrivernews.com/politics/pritzker-vs-trump/20250201075633/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/ben-jealous-trumps-america-last-agenda-is-a-knife-in-the-back-of-working-people/
WKDQ
— Popular Illinois Concert Venue To Sell Cannabis During Shows (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.)
https://wkdq.com/ixp/722/p/cannabis-concert-venue-illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Ken Martin, Who Called for Trump To Be Charged With Treason (COMMENT: Who has taken adverse actions against you? I should write about those who have taken most/biggest adverse actions against me and the pretexts that they used.)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ken-martin-who-called-for-trump-to-be-charged-with-treason-elected-dnc-chair/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrats waging ‘holy war’ as Trump ends 50 years of affirmative-action tyranny (COMMENT: Democrats use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/opinion/democrats-will-wage-holy-war-as-trump-ends-dei-tyranny/
AMERICAN THINKER
— How low can you go? As we debate the future of the Department of Education, we get news that U.S. children are not being educated. Something is wrong, because this department has a budget of $90 billion. How are we spending those billions? Not well as we see in this report. (COMMENT: My teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, and Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966 put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/how_low_can_you_go.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Millions on the line for Episcopal Church as ‘woke’ bishop lectured Trump on migrants (COMMENT: How much money does your church take from Democrat and RINO leaders to promote more illegal immigration?)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/01/millions-on-the-line-for-episcopal-church-as-woke-bishop-lectured-trump-on-migrants-1520136/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Episcopal Migration Ministries announced it will lay off employees and end its federally funded work as the Episcopal News Service reported that as one of “10 agencies with federal contracts to resettle refugees on behalf of the State Department” the EMM’s work “ground to a halt last week when President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program as one of his first acts after taking office Jan. 20.”)
FOX NEWS
— FAA Academy in Oklahoma struggled to fill classrooms due to DEI quotas (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/faa-academy-oklahoma-struggled-fill-classrooms-due-dei-quotas-sen-mullin-says
— Parents ‘overjoyed’ with Trump’s DEI crackdown, education group says (COMMENT: My teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, and Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966 put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.)
China denounces Trump tariff: ‘Fentanyl is America’s problem’
— House GOP elections chair reveals which voter blocs Republicans are targeting ahead of 2026 (COMMENT: According to Democrat plant and RINO political consultants in Illinois, DuPage County, and Milton Township, Republican candidates should target those who have demographics that vote for Democrats by dumping those who have demographics that vote for Republicans. I have all demographics that vote for Republicans. I should write about those Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who have not only dumped me, but have taken many big adverse actions against me.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-elections-chair-reveals-which-voter-blocs-republicans-targeting-ahead-2026
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The more demographics that you have that vote for Democrats, the faster the pathways that Democrats give you to citizenship.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5119825-trump-immigration-crackdown-southern-border-asylum-cbp-one-refugees/
MSNBC
— Pentagon agency bans Black History Month in compliance with Trump’s anti-DEI push (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-agency-bans-black-history-111555895.html
MSN
— Black History Month faces uncertainty under President Trump’s diversity rollback (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/politics/black-history-month-faces-uncertainty-under-president-trump-s-diversity-rollback/ar-AA1yenKi
REUTERS
— China denounces Trump tariff: ‘Fentanyl is America’s problem’ (COMMENT: To push fentanyl in America is to destroy America. How much success have hate-filled America-hating America-haters had pushing fentanyl in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-denounces-trump-tariff-fentanyl-is-americas-problem-2025-02-02/
— Democrats elect Ken Martin as chair to rebuild demoralized party (COMMENT: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. Also, I served on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. Also, I headed Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial primary campaign in Milton Township in 2002. Also, I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Because of the aforesaid, my critics/opponents have blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party and b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have suffered losses and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, and campaign managers. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW806401022025RP1/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters blame Trump for the plane crash. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI at FAA did in fact cause the crash, Trump should have gotten rid of AA and DEI at FAA when he was President 2017-2021. If previous presidents had gotten rid of AA and DEI in the federal government sooner, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/trump-plane-crash-dei-faa-diversity.html
— Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes On New Meaning. Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of defiance. (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/trump-black-history-month.html
— Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump’s Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I. (COMMENT: When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors did far more than place me on leave, they forced me to retire. Because of that, in today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement system is only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 and less than what my IRS salary was in 1972.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/trump-dei-education-department.html
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/opinion/trump-dei-diversity-meritocracy.html
— Official Email Urges Federal Workers to Find ‘Higher Productivity’ Jobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/federal-workers-opm.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Pritzker bans Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump from state jobs. The order would apply to more than 50 people from Illinois who were given pardons or commutations by President Donald Trump. (COMMENT: After my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, they did everything that they could to ban me from getting employment appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/01/illinois-pritzker-trump-pardons/
USA TODAY
— As crash victims’ families start calling lawyers, Trump’s words may be evidence in suits. (COMMENT: The adverse impacts of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI on occupations vary and can be difficult to measure. To implement AA and DEI is to lower standards. To meet their AA and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered standards. That rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license. They flushed the aforesaid down their toilets when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/01/aviation-lawsuit-experts-say-trump-duffy-comments-will-impact-claims/78091407007/
— ‘Earned her place’: Friends grieve Rebecca Lobach, US Army pilot killed in DC crash
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/01/capt-rebecca-lobach-army-pilot-killed-crash/78130730007/
— Illinois lawmakers file bill to repeal ‘Trust Act,’ require police to work with ICE
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/2025/01/28/illinois-lawmakers-want-law-enforcement-to-work-with-ice/78000550007/
FORBES
— Union Popularity Hits 70%, But Trump’s NLRB Move Threatens Labor (COMMENT: My critics/opponents despise/hate a) the working class, that is, wage earners and b) unions and union members. I was a wage earned for 33 years and I was a union member for 12 of those years. According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and b) I was grossly overpaid and my benefits were far too generous. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2025/01/28/union-popularity-hits-70-but-trumps-nlrb-move-threatens-labor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: And, not surprisingly support for unions is especially high among workers…with bad jobs.)
INDEED
— 15 Tips for Comparing Job Offers (COMMENT: In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, because I have always been a Republican and because I would never become a Democrat, I should not have become a federal employee. Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. The federal government wastes the careers of and gets rid of its Republican employees, and especially those like me who are conservative, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/job-offer-comparison
NEW YORKER
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly a) use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans and b) call Republicans White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. Because of the aforesaid, Republicans should be ever-increasingly doing more for their self-defense.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/donald-trumps-anti-woke-wrecking-ball
HERALD SUN
— Canada joins Mexico in retaliation as Trump trade war heats up
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/
February 1, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, raising prospect of higher costs for US consumers
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-imposes-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-white-house-prospect-higher-costs-us-consumers-raises/15854652/
— 2 migrant men allegedly beat Chicago businessman to death, left him bound, gagged, prosecutors say. Jefferson Ubilla-Delgado, Geiderwuin Bello Morales appear in court Saturday for charges in murder of 63-year-old George Levin
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jefferson-ubilla-delgado-geiderwuin-bello-morales-allegedly-left-george-levin-dead-norwood-park-basement-prosecutors/15854435/
— Events held across Chicago area to celebrate 1st day of Black History Month (COMMENT: What are your demographics? During what months are they celebrated?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/black-history-month-events-held-chicago-area-including-aurora-breakfast-south-side-girl-scouts-event-west-book-fair/15854425/
— Venezuela frees 6 Americans after meeting between President Maduro and Trump’s envoy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/6-americans-detained-venezuela-freed-meeting-between-nicols-maduro-donald-trumps-envoy-richard-grenell/15853514/
NBC5
— White House takes aim at Selena Gomez for video of her crying amid ICE raids. The White House produced a video featuring three mothers whose children were killed by convicted undocumented migrants.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/white-house-takes-aim-selena-gomez-video-crying-ice-raids/3662687/
FOX32
— Pritzker slams Trump’s tariffs, warns ‘working families will pay the price’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-slams-trumps-tariffs-warns-working-families-will-pay-the-price
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats elect Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as chair of the Democratic National Committee (COMMENT: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. Also, I served on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. Also, I headed Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial primary campaign in Milton Township in 2002. Also, I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Because of the aforesaid, my critics/opponents have blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party and b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have suffered losses and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, and campaign managers.. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/31/democratic-national-committee-chair-elected/
— AUGUST 21, 2021 FLASKBACK: FAA’s shift in hiring raises concerns (COMMENT: Air traffic control staffing was involved in an audit of FAA that I worked on for GAO in the early 1980s.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2014/05/27/faas-shift-in-hiring-raises-concerns/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, a Republican from Winfield, said the FAA has failed to give lawmakers answers that justify the hiring change or show how it will improve safety. “There is a lot of secrecy about where this new program originated,” said Hultgren, who has met with air traffic controllers and aviation graduates who live in his DuPage County district. “I have not gotten adequate responses from the FAA or from the (Obama) administration.”)
DAILY HERALD
— How Illinois compares to others on taxes, spending, other metrics
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250201/news/how-our-state-stacks-up-new-report-shows-how-illinois-compares-to-others-on-taxes-spending-other/
— Democrats push pot. Democrats oppose testing for pot impairment.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250201/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-the-importance-of-integrity-drug-testing-questions-put-officials-labs-and/
— What will happen to McConchie’s campaign cash after he leaves office?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250201/illinois-state-politics/what-will-happen-to-mcconchies-campaign-cash-after-he-leaves-office/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Leaders in Illinois, among the nation’s largest exporters, fear cost of Trump’s tariff plan
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/leaders-in-illinois-among-the-nations-largest-exporters-fear-cost-of-trumps-tariff-plan/article_39392c60-e02a-11ef-ac0b-ffa19327c4f7.html#tncms-source=login
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Colleges around the US cautiously navigate Trump’s DEI crackdown (COMMENT: UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But I doubt that they would have accepted me in later years a) because of ever-increasing DEI pressure and b) because of my bad demographics.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/colleges-around-the-us-cautiously-navigate-trumps-dei-crackdown/article_0b611e91-d8cc-552d-a263-ddc7428b6106.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Data Centers Coming Online Leading to Comeback of Fossil Fuels
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/01/data-centers-coming-online-leading-to-comeback-of-fossil-fuels/
— The Gift Book’s Origin
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/01/the-gift-books-origination/
— Democrat Calls for Passage of Property Tax Circuit Breaker, Abolition of Which Governor Pat Quinn Signed after Dems Sent Him Repeal
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/01/democrat-calls-for-passage-of-property-tax-circuit-breaker-abolition-of-which-governor-pat-quinn-signed-after-dems-sent-him-repeal/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump follows through with trade war threats, slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/1/trump-follows-trade-war-threats-slaps-tariffs-cana/
— Democrats elect Ken Martin to chair Democratic National Committee (COMMENT: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. Also, I served on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. Also, I headed Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial primary campaign in Milton Township in 2002. Also, I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Because of the aforesaid, my critics/opponents have blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party and b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have suffered losses and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, and campaign managers. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/1/democrats-elect-ken-martin-chair-democratic-nation/
— No more ‘identity months’: Pentagon scraps official events for Black, Women’s History months (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, ever-increasingly, every month was an identity month except for Whites, men, and older people.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/1/identity-months-pentagon-scraps-official-events-bl/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— If you really support immigration, stop excusing border chaos
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3305430/if-you-really-support-immigration-stop-excusing-border-chaos/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Celebrity Selena Gomez recently posted, and then quickly deleted, a video of herself sobbing uncontrollably over the treatment of illegal immigrants being expelled by the Trump administration. Gomez was, of course, mercilessly mocked by conservatives across social media. There’s nothing really wrong with sympathizing with those trying to escape the deprivation and tyranny of the Third World. Most of us, I assume, would do the same for our families. The frustration, though, is misplaced.)
— The DEI regime is trying to make a comeback
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3307158/dei-regime-is-trying-to-make-a-comeback/
NEW YORK POST
— Chicago ICE raids expose left-wing ecosystem protecting criminal illegal migrants from deportations
https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/us-news/chicago-raids-expose-how-leftist-groups-help-crooks-evade-ice/
— Democratic govs line up to fight Trump even as they dance around criminal illegal migrants
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/opinion/democratic-govs-line-up-to-fight-trump-even-as-they-dance-around-criminal-illegal-immigrants/
— Over 7.2K illegal migrants arrested in 9 days during ICE crackdown
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/ice-crackdown-sees-7400-illegal-migrants-arrested-in-9-days/
— Another flight was forced into last second redirect at DCA just 24 hours before deadly crash
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/another-american-airlines-flight-was-forced-into-last-second-redirect-at-dca-24-hours-before-tragic-crash/
— Trump admin slams Selena Gomez for her infamously tearful video over ICE raids
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/trump-admin-slams-selena-gomez-for-her-infamously-tearful-video-over-ice-raids/
— How DEI is being rebranded — not disbanded
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/opinion/no-death-for-diversity-how-dei-is-being-rebranded-not-disbanded/
— Kristi Noem stops taxpayer money from funding illegal migrant flood
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/opinion/how-us-taxpayers-funded-the-largest-illegal-migration-in-history/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Two illegal immigrants arrested in brutal murder of 63-year-old Chicago man
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/01/two-illegal-immigrants-arrested-in-brutal-murder-of-63-year-old-chicago-man-1520103/
FOX NEWS
— ICE crackdown sees 7,400 illegal migrants arrested in 9 days
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-crackdown-sees-7400-illegal-migrants-arrested-9-days
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Pritzker: Dem Governors Working Hard With One Another To Think About How Do We Fight Back? How Do We Push Back?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/02/01/gov_pritzker_dem_governors_working_hard_with_one_another_to_think_about_how_do_we_fight_back_how_do_we_push_back.html
WESTERN JOURNAL
— NY Hotels Using Illegals to Bilk Taxpayers Hit With Whopping Monetary Judgment
https://www.westernjournal.com/ny-hotels-using-illegals-bilk-taxpayers-hit-whopping-monetary-judgment/
— Trump Is Right: Obama FAA Policy Penalized ‘High Aptitude’ Applicants, Even Chicago Tribune Was Worried in 2021
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-right-obama-faa-policy-penalized-high-aptitude-applicants-even-chicago-tribune-worried-2021/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote birthright citizenship
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/pregnant-women-fear-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-rcna188757
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Canada and Mexico Tariffs Could Hurt Carmakers. General Motors and a few other companies make as much as 40 percent of their North American cars and trucks in Canada and Mexico, leaving them vulnerable to tariffs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/business/economy/tariffs-trump-automakers-canada-mexico.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stellantis, which owns Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram, produces all of its Chrysler Pacifica minivans at a plant in Windsor, Ontario. It also makes the Dodge Charger muscle car, including a new electric version, there. About two-thirds of its highly profitable Ram pickups are made in the United States, but the other third comes from a factory in Saltillo, Mexico. Stellantis did not respond to a request for comment.)
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s DEI purge targets federal workers who did not work in DEI (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, constructively, all its employees were always in DEI roles. All federal employees had to give preference to federal employees who were Democrat, and especially to those 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. That is, federal employees had to discriminate against federal employees who were Republican, and especially against those who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/01/trump-dei-energy-education-departments/
— Democrat leaders use Venezuela’s Maduro and his “repressive state” to promote more illegal immigration. Under the Biden, America repressed Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/01/trump-venezuela-deportation-maduro-migrants/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Mexico’s president orders retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-02-01/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china
USA TODAY
— Gender, hiring, foreign aid: 3 ways Project 2025 is turning up in Trump’s actions
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/31/project-2025-trump-executive-orders/77977234007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Migrant Groups Are Thwarting ICE. As agents arrive in Chicago and other cities, elaborate operations are springing into action—aiming to hinder authorities.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trump-migrant-arrests-activist-campaign-20939aa5
FORBES
— Trump Acknowledges Black History Month—After Weeks Of Attacking Diversity
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/01/trump-acknowledges-black-history-month-after-weeks-of-attacking-diversity/