Tag: Precinct

February 20, 2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— America Is Back — and President Trump Is Just Getting Started
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/america-is-back-and-president-trump-is-just-getting-started/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Following Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ Playbook
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/pritzker-following-nazi-propaganda-minister-joseph-goebbels-playbook/
— Indiana About to Pass Real Property Tax Relief
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/indiana-about-to-pass-real-property-tax-relief/
— Pritzker Four-Year Junior College Proposal Will Hurt Four-Year State Universities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/pritzker-four-year-junior-college-proposal-will-hurt-four-year-state-universities/
— Judges Go to Schools
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/judges-go-to-schools/
— The Censures of Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy Funk – Part 4
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/the-censures-of-algonquin-township-supervisor-randy-funk-part-4/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Fallout continues after Pritzker’s Nazi comments during budget speech
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_3ad0cf8a-efc3-11ef-b47d-1fb230bbecf6.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Food assistance need grows 12% in Illinois since 2019 (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more will want/need/demand more and more and more food assistance.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/food-assistance-need-grows-12-in-illinois-since-2019/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders promote Pritzker’s hate speech
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-getting-national-attention-speaking-president-donald-trump-during-budget-address/15939325/
— Democrat leaders use their “undocumented immigrant children” to promote hatred against Trump
https://abc7chicago.com/post/latest-trump-cuts-leave-26000-undocumented-immigrant-children-legal-representation/15938544/
— Border crossings are down and refugee shelters in border cities are seeing decrease first hand
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-mexico-border-news-crossings-down-refugee-shelters-cities-seeing-decrease-first-hand/15933759/

NBC5
— What does DOGE’s IRS shake-up mean for tax season?  DOGE wants access to filers’ data, and the commerce secretary says Trump wants to scrap the IRS altogether. But filing a return remains mandatory — the earlier the better, tax advisers say.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/doge-irs-shake-up-tax-season/3679235/?os=fuzzscanazstr&ref=app

CBS2
— Thousands of IRS employees facing layoffs by Trump administration. Another round of federal job cuts is coming. This time, it’s at the agency responsible for bringing money into the government’s coffers. (COMMENT: While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, its employees always faced Republican-led layoffs.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/thousands-of-irs-employees-facing-layoffs-by-trump-administration/

FOX32
— Chicago Columbus statues could return as city faces art controversy
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-columbus-statues-could-return-art-controversy
— Chicago aldermen push to restore Columbus statues
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1596704

WTTW
— Democrat leaders promote fired federal employees. Democrats and RINOs either could care less or applauded my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors wasting my career and forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/20/dream-jobs-us-forest-service-unemployment-meet-2-illinois-fired-federal-workers

WGN RADIO
— Former federal employee shares her story of losing her job (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs do not want to hear my story.)
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/former-federal-employee-shares-her-story-of-losing-her-job/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson shares plan to fight food inequity in the city
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/mayor-brandon-johnson-shares-plan-to-fight-food-inequity-in-the-city/

WBEZ
— To get more votes from minorities, Democrat leaders want more federal money to be spent on them.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/02/20/uic-cultural-centers-and-race-based-college-programs-across-illinois-threatened-by-latest-trump-guidance
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump, Musk unpopular with Illinois voters, Pritzker poll finds. It is notable that Gov. JB Pritzker’s team released the poll, and it shows he is prepared for a political fight — both in terms of a potential third term for Illinois governor, or a 2028 presidential bid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/02/20/president-donald-trump-elon-musk-illinois-voters-poll-jb-pritzker
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A new Illinois poll commissioned by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker finds President Donald Trump and his cost-cutting czar Elon Musk’s early administration actions aren’t quite popular. A Global Strategy Group poll of 800 “likely 2026 voters” conducted Feb. 5-9 found more than 50% of those surveyed called Trump’s actions “extremely concerning.” Of those polled, 56% called Trump unfavorable, including 49% who called him very unfavorable. For Musk, 56% called him unfavorable, with 50% dubbing him very unfavorable. Democrats were the most negative on Musk and Trump, but independents viewed both unfavorably as well. A party-line split was evident in the poll, with 90% of Republican voters saying they approved of Trump, and 83% saying they approved of Musk. Among independents, 40% approved of Trump, and 38% approved of Musk. The poll also delved into some of Trump and Musk’s actions, with 57% of those polled calling any move to end an initiative to lower the cost of prescription drugs “extremely concerning.” Eliminating government programs, including health care, Meals on Wheels and child care; eliminating all members of the Aviation Safety Board; pardoning all the Jan. 6 rioters; and eliminating the Department of Education were among the most concerning topics for those polled. It is notable that Pritzker’s team released the poll, and it shows the Democratic governor is prepared for a political fight ahead — both in terms of a potential third term for governor, or a 2028 presidential bid. Pritzker has been criticizing Trump since his first gubernatorial campaign began in 2017. But now he’s aiming his ire at Musk as well — and has frequently railed against the billionaire adviser at Illinois news conferences. At a Wednesday briefing at the Illinois State Capitol, Pritzker blamed Musk for the unpredictability of federal funding and its effects on the state budget. And he used a collective “we” when talking about Musk and Trump. “We don’t know what they’re going to do. And you’ve seen that. You know, Elon Musk comes out with tweets about Social Security that turned out to be completely false,” Pritzker said. “We don’t know what they’re going to do. We don’t know whether they’re going to cut off the Medicaid expansion across the country. They’ve been hearing from Republican governors, just like they have from Democratic governors about the negative impact on the people of their state.” Despite the poll’s negative approval rating for Trump, the Republican president’s statewide vote grew to 43.8% last year, up from 38.76% in 2016. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.)
— Alderman introduces plan to punish Chicago city employees and officers for having extremist ties. The plan from 47th Ward Ald. Matt Martin follows growing calls for the Chicago Police Department and Mayor Brandon Johnson to fire cops with ties to extremist groups. (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who painted Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois as being extremist groups. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/extremism-in-the-ranks/2025/02/20/alderman-introduces-plan-to-punish-chicago-city-employees-and-officers-for-having-extremist-ties

DAILY HERALD
— Facing lawsuit, Republicans to meet a second time to choose McConchie’s successor
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250220/illinois-state-politics/facing-lawsuit-republicans-to-meet-a-second-time-to-choose-mcconchies-successor/

HERALD WHIG
— Black and Latino leaders want more government assistance for Blacks and Latinos
https://www.whig.com/news/illinois-news/black-latino-lawmakers-criticize-pritzker-s-proposed-budget/article_6e2f622e-efa5-11ef-9fea-3fe4be18874d.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— MAGA is ‘a Nazi movement’: Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested at city council meeting
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/maga-is-a-nazi-movement-former-nfl-punter-chris-kluwe-arrested-at-city-council-meeting-california-huntington-beach-city-council-minnesota-vikings-president-donald-trump-politics-make-america-great-again-red-hat-swastika

WAND TV
— Illinois House Democrats bash Rep. Steve Reick (R-Woodstock) for saying his caucus is part of ‘team Jew’
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-house-democrats-bash-republican-for-saying-his-caucus-is-part-of-team-jew/article_690a5734-efd4-11ef-843e-c7d87166bf31.html

WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/the-current/black-hawk-college-cannabis-courses-cohort-online-industry/526-ddc205a3-5e9c-46c0-9ed3-2a4a141a9018

WSJD
— Pritzker Insults President Trump and Fails to Take Responsibility for Illinois’ Budget Deficit (COMMENT: Pritzker runs Illinois. He hates Trump and he hates the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump. Anticipate/expect that he will ever-increasingly destroy those 2.4 million voters starting with those who are registered Republicans, who voted in the election, and who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German America, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://wsjd.fm/new-blog-1/2025/2/20/severin-pritzker-insults-president-trump-and-fails-to-take-responsibility-for-illinois-budget-deficit

NEWS CHANNEL 20
—  Do you support President Trump’s plan to cut the size of the IRS? (COMMENT: I should write about those who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most for my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years.)
https://newschannel20.com/question/vote-do-you-support-president-donald-trumps-plan-to-cut-the-size-of-the-irs-question-of-the-day-internal-revenue-service-doge-department-of-government-efficiency-elon-musk-federal-workforce-downsize-taxpayers

EFFINGHAM RADIO
— IL GOP Reacts To Governor Pritzker’s Budget Address
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/02/20/il-gop-reacts-to-governor-pritzkers-budget-address/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats push a Democrat push poll.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-approval-rating-appears-to-be-underwater-one-month-into-second-term-survey/
— IRS layoffs could hurt revenue collection and foil efforts to go after rich tax dodgers, experts say (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs either could care less or applauded my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors wasting my career and forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-irs-layoffs-could-hurt-revenue-collection-and-foil-efforts-to-go-after-rich-tax-dodgers-experts-say/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Plan To Turn Lincoln Square’s Diplomat Hotel Into Transitional Housing Gets $5.5 Million TIF Boost. City Council approved additional funding for the $14 million renovation of the former motel into The Haven for people experiencing homelessness.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/02/19/plan-to-turn-lincoln-squares-diplomat-hotel-into-transitional-housing-gets-5-5-million-tif-boost/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Chicago releases its Black Student Success Plan amid backlash against race-based initiatives
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/20/cps-releases-black-student-success-plan/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-252/
— Pritzker’s new Illinois poll has majority ‘extremely concerned’ about a host of Trump’s recent actions
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/20/pritzkers-new-illinois-poll-has-majority-extremely-concerned-about-a-host-of-trumps-recent-actions/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump blasts Zelenskyy as ‘dictator’ who duped U.S. into sending aid
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/19/donald-trump-blasts-volodymyr-zelenskyy-dictator-duped-u-sending-aid/
— Trump has conquered CPAC
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/donald-trump-conquered-cpac/
— Musk wields symbolic chainsaw at CPAC in celebration of his federal role: ‘This is awesome’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/elon-musk-wields-symbolic-chainsaw-cpac/
— Vance emerges as an early favorite at CPAC to carry the MAGA flag into 2028
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/jd-vance-emerges-early-favorite-cpac-carry-maga-flag-2028/
— ‘I want to find out’: Trump says he is going to personally inspect the gold at Fort Knox
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/trump-inspect-gold-fort-knox/

NEW YORK POST
— Musk wields ‘chainsaw for bureaucracy’ on stage at CPAC to symbolize DOGE’s massive government cuts
https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/us-news/elon-musk-wields-chainsaw-for-bureaucracy-on-stage-at-cpac-to-symbolize-doges-massive-government-cuts/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘America-last RINOs’ side with Zelenskyy over Trump
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/20/america-last-rinos-side-with-zelenskyy-over-trump-1523948/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Ex-UIC prof files lawsuit saying he was fired for opposing racial hiring preferences. The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), alleging that a professor was fired because he criticized the school’s hiring practices, which the professor believes are racially discriminatory. The federal lawsuit was filed on Feb. 10 in the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois.  (SEE: Diersen v. GAO at : https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ex-uic-prof-files-lawsuit-saying-fired-opposing-racial-hiring-preferences/27506
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), alleging that a professor was fired because he criticized the school’s hiring practices, which the professor believes are racially discriminatory. The federal lawsuit, which was filed on Feb. 10 in the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois, asserts that the school administration violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment when it terminated Professor Stephen Kleinschmit. While he was at UIC, Kleinschmit “observed that multiple hiring and funding programs were either a) explicitly designed to use race as a qualification in hiring decisions or b) being subverted to favor nonwhite applicants and faculty,” according to the lawsuit. The document asserts that when Kleinschmit spoke out about the allegedly discriminatory hiring practices, the school administration terminated his contract. “When he complained about this unlawful behavior, he was terminated—ostensibly due to budget cuts, yet the University retained faculty hired under a non-competitive, racially preferential hiring program, and soon after advertised a new job opening in his old department stating ‘members of a recognized underrepresented group are particularly encouraged to apply,’” the complaint says. Kleinschmit has a Ph.D. in Public Administration and was a professor in the school’s Department of Public Policy, Management, and Analytics until he was fired in 2023. Among other specific allegations, the complaint asserts that UIC required Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) statements in hiring. The lawsuit additionally accuses the administration of incorporating the race-conscious statements “into departmental norms and guidelines for promotion and tenure.” The 31-page lawsuit also gives other examples of allegedly racially discriminatory school policies. “The University Faculty Senate on July 29, 2020 released the UIC Senate Statement on Black Lives Matter, which asked the white faculty and administrators to ‘acknowledge their white privilege and power, and to commit to take action against systematic racism through anti-racist action,’” the lawsuit explains. In a statement about the lawsuit, Liberty Justice Center Senior Counsel Reilly Stephens called UIC’s hiring practices “blatantly” illegal. “The University of Illinois Chicago repeatedly engaged in blatant acts of racial discrimination, then added illegal retaliation to the mix to avoid accountability for its unlawful behavior,” Stephens asserted in a press release. “These actions are unacceptable violations of the right to equal protection under the law, and we urge the court to put a stop to it immediately.” Campus Reform has contacted the University of Illinois Chicago for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.)

CATHOLIC LIFE
— At CPAC, Vance talks faith, says policies should help ‘choose life’ and ‘start families’
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262327/at-cpac-vance-talks-faith-says-policies-should-help-choose-life-and-start-families

DAILY CALLER
— ‘Trump Administration Is Serious’: America’s Southern Border Hasn’t Been This Quiet Since The 1960s
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/20/border-encounters-drop-to-1960s-levels/

EPOCH TIMES
— Federal Judge Allows Trump Admin to Continue Layoffs of Federal Workers. The suit was brought by federal unions seeking to preserve union dues and bargaining power.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-allows-trump-admin-to-continue-layoffs-of-federal-workers-5813651

FOX NEWS
— VP JD Vance speaks on ‘fundamental goal’ of Trump administration at CPAC address. ‘It is easy, unfortunately, to burn the house down. It takes a little bit of time to build it back up and that’s what we have to do,’ said Vance.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vp-jd-vance-speaks-fundamental-goal-trump-administration-cpac-address
— Homan says billions saved on illegal migrants can be used to help Americans
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-says-billions-saved-illegal-migrants-can-used-help-americans

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Pro-Life Issues Are Given Short Shrift at This Year’s CPAC
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/pro-life-issues-are-given-short-shrift-at-this-years-cpac/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump set to speak at CPAC
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5154914-donald-trump-speaking-cpac-2025/

REUTERS
— Musk to appear at CPAC
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-appear-cpac-conservative-gathering-organizer-says-2025-02-20/

CBS NEWS
— Thousands of IRS workers to be laid off (COMMENT: I should write about those who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most for my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/thousands-of-irs-workers-to-be-laid-off-source-says/
— GOP lawmakers concerned about impact of DOGE cuts on constituents, but most support effort (COMMENT: How dependent on federal spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-lawmakers-doge-cuts-impact/

POLITICO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote those who seek asylum in America.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/asylum-seekers-trump-administration-021337
— At CPAC, Vance finally gets the reception he wishes he got in Munich. Surrounded by allies, the vice president basked in his role as culture-warrior-in-chief.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/cpac-jd-vance-culture-war-00205236

HARPER’S MAGAZINE
— Rage Against the Machine. Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracy.
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03/rage-against-the-machine-andrew-cockburn-trump-bureaucracy/

EDUCATION WEEK
— Parents Lose Appeal Over School’s Gender Identity Notification Policy  (COMMENT: Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.)
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/parents-lose-appeal-over-schools-gender-identity-notification-policy/2025/02

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 53% Approve Trump Ending DEI Policies
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/53_approve_trump_ending_dei_policies

February 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Fired federal workers protest Trump administration cuts as others speak out in support (COMMENT: If you were me, what position would you take on federal employees. While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years (Post Office-3, IRS-9, and GAO-18), virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. Extremely few sided with me. Virtually none came to my defense. Many helped my Democrat superiors waste my career and take adverse actions against me including forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Overwhelmingly, they promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SsrWEuGTRs

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Libertyville Township has unrelated O’Connors facing off for supervisor; ‘We were just blessed with the same last name’ (COMMENT: What offices are on the April 1 ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates? How much do you know about them? How have those candidates treated your Republican Precinct Committeeman?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/18/libertyville-township-has-unrelated-oconnors-facing-off-for-supervisor-we-were-just-blessed-with-the-same-last-name/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump’s Friday firings leave EPA Chicago office down dozens of scientists, staff  (COMMENT: Republican-led budget cuts during the 1980s and 1990s left GAO’s Chicago office down dozens of auditors. I was one of those auditors that my Democrat GAO superiors forced into early retirement.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/02/18/trump-fires-epa-chicago-scientists-staff-environmental-protection-agency
— Democrats oppose anything and everything that discourages voter fraud.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/18/safeguard-american-voter-eligibility-illinois-citizenship-passport-birth-certificate-becky-simon

NPR ILLINOIS
— She worked for years to get a federal job. Within a month, she was fired (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.  My passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma qualified me for the Post Office job. My passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management qualified me the IRS job. My earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting qualified me for the GAO job.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-19/she-worked-for-years-to-get-a-federal-job-within-a-month-she-was-fired
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A dream job. Rose is the daughter of immigrants and grew up on the East Coast. For her entire professional life, she had wanted to work in the government. She’d done a few internships around Washington, D.C., before taking a job as a consultant. In that role, she’d worked alongside federal workers on environmental cleanup and clean energy projects. Working with those federal employees inspired her to pursue a job as a civil servant. But, she says, she soon learned that “getting a job in the federal government is a science in itself.” Initially, she was rejected from several positions. Undaunted, Rose steeped herself in the language of the U.S. government. She taught herself an endless list of acronyms and bought a book on how to build a résumé that would make her more attractive to federal work. Then late last year, she got what she thought was going to be her big break. She had interviewed at the Department of Energy for a job helping to oversee a portfolio of renewable energy projects. She says the hiring process was a monthslong ordeal, during which, she jokes, she told them everything except “what my blood type is.” In December, she got the call from human resources telling her she’d landed the role. “I was with a friend at the time,” she says. “And I just kept saying over and over, ‘I got the job! I got the job!'” It was going to be a turning point in her life: “It really felt like … my career is beginning, because this is the job I want,” she recalls.)

WOKV
— ‘Now I have a voice’: Jacksonville sheriff joins statewide illegal immigration crackdown
https://www.wokv.com/news/local/now-i-have-voice-jacksonville-sheriff-joins-statewide-illegal-immigration-crackdown/AGNOWOCVPNBXHMIWPMNIJGNBRQ/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump imposes his vision on America
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-imposes-his-vision-on-america-in-departure-from-first-term-stumbles/

WAND TV
— Rep. Will Davis (D- East Hazel Crest), who chairs the House Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee, calls for more Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, for more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that all the problems that minorities and females have are caused by Republicans.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/rep-blaine-wilhour-argues-illinois-should-stop-focusing-on-equity-in-education-funding/article_b0c6b2da-ee4d-11ef-ade8-67c4623f0b02.html

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will blame for everything that is bad.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/19/pritzkers-budget-reveal-00204837

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-458/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois has spent billions and billions on illegal immigrants…and that’s just the money we can see publicly
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-has-spent-billions-and-billions-on-illegal-immigrants-and-thats-just-the-money-we-can-see-publicly-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Morning Greatness: Most Americans Say Foreign Aid Is Wasted on Corruption
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/18/morning-greatness-most-americans-say-foreign-aid-is-wasted-on-corruption/
— Support for President Trump’s Tariffs on China: A Strategic Move Towards Equitable Global Relations. Trump’s tariffs on China target fentanyl, economic espionage, and human rights abuses, signaling a hardline stance on trade and national security.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/19/support-for-president-trumps-tariffs-on-china-a-strategic-move-towards-equitable-global-relations/

BREITBART
— Fmr. GAO Head David Walker: DOGE Opponents Aren’t ‘Providing Any Support’ for Claims It’s Breaking Law
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/19/fmr-gao-head-doge-opponents-arent-providing-any-support-for-claims-its-breaking-law/

CENTER SQUARE
— IRS tax gap grows to $600 billion as DOGE looks for savings (COMMENT: I worked for GAO for 3 years on audits of IRS’s efforts to close the tax gap.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_ecd0de72-ee0c-11ef-848d-ebb54839938d.html

CHRISTIAN POST
— Wheaton College alumni flood petition for leadership change amid ‘pernicious drift’
https://www.christianpost.com/news/wheaton-college-alumni-flood-petition-to-change-leadership.html

COLLEGE FIX
— Trump finds nearly $1 billion in Education Department waste
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-finds-nearly-1-billion-in-education-department-waste/

DAVID ARMANO
— These federal employees have no idea how private sector workers view them. Wow, they live in a world of their own with guaranteed job security, unions and legal armies ready to do battle on their behalf. A completely different set of rules. (COMMENT: If you were me, what position would you take on federal employees. While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years (Post Office-3, IRS-9, and GAO-18), virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. Extremely few sided with me. Virtually none came to my defense. Many helped my Democrat superiors waste my career and take adverse actions against me including forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Overwhelmingly, they promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.)
https://x.com/armano/status/1892047499755409808?mx=2

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Terminates Biden-Era US Attorneys in DOJ Overhaul. The president stated that the move was necessary to restore a ‘fair justice system’ in the country. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always stressed that my Republican U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald appointed U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald who sided with my Democrat GAO superiors in Diersen v. GAO. To side with my Democrat GAO superiors is to promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-terminates-biden-era-us-attorneys-in-doj-overhaul-5812443

FOX NEWS
— Deportation flights are ‘the most profoundly impactful tactic’ to deter illegal immigration (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that many, most, if not virtually all of those who are deported will return.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369027551112

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Trump administration terminates privacy officials at agency overseeing government hiring and firing
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/politics/opm-privacy-team-fired/index.html

NEWSWEEK
— Musk Says Some DOGE Workers Are Federal Employees
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-doge-employees-hannity-interview-2033017

NBC NEWS
— Despite DOGE, Trump’s agenda calls for adding trillions of dollars to U.S debt. Budget experts say Trump’s tax and spending priorities would increase red ink, even as he boasts of balancing the budget. “I don’t think their rhetoric matches reality,” says one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-trumps-agenda-calls-adding-trillions-dollars-us-debt-rcna191665

CBS NEWS
— Tension between sanctuary cities and federal immigration crackdown
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tension-between-sanctuary-cities-and-federal-immigration-crackdown/

MSN
— Boeing’s new Air Force One delayed until 2029 or later
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/boeing-s-new-air-force-one-delayed-until-2029-or-later-official-says/ar-AA1zeNrN

WASHINGTON POST
— U.S. Catholic bishops sue Trump administration over blocked refugee funds. The suit says the impact of the administration’s action is “devastating” for the Church and the refugees it serves. (COMMENT: According to Democrat leaders, sooner or later, everyone outside of America who is one of the following a) is a refugee, b) will be a refugee, and c) should be admitted as a refugee: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, disabled, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/18/catholic-bishops-sue-trump-refugee-funds/
— FEMA is losing scores of employees. What does that mean for disaster recovery? Cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency could affect people across the country who are struggling to rebuild and prepare for disasters. (COMMENT: I should write about the tremendous negative impacts of Republican gutting of GAO during the 1980s and 1990s.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/18/fema-layoffs-disaster-response/
— Trump and Musk praise each other, promise ‘hundreds of billions’ in cuts during Fox interview
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/18/trump-presidency-news/
— Youngkin promises help for federal workers but defends Trump job cuts. In his first extended remarks on the Trump cuts, Youngkin acknowledges many are anxious but says the process is needed and that state help is coming. (COMMENT: In Diersen v. GAO, virtually everyone sided with the Democrats who ran GAO. Those who sided with GAO were many, most, if not virtually all of the following: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/18/virginia-youngkin-trump-federal-jobs/
— Why people aren’t having kids (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors used my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children to justify the big adverse actions that they took against me. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I had lied about our efforts to have children. They stressed that we did not try IVF knowing full-well that our doctors said it would not be successful. They shouted that we could have adopted or become foster parents but did not.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/18/fertility-decline-women-kids-claudia-goldin/

USA TODAY
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees illegal, not performance-based, lawyers say (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that they could not use their probationary procedures to fire me because I had served my probationary period while I worked for IRS.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/18/trump-mass-firings-federal-workers-illegal/79070972007/
— Barron Trump is ‘future of conservative movement’ say College Republicans
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/19/barron-trump-nyu-conservative-republican/79104907007/
— Trump said he was the ‘father of IVF.’ After his executive order, these voters are rejoicing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/02/19/ivf-trump-insurance-executive-order-reactions/78405547007/

UNION JOURNAL
— Trump Has Used $10.7 Million in Taxpayer Funds for Golf Expenses
https://www.theunionjournal.com/donald-trump-has-used-10-7-million-in-taxpayer-funds-for-golf-expenses/

BLOOMBERG
— Trump Accelerates Mass Firing of Federal Workers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-02-18/trump-accelerates-mass-firing-of-federal-workers-evening-briefing

FAST COMPANY
— How federal workers are mobilizing against Trump, Musk, and DOGE. In response to sudden firings, government workers from across departments are starting a protest movement to fight back—and are targeting Tesla dealerships.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91280631/how-federal-workers-are-mobilizing-against-trump-musk-and-doge

WORLD AND WAY
— Wheaton College Clash Over Russell Vought Escalates, Exposing Evangelical Fault Lines
https://wordandway.org/2025/02/19/wheaton-college-clash-over-russell-vought-escalates-exposing-evangelical-fault-lines/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/19/higher-ed-groups-push-back-trumps-dei-threats

GOVERNMENT EXCUTIVE
— Thousands join class actions as fired feds weigh options to challenge Trump’s moves. Former federal probationary employees are hopeful they can prove their dismissals were not actually performance based, as their agencies claim. (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that they could not use their probationary procedures to fire me because I had served my probationary period while I worked for IRS.)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/02/thousands-join-class-actions-fired-feds-weigh-options-challenge-trumps-moves/403087/

FED MANAGER
— Federal Agencies Start Mass Layoffs, Probationary Employees Targeted (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that they could not use their probationary procedures to fire me because I had served my probationary period while I worked for IRS.)
https://www.fedmanager.com/news/federal-agencies-start-mass-layoffs-probationary-employees-targeted

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Fired probationary employees bring class-wide complaint to OSC (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that they could not use their probationary procedures to fire me because I had served my probationary period while I worked for IRS.)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2025/02/fired-probationary-employees-bring-class-wide-complaint-to-osc/

FED WEEK
— Federal Workplace Likely to Be Topic in Hearing on New GAO High-Risk List (COMMENT: At that hearing, Republicans should stress that GAO wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. My Democrat GAO superiors wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that, b) earning six job-related professional certifications, c) earning a job-related professional license, and d) earning three job-related master’s degrees. Who does Trump want the next head of GAO to be, that is, who does Trump want the next Comptroller General to be?)
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/federal-workplace-likely-to-be-topic-in-hearing-on-new-gao-high-risk-list/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Democrats likely will use the hearing to point out that among GAO’s concerns in all such reports since they started in 2001 is what GAO calls “strategic management of human capital.” Main issues cited have included persistent shortages of federal employees with needed skills in areas such as cybersecurity and other IT functions, the STEM fields in general, acquisition, HR, and others—along with the need for better planning and building up capacity for the workforce of the future. The prior report said that shortages of employees were “undermining agencies’ abilities to meet their missions.” Closing those gaps “will require demonstrated improvements in agencies’ capacity to perform workforce planning, foster employee engagement, train staff effectively, and recruit and retain the appropriate number of staff with the necessary skills,” it said.)

AFGE
— AFGE Condemns Trump’s Mass Firing of Federal Employees
https://www.afge.org/article/afge-condemns-trumps-mass-firing-of-federal-employees/

NARFE
— NARFE Members Denounce Fed Firings During Nationwide Protests. Act Now: Protect Federal Earned Federal Retirement and Health Benefits from Budget Cuts. Urge Congress to Stand Up for Public Servants, Rule of Law. (COMMENT: I have been a NARFE member since I was 40 years old in 1988.)
https://www.narfe.org/advocacy/legislative-action-center/?_zs=NUifm&_zl=k7OF3

REDDIT
— Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government. (COMMENT: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. My critic/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being overpaid.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1isvn9q/some_federal_workers_are_getting_wealthy_at/?rdt=63007

INSTAGRAM
— 3rd of federal workers are veterans. The federal government is largely a jobs program for them.(COMMENT: My Democrat superiors who took adverse actions against me were veterans and/or used their subordinates who were veterans to do that. I should write about that. Of course, they stressed that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.)
https://www.instagram.com/thetnholler/p/DGPScQstOrO/

February 17, 2025

ABC7
— Trump mug shot hung just outside Oval Office
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-mug-shot-fulton-county-jail-georgia-hung-outside-oval-office-photos-show/15916528/
— Trump tours Boeing plane to highlight aircraft maker’s delay in delivering a new Air Force One
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-tours-boeing-747-plane-highlight-aircraft-makers-delay-delivering-new-air-force-presidential/15915490/
— Fired federal workers speak out on recent terminations: ‘we’re under attack by billionaires’ (COMMENT: I did more than speak out when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I filed Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  My critics/opponents side with GAO in that lawsuit, that is, they promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-layoffs-fired-workers-speak-recent-terminations-were-attack-billionaires/15915591/

WTTW
— An Illinois DOGE? Rep. John Cabello’s (R-Rockford) Proposal Would Create New Department
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/17/illinois-doge-republican-state-lawmaker-s-proposal-would-create-new-department

WBBM
— LaHood trusts Trump’s implementation of the Republican Party platform. To what extent do the Republican leaders in your county, township, municipality, and school district share LaHood’s trust? Which planks in the Republican Party platform do the aforesaid leaders accept or reject?
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/congressman-lahood-trusts-trump-administration-musk

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/17/cook-county-health-planned-parenthood-partnership-englewood/
— Trump’s moves to end foreign aid agency hit close to home in Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/17/ctc-l-trump-usaid-spending-illinois/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Chicago area federal workers on edge as Trump guts agencies: ‘It’s devastating’  More than 48,000 federal workers in and around Chicago have been on edge for weeks as President Donald Trump aims to drastically reduce the federal workforce. (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally. When Republicans gutted GAO in the 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/02/16/federal-workers-chicago-trump-buyouts-layoffs
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/work-permit-immigration-eligibility-chicago

DAILY HERALD
— As federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team is unmoved (COMMENT: I reeled big time when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. I filed Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250215/nation-and-world-politics/as-federal-workers-and-aid-recipients-reel-trumps-team-is-unmoved/
— Illinois leaders: Stop pushing for big government, start helping small businesses
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250215/business/illinois-leaders-stop-pushing-for-big-government-start-helping-small-businesses/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Daytona 500 resumes after lengthy rain delay; Trump on hand for start of NASCAR’s biggest race. The Daytona 500 has resumed after two weather delay totaling more than 3 1/2 hours, and with President Donald Trump set to watch the rest of the race in Florida, after he earlier led drivers on two laps around the track in his heavily armored presidential limousine known in Washington as “The Beast.”
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/daytona-500-resumes-after-lengthy-rain-delay-trump-on-hand-for-start-of-nascars-biggest/article_cbec048e-62f3-5f04-b0d8-22239f18aa2e.html

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to let the firing of whistleblower agency head proceed (COMMEMT: I was a whistleblower. I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. The Bush administration wanted me to suffer the retaliation that I did for my doing that.)
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/trump-administration-wants-the-supreme-court-to-20170946.php

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-16/protests-are-set-to-take-place-on-presidents-day-heres-why

WCIA
— Presidents dominate their DOJs. My critics/opponents stress that while Bush was president, his DOJ sided with the Democrats against me in Diersen v. GAO, that is, that Bush wanted political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-justice-departments-independence-is-threatened-as-trumps-team-asserts-power-over-cases-and-staff/

WAND TV
— Trump attends the Daytona 500 and says the spirit of NASCAR will ‘fuel America’s Golden Age’  President Donald Trump says the spirit of NASCAR will “fuel America’s Golden Age.”
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-attends-the-daytona-500-and-says-the-spirit-of-nascar-will-fuel-americas-golden/article_68c448c7-3894-5da3-ab9c-45a47a8dabd3.html
— Local federal employees in Illinois among those who’ve been fired nationally  (COMMENT: During the 1980s and 1990s, I was among those Republican GAO employees who the Democrats who ran GAO punished for Republican-led budget cuts. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 because of Republican-led budget cuts.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8_KiZcXA1Q

FOX ILLINOIS
— Rubio backs Israel’s Gaza strategy as ceasefire faces uncertainty amid Hamas tensions
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/rubio-in-israel-says-hamas-must-be-eradicated-casting-further-doubt-on-gazas-shaky-cease

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What if the federal government had to look like America? It certainly does not now. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. But Republican Trump got 50% of the vote. What if 50% of federal employee had to be Republican? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. Because I am a Republican, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974 if I had not been taking graduate evening business courses. Virtually none of my coworkers had done that. Because I am a Republican, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have promoted me in 1986 if I had not earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. None of my coworkers had done anything close to that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What discourages Republicans from seeking federal jobs? Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government give preference to their employees who are Democrat, and especially to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, that is, they discriminate against their employees who are Republican, and especially against those who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. What could Trump do about the aforesaid? He could use me as an example. If I had been a Democrat, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service before I was 40 years old. But because I was a Republican, the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 even though I had a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981. Trump could force the return of meritocracy in the federal government. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois shouldn’t dismiss Indiana’s overture to snap up “separatist” downstate counties
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-shouldnt-dismiss-indianas-overture-to-snap-up-separatist-downstate-counties-wirepoints/

JOHN BIVER
— USAID, DOGE and the state of Illinois 2025
https://johnbiver.com/usaid-doge-and-the-state-of-illinois-2025/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Is McHenry County Administrator’s Pending 5.3% Raise a Signal That All Non-Union Employees Will Receive the Same?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/16/is-mchenry-county-administrators-pending-5-3-raise-a-signal-that-all-non-union-employees-will-receive-the-same/
— Inside View of State Senate Appointment Process in Which Darby Hills Selected to Replace Dan McConchie
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/16/inside-view-of-state-senate-appointment-process-in-which-darby-hills-selected-to-replace-dan-mcconchie/
— Ness Attacked on Facebook by Americans for Prosperity
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/ness-attacked-on-facebook-by-americans-for-prosperity/
— Mike Buehler’s 2025 State of the County Address
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/mike-buehlers-state-of-the-county-address/
— Trump as a “Disruptor”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/trump-as-a-disruptor/
— Kane County GOP Campaigns Against Democrats’ Sales Tax Hike Referendum
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/kane-county-gop-campaigns-against-democrats-sales-tax-hike-referendum/
— Schakowsky Wonders if MANufacturers Discriminate against Women
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/schakowsky-wonders-if-manufacturers-discriminate-against-women/
— Crystal Lake Grade School Offers Mental Health/Suicide Prevention Advice
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/crystal-lake-grade-school-offers-mental-health-suicide-prevention-advice/
— Keicher Takes on TIFs
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/keicher-takes-on-tifs/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats hunt for Trump vulnerability, zero in on inflation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/16/democrats-looking-trump-vulnerability-zero-inflati/
— Trump’s record-breaking start rattles Washington, rankles rivals, but earns raves from voters
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/16/trump-record-breaking-start-rattles-district-rankl/
— Time for ‘Never Trumpers’ to admit they were wrong about Donald Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/16/time-never-trumpers-admit-wrong-donald-trump/
— Trump moves to counter hatred of Christians and Jews. Left claims it doesn’t exist. (COMMENT: I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. While was a federal employee for almost 30 years, virtually none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Protestants.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/16/trump-moves-counter-hatred-christians-jews/
— Dems fighting Trump’s cuts represent states receiving $231 billion in federal funds
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/15/dem-task-force-stop-trump-bureaucracy-overhaul-rep/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump attends Daytona 500, drives lap around track in motorcade while delivering message
https://nypost.com/2025/02/16/sports/trump-attends-daytona-500-drives-lap-around-track-in-motorcade/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Mass Deportations Are an American Tradition. Past presidents showed that removing millions of illegal aliens is achievable.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/mass-deportations-are-an-american-tradition/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Trump Speed. President Trump is not moving at light speed. He’s not moving at warp speed. He is moving even faster… he is moving at Trump speed. And the left doesn’t know what to do.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/17/trump-speed/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump is Closing the Border. Now What About Legal Immigration?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/trump_is_closing_the_border_now_what_about_legal_immigration.html

BREITBART
— House Republicans Budget Billions for Trump Border and Immigration Enforcement
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/17/budget/
— Trump’s Deputies Shrink Democrats’ Labor and Sex Trafficking Programs
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/16/trumps-deputies-shrink-federal-labor-sex-trafficking-uac-program/

DAILY CALLER
— Reince Priebus Tells Dem Panelists Their Party Is On ‘Wrong Side Of Normal’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/16/reince-priebus-democrats-wrong-normal-party-abc-news/

FOX NEWS
— Sanctuary policies protect criminal illegal aliens
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368926559112
— Sanctuary cities are illegal and unconstitutional
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368939017112
— Mayors, local officials could face arrest if they don’t comply with Trump’s mass deportations (COMMENT: Are the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district obstructing or helping with deportation of illegals?)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mayors-local-officials-could-face-arrest-if-they-don-t-comply-with-trump-s-mass-deportations/ar-AA1xJrhA
— Trump applauds ‘guts’ of NASCAR drivers ahead of Daytona 500, sends them special message. Trump took a lap in The Beast ahead of the start of the race.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-applauds-guts-nascar-drivers-ahead-daytona-500-sends-them-special-message?lid=5eki2yd47qmi
— Trump admin aims for killing blow to independence of ‘Deep State’ agencies (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I soon learned that GAO was much more partisan, that is, anti-Republican, than IRS was.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-independent-agencies-deep-state-justice-department-dick-durbin

REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Trump’s Opening Move Against Migrant Sex Trafficking
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/02/17/trumps_opening_move_against_migrant_sex_trafficking_1091841.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump’s plan is to implement the Republican Party platform.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5146280-trump-executive-orders-government-efficiency/

CBS NEWS
— Trump administration wants Supreme Court to permit firing of whistleblower agency head (COMMENT: I was a whistleblower. I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. Because of that, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Because of that, I filed Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  But Bush sided with my Democrat GAO superiors in that lawsuit. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. My critics/opponents promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-supreme-court-permit-firing-whistleblower-agency-head/

NEW YORK TIMES
— First Test of Trump’s Power to Fire Officials Reaches Supreme Court. The court’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/trump-supreme-court-special-counsel.html
— Democrats say “Trump Targets an Ideal Born of a President’s Murder. The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who cannot be hired or fired for political reasons.” (COMMENT: Constructively, the Democrats who run the federal government have abolished Civil Service protections for federal employees who are Republican, and especially for those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/trump-civil-service-history.html

USA TODAY
— ‘It’s a lie’: Federal workers incensed by performance language in termination letters (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that real reason why my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 was performance problems. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth a) my earning job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) my earning job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) my earning a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/17/fired-federal-workers-performance-language-doge/78886104007/

BOSTON HERALD
— Trump’s Department of Education gives schools 2 weeks to ditch DEI…or else
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/02/17/trumps-department-of-education-gives-schools-2-weeks-to-ditch-dei-or-else/

BALTIMORE SUN
— America is in the midst of a rightward shift (COMENT: Are the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township/ward party organizations shifting to the right?)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/02/17/america-is-in-the-midst-of-a-rightward-shift-editorial/

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
— With 1.4 million undocumented people, Southern California will change as deportations ramp up (COMMENT: How many illegals are there in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/02/16/with-1-4-million-undocumented-people-southern-california-will-change-as-deportations-ramp-up/

T. ROWE PRICE
— You’re age 35, 50, or 60: How much should you have saved for retirement by now?  It’s important to make steady progress toward saving for retirement, no matter what your age. (COMMENT: Saving for our retirement was always a priority for my wife and I. While we were both working, we spent money like only one of us had a paycheck. We always put the maximums into tax-deferred accounts. Our retirement savings are much greater because we gave up trying to have children. Sadly, my critics/opponents use the aforesaid against me. We have less retirement savings because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. We have more money because of inheritances.)
https://www.troweprice.com/personal-investing/resources/insights/youre-age-35-50-or-60-how-much-should-you-have-by-now.html

ATLANTIC
— The Coming Democratic Baby Bust. Birth rates on the left fell in the last Trump presidency. It seems likely to happen again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/democrat-baby-bust-trump-population-decline/681619/

NARFE
— Musk’s Meddling in Government Operations: A Threat to Federal Employees and National Security
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/02/11/elon-musks-meddling-in-government-operations-a-threat-to-federal-employees-and-national-security/
— The Importance of Smart-Sizing Federal Agencies (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the1980s and 1990s, there would be no need for DOGE today.)
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/02/11/the-importance-of-smart-sizing-federal-agencies-a-letter-from-narfe/
— Emerging Threats to the Federal Community
https://www.narfe.org/advocacy/emerging-threats/

SOUTH AFRICAN
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, all the citizens of all the countries in the world are qualified to seek asylum in America, and especially those who are marginalized/oppressed, that is, those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, poor, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, lack education and/or job skills, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/confusion-qualifies-us-asylum-in-2025/

February 14, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Ex-Speaker Michael Madigan’s conviction could give Illinois GOP a path to relevancy, but it’s still strewn with obstacles
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/michael-madigan-conviction-illinois-gop/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/chicago-sanctuary-laws-immigrants-immigration
— Democrats ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to raise alarms
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/02/14/trump-tariffs-becoming-concern-illinois-farm-agriculture-industry

DAILY HERALD
— What to know about the federal workforce under Trump (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats, and many if not most were minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. Virtually all of my coworkers had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250214/nation-and-world-politics/what-to-know-about-the-federal-workforce-under-trump/

NBC5
— To promote DEI is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, etc. )
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/as-target-and-other-retailers-drop-dei-programs-black-founders-could-face-tougher-battle-to-get-and-stay-on-shelves/3674503/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://wgntv.com/migrants-in-chicago/dont-want-to-go-back-asylum-seekers-face-deportation-anxiety-in-chicago/

WTTW
— Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s Secretary of Education. They blast a job that she had in the past. My critics/opponents blast my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years. They especially blast my having been an IRS Revenue Office for almost 9 years.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/13/ctu-sounds-alarm-chicago-students-donald-trump-s-education-secretary-pick-set-be

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/02/14/what-immigrants-should-know-about-law-enforcement-amid-increased-immigration-raids

WEDNESDAY JOURNAL
— In tense national moment, Oak Park leaders stand up for DEI, progressive values. In show of solidarity, range of leaders gather at Unity Temple. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to discriminate against Republicans.)
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/02/11/oak-park-leaders-stand-up-dei-progressive-values/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump’s pick for education chief sketches a roadmap for dismantling the department
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trumps-pick-for-education-chief-seeks-approval-to-lead-an-agency-she-would-be-asked-to-tear-down/
— DOGE gets mixed reviews from conservatives who have long wanted major budget cuts
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-doge-gets-mixed-reviews-from-conservatives-who-have-long-wanted-major-budget-cuts/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-02-14/pres-trumps-mass-deportation-plan-spur-strong-reactions-from-dekalb-march-organizers

WMBD
— IRS prepares to lay off thousands of workers (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors were furious that they could not use probationary employee procedures to get rid of me because I had already survived my probationary period when I worked for IRS.)
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/02/14/us-irs-prepares-to-lay-off-thousands-of-workers-source-says/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is preparing to fire thousands of workers next week, a move that could squeeze resources at the tax-collecting agency during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said. Officials from the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees federal hiring, ordered all agencies on Thursday to dismiss their probationary employees, who are newer to their positions and do not enjoy full civil service job protections.)

WCIA
— US deports 119 migrants from a variety of nations to Panama
https://www.wcia.com/news/international/ap-us-deports-119-migrants-from-a-variety-of-nations-to-panama/

DAILY ILLINI
— Lawsuit targets Illinois teacher scholarship amid wider DEI rollbacks (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me.)
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/world-news/state-news/2025/02/14/lawsuit-illinois-teacher-scholarship-dei-rollbacks/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Pritzker must address multi-billion-dollar deficit amid federal funding uncertainty. Annual budget address will be among toughest in governor’s two terms.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/pritzker-must-address-multi-billion-dollar-deficit-amid-federal-funding-uncertainty/

CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/opinion/migrant-crime-wave/

AXIOS CHICAGO
— Illinois is one of only 13 U.S. states that sends more money to federal government coffers than it receives (COMMENT: Does your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct send more money to Illinois and to the federal government than they receive?)
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/02/14/illinois-federal-money-budget-spending

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-249/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly paint negatively everything that Trump says and does.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_26d55070-eb0c-11ef-a8f8-ef0141b9447f.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Crystal Lake Grade School District Tells Employees New Contract Led to Notifying Thirty Employees of Staff Reductions, Comparison of Tax to Salary Hikes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/14/crystal-lake-grade-school-district-tells-employees-new-contract-led-to-notifying-thirty-employees-of-staff-reductions/
— The Velvet Hammer Hammered Cartoon
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/14/the-velvet-hammer-hammered/
— Thanks, Pat Quinn, for Making Mike Madigan More Powerful
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/14/thanks-pat-quinn-for-making-mike-madigan-more-powerful/
— Reick Announces Committee Assignments
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/14/reick-announces-committee-assignments/

— Darby Hills Selected to Succeed Dan McConchie in the State Senate

Darby Hills Selected to Succeed Dan McConchie in the State Senate

— Reader Questions House GOP Leader Tony McCombie’s Priorities

Reader Questions House GOP Leader Tony McCombie’s Priorities

— McHenry County GOP Sends Invitation to Lincoln Day Dinner

County GOP Sends Invitation to Lincoln Day Dinner


ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Spend $93K per student and what happens? None can read at grade level. (COMMENT: How much money does your school district spend per student? What percent of its students read at grade level?)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/spend-93k-per-student-and-what-happens-none-can-read-at-grade-level/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump cans thousands of ‘probationary’ federal employees (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors were furious that they could not use probationary employee procedures to get rid of me because I had already survived my probationary period when I worked for IRS.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/14/donald-trump-cans-thousands-probationary-federal-w/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— On illegal immigration, it’s Trump filing the lawsuits
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3321217/on-illegal-immigration-trump-filing-lawsuits/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Vice President Vance Warns European Leaders that Mass Migration is the Most “Pressing Challenge”
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/02/14/vice-president-vance-warns-european-leaders-mass-migration-most-pressing-challenge

NEW YORK POST
— Yes: Obama, Biden endangered flights by rejecting whites for air-traffic controller jobs
https://nypost.com/2025/02/14/opinion/obama-biden-endangered-flights-by-nixing-whites-as-air-traffic-controllers/
— Pull the plug on EV subsidies — a government racket that dooms the auto industry
https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/opinion/pull-the-plug-on-ev-subsidies-a-costly-government-racket/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Homan on Criminal Migrants: “I’ve Made It Clear, I Want Everybody,” “I Don’t Care If It’s For Shoplifting”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/02/14/tom_homan_on_criminal_migrants_ive_made_it_clear_i_want_everybody_i_dont_care_if_its_for_shoplifting.html

TOWNHALL
— Ilhan Omar Isn’t the Only ‘Squad’ Member Helping Illegals Avoid Deportation
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/02/14/aoc-advises-constituents-on-how-to-avoid-being-deported-n2652194

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Sanctuary No More: NYC Mayor Ushers in Homan to Root Out Seriously Criminal Illegals
https://www.westernjournal.com/sanctuary-no-nyc-mayor-ushers-homan-root-seriously-criminal-illegals/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— U.S. Army bars transgender people from enlisting, ends gender-affirming care services
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-army-bars-transgender-people-enlisting-trump-executive-action/

NEWSWEEK
— Border Czar Says NYC Mayor ‘Can’t Back Away’ on Immigration Enforcement
https://www.newsweek.com/tom-homan-eric-adams-immigration-enforcement-sanctuary-city-2031402

REUTERS
— Putin welcomes Russians freed in prisoner swap as heroes loyal to the Motherland (COMMENT: Will deported illegals be welcomed in their motherlands?)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-greets-russians-returning-moscow-after-prisoner-swap-news-agencies-say-2024-08-01/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/ice-raids-send-chill-through-migrant-workforces-cddf7537

BLOOMBERG
— Russia Has Sent Around 10,000 Immigrants to Ukraine Front (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-27/russia-has-sent-around-10-000-immigrants-to-front-in-ukraine

DAILY TROJAN
— An identity crisis for children of immigrants (COMMENT: All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1950s. While they never returned to German to visit or for any other reason, they were slow to stop speaking German. My grandparents spoke German ad that held them back. 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.)
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/01/26/an-identity-crisis-for-children-of-immigrants/

JD SUPRA
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO employers will continue to use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/what-employers-should-know-about-3894669/

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Trump’s Leadership Scores Higher in Second Term
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/trump_s_leadership_scores_higher_in_second_term

AUTO WEEK
— Could All EV Sales Be Hit With $1,000 Tax?  GOP senators back bills to dramatically redraw EV credit landscape, shifting those incentives in the opposite direction. (COMMENT: I have ordered a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV.)
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a63798825/ev-credit-repeal-gop-senate-bill/

INDIA WEST JOURNAL
— US Sends Out Two More Planes With Illegals To India
https://indiawest.com/us-sends-out-two-more-planes-with-illegals-to-india/

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION
— These immigrants are leaving Australia because of the high cost of living
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-08/why-these-immigrants-are-deciding-to-return-to-their-motherland/103912586

February 2, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump says Americans could feel ‘some pain’ from his new tariffs that are triggering a trade war (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-justin-trudeau-claudia-sheinbaum-respond-says-americans-could-feel-pain/15857363/
— Fans at Raptors game continue trend of booing US national anthem at pro sporting events in Canada (COMMENT: If the past predicts the future, I will hear complaints about Trump when I hand-deliver campaign literature and sample ballots in my precinct for the April 1 election. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris in the November 5 election.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fans-boo-national-anthem-us-toronto-raptors-game-los-angeles-clippers-hours-canada-tariffs-imposed/15858045/

CBS2
— Pritzker says “working families will pay the price” for President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China  (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/gov-jb-pritzker-president-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china/

WGN9
— EU warns Trump it would ‘respond firmly’ to tariffs  (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://wgntv.com/news/national/eu-warns-trump-it-would-respond-firmly-to-tariffs/

FOX32
— Trump tariffs latest: China to file lawsuit for ‘wrongful practices of US’  (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tariffs-canada-response-china-mexico

WGN RADIO
— The future of electric vehicles in Illinois (COMMENT: I should listen to this.)
https://wgnradio.com/outside-the-loop-radio/otl-955-the-future-of-electric-vehicles-in-illinois-restorative-justice-in-north-lawndale/

WBEZ
— Following lawsuit, McDonald’s no longer requiring Hispanic heritage for its Hispanic college scholarships. The Chicago-based fast food giant changed its scholarship criteria to settle a discrimination lawsuit. (COMMENT: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me.)
https://www.wbez.org/business/2025/02/02/lawsuit-mcdonalds-hispanic-heritage-college-scholarships
— Removing medical debt from credit reports opens door to economic opportunity: ‘It gives me hope’ (COMMENT: The federal government paying 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to get rid of me.)
https://www.wbez.org/money/2025/02/02/medical-debt-credit-reports-home-mortages-housing-opportunity

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Friends say Army captain killed in midair collision was a ‘brilliant and fearless’ patriot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/army-captain-midair-collision/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/02/cps-non-citizen-school-advisory-board-mayor-johnson-appointees-jessica-canas

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Trump’s federal worker buyout offer: What does it mean for Illinois? (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/02/01/what-does-trumps-buyout-offer-mean-for-illinois-federal-employees/78086399007/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-02/trump-used-fentanyl-to-justify-tariffs-but-the-crisis-was-already-easing

WAND TV
— Democrats say: “Trump kept his pledge on tariffs” and ask “Is he ready for the fallout? Are Americans?”  (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-kept-his-pledge-on-tariffs-is-he-ready-for-the-fallout-are-americans-heres/article_f5fb599b-e26d-529c-9c4d-79f9b7886556.html

SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Homer Township ReSet Slate a “No-Show” at Will County Republican Debate Amidst Democratic Endorsement Controversy
https://thesouthlandjournal.com/homer-township-reset-slate-a-no-show-at-will-county-republican-debate-amidst-democratic-endorsement-controversy/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

REPUBLICANS FOR MILTON TOWNSHIP
— COMMENT: I look forward to hand-delivering campaign literature for the candidates and a copy of the sample ballot to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter.
https://republicansformilton.com/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Milton Township Democrats have ramped up their efforts to keep Milton Township Republican Assessor candidate Chuck Argianas off the April 1 ballot. Another hearing is scheduled for 3:00 PM, Thursday, February 6, in the Wheaton City Hall 2nd Floor Council Chambers. I will be there. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Bishop Budde pushes propaganda with pleas for mercy. A political hissy thinly disguised as Christianity.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/bishop-budde-pushes-propaganda-pleas-mercy/
— Wall Street Journal slams Trump tariffs against U.S. neighbors and trading partners  (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/wall-street-journal-slams-donald-trump-tariffs-u-n/
— Trump tariffs spark retaliation from Canada, Mexico and China  (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/donald-trump-tariffs-spark-retaliation-canada-mexi/
— Driscoll refuses order to list FBI employees involved in Jan. 6 cases amid ouster of agency leaders
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/brian-driscoll-acting-fbi-director-thin-ice-refusi/
— Trump’s efforts to reshape federal workforce test legal boundaries (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If the federal workforce looked like America, half of it would be Republican.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/31/trump-efforts-reshape-federal-workforce-test-legal/
— Ex-FBI director Comey calls on DOJ and FBI employees to fight Trump administration for lost jobs (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Few in government or politics fought Gingrich’s gutting of GAO.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/james-comey-urges-doj-fbi-employees-fight-trump-ad/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Tom Homan warns sanctuary cities against sheltering illegal immigrants from ICE (COMMENT: How strongly are the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district sheltering illegals?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3308196/tom-homan-warns-sanctuary-cities-against-sheltering-illegal-immigrants/
— Liberal objections to mass deportations go hilariously wrong
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3307032/liberal-objections-mass-deportations-go-wrong/
— DeSantis calls out Florida legislature for ‘defacto sanctuary state’ bill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3308057/desantis-florida-legislature-defacto-sanctuary-state-bill/

NEW YORK POST
— Republicans hold their breath as Trump ignites trade war with Canada, Mexico and China: ‘Tariffs are simply taxes’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/republicans-hold-their-breath-as-trump-ignites-trade-war-with-canada-mexico-and-china-tariffs-are-simply-taxes/
— Transportation chief Sean Duffy claims department traded core mission for DEI, vows to add air traffic controllers (COMMENT: Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans. The Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 traded its core mission for DEI. They ever-increasingly got rid of GAO employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. They would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/transportation-chief-sean-duffy-vows-to-add-air-traffic-controllers-says-department-traded-core-mission-for-dei/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals hinder ICE attempts to arrest and deport them
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/alarming_report_illegals_hinder_ice_attempts_to_arrest_and_deport_them.html
— With Trump imposing tariffs, suddenly the media is concerned about inflation  (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/with_trump_imposing_tariffs_suddenly_the_media_is_concerned_about_inflation.html

FOX NEWS
— Trump defends tariffs, accuses Canada of being ‘very abusive of the United States’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-defends-tariffs-accuses-canada-being-very-abusive-united-states-video

NEWSMAX
— Sanctuary City Mayors Must Face Consequences
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/chad-wolf-brandon-johnson-ice/2025/02/02/id/1197517/
— Migrant Crackdown Uses ‘Whole of Government’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/frank-tarentino-dea-immigration/2025/02/02/id/1197511/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump administration ends temporary immigration program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-ends-temporary-immigration-program-venezuela/
— FBI distributing questionnaire probing agents’ work on Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases, sources say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-questionnaire-jan-6-agents/

REUTERS
— Trump curtails protections around diversity, LGBTQ rights (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaiming-there-are-only-two-sexes-2025-01-20/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries. (COMMENT: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, all foreign countries are dangerous, and therefore, all their citizens are marginalized and should come to America illegally.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/trump-venezuela-temporary-protected-status.html
— The Democrat Party’s message is very clear: vote for us and we will use government give you preference big time, and especially if you are liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are a citizen of a foreign country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/democrats-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Disability advocates fear backlash, discrimination after Trump’s FAA comments (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to supervise all their disabled employees.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/02/trump-crash-disabilities-dei/

FORBES
— The Urgent Case For Supporting Marginalized Groups In Today’s Society (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sughnenyongo/2024/06/10/the-urgent-case-for-supporting-marginalized-groups-in-todays-society/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— America is doing retirement all wrong. Retirees look forward to doing nothing all day. Turns out that’s a big mistake. (COMMENT: What do you look forward to do? I look forward to filling a tremendous communication void in Illinois by putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out every morning. I also look forward to hand-delivering campaign literature for the Republican candidates along with a copy of the sample ballot to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. I also look forward to car shows, and especially those at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/america-is-doing-retirement-all-wrong-boomers-aging-longevity-happiness-2024-12

GOOGLE
— Dependent on other countries (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22dependent+on+other+countries

STUDENT AID
— Do You Need Money for College? (COMMENT: I needed money for college. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. I did not apply for aid. I did not apply for scholarships because I had only just barely made it into upper 20% of my high school class and my ACT score was only 24. Instead, I worked my way through college. To earn money for my UIC and NIU expenses and for new cars to get to/from classes and jobs and my parents’ home in Crete, I washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, and worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970. I graduated from NIU in August of 1970 debt-free and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But my GPA suffered because I worked many hours instead of studying.)
https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/do-you-need-money.pdf

COMMON DREAMS
— Progressives Won’t Help the Working Class by Abandoning Marginalized Groups. Leaders must reject false choices rooted in the idea that social and economic advancement is a zero-sum game or that working-class people must spar over scraps while all the spoils go to the elite few. (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/progressives-don-t-abandon-marginalized

February 2, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Conflicting preliminary data raises questions about aircrafts’ altitude at time of DC midair crash. Flight data shows American Airlines jet was at 325 feet, tower data shows Army helicopter was at 200 feet at time of collision.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dc-plane-crash-updates-conflicting-preliminary-data-raises-questions-american-airlines-flight-army-helicopter-altitudes/15855126/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PIOCTURE: Chicago becomes an epicenter of resistance amid Trump’s immigration crackdown (COMMENT: Arguably, Pritzker is the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater in America. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/chicago-ice-trump-immigration-deportation/
— What will Mayor Brandon Johnson’s playbook be against ‘raggedy’ Trump White House? (COMMENT: Arguably, Brando is the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater in Chicago. Anticipate/expect that Brandon will ever-increasingly get rid of the 22% in Chicago who voted for Trump.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/mayor-brandon-johnsons-playbook-trump-white-house/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/heidi-stevens-balancing-act-bishop-budde-trump/
— Evanston ever-increasing promotes more illegal immigration
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/evanston-church-offers-sanctuary-to-immigrants/
— When disaster strikes, Donald Trump’s instinct is to blame DEI first (COMMENT: The adverse impacts of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI on occupations vary and can be difficult to measure. To implement AA and DEI is to lower standards. To meet their AA and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered standards. That rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license. They flushed the aforesaid down their toilets when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/column-donald-trump-plane-crash-washington-dei-page/

WGN RADIO
— Are you in the top 1% of earners in Illinois, Indiana or Wisconsin? (COMMENT: What is the most that you earned? Because I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, my critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a career failure. Further, they have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the federal government grossly overpaid me. When they are not ignoring/dismissing/belittling/badmouthing my having earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related profession certifications, and a job-related professional license, they hint/imply/argue/shout that my having all the aforesaid qualifications and my still earning only $153,151/year in today’s dollars proves that I am a career failure.)
https://wgnradio.com/news/list-are-you-in-the-top-1-of-earners-in-illinois-indiana-or-wisconsin/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Reviewing data from the Social Security Administration, GOBankingRates recently determined that to be among the top 1% of earners in the U.S., you need to make at least $794,129 annually. That works out to about $66,180 a week — for comparison, the most recent data from the U.S.  Census Bureau found the average annual household income in 2023 was $80,610. . .In Illinois, you need to make $811,004 to be in the top 1%. In Indiana, the threshold is $572,403, and in Wisconsin it’s $631,993.)

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Two Illinois legislators support labeling unborn American children as ‘persons’ in bill
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/01/31/illinois-legislators-are-cosponsors-of-federal-abortion-ban/78059289007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trapped in irrelevance, GOP attacks Dems’ legislative maps
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-trapped-in-irrelevance-gop-attacks-dems-legislative-maps/article_45b46aca-df46-11ef-ad88-2704e5b9a6b0.html

MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— The more hatred that you promote against Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote you.  Arguably, Pritzker is the biggest Trump-hater in America. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump.
https://muddyrivernews.com/politics/pritzker-vs-trump/20250201075633/

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/ben-jealous-trumps-america-last-agenda-is-a-knife-in-the-back-of-working-people/

WKDQ
— Popular Illinois Concert Venue To Sell Cannabis During Shows (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.)
https://wkdq.com/ixp/722/p/cannabis-concert-venue-illinois/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Ken Martin, Who Called for Trump To Be Charged With Treason (COMMENT: Who has taken adverse actions against you? I should write about those who have taken most/biggest adverse actions against me and the pretexts that they used.)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ken-martin-who-called-for-trump-to-be-charged-with-treason-elected-dnc-chair/

NEW YORK POST
— Democrats waging ‘holy war’ as Trump ends 50 years of affirmative-action tyranny (COMMENT: Democrats use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/opinion/democrats-will-wage-holy-war-as-trump-ends-dei-tyranny/

AMERICAN THINKER
— How low can you go? As we debate the future of the Department of Education, we get news that U.S. children are not being educated. Something is wrong, because this department has a budget of $90 billion. How are we spending those billions? Not well as we see in this report. (COMMENT: My teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, and Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966 put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/how_low_can_you_go.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Millions on the line for Episcopal Church as ‘woke’ bishop lectured Trump on migrants (COMMENT: How much money does your church take from Democrat and RINO leaders to promote more illegal immigration?)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/01/millions-on-the-line-for-episcopal-church-as-woke-bishop-lectured-trump-on-migrants-1520136/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Episcopal Migration Ministries announced it will lay off employees and end its federally funded work as the Episcopal News Service reported that as one of “10 agencies with federal contracts to resettle refugees on behalf of the State Department” the EMM’s work “ground to a halt last week when President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program as one of his first acts after taking office Jan. 20.”)

FOX NEWS
— FAA Academy in Oklahoma struggled to fill classrooms due to DEI quotas (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/faa-academy-oklahoma-struggled-fill-classrooms-due-dei-quotas-sen-mullin-says
— Parents ‘overjoyed’ with Trump’s DEI crackdown, education group says (COMMENT: My teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, and Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966 put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.)
China denounces Trump tariff: ‘Fentanyl is America’s problem’
— House GOP elections chair reveals which voter blocs Republicans are targeting ahead of 2026 (COMMENT: According to Democrat plant and RINO political consultants in Illinois, DuPage County, and Milton Township, Republican candidates should target those who have demographics that vote for Democrats by dumping those who have demographics that vote for Republicans. I have all demographics that vote for Republicans. I should write about those Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who have not only dumped me, but have taken many big adverse actions against me.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-elections-chair-reveals-which-voter-blocs-republicans-targeting-ahead-2026

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— The more demographics that you have that vote for Democrats, the faster the pathways that Democrats give you to citizenship.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5119825-trump-immigration-crackdown-southern-border-asylum-cbp-one-refugees/

MSNBC
— Pentagon agency bans Black History Month in compliance with Trump’s anti-DEI push (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-agency-bans-black-history-111555895.html

MSN
— Black History Month faces uncertainty under President Trump’s diversity rollback (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/politics/black-history-month-faces-uncertainty-under-president-trump-s-diversity-rollback/ar-AA1yenKi

REUTERS
— China denounces Trump tariff: ‘Fentanyl is America’s problem’ (COMMENT: To push fentanyl in America is to destroy America. How much success have hate-filled America-hating America-haters had pushing fentanyl in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-denounces-trump-tariff-fentanyl-is-americas-problem-2025-02-02/
— Democrats elect Ken Martin as chair to rebuild demoralized party (COMMENT: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. Also, I served on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. Also, I headed Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial primary campaign in Milton Township in 2002. Also, I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Because of the aforesaid, my critics/opponents have blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party and b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have suffered losses and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, and campaign managers. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW806401022025RP1/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters blame Trump for the plane crash. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI at FAA did in fact cause the crash, Trump should have gotten rid of AA and DEI at FAA when he was President 2017-2021. If previous presidents had gotten rid of AA and DEI in the federal government sooner, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/trump-plane-crash-dei-faa-diversity.html
— Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes On New Meaning. Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of defiance. (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/trump-black-history-month.html
— Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump’s Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I. (COMMENT: When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors did far more than place me on leave, they forced me to retire. Because of that, in today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement system is only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 and less than what my IRS salary was in 1972.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/trump-dei-education-department.html
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/opinion/trump-dei-diversity-meritocracy.html
— Official Email Urges Federal Workers to Find ‘Higher Productivity’ Jobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/federal-workers-opm.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Pritzker bans Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump from state jobs. The order would apply to more than 50 people from Illinois who were given pardons or commutations by President Donald Trump. (COMMENT: After my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, they did everything that they could to ban me from getting employment appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/01/illinois-pritzker-trump-pardons/

USA TODAY
— As crash victims’ families start calling lawyers, Trump’s words may be evidence in suits. (COMMENT: The adverse impacts of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI on occupations vary and can be difficult to measure. To implement AA and DEI is to lower standards. To meet their AA and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered standards. That rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license. They flushed the aforesaid down their toilets when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/01/aviation-lawsuit-experts-say-trump-duffy-comments-will-impact-claims/78091407007/
— ‘Earned her place’: Friends grieve Rebecca Lobach, US Army pilot killed in DC crash
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/01/capt-rebecca-lobach-army-pilot-killed-crash/78130730007/
— Illinois lawmakers file bill to repeal ‘Trust Act,’ require police to work with ICE
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/2025/01/28/illinois-lawmakers-want-law-enforcement-to-work-with-ice/78000550007/

FORBES
— Union Popularity Hits 70%, But Trump’s NLRB Move Threatens Labor (COMMENT: My critics/opponents despise/hate a) the working class, that is, wage earners and b) unions and union members. I was a wage earned for 33 years and I was a union member for 12 of those years.  According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and b) I was grossly overpaid and my benefits were far too generous. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2025/01/28/union-popularity-hits-70-but-trumps-nlrb-move-threatens-labor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: And, not surprisingly support for unions is especially high among workers…with bad jobs.)

INDEED
— 15 Tips for Comparing Job Offers (COMMENT: In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, because I have always been a Republican and because I would never become a Democrat, I should not have become a federal employee. Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. The federal government wastes the careers of and gets rid of its Republican employees, and especially those like me who are conservative, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/job-offer-comparison

NEW YORKER
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly a) use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans and b) call Republicans White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. Because of the aforesaid, Republicans should be ever-increasingly doing more for their self-defense.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/donald-trumps-anti-woke-wrecking-ball

HERALD SUN
— Canada joins Mexico in retaliation as Trump trade war heats up
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/

February 1, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, raising prospect of higher costs for US consumers
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-imposes-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-white-house-prospect-higher-costs-us-consumers-raises/15854652/
— 2 migrant men allegedly beat Chicago businessman to death, left him bound, gagged, prosecutors say. Jefferson Ubilla-Delgado, Geiderwuin Bello Morales appear in court Saturday for charges in murder of 63-year-old George Levin
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jefferson-ubilla-delgado-geiderwuin-bello-morales-allegedly-left-george-levin-dead-norwood-park-basement-prosecutors/15854435/
— Events held across Chicago area to celebrate 1st day of Black History Month (COMMENT: What are your demographics? During what months are they celebrated?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/black-history-month-events-held-chicago-area-including-aurora-breakfast-south-side-girl-scouts-event-west-book-fair/15854425/
— Venezuela frees 6 Americans after meeting between President Maduro and Trump’s envoy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/6-americans-detained-venezuela-freed-meeting-between-nicols-maduro-donald-trumps-envoy-richard-grenell/15853514/

NBC5
— White House takes aim at Selena Gomez for video of her crying amid ICE raids. The White House produced a video featuring three mothers whose children were killed by convicted undocumented migrants.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/white-house-takes-aim-selena-gomez-video-crying-ice-raids/3662687/

FOX32
— Pritzker slams Trump’s tariffs, warns ‘working families will pay the price’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-slams-trumps-tariffs-warns-working-families-will-pay-the-price

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats elect Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as chair of the Democratic National Committee (COMMENT: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. Also, I served on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. Also, I headed Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial primary campaign in Milton Township in 2002. Also, I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Because of the aforesaid, my critics/opponents have blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party and b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have suffered losses and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, and campaign managers.. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/31/democratic-national-committee-chair-elected/
— AUGUST 21, 2021 FLASKBACK: FAA’s shift in hiring raises concerns (COMMENT: Air traffic control staffing was involved in an audit of FAA that I worked on for GAO in the early 1980s.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2014/05/27/faas-shift-in-hiring-raises-concerns/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, a Republican from Winfield, said the FAA has failed to give lawmakers answers that justify the hiring change or show how it will improve safety. “There is a lot of secrecy about where this new program originated,” said Hultgren, who has met with air traffic controllers and aviation graduates who live in his DuPage County district. “I have not gotten adequate responses from the FAA or from the (Obama) administration.”)

DAILY HERALD
— How Illinois compares to others on taxes, spending, other metrics
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250201/news/how-our-state-stacks-up-new-report-shows-how-illinois-compares-to-others-on-taxes-spending-other/
— Democrats push pot. Democrats oppose testing for pot impairment.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250201/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-the-importance-of-integrity-drug-testing-questions-put-officials-labs-and/
— What will happen to McConchie’s campaign cash after he leaves office?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250201/illinois-state-politics/what-will-happen-to-mcconchies-campaign-cash-after-he-leaves-office/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Leaders in Illinois, among the nation’s largest exporters, fear cost of Trump’s tariff plan
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/leaders-in-illinois-among-the-nations-largest-exporters-fear-cost-of-trumps-tariff-plan/article_39392c60-e02a-11ef-ac0b-ffa19327c4f7.html#tncms-source=login

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Colleges around the US cautiously navigate Trump’s DEI crackdown (COMMENT: UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But I doubt that they would have accepted me in later years a) because of ever-increasing DEI pressure and b) because of my bad demographics.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/colleges-around-the-us-cautiously-navigate-trumps-dei-crackdown/article_0b611e91-d8cc-552d-a263-ddc7428b6106.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Data Centers Coming Online Leading to Comeback of Fossil Fuels
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/01/data-centers-coming-online-leading-to-comeback-of-fossil-fuels/
— The Gift Book’s Origin
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/01/the-gift-books-origination/
— Democrat Calls for Passage of Property Tax Circuit Breaker, Abolition of Which Governor Pat Quinn Signed after Dems Sent Him Repeal
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/01/democrat-calls-for-passage-of-property-tax-circuit-breaker-abolition-of-which-governor-pat-quinn-signed-after-dems-sent-him-repeal/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump follows through with trade war threats, slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/1/trump-follows-trade-war-threats-slaps-tariffs-cana/
— Democrats elect Ken Martin to chair Democratic National Committee (COMMENT: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. Also, I served on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. Also, I headed Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial primary campaign in Milton Township in 2002. Also, I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Because of the aforesaid, my critics/opponents have blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party and b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have suffered losses and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, and campaign managers. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/1/democrats-elect-ken-martin-chair-democratic-nation/
— No more ‘identity months’: Pentagon scraps official events for Black, Women’s History months (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, ever-increasingly, every month was an identity month except for Whites, men, and older people.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/1/identity-months-pentagon-scraps-official-events-bl/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— If you really support immigration, stop excusing border chaos
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3305430/if-you-really-support-immigration-stop-excusing-border-chaos/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Celebrity Selena Gomez recently posted, and then quickly deleted, a video of herself sobbing uncontrollably over the treatment of illegal immigrants being expelled by the Trump administration. Gomez was, of course, mercilessly mocked by conservatives across social media. There’s nothing really wrong with sympathizing with those trying to escape the deprivation and tyranny of the Third World. Most of us, I assume, would do the same for our families. The frustration, though, is misplaced.)
— The DEI regime is trying to make a comeback
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3307158/dei-regime-is-trying-to-make-a-comeback/

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago ICE raids expose left-wing ecosystem protecting criminal illegal migrants from deportations
https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/us-news/chicago-raids-expose-how-leftist-groups-help-crooks-evade-ice/
— Democratic govs line up to fight Trump even as they dance around criminal illegal migrants
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/opinion/democratic-govs-line-up-to-fight-trump-even-as-they-dance-around-criminal-illegal-immigrants/
— Over 7.2K illegal migrants arrested in 9 days during ICE crackdown
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/ice-crackdown-sees-7400-illegal-migrants-arrested-in-9-days/
— Another flight was forced into last second redirect at DCA just 24 hours before deadly crash
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/another-american-airlines-flight-was-forced-into-last-second-redirect-at-dca-24-hours-before-tragic-crash/
— Trump admin slams Selena Gomez for her infamously tearful video over ICE raids
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/trump-admin-slams-selena-gomez-for-her-infamously-tearful-video-over-ice-raids/
— How DEI is being rebranded — not disbanded
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/opinion/no-death-for-diversity-how-dei-is-being-rebranded-not-disbanded/
— Kristi Noem stops taxpayer money from funding illegal migrant flood
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/opinion/how-us-taxpayers-funded-the-largest-illegal-migration-in-history/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Two illegal immigrants arrested in brutal murder of 63-year-old Chicago man
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/01/two-illegal-immigrants-arrested-in-brutal-murder-of-63-year-old-chicago-man-1520103/

FOX NEWS
— ICE crackdown sees 7,400 illegal migrants arrested in 9 days
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-crackdown-sees-7400-illegal-migrants-arrested-9-days

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Pritzker: Dem Governors Working Hard With One Another To Think About How Do We Fight Back? How Do We Push Back?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/02/01/gov_pritzker_dem_governors_working_hard_with_one_another_to_think_about_how_do_we_fight_back_how_do_we_push_back.html

WESTERN JOURNAL
— NY Hotels Using Illegals to Bilk Taxpayers Hit With Whopping Monetary Judgment
https://www.westernjournal.com/ny-hotels-using-illegals-bilk-taxpayers-hit-whopping-monetary-judgment/
— Trump Is Right: Obama FAA Policy Penalized ‘High Aptitude’ Applicants, Even Chicago Tribune Was Worried in 2021
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-right-obama-faa-policy-penalized-high-aptitude-applicants-even-chicago-tribune-worried-2021/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote birthright citizenship
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/pregnant-women-fear-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-rcna188757

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Canada and Mexico Tariffs Could Hurt Carmakers. General Motors and a few other companies make as much as 40 percent of their North American cars and trucks in Canada and Mexico, leaving them vulnerable to tariffs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/business/economy/tariffs-trump-automakers-canada-mexico.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stellantis, which owns Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram, produces all of its Chrysler Pacifica minivans at a plant in Windsor, Ontario. It also makes the Dodge Charger muscle car, including a new electric version, there. About two-thirds of its highly profitable Ram pickups are made in the United States, but the other third comes from a factory in Saltillo, Mexico. Stellantis did not respond to a request for comment.)

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s DEI purge targets federal workers who did not work in DEI (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, constructively, all its employees were always in DEI roles. All federal employees had to give preference to federal employees who were Democrat, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. That is, federal employees had to discriminate against federal employees who were Republican, and especially against those who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/01/trump-dei-energy-education-departments/
— Democrat leaders use Venezuela’s Maduro and his “repressive state” to promote more illegal immigration. Under the Biden, America repressed Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/01/trump-venezuela-deportation-maduro-migrants/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Mexico’s president orders retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-02-01/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china

USA TODAY
— Gender, hiring, foreign aid: 3 ways Project 2025 is turning up in Trump’s actions
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/31/project-2025-trump-executive-orders/77977234007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Migrant Groups Are Thwarting ICE. As agents arrive in Chicago and other cities, elaborate operations are springing into action—aiming to hinder authorities.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trump-migrant-arrests-activist-campaign-20939aa5

FORBES
— Trump Acknowledges Black History Month—After Weeks Of Attacking Diversity
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/01/trump-acknowledges-black-history-month-after-weeks-of-attacking-diversity/

January 28, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Mayor reaffirms Chicago’s welcoming city status amid ICE raids; at least 100 arrested in area. Unclear if mayor will go to Washington to testify next month.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-immigration-raids-today-arrests-continue-mayor-brandon-johnson-called-testify-sanctuary-city-policy/15843173/
— Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-grants-loan-disbursement-paused-white-house/15843367/
— Firings, freezes and layoffs: A list of Trump’s moves against federal employees and programs (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, they have ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-federal-funding-actions-list-summary-trumps-moves-employees-programs/15844281/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Diversity, equity and inclusion  On his second day back at the White House, Trump moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. That move followed an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners, programs Trump has called “discrimination.” That action revokes an order issued by President Lyndon Johnson, and curtails DEI programs by federal contractors and grant recipients. It’s using one of the key tools utilized by the Biden administration to promote DEI programs across the private sector – pushing their use by federal contractors – to now eradicate them. While many changes may take months or even years to implement, prominent companies from Walmart to Facebook have already scaled back or ended some of their diversity practices in response to Trump’s election and conservative-backed lawsuits against them. By Friday, federal agencies are expected to develop a plan to execute a “reduction-in-force action” against federal DEI workers in their employ as of Election Day.)
— Trump signs executive order aimed at curtailing gender transitions for everyone under 19 (COMMENT: How much success have Democrats had promoting LGBTQ in your school district?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-signs-executive-order-aimed-curtailing-gender-transitions-everyone-19/15844501/
— IL House lawmakers file almost 1,800 new bills only 2 weeks into legislative session (COMMENT: What bills have your Republican lawmakers filed to defend and advance the Republican Party platform?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/il-house-lawmakers-file-almost-1800-new-bills-2-weeks-legislative-session-including-single-use-plastic-foodware-ban/15844418/

NBC5
— Pritzker calls Trump funding freeze ‘illegal’ after judge blocks order. Pritzker addressed media on Tuesday afternoon amid continuing fallout over the freeze order.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-blasts-trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-other-programs/3658478/
— Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., on Tuesday defended the impacts of the White House’s federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch. (COMMENT: During my freshman and sophomore years in high school, I did yard work. During my freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years in high school, I delivered newspapers. During my junior and senior years, I washed dishes. At the start of my junior year in 1964, I bought a 1958 Chevy Bel Air with the money that I had earned. At the end of my senior year, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint with the money that I had earned that I used it to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete. Because I worked so many hours instead of studying, I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class and my ACT score was only 24. Because of heavy traffic on the Dan Ryan, commuting was difficult.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/republican-congressman-children-free-school-lunches-mcdonalds/3658368/

CBS2
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul calls Trump’s federal funding freeze unconstitutional
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-president-trump-freeze-federal-funding/
— Democratic states plan to sue over Trump’s federal grant funding freeze
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-funding-freeze-lawsuit-democratic-attorneys-general/
— Medicaid, Head Start, health centers say they’re locked out of federal funding website (COMMENT: To what extent are those in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct dependent on a) federal aid, b) state aid, c) township aid, d) municipal aid, and e) school district aid?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/medicaid-head-start-health-centers-trump-funding-freeze/

WGN9
— President Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown continues
https://wgntv.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/president-trumps-sweeping-immigration-crackdown-continues/

FOX32
— Illinois GOP bill would require law enforcement to coordinate with ICE
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-ice-cooperation-trust-act
— Elgin man arrested by ICE, family says
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1584187

WBEZ
— Immigration arrests have quieted Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods. In East Chicago, a neighborhood that is about 80% Mexican, the typically bustling commercial corridor was eerily still on Monday.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/immigration-arrests-have-quieted-chicagos-latino-neighborhoods
— Health care providers in Illinois could lose millions in funding under Trump order. Some providers say an order freezing federal financial help could mean cuts in services within days or months. A judge temporarily blocked the order.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/01/28/health-care-providers-in-illinois-could-lose-millions-in-funding-under-trump-order
— Johnson, other ‘sanctuary’ mayors called to testify on ‘obstructionist policies,’ but he’s not sure he’ll show up. On Tuesday, Johnson referred the question to his Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry, who said the “invitation” from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is “under legal review.” Johnson and the mayors of Boston, Denver and New York also were asked to hand over all documents related to their cities’ sanctuary status.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-house-oversight-committee-sanctuary-city-immigration-deportation
— Chicago’s immigration sweeps have restaurant and food industry employers feeling anxious. Chicago-based American Business Immigration Coalition warns of major economic consequences of mass deportations. (COMMENT: I washed dishes for the minimum wage in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years in high school and the summer in between. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, one of them would have gotten that job. That job enabled me to earn and save enough money to buy a new car before I graduated, a car that I used to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete.)
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/chicago-immigration-sweeps-restaurant-food-industry-employers-feeling-anxious

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— President Trump’s federal funding freeze hits Medicaid in Illinois, slated to disrupt vast array of programs. The temporary federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in Illinois in 2023, including low-income adults, children, pregnant women and people with disabilities.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/28/illinois-medicaid-federal-funding-freeze-trump-administration
— Mayor Brandon Johnson reaffirms Chicago’s welcoming city status amid ICE raids. CPD says more than 100 have been detained from Chicago area.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-immigration-raids-today-arrests-continue-mayor-brandon-johnson-called-testify-sanctuary-city-policy/15843173/
— Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months’ pay in effort to shrink size of government
Federal employees who don’t want to return to the office can apply for a buyout. Those workers who accept the buyout will need to resign by Feb. 6 and would receive severance paid through Sept. 30. (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/washington/2025/01/28/trump-offers-all-federal-workers-a-buyout-with-7-months-pay-in-effort-to-shrink-size-of-government
— Dr. Phil had no business taking part in ICE immigration raids in Chicago, Durbin says. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Tuesday slammed the decision to grant TV host Dr. Phil McGraw, a psychologist, access to the raids Sunday in Chicago, which McGraw streamed on his channel.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/washington/2025/01/28/durbin-senate-floor-comments-chicago-immigration-raids-ice-dr-phil-mcgraw-homeland-security
— Trump’s moves on electric vehicles will hurt industry and our climate. President Donald Trump’s executive orders target the electric vehicle industry, while Europe and China forge ahead. (COMMENT: Will Democrats say that I am helping the electric vehicle industry and climate with my buying an electric 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/01/28/evs-electric-vehicles-donald-trump-environment-editorial

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration’s surprise federal funding freeze hits Medicaid while raising havoc and sowing confusion across Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-trump-federal-funds-cut/
— Illinois unable to access Medicaid systems hours before President Trump’s freeze on grants was supposed to take effect
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-trump-federal-funds-cut/
— Democrat leaders crow about their manipulation/domination of religious leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/evanston-church-offers-sanctuary-to-immigrants/
— Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months’ pay in effort to shrink size of government (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/trump-federal-workers-buyout/
— CNN’s Jim Acosta, an irritant to Trump, says he’s quitting rather than take a late-night time slot (COMMENT: In 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer.” They hinted that they might let me work another 6 years when I would be eligible for regular retirement if I happily agreed to be downgraded and transferred to a different audit group. I had been assigned to their group that audited federal financial regulators since 1990. I had become a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I had earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/cnns-jim-acosta-quits/
— If you’re arrested by ICE in Illinois, what happens next? Legal experts explain the process
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/ice-immigration-trump-deportation-know-your-rights/
— Illinois GOP sues over Democratic legislative remap, calling it ‘not just a little corrupt’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/gop-remap-lawsuit/

DAILY HERALD
— Confusion reigns after feds pull plug on aid; Illinois sues and Pritzker blasts White House
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250128/nation-and-world-politics/illinois-joins-5-other-states-seeking-to-block-trump-pulling-plug-on-federal-aid/
— West Chicago mayor candidate wants lottery to determine ballot placement
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250127/local-politics/west-chicago-mayor-candidate-wants-lottery-to-determine-ballot-placement/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump’s federal spending freeze has local recipients reeling
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/uchicago-pauses-research-spending-after-trump-funding-freeze
— Before federal funding freeze, Illinois reports issues accessing Medicaid
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/after-trump-funding-freeze-illinois-reports-issues-accessing-medicaid

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois lawmakers file bill to repeal ‘Trust Act,’ require police to work with ICE
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/01/28/illinois-lawmakers-want-law-enforcement-to-work-with-ice/78000550007/

WSIL TV
— More frequent use of marijuana damages the brain’s working memory, which could lead to issues with safety, communications and work success. (COMMENT: I have never used marijuana and I never will. That helped me a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 48, and d) earn a professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/more-frequent-marijuana-use-may-damage-an-important-memory-skill/article_d87a02d9-db7c-5ef4-af93-a9fe4151f824.html

DUPAGE COUNTY ELECTION DIVISION
— Unofficial Candidate Listings
https://cms5.revize.com/revize/dupage/Election/Documents/Candidate%20Information/Candidate%20Listings/2025CE/2025CE-0%20Full%20Candidate%20List.pdf

CAPITOL FAX
— Pritzker directs state agencies to report potential impacts of federal funding cuts
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/pritzker-directs-state-agencies-to-report-potential-impacts-of-federal-funding-cuts/
— Trump administration starts at least a partial walk-back after furor – Judge pauses – State has access to Medicaid portal – Pritzker: ‘What Donald Trump tried to do in the last 24 hours is illegal’ – Medicaid shutdown ‘not an accident’ – Federal agencies ordered not to speak with states – AG lawsuit posted
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/trump-administration-starts-at-least-a-partial-walk-back-after-furor/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-237/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS GOP
— America First Means No More Open Borders and Dangerous Criminals
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(PRESS RELEASE: ICE Raids targeting criminals and gang members have arrived in Chicago. While many Democrats across the country have embraced and even supported President Trump’s targeting of criminal illegal migrants, JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson continue to grandstand side by side prioritizing protecting criminals over the safety of Illinois families. Here’s some of the people that they are protecting: Nine Tren de Aragua terrorists; Seven sexual predators who committed crimes against children; and Two murderers. Tom Homan said it himself – “everybody we arrested in Chicago yesterday was a significant public safety threat.” “The Trump Administration is making our communities safe again and placing the lives and wellbeing of Americans first. I am a proud supporter of the new Administration’s efforts to step up and take the action that Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson are too cowardly to take themselves,” said Illinois Republican Party Chair Kathy Salvi. “This is a nation of laws, laws that Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson are fine ignoring for the sake of their own radical agenda. President Trump is doing exactly what the American people elected him to do, and we stand ready to assist him in his efforts to secure our border and keep our streets safe.”)

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McConchie Recommends Joe Salvi as Replacement in State Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/mcconchie-recommends-joe-salvi-as-replacement-in-state-senate/
— McLaughlin Seeks to Succeed McConchie in Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/mclaughlin-seeks-to-succeed-mcconchie-as-in-senate/
— More Bias in Illegal Alien Removal Reporting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/more-bias-in-illegal-alien-removal-reporting/
— Chicago Papers Emphasize Human Interest Angles of Illegal Alien Removals
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/chicago-papers-emphasize-human-interest-angles-of-illegal-alien-removals/
— Rep. Sosnowski Takes on Pritzker about Illegal Alien Deportation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/rep-sosnowski-takes-on-pritzker-about-illegal-alien-deportation/
— Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Holding Fundraiser Wednesday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/algonquin-township-road-commissioner-holding-fundraiser-wednesday/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 7 steps to improve Illinois’ social mobility rating
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/press-releases/7-steps-to-improve-illinois-social-mobility-rating/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Promote and encourage the “success sequence.” Research has shown progressing from getting an education, finding full-time work, getting married and then having children is a proven path to improve social mobility and strengthen families. American adults who follow this model have a poverty rate of only 2%, and about 75% joined the middle class.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BLAZE
— Trump to freeze federal funds as admin weeds out ‘wokeness’ in budget
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-to-freeze-federal-funds-as-admin-weeds-out-wokeness-in-budget

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump provokes firestorm with federal freeze
https://thehill.com/newsletters/evening-report/5111767-trump-federal-freeze-johnson-miami-leavitt-peters-medicaid/

CNN
— Trump administration denies it is pausing all federal grants after sweeping memo to government agencies
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/white-house-pauses-federal-grants-loan-disbursement/index.html

NBC NEWS
— Trump’s funding freeze creates widespread confusion. A White House memo set off a flurry of panic across nonprofit groups, who said they were unable to access federal government systems used to withdraw funds.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-federal-funding-freeze-widespread-confusion-rcna189581

CBS NEWS
— Trump administration offering buyouts to government workers unwilling to return to office (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-offering-buyouts-to-government-workers-unwilling-to-return-to-office/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Spending Freeze Sows Confusion and Fear
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/28/us/trump-news-executive-orders

PBS
— Trump orders temporary funding freeze that could affect trillions of dollars
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-orders-temporary-funding-freeze-that-could-affect-trillions-of-dollars

January 24, 2025 Evening Edition

POST MILLENNIAL
— Pete Hegseth CONFIRMED by Senate as defense secretary. Vice President JD Vance was called up to cast the tie-breaking vote.
https://thepostmillennial.com/pete-hegseth-confirmed-senate

TOWNHALL
— Pete Hegseth Confirmed as Secretary of Defense
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/24/hegseth-confirmed-n2650817

WHITE HOUSE
— ENFORCING THE HYDE AMENDMENT
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/enforcing-the-hyde-amendment/
— I hereby revoke the Presidential Memorandum of January 28, 2021 . . . and reinstate the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017 . . . (The Mexico City Policy). I direct the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the extent allowable by law, to implement a plan to extend the requirements of the reinstated Memorandum to global health assistance furnished by all departments or agencies. I further direct the Secretary of State to take all necessary actions, to the extent permitted by law, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-state-the-secretary-of-defense-the-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-the-administrator-of-the-united-states-for-international-development/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Evanston investigating photo of firefighters wearing Trump masks at work (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors were furious that I attended a Bob Dole rally in Wheaton in 1996.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-city-evanston-investigating-photo-202200410.html
— A reported sighting of immigration agents attempting to enter an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side on Friday was actually U.S. Secret Service agents investigating a threat.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/immigration-enforcement-hamline-elementary/
— Illinois State Senator Terri Bryant (R-Murphysboro) asks prison workers to contact her about undocumented immigrants: ‘I won’t rat you out’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/state-senator-asks-prison-workers-to-contact-her-about-undocumented-immigrants-i-wont-rat-you-out/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Homeless tent camp on track to be removed from Gompers Park on Northwest Side. Ald. Samantha Nugent says the city promised to begin a process next month to help move unhoused people from the park into shelters. (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect homeless tent camps in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/01/24/chicago-homeless-tent-camp-removed-gompers-park-northwest-side-samantha-nugent-brandon-johnson

ABC7
— Target is ending its diversity goals as a strong DEI opponent occupies the White House
https://abc7chicago.com/post/target-is-ending-diversity-goals-strong-dei-opponent-occupies-white-house/15834406/
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mass-deportations-school-attendance-declines-parts-illinois-amid-fears-trump-immigration-raids-gov-pritzker-speaks/15834048/
— US Secret Service approached South Side school, not ICE agents. Chicago Public Schools officials initially claimed they denied ICE entry to Hamline Elementary Friday morning.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-immigration-customs-enforcement-agents-denied-entry-hamline-elementary-school-back-yards-cps-officials/15833738/
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mass-deportations-school-attendance-declines-parts-illinois-amid-fears-trump-immigration-raids-gov-pritzker-speaks/15834048/
— Illinois authorities divided on TRUST Act forbidding federal immigration enforcement collaboration
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trust-act-controversy-illinois-authorities-divided-law-forbidding-collaboration-federal-immigration-enforcement-raids/15834612/
— Trump vows to fight for abortion restrictions in March for Life remarks
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/donald-trump-2nd-term-live-updates-more-executive-action-planned-amid-day-1-fallout/15820865/
— Trump says military planes will deport migrants every day
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-border-czar-tells-abc-military-planes-will-deport-migrants-every-day/15834350/

NBC5
— CPS says ICE agents ‘showed up’ at Chicago school, Secret Service says it was them. A spokesperson for ICE, however, said “this was not an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounter,” however.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ice-agents-showed-up-at-chicago-school-amid-heightened-concerns-of-raids/3655459/
— Target announces major company changes following Trump’s diversity orders. Target, which operates nearly 2,000 stores nationwide, explained it already had planned to end the racial program this year.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/target-announces-major-company-changes-following-trumps-diversity-orders/3655681/
— Judge finds Dolton mayor in ‘indirect criminal contempt’ in liquor license case
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/judge-finds-dolton-mayor-in-indirect-criminal-contempt-in-liquor-license-case/3655764/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/voters-unhappy-both-parties/3646584/

CBS2
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-public-schools-martinez-cupich-immigration-raid-worries/
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use poor people to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/northern-illinois-food-bank-immigration-policy-concerns/
— Chicago Democrats reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-mayor-johnson-immigration-rights-announcement/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump and Vance join March for Life anti-abortion activists in celebrating the movement’s gains. President Donald Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, are celebrating gains in the anti-abortion movement with activists in the annual March for Life/
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-and-vance-join-march-for-life-anti-abortion-activists-in-celebrating-the-movements-gains/article_c22d1d39-93fc-54d5-827b-67e023017820.html

SOUTHERN
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://thesouthern.com/news/illinois-schools-prepare-for-immigration-enforcement-state-board-issues-guidance-after-trump-rescinds-biden-era/article_47c02031-d3c1-5998-a107-91095f03946d.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Federal agencies begin removing DEI guidance from websites in Trump crackdown
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-federal-agencies-begin-removing-dei-guidance-from-websites-in-trump-crackdown/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Local governments across U.S. signal they won’t aid Trump migrant crackdown (COMMENT: To what extent do those who run your county, township, municipality, and school district reject Trump’s election, that is, to what extent do they reject the rule of law?)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-24/local-governments-across-u-s-signal-they-wont-aid-trump-migrant-crackdown
— U.S. puts virtually all foreign aid on 90-day hold
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-24/u-s-puts-virtually-all-foreign-aid-on-90-day-hold-issues-stop-work-order

WREX
— Federal agencies told to move to eliminate DEI offices and positions within 60 days (COMMENT: What if Trump had been elected earlier, much earlier?  In Diersen v. GAO, to justify its forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, GAO argued that it was just following orders. GAO used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of its Republican employees, and especially those who were conservative, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I was all of the aforesaid.)
https://www.wrex.com/news/politics/federal-agencies-told-to-move-to-eliminate-dei-offices-and-positions-within-60-days/article_1c625fdb-9e6e-58db-9fd1-a3c70ed32bc2.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-235/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What if Trump had been elected earlier, much earlier?  In Diersen v. GAO, to justify its forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, GAO argued that it was just following orders. GAO used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of its Republican employees, and especially those who were conservative, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I was all of the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump is finally firing people (COMMENT: If was still working for the Democrats who run GAO, they would kill me figuratively if not literally.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/24/trump-finally-firing-people/
— Repealing the climate hoax
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/24/editorial-repealing-climate-hoax/

NEW YORK POST
— Mexico refuses to accept US deportation flight as Trump’s immigration overhaul gets into full swing
https://nypost.com/2025/01/24/us-news/mexico-refuses-to-accept-us-deportation-flight-as-trumps-immigration-overhaul-gets-into-full-swing/
— Trump’s Education Department sacks ‘book ban coordinator,’ tosses complaints over removal of ‘sexually explicit’ material
https://nypost.com/2025/01/24/us-news/trumps-education-department-eliminates-book-ban-coordinator/

CENTER FOR FAMILY & HUMAN RIGHTS
— Trump Eradicates Gender Ideology on Week One
https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/trump-eradicates-gender-ideology-on-week-one/

DAILY CALLER
— Illegal Aliens ‘Endanger Our Own People’: Democratic Alderman Raymond Lopez of Chicago Lays Into Governor Pritzker Seeking To Block ICE Raids
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/24/chicago-dem-pritzker-trump-block-ice-raids/

GINGRICH
— President Trump Acts Decisively on Illegal Immigration (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be working for GAO.)
https://gingrich360.com/2025/01/24/president-trump-acts-decisively-on-illegal-immigration/

TOWNHALL
— Senate Republican Announces Bill to Finish Building Donald Trump’s Border Wall
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/01/24/house-republican-to-reintroduce-bill-to-finish-building-trumps-wall-n2651080

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Interior Department says Gulf of Mexico now renamed to Gulf of America, Denali to Mount McKinley
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/interior-department-gulf-of-mexico-america/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students and religious people to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ice-activity-new-york-new-jersey-schools-places-of-worship/

REUTERS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/some-migrants-turn-pricey-smugglers-or-riskier-routes-after-trump-clampdown-2025-01-24/

NEWSWEEK
— Chicago Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-immigrants-fearing-trump-ice-deportation-raids-stay-home-2019296

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-24/some-migrants-turn-to-pricey-smugglers-or-riskier-routes-after-trump-clampdown

NEW YORK TIMES
— At Trump Luncheon, Billionaires Cozy Up to Policymakers
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000009942342/at-trump-luncheon-billionaires-cozy-up-to-policymakers.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/24/immigration-mexico-trump/eab0c612-da10-11ef-85a9-331436ec61e9_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/24/immigration-raids-deportations-trump-ice/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/24/trump-dei-rollback-inequality/

USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republican and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/01/24/health-wildfire-los-angeles-madison-keys-trump-dei/77922903007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A ‘Pay Penalty’ Is Keeping Men Out of Classrooms. Male teachers can help struggling boys, but few men choose to go into teaching.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/education-low-pay-male-teachers-8c3bfa30
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The typical college-educated man made $95,000 in 2023, compared with $65,000 for male teachers—a $30,000 pay gap, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of census data stored at the University of Minnesota. The comparable gap for women was $12,000.)

FORTUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/24/migrants-us-asylum-appointments-canceled-trump-crossing-border/

BARRON’S
— America’s enemies ever-increasingly send their citizens to America illegally.
https://www.barrons.com/news/asylum-access-universally-recognised-right-un-says-after-trump-halts-arrivals-9c5a8983

INC.
— Since the 1960s, Democrats have ever-increasingly used their anti-discrimination laws to discriminate against Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/trump-federal-contracting-order-reverses-60-years-of-anti-discrimination-progress/91130572

AARP
— 10 Sneaky Retirement Expenses You May Not See Coming (COMMENT: The list includes: Health care/wellness, Home maintenance and modifications, Home and car insurance, Utilities, Taxes, and Staying connected. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is a) only 44% of what my salary was when I was 49 in 1997 and b) less than what my salary was when I was 23 in 1972.)
https://www.aarp.org/money/budgeting-saving/info-2023/most-common-underestimated-expenses.html

NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— What’s Next for OFCCP? Agency Issues First Statement After President Trump’s Revocation of EO 11246
https://natlawreview.com/article/whats-next-ofccp-agency-issues-first-statement-after-president-trumps-revocation-eo

AMERICAN LAWYER
— The Justice Department rescinded job offers to dozens of law school students who were set to join the agency this year, while attorneys already in the government are worried about the risk of losing their jobs. (COMMENT: When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile rescinded a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That had a tremendous impact on the rest of my life.)
https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2025/01/24/government-attorneys-face-reassignment-rescinded-job-offers-in-first-days-of-trump-administration/

LAW 360
— Convenience store chain Circle K requires store managers to make trips to other locations to pick up out-of-stock items but doesn’t reimburse them for the costs associated with this travel.  (COMMENT: Prior to Diersen v. IRS ( SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11 ) IRS used a purposely vague definition of “commuting area” to reward and to punish its employees.)
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2288288/circle-k-fails-to-pay-for-travel-costs-manager-says

RASMUSSON REPORTS
— 45% View China as Enemy of U.S.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/45_view_china_as_enemy_of_u_s



January 14, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— In blue state Illinois, demand outstrips supply for Trump inauguration tickets. Trump’s improving numbers in the Chicago area and the rest of the state should be sending messages to Democrats as they plot their course in the coming second Trump era.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/01/13/trump-inauguration-tickets-blue-state-illinois-demand
— Illinois could become first state to decriminalize sex work under proposed law. “The threat of arrest and prosecution keeps sex workers unsafe and in the shadows, and this threat must be eliminated,” Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, said Monday at a news conference announcing the proposed bill. “This law is essential now more than ever.” (COMMENT: How soon will Democrats legalize prostitution in Illinois? How soon will Democrats teach prostitution in Illinois schools?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/01/13/proposed-bill-illinois-decriminalize-sex-work

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— McDonald’s sued over Hispanic scholarship program one week after rolling back some diversity goals (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/mcdonalds-sued-over-hispanic-scholarship-program-one-week-after-rolling-back-some-diversity-goals/
— Advisory referendum question on political contribution rules thrown out by Aurora Electoral Board
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/advisory-referendum-question-on-political-contribution-rules-thrown-out-by-aurora-electoral-board/
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/illinois-medical-marijuana/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/14/opinion-immgration-refugee-resettlement-united-states/
— CPS on the ‘financial brink’ and state takeover shouldn’t be out of the question, Civic Federation report says
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/report-cps-on-the-financial-brink-state-takeover-not-out-of-the-question/
— Hegseth could lead troops who’d face getting fired for actions he’s done in the past
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/hegseth-troops/

DAILY HERALD
— Judge rules Aurora alderman candidate can’t be on ballot
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250113/local-politics/judge-rules-aurora-alderman-candidate-cant-be-on-ballot/
— Millions have had student loans canceled under Biden — despite the collapse of his forgiveness plan (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships and my having to work my way through college.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250113/education/millions-have-had-student-loans-canceled-under-biden-despite-the-collapse-of-his-forgiveness-plan/
— For voters and for their own good, candidates should be accessible by email
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250114/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-the-email-drumbeat-for-voters-and-for-their-own-good-candidates-should-be-ac/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— McDonald’s sued over Hispanic student scholarship in latest DEI battlefront (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/mcdonalds-sued-over-hispanic-student-scholarship-program

CBS2
— Activists protest proposed changes to Chicago’s sanctuary city ordinance  (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/activists-protest-proposed-changes-chicago-sanctuary-city-ordinance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DKu6V8AUzTIA

WGN9
— Tiffany Henyard asks judge to force trustees to show-up to meetings
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/tiffany-henyard-asks-judge-to-force-trustees-to-show-up-to-meetings/
— Illinois will give you a $4K rebate to purchase an electric vehicle in 2025 (COMMENT: Please let me know if you share my interest in the 2025 Dodge Charger EV. I own a 2013 Charger R/T Max and I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971 and a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005.)
https://wgntv.com/news/traffic/illinois-ev-electric-vehicle-rebate-2025/

FOX32
— Fight brews over Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance amid Trump era fears  (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/fight-brews-over-chicago-welcoming-city-ordinance-trump-fears
— Chicago aldermen propose weakening sanctuary city protections. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office with promises of mass deportations, a proposal to amend Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance is reigniting debate over the city’s sanctuary status.  (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1576011
— Could Illinois be the next state to decriminalize prostitution?  (COMMENT: How soon will Democrats legalize prostitution in Illinois?  How soon will Democrats teach prostitution in Illinois schools?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T32DSkM7_OE
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DT32DSkM7_OE

WTTW
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/13/wttw-news-explains-how-did-chicago-become-sanctuary-city
— Advocates, Lawmakers Seek to Legalize Sex Work in Illinois: ‘People Deserve Respect. Work is Work’ (COMMENT: How soon will Democrats legalize prostitution in Illinois? How soon will Democrats teach prostitution in Illinois schools?)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/13/advocates-lawmakers-seek-legalize-sex-work-illinois-people-deserve-respect-work-work

WBEZ
— Illinois could become first state to decriminalize sex work under proposed law. “The threat of arrest and prosecution keeps sex workers unsafe and in the shadows, and this threat must be eliminated,” Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, said Monday at a news conference announcing the proposed bill. “This law is essential now more than ever.” (COMMENT: How soon will Democrats legalize prostitution in Illinois? How soon will Democrats teach prostitution in Illinois schools?)
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/01/13/proposed-bill-illinois-decriminalize-sex-work

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Incoming Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about their loyalty. Incoming senior Trump officials have begun questioning career civil servants serving on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for, their political contributions in the 2024 election and whether they’ve made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by the Trump team. (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. Virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. They all were loyal to the Democrat Party platform. They focused on getting rid of Republican federal employees.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/incoming-trump-team-is-questioning-civil-servants-at-national-security-council-about-their-loyalty/article_dfcfb082-5b71-516b-b0d5-c184547e415c.html

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Evanston boosts noncompliance with federal deportation efforts (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/01/14/city/evanston-boosts-noncompliance-with-federal-deportation-efforts/

AUSTIN WEEKLY
— Homelessness spikes by 116% in Illinois in 2024, mostly in Chicago. The national increase from 2023 was 18%, according to an annual HUD report; multiple reasons cited. (COMMENT: What percent of illegals are homeless?)
https://www.austinweeklynews.com/2025/01/13/subruban-cook-county-homelessness-increase/

CITIES 92.9
— Former IL GOP AG candidate Thomas DeVore sues House GOP leader Tony McCombie, alleging social media censorship
https://www.cities929.com/2025/01/13/former-il-gop-ag-candidate-sues-house-gop-leader-alleging-social-media-censorship/

X95 RADIO
— Windhorst Re-appointed State House Republican Floor Leader
https://www.x95radio.com/2025/01/14/windhorst-re-appointed-state-house-republican-floor-leader/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DeSantis calls special session to implement Trump’s immigration policies (COMMENT: Will Pritzker call a special session to fight Trump’s immigration policies?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-desantis-calls-special-session-to-implement-trumps-immigration-policies/

FOLEY & LARDNER
— Illinois Human Rights Act Now Protects Employees With “Family Responsibilities” (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates stressed their family responsibilities and they decried that I did not have any. According to them, if I had family responsibilities like they did, I would not have been able to earn the college degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I did.)
https://www.foley.com/insights/publications/2025/01/illinois-human-rights-act-now-protects-employees-with-family-responsibilities/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Dozens Gather In Pilsen To ‘Stand Up And Fight Back’ Against Trump’s Deportation Plans. Protestors condemned the Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and urged city leaders to protect Chicago’s “Welcoming City” status.  (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/13/dozens-gather-in-pilsen-to-stand-up-and-fight-back-against-trumps-deportation-plans/

CHICAGO TREACHERS UNION
— Fighting for our students, standing up for sanctuary protections  (COMMENT: Who fights for you? My critics/opponents can cite many examples that the following do not fight for me: a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and d) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/bargaining-update-fighting-for-our-students-standing-up-for-sanctuary-protections/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— House Republican Leader Tony McCombie has been sued in federal court by Tom DeVore, a former Republican attorney general candidate who says McCombie blocked him on Facebook. . .House Republican leaders named. List here https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-62bd-d639-a395-7ebd8fd30000
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/01/14/illinois-gop-leader-sued-over-social-media-actions-00198034

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-435/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-227/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Adults murdering kids. Kids murdering kids. “Random” bullets killing kids. Nearly 100 dead youth in Chicago in 2024.
https://wirepoints.org/adults-murdering-kids-kids-murdering-kids-random-bullets-killing-kids-nearly-100-dead-youth-in-chicago-in-2024-wirepoints/

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Cook County gun, ammo tax unconstitutional still, judge says
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/667585272-cook-county-gun-ammo-tax-unconstitutional-still-judge-says

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Southern Illinois thrown a ‘bone’ after federal spending bill provides disaster aid (COMMENT: What bones have you been thrown? My Democrat GAO superiors reluctantly let me work for them for almost 18 years 1980-1997 and reluctantly promoted me in 1986. My Democrat IRS superiors reluctantly let me work for them for almost 9 years 1971-1980 and reluctantly promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors reluctantly let me work for them for almost 3 years 1966-1969.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/legislator-southern-illinois-thrown-a-bone-after-federal-spending-bill-provides-disaster-aid/ar-BB1rh5v7

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Henyard Filed Another Frivolous Suit Against Thornton Township Trustees
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/01/henyard-filed-another-frivolous-suit-against-thornton-township-trustees/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Smearing Trump’s nominees thwarts the will of the people  (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/13/smearing-trump-nominees-thwarts-people/

NEW YORK POST
— McDonald’s sued over Latino scholarships despite rolling back DEI (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/13/business/mcdonalds-sued-over-latino-scholarships-despite-rolling-back-dei/
— Suspect arrested with ‘flamethrower’ near LA Fire is an illegal immigrant
https://nypost.com/2025/01/13/us-news/suspect-arrested-with-flamethrower-near-kenneth-fire-is-an-illegal-immigrant-report/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Sanctuary hell: Illegal alien picked up with a blow torch in a fire zone may have avoided charges to shield him from deportation
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/sanctuary_hell_illegal_alien_picked_up_with_a_blow_torch_in_a_fire_zone_may_have_been_let_go_to_shield_him_from_deportation.html

BLAZE
— Deportations are mass enforcement, not mass deprivation of ‘rights’
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/deportations-are-mass-enforcement-not-mass-deprivation-of-rights

BREITBART
— Pro-Migrant Activists Hold Chicago Rally to Protest Trump Deportation Policy
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/13/pro-migrant-activists-hold-chicago-rally-protest-trump-deportation-policy/
— Laken Riley Act Momentum Grows as Senate Democrats Vote to Begin Debate
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/13/laken-riley-act-momentum-grows-as-senate-democrats-vote-to-begin-debate/

DAILY CALLER
— Dems Are Terrified Pete Hegseth Might Bring A Little Common Sense To The Pentagon
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/13/opinion-dems-are-terrified-pete-hegseth-might-bring-a-little-common-sense-to-pentagon-nicole-kiprilov/
— Dem Rep Distraught That Immigrants Who Already Broke Law By Crossing Border Could Be Detained Under Laken Riley Act
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/13/dem-rep-immigrants-crossing-border-detained-laken-riley-act/

DAILY SIGNAL
— States Should Conduct Their Own Censuses, Count Citizens Only for Redistricting.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/13/states-should-conduct-their-own-censuses-use-citizens-only-redistricting-heres-how/

FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Despite Criminal Activity, Governor Healey Asks Legislature to Spend Millions More in Taxpayer Dollars to House Illegal Aliens
https://www.fairus.org/news/state-and-local/despite-criminal-activity-governor-healey-asks-legislature-spend-millions-more

FOX BUSINESS
— DEI is not dying, it is just going under the table, off the books.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/dei-dying-heres-list-companies-have-rolled-back-woke-policies

FOX NEWS
— Chicago official slams Brandon Johnson’s new ICE guidelines: ‘Who is the mayor trying to protect?’  Alderman wants to remove those arrested for ‘gang-related activity, drug-related activity, prostitution and human trafficking, or sex crimes involving minors’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-official-slams-brandon-johnsons-new-ice-guidelines-who-mayor-trying-protect
— Massachusetts county ignores ICE detainers against illegal immigrant charged with rape. The immigrant is charged with a series of violent felonies, including rape and extortion with threat of injury.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-county-has-policy-ignoring-ice-requests-against-illegal-immigrants
— Man arrested near LA fires with possible blowtorch is an illegal immigrant: ICE sources. ICE is expected to put a detainer on him, but does not believe it will be honored.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/man-arrested-near-la-fires-possible-blowtorch-illegal-immigrant-ice-sources
— DOGE reps launch meetings with federal staffers in effort to cut government waste. Aides for Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy are reportedly meeting with staffers from more than a dozen federal agencies. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 a) because I was a Republican with bad demographics and b) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-reps-launch-meetings-federal-staffers-effort-cut-government-waste-report
— DNC hires former Harris staffers behind @KamalaHQ for social media response to Trump. The DNC claims Trump is already ‘screwing over the American people.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-hires-former-harris-staffers-behind-kamalahq-social-media-response-trump

HUMAN EVENTS
— The Enemy Within – Nearly Half of Federal Employees Openly Planning to Resist Trump (COMMENT: If I was still working for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would kill me figuratively if not literally.)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-enemy-within-nearly-half-of-federal-employees/id1585243541?i=1000683852550

NEW AMERICAN
— Hate-Trump Heretic Appointed Archbishop of Washington, D.C.; Covered for Priest Rapist
https://thenewamerican.com/us/hate-trump-heretic-appointed-archbishop-of-washington-d-c-covered-for-priest-rapist/

NEWSMAX
— Congress Desperately Needs DOGE-Focused Hearings (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 a) because I was a Republican with bad demographics and b) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.newsmax.com/scotfaulkner/doge-gao-inspector/2025/01/13/id/1194899/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The subcommittee can become a key forum for informing the public of existing waste, fraud, and abuse, building the nonpartisan case for cutting budgets and eliminating programs. . .Witnesses from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the 73 inspector general offices could review the last 10 years of their findings. Each year they collectively report over $650 billion in ongoing waste and provide recommended actions. Few of their recommendations were implemented. . .Waste is not partisan. No one wants public funds misspent. . .The handful of “public” witnesses represented Washington-based stakeholder organizations. No one from oversight groups documenting government waste and abuse were invited to testify.)

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— DNC Creates Team To Combat ‘Republican Disinformation Machine’ Ahead Of Trump’s Inauguration (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are full of disinformation.)
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/dnc-creates-team-to-combat-republican-disinformation-machine-ahead-of-trumps-inauguration/

PJ MEDIA
— Woke Equity Is the Reason Why Pacific Palisades Is Now a Moonscape
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/01/13/is-equity-the-reason-why-pacific-palisades-is-a-moonscape-now-n4935920
— As Wildfires Rage, California Dems Want $50 Million to Protect Illegals From Deportation
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/13/as-wildfires-rage-california-dems-want-50-million-to-protect-illegal-from-deportation-n4935927

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Woke Ideology Is Replacing Merit-Based Standards In Military
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/13/william_thibeau_woke_ideology_is_replacing_merit-based_standards_in_military.html

TOWNHALL
— A homeless man who was trying to start fires with a blowtorch near a Los Angeles wildfire is an illegal immigrant. The suspect, Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, is a Mexican national living in the states illegally.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/01/13/suspect-who-was-trying-to-start-fires-in-la-is-an-illegal-alien-n2650424

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Border Czar Homan Rolling Out Way for Individual Americans to Personally Help Deport Illegals
https://www.westernjournal.com/border-czar-homan-rolling-way-individual-americans-personally-help-deport-illegals/
— Would-Be Arsonist Caught by Citizens Is Illegal Immigrant
https://www.westernjournal.com/arsonist-caught-citizens-illegal-immigrant-ice-reporter/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— News Outlets Take Unusual Steps to Prepare for Onslaught From Trump. Media organizations are preparing for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration. (COMMENT: I should write about those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have blamed me the most for their defeats.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/business/trump-media-threats.html?searchResultPosition=6

WASHINGTON POST
— Protest crowd estimates down, ticket demand high for Trump inauguration. Many of D.C.’s elected leaders either did not say or were noncommittal about whether they will show up to celebrate Trump’s return.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/13/trump-inauguration-protests-safety-dc/

UPI
— U.S. blacklists online White supremacist group as terrorist organization  (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who blacklisted the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. I served as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. 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. I would focus on those who have taken big adverse actions against me recently.)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/13/Terrorgram-Collective-terrorist-designation/9661736821662/

MARINE TIMES
— Hegseth’s track record falls short of military standards: Dem senators (COMMENT: In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of Major. My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/opinion/2025/01/14/hegseths-track-record-falls-short-of-military-standards-dem-senators/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While we respect his service in the Army Reserve and National Guard, he did not rise to a command position where he would learn the management, joint forces operations, logistics and other skills relevant to the role he’s up for now. He never commanded a task force or a detachment — nothing near the scale or scope of the 3 million people who make up the DOD. These military experiences aren’t requirements for the job, but his civilian leadership experience is not just limited, it is also fraught with evidence that he is not an effective or trusted leader. He financially mismanaged two veterans political organizations, with his staff alleging that he misused funds, was frequently drunk in front of them and fostered an environment where sexual harassment was an issue. He spent the last seven years as a Fox News host, where his alcohol consumption was also a concern among his co-workers. We would not tolerate this kind of reckless behavior from recruits — there is absolutely zero reason we should tolerate it from the man who is supposed to be their leader.)

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Voters Back Trump on Greenland, Panama Canal
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/gop_voters_back_trump_on_greenland_panama_canal

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— McDonald’s Sued Over Latino Scholarships, One Week After Retreating on Diversity. Activist Edward Blum, who challenged affirmative action, sets his sights on college aid. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/mcdonalds-sued-over-latino-scholarships-one-week-after-retreating-on-diversity-dc7a2438
— Employers want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-immigrants-america-needs-policy-reform-8bf8c942
— Pete Hegseth Faces a Skeptical Senate. The Defense nominee must overcome doubts about his qualifications. (COMMENT: In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of Major. My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/pete-hegseth-nomination-pentagon-defense-secretary-senate-armed-services-committee-51ff216f

BARRON’S
— Democrat and RINO leaders promote illegals.
https://www.barrons.com/amp/news/migrants-fret-over-asylum-appointments-scheduled-after-trump-s-inauguration-825fe476

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91257841/how-the-dei-backlash-impacts-women-at-work

BORDER REPORT
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.
https://fox40.com/news/border-report/perfectly-legal-if-sanctuary-cities-dont-help-with-mass-deportations-law-scholar-says/

AMERICAN WIRE
— Gingrich warns mass deportations could backfire on Trump (COMMENT: Because of Gingrich’s massive budget cuts, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://americanwirenews.com/newt-gingrich-warns-mass-deportations-could-backfire-on-trump/

POLITICO
— Trump made the GOP a big-tent party. Now, he’s stuck with the infighting. The clashes are a preview to the challenges the president-elect faces.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/trump-republicans-bannon-musk-00197996
— Democrats look to sink Pete Hegseth’s nomination in first day of confirmation hearings. The treatment of Trump’s Pentagon pick will likely determine how other nominees fare.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/what-to-watch-pete-hegseths-hearing-00197922

DAILY BEAST
— Duckworth Knocks Hegseth’s Military Record: ‘Pretty Low Ranking’ (COMMENT: In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of Major. My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/duckworth-knocks-hegseth-military-record-162535858.html