FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Trump Tower plaza barricades pulled back after months of complaints. The fencing violated the planned development ordinance requiring open access to the 1.2-acre public plaza, according to the city’s Department of Planning and Development.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/06/trump-tower-plaza-barricades-pulled-back-after-months-of-complaints
— Proposed bill would limit where customers could buy EVs. The stated goal of anti-consumer legislation like Senate Bill 1939 is to protect the viability of franchise dealerships.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/07/electric-vehicles-limit-options-illinoisans-anti-consumer-car-dealerships-liam-condon
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/07/new-study-suggests-insuring-immigrants-in-illinois-gives-hospitals-a-financial-lift
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/column-donald-trump-free-trade-tariffs-due-process-chapman/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders promote Raja Krishnamoorthi big time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250506/us-congress-politics/u-s-rep-krishnamoorthi-running-for-durbins-senate-seat/
— The Democratic Party of DuPage County announced a unique protest, Hands Across Chicagoland, from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 18. Area Democrats plan to form a human chain along Ogden Avenue stretching from Chicago to Aurora. They promised “we will not block streets or businesses along the route.” How successful have Democrat leaders been driving Republicans out of your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250506/nation-and-world-politics/political-roundabout-duckworths-senate-pick-gop-on-jbs-future-dems-plan-a-human-chain/
NBC5
— Illinois political scene sees seismic shift with high-profile retirements
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-political-scene-sees-seismic-shift-with-high-profile-retirements/3739479/
— Democrat leaders promote Raja Krishnamoorthi
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/democrat-raja-krishnamoorthi-launches-illinois-senate-campaign-rcna204834
CBS2
— Snarky back-and-forth ahead of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s visit to Springfield
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/snarky-back-and-forth-ahead-of-dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-visit-to-springfield/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/07/city/executive-order-against-sanctuary-cities-is-likely-unconstitutional-experts-say/
DAILY EGYPTIAN
— Democrat leaders push DEI initiatives amid Trump cuts. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all of their problems: liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, criminals, are in America illegally, etc.
https://dailyegyptian.com/121383/news/siu-students-push-for-dei-initiatives-amid-trump-cuts/
KSDK
— Bill invites Illinois counties to join Indiana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBUeoLhFOW8
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-507/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The poorest homeowners are being crushed by Illinois’ property taxes
https://wirepoints.org/the-poorest-homeowners-are-being-crushed-by-illinois-property-taxes-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
JOHN KASS
— Where’s Columbus? Chicago’s Italians Mocked as Clowns & Chumbolones
https://johnkassnews.com/wheres-columbus-chicagos-italians-mocked-as-clowns-chumbolones/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s DEI crackdown increasingly makes Democrat and RINO employers worried about lawsuits. Because Democrats have always controlled the courts, my Democrat superiors in the federal government were never concerned about lawsuits against them from their Republican employees. Actually, they welcomed such lawsuits against them, if not encouraged such lawsuits against them. You would see that if you would read the documents in Diersen v. GAO https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf According to them, in that lawsuit, the courts ruled that federal employers can use the following to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American: budget cuts, up-or-out, and/or 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. My Democrat superiors crow that they succeeded in destroying a Republican federal employee who had a) three job-related master’s degrees, b) six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump. What will Democrat leaders destroy next to destroy Trump? Anticipate/expect that the more demographics that you share with Trump, the more that Democrat leaders will do to destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. I share all of the aforesaid demographics with Trump. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me since 2015. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Because my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers promoted reading, writing, and arithmetic instead of the Democrat Party platform, I was able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, and get accepted by UIC 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always painted me as being lower Caste. They stress a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, e) that I had to work my way through college, f) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, g) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, h) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, i) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, and j) that I am Protestant and German American. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do the schools that you graduated from think of you? I graduated from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997. From what I see, the aforesaid schools have a very low opinion of me because I am conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did your coworkers do to advance? Extremely few if not virtually none of my Democrat coworkers in the federal government did what I did. I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office when I was 18-20, IRS 22-31, and GAO 31-49. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32. To advance, my coworkers glorified and praised their superiors and supervisors, pandered to their superiors and supervisors, and served as operatives or dupes for their superiors and supervisors. They helped their superiors get rid of their Republican coworkers like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders push DEI initiatives amid Trump cuts. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all of their problems: liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, criminals, are in America illegally, etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) calls on Illinois sheriffs to defy Pritzker’s sanctuary law. What is your county sheriff’s position on this?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3403533/mary-miller-illinois-sheriffs-defy-sanctuary-law/
NEW YORK POST
— How black Americans were on the rise before affirmative action, author Jason Riley explains in fascinating new book
https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/opinion/black-americans-on-the-rise-before-affirmative-action-jason-riley-writes-in-new-book/
BREITBART
— Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett Fumes Over $1,000 for Illegals to Self-Deport: ‘It’s a Damn Scam’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/06/democrat-rep-jasmine-crockett-fumes-over-1000-illegals-self-deport-its-damn-scam/
— Pro-Immigration Lawyers Whine that Trump Deportations Apply to All Illegals, Including Irish
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/06/trumps-deputies-deporting-irish-migrants/
COLLEGE FIX
— How black Americans were on the rise before affirmative action: new book
https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/how-black-americans-were-on-the-rise-before-affirmative-action-new-book/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Admin Cuts Funds For ‘Divisive,’ ‘Woke’ Children’s Programing At PBS. Because my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers promoted reading, writing, and arithmetic instead of the Democrat Party platform, I was able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, and get accepted by UIC 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.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-cuts-funds-for-divisive-woke-childrens-programing-at-pbs
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chief Diversity Officers Struggling Under New Rules and DEI Bans
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/chief-diversity-officers-struggling-under-new-rules-and-dei-bans/
MEGYN KELLY
— How the Trump Admin Is Finally Fighting Back Against Elite Universities and Illegal Discrimination
https://www.megynkelly.com/watch/how-the-trump-admin-is-finally-fighting-back-against-elite-universities-and-illegal-discrimination/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Richard Porter: Hyperbole, Lies, and Delusions
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/06/hyperbole_lies_and_delusions_152752.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Obama’s presidential library
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5286297-obama-foundation-trump-mockery-response/
— Democrat leaders say “The real ‘DEI hire’ was Clarence Thomas.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/5284388-clarence-thomas-dei-hire/
REUTERS
— Biden accuses Trump of appeasement of Russia
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-president-biden-accuses-trump-appeasement-russia-2025-05-07/
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-05-06/800m-in-lgbtq-health-research-funding-nixed-by-trump-administration
MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump. What will Democrat leaders destroy next to destroy Trump? Anticipate/expect that the more demographics that you share with Trump, the more that Democrat leaders will do to destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. I share all of the aforesaid demographics with Trump. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me since 2015. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tesla-s-europe-customers-continue-abandoning-brand-in-the-wake-of-musk-s-trump-ties/ar-AA1EhFvO
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Buttigieg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwB6aL_Ubc
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Canada against America
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-canada-s-pm-humiliated-trump-today-but-not-as-much-as-trump-humiliated-himself-239052357934
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Europe against America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/business/tariffs-europe-boycott-american-goods.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china.html
— Democrat leaders promote Alcatraz tourists
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/alcatraz-trump-tourists.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Trump Denies Posting Image of Himself as Pope
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/trump-pope-photo-ai.html
— Environmentalists “Stunned” After 35 House Dems Vote Against California EV Mandate. How will my critics/opponents use against me my buying a new 2005 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV? Will they stress that it is not eligible for a federal rebate because it costs too much, that it weighs 6,000 pounds, and/or that it can do the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/democrats-california-ban-electric-vehicles.html
— What do the schools that you graduated from think of you? I graduated from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997. From what I see, the aforesaid schools have a very low opinion of me because I am conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/opinion/trump-universities-woke.html
— Democrat leaders want Democrat Presidents to have power but not Republican Presidents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/opinion/trump-obama-biden-presidency.html?searchResultPosition=1
WASHINGTON POST
— Canada’s new leader tries charm after tough talk on Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/06/trump-canada-carney/
— Supreme Court lets Trump ban transgender troops while case continues
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/06/transgender-troops-ban-supreme-court-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Canada against America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/06/trump-presidency-news/
TWO PARAGRAPHS
— What did your coworkers do to advance? Extremely few if not virtually none of my Democrat coworkers in the federal government did what I did. I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office when I was 18-20, IRS 22-31, and GAO 31-49. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32. To advance, my coworkers glorified and praised their superiors and supervisors, pandered to their superiors and supervisors, and served as operatives or dupes for their superiors and supervisors. They helped their superiors get rid of their Republican coworkers like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://2paragraphs.com/2025/05/trump-offers-obama-help-on-construction-site-i-could-recommend-professionals/
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with the rest of the world against America
https://fortune.com/2025/05/06/trump-tariffs-exports-plummet-ports/
BUSINESS JOURNAL
— Trump’s DEI crackdown increasingly makes Democrat and RINO employers worried about lawsuits. Because Democrats have always controlled the courts, my Democrat superiors in the federal government were never concerned about lawsuits against them from their Republican employees. Actually, they welcomed such lawsuits against them, if not encouraged such lawsuits against them. You would see that if you would read the documents in Diersen v. GAO https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf According to them, in that lawsuit, the courts ruled that federal employers can use the following to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American: budget cuts, up-or-out, and/or 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. My Democrat superiors crow that they succeeded in destroying a Republican federal employee who had a) three job-related master’s degrees, b) six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-related professional license.
https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2025/05/07/trump-dei-littler-company-2025-lawsuits-ice.html
INDIAN EXPRESS
— What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always painted me as being lower Caste. They stress a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, e) that I had to work my way through college, f) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, g) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, h) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, i) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, and j) that I am Protestant and German American.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/caste-census-counting-caste-census-savarna-caste-census-2026-9987844/
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May 6, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— President Donald Trump criticizes construction progress at Obama Presidential Center in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/barack-obama-library-update-donald-trump-criticizes-presidential-construction-progress-jackson-park-chicago/16343255/
— Pritzker to testify to Congress on sanctuary policies, House Oversight Committee says. Pres. Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, which could have a huge impact on Chicago.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/govs-jb-pritzker-tim-walz-kathy-hochul-testify-sanctuary-city-immigration-policies-house-oversight-committee-hearing/16341230/
— Chicago’s Michelada Fest 2025 canceled due to uncertainty surrounding artists’ visas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2025-michelada-fest-chicago-canceled-due-uncertainty-surrounding-artists-visas-organizers-say/16343015/
NBC5
— Trump calls Obama Presidential Center ‘disaster,’ criticizes ‘DEI’ hires
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-calls-obama-presidential-center-disaster-criticizes-dei-hires/3739540/
— Pritzker, other governors to testify before Congress on ‘sanctuary’ policies. Pritzker will be joined by two other governors at the June hearing.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/jb-pritzker-testify-congress-sanctuary-city-policies/3739337/
— Noem visit to Springfield draws sarcastic response from Pritzker’s office
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/noem-visit-to-springfield-draws-sarcastic-response-from-pritzkers-office/3739586/
— Chicago Urban League report reveals stark data on wealth of Black residents
https://www.nbcchicago.com/local-2/chicago-urban-league-report-reveals-stark-data-on-wealth-of-black-residents/3739448/
CBS2
— Trump calls Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center “a disaster,” blames “woke” construction
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/president-trump-obama-presidential-center-disaster-blames-woke-construction/
— Pritzker’s office slams, mocks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ahead of visit
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-office-slams-mocks-homeland-security-kristi-noem/
WGN9
— White House requests $46.5 billion for border wall construction
https://wgntv.com/news/national/white-house-requests-46-5-billion-for-border-wall-construction/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/06/advocates-say-cuts-head-start-could-be-devastating-illinois-families
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker to testify before Congress on Illinois’ ‘sanctuary’ immigration policies
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/06/gov-jb-pritzker-to-testify-before-congress-on-illinois-sanctuary-immigration-policies/
— Pritzker should stop trying to make Juliana Stratton the inevitable successor to Dick Durbin
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/06/editorial-jb-pritzker-juliana-stratton-senate-democrats/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson defends deal on Columbus statues
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/06/mayor-brandon-johnson-deal-columbus-statues/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘State of Black Chicago’ report lays out path to building wealth amid stark racial gaps. The Chicago Urban League report highlights one key statistic: The median net worth for a Black family is $0, compared with $210,000 for a white family.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/05/06/state-of-black-chicago-report-lays-out-path-to-wealth-building-amid-stark-racial-gaps
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump goes off on ‘woke’ Obama Center construction
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-rants-about-woke-obama-center-construction
RIVER BENDER
— Under Pritzker, Illinois is ever-increasingly hostile to those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzker-invites-canadian-travelers-to-enjoy-illinois-600000-visit-state-each-year-82172.cfm?
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-299/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Calling All Masochists – Tax Bills Are Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/06/calling-all-masochists-tax-bills-are-up/
— Opposition to Slaughter House Next to Greenwood Cemetery Surfaces
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/06/opposition-to-slaughter-house-next-to-greenwood-cemetery-surfaces/
— State by State Summary of Trump Approval Ratings
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/state-by-state-summary-of-trump-approval-ratings/
— Politico Reads McHenry County Blog
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/politico-reads-mchenry-county-blog/
— Brush Fire on 100-Acre McHenry County Conservation District Property Near Island Lake
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/brush-fire-on-100-acre-mchenry-county-conservation-district-property-near-island-lake/
— Tom DeVore to Aim Negative Mailing against House Republican Leader Tony McCombie
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/tom-devore-to-aim-negative-mailing-against-house-republican-leader-tony-mccombie/
— Grafton Township GOP Schedules Fifth Golf Outing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/grafton-township-gop-schedules-fifth-golf-outing/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Tariff troubles highlight Chicago’s precarious pension situation
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/tariff-troubles-highlight-chicagos-precarious-pension-situation/
— Illinois fixing shortage by changing foreign-trained doctor licensing
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-fixing-shortage-by-changing-foreign-trained-doctor-licensing/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— During President Biden’s tenure, the federal workforce grew by nearly 6%, with nearly every major agency adding hires and new departments. In Mr. Biden’s final two years, only 74% of jobs came from the private sector. One out of every four were created by the federal government.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/6/crying-tears-joy-massive-federal-layoffs/
NEW YORK POST
— Left’s ‘Big Bird defense’ won’t work this time as Trump axes funds for biased PBS, NPR
https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/opinion/big-bird-defense-wont-work-this-time-as-trump-axes-pbs-npr-funding/
EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Lets Military Ban Troops Who Identify as Transgender. The ruling is in place as the case against the ban continues.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-lets-trump-admin-ban-troops-who-identify-as-transgender-5853172
FOX NEWS
— Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., is calling on sheriffs in her state to defy Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state’s sanctuary laws and instead uphold federal immigration law.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-republican-calls-county-sheriffs-defy-sanctuary-law-dem-governor-rumored-2028-run
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Deportee Nightmare – A Very Questionable Rwanda Is Eyeing America’s Illegals
https://www.westernjournal.com/deportee-nightmare-questionable-rwanda-eyeing-americas-illegals/
May 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/trump-restrict-abortion-medication/
— Trump has threatened a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/trump-tariffs-foreign-made-films/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joins 19 counterparts in trying to stop Trump election order. A Trump administration executive order issued in March demands states not count mail-in ballots received after Election Day and requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. The attorneys general argue that the power to regulate elections rests with Congress, the states.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/05/05/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-opposes-trump-election-order
— Illinois, other states sue Trump administration for blocking wind energy development. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump because of his spending cuts. To what extent are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? To what extent are you, your neighbors, your friends, and your relatives dependent on federal spending?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/05/05/illinois-states-wind-energy-sue-trump-administration-executive-order
DAILY HERALD
— The mainstream news media is an arm of the Democrat Party. It glorified and praised Biden’s executive orders as much as it demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump’s executive orders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250506/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-imbalance-of-power-policy-is-worthy-of-debate-and-subject-to-change-but-we-c/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Tariff impact on Chicago companies: $1B and counting
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/tariff-impact-chicago-companies-1-billion-and-counting
ABC7
— Pritzker wooing Canadian tourists to visit Illinois. Under Pritzker, Illinois is ever-increasingly more unfriendly to those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/governor-jb-pritzker-wooing-canadian-tourists-visit-illinois/16338163/
NBC5
— Trump’s Hollywood tariffs announcement is met with confusion and fear. Democrats control entertainment in America.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-hollywood-tariffs-confusion-fear/3738587/
— Why 21 empty school buildings are costing Chicagoans millions
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/nbc-5-investigates-why-21-empty-school-buildings-are-costing-chicagoans-millions/3738226/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlKnlXoMRys
STATELINE
— GOP lawmakers seek to ban Pride flags, stirring tensions with liberal cities. Bills in more than a dozen states would prohibit the flags at city halls, schools and state buildings.
https://stateline.org/2025/05/05/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-pride-flags-stirring-tensions-with-liberal-cities/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-05/democrat-led-states-sue-trump-administration-over-dei
WIFR
— The more demographics that people have that vote for Republicans, the more that Pritzker discourages them a) from coming to Illinois and b) from staying in Illinois.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/05/illinois-tourism-officials-say-industry-is-trending-down-this-year/
WQAD
— State program helping Illinois students save thousands on grad school. Age discrimination is real, and especially for those who are White, male, and/or non-veteran. It is called up-or-out. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27. By then, it was too late. Why didn’t I earn an MBA sooner? My father died suddenly when I was a senior at NIU in 1969. My mother had never worked outside of the home. My brother was having troubles. I applied for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support them. I needed a job. Potential employers saw me as being draft bait. I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was a job that did not really require a college degree. I started taking graduate evening business courses, but only one at a time. Because of that, I did not earn an MBA from Loyola until I was 27. By then, it was too late. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul until I was 31. By then, again, it was too late. It took me 4 years because again, I took only one graduate evening accounting course at a time. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, again, it was too late. I did not earn a master’s degree in finance from IIT until I was 48. By then, again, it was too late. It took me 5 years because again, I took only one graduate evening finance course at a time. Why did I take only one graduate evening course at a time? Because that was all that I could afford in terms of time, attention, and money. Age discrimination is real, and especially for those who are White, male, and/or non-veteran. It is called up-or-out. I should write about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimLqEXF_XE
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-506/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois is an island on both gas taxes and school choice
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-is-an-island-on-both-gas-taxes-and-school-choice-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Illinois’ Great Exodus
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-great-exodus
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ‘Homeschool Act’ is about limiting school choice
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/homeschool-act-is-about-limiting-school-choice/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMAC
— Trump “Skinny Budget” Boosts Border Security, Armed Forces
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/trump-skinny-budget-boosts-border-security-armed-forces/
BREITBART
— Trump’s DOJ Pressuring Sanctuary Cities and States to Stop Blocking Immigration Enforcement
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/05/trumps-doj-appears-to-launch-anti-sanctuary-city-campaign/
— Trump on Self-Deportations: ‘Maybe Someday, with Little Work, They Can Come Back In
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/05/trump-on-self-deportations-maybe-someday-with-little-work-they-can-come-back-in/
— Trump Promises Illegals ‘Beautiful Flight’ Out of U.S. If They Self-Deport
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/05/trump-promises-illegals-beautiful-flight-out-u-s-if-they-self-deport/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Harvard rebrands DEI office as Office of Community and Campus Life
https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvard-rebrands-dei-office-office-community-campus-life/27898
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Makes Move To Super-Charge Deportations Using Local Cops. The agreements could prove to be a valuable force multiplier for the DHS, potentially enabling the agency to boost deportation numbers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-dhs-partners-with-100s-of-police-departments-to-supercharge-deportation-campaign
MRC TV
— ‘12 Reasons Why NPR And PBS Deserved To Be Defunded’
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/12-reasons-why-npr-and-pbs-deserved-be-defunded
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCITED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-hud-fair-housing-trump-lgbtq-turner-915634741f56f3d5ea265e316cd396bb
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation and for everything else that is bad. What do your critics/opponents blame you for? My critics/opponents blame 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 those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://apnews.com/article/cost-coalition-group-bipartisan-trump-harris-inflation-e9c8b000ff751458d49b3089672cb570
— Child care in the Capitol: As more women run for office, some are bringing their kids
https://www.shorelinemedia.net/ludington_daily_news/videos/child-care-in-the-capitol-as-more-women-run-for-office-some-are-bringing-their/video_d45f0797-5a3a-5920-8e21-34133f3759a6.html
MSNBC
— Massive ‘No Kings’ protest expected to rain on Donald Trump’s (military) parade. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Obama and against Biden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vwhKYDuOsw
MSN
— Pence criticizes Trump’s tariffs, stance on Russia in CNN interview
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-criticizes-trump-s-tariffs-stance-on-russia-in-cnn-interview/ar-AA1Eey0m
— “Americans are going to see consequences”: Pence breaks with Trump on tariffs, deportations
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/americans-are-going-to-see-consequences-pence-breaks-with-trump-on-tariffs-deportations/ar-AA1EdGea
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump because of his spending cuts. To what extent are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? To what extent are you, your neighbors, your friends, and your relatives dependent on federal spending?
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/us/unions-cities-nonprofits-sue-to-block-trump-workforce-cuts/ar-AA1DQyVF
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Battles Academia, but Especially the Ivy League. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless..
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/trump-ivy-league.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in making foreign countries hate America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/business/tariffs-europe-boycott-american-goods.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/world/canada/global-elections-trump.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/05/05/connie-britton-the-motherhood-single-moms-hallmark/83324634007/
— Seriously delinquent student loan borrowers hit record high and climbing
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/05/05/delinquent-student-loans-credit-scores-collections-resume/83412433007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Jockeying for a new pope already has started. Democrat leaders want a Pope who will promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/02/cardinals-jockey-for-pope-before-conclave/83355920007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Trump Administration Threatens Schools With Student-Loan Restrictions. Nearly 10 million borrowers could soon be in default, and the Education Department wants to hold schools responsible.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-administration-threatens-schools-with-student-loan-restrictions-864f244f
FED SMITH
— Total Federal Compensation 5% Higher Than Private Sector at All Education Levels But Lags at Higher Levels. Federal employees with a professional degree or doctorate earned 24 percent less, on average, than their private-sector counterparts. To demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as having been grossly overpaid, my critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled that I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2024/04/29/cbo-report-total-federal-employee-compensation-higher-than-private-sector/
https://www.fedsmith.com/2022/10/28/average-federal-employee-salaries-with-benefits/
THE NATION
— The Case for Meritocracy. How have your critics/opponents used meritocracy against you? My critics/opponents stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, c) that I got no scholarships, d) that it took me 4 years to earn an MBA and my GPA was not that great, e) that while I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, my scores on its four parts were not that great, f) that it took me 4 years to earn a master’s degree in accounting and my GPA was not that great, g) that while I became a licensed CPA, it was not until I was 32, h) that it took me 5 years to earn a master’s degree in finance and my GPA was not that great, i) that none of degrees were from Ivy League universities, j) that notwithstanding my degrees, certifications, and license, my superiors in the federal government took many big adverse actions against me, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, and k) my superiors in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, etc. took many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nation.com.pk/06-May-2025/the-case-for-meritocracy
May 5, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— When does Illinois’ gas tax increase, and what decides how much it goes up?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/when-does-illinois-gas-tax-increase-and-what-decides-how-much-it-goes-up/3737450/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-takes-credit-for-good-parts-of-economy-blames-bad-parts-on-biden/3737382/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/protesters-hold-may-the-4th-resistance-event-in-daley-plaza/
— Trump says he’ll reopen Alcatraz, order 100% tariff on foreign movies
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-says-hell-reopen-alcatraz-order-100-tariff-on-foreign-movies/
— 3 dead, 6 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-may-2-to-5/
CBS2 & CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders want due process, but only for past, present, and future Democrat voters. My Democrat GAO superiors denied me due process when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Democrat judges and justices denied me due process in Diersen v. GAO by granting GAO summary judgement, that is, by denying me my 7th Amendment rights.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-says-hes-unsure-whether-citizens-non-citizens-in-u-s-deserve-due-process/
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-in-a-new-interview-says-he-doesnt-know-if-he-backs-due-process-rights/article_d49d3224-ce57-59ad-9811-4c578803127c.html
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/during-tv-interview-president-trump-questions-due-process-rights-of-u-s-residents
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/walk-from-aurora-to-elgin-puts-focus-on-experience-of-immigrants/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “arts” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/editorial-national-endowment-arts-grants-trump/
— Illinois is Uncle Sam’s piggy bank again. But Pritzker must follow the law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/editorial-illinois-is-uncle-sams-piggy-bank-again-but-gov-jb-pritzker-must-follow-the-law/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their foreign students and b) promote more hatred against Jews.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/05/trump-pro-palestinian-activists-jailing-deporting-immigrants-chinese-asian-american-rick-baldoz
WAND TV
— Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-says-he-will-reopen-alcatraz-prison/article_21657477-4cc7-588f-9e25-d9a7d9e2b4a0.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their judicial branch against Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/america-s-long-history-of-checks-and-balances-is-being-tested-by-trump-like-rarely/article_2b84824d-f4b4-5579-b0a9-611436295987.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats run education in America. Under them, college students ever-increasingly take college courses a) that are not job-related and/or b) that depend on government spending. What were your majors? Mine were business (1966-1976), accounting (1976-1980), and finance (1992-1997). If I could do it over again, I would have majored in accounting first because I was able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/how-the-trump-administration-has-impacted-these-college-seniors-career-plans
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more and more and more preference to their foreign students.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/trump-administration-confirms-targeting-international-students-with-minor-offenses
WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/04/rockford-protesters-search-unified-message-against-trump-administration/
LOCAL 4 NEWS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly discourages those who are the following from visiting Illinois: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94rgnLz9B84
EFFINGHAM RADIO
— To what extent are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on foreign countries and on their citizens?
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/05/05/illinois-celebrates-world-trade-month/
CHICAGO MAROON
— College Republicans Reflect on Trump’s First 100 Days in Office. If I had been active in Republican politics, a) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, b) IRS would not have hired me in 1971, and c) GAO would not have hired me in 1980.
https://chicagomaroon.com/47308/news/ucdems-and-college-republicans-reflect-on-trumps-first-100-days-in-office/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning edition
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-505/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The Real Scandal in Bally’s Chicago Deal: Exploiting Minorities While Pretending to Help
https://wirepoints.org/the-real-scandal-in-ballys-chicago-deal-exploiting-minorities-while-pretending-to-help-wirepoints/
— Illinois increasingly surrounded by school choice states. Gov. Abbott signs universal school choice into Texas law.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-increasingly-surrounded-by-school-choice-states-gov-abbott-signs-universal-school-choice-into-texas-law-wirepoints/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Libs of TikTok Pick Up Craig Wilcox Brandon Johnson Critique
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/04/libs-of-tiktok-pick-up-craig-wilcox-brandon-johnson-critique/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN THINKER
— The NYT bemoans that Trump has cut over $800 million in spending on LGBTQ+ health issues
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/the_nyt_bemoans_that_trump_has_cut_over_800_million_in_spending_on_lgbtq_health_issues.html
BLAZE
— Trump and Musk tag-team to deflate the woke power structure
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trump-and-musk-tag-team-to-deflate-the-woke-power-structure
CAMPUS REFORM
— These colleges received $300M+ in donations for DEI
https://www.campusreform.org/article/colleges-received-300m-donations-dei-/27888
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump DOE investigates Chicago-area district over ‘privilege walks,’ racist lessons
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-doe-investigates-chicago-area-district-over-privilege-walks-racist-lessons/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Asylum Seekers Primarily Responsible for Large Spike in Homelessness
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/05/study-asylum-seekers-primarily-responsible-for-large-spike-in-homelessness/
FOX NEWS
— ICE leader scolds sanctuary cities resisting Trump’s deportation laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUvGOyZNNRrA
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Americans are looking at these campuses, like Harvard, and saying, why are we paying for this?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/americans-are-looking-at-these-campuses-like-harvard-and-saying-why-are-we-paying-for-this/amp/
PJ MEDIA
— Dear Democrats, We the People Have Had Enough of Your Illegal Immigrants’ Violence
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/05/05/the-morning-briefing-dear-democrats-we-the-people-have-had-enough-of-your-illegal-immigrants-violence-n4939467
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump admin slashes NIH research funding for LGBTQ health issues
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-admin-slashes-nih-research-funding-for-lgbtq-health-issues
TOWNHALL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get Whites to hate their own ancestors and to revile their accomplishments as being ill-gotten. This self-hatred has been the root of the modern decline of the West, and could very well ultimately lead to the end of Western civilization as we know it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/05/05/race-and-the-biggest-mass-psyop-in-human-history-n2656525
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump confirms he offered to send troops into Mexico, but says Sheinbaum ‘so scared of the cartels she can’t walk’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5282312-trump-tariffs-us-troops-mexico-sheinbaum-cartels/
ABC NEWS
— Trump threatens tariff on all movies produced abroad
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates-trump-threatens-100-tariff/?id=121461146
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) fight deportation of their illegals and b) do not want sheriffs to work with ICE.
https://www.newsweek.com/sheriff-trump-admin-intimidating-police-ice-collaboration-2067799
— Which US Cities Canceled Cinco de Mayo Parades Amid Immigration Crackdown
https://www.newsweek.com/cinco-de-mayo-parades-canceled-immigration-chicago-2067809
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— A former bartender emerges as a Trump resistance leader. Are you in politics? If so, what did you do before that? I audited federal agencies for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I collected delinquent taxes 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. I earned a CPA license. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-ocasio-cortez-democrats-resistance-message-9d4f7868892629e34df7ea1e29dc0b34
MSN
— Lara Trump confronts Elon Musk over allegiance to her father-in-law, Donald. My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lara-trump-confronts-elon-musk-over-allegiance-to-her-father-in-law-donald/ar-AA1E7wHI
REUTERS
— Those who have benefitted the most from Biden’s giving them the most preference are consider moving to Europe.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fearful-trump-some-americans-look-make-life-europe-2025-05-04/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/health/trump-administration-slashes-research-into-lgbtq-health.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000010122048/how-trumps-cuts-are-stifling-lgbtq-health-research.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use “democracy” to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/05/trump-pro-democracy-global-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/05/transgender-hud-fair-housing-trump-lgbtq-turner/48a02a2e-2971-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trumps-wants-judges-who-will-skip-trials-before-deportation/2025/05/05/6143206b-cff5-4a71-b9b2-19b443d87464_video.html
— The U.S. welcomed Indian students. Under Trump, they fear for their future. U.S. colleges host more than 300,000 students from India. As the Trump administrations targets foreign students for deportation, many are rethinking their plans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/05/india-student-visas-revoked-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/pritzker-president-trump-resistance/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/american-democracy-under-trump/
USA TODAY
— Trump’s national parks proposal: Cut $1 billion, transfer many sites to states
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/04/trump-budget-proposal-cuts-to-parks/83428514007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discredit Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/04/trump-interview-abc-time-mental-decline/83391080007/
— Average Americans struggle with savings. Many continue to live paycheck to paycheck. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been grossly overpaid. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/americans-one-crisis-away-from-homelessness/83388068007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/05/03/conclave-smoke-signals-chimney-stoves/83429402007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/05/05/the-next-pope-odds-rise-parolin-tangle/83415163007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Is Harvard Complying With the Tax Code? Section 501(c)(3) bars campaigning and makes clear propaganda isn’t the same as education.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-harvard-complying-with-the-tax-code-exemption-political-educational-speech-b4a24ed4
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will cause a recession, and even worse things, to destroy Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-says-hes-not-worried-about-a-recession/DB83B00E-5E69-42DE-A0DE-82A2D6898BB5
— The Politics of EVs Have Changed. Thirty-five Democrats joined the GOP to repeal California’s EV mandate. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. What is your attitude toward EVs and toward those who buy them?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-politics-of-evs-has-changed-house-vote-california-waiver-1f951a68
— Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-world-needs-a-second-john-paul-ii-venezuela-cuba-nicaragua-human-rights-9f3c08a4
— Government Should Fund Religious Schools. The Establishment Clause was a barrier, but recent decisions have changed that. My parents had a lot less money because they a) sent a me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod and b) sent my brother to Trinity 1958-1961 and then to Hope 1962-1968. Because of that, I had to work my way through college 1966-1970.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/government-should-fund-religious-schools-f50922dc
— New AI tools give users insight on how skills in one field can transfer to a different one. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I transferred from IRS to GAO. My Democrat and IRS and GAO superiors outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically ignored, dismissed, and belittled the many skills that I had gained working for IRS for almost 9 years that would transfer directly to what I would do for GAO. In addition, they ignored, dismissed, and belittled a) my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) my passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, and d) the fact that GAO audits IRS. They outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically used the aforesaid to force me to take $23,472/year pay cut to transfer. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/not-sure-whats-next-for-your-career-ask-ai/2e83d12c-6538-4272-81c2-ec2362e39d16
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do everything that they can to get more votes from their five million student loan deadbeats.
https://www.businessinsider.com/five-years-student-debt-relief-suddenly-over-trump-default-collections-2025-5
BUZZFEED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Constitution to destroy Republicans.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/donald-trumps-comment-about-upholding-the-constitution
THE AGE
— ‘The reckoning is here’: Have the Democrats found a billionaire of their own (Pritzker) to take down Trump?
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/when-you-see-a-danger-you-yell-top-democrat-unleashes-call-to-arms-against-trump-20250429-p5luxp.html
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s attacks on the Democrat news media. I should write about those who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican and who have attacked me and attacked my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most. 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 dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/patsy-widakuswara-voice-of-america-lawsuit-trump-administration-press-freedom
May 4, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Italian-American residents blast deal to move Christopher Columbus statue indoors: ‘Hiding history’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italian-american-chicago-residents-criticize-settlement-move-christopher-columbus-statue-indoors-arrigo-park-little-italy/16323384/
NBC5
— Trump rejects concerns about prices, economic uncertainty as he defends his agenda
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/trump-rejects-concerns-prices-economic-uncertainty-defends-agenda/3737411/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders promote Wisconsin Governor Evers
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tony-evers-donald-trump-border-immigration-threats/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/cannabis-entrepreneurs-urge-state-lawmakers-to-enact-industry-reform/
WGN RADIO
— Settlement reached regarding the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue in Arrigo Park
https://wgnradio.com/karen-conti/settlement-reached-regarding-the-removal-of-a-christopher-columbus-statue-in-arrigo-park/
— Retirement planning when you’re on the home stretch. My Democrat GAO destroyed my retirement planning when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was when I was 24 years old in 1972.
https://wgnradio.com/the-alpha-wealth-hour/retirement-planning-when-youre-on-the-home-stretch/
WBEZ
— Solution for Chicago’s empty office buildings could be microapartments. In 1974, when I was 25 years old, when IRS promoted me to a GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) Revenue Officer job in the Loop, I bought a 650 square foot studio condo in the Outer Drive East building ( https://www.homesbymarco.com/properties/2809824/400_e_randolph_st_1322_chicago_il_60601 ) so that I could walk to/from work and graduate business courses at Loyola. I traded it in to the building’s developer in 1976 for a one bedroom condo. I sold it when I got married in 1978 and we bought a home in Wheaton.
https://www.wbez.org/housing/2025/05/03/solutionchicago-empty-office-buildings-microapartments-gensler-pew-study
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker and AOC: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/pritzker-ocasio-cortez-trump-resistance/
— How the stock market made back all its losses after Donald Trump escalated the trade war
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/stock-market-trump-trade-war/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/05/04/pot-business-owners-relief-regulations-legal-recreational-medical-cannabis
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/alton-trump-protest-illinois-lincoln-douglas-20309437.php
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DeSantis sets pace for GOP governors on immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/florida-gov-ron-desantis-sets-pace-gop-governors-immigration/
— Kamala Harris talks party unity while Democrats brawl in leadership vacuum she left
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/kamala-harris-talks-party-unity-democrats-brawl-leadership-vacuum/
— MAGA doesn’t need more RINOs
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/maga-doesnt-need-rinos/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Proposal would deduct from Illinois paychecks to create new state agency
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3400469/proposal-illinois-paychecks-new-state-agency/
BREITBART
— Pritzker Angling for 2028 While Taking Aim at Trump with Questionable Attacks
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/04/gov-jb-pritzker-angling-for-2028-while-taking-aim-at-trump-with-questionable-attacks/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Abrego Garcia: The Poster Child for the Left’s Demands of Endless ‘Due Process’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/04/abrego-garcia-the-poster-child-for-the-lefts-demands-of-endless-due-process/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders. Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pritzker-ocasio-cortez-billionaire-former-bartender-emerge-trump-121444008
NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders want the next Pope to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/pope-francis/cardinal-tagle-philippines-lgbtq-catholics-conclave-rcna203837
MSN & COMMERCIAL APPEAL
— How marginalized are you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are marginalized by Republicans: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-first-100-days-target-diversity-policies-civil-rights-protections/ar-AA1DUdpR
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/05/01/pope-francis-medicaid-medicare-head-start-social-security/83365758007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump: I’m Not Looking at a Third Term
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-im-not-looking-at-a-third-term/60F2B9B7-11EF-49A1-80EF-1B30CEFAB647
— The Affirmative Action Myth
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-the-affirmative-action-myth/43875715-6B37-45C5-B000-ED4C67B13C54
INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire those who are the following and b) to get rid of their employees who are the following: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO organizations use DEI a) to not admit those who are the aforesaid and b) to get rid of their members who are the aforesaid.
https://www.inc.com/mandy-gilbert/91183943/91183943
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
— Pope Francis: Champion of EVs. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Of course, my critics/opponents stress that it is not eligible for a federal rebate because it costs too much, that it weighs 6,000 pounds, and that it can do the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH..
https://www.autonews.com/technology/mobility/an-pope-francis-electric-vehicle-0424/
MOPAR INSIDERS
— Stellantis to Halt Windsor Charger Production for One Week. 3,800 Workers Temporarily Laid Off as Stellantis Reacts to U.S. Tariff Fallout.
https://moparinsiders.com/stellantis-to-halt-windsor-minivan-and-charger-production-for-one-week/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This is the second time in just over a month that production has been halted at the facility, which builds the Chrysler Pacifica, Chrysler Grand Caravan, Chrysler Voyager, and both the gas-powered Dodge Charger and electric Charger Daytona. Stellantis had previously shut the plant down for two weeks in April to evaluate the impact of new 25% U.S. tariffs on imported vehicles. The tariffs, introduced by the Trump administration on April 3, apply to vehicles with a significant amount of non-U.S. content. They’ve already shaken up the North American auto industry, especially for companies like Stellantis that rely on cross-border production. . .But behind the scenes, it’s clear the broader trade environment is weighing heavily. During the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call, Stellantis CFO Doug Ostermann acknowledged that the automaker is actively looking at relocating some production and supply chains to the U.S. to avoid the steep import duties. “It’s something that we’re working very hard on,” said Ostermann. “To think through how quickly can we make those changes to mitigate any tariff impacts?” Meanwhile, workers at the Windsor plant—many of whom were just called back from a two-week layoff in April—are once again facing an uncertain week ahead. With both minivan and Charger output affected, this could be a sign of bigger shifts coming for Stellantis’ North American operations.)
AUTO EVOLUTION
— 96-Year-Old Kept 1968 Dodge Charger in Storage for 30 Years. I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger in 1968 and owned until it was stolen in 1971. I drove it to Daytona Beach from NIU in 1969 and 1970 for spring breaks. I bought a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T show car in 1994 and owned it until I sold it in 2005 to buy a 2005 Corvette. I bought a new 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max in 2012 and I continue to own it. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/96-year-old-kept-1968-dodge-charger-in-storage-for-30-years-his-wife-hated-the-car-250906.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A senior gentleman has been keeping the Dodge Charger in a storage facility for he can’t even remember how long. The car hides under a thick layer of dust that leaves its original color to the imagination. Will it shine and drive again, or should it already be on its way to the scrap yard? The 96-year-old owner of the 57-year-old Dodge Charger is Peter. He has big plans for the car he used to drive and rock the streets with back in the day. He remembers that his wife didn’t like the car. “It was a little louder than necessary,” he recalls. He wants to restore it to its former glory. The time has come for that car to run and drive again. He can’t even remember the last time he drove it, but assumes that it has been in the storage facility for around 30 years. That’s three decades away from the sunlight and off the road. Surprisingly, the tires still hold air and a few more goodies of the era. The Fratzog logo shows up on the dashboard. It is the iconic triangle-like badge that Dodge brought back with the Charger Daytona EV.)
TOP SPEED
— Why The Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Great Weekend Getaway EV. I recently bought a new red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.topspeed.com/ideal-ev-weekday-commutes-weekend-adventures/
MASS MEDIA
— How oppressed are you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are oppressed by Republicans: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://umassmedia.com/38691/opinions/the-importance-of-student-activism-in-an-increasingly-oppressive-world/
April 29, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump marks his first 100 days in office with a rally in Michigan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-ease-auto-tariffs-faced-us-automakers/16277133/
— Trump pushes back against economic anxieties in ABC interview
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-abc-interview-president-pushes-back-economic-anxieties-says-china-will-eat-tariffs/16279517/
— Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
https://abc7chicago.com/post/wisconsin-supreme-court-suspends-hannah-dugan-judge-arrested-accused-helping-eduardo-flores-ruiz-evade-ice/16280292/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use wokeness/wokeism to get rid of Republicans. Further, those who are anti-conservative, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time use wokeness/wokeism to get rid of those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time.
https://abc7.com/post/trump-100-days-america-faces-woke-divide-president-donald-says-history/16276880/
— Federal workers on DOGE impact during Trump’s first 100 days: ‘We want to come back to work’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-100-days-look-elon-musks-doge-plan-cut-down-government-waste-lay-off-federal-workers/16278493/
— Montgomery Trump loyalists believe tariffs will improve economy, support mass government layoffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/voters-red-montgomery-illinois-express-support-donald-trump-tariffs-government-cuts-dept-veterans-affairs-more/16280034/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago joins lawsuit to block Trump’s dismantling of federal bureaucracy. The lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of exceeding presidential authority and violating the constitutional separation of powers that gives Congress control of the federal purse strings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/04/29/chicago-lawsuit-trump-musk-downsize-federal-bureaucracy
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration joins lawsuit against Trump to block federal worker firings
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/mayor-brandon-johnson-lawsuit-trump-federal-worker-firings/
— Trump cuts federal programs that promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, programs that promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, that is, he cuts programs that discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/hegseth-ending-woke-program/
WGN RADIO
— John Kass: Sounds like Pritzker is ready for a donnybrook
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-sounds-like-jb-pritzker-is-ready-for-a-donnybrook/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Johnson joins lawsuit seeking to prevent Trump’s federal government overhaul
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-mayor-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-government-cuts
CHALK BEAT
— Trump administration launches investigation into Chicago Public Schools’ Black Student Success Plan. Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school. nevertheless, I got an ACT score of 24, graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class, and got accepted by UIC.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/29/trump-administration-investigates-cps-black-student-success-plan/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-295/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— 100 Days of WINS
https://illinois.gop/newsroom/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois appellate court justice James Knecht says the arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan was “reminiscent of King George, Hitler and Mussolini.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aa9631af-36a1-417b-abba-623d07b32a51.html
https://www.ktbs.com/news/national/illinois-judge-slams-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-as-reminiscent-of-hitler/article_9cbd0816-9042-52d5-b83e-7ff3bdc66b4e.html
https://www.aol.com/news/illinois-judge-slams-arrest-wisconsin-193700543.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— House Republicans propose fees for electric, hybrid cars
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/29/house-republicans-propose-fees-electric-hybrid-cars/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker: The angriest Democrat in the room
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3395273/angriest-democrat-jb-pritzker-in-the-room/
BREITBART
— Trump’s Labor Department to Revoke Federal Funds from States Giving Unemployment Benefits to Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/28/trumps-labor-department-to-revoke-federal-funds-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-illegals/
— Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/29/venezuela-prepares-marxist-may-day-rallies-demanding-release-of-u-s-deported-tren-de-aragua-illegals/
CAMPUS REFORM
— UW-Madison lecture to explore how ‘White Innocence’ leads to death of black infants.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/uw-madison-lecture-explore-white-innocence-leads-death-black-infants/27887
DAILY SIGNAL
— Pritzker Calls for ‘Disruption’ to ‘Punish’ Republicans. Hate-filled Democrat and RINO Trump-hating leaders have their operatives and their dupes punish Republicans. They have had their operatives and dupes take many adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/29/jb-pritzker-calls-disruption-punish-republicans/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Delivers 100th Day Achievement Speech in Michigan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/live-6pm-april-29-trump-delivers-100th-day-achievement-speech-in-michigan-5848903
— White House Responds to Mexican President After She Calls US Ads ‘Discriminatory’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/white-house-responds-to-mexican-president-after-she-calls-us-ads-discriminatory-5846987
NEWSMAX
— 66,463 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Trump’s First 100 Days
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-criminal-aliens-arrests/2025/04/29/id/1208808/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
–The Democrat Party is the party of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. It is the party of hatred against conservatives, Republicans, Americans, Whites, males, older people, married people, non-poor people, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5272478-jb-pritzker-democratic-party-agenda/
NEW YORK TIMES
— White House Attacks Amazon Over Idea of Showing Tariffs’ Cost
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html
April 26, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— A Milwaukee County circuit judge was arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-fbi-allegedly-helping-undocumented-immigrant-evade-arrest/16247147/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-988-hotline-suicide-prevention-service-lgbtq-youth-would-eliminated-leaked-budget-proposal/16248201/
NBC5
— Who is Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge arrested by the FBI? The FBI took Dugan into custody Friday on the courthouse grounds — the same building federal immigration agents entered last week in search of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/who-is-hannah-dugan-milwaukee-judge-arrested-by-the-fbi/3730907/
WTTW
— Stratton Secures Pritzker’s Backing in Senate Bid, Positions Herself as ‘Fighter’ of Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/25/stratton-secures-pritzker-s-backing-senate-bid-positions-herself-fighter-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/federal-judge-blocks-trump-yanking-funding-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-ruling-could
WBEZ
— ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around U.S.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/25/ice-international-students-legal-status-visa-reversal
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee judge arrested in deportation case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arresta-a-jueza-de-milwaukee-acusada-de-ayudar-a-un-hombre-a-evadir-a-autoridades-migratorias/
— Who is Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/who-is-milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan/
— Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/kennedy-centers-lgbtq-celebration-canceled/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/illinois-academics-relieved-after-trump-administration-restores-legal-status-of-some-international-students/
— Cutting candy from SNAP won’t fix the bigger problem of growing dependency. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/snap-sugar-soda-benefits-ban-health/
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/judge-blocks-trump-administration-federal-employees/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/26/trump-trade-war-illinois-soybean-farmers/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want more success in getting Blacks hate Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/25/anti-donald-trump-protests-black-participation
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/16/americans-victimhood-doge-cuts-joker-batman-elon-musk-trump-dannagal-young-kevin-arceneaux
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/25/trump-administration-motherhood-marriage-sexual-assault-sexist-ivf-baby-bonus-adultry-mona-charen
— State treasurer offers no-cosigner loans to Illinois students trying to pay for college. The Funding U Illinois No-Cosigner Loan program is open to Illinois residents attending public or private colleges and universities. The fixed annual percentage rate ranges from 7.99% to 9.49%, and the program won’t take a student’s credit score into account. If I had not had to work my way through college, my GPA word have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/25/education-no-cosigner-loans-college-money
— Casino crime logs show thefts, fights, patrons passing counterfeit bills
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/casino-crime-illinois-chicago-ballys-rivers-harrahs-gambling
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of helping a man evade immigration agents and is arrested
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/crime/fbi-arrests-wisconsin-judge-on-charges-of-obstructing-immigrant-arrest/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Car condo project pitched for Lake Zurich would include clubhouse, luxury car dealership. I should write about Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville and its unit owners. I have attended many events there since its opening. I bought a small unit there in 2020. I sold it and bought a bigger unit in 2023. I sold it and bought a bigger unit this year. If you are interested in muscle cars, especially Corvettes, Chargers, Mustangs, and Thunderbirds, please let me know.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/business/car-condo-project-pitched-for-lake-zurich-would-include-clubhouse-luxury-car-dealership/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The developer of the Sanctuary of Lake Zurich residential community wants to build a different kind of condo project in town. Luxury still would be the watchword but these units would be used to store classic and rare cars, some worth millions of dollars. And there is a ready market, says Romeo Kapudija. “It’s shocking to me how many rare cars are out there and how much they’re valued at but this is a very popular business model right now and type of development and they’re selling out across the country,” he explained to the Lake Zurich village board this week during a courtesy review of Luxe Corsa Car Condominiums. . .Kapudija said the market is hot for these types of developments, referencing Iron Gate in Naperville and another planned in Barrington as examples of their popularity. Iron Gate Motor Condos was among the first in Illinois to offer space exclusively for classic, collector or exotic vehicles. Ground was broken on 50 acres near Interstate 88 and Route 59 in 2014. “Proof of concept didn’t exist when I started,” said commercial builder, car enthusiast and founder Tom Burgess. “I had to go out of state and bring in people who could explain it” to city officials. Popularity fueled expansion to include 40,000 square feet of auto-related retail. “It turned into more than just the condos,” he said. “There’s a huge car community in Chicagoland. It’s deep and broad. It’s amazing.”)
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINSS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-win-block-trump-funding-freeze
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/25/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-trump-tariffs-with-inflation-a-broad-concern-poll/
STATELINE
— Pritzker criticizes arrest of Wisconsin judge for aiding migrant sought by ICE
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-criticizes-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-for-aiding-migrant-sought-by-ice/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-25/rep-underwood-says-call-republicans-with-concerns-about-cuts-during-dekalb-town-hall
CITIES 92.9
— IL U.S. Rep. LaHood reacts to protesters’ Medicaid concerns
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/25/il-u-s-rep-lahood-reacts-to-protesters-medicaid-concerns/
FOX ILLINOIS
— USDA tells states to boost SNAP verification so illegal immigrants don’t get benefits. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/usda-tells-states-to-boost-snap-verification-so-illegal-immigrants-dont-get-benefits-department-of-agriculture-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-food-stamps-taxpayer-benefits-immigration
WAND TV
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-nixing-collective-bargaining-for-most-federal-employees/article_2a462dc8-36e1-5881-aeae-e66095a3053c.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/tariffs-could-devastate-illinois-economy/article_8c48d537-572e-4890-87eb-c115234d14da.html
WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2025/04/23/niu-rally-defends-international-students-after-trump-administration-revokes-visas/
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-25/congressman-raises-concerns-about-tariff-chaos-and-uncertainty-during-stop-at-farm-south-of-bloomington
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-how-the-publics-shift-on-immigration-paved-the-way-for-trumps-crackdown/
— As IRS Collections Rise, Clear Start Tax Urges Taxpayers to Take Advantage of the Fresh Start Initiative. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most. In my defense, I would not have become an IRS employee a) if Oldsmobile had not offered me a job in 1971, b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me because I accepted that offer, c) if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn its job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint, and d) if I didn’t have to have a job.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1017175/as-irs-collections-rise-clear-start-tax-urges-taxpayers-to-take-advantage-of-the-fresh-start-initiative/
(COMMENT: With IRS Enforcement Increasing in 2025, Clear Start Tax Reminds Americans They Still Have Time to Resolve Back Taxes Through Relief Programs. As the IRS steps up its collection efforts in 2024, more Americans are receiving notices, facing wage garnishments, or dealing with tax liens. In response, Clear Start Tax is urging taxpayers with unresolved IRS debt to act quickly and explore relief options under the IRS Fresh Start Initiative, a program designed to help individuals and businesses resolve back taxes affordably. The IRS recently announced renewed funding and a more aggressive stance on collections, which means taxpayers who have ignored or delayed addressing their debt could face heavier enforcement actions in the months ahead. The Urgency of Exploring Debt Resolution Programs As IRS collection efforts intensify, it’s critical for taxpayers with unresolved debt to act before enforcement escalates. The IRS Fresh Start Initiative offers structured programs designed to ease that burden, including Offer in Compromise, Installment Agreements, and Currently Not Collectible (CNC) status. These options can reduce penalties, halt wage garnishments or levies, and in many cases, allow taxpayers to resolve their debt for significantly less than the full amount owed.)
WEST CHICAGO
— Call for Community Organization to Coordinate the 2025 West Chicago Mexican Independence Day Festival
https://westchicago.org/news/call-for-community-organization-to-coordinate-the-2025-west-chicago-mexican-independence-day-festival/
CHALKBEAT
— Chicago Public Schools floats hundreds of layoffs as one option to close $529 million budget gap
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/25/cps-faces-529-million-budget-deficit/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-293/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Wants Puppet to Replace Durbin in U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/pritizker-wants-puppet-to-replace-durbin-in-u-s-senate/
— Democratic Party State Senator Gets Hung Jury in Bribery Trial
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/democratic-party-state-senator-gets-hung-jury-in-bribery-trial/
— Defenders Push for RTA Tax Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/defenders-push-for-rta-tax-hike/
— County Board Member Terri Greeno Rebuts County Board Member John Collins’ Rebuttal of Tim Beck’s Take on Now “We Resist” Picketing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/county-board-member-terri-greeno-rebuts-county-board-member-john-collins-rebuttal-of-tim-becks-take-on-now-we-resist-picketing/
— Compensation for Home Value Loss Due to Tax Sales Being Litigated against Illinois Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/compensation-for-home-value-loss-due-to-tax-sales-being-litigated-against-illinois-counties/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Teachers Union pushes kids to miss school for political rally, protest McDonald’s. According to Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-pushes-kids-to-miss-school-for-political-rally-protest-mcdonalds/
— Vallas: Pritzker, Johnson keep playing Trump card
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzker-johnson-keep-playing-trump-card/
— Parents beware: Chicago Teachers Union contract is anti-student
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/parents-beware-chicago-teachers-union-contract-is-anti-student/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hegseth tells military leaders at Pentagon to review their equal opportunity programs. Democrat leaders reject equal opportunity a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/25/pete-hegseth-tells-military-leaders-pentagon-review-equal-opportunity/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico instructs broadcasters to ban Kristi Noem’s ad on illegal immigration. Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3391499/mexico-instructs-broadcasters-ban-kristi-noem-ad-illegal-immigration/
NEW YORK POST
— School district won’t allow child to graduate over LGBTQ health class. How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/us-news/school-district-wont-allow-child-to-graduate-over-lgbtq-health-class/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— President Trump just delivered a knockout blow for meritocracy. Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/president-trump-just-delivered-a-knockout-blow-for-meritocracy-1538925/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump signed a groundbreaking executive order Thursday eliminating the use of disparate impact theory by the feds. The order “restores the true promise of the Civil Rights Movement—a system that does not differentiate between Americans based on race and where success is determined by individual merit, free from discriminatory practices that prioritize group outcomes over personal achievement.” Disparate impact theory says that any disparity must be the result of discrimination, bigotry, and racism of some kind or another. So for example, if more white people than non-white people pass a firefighter’s exam, then it must be because of racism. Or if more non-white people than white people are pulled over for speeding, that too must be the result of racism and bigotry.)
— New York Times’ fake news headline slammed for fueling media’s information war
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/new-york-times-fake-news-headline-slammed-for-fueling-medias-information-war-1538939/
DAILY SIGNAL
— USDA Makes It Tougher for Illegals to Get Food Stamps.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/25/usda-makes-it-tougher-for-illegals-to-get-food-stamps/
DAILY WIRE
— Red States Consider Bills To Push Illegals To Self-Deport. Experts say that mandatory E-Verify policies are one of the most effective ways to prompt illegal alien self-deportations. Democrat and RINO employers vehemently oppose E-Verify. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-consider-bills-to-push-illegals-to-self-deport
FEDERALIST
— The Nonprofit Hijacking America’s 250th Birthday Celebration Is The 1619 Project On Steroids.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/the-nonprofit-hijacking-americas-250th-birthday-celebration-is-the-1619-project-on-steroids/
— Three Rogue Judges Block Trump Admin Efforts To Eradicate Discriminatory DEI From Schools
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/three-rogue-judges-block-trump-admin-efforts-to-eradicate-discriminatory-dei-from-schools/
FOX BUSINESS
— Lara Trump: We have to cut out this woke ideology from schools
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371944312112
LIFE NEWS
— More Illinois Women Face Medical Emergencies After Botched Abortions
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/04/25/more-illinois-women-face-medical-emergencies-after-botched-abortions/
MRC TV
— Dems Demand ‘Due Process’ for Illegal Aliens, But Obama Deported 83% Without a Judge
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/dems-demand-due-process-illegals-obama-deported-83-without-judge
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Dismantles Desperate Impact
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/president-trump-dismantles-desperate-impact/
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— Illinois Lawmakers Push Teachers Unions’ Agenda
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/04/23/illinois_lawmakers_push_teachers_unions_agenda_1105991.html
TOWNHALL
— Democrat Chicago Mayor Uses Trump Tariffs As Opportunity to Raise Taxes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/chicago-mayor-uses-trump-tariffs-as-opportunity-to-raise-taxes-n2656098
— Trump Admin Demands Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants Exploiting Food Stamp System
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/trump-administration-demands-crackdown-on-illegal-immigrants-at-grocery-stores-n2656115
— ‘Disparate-Impact Liability Is Dead’ Thanks to New Executive Order
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/04/25/disparate-impact-liability-executive-order-n2656073
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5268303-court-ruling-trump-anti-dei-mcmahon-harvard/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been anti-Trump, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-francis-funeral-vatican-rome-italy-9895e156b90aea1dde7f7ea19bf7b3e1
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-civil-rights-act-walk-back-pete-hegseth-rcna202857
MSN
— Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-meritocracy-lie-is-coming-for-the-civil-rights-act/ar-AA1DDcOg
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/04/25/in-first-100-days-trump-tells-migrants-leave-the-united-states-2/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-poll-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-deported.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-migrants-due-process.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/upshot/trump-poll-numbers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-100-days-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-blackpilled.html
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/26/thousands-attend-pope-francis-funeral-ceremony-helped-reimagine/
WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-independents-second-term-soured/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/26/trump-economy-tariffs-federal-reserve-wall-street/
— Canada as hypothetical 51st state would be a ‘nightmare’ for Trump. Not that Canadians want to join the country anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-canada-51st-state-politics/
USA TODAY
— Musk risked Tesla’s health to help our country. We should thank him, not hate him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/25/tesla-earnings-musk-doge-trump/83230018007/
WJBF
— RINO Removal Project Launches Nationwide Effort to Promote Voter Engagement and GOP Candidate Accountability. All my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform and b) get rid of Republicans like me who support the planks that they reject, that is, they are RINOs.
https://www.wjbf.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/806006349/rino-removal-project-launches-nationwide-effort-to-promote-voter-engagement-and-gop-candidate-accountability/
WHBL
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://whbl.com/2025/04/25/how-pope-francis-touched-a-migrants-heart-saying-were-all-the-same-people/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in driving the stock market down to punish Trump and to punish those who voted for him.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economic-sentiment-spending-23d95f36
— Many Big Law Firms Shun Conservative Clients. They denounce Trump for targeting causes he opposes, but they’re guilty of the same thing.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/many-big-law-firms-shun-conservative-clients-politics-attorneys-6bf4db08
— Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.wsj.com/world/the-high-stakes-in-choosing-the-next-pope-1a3d5bc0
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Probationary employees face stricter review process under new executive order. If my Democrat GAO superiors could have used probationary procedures to get rid of me, they would have. My doing the following after I transferred from IRS to GAO in early 1980 frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/probationary-employees-face-stricter-review-process-under-new-executive-order/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Probationary employees will now have an additional hurdle to clear before they can solidify their federal employment, according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday evening. Trump’s new order calls for the creation of “Civil Service Rule XI,” which will require agencies to review and actively sign off on probationary workers’ continued employment before they can be moved out of a probationary period. Federal employees are put into probationary periods when they first enter the civil service, or when they begin a new position, for example after getting a promotion. Once a probationary period ends — usually after one or two years of federal service — employees will automatically transition out of probationary status. “Instead of these employees becoming tenured civil servants by default, Rule XI requires agencies to affirmatively certify that finalizing their appointment after their probationary or trial period concludes advances the public interest,” the White House wrote Thursday in a fact sheet detailing the intentions of the executive order. Under current federal regulations, agencies can only remove probationary employees for issues with performance or conduct. Those rules around probationary periods spurred litigation involving the recent mass terminations of tens of thousands of probationary employees. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an order for the Trump administration to reinstate the probationary employees. Trump’s new executive order, however, adds a new reason that probationary employees can be removed from their jobs. Under the new “Civil Service Rule XI,” agencies can also determine whether a probationary employee should remain in their job based on agency needs and the interest of the public. “It alters the reason for letting a probationer go to include the generic needs and interests of the agency, as opposed to the individual’s performance or conduct,” Debra D’Agostino, an attorney and partner at Federal Practice Group, said in an interview. “It adds this generic reason where the agency can decide that it’s not in the needs or interest of the agency to keep this person.” “Usually, if someone’s not going to satisfy their probation, it’s going to be because of performance or conduct,” Kevin Owen, a partner at Gilbert Employment Law, added. “If the administration is going to start interjecting some sort of ideological component, we’re going to start again sliding into some level of a spoils system here.”)
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Holds Wide Lead Over Democrats on Immigration.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_holds_wide_lead_over_democrats_on_immigration
INSIDE PHILANTHROPY
— Class Matters Most: So Why Do Foundations Focus More on Race? What class were you born into? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/class-matters-most-so-why-do-foundations-focus-more-on-race
April 25, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker to endorse Stratton for US Senate
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/gov-pritzker-endorsing-juliana-stratton-for-senate/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/sanctuary-city-federal-funding/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/24/cps-moves-ahead-with-a-black-student-success-plan-despite-trump-administration-threats
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/24/robert-crimo-iii-highland-park-murders-sentencing-trump-administration
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-win-block-trump-funding-freeze
— American Bar Association cuts 300 jobs after Justice Department pulls grant funding
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/aba-cuts-300-jobs-after-trump-doj-officials-pull-grants
— Illinois among states suing Trump over tariffs, trade policy
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sues-trump-over-tariffs-trade-policy
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-elected-officials-concerned-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-forces-agents-reassigned-immigration-enforcement/16242916/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1630772
— Those who benefit from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/americans-talk-trump-tariffs-poll
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “research” to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/university-research-limbo-trump-administration-pauses-federal-grants
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/federal-judge-blocks-trump-yanking-funding-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-ruling-could
WBEZ
— Trump administration is pressuring Illinois universities to end a diversity fellowship. To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/24/the-trump-administration-is-pressuring-illinois-universities-to-end-a-diversity-fellowship
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/24/cps-moves-ahead-with-a-black-student-success-plan-despite-trump-administration-threats
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/04/25/trump-is-throwing-the-american-people-ukraine-to-the-wolves-opinion/83225051007/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Those who benefit from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/article_d55dd88c-feeb-49ae-8b8d-069ea3c6ae5d.html
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/alert-judge-temporarily-halts-white-house-s-20292518.php
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Largest federal employee union, a leading Trump opponent, to lay off more than half of staff. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I worked for it, I might still be a GAO. employee.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-largest-federal-employee-union-a-leading-trump-opponent-to-lay-off-more-than-half-of-staff/
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
— JANUARY 12, 2005 FLASHBACK: Ray LaHood Mulling a Run for Illinois Governor. I remember speaking with Ray LaHood before he walked in Wheaton’s 2005 Independence Day parade.
https://www.stlpr.org/other/2005-01-12/ray-lahood-mulling-a-run-for-illinois-governor.
— AUGUST 18, 2005 FLASHBACK: LaHood won’t run for IL Governor. I remember speaking with Ray LaHood before he walked in Wheaton’s 2005 Independence Day parade.
https://www.stlpr.org/other/2005-08-18/lahood-wont-run-for-il-governor
NPR ILLINOIS
— According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-25/they-say-they-want-americans-to-have-more-babies-whats-beneath-the-surface
CITIES 92.9
— Del Mar: Pritzker plays ‘national politics’ with El Salvador while neglecting Illinois
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/24/del-mar-pritzker-plays-national-politics-with-el-salvador-while-neglecting-illinois/
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote race based preference giving.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/25/cps-school-board-forms-black-student-committee/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The folks who run President Donald Trump’s @RapidResponse47 handle on X posted: “Why won’t @GovPritzker take action to protect his constituents from the dangerous illegal immigrants he’s harboring in his sanctuary cities?”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/25/pritzker-to-endorse-stratton-for-senate-00309290
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-499/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-292/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Controversy growing over rule to allow transgender athletes play girls’ sports
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fa5d122-b40c-4626-a79b-b5aa8d872c37.html
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois isn’t building homes. Housing stock is up less than 1% vs. 2020, nation’s 2nd-worst performance.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-isnt-building-homes-housing-stock-is-up-less-than-1-vs-2020-nations-2nd-worst-performance-wirepoints/
— Durbin leaving provides a chance, however small, to change Illinois’ direction. LaHood being elected on November 3, 2026 would be a big positive change in direction.
https://wirepoints.org/nothing-changes-with-senator-durbin-leaving-illinois-is-still-headed-in-the-wrong-direction-wirepoints-on-with-mike-ferguson-of-newstalkstl/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WHITE HOUSE
— STRENGTHENING PROBATIONARY PERIODS IN THE FEDERAL SERVICE I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. Because my Democrat GAO superiors soon concluded that I would never become a Democrat, they tried to use probationary procedures to get rid of me. But I had already served my probationary period while I had worked for IRS. They tried to get rid of me because I was a Republican even though I had earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-probationary-periods-in-the-federal-service/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: GAO has documented, however, that agencies have not been using probationary and trial periods as effectively as they could to remove appointees whose continued employment is not in the public interest. As a result of this failure to remove poor performers, agencies have often retained and given tenure to underperforming employees who should have been screened out during their probationary period.)
NEW YORK POST
— Trump-appointed judge orders return of second alleged gang banger deported to El Salvador
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/us-news/trump-appointed-judge-orders-return-of-second-alleged-gang-banger-deported-to-el-salvador/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump Issues Order Eliminating Use of Disparate-Impact Liability. The order follows a ban on government affirmative action. How have Democrats used disparate-impact against you? According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and females do. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and females, my Democrat and GAO superiors used disparate-impact to stop requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. To hire and promote Democrats who were Black, Hispanic, and female, they also stopped requiring other qualifications. That rendered worthless my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-issues-order-eliminating-use-of-disparate-impact-liability/
AMERICAN THINKER
— From ‘Trump is Hitler’ to dark woke?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/from_trump_is_hitler_to_dark_woke.html
CENTER SQUARE
— Immigration policies have improved under Trump
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_c9a77dd3-f55d-4de4-adba-018ea5ddbb9f.html
— Federal regulations cost average American household $16,000 a year
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2a8ff3aa-9722-4e06-be23-19ccb0582258.html
FEDERALIST
— Trump Admin Targets University Accreditors For Their DEI Activism
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/24/trump-admin-targets-university-accreditors-for-their-dei-activism/
FOX NEWS
— Trump continues fight to take on elite universities. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-elite universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from IIT (finance-1997), DePaul (accounting-1980), Loyola (business-1976), and NIU (management-1970) are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents who have degrees from elite universities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfu6z-mgNw
— Christian family says school district won’t allow daughter to graduate over mandatory LGBTQ health class. How successful have Democrat leaders been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/christian-family-says-school-refusing-allow-daughter-graduate-over-mandatory-lgbtq-health-class
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Newcomers to White House Press Corps Shake Up the Status Quo. “Many of the news organizations that are represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/newcomers-to-white-house-press-corps-shake-up-the-status-quo/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Brandon Johnson Becomes Increasingly Creative in Assigning Blame
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brandon-johnson-becomes-increasingly-creative-in-assigning-blame/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump signs executive order to eliminate disparate impact in education and restore meritocracy
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-signs-executive-order-to-restore-the-true-promise-of-the-civil-rights-movement
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Being Tough on Crime Works: New Report Confirms Trump’s Blistering Impact on the Law
https://www.westernjournal.com/tough-crime-works-new-report-confirms-trumps-blistering-impact-law/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5265622-judge-finds-trumps-sanctuary-cities-order-likely-unconstitutional/
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in turning Canadians against Americans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/canadians-put-trumps-bluster-border-arrests-are-booking-far-fewer-us-v-rcna202943
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/lgbtq-suicide-prevention-hotline-trump-budget-proposal-leak/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-francis-funeral-catholics-relationship-a34cb1f8a6ceb147e2e112cb4e02e32c
MSN
— Durbin steps down: Could Illinois Republicans finally flip the seat?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dick-durbin-steps-down-could-illinois-republicans-finally-flip-the-seat/ar-AA1DuaAT
MSNBC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-facing-impotence-as-courts-hand-him-loss-after-loss-court-of-public-opinion-no-less-harsh-238316101946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3HJnD7vUrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMV48-Qoe2k
NEWSWEEK
— Ever-increasingly, if you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat leaders call you a Nazi.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-is-pink-triangle-trump-truthing-nazi-era-symbol-sparks-lgbtq-anger/ar-AA1APiaW
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-24/us-judge-orders-return-of-second-migrant-deported-to-el-salvador
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/trump-public-school-funds-dei.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/24/trump-order-blocked-voting-citizenship/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/24/judge-rules-second-deportation-case/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/25/pope-francis-trump-relationship-funeral/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/25/polling-poorly-trumps-immigration-abuses-tanking-popular-approval/
USA TODAY
— Musk risked Tesla’s health to help our country. We should thank him, not hate him. Elon Musk, at great personal and professional cost, has devoted his time to finding ways to cut through the bureaucracy and downsize government where it makes sense.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/25/tesla-earnings-musk-doge-trump/83230018007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use the Civil Rights Act to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/24/trump-order-civil-rights-protections-at-risk/83249915007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/24/trump-approval-rating-dei-target-costco/83242688007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/21/trump-abrego-garcia-ms13-knuckle-tattoos-supreme-court/83188108007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-contractors-ice-detentions-deportations/83250623007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Harvard Is an Islamist Outpost. For decades it nurtured resentful leftists, and antisemitism united them in a common cause.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/harvard-is-an-islamist-outpost-fringe-leftist-views-eventually-united-by-antisemitism-42759e15
— Three Times Trump Softened His Stance in the Wake of Market Turmoil. Those who make lots of money exploiting cheap foreign labor and lax regulations in foreign countries oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-stock-market-trade-war-04-25-2025/card/video-three-times-trump-softened-his-stance-in-the-wake-of-market-turmoil-vxnxxZ7dLMI3feeaVwop
EL PASO TIMES
— Sooner or later, all the countries of the world will officially declare war on America. All the countries of the world want a piece of the America cake, if not the whole cake.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2025/04/25/mexico-senate-votes-to-bar-foreign-propaganda-after-dhs-ad-campaign-trump/83212989007/
WBUR
— Sooner or later, everyone outside of America will claim refugee status in America.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/04/24/afghan-refugees-promises-broken-under-trump-immigrations-plans
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYiX-TG9UmtI
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-plan-proof-of-citizenship-vote-shot-down-judge/
PBS
— Democrat teachers use DEI to make their students good little Democrats, that is, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-blocks-trump-push-to-cut-public-school-funding-over-diversity-programs
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/due_process_for_illegal_immigrants_61_of_democrats_say_yes
April 10, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-tariffs-chicago-business-owners-worried-rising-costs-president-donald-pauses/16150962/
— UIC, Northwestern, U of C students have visas terminated
https://abc7chicago.com/post/7-university-chicago-students-recent-graduates-have-student-exchange-visitor-program-sevp-status-terminated/16149194/
— Under the Democrats, soon, if not already, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-food-banks-worried-ability-meet-need-amid-trump-administrations-cuts-us-department-agriculture/16149767/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-residents-brace-for-impact-of-china-tariffs-as-trade-war-escalates/3718508/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPxLSJ9M0w
— Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him. Because I opposed my Democrat federal superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with discrimination in 1988, they disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and1969, forced me to resign in 1969, disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer between agencies in 1980, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-miles-taylor-chris-krebs-executive-orders/3718632/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-tariff-pause-china-illinois-families-industry-agriculture/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-pauses-tariffs-for-90-days-on-all-countries-except-china/
WGN9
— Wall Street surges to one of its best days since WWII after Trump pauses most tariffs
https://wgnradio.com/news/markets-tumble-toward-more-big-losses-after-china-retaliates-with-huge-tariff-increase/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use White supremacists to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wbez.org/2025/04/09/how-much-influence-did-white-supremacist-groups-have-on-chicago-housing
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts
https://www.wbez.org/museums/2025/04/09/institute-museum-library-services-funding-kwame-raoul-trump-illinois-library-association-illinois-association-museums-park
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration revokes student visas from U. of C.; students at SIU and U. of I. also targeted.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/trump-administration-revokes-student-visas-from-u-of-c-students-at-siu-and-u-of-i-also-targeted/
— Democratic-led Illinois Supreme Court rejects GOP challenge to legislative maps that kept Democrats in control
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/democratic-led-illinois-supreme-court-rejects-gop-challenge-to-legislative-maps-that-kept-democrats-in-control/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s college fund freezing against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/trump-administration-funding-freeze-northwestern-university/
— According to Democrats, government exists to take money away from those who have more money and to give that money to those who have less money.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/10/opinion-donald-trump-funding-cuts-tariffs-easter/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/republicans-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders promote Rivian to punish Musk and Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/musk-tesla-backlash-opening-doors-for-ev-startups-like-rivian/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their law firms.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/10/editorial-jenner-block-trump-executive-orders/
— Democrats move to ban January 6 rioters from Chicago work. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in banning me from getting work appropriate for my work experience, master’s degrees, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/chicago-aldermen-ban-jan-6-rioters-city-work/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois State Board of Education rebuffs Trump administration demand to reject DEI in schools. The Education Department said states risk federal funding if they don’t end DEI programs the feds deem illegal. Illinois said it already pledges to comply with anti-discrimination laws. DEI is discrimination. DEI programs give preference to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, that is, DEI programs discriminate against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/09/illinois-state-board-of-education-rebuffs-trump-administration-demand-to-reject-dei-in-schools
— Trump administration revokes visas for international students in universities across Illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/09/trump-administration-revokes-visas-for-international-students-in-universities-across-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/09/anti-defamation-league-illinois-hate-crimes-extremism-report
— Northwestern braces for massive cuts that could nearly wipe out all its federal research funding
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/09/northwestern-braces-for-massive-cuts-that-could-nearly-wipe-out-all-its-federal-research-funding
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to rid get of Republicans
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/09/trump-administration-edits-history-race-based-black-brown-erasure-smithsonian-ben-jealous
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/04/09/institute-museum-library-services-funding-kwame-raoul-trump-illinois-library-association-illinois-association-museums-park
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: DuPage County has rolled out ‘Text-to-911.’ As Democrats ever-increasingly take over DuPage County, crime will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250409/news/dupage-county-has-rolled-out-text-to-911-heres-how-to-use-the-new-service/
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/dispensary-33-prizker-warehouse-tonys-fresh-market-ctu-cps/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emmett Till to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicagodefender.com/why-illinois-must-honor-emmett-tills-legacy/
SOUTHERN
— Democratic Party ‘doubling down’ on town hall meetings targeting Republican-held districts
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/10/democratic-party-doubling-down-on-town-hall-meetings-targeting-republican-held-districts/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump administration will screen for antisemitic activity in granting immigration benefits. I should write the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had in forcing my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-will-screen-for-antisemitic-activity-in-granting-immigration-benefits/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Ever-increasingly, NIU exists to promote the Democrat Party platform. I graduated from NIU in 1970.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-10/no-change-to-core-values-in-light-of-trumps-challenge-to-dei-says-niu-president
WGLT
— Trump administration revokes visas of some ISU students
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-09/trump-administration-revokes-visas-for-some-isu-students
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting voters to punish Trump by voting for Democrats in local elections.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/09/suburban-gop-aurora-orland-park-municipal-elections-trump-pritzker
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-493/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-286/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago Flips Red says mayors ‘fueled’ city’s collapse with migrant sanctuary
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a5bca7a8-ed66-4ac8-ab13-357708d39bd9.html
— IL Supreme Court ruling against map challenge does Dems’ ‘dirty work,’ GOP says
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_38c9d4dd-2636-4b5b-a161-389feeb83996.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat Party exists to destroy Trump and to destroy everyone who voted for him. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster that the Democrat Party will destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that you are, the more that you should do to defend yourself. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When Democrats take over your state, county, township, municipality, school district, and/or precinct, crime ever-increasingly increases. No-go zones around you will increase. If you elect to stay, you should focus on protecting yourself against crime. Install all the home security devices that you can afford. Avoid leaving your home at night if not stop completely. Consider concealed carry. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What discrimination have you faced and why? What retaliation have you suffered because you complained? Because I opposed my Democrat federal superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with discrimination in 1988, they disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and1969, forced me to resign in 1969, disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer between agencies in 1980, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans mull higher taxes on wealthiest Americans to pay for other cuts. My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. They stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft, that I worked for the federal government and especially that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, that my wife has always had good jobs, and that my wife and I did not have children.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/9/republicans-mull-higher-taxes-wealthiest-americans-pay-cuts/
WASHINGON EXAMINER
— The IRS must get smaller — and smarter. I should write about those who wasted my knowledge of IRS the most. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years and I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years. I would focus on my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, Gingrich, Hastert, my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives, and their staff members.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3376197/irs-must-get-smaller-smarter/
— House budget hawks should continue to fight for spending cuts. How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3375266/house-budget-hawks-should-fight-another-day-on-spending-cuts/
NEW YORK POST
— Texas university creates ‘the most meritocratic admissions policy’ in the US
https://nypost.com/2025/04/04/us-news/texas-university-argues-college-admissions-policies-are-unjust/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Acting IRS commissioner takes a buy-out in protest because she doesn’t want DHS to know where the illegal aliens are. Democrat leaders do not want Republicans to be federal employees. They certainly did not want me to be a federal employee. They especially did not want me to audit IRS.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/acting_irs_commissioner_takes_a_buy_out_in_protest_because_she_doesn_t_want_dhs_to_know_where_the_illegal_aliens_are.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Conservatives lay into Coney Barrett for joining liberal justices … AGAIN.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/09/conservatives-lay-into-coney-barrett-for-joining-liberal-justices-again-1535098/
BREITBART
— Black Chicagoan Torches Democrats: They Live in Gated Communities While Demanding We Take In Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/09/black-chicagoan-torches-democrats-they-live-in-gated-communities-while-demanding-we-take-in-illegal-aliens/
— CNN’s Jennings to Former MSNBC Host Tiffany Cross: ‘You Got Fired from Your Job — How Relevant Are You?’ My critics/opponents stress the success that they have had getting their operatives and their dupes to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/09/cnns-jennings-to-former-msnbc-host-tiffany-cross-you-got-fired-from-your-job-how-relevant-are-you/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/09/sanders-expelling-foreign-students-hurts-ability-to-solve-gaza-climate-we-dont-have-to-hate-china/
— Remittances from U.S. Propping up Nicaragua’s Economic Growth. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. They never sent a penny back to Germany, In fact, my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI. My uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. My father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/09/report-remittances-from-u-s-propping-up-nicaraguas-economic-growth/
— Sanctuary Cities Protected Over 25 Thousand Criminal Illegals from Federal Law in Two Years
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/09/expert-witness-sanctuary-cities-protected-over-25-thousand-criminal-illegals-federal-law-two-years/
— Beijing Claims Pete Hegseth ‘Maliciously Attacking’ China by Visiting Panama
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/09/beijing-claims-pete-hegseth-maliciously-attacking-china-by-visiting-panama/
— 1 in 4 Job Seekers Could Be AI-Powered Fraudsters by 2028. What helped you get hired? For my Post Office job, it included passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966. For my IRS job, it included my passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU in 1970. For my GAO job, it included my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/04/09/researchers-1-in-4-job-seekers-could-be-ai-powered-fraudsters-by-2028/
— Democrat Leaders Sue to Block Trump from Deporting Alleged Illegal Alien Gangs
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/09/migration-activists-sue-to-block-trump-from-deporting-alleged-illegal-alien-gangs/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump DHS to Fine Illegal Aliens Ordered Deported $998 for Each Day Overstayed. Will wealthy Democrats, Independents, and RINOs step forward and pay those fines for their illegals. How many wealthy Democrats. Independents, and RINOs are there in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? In my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton, 478 voted for Harris.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/09/trump-dhs-fine-deported-illegals-998-each-day-overstayed/
DAILY WIRE
— The Reason Globalists Undermine Trump’s Deportations of Illegals. Globalists want cheap labor.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/interview-ryan-girdusky
FEDERALIST
— Conservatives Aren’t ‘Christian Nationalists,’ They’re Just Homesick For America. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct are ever-increasingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-married people, anti-rich people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/10/conservatives-arent-christian-nationalists-theyre-just-homesick-for-america/
— How DEI Left Service Academies In A ‘State Of Decay,’ And How Trump Can Fix It
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/09/how-dei-left-service-academies-in-a-state-of-decay-and-how-trump-can-fix-it/
FOX NEWS
— Illinois Dem says Republicans are scapegoating illegal immigrants with a few ‘tragedies’ Illinois Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García waved away examples of violence committed by illegal immigrants as just “a few crimes.”
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371283490112
HANNITY
— Thousands of Illegal Migrants Self-Deport Using CBP Home App
https://hannity.com/media-room/see-yourself-out-thousands-of-illegal-migrants-self-deport-using-cbp-home-app-dhs-data/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Southern Illinois University Hit with Civil Rights Complaint for Racial, Sex-Based Discrimination
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/southern-illinois-university-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint-for-racial-sex-based-discrimination/
NEW AMERICAN
— Almost 60 Percent of Leftists Justify Assassinating Trump, Almost 50 Percent Musk
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/poll-almost-60-percent-of-leftists-justify-assassinating-trump-almost-50-percent-musk/
NEWS BUSTERS
— CBS Tells Illegals to Have No Fear, You Have the Full Constitution, JUST Like Citizens. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Party Army.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/04/09/cbs-tells-illegals-have-no-fear-you-have-full-constitution-just
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-tariffs-live-updates-us-stronger-despite-market/?id=120551033
CNBC
— Dow surges 2,900 points, S&P 500 posts biggest gain since 2008 on Trump tariff reversal
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/stock-market-today-live-updates-.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/china-trump-tariffs-live-updates.html
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote illegal immigration.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administrations-deportations-policy-crushes-us-credibility-rcna200439
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-tariffs-cnn-town-hall-04-10-25/index.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-tariffs-negotiations-f5acfd1ef8f3573f92e8963a8150bdfb
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-u-turns-tariffs-turns-trade-war-heat-china-2025-04-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump/trump-tariffs-live-china-tells-us-there-are-no-winners-trade-war-2025-04-10/
ABC NEW YORK
— LaHood expresses concerns about tariff impact for farmers
https://abc7ny.com/live-updates/trump-tariff-news-eu-imposes-new-tariffs-us-goods-china-hits-back-increased-84/16148808/entry/16149195/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ask “Can Musk Pull Trump Back From the Tariff Ledge?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/elon-musk-tariffs-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/business/trump-china-tariffs-prices-goods.html
— To discredit you, what do your critics/opponent stress about you? Mine stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, that I got no scholarships, that my UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT GPAs were not great, and that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not great,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/arts/what-is-elon-musks-iq.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/08/robin-givhan-deported-tattoos/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/10/trump-china-tariffs-imports-stocks-reaction/83014507007/
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a ) to not hire Republicans, and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aei.org/articles/what-did-you-expect-to-happen-how-dei-wound-up-in-trumps-crosshairs/
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/irs-to-lose-billions-in-revenue-if-migrants-stop-filing-taxes
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/04/10/trump-tariff-pause-china-asia-markets/
HOT AIR
— Blue States Are Gearing Up to Defy Trump’s DEI Order for Schools. Federal Law Trumps State And Local Laws.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/04/09/blue-states-are-gearing-up-to-defy-trumps-dei-order-for-schools-n3801635
POLITICO
— The Democrat Party exists to destroy Trump and to destroy everyone who voted for him. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster that the Democrat Party will destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that you are, the more that you should do to defend yourself.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/10/donald-trump-vulnerabilities-tariffs-budget-00283251
EDUCATION WEEK
— Democratic-Led Cities, States Push Back on Trump’s Threats to Cut School Funding Over DEI. Federal Law Trumps State And Local Laws.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/democratic-led-cities-states-push-back-on-trumps-threats-to-cut-school-funding-over-dei/2025/04
CONVERSATION
— My critics/opponents have always stressed that I was baptized a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL), raised as a MSL, and confirmed as a MSL.
https://theconversation.com/black-americans-are-more-likely-than-other-racial-groups-to-express-their-faith-in-the-workplace-253203
INDEPENDENT
— Trump accused of ‘market manipulation’ after abrupt U-turn on reciprocal tariffs: President’s 90-day pause sends markets soaring as White House attempts to spin climbdown as latest brilliant maneuver by master dealmaker. The more market volatility, the more money that day traders make.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-china-live-updates-b2730469.html
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— Democrats are socialists.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/10/uqxn-a10.html
COMMUNIST PARTY USA
— Will there be war with China? Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://www.cpusa.org/article/will-there-be-war-with-china/
March 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders reject Trump order that requires voters to show proof of US citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-election-news-today-voting-rights-groups-urge-local-voters-follow-il-law-despite-presidents-executive-order/16087064/
— Democrat leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-immigration-advocates-rally-loop-possible-travel-ban-president-donald-trump-administration/16087244/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-initiative-could-use-terror-laws-college-students-protesting-war-gaza-sparks-free-speech-concerns/16087394/
NBC5
— How to get election results in Chicago-area elections Tuesday
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/how-to-get-election-results-in-chicago-area-elections-tuesday/3707107/
CBS2
— Democrats leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-immigrant-rights-groups-possible-new-travel-ban/
FOX32
— Trump imposes 25% tariff on imported cars: ‘This is permanent’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/money/trump-tariffs-auto-imports
— Democrats leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1614866
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Democrats vow to defend state elections law against Trump executive order
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/illinois-democrats-vow-to-defend-state-elections-law-against-trumps-executive-order/
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/27/opinion-black-americans-donald-trump-civil-rights/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump cuts $153 million in Illinois public health, substance abuse programs. The Illinois cuts are part of $12 billion in grants that the federal Department of Health and Human Services canceled this week.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/03/26/trump-administration-cuts-illinois-mental-health-and-substance-abuse-programs-28-million
— Race, wealth disparities underlie turnout for ballot questions hitting voters’ wallets. Anticipate/expect that voters want tax increasers that they will not have to pay.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/03/26/tax-referendum-race-wealth-disparity-cook-county
— Democrat leaders always want higher taxes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/03/26/illinois-education-funding-poll-public-schools
— Democrat leaders glorify and praise Lake View high school senior Bella Brown. What leadership skills did you show in high school? I showed none. Because I needed money for college, I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School and the summer in between. I used the money that I earned and saved to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966 that I used to commute from my parents’ home in Crete to a) summer jobs in 1966, b) classes at UIC 1966-1967, and c) delivering mail in Park Forest 1966-1967.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/03/26/education-bella-brown-national-honor-society-scholarship
DAILY HERALD
— District 200 school board race pits incumbents against challengers questioning middle school projects
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250326/local-politics/district-200-school-board-race-pits-incumbents-against-challengers-questioning-middle-school-project/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— As Trump’s attack sets in, Chicago’s Jenner & Block faces a choice: Fight or fold? GAO is just a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it and/or if Bowsher had reformed GAO and/or successfully fought Gingrich, there would be no need for a DOGE today.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/trump-executive-order-forces-hard-choices-jenner-block
— Illinois EV sales surged, fueled by incentives
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-ev-sales-surge-early-2025-fueled-incentives
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders always want higher taxes.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/03/26/new-poll-shows-most-in-illinois-want-more-funding-for-public-schools
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/curious-city/2025/03/26/dnp
WGN RADIO
— The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/how-has-the-trump-administration-affected-illinois/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the ever-increasingly profane Duckworth.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/03/26/us-senator-tammy-duckworth-calls-pete-hegseth-a-f-liar/82677446007/
JOURNAL COURIER
— Federal workers targeted for DEI-related activities file class action complaint. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/politics/article/federal-workers-targeted-for-dei-related-20242710.php
RIVER BENDER
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/on-equal-pay-day-duckworth-durbin-join-senate-democrats-in-reintroducing-paycheck-fairness-act-to-help-end-wage-discrimination-close-gender-pay-gap-80977.cfm?
WAND TV & PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against non-Republicans, and because of that, non-Republicans cannot succeed without massive government assistance.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/founders-of-black-owned-brands-adapt-their-hopes-and-business-plans-for-a-post-dei/article_9b6c8758-1614-5a7c-baf5-132208171197.html
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-03-26/senior-issues/facing-funding-hurdles-il-march-for-meals-event-moves-forward/a95992-1
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-276/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at voters to punish Trump by voting for Democrat and RINO candidates in the April 1, 2025 election. How much success have they had doing that in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. What do you say to RINO leaders who display yard signs for Democrat and RINO candidates? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I oppose mass/illegal immigration. All of my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have and I had to work my way through college. None of my critics/opponents can say that because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To promote Affirmative Action, DEI, and/or wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www/gopillinois.com
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Another Democrat Uses the “F” Word
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/another-democrat-uses-the-f-word/
— Text Reveals Kat Abughazaleh’s Anti-Israel Views
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/text-reveals-out-kat-abughazalehs-anti-israeli-views/
— Kat Abughazaleh Upsets the Democratic Party Establishment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/kat-abughazaleh-upsets-the-democratic-party-establishment/
— The Key Difference in the Schakowsky v. Abughazaleh Primary Election
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/the-key-difference-in-the-schakowsky-v-abughazaleh-primary-election/
— Democrats Shut Off Rep. Jeff Keicher’s Microphone
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/democrats-shut-off-rep-jeff-keichers-microphone/
— Lesperance Mails in Support of His Campaign for Nunda Township Road Commissioner Re-Election
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/lesperance-mails-in-support-of-his-campaign-for-nunda-township-road-commissioner-re-election/
— 26-Year Old Chicago Resident, TicTok “Influencer” Challenging 80-Year Old Jan Schakowsky
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/26-year-old-chicago-resident-tictoc-influencer-challenging-80-year-old-jan-schakowsky/
— Former Nunda Township Clerk Endorses Parrish for Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/former-nunda-township-clerk-endorses-parrish-for-road-commissioner/
— Bill Maher Sems to Say Blue State Dems Too Stupid to Save Themselves, Illinois Set To Lose One or Two Seats in Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/bill-maher-sems-to-say-blue-state-dems-too-stupid-to-save-themselves/
— Wilcox Opposes Shopping Bag Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/wilcox-opposes-shopping-bag-tax/
— Pharmacies Must Sell One Hundred Needles Upon Request to Anyone Over 18 under Bill That Had No Committee Opposition
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/pharmacies-must-sell-one-hundred-needles-upon-request-under-bill-that-had-no-committee-opposition/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The Democratic Party Exposes its True Allegiance. Democrat leaders want their illegals to vote.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/opinion-the-democratic-party-exposes-its-true-allegiance.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago aggravated batteries hit 5-year high; 3 in 5 victims are Black
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-aggravated-batteries-hit-5-year-high-3-in-5-victims-are-black/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pritzker puts himself forward as the Democrats’ anti-Trump champion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/25/jb-pritzker-puts-forward-democrats-anti-trump-champion/
— Why women are struggling with marriage. Finding ‘Mr. Right’ What did you do to make yourself marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, I had a) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree from NIU when I was 21, b) earned and a job-related master’s degree from Loyola when I was 27 , c) started earning more than $100,000/year in today’s dollars when I was 25, and c) bought a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building when I was 27.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/women-struggling-marriage/
— Military academy leaders find ‘woke’ classes after combing through curriculum for DEI violations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/military-academy-leaders-find-handful-possibly-woke-courses-offered/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin bars illegal migrants and non-permanent residents from receiving taxpayer-backed mortgages. I got my first mortgage when I was 24 years old in 1972. I there had been as much pressure back then to give mortgages to illegals as there is now, I might not have gotten that mortgage.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/26/us-news/trump-admin-bars-illegal-migrants-and-non-permanent-residents-from-receiving-taxpayer-backed-mortgages/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— If Judges Can Stymie the Will of the People, We Don’t Have a Democracy Anymore. The Trump administration is right: Judge Boasberg has no authority to direct the national security operations of the United States.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/if-judges-can-stymie-the-will-of-the-people-we-dont-have-a-democracy-anymore/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Hegseth boards plane flanked by two ‘bada**’ women, and the politically correct capitulation tour continues
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/hegseth_boards_plane_flanked_by_two_bada_women_and_the_politically_correct_capitulation_tour_continues.html
BLAZE
— GOP torches NPR, PBS for political bias amid public funding scrutiny
https://www.theblaze.com/news/gop-torches-npr-pbs-for-political-bias-amid-public-funding-scrutiny
BREITBART
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the ever-increasingly profane Duckworth.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/26/dem-sen-tammy-duckworth-calls-for-pete-hegseth-to-resign-fking-liar/
CHRISTIANITY TODAY
— Religious Employers in Illinois May Be Compelled to Hire Abortion-Related Employees
https://www.christianitydaily.com/news/employers-in-illinois-may-be-compelled-to-hire-abortion-employees.html
COLLEGE FIX
— No-whites-allowed Illinois scholarship program for future professors under fire. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a stupid son of rich parents because I never got any scholarships. In my defense, I have stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, and e) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/no-whites-allowed-illinois-scholarship-program-for-future-professors-under-fire/
DAILY CALLER
— Companies Backing Out Of Supporting Several Major Gay Pride Events Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/26/companies-backing-out-of-supporting-several-major-gay-pride-events-amid-trumps-dei-crackdown/
FOX NEWS
— Migrants abusing the asylum system have slowed down dramatically
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370602052112
LIFE NEWS
— Illinois Pro-Life March Calls Pritzker the Most Radically Pro-Abortion Governor in America
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/26/illinois-pro-life-march-calls-jb-pritzker-the-most-radically-pro-abortion-governor-in-america/
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— K-12 Is Getting More Woke, Not Less
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/03/26/k-12_is_getting_more_woke_not_less_1100069.html
TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin Needs to Reverse Biden Wokeness and Weaponization
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/03/27/government-needs-to-root-out-wokeness-all-the-way-down-to-the-root-n2654509
— Rogue Judges Are a Threat to Democracy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeremyfrankel/2025/03/26/gill-comments-on-boasberg-n2654516
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump’s immigration policies find support as he expands crackdown
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-immigration-policies-find-support-he-expands-crackdown-2025-03-26/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-Filled Trump-Hating Trump-Haters Say That Trump Is Taking The Law Into His Own Hands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/opinion/trump-judges-congress.html
FOX NASHVILLE
— PBS and NPR exist to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwYQHJEb5to
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Supreme Court, Race and Redistricting. The Justices have a chance to stop racial gerrymanders. Illinois Democrats horribly gerrymandered Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District to favor Hispanics.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/louisiana-v-callais-supreme-court-redistricting-racial-gerrymanders-brett-kavanaugh-23a099a3
BLOOMBERG
— Pritzker Is Ready to Brawl Through 2028
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-27/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-is-ready-to-brawl-through-2028
BARRON’S
— Democrat And RINO Leaders Say That New Cars Could Become Luxury Purchase as Trump Tariffs Threaten Jump in Domestic Prices. I was able to buy a new car when I was 17 years old in 1966 with money that I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage for 18 months.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-032725/card/new-cars-could-become-luxury-purchase-as-trump-tariffs-threaten-jump-in-domestic-prices-cVEhyHjttRIWsf0LJ5IE
NPR
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, tariffs on auto makers will not bring manufacturing back. I worked on an automotive assembly line in Belvidere in early 1970.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341796/will-trump-new-tariffs-on-auto-makers-bring-manufacturing-back
AMERICAN PROSPECT
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
http://www.gopillinois.com
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-03-27-trumps-simple-racism/
LGBTQ NATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/donald-trumps-anti-dei-crusade-takes-a-page-straight-from-the-authoritarian-playbook/
DAILY MAIL
— DeSantis reveals bombshell plan to replace undocumented migrant workers. All of my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have and I had to work my way through college. None of my critics/opponents can say that because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14541435/Ron-DeSantis-bombshell-plan-replace-undocumented-migrant-workers.html
GUARDIAN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as being Union soldiers in the Civil War and b) paint today’s Republicans as being Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. While all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois and they all were Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/confederacy-trump-republican