FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abc7chicago.com/post/protests-expected-chicago-tuesday-ice-raids-solidarity-situation-los-angeles-trump-sends-national-guard/16712958/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/immigration-protest-takes-to-chicago-streets-before-rally-at-federal-plaza/3765013/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/waukegan-family-to-self-deport-amid-ongoing-immigration-crackdowns/3764899/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/live-updates-more-anti-ice-demonstrations-expected-for-the-fifth-straight-day-in-los-angeles/3764551/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/no-kings-protest-chicago-saturday-what-to-know/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://wgntv.com/migrants-in-chicago/ice-protests-chicago/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-immigration-protest-undocumented-neighbors
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1655817
— Trump calls for protesters who burn the American flag to be jailed for 1 year
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-anti-ice-protests-american-flag-burning-jail
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/06/10/protests-chicago-ice-raids-los-angeles
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/08/chicago-ice-police-protest/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/10/trump-los-angeles-protests/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/10/ice-immigration-trump-deportation-know-your-rights/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/10/trump-marines-national-guard-los-angeles/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/10/los-angeles-protests-what/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/10/los-angles-pentagon-troops/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/10/protests-chicago-ice-raids-los-angeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/10/california-governor-trump-administration-immigration-raids
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250610/nation-and-world-politics/trump-sends-marines-and-more-national-guard-members-to-los-angeles/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in Mundelein
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250610/marijuana/mundelein-expands-available-dispensary-licenses-ahead-of-proposed-pot-shop/
SOUTHERN
— Speaker Johnson, backing Trump’s LA actions, says Newsom should be ‘tarred and feathered’
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/10/speaker-johnson-backing-trumps-la-actions-says-newsom-should-be-tarred-and-feathered/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Harris backs anti-ICE riots, criticizes Trump for escalating LA tensions
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/harris-backs-anti-ice-protests-criticizes-trump-for-escalating-la-tensions
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump pledges to ‘liberate’ LA as he visits troops at Fort Bragg
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-the-latest-trump-heads-to-fort-bragg-to-celebrate-250th-anniversary-for-us-army/
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://chicagoreader.com/music/chicagoans-of-note/beverly-bev-rage-drinks-pride-midsommarfest/
ELMHURST PATCH
— Alleged Elmhurst Petition Forgeries Still Being Investigated
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/alleged-elmhurst-petition-forgeries-still-being-investigated
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-323/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-530/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Second Amendment Foundation weighs in on Illinois assault weapons ban lawsuit
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_469d7ffb-47a8-49c0-8720-7c59f46317f0.html
ILLINOIS ANSWERS
— Child Care Costs are Crushing Families. Back in the good old days, that is, back in 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, my father, who never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, earned enough that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother.
https://illinoisanswers.org/2025/05/27/were-at-the-mercy-of-child-care-child-care-costs-are-crushing-families-illinois-largest-subsidy-excludes-thousands/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Gutting Our Language, Diminishing Our Culture
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/gutting-our-language-diminishing-our-culture/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump says Army parade protesters will be met with ‘very big force’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/10/donald-trump-says-army-parade-protesters-met-big-force/
— What riot? Democrats don’t see violence or mayhem at Los Angeles protests
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/10/riot-democrats-dont-see-violence-mayhem-los-angeles-protests/
— Trump said he will invoke Insurrection Act if necessary
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/10/trump-said-invoke-insurrection-act-necessary/
— Trump says Los Angeles would be ‘burning to the ground’ if he hadn’t deployed troops
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/10/donald-trump-says-la-would-burning-ground-hadnt-deployed-troops/
— GOP senator calls for 15% tax on remittances that immigrants send home
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/10/sen-eric-schmitt-calls-15-tax-remittances-immigrants-send-home/
— Trump announces plans to restore original names of eight Army bases named for Confederates
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/10/trump-announces-plans-restore-original-names-eight-army-bases-named/
— DOGE Revealed how Democrats turned Fed budget into war chest. Taxpayers have funded the party for far too long.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/10/doge-revealed-democrats-turned-fed-budget-war-chest/
NEW YORK POST
— House Republicans vote to overturn DC law allowing noncitizens to vote
https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/us-news/house-votes-to-overturn-dc-law-allowing-noncitizens-to-vote/
— LA anti-ICE looters shatter Apple store and make off with iPhones, Adidas in another night of chaos
https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/us-news/la-anti-ice-looters-shatter-apple-store-and-make-off-with-iphones-adidas-in-another-night-of-chaos/
— Los Angeles anti-ICE rioters are launching the left’s American intifada
https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/opinion/la-anti-ice-rioters-will-set-off-the-lefts-american-intifada/
BREITBART
— ‘Mexican Flag Has Become a Defining Symbol’ of Los Angeles Riots
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/10/cnn-mexican-flag-has-become-defining-symbol-los-angeles-riots/
— Union Chiefs, Jayapal, Pledge ‘Solidarity’ with Illegals, not Americans
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/06/10/watch-union-chiefs-jayapal-pledge-solidarity-with-illegals-not-americans/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The LA Riots Prove that Democrats Need Illegals
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/the_la_riots_prove_that_democrats_need_illegals.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump DHS lists more criminal illegals it nabbed in LA raids
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/10/trump-dhs-lists-more-criminal-illegals-it-nabbed-in-la-raids-1550152/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump DHS Lists More Criminal Illegals It Nabbed In LA Raids
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/10/trump-dhs-los-angeles-ice-raids-apprehensions/
— All The Usual Suspects Are Behind The Left’s Latest ‘Protests’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/10/rooke-left-protests-riots-christy-walton-walmart-june-trump/
NEWS BUSTERS
— Ridiculous NY Times Article Cites ‘Largely Peaceful’ L.A. Riots Four Times
https://www.newsbusters.org/node/289372/print
— Networks Double Down on Illegals, Bash Trump ‘Creating the Conditions’ for LA Riots
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/06/09/networks-double-down-illegals-bash-trump-creating-conditions-la
NEWSMAX
— Trump Plans Illegal Migrant Transfers to Guantanamo Bay
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/guantanamo-bay-illegal-migrant-donald-trump/2025/06/10/id/1214358/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— As Newsom Lets Illegals Burn LA, Remember He Sent Armed Enforcers After Christians Who Didn’t Mask 2 Year Olds
https://www.westernjournal.com/video-newsom-illegals-burn-la-remember-sent-armed-enforcers-christians-didnt-mask-2-year-olds/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Hegseth says National Guard, Marines mobilized to L.A. because “we believe ICE agents should be allowed to be safe in doing their operations”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-hegseth-los-angeles-protest-national-guard-marines/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Southern Baptists Endorse Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage. The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/southern-baptist-obergefell-same-sex-marriage.html
RASMUISSEN REPORTS
— Most Agree with Musk’s Slam on ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/most_agree_with_musk_s_slam_on_big_beautiful_bill
CPA PRACTICE
— 11 CPA Candidates Take Home Elijah Watt Sells Award for 2024. More than 74,000 individuals sat for the CPA exam last year, but only 11 met the criteria to receive the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award from the AICPA and NASBA. Politics is nasty/vicious. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. Only about 20% who take the examination can say that. But my critics/opponents stress that others got better scores than I did. Very few CPAs become licensed CPAs. But I did.
https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2025/06/10/11-cpa-candidates-take-home-elijah-watt-sells-award-for-2024/162838/
TIK TOK
— Gold Rush Rally at Iron Gate in Naperville
https://www.tiktok.com/@foxandcars/video/7513681885038497067
https://www.tiktok.com/@27frostt/video/7513834009525390638
https://www.tiktok.com/@carspottervandy/video/7513341788531346719
https://www.tiktok.com/@carspottervandy/video/7513350904431594783
https://www.tiktok.com/@27frostt/video/7513834693188586798
https://www.tiktok.com/@27frostt/video/7513833960539983147
https://www.tiktok.com/@27frostt/video/7513834545456925998
https://www.tiktok.com/@snooomzy/video/7513644778869853470
Tag: POT
June 6, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Republicans urge Trump and Musk to end their feud
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/trump-musk-feud/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/ice-chicago-immigrants-detained/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/ice-subpoenas-chicago-records-city-id-immigrants/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/trump-travel-ban-chicago/
— C. William Pollard, former Wheaton College administrator became cleaning company CEO, dies at 86
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/c-william-pollard-former-wheaton-college-administrator-became-cleaning-company-ceo-dies-at-86/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/06/outside-immigration-center-in-broadview-tears-and-tension-as-supporters-demand-release-of-those-detained
— Way too much fell through the cracks at the Statehouse
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/06/illinois-budget-statehouse-energy-taxes-environment-legislative-leaders
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marketing-media/companies-sponsor-pride-chicago-other-parades-struggle
ABC7
— A day after blistering exchange, Trump calls Musk ‘man who has lost his mind’ Trump has not responded to Musk’s attack regarding the alleged sex trafficker.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-calls-elon-musk-man-has-lost-mind-day-blistering-exchange/16675485/
NBC5
— Trump considers getting rid of his Tesla on heels of Musk feud. The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-considers-getting-rid-of-his-tesla-on-heels-of-elon-musk-feud/3762366/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-responds-chicago-ice-arrests-south-loop/
FOX32
— 68-acre horse farm in Crete converted into recovery site for men
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/68-acre-horse-farm-will-county-recovery-site-men
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/06/05/south-loop-immigration-arrests-spark-outrage-calls-for-changes-to-citys-sanctuary-law
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/06/06/chicagos-immigrant-community-sad-and-numb-over-trumps-new-travel-ban
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with foreign countries against America
https://www.news-gazette.com/governments-denounce-trumps-travel-ban-and-vow-to-push-back-against-us/article_037b3ae3-12a1-56bd-90a3-ceb5c7b203c8.html
RIVER BENDER
— Accounting Major Ralph Wideman Delivers Address At Illinois High School Diploma Graduation. Career counseling is very important. My not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970 was a very big career mistake. I erroneously thought that I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/accounting-major-ralph-wideman-delivers-address-at-illinois-high-school-diploma-graduation-83241.cfm?
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow gutting of Education Department. Gingrich gutted GAO during the 1980s and 1990s. If he had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-gutting-of-education-department/
WROK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in Mundelein
https://1440wrok.com/ixp/721/p/miracle-mundelein-cannabis-festival/
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-06-06/analysis-black-drivers-more-likely-to-be-stopped-by-campus-police-in-illinois-including-at-isu
NPR ILLINOIS
— No ‘going back’ for Musk after calling for Trump impeachment, says Bannon.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-06/no-going-back-for-elon-musk-after-calling-for-trump-impeachment-says-steve-bannon
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more LGBTQ
https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/rhinestone-digest/rhinestone-digest-june-2025-pride/
SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND
— Gay Community endorses Robin Kelly for the U.S. Senate
https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2025/06/06/gay-community-endorses-robin-kelly-for-the-u-s-senate/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-322/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois Senate Republicans sue peers over last-minute, $55B budget vote
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-senate-republicans-sue-peers-over-last-minute-55b-budget-vote/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Watchdog group says Biden White House used three different autopen signatures. Autopen use ‘exploded’ as Biden faded cognitively.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/6/watchdog-group-says-biden-white-house-used-three-different-autopen/
— Senate Judiciary Committee declassifies FBI’s files outlining plot to undermine Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/6/editorial-senate-judiciary-committee-declassifies-fbis-files/
NEW YOK POST
— Here’s how much Elon Musk’s government contracts are really worth — as Trump threatens to cut them
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/us-news/heres-how-much-elon-musks-government-contracts-are-really-worth/
— Elon Musk signs off on suggestion Trump should be impeached, removed from office
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/us-news/elon-musk-signs-off-on-suggestion-trump-should-be-impeached-removed-from-office/
BREITBART
— Killers, Rapists, Child Predators, Domestic Abusers Among Illegals Arrested by ICE Agents
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/06/exclusive-killers-rapists-child-predators-domestic-abusers-among-illegals-arrested-ice-agents-sanctuary-massachusetts/
— Left-Wing Groups Publish ICE Agent Locations, Hoping to Disrupt Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/06/06/left-wing-groups-publish-ice-agent-locations-hoping-to-disrupt-deportations/
FEDERALIST
— College Degrees And Income Aren’t The Only Measures Of Educational Success. My father often decried his not having a bachelor’s degree. That motivated me to get one.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/06/data-shows-college-degrees-and-income-arent-the-only-measures-of-educational-success/
— Republicans Have No Good Reason To Vote Against Funding Mass Deportations. Democrat and RINO leaders should pay for deporting their illegals.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/06/republicans-have-no-good-reason-to-vote-against-funding-mass-deportations/
TOWNHALL
— Biden Program Coordinated with UN to Bring Illegals Here at Our Expense. Democrat and RINO leaders should pay for deporting their illegals.
https://townhall.com/columnists/james-fitzpatrick/2025/06/06/biden-program-coordinated-with-un-to-bring-illegals-here-at-our-expense-n2658264
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said it was “deeply disturbing” that a Sikh delivered a prayer in the House chamber on Friday — after apparently mistaking him for a Muslim man. The since-deleted post Friday morning sparked immediate bipartisan criticism.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5337130-illinois-republican-mary-miller-sikh-muslim-prayer/
MSN
— Musk’s Net Worth Plunges Nearly $30 Billion Amid Trump Feud. What did you do that diminished your net worth? I opposed my Democrat superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/elon-musk-s-net-worth-plunges-nearly-30-billion-amid-trump-feud/ar-AA1Gax80
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/05/us/trump-news-travel-ban
NEW REPUBLIC
— Russia Offers Elon Musk Asylum as Fight With Trump Intensifies. Russian officials are having a field day with the sudden Musk-Trump feud.
https://newrepublic.com/post/196256/russia-offers-elon-musk-asylum-fight-trump-intensifies
June 4, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— RESTRICTING THE ENTRY OF FOREIGN NATIONALS TO PROTECT THE UNITED STATES FROM FOREIGN TERRORISTS AND OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY THREATS
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump announces travel ban affecting a dozen countries set to go into effect Monday
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/trump-travel-ban/
— Trump moves to block US entry for foreigners planning to study at Harvard University
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/trump-block-foreigners-harvard/
— US judge issues order stopping the deportation of family of man charged in Boulder firebombing
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/boulder-firebombing/
— Local officials, protesters clash with ICE outside office over detentions in growing escalation over Trump’s immigration tactics
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/ice-protesters-clash-immigration/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump signed proclamation to ban travel from 12 countries, restriction on 7 countries
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/06/04/trump-signed-proclamation-to-ban-travel-from-12-countries-restriction-on-7-countries
— Hate-filled Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/04/donald-trump-tariff-immigration-ice-foreign-students-universities-courts-jacob-sullum
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/04/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-gaza-prices-economy-big-beautiful-bill-s-e-cupp
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders push pot in Bartlett
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250604/news/controversial-marijuana-dispensary-near-bartlett-day-care-center-falls-short-of-approval-in-tie-vote/
ABC7
— Chicago minimum wage set to increase July 1. Did you ever work for the minimum wage? I did 1964-1966 washing dishes in Chicago Heights while I was a junior and a senior at Crete-Monee High School. With the money that I earned, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, a poor man’s GTO, in May of 1966, and I used it to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and summer jobs and then classes at UIC and my part-time Park Forest Post Office job. When you were in high school, did your classmates work part-time during the school year and/or full-time during the summers in between like I did? Few of my high school classmates did. There were few good jobs available. I worked far too many hours washing dishes instead of studying. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory classes, I got an ACT score of 24, I got into the upper 20% of my class, and UIC accepted me.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-minimum-wage-set-increase-july-1-changes-paid-leave-sick-time/16656187/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/paul-simon-chicago-job-corps-center-closing-end-month-us-department-labor-phasing-operations-leaving-homeless/16656546/
NBC5
— Emboldened and out of government, Elon Musk breaks with Trump’s agenda
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/elon-musk-breaks-with-trump-agenda/3760671/
— ICE agents, demonstrators clash during apparent Chicago immigration operation
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ice-agents-demonstrators-clash-during-apparent-chicago-immigration-operation/3760618/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in the northwest suburbs
https://www.aol.com/cannabis-friendly-music-festival-returning-205023257.html
FOX32
— 45% spike in marijuana use by boomers
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/boomer-marijuana-use-spike-2025
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more LGBTQ on children in Downers Grove
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/06/04/a-day-of-pride-and-celebration-dg-pridefest-returns-to-fishel-park-on-saturday/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-04/worldpride-is-in-d-c-this-year-which-may-be-why-attendance-and-sponsorship-are-down
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-04/trump-wants-to-cut-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-for-controlling-hiv-aids
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump unleashes MAGA rebellion on Federalist Society. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes destroy the Illinois Center Right Coalition and then TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/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 cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-unleashes-maga-rebellion-on-federalist-society/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at non-Whites that Republicans cause all the problems that non-Whites have.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/in-white-with-fear-chicago-born-filmmaker-tackles-links-between-white-supremacy-and-the-right/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— How dependent on foreign students are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/06/02/trump-student-visa-crackdown-illinois-impact
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-320/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Full Scholarship to Finish College at University Center in Woodstock for One MCC Graduate Funded in Memory of Former MCC Board Member Erv LeCoque
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/full-scholarship-to-finish-college-at-university-center-in-woodstock-for-one-mcc-graduate-funded-in-memory-of-former-mcc-board-member-erv-lecoque/
— Taking Responsibility for Tax Money Received Is Good Government
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/taking-responsibility-for-tax-money-received-is-good-government/
— What Is the Relevance of “They/them” to a Chicago Tribune Story on Storks Nesting in Lincoln Park Zoo
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/what-is-the-relevance-of-they-them-to-a-chicago-tribune-story-on-storks-nesting-in-lincoln-park-zoo/
— Domestic Violence Grant Awarded to McHenry County State’s Attorney
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/domestic-violence-grant-awarded-to-mchenry-county-states-attorney/
— The Only Member of Congress to Ever Live in McHenry County, Joe Walsh, Announces Switch to Democrats
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/the-only-member-of-congress-to-ever-live-in-mchenry-county-joe-walsh-announces-switch-to-democrats/
— DeWitte Comments on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/dewitte-comments-on-democrats-budget/
— $40 Million German Flavor Producing Factory Coming to Huntley
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/40-million-flavor-producing-factory-coming-to-huntley/
— Pritzker Acts to Force Hospitals to Do Abortions, Calling The, “Life-Saving”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/pritzker-acts-to-force-hospitals-to-do-abortions-calling-the-life-saving/
— West Nile Mosquito Found in Lake in the Hills
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/west-nile-mosquito-found-in-lake-in-the-hills/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Stephen Miller puts illegal immigration at center of GOP debate around Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3431050/stephen-miller-illegal-immigration-trump-big-beautiful-bill/
— Trump’s criticism of Rand Paul is wrong and misguided
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3430922/trumps-criticism-of-rand-paul-wrong-and-misguided/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Musk Disappointed With ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Elon labels legislation a “disgusting abomination.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/musk-disappointed-with-big-beautiful-bill/
BREITBART
— Marco Rubio Marks Tiananmen Square Massacre Anniversary: ‘The World Will Never Forget’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/04/marco-rubio-marks-tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-the-world-will-never-forget/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Bans New Visas for Foreign Nationals From 12 Countries. The proclamation will not limit ’the ability of an individual to seek asylum, refugee status, withholding of removal, or protection.’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-bans-new-visas-for-foreign-nationals-from-12-countries-5868072
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— There are Now Over 1,000 Sanctuary Jurisdictions Nationwide
https://www.fairus.org/press-release/state-and-local/sanctuary-jurisdictions-america-report
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump signs ban on entry from 12 countries, restrictions on 7 more
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-travel-ban-multiple-countries/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump’s proclamation fully restricts and limits the entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, the officials said. It partially restricts the entry of people from seven countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.)
CBS MIAMI
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/video/fear-amongst-asylum-seekers-who-could-lose-work-permits/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Far too many who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform and b) have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and c) read my newsletters and/or have their operatives and their dupes read them for opposition research. If you were me, how would you deal with that? Should I start naming them? I would start with those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/technology/ftc-investigates-media-matters.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Federalist Society Is Doing Just Fine After Getting Dumped by Trump. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes destroy the Illinois Center Right Coalition and then TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/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 cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/leonard-leo-trump-2cd729c8
June 2, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pride-month-begins-june-1-celebrations-world-heres-what-expect-history-lgbtq-marches-events/16624427/
— Illinois lawmakers pass $55.2B budget with new taxes, immigrant health cuts, no transit funding. Senate approves taxes on sports bets, nicotine; no funding for Chicago Bears to build new stadium.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-senate-passes-state-55b-budget-new-taxes-sports-bets-nicotine-products-income-sales-not-affected/16619774/
NBC5
— Musk says he doesn’t ‘want to take responsibility for everything the administration’s doing’
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/elon-musk-responsibility-trump-administration/3757902/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-2025-pride-fest-parade/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm6P-zWZmqA
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blIClZQxkpo
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Buffalo Grove.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/hundreds-celebrate-joy-love-togetherness-buffalo-grove-pride-parade
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/carol-hui-mayorga-kennett-missouri-deportation
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— List of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ removed from US government website following criticism.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/sanctuary-jurisdictions-removed-government-website/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: After lawmakers pass budget with cuts and tax hikes, Gov. JB Pritzker blames state’s fiscal challenges on Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/after-lawmakers-pass-budget-with-cuts-and-tax-hikes-gov-jb-pritzker-blames-states-fiscal-challenges-on-trump/
— Outrage over President Donald Trump’s electric vehicle policies is misplaced
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/02/opinion-electric-vehicles-donald-trump-jobs/
— When school boards ride in limousines and students lack the basics
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-school-boards-ride-limousines-100000506.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Hyde Park.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/06/01/hyde-park-art-center-pride-month-lgbtq-artists
— Fake IDs now as good as the real thing — and essential to Chicago’s college social scene. What percent of pot is bought with fake IDs?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/06/02/chicago-fake-id-college-underage-social-drinking
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Buffalo Grove.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250601/news/buffalo-grove-embraces-its-diversity-with-seventh-annual-pride-parade/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: New taxes on sports bets, nicotine products as Democrats pass $55.2B budget.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250601/illinois-state-politics/new-taxes-on-sports-bets-nicotine-products-as-democrats-pass-55-2b-budget/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— At least 50 Illinois villages, towns, cities and counties to see increases in local taxes
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/06/02/several-illinois-counties-will-soon-see-increases-in-local-sales-taxes/83927679007/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/02/we-see-you-in-trump-era-washington-world-pride-2025-organizers-aim-to-bring-hope-to-lgbtq-community/
JOURNAL TOPICS
— Young Republicans Host County Chairman, Former Governor Candidate June 3.
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/young-republicans-host-county-chairman-former-governor-candidate-june-3/
NORTHERN STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Dekalb.
https://northernstar.info/126064/opinion/the-importance-of-pride-month/
INDY 100
— Pope Leo to hold mass in Chicago – and people think it’s some ‘top tier’ Trump trolling
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/pope-leo-xiv-chicago-mass-trump-trolling-2672244594
WGLT
— Central Illinois lawmakers stick to party lines on state budget.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-06-01/central-illinois-lawmakers-stick-to-party-lines-on-state-budget
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker’s budget blame game: Trump
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/06/02/pritzkers-budget-blame-game-trump-00379965
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-525/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrats run the federal government. Federal employees are their patronage army. They hired me in 1980, 1971, and 1966 because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They wasted my career and got rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/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 cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you deduct education expenses? My IRS employee manual strongly encouraged me to take graduate business, accounting, and law courses. But IRS provided no reimbursement for tuition or books. Nevertheless, a) I started taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972 and earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and b) I started taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul in 1976 and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I deducted the tuition and books. In 1978, to get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my deductions. I should write about that. They outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically argued a) that the courses did not relate to my job duties, b) that the courses did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took the courses to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took the courses to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They ignored the content of my applications, course descriptions, and position descriptions. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivated you to overcome workplace obstacles and keep on working? The importance of the Post Office’s mission (delivering mail), IRS’s mission (funding the federal government), and GAO’s mission (fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse) helped me overcome workplace obstacles and to keep on working. While I was a S.S. Kresge employee 1964-1966, it was my wanting money to buy a new car (1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint) to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC. While I was a postal employee 1966-1969, it was my need for money to pay for my UIC and NIU expenses and to buy new cars (1968 Oldsmobile 442 and 1969 Dodge Charger SE) to get to/from classes and work. While I was a Firestone Store employee 1970-1972, it included my need for money to help support my mother and brother. While I was an IRS employee 1971-1980, it included my wanting money to pay for my Loyola and DePaul education expenses, to buy new cars (1972 Corvette, 1974 Dodge Dart, 1978 Chevy Chevette, and 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale), and to buy a new town home in 1972, a studio condo in 1974, a one bedroom condo in 1976, and a home in Wheaton in 1978. While I was a GAO employee 1980-1997 it included my wanting money to pay for my DePaul education expenses in 1980 and my IIT education expenses 1992-1997, to have a home built in Wheaton in 1984, to buy new cars in 1989, 1993, 1995, and 1996, to buy collector cars (1962 Chevrolet Impala SS in 1989 and 1968 Charger R/T in 1994), etc. The importance of the Post Office’s mission (delivering mail), IRS’s mission (funding the federal government), and GAO’s mission (fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse) helped me overcome workplace obstacles and to keep on working. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Democrats Raise Legislative Salaries to $98,304
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/democrats-raise-salaries-to-98304/
— Marty McLaughlin Comments on “Another Year, Another Near Record-Breaking Democrat Budget”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/marty-mclaughlin-comments-on-another-year-another-near-record-breaking-democrat-budget/
— Joe Sosnowski Reacts to Budget: “Tax, Spend, Tax, Spend, Repeat”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/joe-sosnowski-reacts-to-budget-tax-spend-tax-spend-repeat/
— Jeff Keicher Comments on Record Budget, Cites $1 Billion in Tax Hikes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/jeff-keicher-comments-on-record-budget-cites-1-billion-in-tax-hikes/
— Southern Illinois State Rep. IDs Waste in Dems $55 Billion Spending
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/state-rep-ids-waste-in-dems-55-billion-spending/
— Tax Alert from Southern Illinois Republican State Senator Terri Bryant
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/tax-alert-from-southern-illinois-republican-state-senator-terri-bryant/
— Former State Rep. Allen Skillicorn Arrested for Hit and Run in Arizona
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/31/8107/
— The Leftward Bias of Colleges and Universities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/31/the-leftward-bias-of-colleges-and-universities/
— Illinois Ranks 48th in New Tax Population & Study
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/31/illinois-ranks-48th-in-new-tax-population-study/
— A Splendid Analysis of the Refusal of Democrats to Allow Illinois Legislators Sufficient Time to Consider Budget Bills
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/31/a-splendid-analysis-of-the-refusal-of-democrats-to-allow-illinois-legislators-sufficient-time-to-consider-budget-bills/
— McHenry County One of Six Not Among Those Listed by Homeland Security as Defying Federal Immigration Law
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/mchenry-county-one-of-six-not-among-those-listed-by-homeland-security-as-defying-federal-immigration-law/
— Ness Plans Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/ness-plans-fundraiser/
— Don DeWitte on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/don-dewitte-on-democrats-budget/
— UPDATE: McHenry County One of Six Not Among Those Listed by Homeland Security as Defying Federal Immigration Law, FEDS REMOVE LIST
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/mchenry-county-one-of-six-not-among-those-listed-by-homeland-security-as-defying-federal-immigration-law/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Much of wokeness fueled by the sexual revolution. The left celebrates and protects all the wrong things.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/1/much-wokeness-fueled-sexual-revolution/
— Musk’s historic role showed that even a chainsaw can’t cut federal bloat.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/1/elon-musks-historic-role-showed-even-chainsaw-cant-cut-federal-bloat/
— Left’s ranks are filled with angry, bitter women who have been seduced by lies. Feminism: Marxism’s most grotesque mutation.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/1/lefts-ranks-filled-angry-bitter-women-seduced-lies/
— The ‘gospel of pride’ Is not the Gospel of Christ. Jesus did address sexual morality.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/1/gospel-pride-gospel-christ/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrats made themselves toxic — now they’re addicted to their own poison.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/01/opinion/toxic-democrats-are-addicted-to-their-own-dei-poison/
— DOGE started the war on waste —now it’s up to Congress to keep it going. GAO is supposed to fight government waste. But instead, the Democrats who run GAO wasted me.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/31/opinion/doge-started-war-on-waste-its-up-to-congress-to-finish-it/
— Colorado firebomb terror attack suspect was in the US illegally after overstaying his visa, previously applied for asylum
https://nypost.com/2025/06/02/us-news/colorado-terror-attack-suspect-was-in-the-united-states-illegally-after-overstaying-his-visa-previously-applied-for-asylum/
— Is America’s Jewish leadership failing American Jews?
https://nypost.com/2025/06/01/us-news/is-americas-jewish-leadership-failed-american-jews/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Thank you, President Trump, for Confronting South Africa’s Black Supremacy. In post-apartheid South Africa, hopes for equality have decayed into racial vengeance, as black supremacists target white farmers amid silence from global elites.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/02/thank-you-president-trump-for-confronting-south-africas-black-supremacy/
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Lasting Damage of the George Floyd Riots.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/30/the-stain-of-george-floyd-riots-on-america-5-years-later/
— Harvard, You’re Entitled to Nothing.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/29/harvard-youre-entitled-to-nothing/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Harvard has “been a pox on our educational system at least since the 1920s.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/harvard-has-been-a-pox-on-our-educational-system-at-least-since-the-1920s/amp/
NEWSMAX
— All Immigration Law Violators Should Be Arrested.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/michael-cutler-ice-tom-homan/2025/06/01/id/1213145/
— Noem Defends DHS List Targeting Sanctuary Cities.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/kristi-noem-dhs-sanctuary-cities/2025/06/01/id/1213172/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Citizenship and That Pesky Constitution
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/06/02/citizenship_and_that_pesky_constitution_152863.html
— Democrats Do Stand For Things, Like “Illegal Aliens and Boys In Girls’ Sports”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/06/01/scott_jennings_democrats_do_stand_for_things_illegal_aliens_and_boys_in_girls_sports.html
TOWNHALL
— Mass Deportations Will Improve The Lives Of Every American.
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/06/02/mass-deportations-will-improve-the-lives-of-every-american-n2657968
— Democrat leaders push free health care for illegals because that encourages illegal immigration.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/06/01/democrat-pushes-free-health-care-for-illegal-aliens-denies-it-encourages-border-surge-despite-evidence-n2657950
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Democrats run the federal government. Federal employees are their patronage army. They hired me in 1980, 1971, and 1966 because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They wasted my career and got rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-trump-administration-will-now-favour-patriotic-americans-for-jobs/ar-AA1FQ9Ve
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/loyalty-test-for-federal-jobs-trump-demands-patriotic-americans-in-sweeping-hiring-shake-up/ar-AA1FPH8X
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/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 cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/if-trump-says-jump-gop-lawmakers-find-the-party-fully-on-bended-knee/ar-AA1ueJq5
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Is Said to Have Known About NASA Nominee’s Democrat Donations Before Picking Him
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/politics/trump-musk-isaacman-nasa.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Patel remakes the FBI. I should write about how Gingrich and Bowsher remade GAO. Under Gingrich and Bowsher, the agency dumped half its employees. Overwhelming, those dumped employees were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. If Gingrich and Bowsher had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/politics/fbi-patel.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Walz.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/politics/tim-walz-democrats-2024.html
— How ICE Is Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations Through Courthouse Arrests
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/ice-courthouse-arrests.html
— Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly make Republicans pay more reparations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/china-student-visas-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Blacks to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/black-history-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump rides to the rescue of Chicago’s flailing mayor. The Justice Department might have just saved Chicago’s Brandon Johnson.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/02/trump-justice-department-chicago-mayor-johnson/
— List of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ removed from US government website following criticism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/01/immigration-sanctuary-jurisdictions-list/18760c42-3f33-11f0-b78e-5ddff7eb1e49_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2025/05/23/what-do-pride-flag-colors-mean/83820854007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Sanctuary List Disappears From Homeland Security Website. Some local officials said the list contained mistakes.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/sanctuary-list-disappears-from-homeland-security-website-a2da427d
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-hits-back-against-trump-claims-that-it-broke-trade-truce-as-tensions-simmer-1eeb59aa
— Springsteen vs. Trump. ‘The Boss’ and the president play to the same frustrated working-class crowd.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-vs-bruce-springsteen-music-politics-6685d3cf
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly drive the stock market down to punish Trump and to punish the 77 million who voted for him.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-01/us-futures-slip-on-trump-tariffs-crude-surges-markets-wrap
BUSINESS WIRE
— Education Programs Key to Retaining and Attracting Talent for Companies. My IRS employee manual strongly encouraged me to take graduate business, accounting, and law courses. But IRS provided no reimbursement for tuition or books. Nevertheless, a) I started taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972 and earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and b) I started taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul in 1976 and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I deducted the tuition and books. In 1978, to get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my deductions. I should write about that. They outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically argued a) that the courses did not relate to my job duties, b) that the courses did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took the courses to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took the courses to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They ignored the content of my applications, course descriptions, and position descriptions.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250519254532/en/Education-Programs-Key-to-Retaining-and-Attracting-Talent-for-Companies
MANAGEMENT ISSUES
— What really matters to employees? What motivated you to overcome workplace obstacles and keep on working? The importance of the Post Office’s mission (delivering mail), IRS’s mission (funding the federal government), and GAO’s mission (fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse) helped me overcome workplace obstacles and to keep on working. While I was a S.S. Kresge employee 1964-1966, it was my wanting money to buy a new car (1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint) to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC. While I was a postal employee 1966-1969, it was my need for money to pay for my UIC and NIU expenses and to buy new cars (1968 Oldsmobile 442 and 1969 Dodge Charger SE) to get to/from classes and work. While I was a Firestone Store employee 1970-1972, it included my need for money to help support my mother and brother. While I was an IRS employee 1971-1980, it included my wanting money to pay for my Loyola and DePaul education expenses, to buy new cars (1972 Corvette, 1974 Dodge Dart, 1978 Chevy Chevette, and 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale), and to buy a new town home in 1972, a studio condo in 1974, a one bedroom condo in 1976, and a home in Wheaton in 1978. While I was a GAO employee 1980-1997 it included my wanting money to pay for my DePaul education expenses in 1980 and my IIT education expenses 1992-1997, to have a home built in Wheaton in 1984, to buy new cars in 1989, 1993, 1995, and 1996, to buy collector cars (1962 Chevrolet Impala SS in 1989 and 1968 Charger R/T in 1994), etc. The importance of the Post Office’s mission (delivering mail), IRS’s mission (funding the federal government), and GAO’s mission (fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse) helped me overcome workplace obstacles and to keep on working.
https://management-issues.com/opinion/7703/pay-vs-benefits-what-really-matters-to-employees/
POLITICO
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/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 cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/trump-administration-patriotic-americans-federal-workforce-00376752
FINANCIAL TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.ft.com/content/443db2f7-edc8-4274-b7d6-e4df40ff145c
May 31, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/2025/05/30/the-racial-reckoning-five-years-later-a-few-wins-and-one-major-loss
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250530/news/neighbors-oppose-marijuana-dispensary-proposed-near-bartlett-day-care-center/
— Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250530/submitted-content/donations-needed-for-west-suburban-community-pantrys-summer-meals-program-as-family-visits-rise-20/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/medication-abortion-to-be-added-on-college-campuses-passes-il-senate/video_4fdf96bf-468f-5aa2-8d3e-e816b6bcc56f.html
WIFR
— Illinois program tries to rid people of medical debt, but for many help comes too late. Medical debt has become a key obstacle to upward economic mobility, with many failing to receive debt relief. What did you do to avoid medical debt? I always assured that I had health insurance.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/30/illinois-program-tries-rid-people-medical-debt-many-help-comes-too-late/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s downsizing of GAO to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-appeals-court-keeps-block-on-trump-administrations-downsizing-of-the-federal-workforce/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote child care subsidies. My father earned enough money during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother. But he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly in 1969 wane he was 47 and I was 21. Consequently, I had to work my way through college.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/we-are-at-the-mercy-of-child-care/
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/gov-pritzker-visits-springfield-food-pantry-amid-proposed-unprecedented-federal-snap-cuts/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS CENTER SQUARE
— IL Democrats propose $55B budget with $7K legislator pay hike, tax increase
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e68b4087-b4f8-4563-ba13-4d42031d0f8e.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Lawmakers considering adding more than $64.5 billion in pension costs in final hours of budget negotiations
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/lawmakers-considering-adding-more-than-64-5-billion-in-pension-costs-in-final-hours-of-budget-negotiations/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— A recently retired SEC attorney demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump. SEE: https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-doge-sec-retirement-27ea213a When GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, SEC would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited SEC and other federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $129,588-$153,151/year. I had just earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. For that matter, IRS would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,675/year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112.280/year. I became a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor in 1981, and Public Accountant in 1979. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and in business in 1976. – Dave Diersen
www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Harvard rejected Trump. Did you apply to Ivy League universities? I did not. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1997 IIT degree, my 1980 DePaul degree, my 1976 Loyola degree, and my 1970 NIU degree are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump has a grudge against Harvard because it rejected him and/or his son. Since I was 19 years old in 1968, my Democrat superiors in the federal government have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have a grudge against federal agencies because they took adverse actions against me. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. In my defense, the codes of ethics that I have been under since 1979 prohibit me from holding grudges. I became a CPA in 1979 and a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— USDA still discriminating against white farmers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3426279/usda-still-discriminating-against-white-farmers-watchdog-says/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump’s Tariffs Deliver Record $23 Billion Revenue in May. May 22 was the largest day for tariff revenue collections.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trumps-tariffs-deliver-record-23-billion-revenue-in-may-5865544
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Harvard faces growing calls to tap into its endowment in Trump fight. It won’t be easy. What losses of income have you suffered? In today’s dollars, a) I have suffered a $86,371/year loss of income since 1997, that is $1.85 million, b) my GAO salary was $153,151/year in 1997 and my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only $66,780/year or 56% less, and c) my IRS salary in 1972 was $68,315/year. Further, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors forced me to suffer a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5326114-harvard-endowment-trump-funding-fight-mcmahon/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s downsizing of GAO to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-doge-lawsuit-4d2d9be4dcefa1c76876fb9b1860c3c7
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/world/international-students-visas-us-trump-intl
— Trump’s mass firings at several agencies will remain on hold, appeals court rules. If Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts had been stopped, I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I would still be GAO employee.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/appeals-court-decline-trump-request-resume-mass-firings
— Trump called it a disaster. Biden blocked it. Now Trump is traveling to Pittsburgh to celebrate Japan’s takeover of US Steel
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/trump-us-steel-nippon-deal
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbbsXZqA7Ew
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsFjNVD_WKw
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH GRAPHIC: The Democrats’ problems run deep, nearly everywhere. This is where voters shifted toward President Trump in each of the last three elections. I should write about the ever-increasing Democrat invasion of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct since 1978. Because of that, ever-increasingly, leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee and the Milton Township Republican Organization have moved to the left, that is, they have a) dumped more and more and more planks in the Republican Party platform and b) dumped more and more and more Republican Precinct Committeemen like me who support those planks.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-politics-democrats.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/aclu-trump-venezuelan-immigrants-alien-enemies-act.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to Chinese students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/trump-china-student-visas-crackdown-risks.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/asia/us-science-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/china-international-students-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/trump-hiv-cuts.html
— The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/google-search-antitrust-chrome.html
— For Federal Workers, Musk’s Chain Saw Still Reverberates. For me, Gingrich’s chain saw still reverberates. My Democrat GAO superiors used his budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/federal-workers-musk-doge.html
— Complaints Languished as Johnson’s Delays Hobbled House Watchdog. The speaker waited more than four months to constitute the Office of Congressional Conduct, preventing it from investigating lawmakers. He has yet to name enough members to allow it to operate at full strength.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/johnson-office-of-congressional-conduct.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s visa clampdown plunges 275,000 Chinese students into uncertainty. Chinese students make up nearly a quarter of all international students in the United States. Here’s who they are and what they’re studying. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to Chinese students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
— Trump orders could end Chinese drone sales in the U.S. In WWIII, which countries will side with China against America?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/30/trump-executive-orders-china-drones/
— Trump and Musk try to smooth over a threatened rift. Trump and Musk hold an Oval Office news conference as the billionaire officially steps away from his government role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/30/trump-musk-try-smooth-over-threatened-rift/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly anti-American military.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/05/29/trump-military-parade-washington-dc-compare-countries/83740378007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk, that is, against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/29/elon-musk-tesla-doge-beautiful-bill-leaving-trump/83907213007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/30/trump-judge-blocks-tariffs-agenda/83926026007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— It’s High Times for State-Subsidized Pot Businesses. Marijuana-use disorder is soaring among the very populations advocates of legalization aim to help.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/its-high-times-for-state-subsidized-pot-businesses-marijuana-use-disorder-3f6aaa15?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
FORBES
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Musk abuses drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81dSmnEARBE
BARRON’S
— A recently retired SEC attorney demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump. When GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, SEC would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited SEC and other federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $129,588-$153,151/year. I had just earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. For that matter, IRS would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,675/year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112.280/year. I became a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor in 1981, and Public Accountant in 1979. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and in business in 1976.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-doge-sec-retirement-27ea213a
BUSINESS INSIDER
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more government fraud, waste, and abuse. Their wasting my federal career is just one small example.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-cuts-elon-musk-deparature-next-phase-2025-5
ACCOUNTING TODAY
— DEI enters stealth mode; building the business case for DEI in accounting firms. The accounting profession would not have written me off as being too old if I had been a minority or a female. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/dei-goes-into-stealth-mode
https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/building-the-business-case-for-dei-in-accounting-firms
CPA JOURNAL
— Why Are Students Not Choosing Accounting? I should have majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU in 1969 and 1970. I erroneously did not because I was not strong in math and I thought that because of that, I could not pass the CPA examination. But I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. But by then, because I was not a minority or female, the accounting profession wrote me off as being too old.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/03/18/why-the-150-hour-rule-is-not-the-only-major-problem-2/
FED SMITH
— From DEI to Meritocracy: The Federal Government’s Shift in Hiring Practices. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, of veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/30/from-dei-to-meritocracy-the-federal-governments-shift-in-hiring-practices/
ECONOMIC TIMES & NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
— Did Harvard reject Donald Trump? Biographer claims it’s at the heart of the feud. Did you apply to Ivy League universities? I did not. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1997 IIT degree, my 1980 DePaul degree, my 1976 Loyola degree, and my 1970 NIU degree are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/did-harvard-reject-donald-trump-biographer-claims-its-at-the-heart-of-the-feud/articleshow/121530865.cms
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2025/May/31/biographer-says-trumps-harvard-grudge-might-just-be-a-case-of-bruised-ego-and-its-not-his-son-who-got-rejected
INDIA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/harvard-president-alan-garber-jab-donald-trump-speech-2025-batch-standing-ovation-2733586-2025-05-31
NDTV WORLD
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump has a grudge against Harvard because it rejected him and/or his son. Since I was 19 years old in 1968, my Democrat superiors in the federal government have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have a grudge against federal agencies because they took adverse actions against me. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. In my defense, the codes of ethics that I have been under since 1979 prohibit me from holding grudges. I became a CPA in 1979 and a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trumps-biographer-michael-wolff-on-why-us-president-has-a-grudge-against-harvard-barron-trump-8551375
May 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-tariffs-reinstated-by-appeals-court-for-now/3756338/
FOX32
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1649490
WGN9
— Cannabis is bad for your heart
https://wgntv.com/news/trending/smoke-it-or-eat-it-cannabis-is-bad-for-your-heart-new-research-shows/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders promote assisted suicide
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/29/illinois-bill-would-allow-terminally-ill-adults-end-their-lives-medical-assistance
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder as lawyers praise Trump choice.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/larry-hoover-trump-fbi-boss/
— Democrat leaders use Chinese students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/chinese-students-visa/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/30/traffic-stops-black-drivers-illinois-public-universities-campus-police-departments
DAILY HERALD
— ‘Huge opportunity’ or ‘stealing’ from suburbs? Senate debates funding plan to save transit
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250529/transportation/huge-opportunity-or-stealing-from-the-suburbs-senate-debates-funding-plan-to-save-transit/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/trump-move-chinese-visas-could-impact-chicago-universities
STATELINE
— Gun owners in Illinois face $10K fine if weapon is stolen and used in a crime. Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/gun-owners-in-illinois-face-10k-fine-if-weapon-is-stolen-and-used-in-a-crime/
DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/29/proposed-edible-tasting-room-for-dekalb-dispensary-gets-early-support/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-30/federal-workers-keep-americas-farms-healthy-what-now-under-trump
HOMEWOOD/FLOSSMOOR PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBT in Homewood/Flossmoor
https://patch.com/illinois/homewood-flossmoor/homewood-flossmoor-pride-fest-set-celebrate-diversity-inclusion
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Chinese students over American students.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/uncertain-future-for-chinese-students-cause-concern-at-uiuc/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-523/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-315/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The pension sweetener bill is yet another reminder that lawmakers don’t care about ordinary Illinoisans. Because State of Illinois employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Democrats politicians defend and promote them. Because federal employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Republican politicians demonize, denigrate, and condemn them.
https://wirepoints.org/the-pension-sweetener-bill-is-yet-another-reminder-that-lawmakers-dont-care-about-ordinary-illinoisans-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The sanctuary counties in Illinois that Trump just put on notice include DuPage County ( https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759 ). Is your county on the list? The following Illinois counties are on the list: Adams, Alexander; Bond, Boone, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, Dewitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saint Clair, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash, Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Whiteside County, Will, Williamson, Winnebago, and Woodford. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on Civil Service protections? Trump wants to cut them. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly stress that Trump is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, and for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Constructively, if not literally, Democrat and RINO leaders rank those who are under them. The more of the following that you are, the more points that they give you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The more of the following that you do, the more points that they give you: glorify and praise them, pander to them, serve as one of their operatives or dupes, cover up their wrongdoing, and/or give them money. Of course, Democrat and RINO leaders give me no points. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Uber/Lyft and Real Estate Transfer Taxes Proposed to Bail Out CTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/uber-lyft-and-real-estate-transfer-taxes-proposed-to-bail-out-cta/
— Sosnowski Introduces Bill to Allow Switch of Casino Sites
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/sosnowski-introduces-bill/
— Four-Year Community College Degree Legislation Still Alive, But Severely Limited
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/four-year-community-college-degree-legislation-still-alive-but-severely-limited/
— Dems Advance Gun Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dems-advance-gun-bill/
— DeWitte Notes Dems’ Revision of Shift from RTA to NITA (Northern Illinois Transit Authority) Takes Power from Suburbs
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dewitte-notes-dems-revision-of-shift-from-rta-to-nita-northern-illinois-transit-authority-takes-power-from-suburbs/
— McLaughlin Bill for Privately-Financed Statue of Pope Leo IV on Capitol Grounds Stuck in Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/mclaughlin-bill-for-privately-financed-statue-of-pope-leo-iv-on-capitol-grounds-stuck-in-committee/
— Ness Goes after Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ness-goes-after-trump/
— Senate Republicans on Electric Rates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/senate-republicans-on-electric-rates/
— Ugasta’s Views on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ugastas-views-on-democrats-budget/
— Johnsburg’s Kirk Donald Running for Re-Election as Vice Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Party
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/johnsburgs-kirk-donald-running-for-re-election-as-vice-chairman-of-the-mchenry-county-republican-party/
— Cook County Homeowners Beginning to Feel the Pain the Rest of Have All Along & How State Law Gives Cook County Homeowners Tax Breaks Not Seen in the Other 101 Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/cook-county-homeowners-beginning-to-feel-the-pain-the-rest-of-have-all-along-how-cook-county-homeowners-get-tax-breaks-not-seen-in-the-other-101-counties/
— For Those Interested in a Deep Dive into What DODE Did…
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/for-those-interested-in-a-deep-dive-into-what-dode-did/
— Casten Endorses Biss for Algonquin Township Congressman
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/casten-endorse-biss-for-algonquin-township-congressman/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Assisted Suicide Passes House, Moves to Senate
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/assisted-suicide-passes-house-moves-to-senate/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS releases name-and-shame sanctuary list with more than 600 states, cities, counties. DuPage County is in the list.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/29/dhs-releases-name-shame-sanctuary-list-600-states-cities-counties/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago’s government-by-racism is failing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3424244/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-race-comments/
— Trump administration orders ICE to more than triple number of daily arrests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3425621/trump-ice-triple-arrests/
NEW YORK POST
— ICE shakes up agency with ‘leadership realignment’ in push for a ‘minimum’ of 3,000 migrant arrests per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/ice-shakes-up-leadership-amid-push-for-3000-migrant-arrests-per-day/
AFPI
— Massive Scale of Chinese Illegal Immigration Threatens National Security
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/massive-scale-of-chinese-illegal-immigration-threatens-national-security
CENTER SQUARE
— ICE calling law enforcement in all counties to help with deportation efforts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_efdabd74-5fba-4c22-a3ec-1f8fef4ef79d.html
COLLEGE FIX
— K-12 schools spent $19 million in federal tax dollars on ‘restorative justice,’ ‘equitable grading.’ What depressed your GPA? For me, it was my spending far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/k-12-schools-spent-19-million-in-federal-tax-dollars-on-restorative-justice-equitable-grading/
DAILY CALLER
— Washington’s Spending Party Continues As Elon Musk Bids Farewell To Swamp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/washingtons-spending-party-elon-musk-bids-farewell-swamp/
— FBI Tells Employees No ‘Pride’ Activities On Company Time. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ever-increasingly required their employees to attend more DEI training and events. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Democrat Black subordinate who ran the office’s Black events.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/fbi-employees-no-pride-activites-company-time-june/
EPOCH TIMES
— State Department Says It Will Expand Scrutiny of All Chinese Visa Holders in US. The department has already paused new student visa interviews worldwide and is preparing to revoke visas for Chinese nationals currently in the United States.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/state-department-says-it-will-expand-scrutiny-of-all-chinese-visa-holders-in-us-5865198
FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor calls DOGE ‘an act of war,’ compares second Trump term to Third Reich. ‘You have a president that is cutting off medicine and food [and] working to erase culture,’ Brandon Johnson claimed
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-calls-doge-an-act-war-compares-second-trump-term-third-reich
NEWSMAX
— Harvard’s Standards Have Dropped. To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly dropped their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-harvard-dei/2025/05/29/id/1212899/
PJ MEDIA
— The Education Department and the Demise of Our Schooling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/29/the-education-dept-intellectual-silliness-and-the-demise-of-our-schooling-n4940257
TOWNHALL
— Chaos Erupts Outside Immigration Court As Protesters Clash With Police
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/29/police-arrest-dozens-protesting-outside-immigration-court-in-manhattan-n2657815
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/05/30/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses-n2657857
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Karl Rove: Trump tariffs could cost GOP their majorities
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5325112-karl-rove-trump-tariffs-could-cost-gop-their-majorities/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/universities-seek-lure-us-bound-students-amid-trump-crackdown-2025-05-30/
NEWSWEEK
— The Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States the Trump Admin Just Put on Notice. DuPage County is on the list.
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759
— Levi’s ever-increasingly promotes more DEI and LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/levis-pride-collection-dei-programs-2078557
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/29/us/harvard-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/chinese-students-rattled-by-trump-plan-to-aggressively-revoke-visas.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-china-visas-tariffs.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/29/harvard-international-students-hearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have they been 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. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/29/pew-lgbtq-poll-transgender-acceptance-trump/6498f882-3c95-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and stress that he is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, and for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/28/trump-due-process-deportations/83824951007/
— Trump lashes out at judges on tariffs, blames Federalist Society for bad legal advice
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/29/donald-trump-federalist-society-judges-tariffs-attacks/83933632007/
TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Florida Attracts Wave Of Newcomers As California, New York, & Illinois See Resident Exodus. Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-attracts-wave-of-newcomers-as-california-new-york-illinois-see-resident-exodus/
FORBES
— If Trump’s Tariffs Raise Prices Or Are Perceived To, GOP Will Be Hurt In Midterms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdn-0d7mI-w
PBS
— Trump administration pressures ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ by publishing list of places ‘deliberately obstructing’ immigration enforcement
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-pressures-sanctuary-jurisdictions-by-publishing-list-of-places-deliberately-obstructing-immigration-enforcement
FED SMITH
— Important Changes to Proposed Benefits Cuts in House-Passed Spending Bill. Trump wants to cut Civil Service protections. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/28/important-changes-to-proposed-benefits-cuts-in-house-passed-spending-bill/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Election for At-Will Employment The provision for new hires to elect at-will employment remains in the legislation as well. Newly hired federal employees could opt to become at-will employees in exchange for a lower contribution rate to FERS (the standard 4.4%). This would be an irrevocable decision per the language of the legislation as currently written. However, if employees were to choose to keep their Civil Service protections, they would pay an additional 5% contribution rate to FERS (9.4% total for most federal employees). Federal employees who opt to become at-will employees could face adverse actions, including removal, without notice or the right to appeal the action. Per the language of the bill as currently written, they “may be subject to an adverse action up to and including removal, without notice or right to appeal, by the head of the agency at which the individual is employed for good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all.”)
INSIDE HIGHTER ED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/30/trump-targets-chinese-students-harsh-blow-higher
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by 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.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-and-empowered/202505/finding-compassion-in-the-darkness-of-racism-and-discrimination
AMAZON
— Proud to be Woke. My critics/opponents act like they are proud to be woke. That is, they discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Well-Informed-Socialist-Proud/dp/B0BY2LFD7S
TIMES OF INDIA
— IIT has the highest percentage of international students. IIT admitted me in 1992. But it would have admitted an international student instead of me if it could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/which-us-university-has-the-highest-percentage-of-international-students-well-its-not-harvard/articleshow/121513373.cms
May 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— IRS criminal investigators in Chicago being ‘deputized’ as immigration enforcers under Trump administration plan. I worked for GAO for 3 years on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) while I was a GS-13 Step 1-3, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I worked with CID employees for 5 1/.2 years while I was an IRS Revenue Officer at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/irs-criminal-investigators-in-chicago-being-deputized-as-immigration-enforcers-under-trump-administration-plan/
— Trump marvels at wealth of his Arab hosts while he eyes White House and Air Force One upgrades
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/trump-arab-hosts-air-force-one-upgrades/
— Redirect migrant funds to empower Chicago’s youths. What did you do get accepted by a college? I a) took college preparatory courses, b) earned an ACT score of 24, and c) graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/opinion-chicago-teen-takeovers-migrant-funds/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Have you been on a do not hire list? When I was 49 years old in 1997, constructively, if not literally, my Democrat GAO superiors put me on everyone’s do not hire list when they forced me to retire. Previously, they had a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/14/lincoln-park-high-school-administrators-removed-chicago-public-schools-do-not-hire-list
DAILY HERALD
— ‘The claims against me are unfounded’: Huntley Trump store’s eviction trial delayed
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250514/local-politics/the-claims-against-me-are-unfounded-huntley-trump-stores-eviction-trial-delayed/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/medicaid-illinois-danger-several-fronts
RIVERSIDE BROOKFIELD LANDMARK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their May 18 protest against Trump
https://www.rblandmark.com/2025/05/13/protest-anti-trump-human-chain-brookfield/
WAND TV
— Gun rights activists take to Springfield as state Democrats look to pass multiple gun laws
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/gun-rights-activists-take-to-springfield-as-state-democrats-look-to-pass-multiple-gun-laws/article_e8a4c3cd-f397-4e49-9209-29e68b38c1ca.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-senate-committee-approves-bill-ensuring-medication-abortion-access-amid-uncertainty-with-trumps-fda/article_f126e72a-d598-44c2-b49b-01a58b3272c1.html
WCIA
— Retirement Wave Hits CPA Industry. Why did the CPA industry have no use for me? I was too old. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different.
https://www.wcia.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/812689749/as-retirement-wave-hits-cpa-industry-prohorizons-guides-firm-owners-through-smooth-transitions/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-funds-from-migrants-sent-back-home-help-fuel-some-towns-economies-a-gop-plan-targets-that/
— How Project 2025 has guided the Trump administration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-13/how-project-2025-has-guided-the-trump-administration
SOUTH SIDE PATCH
— 11 Students Sickened, Taken To Hospital After Eating Marijuana Edibles At South Side Chicago School. The students got sick just after 2 p.m. at Fort Dearborn Elementary School, at 9025 S. Throop St. in the Brainerd neighborhood. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/11-students-sickened-taken-hospital-after-eating-marijuana-edibles-south-side
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-513/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-305/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Drag America Into the Mouth of Their Madness
https://johnkassnews.com/a-civilization-that-descends-into-madness/
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— IL Freedom Caucus Statement on IGOLD rally in Springfield
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/il-freedom-caucus-statement-on-igold-rally-in-springfield/
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois politicians killed school choice. Now the federal government could deliver it anyway.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-politicians-killed-school-choice-now-the-federal-government-could-deliver-it-anyway-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write about the ever-increasing success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, that is, the ever-increasing success that Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media are having promoting more and more and more hatred against Trump. I should write about their ever-increasing success in promoting more and more and more hatred against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, 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
— How do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint you? They paint me as being blindly loyal to Trump a) because Trump and I share so many demographics and b) because of what I do as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor. But they are wrong. I have never been blindly loyal to any politician and I never will. I am loyal to conservative principles and to the Republican Party platform. 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 cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When you were in college, what did you major in? I should have majored in accounting. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different. I did not start taking graduate accounting course until I was 27. Because of that, the CPA industry had no use for me. I was too old. Further, I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have ever considered taking a pay cut? To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year (GS-13) in today’s dollars to transfer. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— South African president calls refugees ‘cowards’ after arrival in US
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3410821/south-african-president-afrikaner-refugees-us-cowards/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Presently, many Afrikaner activists and observers believe the group is being purposefully subjected to violence from the black majority, with the government being complicit. Attacks against white Afrikaner farmers are a highly controversial matter. The government doesn’t keep statistics regarding the number of white farmers killed, but news of particularly brutal attacks has enraged many Afrikaners. These attacks are often accompanied by extensive torture, rape, and mutilation. The South African government has emphatically denied any bias against Afrikaners and has maintained that white farmers are victims of a larger crime wave. However, the White House has been unambiguous in its assessment of the situation. “Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white,” Trump said Monday. “But whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspaper and the television media don’t even talk about it.” “I don’t care about their race, their color, their height, their weight — I don’t care about anything,” Trump continued. “I just know that what’s happening is terrible.” Trump also punished South Africa on a diplomatic level. He withheld the U.S. government’s participation in the G20 summit scheduled to be held in South Africa later this year. South African Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool was declared a persona non grata and ordered to leave the country by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called him a “race-baiting politician who hates America and hates [Trump].”)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC declares South African asylum seekers are ‘descendants of white supremacists.’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/14/msnbc-declares-south-african-asylum-seekers-are-descendants-of-white-supremacists-1543501/
CENTER SQUARE
— Antisemitism watchdog calls for IRS probe of nonprofit supporting anti-Israel protests
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_9925f97b-0456-480b-8256-17ecd9b3d93e.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 as graduation speakers. For Democrats, the purpose of education is to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/democrats-outnumber-republicans-5-to-1-as-graduation-speakers/
DAILY SIGNAL
— White House Praises House Panel for Booting Illegals Off Medicaid
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid/
— Democrats Defend Medicaid Coverage for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale. Qatar Airways signed a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 American-made 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft from Boeing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/qatar-airways-signs-agreement-to-buy-160-boeing-planes-5857662
FEDERALIST
— Here Are 16 Of The Most Egregious Injunctions Barring The Trump Administration From Doing Its Job
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/14/here-are-16-of-the-most-egregious-injunctions-barring-the-trump-administration-from-doing-its-job/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Arizona State to Focus on ‘Gender Equity’ for Women Even Though Campus is 70% Female. What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/arizona-state-to-focus-on-gender-equity-for-women-even-though-campus-is-70-female/amp/
NEWSMAX
— Alien Enemies Act Will Keep US Safe
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/pam-bondi-immigration-habeus-corpus/2025/05/14/id/1210991/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise prices.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/business/walmart-prices-tariffs
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/trump-law-firms-attacks.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders use a “pregnant Cuban emigre” to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/14/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-immigration-trump/aa603c82-3078-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/14/pope-leo-lgbtq-catholics/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/13/trump-lies-china-tariffs-qatar-jet/83583303007/
DESERET NEWS
— Utah Democrats hope for revival as Gov. JB Pritzker scheduled to speak at convention. New poll finds only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about future of party.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/05/14/utah-democrats-debate-how-to-respond-to-donald-trump/
SC TIMES
— Trump’s U.S. Attorney pick for Minnesota has never been a prosecutor. To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year in today’s dollars to transfer.
https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2025/05/15/trump-nominates-daniel-rosen-as-minnesotas-next-u-s-attorney/83604701007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE. Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/business/warren-buffett-reveals-he-stepped-down-after-finally-feeling-his-age-b060251f
— FRONT PAGE: Women Are Drinking More—and Doctors Are Worried
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/women-alcohol-use-health-risks-86999148
— Democrats Are Stuck in the Soup. The party is both too old and too extreme. It needs to look to history for a way out.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-are-stuck-in-the-soup-c6cad7b2
— Welcome to the Post-Progressive Political Era. For decades, the right lost almost every battle in the culture. But now the left has clearly gone too far.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/welcome-to-the-post-progressive-political-era-history-culture-4ad308c1
— Career Advice for 2025 Graduates. Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/career-advice-for-2025-graduates-c79b5126
— I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/529-plans-college-savings-alternatives-tips-958b2556
— My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-market-overpaid-salary-9eeabbaa
BANKRATE
— What to do if you are dropped from your home insurance
https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/dropped-from-home-insurance/
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE
— Our Mission: To protect consumers by providing assistance and information, by efficiently regulating the insurance industry’s market behavior and financial solvency, and by fostering a competitive insurance marketplace.
https://idoi.illinois.gov/
ILLINOIS FAIR PLAN
— About Us: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association provides basic and affordable property insurance to applicants in the state of Illinois who are unable to purchase coverage through the standard insurance market for reasons beyond their control. The Illinois FAIR Plan is considered to be one of the top FAIR Plans in the country based the products and services it offers, its excellent working relationship with the Department of Insurance, and the support it has received from the Industry including their effective participation on the Governing Committee. Who We Are: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association is a not-for-profit property insurance association supported by nearly 500 Illinois insurance companies.
https://www.illinoisfairplan.com/about.html
May 14, 2025
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in those parades. I would focus on those who are working the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. They argue that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) cannot afford the $1,500 cost of entry fees and candy for the parades. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s 2007 parade. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ I served as the Republican fundraiser for the Wheaton Independence Day parades 2005-2021. In my book, I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged MTRO to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressional District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parades. Please join me in urging MTRO to participate in the parades. Please join me in urging Republican candidates to participate in the parades. I certainly hope that LaHood walks in both parades. His father walked in Wheaton’s 2005 parade. I spoke with him before the parade kicked off. Bob Dole walked in Wheaton’s 1996 parade, Jim Ryan in its 2002 parade, and Obama and his wife in its 2004 parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will the Illinois GOP show up for the 2026 state elections?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-illinois-republican-party-candidates-2026-funding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We are in the important pre-primary phase of the 2026 elections in Illinois (circulation of petitions opens in September), when prospective candidates strut their endorsements — and money raised — in efforts to scare off possible opponents. In our basically one-party state, Democratic wannabes are coming off a long bench to make their cases. In contrast, Republicans have no bench of experienced, well-known prospects to speak of. Because of extreme gerrymandering, the GOP has few state legislators and no statewide officials whatsoever. Attractive but no-name candidates are being counseled by Republican insiders that this is a no-win year for the GOP and it’s better to stay out. Will the GOP even show up with a slate of credible candidates for the U.S. Senate, the governorship and all other statewide offices? After all, the party in the White House generally does poorly in the midterm election. And Gov JB Pritzker has more money than Croesus ($3.7 billion, according to Forbes) and seemingly giddy enthusiasm for spending it. Recent history shows he stands ready to bankroll all the Democratic statewide candidates with more than enough money to blow away the opposition. After all, he wants to show national Democrats that he leads his party to victory up and down the line. GOP woes don’t end there. Illinois Republicans are divided into a downstate (outside the seven metro Chicago counties) that is enthusiastically pro-Donald Trump, versus the suburbs, where moderates and Democrats reign. For example, DuPage County and its 920,000 residents used to be largely white and GOP. But the times, they are a’changin’. According to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), a language other than English is now spoken at home in nearly one-third of the households in the six counties surrounding Cook. Republican George Ryan won the governorship in 1998 with 70% of the DuPage County vote, whereas Trump garnered 42% of that county’s vote in 2024. GOP nominees for the U.S. Senate and governorship will have to declare their position on Trump, a no-win situation: Come out strongly for Trump and lose the suburbs or come out against Trump and watch voters downstate sit on their hands in November. Be wishy-washy on Trump, and lose votes across the board. And who will bankroll GOP candidates in the face of such dour prospects? Billionaire Ken Griffin has departed Illinois for Florida, with his millions for GOP causes. Make no mistake: Big money has replaced party organization as the engine of candidate success. Lightning does strike, however. In 2004, little-known state Sen. Barack Obama entered a crowded field that sought an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Trailing in the polls throughout in the Democratic primary, Obama surged to victory when, near the end of the primary, the front-runner’s candidacy imploded almost overnight as a result of juicy revelations of messy marital discord. In the general election campaign that followed, the attractive GOP nominee dropped out of the race because of sexual peccadilloes revealed in unsealed divorce records, and Obama skated into the U.S. Senate. The rest, as they say … I expect there will be no-name and, maybe otherwise, very attractive candidates on the ballot next year for the GOP but with little money. I have mentioned money several times in this essay. In the past decade, Pritzker has spent $400 million on his own and associates’ campaigns. A Democrat, he even sabotaged the Republican primary campaign for governor in 2022. In that year, according to this newspaper, Pritzker spent $24 million to boost the nomination of possibly the weakest of his possible opponents for the general election. Pritzker’s money advertised that Darren Bailey was “too extreme” for Illinois — which was, irony definitely intended, an attractive message for a big swath of conservative GOP primary voters. Shameful politics. Big money, corrosive of democracy, could be the overarching issue for Republican candidates in 2026: “You can’t buy my vote! Don’t let JB Pritzker continue to buy elections in Illinois!” Lightning does strike. But you have to show up.)
— 2002 FLASHBACK: Politicians parade for voters at 4th fests. Jim Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor, began his parade marching in Wheaton in DuPage County, the heart of GOP territory in the Chicago area. Ryan looked fresh and cool after stepping out of an air-conditioned van into the boiling morning heat. He and his wife, Marie, joined the procession just as his sweaty supporters, who had been standing in the sun waiting for him, began their way down North Main Street. “All politics is local–never forget your base,” Ryan said. Indeed, blue-and-white Ryan balloons were fastened to lawn chairs, strollers and benches along the parade route. Only an occasional sign for his Democratic rival, Rod Blagojevich, could be spotted. . .. .But political jockeying surely was in play Thursday. An old political tradition holds that the more influence a politician wields, the closer he will be to the front of the parade line. For example, in GOP-laden Wheaton, U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) launched the parade, with Ryan right behind him. In third place was Republican Joe Birkett, the DuPage County state’s attorney who is running for Illinois attorney general. His Democratic rival, Lisa Madigan, was placed far back.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/07/05/politicians-parade-for-voters-at-4th-fests/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Trump-themed shop in Huntley could be closed over code issues, but owner says it’s political
— Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans who are labeled gang members
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/alien-enemies-act-deport-venezuelans/
— Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/wisconsin-judge-immigration-case/
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/column-journalism-decline-chicago-local-news-washington/
— From what I see, in the Chicagoland area, jurors are overwhelmingly Democrats
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-juror-act-trial-reform-paul-st-louis/
— Why is CPS treating charter and private schools like liquor stores?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/chicago-charter-schools-vacant/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— City Council committee OKs removal of college degree requirement for city jobs. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/13/city-council-committee-paper-ceiling-college-degree-city-jobs
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hated against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/14/five-years-george-floyds-murder-national-urban-league-racial-justice-dei-police-reform-marc-morial
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker budget team slashes state’s revenue forecast by $536 million
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-budget-office-cuts-revenue-forecast-536m
— State Farm cleared to hike California homeowner premiums 17%
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/state-farm-cleared-hike-california-homeowner-rates-17
ABC7
— Federal judge in Pennsylvania rules that Trump’s invocation of Alien Enemies Act is lawful
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-judge-pennsylvania-rules-trumps-invocation-aea-is-lawful/16406471/
— Inflation eased after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-inflation-data-reveal-impacts-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs/16400850/
NBC5
— Senate Republicans react to Qatar gifting Trump a $400 million jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/watch-senate-republicans-react-to-qatar-gifting-trump-a-400-million-jet/3744811/
— Democrat leaders promote a Trump critic
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/commentator-hasan-piker-detained-ohare-airport/3744867/
— Chuck Schumer to block Trump DOJ nominees over Qatari jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/chuck-schumer-pauses-trump-justice-department-nominees-over-qatari-jet/3744418/
FOX32
— 22 Chicago students ingest weed edibles at South Side elementary school. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/22-chicago-students-ingest-weed-edibles-south-side-school
— A new SmartAsset study ranked the 10 wealthiest counties in Illinois based on income, home values, and investment income. Lake, DuPage, and Kendall counties took the top three spots. Cook County, which includes Chicago, ranked ninth overall.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-wealthiest-counties-study
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer in America are on track to become productive members of society.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640556
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emma Shafter to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/13/family-of-emma-shafer-felt-exploited-by-recent-kristi-noem-visit/83568796007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trumps-plan-to-accept-free-air-force-one-replacement-from-qatar-raises-ethical-and-security/article_909d5190-12f5-59fe-b541-d2d9b9ed1829.html
SOUTHERN
— Republicans dodge, laugh off questions about Trump’s gift plane from Qatar
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/13/republicans-dodge-laugh-off-questions-about-trumps-gift-plane-from-qatar/
RIVER BENDER
— Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Suing Trump Administration Over Illegal Immigration Conditions Placed On Billions In Federal Funding. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-leads-coalition-suing-trump-administration-over-illegal-immigration-conditions-placed-on-billions-in-federal-funding-82440.cfm?
NPR ILLINOIS
— Jewish people in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Jewish people in America are overwhelming liberal. Enough said.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-14/multiple-trump-white-house-officials-have-ties-to-antisemitic-extremists
WGLT
— Before Trump weaponized the IRS to advance his political agenda, there was Nixon. How did Nixon impact you? Nixon was president while I worked for the Democrats a) who ran the Post Office in 1969 and b) who ran IRS 1971-1974. They despised/hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon, and therefore Republicans, for America losing the Vietnam War. They punished me, a draft avoider, to punish Nixon. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave request and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They did the aforesaid even though a) I earned an MBA in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-05-13/before-trump-weaponized-the-irs-to-advance-his-political-agenda-there-was-nixon
WMBD RADIO
— Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/13/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders cite Democrat think tanks
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/12/campus/northwestern-study-finds-democrats-left-leaning-think-tanks-cite-scientific-studies-more-than-republicans/
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://newschannel20.com/question/vote-do-you-support-the-irs-sharing-data-with-ice-to-help-track-down-illegal-migrants-question-of-the-day-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-border-patrol-deportation-trump-administration
NPR ILLINOIS
— Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition. According to Democrat leaders, only Whites discriminate. White Afrikaners should anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will deport them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/episcopal-church-refuses-to-resettle-white-afrikaners-citing-moral-opposition
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-05-13/new-study-suggests-changes-to-illinois-community-college-university-pipeline
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn Native Americans against Republicans.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/our-identity-has-been-frozen-in-time-how-native-american-advocates-are-influencing-springfield/
WHEATON PARK DISTRICT
— 2016 FLASHBACK: WHEATON PARK DISTRICT HOSTS INDEPENDENCE DAY “CELEBRATION!” At press time, sponsors for the Independence Day Celebration included Jerry Haggerty Chevrolet, DuPage County Republicans, and the City of Wheaton.
https://wheatonparkdistrict.com/wheaton-park-district-hosts-independence-day-celebration-july-3-and-4/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-512/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-304/
— Democrat leaders blame Trump and Musk for revenue dip. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump and Musk for everything that is bad.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/manar-trump-musk-are-to-blame-for-revenue-dip/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Illinois DOGE Profile: Centro De Trabajadores Unidos gets $4 million to help illegal aliens evade ICE
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671354954-illinois-doge-profile-centro-de-trabajadores-unidos-gets-4-million-to-help-illegal-aliens-evade-ice
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL House Republicans call out $1B for NGOs, plan their own budget proposal
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_105bd8f5-b568-41b5-b567-bf49c03bfc51.html
— Legislation would limit how consumers can buy an electric vehicle in Illinois. I should write my experience buying a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in that American nameplate muscle car. I also own a 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, and 1972 Corvette. Phone: 630-653-0462 (home) and 630-414-6079 (cell). Email: diersen@aol.com
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1352ecca-a4b6-41f6-b0ae-b18e6dc01128.html
WIREPOINTS
— These NGO funds don’t help ordinary Chicagoans, they sustain networks that keep failed politicians in power.
https://wirepoints.org/these-ngo-funds-dont-help-ordinary-chicagoans-they-go-to-sustain-networks-that-keep-failed-politicians-in-power-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower standards. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to a recent study, White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Is David Axelrod Pimping for Rahm?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/is-david-axelrod-pimping-for-rahm/
— Americans for Prosperity Send Second Postcard Seeking to Put Pressure on Sue Ness to Vote against Hiking Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/americans-for-prosperity-send-second-postcard-seeking-to-put-pressure-on-sue-ness-to-vote-against-hiking-taxes/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Protesters swarm House committee as Republicans take up cuts to Medicaid, taxes
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/13/protesters-swarm-house-committee-republicans-take-cuts-medicaid-taxes/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There’s no such thing as a free jet. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3409713/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one/
— Trump’s deal for illegal immigrants will increase deportations and decrease spending
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3410142/trump-deal-illegal-immigrants-increase-deportations-decrease-spending/
NEW YORK POST
— Officials describe persecution of South African refugees who are arrived in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te_Syuqog8A
— Trump recklessly accepting a plane from Qatar is the type of unnecessary risk that could ruin his presidency
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/opinion/michael-goodwin-trump-accepting-financial-gifts-from-qatar-is-one-of-the-many-ways-he-can-ruin-his-legacy/
BREITBART
— Saudi Arabia Sets Up Mobile McDonald’s for Trump’s Visit to the Middle East
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/saudi-arabia-sets-up-mobile-mcdonalds-for-trumps-visit-to-the-middle-east/
— Pope Leo’s Brother: The Pope Is Not Woke — He Will ‘Be Down the Middle’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/pope-leos-brother-the-pope-is-not-woke-he-will-be-down-the-middle/
FOX NEWS
— Gianno Caldwell seeks justice for brother killed in blue city ‘enamored with criminals’ rights’: alderman Gianno Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother was fatally shot, along with a female victim, in Chicago in June 2022
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gianno-caldwell-seeks-justice-brother-killed-blue-city-enamored-criminals-rights-alderman
MEGYN KELLY
— Racist and Hypocritical Left and Media Attack White Afrikaners Arriving in United States as Refugees
https://www.megynkelly.com/watch/racist-and-hypocritical-left-and-media-attack-white-afrikaners-arriving-in-united-states-as-refugees/
NRCC
— Hardworking Californians Get the Bill, Illegals Get the Benefits
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/05/13/hardworking-californians-get-the-bill-illegals-get-the-benefits-2/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Medical Schools Are Still Discriminating by Race
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/medical-schools-are-still-discriminating-by-race/
NEWSMAX
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lgbtq-rfk-hhs/2025/05/13/id/1210803/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/13/msnbc_panel_trumps_refugees_descendents_of_the_people_who_created_the_most_diabolical_system_of_white_supremacy_in_human_history.html
TOWNHALL
— Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2025/05/13/the-democrats-just-cant-stop-pushing-nonsensical-assault-weapon-bans-n2656972
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5298112-house-democrats-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-funding-cuts/
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5296524-x-tiktok-meta-youtube-instagram-lgbtq-users-glaad/
ASSOCIATE PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly blame Trump’s tariffs for all price increases.
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-tariffs-trump-5436b90e8e5a003f228c1bd08186589c
NEW YORK TIMES
— Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-immigration.html
— Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-welfare-medicaid-requirements.html
— Democrat leaders pay “researchers” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump. Who are the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How successful have they been?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-due-process-habeas-corpus.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/13/trump-democrats-sanctuary-lawsuit-immigration/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race based preference giving, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against Whites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/black-doctors-scholarship-ohio/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-14/trump-guts-fema-as-climate-disasters-worsen
— Democrat leaders used Voice of America to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-14/voice-of-america-pbs-npr-trump
MIAMI TIMES
— White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/business/studies-show-white-women-benefit-more-from-dei-than-black-people/article_f0bb761e-334c-4151-832d-f3fa0026531a.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/12/slowing-inflation-trump-tariffs/83524058007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/14/gay-pride-month-lgbtq-forum/83583013007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/13/democratic-lawmakers-urge-kennedy-to-save-lgbtq-lifeline/83600490007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire. Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-ivy-league-earned-donald-trumps-ire-higher-education-colleges-universities-96631031
— The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly. At its peak, a Ford factory produced one B-24 bomber an hour during World War II.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-s-once-built-airplanes-quickly-7e526511
— FRONT PAGE: The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send White Afrikaners back
https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-south-africa-refugee-d5ad7b94
— How Young People Are Coping With Economic Anxiety. I should write about how my avoiding the Vietnam War draft negatively impacted my career big time.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/how-young-people-are-coping-with-economic-anxiety/3ea69cb0-9736-49c5-8f94-f5c1f9be316a
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over Catholic organizations in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-college-presidents-decry-trump-administrations-interference-higher-ed
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-mexico-border-surveillance
May 8, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/trump-trade-deals/
— Pritzker, if you want to solve problems, lose the contempt
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/opinion-jb-pritzker-civil-discourse/
— Harold Washington librarians concerned for their safety with security incidents on the rise
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/harold-washington-library-safety-concerns/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/07/elon-musk-trump-spending-cuts-doge-government-accountability-office-jacob-sullum
DAILY HERALD
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/columns/the-complicated-unproductive-search-for-the-narrative/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/libya-judge-says-deporting-migrants-would-violate-order/16350758/
— Illinois regains access to $77M in federal education funds following judge’s order. Democrats use education funds to create good little Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-regains-access-77m-federal-education-funds-following-judges-order-blocking-trump-administration-restricting-money/16353598/
NBC5
— Massive signs erected outside Illinois Governor’s Mansion amid Kristi Noem visit. Noem had traveled to Illinois Wednesday for a press conference aimed at Illinois’ “sanctuary” policies.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/massive-signs-erected-outside-illinois-governors-mansion-amid-kristi-noem-visit/3740250/
WTTW
— New Study Suggests Changes to Illinois’ Community College-University Pipeline. 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://news.wttw.com/2025/05/07/new-study-suggests-changes-illinois-community-college-university-pipeline
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emma Shafer’s parents to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/05/08/parents-of-2023-homicide-victim-call-out-homeland-security-secretary/83499875007/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “cultural events” to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/05/07/the-rundown-chicago-cultural-events-face-canceled-grants
WTVO
— 50% of Illinois residents would move out of the state if they could. Illinois Democrats led by Pritzker ever-increasingly drive Republicans out of Illinois, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-50-illinois-residents-move-204254687.html
WGLT
— For Democrats, education exists to create good little Democrats.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-05-07/its-a-challenge-higher-ed-must-do-everything-everywhere-all-at-once
WJBC
— Illinois regains access to $77M in federal education funds following judge’s order. Democrats use education funds to create good little Democrats.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/05/07/illinois-regains-access-to-77m-in-federal-education-funds-following-judges-order/
NPR ILLINOIS
— How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-07/what-trump-administration-cuts-mean-for-mental-health-in-one-rural-school-district
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-07/trumps-tariffs-are-showing-up-in-americans-receipts
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders use Pritzker, Underwood, and Emma Shafer’s parents to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/08/kristi-noem-highlights-immigration-at-springfield-media-event-00335220
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-508/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Offices on the 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct include U.S. Senate, all five Illinois statewide offices, and countywide offices. What are the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township organizations doing to recruit the best possible candidates to run? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— They’ve destroyed jobs and opportunity for black Chicagoans. My Democrat GAO superiors can stress that to give my job to my Black Democrat subordinate, they forced me to retire when I was 49 year old in 1997. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no processional license like the one I had.
https://wirepoints.org/theyve-destroyed-jobs-and-opportunity-for-black-chicagoans-wirepoints/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aacb2da9-2b4c-4b72-8637-eefc2ade43d1.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Homeland Security Secretary Baits the Beast in Springfield
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/07/homeland-security-secretary-baits-the-beast-in-springfield/
CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— IL Freedom Caucus Joins Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem On Failed Sanctuary State Policies and Immigration
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/il-freedom-caucus-joins-homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem-on-failed-sanctuary-state-policies-and-immigration/
— Rep. Adam Niemerg joins Sec. Kristi Noem in calling for compliance with federal immigration laws
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/rep-adam-niemerg-joins-sec-kristi-noem-in-calling-for-compliance-with-federal-immigration-laws/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Legal immigration is protecting blue state electoral power
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3403948/legal-immigration-protecting-blue-state-electoral-power-reapportionment/
NEW YORK POST
— Thousands of migrants still living at NYC’s historic Roosevelt Hotel — despite ticking clock for shelter to close. How many illegals are still living in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/us-news/nearly-2k-migrants-still-housed-in-nycs-historic-roosevelt-hotel-despite-city-saying-it-will-shutter-the-shelter-next-month/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ICE checking for illegals at swanky DC eateries, workers in a state of panic
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/07/ice-checking-for-illegals-at-swanky-dc-eateries-workers-in-a-state-of-panic-1541715/
BLAZE
— University of Chicago prof canceled midterm test and encouraged students to join protest against ‘authoritarian’ Trump
https://www.theblaze.com/news/univ-chicago-email-protest-trump
BREITBART
— Migrant Nonprofits Seek Donations as Trump Cuts Federal Funds
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/07/migrant-nonprofits-seek-donations-as-trump-cuts-federal-funds/
COLLEGE FIX
— UChicago professor cancels exam so students can protest Trump
https://www.thecollegefix.com/inappropriate-uchicago-professor-cancels-exam-so-students-can-protest-trump/
DAILY CALLER
— Companies Sidestep Trump’s DEI Crackdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/07/american-companies-may-sidestep-trump-dei-crackdown/
FOX BUSINESS
— The US must hold China accountable for ripping us off
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6372483675112
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— U. Chicago Prof Cancels Midterm, Tells Students to Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/u-chicago-prof-cancels-midterm-tells-students-to-join-anti-trump-protest-instead/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump signs order to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing home to the US. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://thepostmillennial.com/trumps-signs-order-to-bring-pharmaceutical-manufacturing-home-to-the-us
— Salt Lake City council votes to make LGBTQ Pride flags official city flags in defiance of state law
https://thepostmillennial.com/salt-lake-city-council-votes-to-make-lgbtq-pride-flags-official-city-flags-in-defiance-of-state-law
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream new media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Toyota Says Tariffs Will Erase $1.3 Billion in Profits in Just 2 Months. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/business/toyota-earnings-trump-tariffs.html
— To those who demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being pro-Trump, I say that I am pro-conservative principles, that I am pro-Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america.html
— West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html
— What motivated you the most to get a college degree? For me, it was my father decrying that he did not have one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/opinion/college-technical-vocational-education.html?searchResultPosition=2
WASHINGTON POST
— Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s new transit and homelessness grant conditions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/07/trump-cities-grants-lawsuit/b2e0ce5e-2bb3-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
— Chief justice touts judicial independence, rejects impeaching judges. The judges and justices who have ruled against me have made it clear that they promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, that they promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, that they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/07/chief-justice-roberts-judicial-independence-buffalo/
USA TODAY
— Whose enemies lists are you on? I should write about those who have me on their enemies lists. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of clout in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party. I would focus on those who continue to blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/05/06/trump-targets-schools-science-federal-funding/83378205007/
— Democrat leaders decry reduced efforts to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/06/pride-month-defections-dei-backlash/83376447007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2025/05/07/the-companies-standing-up-to-trump-on-dei/83503855007/
NBC NEWS
— Some brands are doing tariff-related price hikes on May 1 — here’s what to buy now. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.nbcnews.com/select/shopping/what-to-buy-tariffs-rcna200485
CNN
— Chief Justice John Roberts stresses judicial independence amid tensions with Trump. The judges and justices who have ruled against me have made it clear that they promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, that they promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, that they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/politics/john-roberts-event-judicial-independence
REUTERS
— States sue Trump administration over $3 billion in blocked EV charging grants. I just bought an EV, but I am extremely reluctant to charge it anywhere other than in my garage.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/money/cars/2025/05/08/states-sue-trump-ev-charging-grants/83507390007/
NEWSWEEK
— Parents Need School Choice. If my parents had not sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, or get accepted by UIC. But because of the tuition they paid, I had to work my way through college and my GPA was lower.
https://www.newsweek.com/parents-need-school-choice-congress-can-help-opinion-2063846
MSN
— What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-wants-tariffs-on-medicine-here-s-what-it-could-mean-for-you/ar-AA1ElZqA
— Here Are All the Countries Where Your Car Is Actually Made. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/here-are-all-the-countries-where-your-car-is-actually-made/ar-AA1DVZzU
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders say “Trump scoffs at rising prices for families while his inner circle cashes in on foreign deals.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXiPr-mW1X8
CITY JOURNAL
— Pritzker’s Progressive Trap. The Illinois governor seems determined to stick with left-wing cultural politics as he eyes a White House bid in 2028.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/illinois-governor-j-b-pritzker-democratic-presidential-nomination-2028
BLOOMBERG
— What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/phrma-says-trump-drug-price-idea-could-cost-industry-1-trillion
FORBES
— Car Ownership Statistics 2025. The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. What is the most recent car that you bought? I just bought a new red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-statistics/
REAL CLEAR MARKETS
— The Many Difficulties In Bringing Manufacturing Back. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/05/02/the_many_difficulties_in_bringing_manufacturing_back_1107669.html
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Five years after India opened the door for American colleges, IIT became the first to accept the invitation. I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT when I was 48 in 1997. I did that a) because my Democrat GAO superiors had made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS, b) because they had assigned me audits of federal financial institution regulators since 1990, c) because I had previously not taken that many courses in finance, and d) because my supervisor wanted me to earn that degree. But in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors flushed my IIT degree down their toilet by forcing me to retire.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/us-colleges-world/2025/05/08/illinois-tech-establishes-first-us-campus-india
ECONOMICS TIMES
— What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/trumps-trade-war-how-tariffs-are-shaping-global-trade/slideshow/120988615.cms
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/