FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Dell family to give $6.25 billion to create 25 million additional ‘Trump Accounts.’ “This gift is expected to reach nearly 80% of children age 10 and under across 75% of U.S. zip codes,” according to Invest America.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/dell-billions-donations-trump-accounts/3857683/
WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders use students to crow about their obstruction of justice.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/12/02/as-immigration-agents-swept-chicago-this-fall-communities-stepped-in-to-get-kids-to-school-safely
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight enforcement of immigration laws.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/sen-dick-durbin-demands-answers-from-homeland-security-regarding-u-s-citizens-caught-up-in-immigration-raids/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/opinion-chicago-immigration-raids-lessons-children/
DAILY HERALD
— Needless dispute: Censure of DuPage County clerk could have been avoided
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251202/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-needless-dispute-censure-of-dupage-county-clerk-could-have-been-avoided/
— Batavia pub gets OK for video gambling, despite being next to two churches
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251202/gambling/batavia-pub-gets-ok-for-video-gambling-despite-being-next-to-two-churches/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for price increases.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/more-americans-say-trump-has-helped-raise-prices-rather-than-lower-them-survey/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-430/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Bill on Pritzker’s desk enhances Illinois’ migrant sanctuary policies. DD: The Democrats who run Illinois are ever closer to officially seceding Illinois from the United States.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_adaf80e0-ede3-4720-9968-6028d9d1fbbf.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you are a Republican and if more and more and more of the voters in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are voting for Democrats, your future is bleaker and bleaker and bleaker. At what point will you move? But if you move to a prosperous and safe area that Republicans created, Democrats will a) move into that area to take advantage of that prosperity and safety and b) get rid of you. Look at DuPage County. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Young socialists revolt as Democratic Party hits 30-year popularity low
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/2/democratic-party-popularity-hits-30-year-low-young-socialists-gain/
— GOP advances bill to add citizenship question to 2030 census
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/2/gop-advances-bill-add-citizenship-question-2030-census/
— Journalist group presses White House to remove ‘media offenders’ webpage
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/2/journalist-group-presses-white-house-remove-media-offenders-webpage/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Mamdani Taps Felon Who Served 7 Years for Robbing NYC Taxi Drivers as ‘Criminal Legal System’ Adviser
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/mamdani-taps-felon-who-served-7-years-for-robbing-nyc-taxi-drivers-as-criminal-legal-system-adviser/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump Derangement Syndrome is real
https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/opinion/trump-derangement-syndrome-is-real-these-hysterical-threats-prove-it/
— Anti-ICE chaos in Lower Manhattan is a sign of trouble ahead
https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/opinion/anti-ice-chaos-in-lower-manhattan-is-a-taste-of-whats-to-come-if-mamdani-amp-feds-cant-cooperate/
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— States Fail to Require Adequate Cannabis Product Safety Warnings. DD: Pot is poison.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/states-fail-to-require-adequate-cannabis-product-safety-warnings/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Lawmakers who spent hundreds of millions on illegals want to charge Chicagoans $1.25 ‘package fee’ deliveries.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/02/lawmakers-who-spent-hundreds-of-millions-on-illegals-want-to-charge-chicagoans-1-25-package-fee-deliveries-1607606/
BREITBART
— Trump: ‘The Word Affordability Is a Con Job by the Democrats’ After Biden’s Historic Inflation
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/02/trump-word-affordability-is-con-job-democrats-after-bidens-historic-inflation/
DAILY SIGNAL
— House GOP Pushing Affordability Heading Into Election Year
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/02/house-gop-pushing-affordability-heading-into-election-year/
FOX NEWS
— Trump unleashes on Dems’ top campaign platform: affordability
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385857884112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Religious leaders sue to block ICE raids at houses of worship. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn religious leaders against America.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/world/video/religious-leaders-sue-to-block-ice-raids-at-houses-of-worship
USA TODAY
— ‘Affordability is a con job by the Democrats’: Trump tells Cabinet. Trump said tariffs are generating billions of dollars from countries such as Japan and South Korea that had been ‘ripping us off.’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/trump-cabinet-meeting-venezuela-live-updates/87566205007/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Trump dismisses affordability concerns as Democratic ‘con job’
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/02/trump-dismisses-affordability-concerns-as-democratic-con-job/
NEW YORK SUN
— Illinois Church’s Nativity Scene Depicts Baby Jesus Zip-Tied, Romans as ICE Agents. ‘The Holy Family were refugees. This is not political interpretation, this is the reality described,’ the church says. DD: The Democrat Party’s conquering of religion will soon be complete.
https://www.nysun.com/article/illinois-churchs-nativity-scene-depicts-baby-jesus-zip-tied-romans-as-ice-agents
NEWSWEEK
— In a survey of more than 1,200 likely Illinois voters, carried out between November 20 and 25 and seen by Fox 32, Chicago-based Victory Research put Pritzker at 54.3 percent of the vote, compared to 34 percent for GOP candidate Darren Bailey.
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-chances-beating-jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-election-11142102
FORBES
— Giving Tuesday: What It Is And How To Maximize Its Impact. DD: What do you give to others? Since 2000, I have given my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to anyone who wants to read them free of charge, without any advertising, and without any donation requests. Since 2004, they have included links to almost 530,000 articles.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2025/12/02/giving-tuesday-what-it-is-and-how-to-maximize-its-impact/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Why America needs the GAO: DD: For almost 18 years, I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO during that time instead of gutting it, DOGE would not have been needed.
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2025/11/why-america-needs-gao-doge-done-right/409745/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ten months after the launch of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, one thing is clear: no one can agree on how much money it saved—or, in fact, whether it saved any money at all—and, if there were savings, what happened to them. What if DOGE were done right? Here something else is clear: we have had the Government Accountability Office, founded as a green-eye-shade operation back in 1921 to audit every single government transaction. It’s grown into the indispensable watchdog on the federal government’s spending and operations. It’s what DOGE done right looks like. At first, Musk promised to find $2 trillion in savings. Then the pledge dropped to $1 trillion. Then he struggled to document any savings at all. Since 2002, GAO’s work has logged more than $1.45 trillion in savings for taxpayers, across more than 29,000 different federal operations. Last year, savings were $67.5 billion. And better than most watchdogs glad to gobble up every available can of dog food, GAO has kept watch on itself. It’s measured the return on taxpayer investment in its own operations: $123 for every budget dollar. It’s operations aren’t flashy. In fact, they’re pretty wonky, which as card-carrying wonks we greatly admire. Its staff get advanced training when they walk into the door, which never stops as employees move up through the ranks. The size of its staff, which was reduced from 5,200 staff to its current level of about 3,500 after the Republican takeover of the House in 1995, has been relatively stable over the last decade, despite expanding demands on its work. Musk promised to trim the number of federal agencies. “There’s so many that people have never heard of. I think we should be able to get away with 99 agencies,” he said. It wasn’t clear where that number came from. It was clear from his work that DOGE didn’t know how to get there. GAO, on the other hand, has been identifying areas of duplication and overlap since 2011, with $725 billion in savings in this area alone. As others were struggling to come up with solid savings, GAO in May issued a 154-page report detailing just how to do more. Musk brought in IT whiz kids to comb through the federal government’s information services, but they had little to show for it except putting the security of Americans’ personal information at risk. GAO, in contrast, laid out a plan for figuring out how to save money on IT. Better proof-of-concept work in space-based laser communications could save hundreds of million dollars—and the government could pick up $157 billion by better managing the payment rates in Medicare. In a February Oval Office meeting, Musk claimed the federal government was full of officials who had approved money for “fraudsters,” but that claim turned out to be little more than arm-waving. GAO, in contrast, has since 1990 prepared a report every two years on programs prone to waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement. Its latest report, in February 2025, identified 38 areas needing special attention. This “high-risk list” bears careful reading for anyone who really cares about getting into the guts of the problem. It identifies issues ranging from contract management in the Pentagon to money leaking out of federal disability programs to management of oil and gas leases to mega-challenges inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster assistance. Even a casual look of the report—all 323 pages of it—would convince any reader that it’s a road map for which stones to unturn to get at the unholy trinity of waste, fraud and abuse. But there’s more here. GAO keeps score so we can see who’s making progress—and who isn’t. In 10 areas, federal agencies made $84 billion in progress. Three slipped backwards—acquisition of weapons systems by the Pentagon, improving IT management throughout the government and managing the federal government’s property. And even more. GAO doesn’t operate like a sheriff riding into town promising to clean up the saloons. It has developed a big-picture look at federal operations and identified leading practices that federal agencies can pick up. Like any oversight body, federal agencies don’t always like what they hear and often squawk. But there’s no question that we—and even they—are a whole lot better off for GAO’s work. GAO is relatively little known outside government. Even less well known is the fact that it’s an agency that works for Congress. That often is a thorn in the side of the administration, regardless of who’s in power, because GAO often says things the administration would rather not hear. That’s especially been the case in recent months with GAO’s findings that the administration has violated the law in impounding federal money—refusing to spend money that Congress appropriated. This was at the root of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought’s statement that GAO “shouldn’t exist”. The OMB Director doesn’t want anyone looking over their shoulder, just as students don’t like to take home report cards that aren’t straight-A’s or spend their time in detention. But now that we’re closing in on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and celebrating the Constitution that the founders crafted to govern us, we need to strengthen the balance-of-powers model that Madison and the other founders left us. They deliberately chose not to give us an easy system to use in governing ourselves. That means the three branches of government are always going to be jousting with each other—and that’s how it should be. In the growing complexity of our society, we need governmental institutions that can keep up with that complexity. That means Congress, in turn, needs muscle to do the heavy lifting required to oversee the executive branch, whether it’s a Republican or Democratic Congress, or a Republican or Democratic President. That’s what Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton and the other founders had in mind. And that’s why the next month is so important. The current head of GAO, Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, will be at the end of his fifteen-year term, the longest term in the federal government except for the lifetime appointment of federal judges, and the process to name a successor will shift into high gear. A special commission—consisting of congressional leaders—recommends a slate of individuals to the president. The president selects one person to nominate, and the Senate must then confirm the new head. This appointment is a pretty big deal. It will ensure strong oversight through the 2030s into the 2040s and reinforce the balance of powers for even longer. GAO will provide the executive branch with the independent insights it needs to wring out waste, fraud and abuse. It is a tool that Congress can use to hold the executive branch accountable, essential because a weak GAO weakens the legislative branch. We all have a stake in making sure that GAO can provide the oversight the Constitution requires—and the balance of powers that they designed.)
HR DIVE
— As major firms green-light AI for performance reviews, should others follow suit? Artificial intelligence promises efficiency and data-driven insights, but it could also subject employers to bias claims and compliance obligations, sources say. DD: Democrat and RINO employers use performance reviews to get rid of their Republican employees. They paint their Democrat employees as positively as they can and they paint their Republican employees as negatively as they can. In Diersen v. GAO, I entered into the court record all the many performance reviews that my Democrat superiors gave me 1980-1997. None of them came close to justifying the many adverse actions that they took against me. They forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/AI-for-performance-reviews/806785/
PBS
— Trump says the word ‘affordability’ is a ‘con job’ by the Democrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS8IJgsOip8
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— Chicago’s faith leaders on front lines of resistance against ICE crackdown. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn religious leaders against America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/chicago-faith-leaders-ice-crackdown
Tag: Precinct
December 1, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says he would ‘absolutely’ denaturalize some citizens if he had the power
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-he-would-absolutely-denaturalize-citizens-had-power/18233913/
WTTW
— Chicago Spent $212M on Police Overtime So Far This Year, 6% More Than New Limit Set for 2026
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/28/chicago-spent-212m-police-overtime-so-far-year-6-more-new-limit-set-2026
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Stop the steal’: Hundreds rally against redistricting as Indiana GOP unveils map
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/stop-the-steal-hundreds-rally-against-redistricting-as-indiana-gop-unveils-map/
— What do Illinois’ woes tell us about the future of higher education in America?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/opinion-columbia-college-university-of-chicago-enrollment-decline/
— Wheaton-based ETF firm Innovator sells to Goldman Sachs for $2 billion
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/goldman-sachs-innovator-capital-management/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Occupying an office building emblazoned with its name on Front Street in Wheaton, Innovator has quietly been doing big business in the quaint county seat of DuPage County, perhaps best known as the academic launching pad for evangelist Billy Graham, who attended Wheaton College.)
SPRINGFIUELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Executive Ethics Commissioner Patricia “Patty” Ann Schuh cited for driving under the influence
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/accident/2025/12/01/the-ethics-commissioner-was-cited-for-an-incident-at-veterans-parkway/87455278007/
SHAW LOCAL
— DD: Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/11/27/northern-illinois-food-bank-sees-25-increase-in-need-higher-than-pandemic-times-this-holiday-season/
KFVS
— Medical Aid in Dying bill worries Illinois coroners
https://www.kfvs12.com/2025/11/22/medical-aid-dying-bill-worries-illinois-coroners/
IPM NEWSROOM
— DD: How dependent on federal spending is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://ipmnewsroom.org/trump-cuts-could-shrink-illinois-economy-by-10b-report/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-429/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— EV sales take a dive without taxpayer subsidies
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/1/ev-sales-take-dive-without-taxpayer-subsidies/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrat ‘leaders’ everywhere are running businesses and residents out of their states—why would anyone want them for president?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/democrat_leaders_everywhere_are_running_businesses_and_residents_out_of_their_states_why_would_anyone_want_them_for_president.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Elected officials among those obstructing ICE in NYC
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/01/well-do-it-every-single-time-elected-officials-among-those-obstructing-ice-in-nyc-1607269/
BLAZE
— Chicago school district lets children ditch class over ICE fears
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-school-district-lets-children-ditch-class-over-ice-fears-report
DAILY WIRE
— Here Are Some Illegals Americans Can Be Thankful Are Off The Streets. Over 70% of ICE arrests have been of those with criminal histories.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/thanksgiving-arrests-here-are-some-illegals-americans-can-be-thankful-are-off-the-streets
— Mark Kelly Encourages Active Military To Question Orders In Real Time. Troops “may find out down the road that they did something that is illegal,” he claimed. DD: I always followed all my Democrat superiors’ many orders to give preference to my subordinates who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, etc. But that was not enough for them.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mark-kelly-encourages-active-military-to-question-orders-in-real-time
NEWS BUSTERS
— DD: Democrat Leaders Promote Their Mob of Anti-ICE Activists Obstructing Enforcement in New York
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2025/12/01/ms-now-promotes-mob-anti-ice-activists-obstructing-enforcement
PJ MEDIA
— Over 7,000 Criminal Illegals in New York Jails
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/01/over-7k-criminal-illegals-in-new-york-jails-n4946588
— History of Jihad and Crusade
https://pjmedia.com/raymond-ibrahim/2025/12/01/the-history-of-jihad-and-crusade-with-victor-davis-hanson-n4946592
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Federal review finds 44% of US trucking schools don’t comply with government rules
https://apnews.com/article/commercial-drivers-license-trucking-california-pennsylvania-96fee86df4f9bfb0ef65af20da878a57
NEW YORK TIMES
— A Councilwoman Intervened During an ICE Arrest. Then She Faced the Voters. Months before the election, Etel Haxhiaj, a councilwoman in Worcester, Mass., was charged with assaulting an officer when she stood between the police and an immigrant family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/etel-haxhiaj-ice-immigration-election-massachusetts.html
— Fine-Tune Your Feed and Get News You Can Use. Apps from Google, Apple and other companies let you customize your content so you’re always up to date on the matters you care about most. DD: I have been a news aggregator since 2000. Since 2005, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters have contained links to almost 530,000 political and government news and commentary articles of interest to Illinois Republicans. My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned a) the aforesaid articles and b) my comments on those articles. I should write about my critics/opponents. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and paise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of clout and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/technology/personaltech/apple-google-news-customize.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on illegal labor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/01/trump-chicago-immigration-economy/
BARRON’S
— The great majority of wealthy parents are giving their adult children financial support. DD: I had to work my way through college. After my father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21, I helped support my mother and brother.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/wealthy-parents-have-turned-into-banks-for-their-children-why-thats-a-problem-f6f1878b
BUSINESS INSIDER
— 5 ways rich parents can stop their kids from wasting the family fortune. DD: I had to work my way through college. After my father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21, I helped support my mother and brother.
https://www.businessinsider.com/kathleen-grace-family-fortune-generational-wealth-children-money-lessons-advice-2025-10
CAMPUS TIMES
— The problem with standardized testing. DD: What do you attribute your test taking success/failure to? Many if not most if not virtually all of those who failed the tests that I passed did not share my demographics. Because of that, according to my critics/opponents, the tests that I passed were biased against those who did not share my demographics. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. I passed all the tests needed to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. What should my test taking success be attributed too?
https://www.campustimes.org/2025/09/15/the-problem-with-standardized-testing/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Congress faces a packed December agenda and big decisions including the search for a new Comptroller General as Gene Dodaro retires. DD: Comptroller Generals a) work for Congress and b) run GAO. GAO audits the federal government. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/12/congress-faces-a-packed-december-agenda-and-big-decisions-on-healthcare-subsidies/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Gerton: One thing that’s got to be on lawmakers’ minds in December is the retirement of the comptroller general, the head of the government accountability office. Gene Dodaro’s term ends at the end of the month. What are you hearing in terms of the maneuvering and the nomination for his replacement? Miller: Well, I think there’s actually a lot of nervousness right now about what is going to happen with him. He has been a steady hand on the rudder, as you know, for close to fifteen years now, and there’s really a lot of discussion about how they’re going to get a successor to him. And frankly, it’s not really clear what’s going to happen. You have this panel of lawmakers that are supposed to nominate the next person, but they’re also looking for some guidance from the White House because that will have a big role in the type of person that replaces him. And the fact that this is, you know, one of the most prominent unelected positions in the federal government, the fact that this person is really responsible for rooting out waste, which Republicans have said they want to do and that they tried to do with DOGE, how much of a leash is the new head of GAO going to have? Will the White House go along with Republicans? We’ve seen Republicans starting to assert their own voice a little bit more, saying that they want some independence here, or will the White House crush that and say, you know, President Trump says I want this person and we’re gonna put them in? So I think we’re going to see a lot of maneuvering here in the next few weeks because he will be gone, as you know, later in the month. Gerton: Do you think it’s an opportunity for Congress to push back or take back some of its authority? GAO is their oversight body. Miller: Right, exactly. I think there is because whether they’re Republican or Democrat, I think the institutionalists, at least, believe that this type of leadership is necessary. And there’s no question about it, whatever political stripe you’re from, this office does root out a substantial amount of waste. I mean, they talk about something along the lines of a $160 billion in the past year. And so also these lawmakers, let’s not forget, when they’re leading various committees or subcommittees, they rely on the GAO for investigations to try to find out what do we need to fix. Everybody’s talking about what needs to be done to make federal government better. Well, this is perfectly an example of where you find the areas where there are problems that the GAO identifies and then Congress can act and react and create legislation.)
REASON
— To the Socialists of All Parties. DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://reason.com/2025/12/01/to-the-socialists-of-all-parties/
NIEMAN LAB
— Why people choose not to share news. DD: I should write about a) my critics/opponents, b) the articles they do not want anyone to read, and c) why they do not want anyone to read them. I would focus on those who continue to punish me for my including links in my newsletters to articles that they do not like.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/why-people-choose-not-to-share-news/
BAIN & COMPANY
— Degrees are not destiny—nearly half of college graduates earn less than a living wage. DD: In today’s dollars, while I only had a bachelor’s degree in management, my salary increased from about $50,000/year to about $100,000/year. After I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, earned master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, became a licensed CPA, earned four more job-related professional certifications, and earned a master’s degree in finance, my salary increased to about $153,000year.
https://www.bain.com/insights/educated-but-underprepared-closing-the-career-readiness-gap/
POLITICO
— Indiana House releases draft congressional map that could net Republicans 2 seats
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/indiana-house-proposed-redistricting-map-00671228
November 30, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Nonpartisan think tank identifies Illinois’ most effective state legislators
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/11/30/kelly-cassidy-sue-rezin-jb-pritzker-transgender-nuclear-nonpartisan-think-tank-identifies-illinois-most-effective-state-legislators
FOX32
— Slight majority of Illinoisans approve of Pritzker as he seeks third term. DD: Who approves of Pritzker? Those who are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-jb-pritzker-poll-nov-25
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for health care costs.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/for-republicans-its-crunch-time-on-health-care/
— Lawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump’s military strikes on boats
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-lawmakers-voice-support-for-congressional-reviews-of-trumps-military-strikes-on-boats/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Sen. Mark Kelly calls Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ‘unqualified’ amid video probe. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates hinted/implied that was not qualified to be promoted to GS-9 (currently $68,315/year) when I was 23 years old in 1972, to GS-11 (currently $82,655/year) when I was 24, and to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) when I was 25. But most of my Democrat coworkers were also promoted that fast. Further, unlike my coworkers, I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola. Further, they were furious that I had been selected for a high-profile developmental assignment instead of a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. My Democrat superiors soon got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me those three times and had given me that assignment. They disallowed my travel vouchers and education expenses and made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/30/mark-kelly-arizona-senator-calls-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth/
— Democrats’ crime policies are suicidal
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/30/democrats-crime-policies-suicidal/
NEW YORK POST
— White House names and shames ‘biased’ news outlets and reporters with new website
https://nypost.com/2025/11/30/us-news/white-house-names-and-shames-biased-news-outlets-and-reporters-with-new-website/
— Over 5K Afghan migrants flagged on ‘national security’ grounds since 2021
https://nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-news/more-than-5000-afghan-migrants-flagged-on-national-security-grounds-since-2021-document-reveals/
— Mamdani-linked PAC offered Hispanic business leader job, seat on transition team if he raised $1M in 3 days
https://nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-news/mamdani-linked-pac-allegedly-offered-hispanic-business-leader-job-seat-on-transition-team-if-he-raised-1m-in-3-days/
— Americans are rightly waking up — much of higher education is now a scam
https://nypost.com/2025/11/30/opinion/more-americans-are-realizing-a-four-year-degree-is-an-expensive-scam/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Ken Burns Rejects Factual Revolutionary History In Favor Of The 1619 Project
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/ken_burns_rejects_factual_revolutionary_history_in_favor_of_the_1619_project_comments.html
BREITBART
— Critical Race Theorists Sneak Back into Red States Through ‘Media Literacy’ Campaign
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/11/30/report-critical-race-theorists-sneak-back-into-red-states-through-media-literacy-campaign/
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Left Goes Neo-Confederate on Immigration
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/31/the-left-goes-neo-confederate-on-immigration/
LAW ENFOREMENT TODAY
— Connecticut Teachers’ Union Teams Up With Anti-ICE Activists While Test Scores Plummet
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/connecticut-teachers-union-teams-up-with-anti-ice-activists-while-test-scores-plummet
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Indiana Reignites Redistricting Battle After Trump Lights a Fire Under Republican Leadership
https://www.westernjournal.com/red-state-reignites-redistricting-battle-trump-lights-fire-republican-leadership/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Noem says National Guard shooting suspect was ‘radicalized’ in the U.S.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/kristi-noem-radicalized-dc-national-guard-asylum-shooting-rcna246477
— Noem says all asylum claims in U.S. to be reviewed
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/sec-kristi-noem-says-all-asylum-claims-in-u-s-will-be-reviewed-253308485914
CBS NEWS
— Immigration advocates hold another rally in NYC, criticize NYPD
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/immigration-advocates-hold-another-rally-in-nyc-criticize-nypd/
CNN
— Musk spotlights cost of federal entitlements amid fear of cuts to programs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/musk-federal-entitlements-costs
NEW YORK TIMES
— Protesters Arrested After Trying to Block a Possible ICE Raid
https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000010555061/protesters-arrested-after-trying-to-block-a-possible-ice-raid.html
USA TODAY
— Trump’s approval rating hits second-term low as Republican support dips. DD: My critics/opponents have always focused on driving my approval rating down. Since 1999, they have focused on Republican voters, precinct committeemen, candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Since 2000, they have focused on GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter readers and potential readers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/29/trump-approval-rating-low-gallup/87524482007/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Trump calls Democrats ‘traitors’ for urging military to ‘refuse illegal orders.’ DD: All those who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors assigned me to supervise were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, and/or had performance problems. I never refused orders to give them preference. I gave them lots of preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors.
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-calls-democrats-traitors-urging-214915264.html
PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE
— Refusing illegal orders is a dilemma for U.S. troops. DD: All those who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors assigned me to supervise were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, and/or had performance problems. I never refused orders to give them preference. I gave them lots of preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors.
https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/refusing-illegal-orders-is-a-dilemma-for-u-s-troops/article_5d126839-c765-4bb7-b9af-c7d6ea73994b.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— About That Trump-Mamdani Love-In
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-about-that-trump-mamdani-love-in/67E92381-F2C4-4A7F-A7DC-DE73985CCEBC
BEST COLLEGES
— 58 Companies That Pay for College With Tuition Reimbursement. DD: I paid lots of my money 1966-1997 to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree (management), three job-related masters (business, accounting, and finance), six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic Accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA). Except for some small token amounts, none of it was reimbursed. I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997. Worse yet, to get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my graduate business and accounting courses even though the employee manual they gave me strongly encouraged me to take those courses. They falsely arguing that the courses were not job-related, did not maintain or improve my job skills, qualified me for a new trade or business, and were taken by me to get a job in the private sector. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2021/09/16/top-companies-offering-tuition-reimbursement/
TIME
— New Yorkers Foil Large-Scale ICE Raid
https://time.com/7337578/ice-raid-new-york-mamdani/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
JAPAN TIMES
— Protesters disrupt federal immigration operation in Manhattan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/30/world/protesters-disrupt-federal-immigration/
November 29, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
JOURNAL COURIER
— Pritzker’s approval rating up slightly from June in new poll. DD: How does Pritzker poll in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/jb-pritzker-approval-rating-june-new-poll-21208424.php
SHAW LOCAL
— The growing dependency on government. DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-journal/opinion/2023/11/25/jackson-the-growing-dependency-on-government/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-approval-rating-drops-to-new-low-poll/
CWB CHICAGO
— Auto thieves point guns at firefighters outside Avondale firehouse. DD: While I worked for IRS in Chicago, my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in 1971 and my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in 1973.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/11/auto-thieves-point-guns-at-firefighters-outside-avondale-firehouse.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
TAZEWELL COUNTY GOP
— Tazewell County Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Forum. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would still be hosting candidate forums.
https://www.tazewellgop.org/tazewell_county_republican_gubernatorial_candidate_forum
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— White House launches media bias tracker
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/29/white-house-launches-media-bias-tracker/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The White House has launched a new section on its website dedicated to calling out media it considers misleading or having a bias in its coverage of President Trump and his policies. At the top of the site it says, “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” It lists the “media offender” of the week, which will seemingly be updated. When users scroll down, it names the outlet, the reporter, the offense, the claim the article makes, what “the truth is” and what the key points of the issue are, among other things. There is an “offender hall of shame” and users can search for a specific headline, or scroll through specific outlets and reporters. It also features a “leaderboard” characterized as a “race to the bottom.” The leaderboard has The Washington Post as first, followed by MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, The New York Times, Politico and The Wall Street Journal.)
— Taking ‘woke’ out of Wall Street. New report shows corporate investors are rejecting radical shareholder activism.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/29/editorial-taking-woke-wall-street/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— White House unveils ‘Media Bias’ website to expose ‘fake news’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3901687/white-house-unveils-media-bias-website-to-expose-fake-news/
— The growing threat of toxic empathy
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3888073/growing-threat-toxic-empathy/
— Trump’s immigration crackdown already benefiting American students
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3899942/trump-immigration-crackdown-already-benefiting-american-students/
NEW YORK POST
— Illegal immigrant students allowed unlimited absences under Chicago Public Schools policy
https://nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-news/illegal-immigrant-students-allowed-unlimited-absences-under-chicago-public-schools-policy/
ARMY
— Is “Up or Out” Holding Us Back? DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use up-or-out to get rid of Republicans. Democrats run the federal government. They get rid of their employees who are Republican employees who are White, male, and/or non-veteran who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. I never would have made GS-13 when I was 38 or survived until I was 49 if I had not a) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management) when I was 21, b) made GS-12 ($99,069) when I was 25, c) earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance) when I was 27, 31, and 48, d) earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting) when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and e) earned a job-related professional license (CPA) when I was 32. The Army equivalent of GS-12 is Major. The Army equivalent of GS-13 is Lieutenant Colonel.
https://www.army.mil/article/247749/is_up_or_out_holding_us_back
DAILY WIRE
— Treasury Sec: We’re Cutting Off Benefits To Illegals, They Belong To Americans. “Illegal aliens that use our financial institutions to move their illicitly obtained funds is exploitation.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/treasury-sec-were-cutting-off-benefits-to-illegals-they-belong-to-americans
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Why the U.S. Has a Culture of Dependency. DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/commentary/why-the-us-has-culture-dependency
— The Rise in Dependency. DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://www.heritage.org/commentary/the-rise-dependency
— Biden Boosted the Need for Food Stamps—And Calls That a “Success.” DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://www.heritage.org/welfare/commentary/biden-boosted-the-need-food-stamps-and-calls-success
HOT AIR
— The Erosion of College Readiness
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/11/29/the-ideological-erosion-of-college-readiness-n3809351
HOUSE WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE
— More Americans Dependent on Welfare Checks, at the Expense of Work. DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/01/08/new-report-shows-more-americans-dependent-on-welfare-checks-at-the-expense-of-work/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Buying Americans out of poverty is undermining incentives to work, with families living in poverty relying more on taxpayer-funded welfare checks than income from work, according to a newly released report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Costing well over $1 trillion, America’s social safety net encompasses more than 80 federal programs, and is discouraging beneficiaries from seeking income from work. The report, which was requested by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), shows low-income families are becoming increasingly dependent on government transfers. In 1979, families living below the poverty line earned about 60 percent of their income from work. In 2021, that number dropped to an all-time low of around 25 percent. The report also shows how the dramatic increase in dependency on government transfers for low-income families was accelerated by COVID-era benefits.)
NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
— Showdown Over SNAP Benefits Points to Excessive Government Control and Dependency. DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2025/10/31/showdown-over-snap-benefits-points-to-excessive-government-control-and-dependency/
TOWNHALL
— Trump Announces Major Move to Prevent Future Terrorist Attacks
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/11/28/trump-says-he-will-permanently-pause-immigration-from-third-world-countries-after-dc-shooting-n2667127
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Chicago Police Department Hit with Civil Rights Complaint for Race-Based Hiring Practices Meant to Address ‘Systemic Inequities’
https://www.westernjournal.com/chicago-police-department-hit-civil-rights-complaint-race-based-hiring-practices-meant-address-systemic-inequities/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Map Shows 19 Countries Impacted as Trump Threatens Migration Halt
https://www.newsweek.com/map-19-countries-impacted-trump-threatens-migration-halt-11127499
— Map Shows Donald Trump’s Approval Rating in Each State After 10 Months. DD: What is Trump’s approval rating in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.newsweek.com/map-donald-trump-approval-rating-each-state-10-months-11127534
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Conversely, the president is experiencing significant disapproval in historically Democratic states, according to the polling. Hawaii reports a net approval of -55 percent, Vermont sits at -50 percent, Maryland at -44 percent, Massachusetts at -42 percent, California and Rhode Island at -40 percent, and Washington and Oregon at -36 percent. In populous states such as New York (-32 percent) and Illinois (-29 percent), the figures further reinforce national partisan divides.)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Protesters block ICE from leaving garage to conduct Canal St. sweep as NYPD makes arrests
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/29/protesters-block-ice-from-leaving-garage-to-conduct-canal-street-sweep-as-nypd-makes-arrests/
BLOOMBERG
— Protesters Disrupt Federal Immigration Action in Lower Manhattan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-29/protesters-disrupt-federal-immigration-action-in-lower-manhattan
FINANCIAL REVIEW
— More than 50 percent of voters now rely on government for their main income. DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/culture-of-dependency-lifts-spending-to-highest-level-since-wwii-20250722-p5mgu0
REASON
— Americans Grow Increasingly Dependent on Government Payments. Many citizens of the land of the free are hooked on government checks. DD: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government, that is, they promote socialism.
https://reason.com/2024/10/04/americans-grow-increasingly-dependent-on-government-payments/
AXIOS
— Trump says he’ll “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries.” DD: What percent of those who are in America illegally are from third world countries?
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/28/trump-third-world-countries-immigration-pause-permanent
November 25, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— City of Chicago employee accused of threatening Republican Illinois senator
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/city-chicago-employee-accused-threatening-235906336.html
CBS2
— Volunteers keep McCormick Place kitchen busy preparing Thanksgiving meals for thousands in need. DD: Under the Democrats, more and more and more people are in need.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fight2feed-volunteers-mccormick-place-thanksgiving-meals/
FOX32
— CPS advises immigrant parents to plan child care amid arrest fears. DD: What percent of CPS parents and students are in America illegally?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1746794
WTTW
— For Some People With Criminal Records, Illinois’ Clean Slate Act Could Offer a New Beginning. DD: When I was 49 years old in 1997, I knew that there would be no new beginnings for my career. My Democrat GAO superiors had forced me to retire. Previously, they had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. Previously, my Democrat IRS superiors had never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. Previously, my Democrat Post Office superiors had disallowed my sick leave requests and forced me to resign.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/25/some-people-criminal-records-illinois-clean-slate-act-could-offer-new-beginning
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FBI seeks interviews with Democrats who urged US troops to defy illegal orders
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/democrats-urged-troops-defy-orders/
— AI: The death of American education
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/opinion-education-teachers-artificial-intelligence/
— Readers share what is making them thankful. DD: I am thankful that my critics/opponents in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have let me serve as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. I am thankful that they let me serve as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2021, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster 2008-20210 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004. I am thankful that they let me stop video gambling in Wheaton in 2009 and the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019. Obviously, the aforesaid is sarcastic. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/letters-112525-thankful/
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County Clerk censured by county board
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251125/local-politics/dupage-county-clerk-censured-by-county-board/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & WCIA & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— More people are addicted to marijuana, but fewer of them are seeking help. Cannabis use among young adults has reached historic levels, with nearly 18 million Americans using marijuana daily in 2022. DD: Pot is poison. If not stopped, it will destroy America.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/more-people-are-addicted-to-marijuana-but-fewer-of-them-are-seeking-help-experts-say/article_274f1ddd-2ac8-52ac-96c6-c3d9d2834df9.html
https://www.wcia.com/health/ap-health/ap-more-people-are-addicted-to-marijuana-but-fewer-of-them-are-seeking-help-experts-say/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-more-people-are-addicted-to-marijuana-but-fewer-of-them-are-seeking-help-experts-say/amp/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Millions of illegal migrants got jobs in US due to being paid under the table. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/millions-of-illegal-migrants-got-jobs-in-us-due-to-being-paid-under-the-table-report-donald-trump-manufacturing-citizenship-fraud
WAND TV & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PREOUD & WCIA
— They relied on marijuana to get through the day. But then days felt impossible without it. As daily cannabis use rises to historic levels in the U.S., some longtime users are finding it harder to quit. DD: Pot is poison. If not stopped, it will destroy America.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/they-relied-on-marijuana-to-get-through-the-day-but-then-days-felt-impossible-without/article_a6f1d658-1d2e-525d-954f-6e41bf9784f9.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-they-relied-on-marijuana-to-get-through-the-day-but-then-days-felt-impossible-without-it/
https://www.wcia.com/health/ap-health/ap-they-relied-on-marijuana-to-get-through-the-day-but-then-days-felt-impossible-without-it/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on getting Latinos to blame their problems on Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-25/new-poll-shows-latino-support-for-trump-is-slipping
DUPAGE COUNTY
— DuPage County Board Censures Clerk Jean Kaczmarek
https://www.dupagecounty.gov/county_board/dupage_county_board_censures_clerk_jean_kaczmarek_1590.php
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP senator introduces bill to protect Netanyahu from arrest in New York
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/25/gop-senator-introduces-bill-protect-netanyahu-arrest-new-york/
— Trump’s comments on H-1B visa program drops hard truth about American education. Uncomfortable truth about failing public schools and teachers unions blocking reform. DD: Graduate accounting courses at DePaul and the Becker CPA Review course helped me pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Undergraduate and graduate internal auditing courses at Roosevelt and Institute of Internal Auditors Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) review courses helped me pass the CIA examination on my first attempt in 1981.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/25/trumps-comments-h-1b-visa-program-drops-hard-truth-american-education/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago leaders have let teenage criminals take over the city
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3898690/chicago-leaders-have-let-teenage-criminals-take-over-the-city/
— The road to the Chicago train fire attack
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3898591/road-to-chicago-train-fire-attack-lawrence-reed-arrests/
— Bessent says Mamdani is ‘clearly’ a leader in Democratic Party after ‘great campaign’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3898241/scott-bessent-mamdani-clearly-leader-democratic-party-after-great-campaign/
— Marjorie Taylor Greene embodies the inanity of populism
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3898513/marjorie-taylor-greene-embodies-inanity-populism/
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3897813/republicans-against-illegal-immigration-not-legal-immigration/
NEW YORK POST
— After a 40-year hiatus, the Communist Party USA is back on the ballot — and already has three people in office.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/us-news/communist-party-wins-big-in-local-elections-after-40-year-break/
— Trump brutally mocks ‘big, fat slob’ Pritzker during White House turkey pardon ceremony
https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/us-news/trump-mocks-big-fat-slob-j-b-pritzker-at-white-house-turkey-pardon-event/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Biden team pressured airports to house migrants despite safety warnings
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/11/25/biden-team-pressured-airports-to-house-migrants-despite-safety-warnings-bombshell-report-states-1605609/
BREITBART
— University of Minnesota Offers ‘Whiteness Pandemic’ Resources for ‘Antiracist’ Parenting
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/11/25/university-of-minnesota-offers-whiteness-pandemic-resources-for-antiracist-parenting/
CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE
— This Week In Waste. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, they have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.cagw.org/this-week-in-waste-november-21-2025/
FOX NEWS
— Scott Bessent declares Zohran Mamdani is ‘clearly’ leader of the Democratic Party
https://www.foxnews.com/media/scott-bessent-declares-zohran-mamdani-clearly-leader-democratic-party-leader-cnbc-interview.amp
— University of Minnesota site warns of a ‘whiteness pandemic,’ urges White parents to ‘re-educate.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on getting non-Whites to blame their problems on Republicans.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/university-minnesota-site-warns-whiteness-pandemic-urges-white-parents-re-educate
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Federally Funded University of Minnesota Lab Dedicated to Combatting ‘White Pandemic’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/university-of-minnesota-paper-calls-white-families-most-powerful-systems-involved-in-systemic-racism/
PJ MEDIA
— Biden Admin Pressured Airports to House Illegal Aliens
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/25/biden-admin-pressured-us-airports-to-house-illegal-aliens-n4946387
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump slams Illinois officials over train arson: ‘A man arrested 72 times—and they let him out again’
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-slams-illinois-officials-over-train-arson-a-man-arrested-72-times-and-they-let-him-out-again
TOWNHALL
— Remember All the Illegals Sleeping in Airports? The Biden Administration Was Behind It All.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/25/biden-admin-housing-illegals-in-airports-n2666972
— New Yorkers Should Be Scared of Mamdani’s Pro-Crime, Anti-Police Appointees
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/25/mamdani-criminal-legal-committee-wants-to-empty-jails-n2666978
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Bessent: Mamdani ‘clearly the leader of the Democratic Party’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5622112-treasury-secretary-bessent-mamdani/
CBS NEWS
— FBI opens inquiry into 6 Democrats appearing in video that urged defying illegal orders
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-inquiry-six-democrats-illegal-orders-video/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Indiana Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/indiana-redistricting-republicans.html
NEW REPUBLIC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on getting Blacks to blame their problems on Republicans.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203615/anti-blackness-isnt-part-trump-agenda-it-heart
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
MEAWW
— DHS links 1,150% spike in ICE assaults to ‘sanctuary politicians’ rhetoric. DHS said the spike in assaults reflected a broader rise in threats against immigration officers and warned that rhetoric from several leaders had intensified risks.
https://news.meaww.com/dhs-links-1-150-spike-in-ice-assaults-to-sanctuary-politicians-rhetoric
November 24, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— $10K reward being offered for information in teen’s Loop shooting death; concerns over violence. Some Chicago leaders worry downtown violence could deter holiday tourists. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/cook-county-crime-stoppers-offering-10k-reward-information-armani-floyd-downtown-chicago-shooting-concerns-violence/18202512/
— Pentagon launches review into Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over video to troops.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pentagon-says-launching-review-democratic-sen-mark-kelly/18202243/
— Local advocates concerned over Trump admin. omission of nursing as professional degree program. The policy change limits access to federal loans for graduate students pursuing advanced nursing degrees.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/did-trump-sign-bill-reclassifying-nursing-chicago-area-advocates-concerned-omission-professional-degree/18204718/
FOX32
— Underwood tours Broadview ICE facility, finds ‘unacceptable’ conditions
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/underwood-broadview-ice-facility
WGN RADIO
— Could a curfew have prevented past weekend’s teen takeover in the Loop? DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://wgnradio.com/bob-sirott/could-a-curfew-have-prevented-past-weekends-teen-takeover-in-the-loop/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Investigation continues into pair of downtown shootings, including one that took the life of ‘vibrant’ teen Friday night. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/investigation-downtown-shootings-armani-floyd/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the high cost of healthcare.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/plan-extend-obamacare-subsidies/
— Pentagon says it’s investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders.’ DD: Have you defied orders? While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. All of my subordinates were minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, and/or had major performance problems. I never defied orders to give them preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. Because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, they ever-increasingly wasted my career, ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me, and ultimately forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/pentagon-mark-kelly-video/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Underwood tours Broadview ICE facility and warns deportation blitz isn’t over. The Democratic congresswoman said staffing for Chicago area ICE facilities is expected to triple in coming months.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/24/lauren-underwood-broadview-ice-facility-tour-operation-midway-blitz
— Fatal Loop ‘teen takeover’ leaves families, peers reeling. After 14-year-old Armani Floyd’s death Friday, his peers at a South Shore after-school basketball group were left struggling. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/11/24/armani-floyd-teen-takeover-project-swish
SUBURBAN LIFE
— ‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’. Poverty tough to overcome for some DuPage County residents. DD: The cost of living in DuPage County is very high. I bought a new townhome in University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972 and my salary had just increased from $55,850/year to $68,315/year in today’s dollars. But if that townhome had been built in DuPage County, I could not have afforded it.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/11/24/robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-poverty-tough-to-overcome-for-many-dupage-county-residents/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “There is a broad misconception that there is no poverty in DuPage County,” said Kara Murphy, president of the DuPage Health Coalition, a nonprofit that connects essential healthcare services to low-income individuals. It is true that “on balance” DuPage County is a more affluent community, “but it is also a populous community with just under one million residents,” she said at the Nov. 20 event. “There are more low-income families living in DuPage County than the entire population of 89 of the 100 counties in Illinois,” Murphy said. Murphy added that DuPage County communities must support “individuals at every income level.” “The strongest and most thriving communities create space and opportunities for people who are low-wage, medium-wage and high-wage earners. Communities that are only accessible to individuals at the highest income levels will experience incredible deficits in their ability to provide all the services that all the community needs. We need a diversity of opportunities for people in different places in their life cycles.” To determine income eligibility for assistance programs, many organizations in DuPage County utilize income levels that are 250% or even 300% of the federal poverty level. “Because the reality is the federal poverty level is dramatically inadequate to be able to meet basic needs,” Murphy said. Based 2023 data, using the 200% mark of the federal poverty level, there are 142,000 individuals living in poverty and that number is dramatically increasing, said Amy Van Polen, CEO of Bridge Communities, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing to families facing homelessness. “Those are the fastest growing numbers of our community,” Van Polen said. “Forty-four percent of renters in this county are rent burdened, meaning that they pay more than 30% of their income toward rent. That is not sustainable.” Many college educated individuals who are “20 something or 30 something” are finding it difficult to find affordable housing, she said. “Lots of $3,000-a-month, one-bedroom apartments are being built.”)
FOX ILLINOIS
— Vance is backing up Trump who called for the arrest and trial of Democratic lawmakers featured in a video calling for intelligence and military service members to defy the president’s “illegal orders.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/vance-supports-trump-calling-for-arrest-slotkin-video-stirs-rand-paul-llegal-orders-seditious-behavior
WMBD
— Illinois U.S. Senate candidate runs to end military support for Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7z5I16vV_I
BOLINGBROOK PATCH
— Will County Board Candidates File Dueling Election Objections, 1 Removed From Ballot. The two candidates also filed objections against each other in the precinct committeeperson race, and the other was removed from the ballot.
https://patch.com/illinois/bolingbrook/will-county-board-candidates-file-dueling-election-objections-1-removed-ballot
WHEATON RECORD
— CACE Lecture Examines Christian Nationalism and Trump’s Second Term
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/11/24/cace-lecture-examines-christian-nationalism-and-trumps-second-term/
— Student-Planned Panel Discusses Immigration Crackdown and Christian Response
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/11/24/student-planned-panel-discusses-immigration-crackdown-and-christian-response/
— “Let’s talk about Chemical Abortion”
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/11/24/lets-talk-about-chemical-abortion/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Amid GOP governor candidates, Dabrowski says he knows how to fix Illinois
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_788d6262-c266-4311-af6c-bc96cd216bf0.html
— State reps: Pritzker turns ‘blind eye’ to Chicago’s public safety crisis
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cfbde8b3-4965-4d7a-a0a6-d8bf61bbfc60.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pentagon says Sen. Kelly could be recalled to active duty, face court martial for video to troops
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/pentagon-says-sen-kelly-could-recalled-active-duty-face-court-martial/
— Decentralized DOGE is still buzz-sawing through government waste. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/decentralized-doge-still-buzz-sawing-government-waste/
— Associated Press asks court to restore its special access to Trump’s White House
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/associated-press-asks-court-restore-special-access-trumps-white-house/
— Blagojevich: From big shoulders to big exodus: Chicago’s collapse under leftist leadership. Once the heart of American innovation and industry, the Second City now bleeds jobs, residents and hope
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/big-shoulders-big-exodus-chicagos-collapse-leftist-leadership/
— Mamdani’s catastrophic socialist vision may herald in America’s freedom rebirth
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/mamdanis-catastrophic-socialist-vision-may-herald-americas-freedom/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DD: Noncitizens steal American jobs. All my employers would hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take the bad jobs that I had to take. Their parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3895435/where-illegal-immigrants-find-work-in-the-us/
— Restoring the American dream of homeownership.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3897283/restoring-american-dream-homeownership/
NEW YORK POST
— Assaults on immigration agents skyrocket 1,150% since Trump took office as sanctuary city rhetoric fuels disturbing rise
https://nypost.com/2025/11/24/us-news/assaults-on-ice-agents-skyrocket-1150-since-trump-took-office/
— NYPD needs to quash violent car-meetup ‘street takeovers’ IMMEDIATELY
https://nypost.com/2025/11/24/opinion/nypd-needs-to-quash-violent-car-meetup-street-takeovers-immediately/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Cornell grad student union backs ‘armed resistance by any means necessary’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/cornell-grad-student-union-backs-armed-resistance-means-necessary/29019
FOX NEWS
— Trump’s fight with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a warning sign for Republicans. DD: My Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party leaders vehemently disagreed with my supporting Pat O’Malley instead of Jim Ryan in the Republican gubernatorial primary in 2002. I led O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. Even though I did everything that I could to help Ryan win the general election, they not only have never forgiven me, they continue to punish me big time. They blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for Ryan’s defeat. I should write about that.
https://foxillinois.com/news/armstrong-army-strong/donald-trumps-fight-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-is-a-warning-sign-for-republicans
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican Party under Trump has always been a coalition held together by energy, grievance, and a sense of shared purpose. But coalitions — even fearsome ones — require space for internal disagreement. They require room for ideological variance, strategic differences, and the occasional intra-party critique. Without that space, a movement begins to cannibalize its own allies, mistaking loyalty for uniformity and criticism for betrayal. . .There is also a deeper strategic issue. Disagreement, when handled well, strengthens a movement. It forces reflection. It sharpens arguments. It prevents blind spots. In a party that is trying to build a durable America First agenda with real policy depth, suppressing dissent is a recipe for stagnation. Trump’s greatest strength has always been his ability to break political orthodoxies; he should not now create a new orthodoxy that is just as brittle as the one he once shattered. Republicans need a healthy internal dialogue, not a chorus line. If Trump wants a party that will govern successfully — not merely idolize him — he must recognize that even loyal supporters will occasionally challenge him. And sometimes, they should. A strong leader does not see disagreement as betrayal. A strong leader sees it as proof that the movement he built is maturing, thinking, and preparing for the responsibilities of lasting power. . .If the GOP becomes a party where dissent is punished and loyalty is the only ideology, it will implode not because of Democrats — but because of its own refusal to let its members say, “We support you, but here’s where we disagree.”
HOT AIR
— Illegal Alien Stole a Man’s Identity and Made His Life Hell; New York Times Calls The Illegal a Victim
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/24/illegal-alien-stole-a-mans-identity-and-made-his-life-hell-new-york-times-calls-the-illegal-a-victim-n3809207
NEWSMAX
— States Need to Join Trump, Feds, to Destroy Islamic Militants
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/islamic-militants/2025/11/24/id/1235831/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Women set ablaze on Chicago train identified as Bethany MaGee—suspect has 72 prior arrests. 50-year-old Lawrence Reed has been arrested at least 72 times over the last 30 years.
https://thepostmillennial.com/chicago-man-charged-with-setting-woman-on-fire-has-72-prior-arrests#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Trump Hit With Negative Polling in Utah
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-hit-with-negative-polling-in-staunch-republican-state-11097581
— Trump Orders Broad Vetting Review of 200,000 Refugees Admitted Under Biden
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-orders-review-biden-era-refugees-11102147
JD SUPRA
— EEOC Releases Materials on National Origin Discrimination. DD: My critics/opponents have aways stressed that I am 100% German national origin. In my defense, I have always stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWI if he had not been 4-F. FROM WIKIPEDIA: “For Germany perpetrating the Holocaust and starting World War II, Germans are often stereotyped as Nazis. This stereotype, while now rare, persists to this day. After the war, the German people were often viewed with contempt because they were blamed by other Europeans for Nazi crimes. Germans visiting abroad, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, attracted insults from locals, and from foreigners who may have lost their families or friends in the atrocities. Today in Europe and worldwide (particularly in countries that fought against the Axis), Germans may be scorned by elderly people who were alive to experience the atrocities committed by Nazi Germans or by veterans who had fought against the Nazis during World War II.)
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eeoc-releases-materials-on-national-6164621/
November 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they have determined that they cannot retake the federal government unless they illegally bring more illegals into America and illegally keep them in America illegally.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/chicago-border-patrol-resistance/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/senator-ruben-gallego-chicago-immigration/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/illinois-national-guard-housed-at-state-site-as-questions-about-trump-deployment-costs-grow/
— How do we support young people’s desire to serve society? DD: I wanted a career in the automotive industry. I would not become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment test with him. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I would not have become a GAO employee in 1980 if my Democrat superiors had not made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/opinion-idealism-human-service-job-training/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I never imagined that after graduating from college and working in the offices of a respected consulting firm in the Midwest, one day I would walk away from what looked like a secure and enviable path. But after months spent helping companies squeeze out higher profits, I began to wonder, like Leo Tolstoy, whether a life devoted entirely to success could ever feel meaningful. So I left. I traded corporate perks for the uncertainty of a spiritual vocation and committed myself to religious leadership, social entrepreneurship, adult education, academia and activism. In the years since, I have founded nonprofits, launched incubators, taught thousands of students and worked alongside people confronting some of the most pressing injustices of our time. Such decisions are rare, exposing an unsettling moral decline in American life. The issue isn’t talent but moral guidance. Many capable youths chase high pay, influenced by peers, families and looming debt. Fields such as tech, finance and medicine are vital, but fewer opt for work that benefits the human spirit, such as teaching, supporting vulnerable populations or advocating for justice.)
CITIES 92.9
— Pritzker suggests he’s open to tweaking SAFE-T Act after train passenger fire
https://www.cities929.com/2025/11/21/pritzker-suggests-hes-open-to-tweaking-safe-t-act-after-train-passenger-fire/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Epstein Scandal Rocks Pritzker Orbit – IL GOP Leaders, Campaigns Remain Quiet
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/11/epstein-scandal-rocks-pritzker-orbit-il-gop-leaders-campaigns-remain-quiet.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker Facing Federal Criminal Probe on Thornley Matter: We Have All the Background.
https://wirepoints.org/pritzker-facing-federal-probe-on-thornley-matter-we-have-all-the-background-wirepoints/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Destructive Myth of Gender Affirming Care
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/child-exploitation/the-destructive-myth-of-gender-affirming-care/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— Republicans Call Out ‘Despicable’ Democrats After Majority Refuse to Condemn Socialism
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/21/gop-calls-out-despicable-democrats-after-majority-refuse-to-condemn-socialism/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— Why Americans are fleeing public schools
https://www.thecollegefix.com/why-americans-are-fleeing-public-schools-a-case-study/
DAILY CALLER
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly equate Mamdani’s socialist beliefs with the teachings of Jesus.
https://www.aol.com/articles/cnn-panelist-compares-zohran-mamdani-163023099.html
— Liberal Women Role Play As Illegal Immigrants And Teach Volunteers How To Resist ICE
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/21/charlotte-role-play-dilworth-united-methodist-church/
DAILY CITIZEN
— Clarence Thomas Becomes Nation’s Fifth Longest-Serving Supreme Court Justice
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/clarence-thomas-becomes-nations-fifth-longest-serving-supreme-court-justice/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Investor Arrested After Bringing Up Epstein, Ratchets Up Lawsuit Against Berkshire Hathaway
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/21/investor-arrested-after-bringing-up-epstein-ratchets-up-lawsuit-against-berkshire-hathaway/
EPOCH TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/5-key-takeaways-from-trumps-white-house-meeting-with-mamdani-5948367
FEDERALIST
— Illegal Aliens Are A Major Constituency Of The Democrat Party
https://thefederalist.com/videos/hemingway-illegal-aliens-are-a-major-constituency-of-the-democrat-party/
FOX NEWS
— Federal probe demands Chicago Teachers Union explain missing financial audits since 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/media/education-committee-demands-chicago-teachers-union-explain-missing-financial-audits-since-2020
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzhwe7hQKk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385430766112
NEWSMAX
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtdPOaQvRZE
PJ MEDIA
— DOJ Takes on California’s Loans, Scholarships for Illegal Aliens. DD: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships or student loans.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/21/doj-takes-on-californias-loans-scholarships-for-illegal-aliens-n4946258
— California Gave Illegals Goodies While Abandoning Palisades Fire Victims
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/21/california-gave-illegals-goodies-while-abandoning-palisades-fire-victims-n4946270
TOWNHALL
— Republicans Cannot Prevail by Offering a ‘Soft’ Version of Socialism
https://townhall.com/columnists/juliorivera/2025/11/22/republicans-cannot-prevail-by-offering-a-soft-version-of-socialism-n2666867
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV8OIajrctc
— Trump defends sedition accusation over video by Democrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5XMuAWplq8
CBS NEWS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/first-meeting-between-trump-mamdani-is-cordial-complimentary/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-mayor-meeting-1770204af103afa00ee9b5d97cd401c7
CNN
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/politics/trump-mamdani-oval-office-meeting
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-mamdani-epstein-news-11-21-25
MSN
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/trump-expresses-great-confidence-in-mamdani-in-oval-office-lovefest/ar-AA1QUQUg
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/donald-trump-congratulates-democratic-socialist-zohran-mamdani-on-his-election-victory/vi-AA1QUMUl
NEWSWEEK
— Nursing Is No Longer Counted as a ‘Professional Degree’ by Trump Admin
https://www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-professional-degree-trump-admin-11079650
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Calls Democrats’ Video to Military ‘Punishable by Death’
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/20/us/trump-news-epstein-cheney
— Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January. DD: Who wants you to resign? Ever since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, my critics/opponents who dominate the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) have tried very hard to get me to resign. I should write about them. My Democrat Post Office superiors rudely got me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969. My Democrat Firestone Store manager rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat IRS superiors rudely got me to transfer to GAO in 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors rudely got me to retire in 1997. MTRO rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010. The Illinois Center Right Coalition rudely tried to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006 and in rudely ended my membership on its Steering Committee in 2007. TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois rudely got me to not run again for chairman in 2012. Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for its Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. The Illinois Republican Party rudely ended my membership on its State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns.html
— Most Immigrants Support Border Enforcement, but Not Mass Deportations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/politics/immigrants-poll-enforcement.html
— Trump’s All-but-Forgotten Border Wall Reaches an Angry Laredo, Texas. Once the symbol of the president’s immigration policies, the wall has been eclipsed by his deportation efforts, but with $46.5 billion from Congress, construction is ramping up on the Rio Grande.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/trump-border-wall-laredo-texas.html
— A fertility agenda that can unite left and right. DD: In 1988, my Democrat GAO superiors adopted a fertility agenda to get rid of me. Duckworth would have loved that agenda. They used my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents to hint/imply/argue/shout that I lied about our trying to have children. Since 1980, I had requested to be assigned to in-town audits to help our trying to have children. In 1989, to punish me, they threw me off in-town audits, assigned me to a bad 6-month out-of-town audit, gave me unfair performance expectations, gave me an unfair performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://nytimes.pressreader.com/the-new-york-times
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/21/zohran-mamdani-donald-trump-oval-office/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/21/trump-mamdani-oval-office/
WCNC
— Questions raised over Charlotte landscaper’s arrest by CBP. DD: The son of one of my GAO superiors started a landscaping business. But he was driven out of business by his competitors who used cheap illegal labor.
https://www.wcnc.com/video/news/local/questions-raised-over-charlotte-landscapers-arrest-by-cbp/275-4bdd5b4e-3e62-4dbe-836c-51d28f38c0c1
FORBES
— Socialism: The Antithesis Of The American Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axGRJ_TmDz4
BLOOMBERG
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-21/trump-and-mamdani-find-common-ground-in-their-goals-for-nyc
POLITICO
— Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns from Congress after clash with Trump. The former Trump loyalist said she will step down Jan. 5. DD: Ever since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, my critics/opponents who dominate the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) have tried very hard to get me to resign. I should write about them. My Democrat Post Office superiors rudely got me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969. My Democrat Firestone Store manager rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat IRS superiors rudely got me to transfer to GAO in 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors rudely got me to retire in 1997. MTRO rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010. The Illinois Center Right Coalition rudely tried to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006 and in rudely ended my membership on its Steering Committee in 2007. TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois rudely got me to not run again for chairman in 2012. Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for its Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. The Illinois Republican Party rudely ended my membership on its State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns-from-congress-after-clash-with-trump-00665972
NATION
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mamdani-trump-white-house-meeting-analysis/
ATLANTIC
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-mamdani-white-house-meeting/685028/
DAILY BEAST
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-runs-to-fox-news-to-salvage-donald-trumps-mamdani-humiliation/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-anchor-brian-kilmeade-gobsmacked-by-donald-trumps-mamdani-meeting/
AXIOS
— House members want to make it harder to censure each other. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who almost succeeded in getting their operatives and dupes to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/house-censure-mills-plaskett-mike-johnson
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GLOBE AND MAIL
— To get more votes from minorities and from women, Democrat leaders fight for equal outcome instead of equal opportunity. To fight for equal outcome is to fight against equal opportunity. According to Democrats, if Whites and men do better at something, it is because they benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. I became a licensed CPA. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I earned four other job-related professional certifications. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. Because few minorities and females have done that, Democrats have especially shouted at minorities and at females that I was able to do the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, I stress that neither of my parents attended college. That my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-alberta-edition/20251122/282424175508626
BBC
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqd42gl0qo
CBC
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6988856
DAILY MAIL
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15315513/Insider-Trump-soft-Mamdani-socialist-Oval-Office.html
INDEPENDENT
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mamdani-meeting-white-house-new-york-b2870222.html
INDIA TODAY
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/trending-news/story/plot-twist-of-2025-the-trump-mamdani-collab-internet-was-not-expecting-2824206-2025-11-22
TIMES OF INDIA
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/fascist-jihadist-next-to-each-other-trump-mamdani-grilled-at-wh-meet-watch-viral-moment/amp_articleshow/125497916.cms
INDIAN EXPRESS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/trump-mamdani-oval-office-meeting-defence-communist-lunatic-to-very-rational-10379584/
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/fascist-vs-jihadist-old-remarks-brought-up-in-cordial-trump-mamdani-meet-key-moments-101763780241501.html
SKY NEWS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://news.sky.com/story/trump-epstein-files-vote-release-saudi-crown-prince-mbs-khashoggi-latest-live-us-politics-13471576
https://news.sky.com/story/anyone-expecting-a-showdown-when-trump-met-mamdani-got-a-pretty-big-surprise-13473803
JERUSALEM POST
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-874761
ONE NEWS PAGE
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20251122/17586736/He-Is-Different-Trump-Promises-MASSIVE-Support.htm
https://www.onenewspage.com/n/India/1zs8c647hx/Did-peace-deals-Trump-repeats-role.htm
AL JAZEERA
— Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/22/great-meeting-key-takeaways-from-trump-mamdani-white-house-meeting
November 19, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Pritzker holds private meeting with Pope Leo XIV in Rome. “You can feel his humanity,” Pritzker said in an interview with NBC 5. “It was a special moment, even for this Jewish boy.” DD: What complaints do the Pope and Pritzker share against Trump?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/nbc-5-exclusive-pritzker-holds-private-meeting-with-pope-leo-xiv-in-rome/3853221/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Dabrowski: Illinois Republicans want their party to make arguments, not excuses
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/opinion-illinois-republicans-power/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-sun-times/20251119/281711210930928
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: What percent of illegals want/need/demand public assistance?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-18/trump-administration-rule-could-further-penalize-immigrants-for-using-benefits
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Little Village’s 26th Street Slowly Comes Back To Life After Months Of Immigration Raids. Business owners celebrated a noticeably more lively weekend after Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino and many of his agents left town. “There’s feeling of a brotherhood now, of people coming out to the community to be supportive,” one business manager said. DD: How dependent on their illegals have Democrat and RINO leaders made your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/little-villages-26th-street-slowly-comes-back-to-life-after-months-of-immigration-raids/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Where’s JB: Meeting the Pope
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/11/19/wheres-jb-at-the-vatican-with-the-pope-00658696
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-635/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Glennon on Chicago’s property tax bills
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-mark-glennon-on-chicagos-property-tax-bills-youtube-am560/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Washington Post decries the money that baby boomers have. I am a baby boomer. Are you a baby boomer? If so, where did your money come from? My money came from what I earned doing yard work 1962-1964, delivering newspapers 1962-1966, washing dishes 1964-1966, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966, delivering mail 1966-1969, working on an automotive assembly line in 1970, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumping more gasoline 1971-1972, collecting delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980, auditing federal agencies 1980-1997, my Civil Service Retirement System pension since 1997, my Social Security since 2010, and more recently, three inheritances. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What opinions on socialism do your critics/opponents have? My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that I benefitted big time by working for the federal government for almost 30 years and that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has antisemitism impacted you? My Democrat superiors in the federal government forced my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, and that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in Wheaton since 1978. In my defense, I stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump administration accuses Illinois officials of inciting ICE protests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court/3890533/trump-administration-accuses-illinois-officials-of-inciting-ice-protests/
— National conservatism isn’t the future of the GOP
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3890772/national-conservatism-not-gop-future/
— Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani 2028 ticket: Don’t laugh, socialism rising. DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that I benefitted big time by working for the federal government for almost 30 years and that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3890760/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-zohran-mamdani-2028-ticket-dont-laugh-socialism-rising/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Mamdani Throws Support Behind State Assembly Candidate Who Blamed 9/11 on America. DD: Will Mamdani succeed in uniting non-Christians against Christians?
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/socialists-unite-mamdani-throws-support-behind-behind-state-assembly-candidate-who-blamed-9-11-on-america/
— Cal State Schools Require Students To Take DEI Classes To Graduate. Options Include ‘Queer Crip Lit’ and ‘Decolonize Your Diet.’
https://freebeacon.com/campus/cal-state-schools-require-students-to-take-dei-classes-to-graduate-options-include-queer-crip-lit-and-decolonize-your-diet/
AMAC
— Government Shutdown Exposes Massive Illegal Alien Welfare Fraud
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/government-shutdown-exposes-massive-illegal-alien-welfare-fraud/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Why young Americans support democratic socialism. DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/why_young_americans_support_democratic_socialism.html
— The running gag, the leftist lie: ‘Socialism has never been tried before.’ DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/the_running_gag_the_leftist_lie_socialism_has_never_been_tried_before.html
BLAZE
— Charlotte school district attendance plummets after immigration raid, sparking concerns about illegal alien numbers
https://www.theblaze.com/news/charlotte-school-district-attendance-plummets-after-immigration-raid-sparking-concerns-about-illegal-alien-numbers
— Bill Maher warns Democrats the radical left is leading party to ruin. DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/socialism-will-f-k-you-bill-maher-warns-democrats-the-radical-left-is-leading-party-to-ruin
BREITBART
— States Illegally Issued 194,000 Commercial Driver’s Licenses to Foreign Truckers
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/18/sean-duffy-states-illegally-issued-194000-commercial-drivers-licenses-to-foreign-truckers/
— Majority of Democrats Have Favorable View of Socialism. DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/18/poll-majority-of-democrats-have-favorable-view-of-socialism/amp/
— Trump urged GOP-led states to redraw US House districts. Now other states also are gerrymandering.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-urged-gop-led-states-to-redraw-us-house-districts-now-other-states-also-are-gerrymandering/amp/
DAILY CALLER
— How America’s Biggest Socialist Group Could Get A Million Mamdanis Elected. DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.aol.com/articles/america-biggest-socialist-group-could-215027342.html
— Socialist Mamdani Won’t Stop Asking His Supporters To Redistribute Wealth … To Him
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/18/zohran-mamdani-supporters-money/
DAILY WIRE
— Millions Of Illegals Are Receiving Food Stamps
https://www.dailywire.com/news/yes-millions-of-illegals-are-receiving-food-stamps
FOX BUSINESS
— Republicans prepare for post-Trump era with a new generation of conservative leaders
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6385262875112
FOX NEWS
— Sanctuary states need crackdown as Americans pay price for illegal immigrant truckers
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sanctuary-states-need-crackdown-americans-pay-price-illegal-immigrant-truckers-gop-lawmaker
NEWSMAX
— Pope Backs US Bishops in Blasting Trump Immigration Crackdown. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly succeed in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/pope-leo-xiv-bishops-donald-trump/2025/11/18/id/1235102/
— DHS Moves to Deny Migrants ‘Primarily Dependent’ on Govt Assistance
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/dhs-green-cards-snap/2025/11/18/id/1235042/
REAL CLEAR MARKETS
— Affordable Housing Fixes Hide Socialist Wish-Lists
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/11/19/affordable_housing_fixes_hide_socialist_wish-lists_1148276.html
— AI-Touting Technocrats Sell Socialism As Solution. DD: When my critics/opponents aren’t blaming their problems on discrimination against those who share their demographics, they blame their problems on capitalism.
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/11/18/ai-touting_technocrats_sell_socialism_as_solution_1147989.html
TOWNHALL
— As Religion Weakens, Socialism Strengthens. DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2025/11/19/as-religion-weakens-socialism-strengthens-n2666640
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The right battles to define the post-Trump GOP, just 1 year into his presidency
https://thehill.com/newsletters/the-movement/5609862-trump-future-republican-party-squabbles/amp/
— Ben Shapiro warns young people to flee New York City, socialism
https://www.aol.com/articles/opinion-ben-shapiro-warns-young-184716819.html
CNN
— Senate unanimously agrees to send Epstein bill to Trump’s desk
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-epstein-files-house-vote-11-18-25
— DD: Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer become productive members of society.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/business/prices-economy-tariff-small-business
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/immigrants-survey-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/us/catholic-church-immigration-trump.html
— DD: Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer become productive members of society.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/trump-mcdonalds-affordability-inflation.html
WASHINGTON POST
— How baby boomers got so rich and why their kids are unlikely to catch up. DD: I am a baby boomer. Are you a baby boomer? If so, where did your money come from? My money came from what I earned doing yard work 1962-1964, delivering newspapers 1962-1966, washing dishes 1964-1966, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966, delivering mail 1966-1969, working on an automotive assembly line in 1970, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumping more gasoline 1971-1972, collecting delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980, auditing federal agencies 1980-1997, my Civil Service Retirement System pension since 1997, my Social Security since 2010, and more recently, three inheritances.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/18/baby-boomer-wealth/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/15/zohran-mamdani-victory-nyc-democratic-socialism/87231501007/
— DD: Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer become productive members of society.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/18/mcdonalds-lower-income-customers/87334177007/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— The federal takeover of New York City has begun
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/the-federal-takeover-of-new-york-city-has-begun/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Trump’s Grip on Republicans Shows First Signs of Slipping
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-grip-on-republicans-shows-first-signs-of-slipping-794e3c51
— Gen Z, Socialism and the ‘Memes’ of Production. Students discuss the popularity of the far left among young people. DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gen-z-socialism-and-the-memes-of-production-db3af34c
— Antisemitism Betrays America’s Heritage. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government forced my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, and that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in Wheaton since 1978. In my defense, I stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/antisemitism-betrays-americas-heritage-3fd6d3d1
BARRON’S
— DD: Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer become productive members of society.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-economy-prices-consumers-affordability-40464997
FORBES
— Republicans & Dems Spar Over Resolution ‘Denouncing The Horrors Of Socialism’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGo527KDfMM
— DD: Republicans urge Democrats to denounce socialism. DD: My critics/opponents who have less money than I have want socialism. They blame their problems on capitalism. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had spent my career in the private sector instead of government, I never would have earned $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. How much would I have been earning in 1997 if I had spent my career in the private sector? I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20hneB6DbLs
WESTLAW
— Trump is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire Democrats, to retain Democrats, and to promote Democrats.
https://today.westlaw.com/Document/I317e0d90c4d811f08e72ef1396201407/View/FullText.html
FED WEKK
— NTEU Sues for Release of Positions Recommended for Schedule Policy/Career. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire Democrats, to retain Democrats, and to promote Democrats.
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/nteu-sues-for-release-of-positions-recommended-for-schedule-policy-career/amp/
HUFFINGTON POST
— Senate Republicans Want To Charge Federal Workers Thousands Of Dollars For Job Security. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire Democrats, to retain Democrats, and to promote Democrats.
https://www.aol.com/senate-republicans-want-charge-federal-163110256.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Senate Republicans are pursuing a plan through their “big, beautiful bill” that would force new federal employees to pay for traditional job protections, a major reform that unions have decried as “extortion.” The measure put forth late last week by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee mirrors a similar one House Republicans included in their version of the reconciliation bill that passed last month. It would require federal workers to pay thousands of additional dollars into their government retirement plans each year unless they choose to be “at-will” employees who can be fired without cause. The cost to workers is even steeper in the Senate legislation. Whereas the House version would require new hires to pay an additional 5% of their salary to avoid being at-will, the Senate version hikes it to a whopping 10%. Even those who forgo civil service protections would still have to chip in another 5% — a measure not included in the House bill. In other words, a new federal worker on a $50,000 salary would be paying an extra $2,500 into the retirement plan compared to a veteran employee. And if that new worker wanted the same job protections as the veteran, they would have to pay an extra $5,000 instead.)
AXIOS
— Pope Leo denounces “extremely disrespectful” treatment of immigrants in U.S. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly succeed in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/pope-leo-trump-immigration-crackdown-us-bishops-message
ACLU
— DD: Democrat leaders crow about their success getting in veterans to protest Trump.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/dozens-of-veterans-descend-on-capitol-hill-to-oppose-military-deployments-to-u-s-cities
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
NTD
— ICE to Target Employers Hiring Illegal Immigrant Workers
https://www.ntd.com/ice-to-target-employers-hiring-illegal-immigrant-workers-says-director_1108749.html
TELEGRAPH
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/why-maga-is-obsessed-with-epstein-and-why-the-21195160.php
November 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Federal immigration agents accused of racial profiling. What percent of illegals are non-White?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/latino-us-citizens-racially-profiled-immigration-chicago/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Epstein to destroy Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/column-jeffrey-epstein-files-maga-page/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for high health insurance rates. DD: My critics/opponents ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 72% health insurance subsidy a) that I got when I was federal employee 1966-1997, b) that my wife got when she was a federal employee 1968-1970, c) that I will always get as a federal retiree, and d) that my wife has gotten since we got married in 1978 and will always get. My critics/opponents either a) would never have stooped to take a federal job and/or b) failed/refused to qualify themselves for federal jobs. In my defense, I would not become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment test with him. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/health-insurance-obamacare-subsidies-aca/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251115/local/they-were-just-arresting-people-family-seeks-release-of-longtime-des-plaines-resident-detained-by/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTOS AND GRAPHIC: Why do so many Democratic U.S. House members in the suburbs have primary challengers?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251115/us-congress-politics/why-do-so-many-democratic-u-s-house-members-in-the-suburbs-have-primary-challengers/
— Families in need line up early for distribution of 1,000 holiday meals in Elgin. DD: Under the Democrats, more and more and more people are “in need.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251115/news/families-in-need-line-up-early-for-distribution-of-1000-holiday-meals-in-elgin/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Advocates celebrate Glen Ellyn affordable housing development
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251115/news/a-fundamental-issue-advocates-celebrate-glen-ellyn-affordable-housing-development/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: If you cannot afford something, Democrats want you to blame Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-15/white-house-pivots-to-affordability-as-president-trump-confronts-voter-discontent
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you say to those who demand blind loyalty? My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and paise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In what ways are you becoming a minority in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? I am increasingly becoming a minority in the aforesaid because I am conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in northeast Illinois for a long time. My ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois since 1844. I have lived in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978. I have lived in my precinct since 1984. Ever-increasingly, those who share my demographics are not moving to where I live, they are moving away from where I live, or they are passing away. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Syverson Interviewed on Chicago Fox about Blasting Dems for Providing Health Care for Illegals
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/11/15/syverson-interviewed-on-chicago-fox-about-blasting-dems-for-providing-health-care-for-illegals/
— Reick Wonders If AI Excitement Has Overheated the Economy & Resulted in Excessive Taxpayer Subsidies
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/11/15/reick-wonders-if-ai-excitement-has-overheated-the-economy-resulted-in-excessive-taxpayer-subsidies/
— UPDATE: Dog Sex Arrests in Huntley MAKES ABC, NBC & WGN
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/11/14/dog-sex-arrests-in-huntley/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani taps ‘Defund the Police’ champion to head team steering his transition to NYC mayor
https://nypost.com/2025/11/15/us-news/mamdani-taps-defund-the-police-champion-to-head-team-steering-his-transition-to-nyc-mayor/
— Jewish New Yorkers rushing to buy guns for protection after anti-Israel Mamdani’s victory
https://www.aol.com/articles/jewish-yorkers-rushing-buy-guns-134514602.html
— Mamdani setting up NYC for violence with resistance to immigration enforcement
https://nypost.com/2025/11/15/opinion/zohran-mamdani-risking-nyc-violence-with-immigration-enforcement-resistance/
— Trump admin begins massive crackdown on violent illegal migrants in Charlotte
https://nypost.com/2025/11/15/us-news/ice-raids-underway-in-charlotte-in-trumps-latest-immigration-sweep/
— Katie Wilson — a 43-year-old socialist who still lives off parents’ money — wins Seattle mayoral race. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party? How much money did your parents have? My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. in 1969, he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother had never worked outside the home before then.
https://www.aol.com/news/katie-wilson-43-old-socialist-180222056.html
— AOC raises ‘impressive’ $11.8M — setting socialist lawmaker up for potential 2028 Senate run. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.aol.com/articles/aoc-raises-impressive-11-8m-133436890.html
— Champagne Socialist Zohran Mamdani slammed for hogging $2,300 apartment — despite six-figure salary, wealthy family. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.aol.com/cuomo-bashes-rich-person-zohran-125945960.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson broadcasts socialist wish list. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/11/15/utopia-seattle-mayor-elect-katie-wilson-broadcasts-socialist-wish-list-1600562/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— H-1B – Designed for Cheap Labor. DD: Employers want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://cis.org/Miano/H1B-Designed-Cheap-Labor
DAILY CALLER
— Socialist Katie Wilson Wins Seattle Mayor’s Race Thanks To Ballot Dumps Over A Week After Election Day. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.aol.com/articles/socialist-katie-wilson-wins-seattle-024312231.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Socialism Has Failed Everywhere. Mamdani’s NYC Will Be No Different.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/12/mayor-mamdanis-socialist-vision-is-setting-nyc-up-for-failure/
EPOCH TIMES
— How Trump Broke GOP Orthodoxy and Built a New Working-Class Party. DD: I was a member of the working class 1964-1997, that is, I was a wage earner 1964-1997. My critics/opponents a) look down on, if not despise, if not hate wage earners, b) have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and/or c) had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/u6lrbCAwEN/RontmvJPy/1tiNbjq0PdJ
FOX NEWS
— Socialist wave goes coast-to-coast as historic wins shake up the 2025 mayoral elections. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-socialists-win-mayoral-races-new-york-city-seattle-historic-victories
— Seattle elects socialist Katie Wilson as mayor. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385147150112
— Meet the socialist Mamdani-style mayor just elected to run West Coast’s 5th largest city. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/meet-socialist-mamdani-style-mayor-just-elected-run-west-coasts-5th-largest-city
— Bill Maher tears into socialism and begs Democrats to embrace moderate candidates. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-tears-socialism-begs-democrats-embrace-moderate-candidates.amp
— Will Election Day 2025 be remembered as the rise of the socialists? DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.aol.com/news/election-day-2025-remembered-rise-150042352.html
— Seattle elects democratic socialist Katie Wilson as mayor. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385147150112
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— ICE Busts Duckworth Senate Aide for Bogus Lawyer Ruse to Release Criminal Migrant
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ice-illinois-fake-lawyer-tammy-duckworth
— America’s Roads Just Got More Dangerous Thanks to Radical Judges. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/rogue-federal-judges-trump-americas-roadways-
NEWSMAX
— Staten Island Leaders Renew Secession Push After Mamdani Election
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/staten-island-new-york-city-mayor/2025/11/15/id/1234693/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Seattle’s new socialist mayor looks forward to ‘coast to coast partnership’ with Mamdani. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattles-new-socialist-mayor-looks-forward-to-coast-to-coast-partnership-with-nycs-zohran-mamdani
— Staten Island sees renewed NYC secession push after Mamdani victory
https://thepostmillennial.com/staten-island-sees-renewed-nyc-secession-push-after-mamdani-victory
ZERO HEDGE
— The Foreign Worker Scam Exposes Trump’s Economic Achilles Heel
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/foreign-worker-scam-exposes-trumps-economic-achilles-heel
(FROM THE ARTICLE: To bring our nation back to legitimate self reliance would require a total reformation of our society and the removal of the political left (including globalists) from the equation. Part of this long term reformation demands a reversal of open borders ideology and multiculturalism, which has ravaged the west. Migrants view our economy as a “global commons”, a wealth pool they are all entitled to access. They don’t see it is a privilege, they see it as a “right”. This is something that Trump does have the capacity to fix in the three years he has left in office, but he has a tendency to get sidetracked by minutia and bad advice. I have been warning since before Trump was re-elected that the economy was going to be his Achilles Heal. From past examples it seems that Trump delegates a lot of his policy ideas to advisers and among these advisers (he has dozens of them, official and unofficial) there are always people who give him suicidal arguments and terrible talking points. His lack of concrete planning for economic repair is putting conservatives on edge and handing immense social influence over to Democrats and woke activists. All they have to do is point at the lack of a clear strategy and suggest that they can do better (they can’t, but it won’t matter to voters living paycheck to paycheck). Trump has done some things right. His tariff policies are absolutely necessary to counter the wealth gap created by corporate globalism. The US has been turned into a consumer nation that continuously takes on debt in order to create ever depreciating wealth. That wealth is then siphoned from the public by international conglomerates, banks and foreign interests. We are being slowly drained of our lifeblood by a nest of vampires. Tariffs are one of the few measures at Trump’s disposal to unilaterally stop the bleeding and force corporations to bring the wealth and jobs back to the US. This is done through new domestic manufacturing and the end of general outsourcing using third world labor. Globalism is NOT the free market, it is the opposite. It is forced interdependency of nations and economies to the benefit of a tiny handful of ultra-wealthy elites. The tariff fight is direct and Trump’s reasons are evident. The average Joe wants more American jobs with higher salaries for the middle class instead of wallowing in low-wage retail and service sector hell. But Trump can’t say he’s fighting for this end result through tariffs and then turn around and let an army of migrants take middle class jobs. The President stumbled into multiple forehead slapping blunders this past week. He called for 600,000 Chinese students to prop up US colleges. He called for 50-year mortgages to offset plunging home ownership, and he argued that America doesn’t have the talent pool to fill jobs taken by H1B foreigners.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— How to reverse the dumbing down of American higher ed
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/education/5606843-how-to-reverse-the-dumbing-down-of-american-higher-ed/amp/
— DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.aol.com/articles/opinion-mamdani-victory-shows-democrats-190000084.html
MSN
— Mamdani says to boycott Starbucks during worker strike
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/mamdani-says-to-boycott-starbucks-during-worker-strike/ar-AA1QuYYS
AOL
— AI may be hurting entry-level jobs. DD: What entry-level jobs did you have? I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970. My first entry-level was Retail Sales Manager for a Firestone Store. My salary was about $50,000/year in today’s dollars for a 44-hour workweek. In 1971, my second entry-level job was a GS-7 IRS Revenue Officer. The salary was $55,850/year in today’s dollars. To get that job, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination. My taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola helped me get promoted to GS-9 ($68,315/year) in 1972, to GS-11 ($82,655/year) in 1973, and to GS-12 ($99,069/year) in 1974. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.
https://www.aol.com/articles/powell-says-ai-may-hurting-210440564.html
— Mamdani Wasted No Time In Quoting Socialist Eugene Debs During Victory Speech. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.aol.com/news/zohran-mamdani-wasted-no-time-144553426.html
— College Graduates Put Socialism Back on the Ballot. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.aol.com/news/college-graduates-put-socialism-back-195526625.html
ABC NEWS
— Congress reopens government, but leaves healthcare subsidies in limbo. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, the federal government paid 72% of my health insurance premiums. That helped me endure my Democrat superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFXpfhYDBU8
NBC DC
— Unprecedented surge of federal retirement claims. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to make my coworkers like me who had 25 years of federal service eligible to retire when I was 45 year old in 1993, that is, they used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of my coworkers like me who had 25 years of federal service in 1993. Overwhelmingly, my coworkers who were eligible were White male males like me who had not made GS-15, currently $163,749-$195,200/year.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/surge-federal-retirement-claims-delays-frustration/4016344/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Fuentes against Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-john-ganz.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/opinion/abortion-pills.html
— What Even Is a ‘Good’ Job? DD: According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take and b) I was always grossly overpaid and my employment benefits were always far too generous.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/good-jobs-policy.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Will Mamdani succeed in uniting Muslims and Jews against Christians?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/16/sadiq-khan-london-zohran-mamdani/
— Seasonal hiring weakest since the Great Recession. DD: When I was 18 years old, the Post Office hired me in November of 1966 because it got a budget increase to deal with 1966 Christmas rush.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/12/holiday-hiring-slowdown-ai-great-recession/
USA TODAY
— DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/15/zohran-mamdani-victory-nyc-democratic-socialism/87231501007/
FORTUNE
— If you proletarianize the young people, don’t be surprised they end up communist
https://www.aol.com/finance/billionaire-peter-thiel-warns-proletarianize-235603503.html
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly succeed in getting religious leaders to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/bishops-of-new-york-condemn-deportations-of-migrants-with-refugee-status
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
SOCIALIST WORKER
— Should we condemn violence or embrace it? DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://socialistworker.co.uk/teach-yourself-marxism/should-we-condemn-violence-or-embrace-it/
ECONOMIC TIMES
— ‘No contract, no coffee!’: Mamdani calls for Starbucks boycott as union workers strike nationwide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYuUtQT647U
NTD NEWS
— DHS Drives Historic Drop in US Foreign-Born Population. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.ntd.com/dhs-drives-historic-drop-in-us-foreign-born-population_1108104.html
TIMES OF INDIA
— JD Vance challenges Donald Trump over H-1B visas. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/jd-vance-challenges-donald-trump-over-h-1b-visas-how-it-happens-and-what-it-reveals-about-policy/articleshow/125349490.cms
NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
— Mamdani’s multitudes and India’s soft power. Mamdani’s unapologetic embrace of his layered identities is soft power as the persuasion of authenticity, not propaganda. He may not represent India formally, yet he reflects some of its finest possibilities—pluralism, intellectual curiosity, and the capacity to juggle contradictions. DD: How soon will the Democratic Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2025/Nov/15/zohran-mamdanis-multitudes-and-indias-soft-power
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
— The forever-renter generation: they’re ones who voted Mamdani. DD: Back in the good old days, that is, back when I was 24 years old in 1972, I was able to buy a new townhome. But I would not have been able to do that if I had not a) passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, b) earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, c) worked for IRS for 15 months, and d) worked part-time for a Firestone Store for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-forever-renter-generation-they-re-ones-who-voted-teal-and-mamdani-20251114-p5nfka.html
November 12, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Hundreds detained as part of immigration ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ ordered released on bond
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hundreds-detained-part-federal-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-ordered-released-bond-judge-says/18148124/
— DD: Democrat employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/city-chicago-sues-us-department-justice-dei-restrictions-community-policing-hiring-grant-mayor-brandon-johnson-says/18148498/
WLS
— Judge orders release of hundreds arrested in Illinois immigration crackdown
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/wls-judge-orders-release-of-hundreds-arrested-in-illinois-immigration-crackdown/article_6e83bab3-06f8-5136-93e5-50b4ea730813.html
WTTW
— Chicago Will Stop Investing in US Treasury Securities to Protest ‘Authoritarian’ Trump, Treasurer Announces
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/12/chicago-will-stop-investing-us-treasury-securities-protest-authoritarian-trump-treasurer
WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Pat Brady.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-rahm-emanuel-epstein-files/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Federal judge says he’ll order release of hundreds of ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees on bond
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-rahm-emanuel-epstein-files/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois steps up where feds fall down in making college affordable. DD: What made college affordable for you? Way back when I was young, way back in the 1960s, many of my high school classmates did not try to earn a college degree because their parents could not afford it. My parents could not afford it. My father often decried his not having a college degree. So I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1964 with money I had earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers. I used that car to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and my minimum wage dishwashing job in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights. I took college preparatory courses. I got an ACT score of 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee High School class. UIC accepted me. I used the money I had earned washing dishes to but a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966. I used that car to get to/from summer jobs during 1966 and then classes at UIC. The Park Forest Post Office hired me in November of 1966. I used the money I earned delivering mail to pay not only for my college expenses but a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967 and a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968. I transferred from UIC to NIU in January of 1969. I graduated debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business in August of 1970.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/11/12/illinois-college-costs-trump-administration-students-color-low-income-denise-forte-juliana-stratton
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump faces criticism from MAGA base over comments on American workers. DD: Employers want cheap labor. Noncitizens work for less money and are easier to exploit.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/president-trump-faces-criticism-from-maga-base-over-comments-american-workers-laura-ingraham-h1b-scott-bessent
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump’s recent defense of the H-1B visa program has stirred controversy, even among his staunchest supporters. During an interview with Laura Ingraham, Trump had a back-and-forth with the Fox News host over the H-1B visa program. “You also do have to bring in talent,” Trump said. “We have plenty of talented people here,” replied Ingraham. “No, you don’t, no you don’t,” Trump replied, causing Ingraham to press him on whether or not we have talented American workers domestically. “You don’t have certain talents and people have to learn. You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say I’m going to put you into a factory and you’re going to make missiles,” Trump said. These remarks contrast sharply with an executive order he signed in September, which increased H-1B visa application fees to $100,000, up from the previous $2,000 to $5,000 range. The comments have been perceived as a slight against American workers, drawing criticism from figures like Steve Bannon. “All the visa programs…I think we’ve got enough folks, until everyone has a high-paying, high-value job,” he said on his “Bannon’s War Room” show Wednesday. Pro MAGA voices on social media expressed outrage, with some labeling the comments as “insanity” and predicting electoral losses. However, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the president’s stance Wednesday morning, citing the lack of domestic production in industries like shipbuilding and semiconductors. “An American can’t have that job because we haven’t built ships in the US for years, we haven’t built semiconductors, so this idea of overseas partners coming in, teaching American workers, then returning home, it’s a home run,” he told Fox News. The H-1B visa issue has been a contentious topic within the MAGA movement since late 2024, when figures like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramswamy faced criticism for supporting the program to attract tech workers.)
NPR ILLINOIS
— Who is Laura Loomer, President Trump’s self-described chief ‘loyalty enforcer’?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-12/who-is-laura-loomer-president-trumps-self-described-chief-loyalty-enforcer
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TV
— DuPage County Trade Apprenticeship Expo sees record attendance
https://www.nctv17.org/news/dupage-county-trade-apprenticeship-expo-sees-record-attendance/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-422/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FREEDOM CAUCUS
— It’s The Holiday Season…and the Democrats Dumped More Coal In Your Stocking. Veto Session 2025 Looked Like Something The GRINCH Would Have Planned For Christmas… tax increases, legal suicide, restricting law enforcement and more.
https://illinoisfreedomcaucus.substack.com/p/its-the-holiday-seasonand-the-democrats
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Epstein emails: The Dems and their lapdogs with laptops cry Wolff again
https://nypost.com/2025/11/12/opinion/epstein-emails-the-dems-and-their-lapdogs-with-laptops-cry-wolff-again/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— MAGA’s ‘Multiracial Coalition’ Was a Mirage. DD: To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat candidates ever-increasingly promise to use government to give them more preference: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, are noncitizens, etc.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/magas-multiracial-coalition-was-a-mirage/
BLAZE
— Trump celebrates historic crime drop in hostile sanctuary city after federal ‘blitz’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-celebrates-historic-crime-drop-in-hostile-sanctuary-city-after-federal-blitz-dhs
DAILY SIGNAL
— Noem Pledges ‘Surge’ of Resources to Chicago After Pritzker Calls Bovino a ‘Snowflake’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/12/noem-pledges-surge-resource-chicago-after-gov-jb-pritzker-calls-top-immigration-official-snowflake/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Northwestern helps illegal alien students access employment, health care, scholarships, and more. As ICE increases enforcement operations near Chicago, Northwestern continues programs that shield illegal alien students from the law. The university provides illegal aliens with wellness workshops, scholarships, hotlines, travel guides, free health care, career series, graduate school opportunities and more. DD: All the universities that admitted me would admitted noncitizens instead of me if they could have. All the employers that hired me would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents have no problem with that.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/northwestern-helps-illegal-alien-students-access-employment-health-care-scholarships-/28936
DAILY WIRE
— Border Agents Head To Charlotte After Illegal Immigration Sweep In Chicago. Border Patrol chief for California’s El Centro sector, Gregory Bovino, will also head to Charlotte, sources said.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-agents-head-to-charlotte-after-illegal-immigration-sweep-in-chicago
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Defends Plan To Offer 600,000 Chinese Student Visas. DD: All the universities that admitted me would admitted noncitizens instead of me if they could have. All the employers that hired me would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents have no problem with that.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-defends-plan-to-offer-600000-chinese-student-visas-5943597
FOX NEWS
— A member of Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s office allegedly signs forms while misrepresenting himself as the attorney of an illegal immigrant. ICE said person’s purported client had already been deported four times and convicted of a DUI.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385005028112
HOMELAND SECRITY
— Operation Midway Blitz Brings Historic Drop in Crime to J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson’s Chicago
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11/12/operation-midway-blitz-brings-historic-drop-crime-jb-pritzker-and-brandon-johnsons
NEWSMAX
— Trump’s ‘Midway Blitz’ Slashes Chicago Crime: Carjackings Plunge 48%
https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-dhs-chicago/2025/11/12/id/1234241/
PJ MEDIA
— California Issued 17,000 CDLs to ‘Dangerous Foreign Drivers’
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/12/california-issued-17k-cdls-to-dangerous-foreign-drivers-n4945903
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WMAL
— Trump Endorses Abbott for Fourth Term in Texas. DD: Which candidates on the March 17, 2025 Republican primary ballot in your precinct a) have sought Trump’s endorsement and/or b) have received Trump’s endorsement?
https://www.wmal.com/2025/11/12/trump-endorses-abbott-for-fourth-term-in-texas/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Carlson and Fuentes to paint Republicans as being antisemites. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used their Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. They stressed to them that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, and 100% German American. They stressed that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in Wheaton since 1978.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/12/carlson-fuentes-interview-maga-rift/87210363007/
BLOOMBERG
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Carlson and Fuentes to paint Republicans as being antisemites. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used their Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. They stressed to them that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, and 100% German American. They stressed that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in Wheaton since 1978.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-12/tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-will-force-gop-to-confront-antisemitism
SPLC
— DD: Democrat leaders use Kirk’s assignation against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/charlie-kirk-trans-shooter-myth/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INDEPENDENT
— ICE recruits are showing up for training with disqualifying criminal backgrounds. DD: In my defense, my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors fully vetted me. But they hired me only because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in business. I qualified myself for my GAO job by earning an MBA and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.aol.com/news/ice-recruits-showing-training-disqualifying-160752475.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is flush with cash for an aggressive recruiting campaign to fulfill Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. But new recruits are reportedly failing physical fitness requirements and entering training programs before the agency performed background checks or finished a screening process. ICE officials have discovered that some recruits failed drug testing or had disqualifying criminal backgrounds while they were already enrolled in training, according to NBC News. Since the beginning of a summer hiring surge after the president approved $178 billion to expand the agency into one of the most expensive police agencies in the world, ICE has dismissed more than 200 new recruits while they were in training for falling short of requirements, according to agency data reviewed by NBC. Most did not meet physical and academic standards — including failing open-book tests — while several were dismissed for their criminal backgrounds or over safety concerns that were flagged in background checks, the outlet reported. At least one recruit at the agency’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, had been previously charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, according to a Homeland Security official speaking to NBC. Several recruits also had not submitted fingerprints or gone through any background checks at all before entering the six-week training course, officials said. Homeland Security deputy secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed that a majority of new recruits are former law enforcement officers who go through a different hiring process; per ICE policy, applicants are required to pass drug tests and undergo a security check before they enter training. McLaughlin said the figures in NBC’s report are “not accurate” and “reflect a subset of candidates in initial basic academy classes.” “The vast majority of new officers brought on during the hiring surge are experienced law enforcement officers who have already successfully completed a law enforcement academy,” she said. “This population is expected to account for greater than 85 percent of new hires. Prior-service hires follow streamlined validation but remain subject to medical, fitness, and background requirements.” The Trump administration has aimed for hiring 10,000 ICE agents by next year, or roughly doubling its footprint, with a major boost to the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division. Critics have warned that hitting that 10,000 target — without adequate guardrails to screen future agents and know exactly who is filling those roles — the government could open the door to repeat past mistakes, as ICE faces intense legal scrutiny over allegations of abuse and illegal use of force as Trump surges federal officers into cities across the country. “The loosening of hiring standards and training requirements is unacceptable and will likely result in increased officer misconduct — similar to or worse than what occurred during a small surge in hiring U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the early 2000s,” Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week. “Exacerbating our concerns, DHS has gutted offices responsible for overseeing ICE officers and ensuring accountability for use-of-force incidents,” he added. “Given these developments, greater congressional oversight of ICE’s hiring is essential.” To boost recruitment, Homeland Security offered a “maximum $50,000 signing bonus” and student loan forgiveness. DHS also dropped age limit requirements, allowing people as young as 18 years old to apply and opening ICE to recruits older than 40 years old. The training period at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia shrunk from 13 weeks to eight — and then six. Recruits must also pass a physical fitness test, including running 1.5 miles under 14 minutes and 25 seconds. But dozens of new recruits were sent packing because they couldn’t pass a legal exam, in which officers are allowed to use their books and notes for a test on the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Fourth Amendment. Another group of recruits was dismissed after medical issues or failing the physical fitness requirements. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told The Atlantic. The federal government has been struggling to enroll physically fit personnel to join the ranks since even before Trump, with military branches also regularly failing to meet recruiting goals. One Pentagon study found that more than three-quarters of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 were ineligible for service because they were overweight, unable to pass an aptitude test, afflicted by physical or mental health issues, or ruled out by a criminal record.)