GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would host an event honoring Kirk. I would invite all those who knew Kirk to speak at that event. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee member, I would urge that organization to host a similar event. While I did not know Kirk, I know/knew many who knew Kirk Anti-conservatives would not have been able to destroy TAPROOT in 2012 if I had been able to recruit a conservative slate of officers to run with me, but my fellow conservatives declined. Anti-conservatives would not have been able to destroy ICRC in 2007 if more ICRC members had voted to keep me on ICRC’s Steering Committee. Anti-conservative Republican leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly blamed TAPROOT and George Ryan’s problems and then TAPROOT and ICRC for Jim Ryan’s problems. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CHARLIE KIRK ARTICLES
CBS2
— Hundreds attend vigil held for Charlie Kirk in Arlington Heights
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/hundreds-attend-vigil-held-for-charlie-kirk-in-arlington-heights/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iks5GQkt0M
WGN9
— Vigils held across Illinois to honor slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk
https://wgntv.com/news/north-suburbs/vigils-held-across-illinois-to-honor-slain-conservative-activist-charlie-kirk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24JMfXbVYds
FOX32
— Hundreds gathered in Arlington Heights for a memorial honoring political activist Charlie Kirk
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/arlington-heights-native-charlie-kirk-remembered-community-memorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiwQmgIuvNY
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: ‘Someone from our hometown’: North School Park packed for vigil for Charlie Kirk in Arlington Heights
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250914/news/someone-from-our-hometown-north-school-park-packed-for-vigil-for-charlie-kirk-in-arlington-height/
— Aurora mayor orders flags restored to full staff despite Trump order to honor Charlie Kirk
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250914/news/aurora-mayor-orders-flags-restored-to-full-staff-after-lowering-them-for-9-11/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250914/news/man-fatally-shot-by-ice-in-franklin-park-had-just-dropped-off-his-child-at-school-rep-delia-ramire/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Rockford area Republicans hold vigil in honor of slain activist Charlie Kirk
https://www.rrstar.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/09/14/rockford-area-republicans-hold-vigil-in-honor-of-charlie-kirk-photos/86158512007/
WIFR
— Charlie Kirk vigil draws in hundreds to Belvidere.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/09/15/charlie-kirk-vigil-draws-hundreds-belvidere/
WCSJ
— Vigils To Honor & Remember Charlie Kirk Held on Sunday
https://www.wcsjnews.com/news/local/vigils-to-honor-remember-charlie-kirk-held-on-sunday/article_75b9f98e-01be-4b80-b1b6-c133b2cf5a44.html
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Buffalo Grove Middle School Teacher Sparks Outrage With ‘Karma’ Remark on Charlie Kirk Killing
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/buffalo-grove-middle-school-teacher-sparks-outrage-with-karma-remark-on-charlie-kirk-killing.html
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— FBI Investigating Social Media Accounts That Appeared To Indicate Foreknowledge of Kirk Assassination
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/exclusive-fbi-investigating-social
NEW YORK POST
— Speaker Johnson, RFK Jr., other GOPers mourn loss of Charlie Kirk at touching DC vigil: ‘Leaders of the nation have been shaken’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/14/us-news/speaker-johnson-rfk-jr-other-gopers-mourn-loss-of-charlie-kirk-at-dc-vigil-leaders-of-the-nation-have-been-shaken/
— Vance hosting ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ days after assassination: ‘Tribute to my friend’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/14/us-news/jd-vance-hosting-the-charlie-kirk-show-days-after-assassination-tribute-to-my-friend/
— Trump blasts ‘the left’ and announces ‘major investigations’ underway after Charlie Kirk assassination
https://nypost.com/2025/09/14/us-news/trump-blasts-the-left-and-announces-major-investigations-underway-after-charlie-kirk-assassination/
— The real meaning behind trans sex, furry meme on rifle round that killed Charlie Kirk: ‘Notices bulge OwO what’s this?’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/14/us-news/rifle-round-that-killed-charlie-kirk-engraved-with-trans-sex-furry-meme-notices-bulge-owo-whats-this/
BREITBART
— Vance to Host the Charlie Kirk Show After Assassination of Charlie Kirk
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/14/jd-vance-host-charlie-kirk-show-assassination/
— Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Joked on Discord that a ‘Doppelganger’ Committed Murder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-alleged-assassin-joked-doppelganger-committed-murder/
CHRISTIAN POST
— To Charlie Kirk’s critics: The most fascist act is silencing speech with violence
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/to-charlie-kirks-critics-violently-silencing-speech-is-fascist.html
COLLEGE FIX
— TikTok removes video honoring Charlie Kirk: violates ‘community guidelines’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/tiktok-removes-video-honoring-charlie-kirk-violates-community-guidelines/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Charlie Kirk’s Final Message to Noem Before Assassination Called for Accountability Over Urban Crime
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/14/charlie-kirks-final-message-noem-before-assassination-called-accountability-over-urban-crime/amp/
FOX NEWS
— Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s transgender roommate ‘hates conservatives and Christians.’ Family member says individual became ‘radicalized’ and influenced Tyler Robinson’s politics over past year.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/charlie-kirk-assassins-transgender-roommate-hates-conservatives-christians-relative-says?lid=8rp5t0k1hxd6
— Charlie Kirk’s movement is only going to grow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NmGKYamEeQ
— TPUSA sees MASSIVE surge in chapter requests after Kirk’s assassination. If I had been involved with Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uestpVV4d_E
— Man arrested for vandalizing Charlie Kirk memorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqucbePqxts
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379431896112
— Multiple NFL teams hold Charlie Kirk tributes prior to their games and fans welcome the moments. Bengals, Ravens, Lions decided against pregame tribute.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/multiple-nfl-teams-hold-charlie-kirk-tributes-prior-games-fans-welcome-moments
HOT AIR
— Democrat Assassination Culture Killed Charlie Kirk
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/09/14/democrat-assassination-culture-killed-charlie-kirk-n3806788
NEWS BUSTERS
— Atlantic Show On PBS TRASHES Charlie Kirk As Racist Symbol of ‘Toxic Culture’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/09/14/atlantic-show-pbs-trashes-charlie-kirk-racist-symbol-toxic-culture
NEWSMAX
— Vance to Guest Host Charlie Kirk Show
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-podcast/2025/09/14/id/1226389/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Charlie Kirk Assassination Did Not Occur in a Vacuum
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/09/14/victor_davis_hanson_charlie_kirk_assassination_did_not_occur_in_a_vacuum.html
THE HILL
— Trump warns left groups will be investigated after Kirk’s death
https://thehill.com/homenews/5503269-trump-charlie-kirk-left-investigation/
— Vance will take the mic for ‘Charlie Kirk Show’ on Monday
https://thehill.com/homenews/5503236-charlie-kirk-show-jd-vance/
C-SPAN
— Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at Charlie Kirk Memorial Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rTKTkThKc
CNN
— Charlie Kirk’s killing reverberates through Washington as investigation unfolds
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-administration-charlie-kirk-news-09-14-25
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYziNWYD2y4
REUTERS
— Trump attacks left-wing ‘agitators’ and ‘scum’ after Kirk shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8dwhVgL-MQ
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adopts-messenger-in-chief-role-after-charlie-kirks-death-2025-09-14/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://apnews.com/article/kirk-trump-cancel-culture-assassination-4d69649e382ea46d8dcf794150a1d3c9
MSN
— Vance To Host ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ In His Honor On Monday
https://www.msn.com/en-in/sports/wnba/vice-president-jd-vance-to-host-the-charlie-kirk-show-in-his-honour-on-monday-check-timings/ar-AA1My6Wh
— Charlie Kirk killer made jokes online hours after shooting
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/charlie-kirk-killer-made-jokes-online-hours-after-shooting/ss-AA1MwfQA
— According to Democrats, Trump is too old to be President. Starting when I was 25 years old in 1974, according to my Democrat IRS superiors, I was too old to be a GS-13. I finally made GS-13 12 years later when I was 38 years old in 1986. But that was not until after I had a) earned an MBA fin 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) transferred to GAO in 1980, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, e) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and f) became a licensed CPA in 1981. The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their employees who are Republican, White, male. older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/americans-finally-admit-trump-is-too-old-to-be-president/ss-AA1Myzou
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Trump’s avoiding the Vietnam War draft against him.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/donald-trump-s-warrior-image-hides-draft-dodge-past/ar-AA1My55G
YAHOO
— Bill Maher Issues Blunt Warning About Comparing Donald Trump to Hitler. Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly call Trump Hitler. They will ever-increasingly negatively stress that Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and that his ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/bill-maher-issues-blunt-warning-123731695.html
ABC NEWS
— White House officials hold prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates?id=125354324&entryId=125378231&rand=245
— Charlie Kirk’s family: What to know about his wife Erika, 2 kids
https://abcnews.go.com/News/charlie-kirk-wife-erika-two-kids/story?id=125460687
— Republicans blame ‘radical left’ for Kirk shooting, Democrats reject that claim. On what do Democrats blame the shooting?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-blame-radical-left-kirk-shooting-democrats-reject/story?id=125562180
ABC DC
— White House officials hold prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIMB5Xp3dI
ANI NEWS
— Tulsi Gabbard, Johnson, Leavitt, RFK Jr remember Charlie Kirk at Kennedy Centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzkyMnTkEpI
FOX NEW YORK
— Vigil held in remembrance of Charlie Kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=039ePwzERSY
FOX LOS ANGELES
— Crowds gather in honor of Charlie Kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5QP0H0zdpg
FOX PHOENIX
— Charlie Kirk memorial at Turning Point USA HQ in Phoenix destroyed, suspect arrested
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirk-memorial-turning-point-212958372.html
HOUSTON NEWS
— Ted Cruz paints over profane Charlie Kirk graffiti on Highway 59
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/09/14/ted-cruz-paints-over-profane-charlie-kirk-graffiti-on-highway-59/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— 32,000 Students Step Up to Carry On Kirk’s TPUSA Vision
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/09/32000-students-step-up-to-carry-on-kirks-tpusa-vision/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders decry that Grieving in Public, Erika Kirk Melds the Personal and Political. Ms. Kirk has played a key role in her husband’s movement. Speaking at Turning Point USA headquarters and on social media, she pledged his work would continue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/style/erika-kirk-charlie-kirk-marriage.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Kirk shooting suspect had leftist ideology. My critics/opponents have leftist ideology.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-motive/
LOS ANGELES
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-14/after-charlie-kirks-death-workers-learn-the-limits-of-free-speech-in-and-out-of-their-jobs
— ‘Really hit me hard’: Supporters remember Charlie Kirk at Kennedy Center prayer vigil
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-kennedy-center-vigil/86156026007/
USA TODAY
— Charlie Kirk vigil held at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/nation/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-vigil-held-at-kennedy-center-in-washington-dc/86156338007/
— Man arrested for vandalizing Kirk memorial at Turning Point USA HQ
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-memorial-vandalized-phoenix-man-arrested/86155139007/
— According to Democrat leaders, Trump’s approval rating in Illinois is 41% and his disapproval rating is 55%, making Illinois the 11th-worst state for Trump. What are Trump’s approval/disapproval ratings in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? What are the demographics of the aforesaid?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/14/donald-trump-approval-rating/86110183007/
— Your health insurance costs are rising at the highest level since 2010. Since I was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponents have held it against me that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance because of my federal employment. Since I was 29 in 1978, my critics/opponents have held it against me that the federal government has also paid 72% of my wife’s health insurance because of my federal employment. My critics/opponent make it clear that they a) despise/hate federal employees and retirees and b) that they would never stoop to take a federal job.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/11/health-insurance-costs-rise-highest-level-why/85955601007/
ARIZONA FAMILY
— Man accused of damaging Charlie Kirk memorial in Phoenix arrested
https://www.azfamily.com/video/2025/09/15/man-accused-damaging-charlie-kirk-memorial-phoenix-arrested/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Investigators Learn More About Suspect in Kirk Shooting. Friends and family of Tyler Robinson have been speaking with authorities.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/suspect-in-charlie-kirk-shooting-isnt-cooperating-utah-governor-says-3a0f3d9a
— Tyler Robinson and America’s Lost Boys. What causes a young man to spiral from success toward loneliness, self-destruction and violence?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tyler-robinson-and-americas-lost-boys-16e1a64f
— ‘It Will Scar This Generation.’ Charlie Kirk’s Death Ignites a Campus Reckoning
The senseless killing of the influential youth activist is setting off a wave of conversation at polarized colleges nationwide
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/charlie-kirk-shot-college-campuses-students-debate-a15ce232
— BEYOND TRAGIC: Pregnant Women Are Turning to Cannabis to Ease Pain and Anxiety
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/pregnant-women-mothers-cannabis-use-2ed7b144
FORBES
— Karoline Leavitt Delivers Moving Tribute To Charlie Kirk At Memorial Service In D.C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7rURlsW8oM
DAILY PRINCETONIAN
— Charlie Kirk’s death shows why conservatives fight for free speech
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/09/princeton-opinion-opguest-charlie-kirk-free-speech-conservatism
POLITICO
— Governor Cox: ‘Social media is a cancer’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/14/governor-cox-social-media-is-a-cancer-00563437
HUFFINGTON POST
— Eric Trump Fuels Rhetoric Blaming The Left For Charlie Kirk’s Murder. President Donald Trump’s son also blamed the left for trying to “take down” his father.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-trump-fuels-rhetoric-blame-for-charlie-kirk-murder_n_68c6ff28e4b0539d2b98e151
RAW STORY
— ‘Horrific’: Kari Lake blames ‘indoctrination camps’ for Charlie Kirk’s assassination
https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-2673993519/
— Trump blames ‘incompetent’ Biden for ‘terrible’ Dallas-area murder during Kirk memorial
https://www.rawstory.com/tk-trump-blames-biden-for-terrible-dallas-area-beheading/
INDEPENDENT
— FBI director claims Charlie Kirk assassin left DNA evidence at scene as Vance set to host podcast in tribute
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-shooting-motive-funeral-utah-live-b2826497.html
SKY NEWS
— Charlie Kirk suspect ‘in romantic relationship with transgender roommate’ says Utah governor
https://news.sky.com/video/charlie-kirk-suspect-in-romantic-relationship-with-transgender-roommate-says-utah-governor-13431263
— Investigation into Charlie Kirk’s murder widens to include far left and pro-trans online groups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgiSFAyJG6g
GUARDIAN
— Trump officials reportedly ask Congress for $58m in security after Kirk shooting
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/trump-administration-congress-security-funds
— Iowa official defies governor’s order to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/charlie-kirk-iowa-governor-order-flags-half-staff
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Why is Tyler Robinson under special watch? Charlie Kirk suspect to undergo mental health screening.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/why-is-tyler-robinson-under-special-watch-in-jail-charlie-kirk-suspect-to-undergo-mental-health-screening-101757912878647.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/15/editorial-pope-leo-xiv-catholics-catholic-church-chicago/
— Democrats and RINOs a) love the Supreme Court when it votes liberal and b) hate the Supreme Court when it votes conservative.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/15/opinion-why-does-supreme-court-back-donald-trump/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— Two groups claim leadership of Rock Island County Republicans. Anti-conservatives would not have been able to destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 if I had been able to recruit a conservative slate of officers to run with me, but my fellow conservatives declined. Anti-conservatives would not have been able to destroy Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) in 2007 if more ICRC members had voted to keep me on ICRC’s Steering Committee. Anti-conservative Republican leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly blamed TAPROOT and then ICRC for George Ryan’s problems and then for Jim Ryan’s problems.
https://qctimes.com/news/local/government-politics/article_bbca30e7-39cb-40c8-8ee1-dda34beb00a2.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters ever-increasingly use Edgar to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/09/15/throwback-republican-gov-jim-edgar-has-died-00563520
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A throwback to a time when Illinois Republicans could still win statewide by embracing moderation…)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-590/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DAILY SIGNAL
— Disguising DEI: Schools Keep Trying to Push a Discredited Ideology
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/15/disguising-dei-schools-keep-trying-to-push-a-discredited-ideology/
TOWNHALL
— Kamikaze Democrats
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2025/09/15/kamikaze-democrats-n2663314
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
BLOOMBERG
— DOJ Makes “Final Push” To Convince Court To Let Trump Fire Cook Ahead Of Fed Interest Rate Vote. My Democrat GAO superiors would not have forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 if they had not been assured that DOJ would back them.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-14/trump-makes-new-push-for-court-approval-to-fire-fed-s-lisa-cook
WION
— “Being Soft On Illegal Aliens Over”: Trump After Indian Man Beheaded In US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNF902se7Ak
Tag: Precinct
September 10, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders have their protesters block downtown traffic after 3 arrested in Lawndale as part of operation Midway Blitz. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/midway-blitz-ice-operation-crackdown-begins-chicago-local-leaders-push-back-president-donald-trump/17777872/
— Democrat leaders track surge in immigration enforcement operations
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-federal-intervention-latest-president-trumps-immigration-enforcement-possible-national-guard-deployment-live-updates/17758521/
NBC5
— Chicago Democrat leaders react to Trump’s ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ immigration enforcement
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/chicago-leaders-react-to-trumps-operation-midway-blitz-immigration-enforcement/3822016/
— Democrat leaders have their protesters descend on Michigan Avenue to protest against Trump’s ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/protest-against-trumps-operation-midway-blitz-descends-on-michigan-avenue/3821867/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders have their protestors march, rally in downtown Chicago against Trump’s immigration crackdown
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protestors-march-rally-trump-administrations-immigration-crackdown/
— Democrat leader update Operation Midway Blitz immigration operations underway in Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/live-updates/trump-operation-midway-blitz-immigration-operations-live-updates/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders have their protesters rally against ICE and Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mnCtELiBrg
— Here’s how ICE agents operate at courthouses, inside jails. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/video-heres-how-ice-agents-operate-at-courthouses-jails/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders have their protesters rally in downtown Chicago against immigration crackdown
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/live-protesters-rally-downtown-chicago-against-immigration-crackdown
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/09/trump-taking-us-down-dark-road-says-uchicago-political-violence-expert
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— To discredit Bailey, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stress that he lost to Pritzker in 2022. What do your critics/opponents stress about you to discredit you? Mine stress the adverse actions that they had they operatives and their dupes take against me, most recently, a) ending my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee and b) ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republican-darren-bailey-lost-governor-014700885.html
— Democrat leaders in Evanston brace for immigration ‘blitz,’ DHS helicopter reportedly circles lakefront
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/09/evanston-braces-for-immigration-blitz/
— Court rules Lisa Cook can remain a Fed governor for now while fighting Trump’s attempt to fire her “for cause.” The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) gave the Democrats who run the federal government the power to force their employees to retire, that is, the power to fire their employees, if they fight their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination like I did. Of course, my Democrat GAO. IRS, and Post Office superiors hinted/implied that they wasted my career, took adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire “for cause.” My Democrat GAO superiors a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/09/lisa-cook-fed-governor/
— Democrat leaders say immigration enforcement subdued Tuesday as local officials brace for Trump’s ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/09/chicago-immigration-operation-midway-blitz/
— Chicago Public Schools enrollment is at its lowest level in memory. Past time to start the discussion on school consolidation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/10/editorial-chicago-public-schools-enrollment-closures-consolidation/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— To discredit Bailey, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stress that he lost to Pritzker in 2022. What do your critics/opponents stress about you to discredit you? Mine stress the adverse actions that they had they operatives and their dupes take against me, most recently, a) ending my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee and b) ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/09/09/darren-bailey-running-for-governor-again-jb-pritzker-aaron-del-mar
— Democrat leaders decry that ICE operations ramp up in Chicago ahead of Mexican Independence Day. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/live/09/09/2025/chicago-ice-raids-arrests-immigration-trump
— Pritzker’s implementation of the Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime in Illinois.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/09/food-insecurity-affordability-grocery-rent-prices
DAILY HERALD
— Bailey expected to make second run for governor, picks Palatine’s Del Mar as running mate
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250909/illinois-state-politics/bailey-expected-to-make-second-run-for-governor-picks-palatines-del-mar-as-running-mate/
— Illinois among blue states to keep public health dollars while red states lose out
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250909/health-care/illinois-among-blue-states-to-keep-public-health-dollars-while-red-states-lose-out/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Pritzker’s implementation of the Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime in Illinois.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250909/news/we-need-500000-and-we-need-it-now-pads-of-elgin-facing-dire-budget-crisis-as-winter-approaches/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250909/submitted-content/dupage-crop-hunger-walks-unite-to-fight-food-insecurity-at-home-and-abroad/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump backs away from Chicago troop deployment threat
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-shifts-stance-chicago-troop-deployment-threat
— These are the 15 richest people who call Illinois home
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/who-are-richest-people-illinois-ranking-billionaires
— Cadillac dealer asks almost $8.5 million for estate with garages for 28 cars
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/cadillac-naperville-ceo-lists-yorkville-estate-85m
— Democrat leaders a) say that Hispanics are spending less and b) blame Republicans for that.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/hispanic-consumers-spend-less-over-inflation-immigration-fears
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders tell students to do during increased federal immigration enforcement. They tell students to avoid unnecessary risks and to contact university police if federal agents approach them. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws. While I was working inside IRS’s 63rd & Halsted office in 1973, my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/09/09/what-local-colleges-are-telling-students-to-do-during-increased-federal-immigration-enforcement
OAK PARK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/09/09/trumps-military-occupation-and-oak-park/
SHAW LOCAL
— Pritzker’s implementation of the Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime in Illinois.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/09/10/food-pantries-expect-increase-in-demand-when-snap-cuts-take-effect/
— NIU freshman enrollment up, second-largest incoming class since 2014. NIU touts opportunities for first-generation college students with high GPAs. I was able to afford transferring from UIC to NIU when I was 20 in 1969 because of my Park Forest Post Office job and because my parents had provided me with room and board.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/09/09/niu-freshman-enrollment-up-second-largest-incoming-class-since-2014-officials-say/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Career Confidence in Crisis. Gen Zers Lack Critical Mentorship My IRS career crashed when my Democrat IRS superiors forced the manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 to transfer to Texas. My GAO career crashed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced the manager to retire in 1987 who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250909PH68825/career-confidence-in-crisis-new-report-from-big-brothers-big-sisters-shows-gen-zers-lack-critical-mentorship/
ELMHURST PATCH
— Felony Charges Tied To Elmhurst Politician’s Petition. A Republican official Lawrence Moretti forged signatures on an Elmhurst candidate’s petition, prosecutors said.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/felony-charges-tied-elmhurst-politicians-petition
BLN NEWS
— Socialism doesn’t produce liberation, it enslaves. No Nazis were ever going to march in Bloomington. PSL has no idea what Fascism is, they have been taught it is the extreme right wing. It isn’t. Ending capitalism means freedom disappears with it. Education needs a reset button! Socialism has never worked anywhere, ISU evidently isn’t teaching that class. These kids are brainwashed to believe a totalitarian government will hand them whatever they need. Is anyone at ISU teaching a class studying what is happening in Argentina? Do any of these kids even know about Javier Milei and his bloodless revolution to restore freedom? His drastic policies are working.
https://blnnews.com/2025/09/10/the-isu-kids-who-think-they-defeated-the-pretend-nazis/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/10/immigrants-are-welcome-here-hundreds-crowd-downtown-streets-to-protest-trump-ice/
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/09/as-north-park-homeless-encampment-cleared-residents-say-they-have-nowhere-to-go/
DUCKWORTH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote student loans. If I had gotten a student loan instead of working my way through college, my GPA would have been higher. That would have helped me get a better paying job when I graduated debt-free in 1970. I did not get a job that required a bachelor’s degree until 1971 and it paid only $55,850/year in today’s dollars. But my salary increased to $68,315/year, $82,655/year, and $99,069/year in today’s dollars when I got promoted in 1972, 1973, and 1974. That enabled me to a) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, b) pay for graduate evening courses starting in 1972, c) buy a new town home in University Park in 1972, d) buy condos in downtown Chicago in 1974 and 1976, and e) get married and buy a home in Wheaton and buy two new cars in 1978.
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-joins-welch-colleagues-in-reintroducing-bill-to-bolster-snap-benefits-for-student-loan-borrowers
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
— The Democrat Party and its platform ever-increasingly promote more poverty and more crime. The more planks in the Democrat Party platform that you adopt for yourself, the sooner that you will be homeless or even worse things.
https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/UChicago-Harris-AP-NORC-Poll-Report-Final.pdf
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/ctu-increases-support-for-students-and-families-in-response-to-new-ice-activity-in-neighborhoods-near-schools-in-chicago/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/09/10/trumps-upside-world-jars-chicago-00554984
CAPITOL FAX
– Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-587/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-378/
— Dabrowski said Bailey should’ve toned down gun stuff, Bailey fires back
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/09/dabrowski-said-bailey-shouldve-toned-down-gun-stuff-bailey-fires-back/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— No wonder there is fear of a population crisis — young men and women are wildly out of sync on family values. What made you “marriage material?” When I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, a) I was earning $108,978/year in today’s dollars working for IRS, b) I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, c) I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul, d) I owned a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building, e) I owned and rented out a town home in University Park, and f) I owned a 1972 Corvette and a 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/opinion/no-wonder-there-is-fear-of-a-population-crisis-young-men-and-women-are-wildly-out-of-sync/
BIZ PC REVIEW
— Hyundai plant raid was a part of something much worse. Pooler today, your municipality tomorrow?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/09/hyundai-plant-raid-was-a-part-of-something-much-worse-1583446/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A story published by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday revealed how the illegals were, in fact, part of a quickly growing community of South Koreans who’ve been taking over the Georgia suburb of Pooler. “The population shot up 22% between just 2020 and 2024, according to census estimates, to around 31,000,” the Journal noted. “Demographic data lags behind, but community leaders estimate half of that growth has come from Koreans. “Suddenly, the single Korean restaurant in town had to compete with around half a dozen others. The newly opened Costco, locals said, started carrying Kimchi, dried seaweed, and mandu dumplings. New homes sprang up by the dozens, and Korean families moved into planned neighborhoods with streets named Blue Moon Crossing and Harvest Hill,” the Journal’s reporting continued. Here’s the key: “Many of the newcomers worked at the factory.” As in the same factory where hundreds of Korean immigrants were found to have immigration violations last Friday, to the point that most of them were outright illegal aliens. Days later, on Sunday, the South Korean government announced it’d be repatriating most of the factory workers. Not every South Korean in the community is an illegal alien. The Journal noted that the legal ones were not happy with the illegal workers for bringing undue scrutiny on them. “We were doing great until that incident happened,” citizen Robin Kim said. “Now, there’s a risk that people will make assumptions or generalize unfairly.” . . . Zeigler told the Journal that 65 union members were hired by the factory for some brief work and then let go several months ago, only to be permanently replaced by the South Koreans. “We went out there and did a great job, no fatalities, no injuries, and then we just got replaced by the undocumented workers,” he said. “It was a kick in the knee.” Tori Branum, who’s reportedly running in a Republican primary for a Georgia congressional seat, questions the $5.5 billion manufacturing deal with Hyundai that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed in 2022. The deal purported to give Hyundai $2 million in tax breaks in exchange for an economic boost to Georgia’s Savannah region. “We gave tax cuts for jobs for Georgians that never happened,” she said. Critics say all this points to a system that is being unfairly used to benefit foreigners at the expense of American citizens. “Americans are being taxed to subsidize foreigners from all over the world moving directly into their own neighborhoods to compete for jobs with their children and grandchildren,” one critic tweeted. “Our ancestors fought a revolution over less.” “Americans have just been subsidizing a new foreign-born enclave in a red state, led by a foreign corporation and American politicians,” another critic accurately pointed out.)
BREITBART
— South Korea Complains that Its Citizens Have Not Been Spared from U.S. ICE Raids. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/09/09/south-korea-complains-that-its-citizens-have-not-been-spared-from-u-s-ice-raids/
— 66% of Illegals Arrested by ICE Have Criminal Records. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/09/analysis-66-of-illegals-arrested-by-ice-have-criminal-records/
— Red States Begin Crackdown on Crime in Their Own Blue Cities
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/09/09/red-states-begin-crackdown-crime-their-own-blue-cities/
— Hispanic Democrats Compare SCOTUS Permitting ICE Raids to Segregation. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/09/hispanic-democrats-compare-ice-raids-to-racial-segregation/
CENTER SQUARE
— U.S. students’ reading and math scores at historic lows. Democrat teachers ever-increasingly focus on cranking out good little Democrats. If my parents had not sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, get accepted by UIC, etc.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_e8562d46-175f-483b-b2a5-1e74a842bf32.html
DAILY CALLER
— Mayor Daniel Biss of Evanston Tells CNN Just How Far He’s Gone To Interfere With ICE. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/09/blue-city-mayor-tells-cnn-just-how-far-hes-gone-to-interfere-with-ice/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— China: How America’s Biggest Adversary is Weaponizing the U.S. immigration System
https://www.fairus.org/issue/china-weaponizing-us-immigration-system
FOX NEWS
— ICE agents break car window to arrest resisting illegal immigrant in exclusive Fox News ride-along in Chicago. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-agents-break-car-window-arrest-resisting-illegal-immigrant-exclusive-fox-news-ride-along
— Federal agents forced to retreat on slashed tires after immigration raid confrontation in sanctuary city. More than 100 demonstrators surround ICE vehicles as roofers refuse to come down from rooftop. ICE officers enforce immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws. While I was working inside IRS’s 63rd & Halsted office in 1973, my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/federal-agents-forced-retreat-slashed-tires-immigration-raid-confrontation-sanctuary-city
NEWSMAX
— Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Tuesday that she is assigning up to 40 National Guard troops to assist ICE agents in the state. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/sarah-huckabee-sanders-arkansas-ice/2025/09/09/id/1225723/
— Pritzker: Trump Using ICE to Wage ‘War’ on Chicago. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-ice/2025/09/09/id/1225763/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The Disparate Impact Scam. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, if Whites and men do better than minorities and females, it is because Whites and males benefitted from discrimination against minorities and females. From the beginning, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that. From the beginning, they have used that to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and females. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. They all 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.realclearpolitics.com/2025/09/09/the_disparate_impact_scam_653098.html
TOWNHALL
— An Illegal Immigrant Killed His Young Daughter – Now He’s Got a Message for Gov. Pritzker. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/09/09/chicago-dad-blasts-jb-pritzker-for-opposing-ice-n2662979
YELLOW HAMMER NEWS
— Will Democrats and the media ever stop defending criminals, illegals, and narco-terrorists?
https://yellowhammernews.com/will-democrats-and-the-media-ever-stop-defending-criminals-illegals-and-narco-terrorists/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders have their protesters chant ‘free DC, free Palestine’ as Trump arrives for dinner at restaurant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2uIV8NP-7M
NEWSWEEK
— What are your demographics? How are you profiled? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly negatively profile those who are the following: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsweek.com/spanish-los-angeles-profiled-ice-2126854
— ICE Agents Have Tires Slashed in New York Protest. ICE officers enforce federal immigration laws. As an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, I enforced federal tax laws. While I was working inside IRS’s 63rd & Halsted office in 1973, my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-raid-new-york-rochester-2127451
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders have their protestors disrupt Trump’s rare outing to a D.C. restaurant
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/protesters-disrupt-trump-dc-restaurant-joes-seafood-code-pink-rcna230245
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders have their protesters call out Trump as he dines out in Washington
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/trump-dc-joes-seafood-protesters.html
— Who Are Chicago’s Immigrants? Almost 40 percent of immigrants living in Chicago are from Mexico. More than 800,000 of the city’s 2.7 million residents identify as Hispanic or Latino. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in flooding Chicago with Hispanics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/chicago-immigrant-population-trump-ice.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend Lisa Cook. My critics/opponents a) stress the adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me and b) stress those who could have come to my defense, but did not. They especially stress Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/09/lisa-cook-mortgage-homes/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— What are your demographics? How are you profiled? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly negatively profile those who are the following: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-09-09/critics-fault-supreme-court-for-allowing-immigration-stops-that-consider-race-ethnicity
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-09/supreme-court-decision-racial-profiling-immigration
MIAMI TIMES
— What are your demographics? How are you profiled? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly negatively profile those who are the following: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/world_national/us-supreme-court-oks-racial-profiling-in-los-angeles-immigration-enforcement/article_1641aae6-17ef-4a31-9ca7-843b2646aad5.html
USA TODAY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, if Whites and men do better than minorities and females, it is because Whites and males benefitted from discrimination against minorities and females. From the beginning, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that. From the beginning, they have used that to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and females. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. They all 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.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/06/hegseth-woke-army-nfl-style-officer-program/85972491007/
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.forbes.com/sites/committeeof200/2025/09/09/why-we-should-maintain-diversity-without-the-dei-label/
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.chronicle.com/article/trumps-new-attack-on-admissions-will-fail
POLITICO
— Judge blocks Trump’s bid to fire Lisa Cook from Federal Reserve board. Federal law gives Trump the power to fire members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors “for cause,” which typically means serious misconduct or malfeasance on the job. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) gave the Democrats who run the federal government the power to force their employees to retire, that is, the power to fire their employees, if they fight their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination like I did. Of course, my Democrat GAO. IRS, and Post Office superiors hinted/implied that they wasted my career, took adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire “for cause.” My Democrat GAO superiors a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/09/lisa-cook-federal-reserve-board-ruling-00554912
CREATORS SYNDICATE & WASHINTON MONTHLY
— What are your demographics? How are you profiled? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly negatively profile those who are the following: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.creators.com/read/Ruben-Navarrette/09/25/scotus-green-lights-racial-profiling-of-latinos-in-immigration-raids
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/10/supreme-court-blocks-relief-from-racial-profiling/
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders have their protesters call Trump Hitler of our time
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-activist-protests-dc-code-pink_n_68c0ec31e4b0f2df4e04dc76
DAILY BEAST
— Democrat leaders have their protesters call Trump Hitler at DC restaurant
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-dines-at-dc-restaurant-for-first-time-ever/
INDEPENDENT
— Democrat leaders have their protesters crash Trump’s cabinet dinner at DC restaurant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI9J20VpQP0
TIMES OF INDIA & HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Democrat leaders have their protesters call Trump Hitler of our time
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hitler-of-our-time-donald-trump-faces-protests-while-dining-at-washington-restaurant-watch/articleshow/123797651.cms
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/trump-confronted-by-pro-palestine-slogans-at-joe-s-seafood-stares-down-protesters-after-being-called-hitler-watch-101757466923903.html
September 6, 2025
Obviously, to take back the House and Senate in 2026 and to take back the White House in 2028, the Democrat Party and its mainstream news media have decided a) to move even further to the left, b) to destroy Trump, and c) to destroy everyone who voted for Trump.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/increased-immigration-enforcement-could-begin-in-chicago-this-weekend-what-to-know/3820293/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/protests-broadview-ice-facility-actions-may-last-six-weeks/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Have you filed lawsuits? I have. I should write about them. All my critics/opponents side with the defendants in all those lawsuits.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/05/senate-bill-328-toxic-businesses-republicans-sangamon-county-rich-miller
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-raids-threaten-chicago-restaurants-tourism
ILLINOIS PUBLIC MEDIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/new-hotline-aims-to-support-lgbtq-illinoisans
WHEATON PATCH
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by Republicans who are White, male, older, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/calendar/event/20250927/c9483e98-82eb-4bf2-8094-87145fc60c3e/introduction-to-systemic-racism-workshop
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Trump, Miller Blast Pritzker as Chicago Violence Spirals
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/09/trump-miller-blast-pritzker-as-chicago-violence-spirals/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— OMB Director Russell Vought says GAO ‘shouldn’t exist’ because of its partisanship. If Gingrich had reformed GAO during the 1980s and 1990s instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. Democrats run GAO and IRS. They do not want Republicans to audit IRS. The way GAO treated me proves its partisanship. GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. GAO always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. GAO delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. GAO kept me off audits of IRS for all by 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for it. GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) becoming a licensed CPA, d) becoming a certified fraud examiner, government financial manager, financial services auditor, and forensic accountant, and e) working for IRS for almost 9 years. GAO would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, and citizens of foreign countries are more talented than Whites, males, older people, heterosexuals, Protestants, German Americans, those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, and citizens of America. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by Republicans who are White, male, older, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How disadvantaged/marginalized/oppressed are you? According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more disadvantaged/marginalized/oppressed that you are: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time. That is, the more of the aforesaid that you are, the more that Whites, males, older people, heterosexuals, Protestants, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time disadvantage you, marginalize you, and oppress you. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— 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. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by passing the postal employment test and by earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and by earning a bachelor’s degree in business. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA, by passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, by almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting, and by working for IRS for almost 9 years. To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats, minorities, females, younger people, and veterans, the Democrats who run the federal government have ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion requirements. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. The aforesaid is political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are your biggest career mistakes? My biggest career mistake was not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU in 1969-1970. I erroneously thought I could never pass the CPA examination. But I did pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 after I had a) worked for IRS since 1971, b) taken graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul since 1976, and c) then the Becker CPA review course. I went on a) to earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and b) to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. But by then, my employer, GAO, and the accounting profession considered me to be too old to have a successful career in accounting. GAO and the accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Illegals are Democrat Party constituents
https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/us-news/yassamin-ansari-lashes-out-at-critics-after-calling-illegal-immigrants-her-constituents-i-dont-give-a-sh/
— GAO: Only 400 EV-charging ports built under $7.5B US infrastructure program
https://www.aol.com/only-400-ev-charging-ports-170308885.html
DAILY CALLER
— Biden Declared EV Battery Plant Would Be Win For American Workers. Illegals Just Got Caught Building It. What percent of what you buy is made by citizens of foreign countries?
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/05/biden-declared-ev-battery-plant-would-be-win-for-american-workers-illegals-just-got-caught-building-it/
DAILY CITIZEN
— Hegseth Fires Director of ‘Transgender Healthcare.’ How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting LGBTQ in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-fires-director-of-transgender-healthcare/
FOX BUSINESS
— Pritzker puts illegals over citizens as Chicago spirals into crime chaos
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6378506344112
FOX NEWS
— Pritzker says he lives ‘rent-free’ in Trump’s head, defends Chicago’s crime statistics
https://www.foxnews.com/media/j-b-pritzker-says-he-lives-rent-free-trumps-head-defends-chicagos-crime-statistics
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym4B2Nqp4IY
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— U.S. Has a Culture of Dependency
https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/commentary/why-the-us-has-culture-dependency
— Biden Boosted the Need for Food Stamps—And Calls That a “Success”
https://www.heritage.org/welfare/commentary/biden-boosted-the-need-food-stamps-and-calls-success
— The Future of the Subsidy State: What the Heritage Index of Dependency Shows
https://www.heritage.org/report/the-future-the-subsidy-state-what-the-heritage-index-dependency-shows
REASON
— Americans Grow Increasingly Dependent on Government Payments. Many citizens of the land of the free are hooked on government checks.
https://reason.com/2024/10/04/americans-grow-increasingly-dependent-on-government-payments/
U.S. HOUSE WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE
— More Americans Dependent on Welfare Checks, at the Expense of Work
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/01/08/new-report-shows-more-americans-dependent-on-welfare-checks-at-the-expense-of-work/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Russell Vought says Government Accountability Office ‘shouldn’t exist.’ If Gingrich had reformed GAO during the 1980s and 1990s instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. Democrats run GAO and IRS. They do not want Republicans to audit IRS. The way GAO treated me proves its partisanship. GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. GAO always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. GAO delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. GAO kept me off audits of IRS for all by 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for it. GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) becoming a licensed CPA, d) becoming a certified fraud examiner, government financial manager, financial services auditor, and forensic accountant, and e) working for IRS for almost 9 years. GAO would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.aol.com/russ-vought-says-government-accountability-024659336.html
https://www.aol.com/russ-vought-says-government-accountability-024659336.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/omb-director-says-government-accountability-office-shouldn-t-exist/ar-AA1LO9nu?ocid=md12qg
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, said Wednesday that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) should not exist. “We’re not big fans of GAO. They are a quasi-legislative independent entity and something that shouldn’t exist,” Vought said while addressing attendees at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., as multiple news outlets reported. President Trump’s administration and some Republicans have long accused the GAO, which was created in 1921, of partisanship. . .The GAO is led by a comptroller general, who is appointed by the president and can be removed by Congress. Gene Dodaro is the current head of the GAO, serving in the role since late 2010. The terms are limited to 15 years. Dodaro said that “clearly Russell Vought does not value transparency and accountability.”)
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/illinois-democrats-preemptively-combating-chicago-crackdown-trump-rcna228593
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mamdani
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/video/zohran-mamdani-trump-eric-adams-newsnight-vrtc
REUTERS
— How disadvantaged/marginalized/oppressed are you? According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more disadvantaged/marginalized/oppressed that you are: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time. That is, the more of the aforesaid that you are, the more that Whites, males, older people, heterosexuals, Protestants, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time disadvantage you, marginalize you, and oppress you.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/exam-administrator-college-board-scraps-tool-identifying-disadvantaged-students-2025-09-05/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly destroy America to destroy Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-jobs-promises-inflation-time-employment-e0ca5354f6cd426d25f353e1a54d1fb5
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/trump-immigration-chicago.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn leaders of foreign countries against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/politics/trump-diplomacy-rivals.html
— Trump Says U.S. Military Has ‘Never Fought to Win’ Since World War II. I should write about my Democrat superiors in the federal government who blamed Republicans the most for America losing the Vietnam War. They stressed a) that I avoided the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment, b) that I was conservative, and c) that I was Republican. I would focus on my Democrat superiors who were veteran, White, male, and/or older and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/politics/trump-military-wars.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/09/06/chicago-mexican-independence-day-immigration/4c1faf36-8ad7-11f0-895c-97bd39cbdc59_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/05/hyundai-trump-immigration-raid-south-korea/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/the-seven-trump/2025/09/05/what-to-know-about-donald-trump/
— How our democracy has made dependency a right
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/opinions/george-will-is-the-individual-obsolete/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats and RINOs are overwhelmingly anti-car. They are especially anti-America nameplate car and anti-muscle car.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/americas-love-affair-with-the-car-has-soured-over-money-4b73670f
— Should You Switch to an EV? If the 2025 Dodge Charger had been available with a Hemi, I would have bought that.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/buy-electric-vehicle-or-gas-6241e65c
— ‘The Highest Exam’ Review: China’s Big Test. Students who sit for college-entrance exams in China have reached the culmination of years of preparation. The outcome can have far-reaching effects. My biggest career mistake was not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU in 1969-1970. I erroneously thought I could never pass the CPA examination. But I did pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 after I had a) worked for IRS since 1971, b) taken graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul since 1976, and c) then the Becker CPA review course. I went on a) to earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and b) to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. But by then, my employer, GAO, and the accounting profession considered me to be too old to have a successful career in accounting. GAO and the accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/the-highest-exam-review-chinas-big-test-629571ae
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, and citizens of foreign countries are more talented than Whites, males, older people, heterosexuals, Protestants, German Americans, those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, and citizens of America.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2025/09/03/employees-widely-support-dei-revealing-talent-risk-from-dei-retreat/
UNIVERSITY HERALD
— Rising Costs Put Illinois Higher Education Out of Reach for Many Families. Tuition, Fees at Illinois Public Universities Rise 66% Since 2009. When I was young, if college costs were as high as they are now, I would not have been able to work my way through college and graduate debt-free owning a 2-year-old car.
https://www.universityherald.com/articles/79757/20250904/rising-costs-put-illinois-higher-education-out-reach-many-families.htm
NEWSDAY
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, their quotas, goals, and targets for hiring, retaining, and promoting LGBTQers were unofficial.
https://www.newsday.com/business/transgender-trump-federal-workers-government-gender-lgbtq-e50052
FEDERAL NEWS NEWORK
— 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. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by passing the postal employment test and by earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and by earning a bachelor’s degree in business. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA, by passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, by almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting, and by working for IRS for almost 9 years. To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats, minorities, females, younger people, and veterans, the Democrats who run the federal government have ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion requirements. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. The aforesaid is political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2025/09/after-testing-to-join-foreign-service-candidates-must-retake-version-approved-by-trump-administration/
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/trump-hyundai-georgia-raid
— Democrats and RINO leaders use racial proxies to get rid of White Republicans.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/college-board-sat-trump-affirmative-action
ECONOMIC TIMES
— If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries work for less money and are future Democrats.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/trump-administration-plans-stricter-reforms-for-h-1b-visas-keeping-cap-exempt-category-in-focus/articleshow/123731303.cms
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote India.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/06/modi-trump-india-new-world-order
September 4, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gov. Mike Braun appoints Indiana members to Indiana-Illinois boundary commission
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/03/braun-appoints-indiana-members-to-indiana-illinois-boundary-commission/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/04/opinion-chicago-national-guard-donald-trump-jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/04/editorial-guns-public-transit-ruling-chicago/
— Why are so many Illinois kids missing class?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-why-many-illinois-kids-100000199.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Durbin and Duckworth ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/09/04/dick-durbin-tammy-duckworth-letter-trump-national-guard-deployment-chicago
DAILY HERALD
— Elburn trustee is latest to announce bid for Illinois Senate seat DeWitte is leaving
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250903/news/elburn-trustee-is-latest-to-announce-bid-for-illinois-senate-seat-dewitte-is-leaving/
NBC5
— Northern suburbs release statements amid reports of ICE coming to Great Lakes Naval Base. Waukegan and Highland Park in Lake County have both released messages to residents as ICE agents are expected to arrive at the Great Lakes Naval Base in North Chicago in the coming weeks. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/great-lakes-naval-base-chicago-suburbs-lake-county-ice-enforcement/3819005/
ELMHURST PATCH
— Addison Township Official’s Home In Question. He is registered to vote at an Addison house, but a process server reported that he doesn’t live there.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/addison-township-officials-home-question
POILITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump blinks on National Guard threat
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/09/04/trump-blinks-on-national-guard-threat-00543292
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Bringing back working-class Democrats. My critics/opponents look down on the working-class if not despise the working-class. I was a member of the working-class 1964-1997.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/news/bringing-back-working-class-democrats/
ILLINOIZE
— New Candidates Emerge for 2026
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/new-candidates-emerge-2026
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-583/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— E-Verify, a choke point for stopping illegal immigrant employment in America. Big business and weak politicians are blocking the tool that protects U.S. jobs. My critics/opponents have always opposed E-Verify, that is, they have always promoted illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/3/e-verify-choke-point-stopping-illegal-immigrant-employment-america/
— American citizens emerge as new threat to ICE officers. Assaults escalate amid clashes over arrests.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/3/american-citizens-emerge-new-threat-ice/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— National Conservatism Speakers discuss hopes of a new America under Trump. Who speaks for conservatives in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, in your school district, and in your precinct?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3791010/conservatism-conference/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrat leaders are afraid that a Trump crime crackdown would work.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/03/media/ex-chicago-police-official-says-dems-are-afraid-a-trump-crime-crackdown-would-work/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Med students should be chosen by merit, not by DIE. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/med_students_should_be_chosen_by_merit_not_by_die.html
— How Brands Are Destroyed by Ideology, Arrogance, Self-Delusion, and Stupidity
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/how_brands_are_destroyed_by_ideology_arrogance_self_delusion_and_stupidity.html
BREITBART
— Cruz: Pritzker Is a ‘Disgusting, Racist Bigot’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/03/cruz-pritzker-is-a-disgusting-racist-bigot/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Chicago campuses provide ‘Sanctuary Doctoring’ and ‘safe spaces’ for illegal aliens, refuse ICE. Chicago universities maintain policies that forbid cooperation with immigration officials, shield illegal aliens from federal enforcement, and provide them with “safe spaces” and services. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/chicago-campuses-provide-sanctuary-doctoring-safe-spaces-illegal-aliens-refuse-ice/28544
DAILY CALLER
— State Dept. Gutting Foreign Service Test — ‘Merit-Based’ Not ‘DEI Principles’ The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 hired me because I passed the CPA examination notwithstanding my not being a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. The Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 hired me because I passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination notwithstanding my not being a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 hired me because I passed the postal employment test notwithstanding my not being a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/03/exclusive-state-guts-foreign-service-test-merit-based-not-dei/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Liberalism Failed and What Is Already Succeeding It
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/03/woke-is-liberalism-all-grown-up/
— Woke Is Liberalism All Grown Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqlhzN0gens
FOX BUSINESS
— ‘STAY OUT OF THE WAY’: Tom Homan warns Chicago officials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rmJ-IQ7XR8
FOX NEWS
— Chicago resident goes after city’s ‘progressive Democratic gang’ for refusing Trump’s federal help on crime. Zoe Leigh blasts officials as violence grips city, with eight killed over Labor Day weekend.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-resident-goes-after-citys-progressive-democratic-gang-refusing-trumps-federal-help-crime
— Democratic leaders in Chicago refuse to keep criminals in jail
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6378333373112
— Rogue states risk federal funding for giving illegals driver’s licenses. The Democrat-run Illinois is a rogue state.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rogue-states-risk-federal-funding-illegal-immigrant-drivers-licenses
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for Russia invading Ukraine. Democrat leaders have always blamed Republicans for America’s losing the Vietnam War.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hits-back-reporter-who-said-hes-taken-no-action-against-russia
NEWSMAX
— Cruz: Democrat Leaders Support Criminals Every Time
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/cruz-democrats-criminals/2025/09/03/id/1224978/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: Politics Over People: Chicago’s Leaders Are Failing Their City
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/03/politics_over_people_chicagos_leaders_are_failing_their_city_153243.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Newsom, Pritzker defy Trump, eye presidency in 2028. Who promotes defying Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5482013-congress-budget-trump-battle/
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for everything that is bad including bad weather.
https://www.aol.com/scientists-submit-coordinated-response-trump-132508302.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly elect anti-Americans.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/politics/video/ben-ferguson-trump-genuinely-concerned-about-socialist-running-nyc
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Harvard is ever-increasingly anti-American.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK01gCKGbck
CBS NEWS
— Navy reverses demotion of Rep. Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor under Trump and Obama. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 forced me to take a demotion from GS-12 Step 5, currently $112,280/year, to GS-9 Step 10, currently $88,808/year, a 21% pay cut, to transfer from IRS to GAO. My Democrat GAO superiors used that demotion to justify their wasting my career and forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that. GAO audits IRS. When I transferred, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, b) I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, c) I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and d) I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. Much of what I did for IRS was very similar to what I did for GAO.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-reverses-demotion-rep-ronny-jackson-former-white-house-doctor/
NEWSWEEK
— Trump Threatens To Strip Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship. I am 100% German American. I am proud to say a) that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, b) that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and c) that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-threatens-remove-rosie-odonnell-us-citizenship-2124281
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders use the Smithsonian to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/09/04/trump-smithsonian-museum-order-bunch/
— In WWIII, which countries will side with Russia and China against America?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/04/india-us-trump-modi-tariffs-trade/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/03/alien-enemies-act-venezuela-trump/
— Trump floats sending law enforcement to New Orleans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/03/trump-policing-red-states-new-orleans/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/02/trump-ice-chicago-national-guard/85867764007/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, sooner or later, everyone in America will be on Medicaid.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/08/20/trump-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-cuts-where/85727000007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Job Hopping Is Out, Job Hugging Is In for Fearful Workers. Employees are reluctant to give up a job in today’s rocky job market. I might still be a GAO employee if my Democrat GAO superiors had not forced me to retire. I might still be an IRS employee if my Democrat IRS superiors had not made it so clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. I might still be a GM employee if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn its job offer that I had accepted because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I might still be a Firestone Store employee if my Democrat Firestone Store boss had not made my advancement prospects look so dismal. I might still be a postal employee if my Democrat postal superiors had not forced me to resign.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hopping-is-out-job-hugging-is-in-for-fearful-workers-338fe1e6
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders use science and scholarship to destroy Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/04/trump-hijacks-american-science-and-scholarship-opinion
HUFFINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Joe Walsh.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-walsh_n_68b8fdbee4b0e20f601a7dba
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/trump-venezuela-deport-alien-enemies-act-court-ruling
SKY NEWS
— ‘Limousine liberals’: Ilhan Omar is another lefty trying to ‘cosplay as working class’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3mPsC3mhOA
TIMES OF INDIA
— ‘Choosing merit over DEI’: Trump admin to scrap Foreign Service Officer Test; will introduce new version. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 hired me because I passed the CPA examination notwithstanding my not being a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. The Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 hired me because I passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination notwithstanding my not being a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 hired me because I passed the postal employment test notwithstanding my not being a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/choosing-merit-over-dei-trump-admin-to-scrap-foreign-service-officer-test-will-introduce-new-version/articleshow/123688506.cms
August 29, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump officials say Chicago immigration crackdown coming, top cop hopes to avoid ‘adversarial environment’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/28/chicago-top-communication-feds-troops-deployed/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at women that Republicans cause all the problems that women have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/29/letters-naperville-203-equality-contract-imea/
— The National Guard has been activated to Chicago 18 times from 1877-2021. Here’s a breakdown.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/28/chicago-when-national-guard-was-activated/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/08/29/chicago-crime-violence-o-block-oblock-parkway-gardens-donald-trump-national-guard
— What jobs did you have while you were in high school? While I was a high school student, I did yard work during my first 2 years, I delivered newspapers during all 4 years, and I washed dishes during my last 2 years. My critics/opponents have always used my high school jobs against me to paint me as being a loser. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/08/28/chance-the-rapper-gives-100-000-to-five-cps-high-schools
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Nehemiah Narvaez, a senior at Simeon Career Academy in Chatham, is already learning how to run his own business while practicing his barber skills. “It’s been a dream,” Narvaez said. “I see what it can bring. It brings a lot of connections, a lot of opportunities. It’s like everybody gets a chance.” Narvaez, 17, of Englewood, is just one of many students enrolled in the Career & Technical Education program, a Chicago Public Schools initiative that provides students with career-focused experiential learning programs. On Thursday, Chance the Rapper visited the South Side high school to announce that his nonprofit, SocialWorks, would give $100,000 in grants to five Chicago schools to support career-focused programs over the next three years, which will include Simeon Career Academy’s barber and cosmetology program.)
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their cashless bail.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250829/crime/what-to-make-of-trumps-push-to-end-cashless-bail-in-illinois/
ABC7
— Lake Co. leaders pushing back against plans to use Naval Station Great Lakes Naval to host ICE
https://abc7chicago.com/post/lake-county-leaders-pushing-back-plans-use-naval-station-great-lakes-host-ice-immigration-agents/17682128/
— CPD prepares for possible arrival of National Guard troops, immigration enforcement expected. Border czar says Chicago could be targeted for immigration enforcement next week.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-department-preps-deployment-national-guard-troops-orders-president-donald-trump/17674116/
— Evanston, Oak Park end contracts with license plate reader company under investigation in Illinois. Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/evanston-oak-park-end-contracts-flock-safety-license-plate-reader-company-investigation-illinois/17678137/
WTTW
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/28/trump-administration-plans-big-immigration-enforcement-operation-chicago-soon-next-week
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their cashless bail.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/28/trump-threatens-illinois-federal-funding-over-elimination-cash-bail-here-s-what-know
CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their cashless bail.
https://chicagocrusader.com/illinois-lawmakers-slam-trumps-executive-order-targeting-pretrial-reform/
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasing reject federal law.
https://chicagocrusader.com/pritzker-mayor-trump-come-to-chicago-national-guard-chicago/
MILWAUKEE INDEPENDENT
— Democrat leaders blame Republicans for Canadian wildfires.
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/republicans-vent-outrage-canada-wildfires-choking-u-s-cities-denying-climate-change/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Unions fight back as Trump terminates federal workers’ union rights. GAO unionized in 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, if GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-29/unions-fight-back-as-trump-terminates-federal-workers-union-rights
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime
https://www.wandtv.com/news/life-insurance-companies-can-no-longer-discriminate-against-people-with-criminal-records-under-illinois-law/article_ccb9d1fa-7507-4a46-8798-b45b9bbebe61.html
CAPITOL FAX
— 70 percent of Chicagoans oppose sending in the Army, 65 percent oppose National Guard intervention
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/29/m3-poll-70-percent-of-chicagoans-oppose-sending-in-the-army-65-percent-oppose-national-guard-intervention/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-580/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker claims Trump plans election interference with troop deployment
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_9e694fb9-3034-4123-84ad-f0377d604378.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Commentary on Pitches Made to “Take Back the Republican Party” From a Friend of McHenry County Blog: Another view on Republican precinct committeemen
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/29/commentary-on-pitches-made-to-take-back-the-republican-party/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman confessed he was ‘tired of being trans’: ‘I wish I never brain-washed myself.’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/28/us-news/minneapolis-school-shooter-robin-westman-confessed-he-was-tired-of-being-trans/
— Embattled Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook hit with 2nd criminal referral from Trump housing director. All that my Democrat GAO superiors could use to justify their forcing me to retire was the adverse actions that they had taken against me. They had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance. They had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They had kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them. They had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. All that my Democrat IRS superiors could use to justify their never promoting me beyond GS-12 was the adverse actions that they had taken against me. They had disallowed my travel vouchers and my education deductions. All that my Democrat Post Office superiors could use to justify their forcing me to resign was the adverse actions that they had taken against me. They had disallowed my sick leave requests. They falsely claimed that I was not available to work enough part-time hours.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/us-news/federal-reserve-gov-lisa-cook-hit-with-2nd-criminal-referral-from-trump-housing-director/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Air Force reverses Biden-era snub to provide funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/28/air-force-reverses-biden-era-snub-to-provide-funeral-honors-to-ashli-babbitt-1580760/
BREITBART
— ABC News, CNN Downplay Minneapolis Shooter’s Trump, Catholic Hatred. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/27/abc-news-cnn-downplay-minneapolis-shooters-trump-catholic-hatred/
COLLEGE FIX
— Med schools still accept Black students with lower MCAT scores than rejected Asians, Whites.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/med-schools-still-accept-black-students-with-lower-mcats-than-rejected-asians-whites/
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Left’s Misdefinition of Americanism
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/29/lefts-misdefinition-americanism/
FOX BUSINESS
— Chicago leaders reject Trump’s crime aid because they don’t want him to succeed.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6377631882112
FOX NEWS
— Obama slams Trump’s use of National Guard to help cities fight crime as ‘dangerous trend’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-slams-trumps-use-national-guard-help-cities-fight-crime-dangerous-trend
— Vance accuses Newsom of being a ‘cheap imitation’ of Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/media/vance-accuses-newsom-being-cheap-imitation-trump
— Trump floats holding Republican National Convention before midterm elections. President announces consideration of pre-midterm gathering while touting party fundraising success.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-floats-holding-republican-national-convention-before-midterm-elections
— Families devastated as shooter’s disturbing motive emerges
https://www.foxnews.com/us/grieving-father-calls-minneapolis-shooter-coward-took-life-8-year-old-son-fletcher-mass
LIFE NEWS
— Pope Leo Tells Catholic Politicians: You Can’t be Catholic and Pro-Abortion. I should write about Catholic Republican politicians in Illinois who promote abortion. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/08/28/pope-leo-tells-catholic-politicians-you-cant-be-catholic-and-pro-abortion/
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— China’s Elite Students Are Gaming the System and American Students Are Paying the Price
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/08/29/chinas_elite_students_are_gaming_the_system_and_american_students_are_paying_the_price_1131741.html
WASHINGTON STAND
— New Illinois Law Turning College Campuses into Abortion Pill Distribution Centers.
https://washingtonstand.com/article/new-illinois-law-turns-college-campuses-into-abortion-distribution-centers
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Journal details warning signs, violent obsessions of Minneapolis shooter
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/us/journal-minneapolis-shooter-robin-westman-invs
ABC NEW YORK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans cause everyone’s problems.
https://abc7ny.com/post/rev-al-sharpton-holds-march-economic-justice-wall-street-manhattan/17670804/
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders say no red flags were raised before Minneapolis church shooter amassed an arsenal of guns.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigators-say-no-red-flags-raised-minneapolis-church-shooter-rcna227856
CBS NEWS
— To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors did not attack me publicly. They took adverse actions against me. They a) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and e) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-noem-bondi-trump-administration-baseless-public-attacks/
MSN
— I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/censorship-of-black-history-is-fascist/ar-AA1L74eG
MSNBC
— Ramirez: I represent part of Chicago in Congress. Trump wants us scared and silent. We don’t need the president’s troops on our streets.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-chicago-national-guard-delia-ramirez-rcna227833
NEW YORK TIMES
— 2 Weeks, 1,000 Arrests: How a Surge of Feds Changed D.C. Policing. Crime has fallen since federal agents started policing the streets of Washington in large numbers. Court records show that they have been involved in about a third of arrests that resulted in prosecution, many of them for minor offenses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/federal-crackdown-washington-dc-arrest-data.html
— Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections. GAO unionized in 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, if GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-union-protections.html
— Trump Fires Officials. Democrats ever-increasingly run GAO. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired. While I worked for them 1980-1997, they ever-increasingly got rid of GAO’s remaining Republican employees. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/opinion/trump-facts-statistics-data.html
— Mamdani Widens Fund-Raising Lead
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/nyregion/mamdani-adams-cuomo-money.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/black-parents-washington-dc-crackdown-federal-law-enforcement.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/opinion/dc-trump-washington.html
— Trump has fired another official without giving a reason. GAO works for Congress. Officially, my Democrat GAO superiors gave no reason why they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. However, they hinted/implied that they forced me to retire because that was what Congress wanted them to do. They also hinted/implied it was a) because of Gingrich-led budget cuts, c) because they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) because they delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, e) because they kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and e) because they forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. The aforesaid is very significant because I had earned a) three job-related master’s degrees, b) six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-related professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/business/trump-robert-primus-stb-board-fired.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump floats an unusual Republican National Convention before the midterms. Democrats are also considering holding such a gathering before the November 2026 elections.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/28/trump-republican-convention-midterm-elections/
— RISE Dispensary, a medical marijuana shop, said in a statement that Westman had worked at a Minnesota store for several months this year, but was not employed at the time of the shooting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/27/robin-westman-minneapolis-school-shooting/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/29/trump-immigration-detention-europe-reform-uk/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/08/29/trump-national-guard-crime-stats/befd8050-848d-11f0-a8f4-28ba053d904b_story.html
— D.C. mayor praises federal surge, angering residents and pleasing Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/28/federal-police-surge-mayor-bowser-crime-decrease/
USA TODAY
— Lisa Cook files federal lawsuit to fight Trump firing her from Fed. I filed Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) in 1998 knowing full-well that that the deck was stacked against me. The lawsuit enabled me to put my evidence in the record.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/28/lisa-cook-lawsuit-fed-trump/85864406007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Wants to Fight Chicago Crime. JB Pritzker Says Stay Out
https://www.wsj.com/video/wsj-opinion-trump-wants-to-fight-chicago-crime-jb-pritzker-says-stay-out/98C35770-8349-4C83-901A-3DCEB3C12C3D
— Another Mass Shooting in a ‘Gun-Free Zone’ The Minneapolis killer made the point in his manifesto. The media insist on ignoring it.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/another-mass-shooting-in-a-gun-free-zone-55e29255
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/play-game-change-game-leave-game-pathways-black-empowerment-prosperity-and-joy
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
SPLC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emmett Till to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/emmett-till-70th-anniversary-murder/
NDTV
— India Uses US Dollars To Buy Russian Crude Oil.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/india-using-us-dollars-to-buy-russian-oil-trump-adviser-peter-navarros-new-tariff-rant-9179270
TIMES OF INDIA
— Did Robin Westman’s ‘transition’ drugs fuel Minneapolis shooting? RFK Jr. blames antidepressants; probe underway. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/did-robin-westmans-transition-drugs-fuel-minneapolis-shooting-rfk-jr-blames-antidepressants-probe-under-way/articleshow/123578561.cms
August 26, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders get gun violence survivors to slam Trump’s talk of deploying National Guard in Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/26/gun-violence-survivors-trump-national-guard-chicago/
— Gun-related arrests at Naperville Topgolf now top 15 for the year
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/26/gun-arrests-charges-naperville-topgolf/
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County clerk a no-show for budget presentation
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250826/news/dupage-county-clerk-a-no-show-for-budget-presentation/
— DuPage County will spend up to $147K to retain Springfield lobbyists
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250826/news/dupage-county-will-spend-up-to-147k-to-retain-springfield-lobbyists/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The county will pay Marquardt & Humes Inc., no more than $94,500 for one year of lobbying work through Sept. 14, 2026. The firm’s lobbying team includes Scott Marquardt, who began his career as a prosecutor in the DuPage state’s attorney’s office, and John “Chip” Humes, who’s also a co-owner of the Humes Funeral Home in Addison. Though the political makeup of the county board has changed over the years, officials continued using Roger C. Marquardt & Co. as a state-level lobbyist. In 2024, Scott Marquardt and Humes solidified their business partnership, forming Marquardt & Humes, according to a firm overview. The county also will pay Raucci & Sullivan Strategies no more than $52,500 for one year of lobbying services through August 2026. Former Republican state Sen. Dave Sullivan is the firm’s president. Marc Poulos, who was a member of Gov. JB Pritzker’s transition team, also is part of the firm. Marquardt & Humes are “continuing our strong advocacy on behalf of DuPage County regarding ongoing transit negotiations,” Humes wrote in a letter to officials in July.)
— Arlington Heights residents, officials divided on criminalizing homeless behavior — but proposal moves forward
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250825/local-politics/arlington-heights-residents-officials-divided-on-criminalizing-homeless-behavior/
— Embattled Fed Gov. Lisa Cook says she’ll sue Trump to keep her job. So far, by forcing me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250826/nation-and-world-politics/embattled-fed-gov-lisa-cook-says-shell-sue-trump-to-keep-her-job/
ABC7
— DOJ demands Illinois voter personal information by Sept. 1
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-justice-department-demands-illinois-voter-personal-information-sept-1/17655103/
— Democrat leaders get Chicago gun violence survivors speak out against President Trump’s National Guard plans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-threat-send-national-guard-chicago-raises-legal-questions/17651164/
— Fed Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook says she’s staying on the job despite Trump saying he fired her. So far, by forcing me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/lisa-cook-says-shes-staying-job-federal-reserve-board-governor-despite-trump-announcing-he-removed-position/17653963/
NBC5
— Trump says he wants death penalty for murderers in D.C.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-federal-reserve-redistrcting-immigration-august-26-2025-live-updates/3815040/
FOX32
— 3 Illinois colleges named among top 50 in U.S. according to Forbes. University of Chicago is 13, Northwestern University is 16, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is 38, UIC is 108, Wheaton College is 159, IIT is 171, DePaul is 208, Loyola is 242, NIU is 379.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/forbes-best-colleges-illinois-2025
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders get Gun violence survivors to say that federal troops will not make Chicago safer.
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/08/26/gun-violence-survivors-say-federal-troops-will-not-make-chicago-safer-resources-will
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago doesn’t have to choose between jobs and health. My father worked in a nasty polluting chemical plant in the northeast side of Chicago Heights for 28 years before he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/hazel-johnson-ordinance-would-help-all-chicago-opinion
WAND TV
— Trump saying 600,000 Chinese students could come to the US draws MAGA backlash. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have admitted Chinese students instead of me, they would have.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-saying-600-000-chinese-students-could-come-to-the-us-draws-maga-backlash/article_cad6e3c7-dcf6-5ac9-ae08-3f0f23f86adc.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-370/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker unveils Illinois LGBTQ hotline amid debate over transgender athletes. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b71754be-a7d0-4d0a-aa85-c8a8ba200cdf.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Shariah: Coming to a city near you? Mamdani’s ‘intifada’ stance warns of trouble ahead.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/26/shariah-coming-city-near/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The National Academies are politically corrupted
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3781102/the-national-academies-are-politically-corrupted/
— The GOP’s unfair election advantage: Good governance
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3782858/unfair-gop-election-advantage-good-governance/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dc-faith-leaders-demand-ice-stop-using-church-parking-lots.html
DAILY CALLER
— Illinois Law Forces Universities To Dispense Abortion Pills On Campus
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/26/blue-state-law-forces-universities-to-dispense-abortion-pills-on-campus/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago residents plead for Trump’s help as ‘out of control’ crime leads to another bloody weekend. Boy, 5, among six reportedly killed in weekend shootings across Chicago. How has Chicago crime impacted you? The theft of my 1969 Dodge Charger SE while I worked for IRS in Chicago in 1971 had a big negative impact on me. The theft of my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air while I worked for IRS in Chicago in 1973 had a big negative impact on me.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-city-residents-plead-trumps-help-out-control-crime-leads-another-bloody-weekend
— White House accuses Pritzker, Illinois Dems of whining while Chicago crime rages.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-accuses-pritzker-illinois-dems-whining-while-chicago-crime-rages
NEWSMAX
— Trump’s Immigration Push Tests ICE Workforce. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who the Democrats who ran GAO hired. By the time they succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1980, I was one of the last Republican GAO employees. Republican Gingrich’s dramatic gutting of GAO while I worked for GAO 1980-1997 not only demoralized and devastated GAO employees, it made Democrat GAO employees hate Republican GAO employees. I should write about that.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-ice-migrant/2025/08/26/id/1223938/
— No Illegals Entered US for 3 Straight Months
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/kristi-noem-immigration-cabinet/2025/08/26/id/1224019/
REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Illinois Democrat Leaders Push Democrat Chicago to the Verge of Fiscal Collapse
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/2025/08/26/illinois_pushes_chicago_to_the_verge_of_fiscal_collapse_1130906.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump faces MAGA backlash for saying he’ll let 600,000 Chinese students into US. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have admitted Chinese students instead of me, they would have.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dc-faith-leaders-demand-ice-stop-using-church-parking-lots.html
CBS NEWS
— U.S. to resume “neighborhood checks” for citizenship applications as part of Trump push to heavily vet immigrants
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/neighborhood-checks-citizenship-applications/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Men Suing Over Their Partners’ Abortions. The antiabortion movement is encouraging partners and ex-partners who say they were harmed by abortions of their unborn children.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/the-men-suing-over-their-partners-abortions-b2e7a9ce
TRUTHDIG
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Far too many Democrat plants and RINOs become Republican Precinct Committeemen (RPC) and become leaders of Republican township, county, and state party organizations to get the Republican Party to strike its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform, that is, to destroy the Republican Party. These Democrat plants and RINOs focus on driving platform Republicans like me out of the party. I should write about them and the adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me since 1999. In 2000, they got one of their own to run against me for RPC. In 2004, they rudely fired me as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster and rudely defeated me 69 to 13 when I ran for MTRO Treasurer. In 2006, they almost got the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. In 2007, they got ICRC to rudely throw me off its Steering Committee. In 2010, they again rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster. In 2012, they got TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois to rudely end my chairmanship. In 2015, they rudely gerrymandered my precinct. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks. In 2024, the rudely ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-to-infiltrate-your-local-democratic-headquarters/
REALTOR.COM
— Wheaton Is One of the Hottest ZIP Codes in Illinois-Here’s Why
https://www.lmtonline.com/realestate/article/wheaton-is-one-of-the-hottest-zip-codes-in-20889403.php
August 5, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/texas-redistrict-democrats-fight-back/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, eventually everyone will be on SNAP.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/knowles-food-insecurity-increasing/
— DNA project hopes to reunite African Americans in Illinois with ancestral relatives in Africa. Will this lead to identifying those who were directly responsible for slavery?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/dna-project-black-americans-africa/
— As last baby boomers reach retirement, they tackle a quest for fulfillment. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Since then, putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters has increasingly been my focus. Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, b) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, c) end my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster in 2010 and 2004, and d) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership in 2007.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/retirement-bike-riding-baby-boomers/
— John Curran: Illinois Democrats’ delivery tax is a short-term cash grab paid by those who can least afford it
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/opinion-illinois-delivery-tax-general-assembly-cta/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/illinois-queer-farmers-lgbtq/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-quorum-illinois-redistrict-map
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— In downtown Chicago’s condo market, the hits keep coming. In 1978, when I got married, I sold my one bedroom Outer Drive East condo that I had owned for 2 years for a $10,000 gain and bought a new 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and a 1978 Chevrolet Chevette.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/downtown-chicago-condos-reflect-markets-price-decline-woes
ABC7
— Texas Democrats remain in Illinois as Gov. Abbott orders their arrest
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-remain-illinois-halt-gop-redistricting-governor-greg-abbott-orders-arrest/17438511/
— State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US
https://abc7chicago.com/post/state-department-may-require-visa-applicants-post-bond-15000-enter-us/17433002/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU43-62wCRk
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-court-judges-terminated-donald-trump-administration-works-cut-down-massive-case-backlog/17434235/
NBC5
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-officials-face-pushback-over-texas-gerrymandering-criticisms/3804336/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders, that is, the mainstream news media, ever-increasingly treat Pat Brady as being the spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-gerrymandering-texas-redistricting-battle/
— Chicago designated ‘EV Ready.’ What does it mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K9-wnnDmjw
WTTW
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/04/texas-governor-threatens-remove-democrats-who-left-illinois-other-states-over-trump
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/pritzker-texas-democrats-redistricting-20801137.php
SHAW LOCAL
— Girls flag football surges in Illinois as hundreds more take the field in year two. More than 200 high schools expected to have teams this fall. My parents had absolutely no interest in football, and neither do I. Does that explain my lack of aggressiveness?
https://www.shawlocal.com/friday-night-drive/2025/08/05/girls-flag-football-surges-in-illinois-as-hundreds-more-take-the-field-in-year-two/
ELMHURST PATCH
— Confusion Over Addison Township Group’s Status
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/confusion-over-addison-township-groups-status
COD COURIER
— Campus Voices Weigh In on Siddiqi’s Plans for College of DuPage
https://codcourier.org/campus-voices-weigh-in-on-siddiqis-plans-for-college-of-dupage/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: She stressed the importance of taking a stand on the college’s long-held values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). “Last year, when there was pressure to remove DEI language and committees, COD and its Board of Trustees refused to bow to those demands,” Purcell said. “Our values have been here for decades, and it’s critical that the new administration uphold them to protect the college’s reputation.”)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-561/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— BS from Pritzker on Mid-Decade Reapportionment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/05/bs-from-pritzker-on-mid-decade-reapportionment/
WIREPOINTS
— What happened to private sector job growth, Gov. Pritzker?
https://wirepoints.org/what-happened-to-private-sector-job-growth-gov-pritzker-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Darin LaHood appears to pass on Illinois Senate run in blow to state GOP hopes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3490826/darin-lahood-pass-illinois-senate-run-state-gop/
— Abbott says blue-state gerrymandering ‘distorted’ US politics after Democrats flee Texas. How badly have Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered the political jurisdictions where you live? I should write about how Democrat and RINO leaders gerrymandered my precinct in 2015.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3490941/greg-abbott-blue-state-gerrymandering-democrats-flee-texas/
BREITBART
— Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump from Quickly Deporting Biden’s Parole Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/04/biden-appointed-judge-blocks-trump-from-quickly-deporting-bidens-parole-migrants/
CENTER SQUARE
— DOJ scraps decree used by Democrats to keep Republicans out of the federal workforce
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1de8bdce-8e86-4d1e-8297-bb3849644d07.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Federal appeals court upholds Arkansas ban on Critical Race Theory in the classroom. To teach CRT is promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/federal-appeals-court-upholds-arkansas-ban-on-critical-race-theory-in-the-classroom/
DAILY CALLER
— Pulling Kids Out Of DEI Lessons Just Got Easier. To teach DEI is promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/04/exclusive-pulling-kids-out-of-dei-lessons-just-got-easier/
FOX NEWS
— Democrats are protesting what they have been doing forever. Fox News host Sean Hannity calls out Democrats’ ‘big, meaningless political stunt’ in protesting gerrymandering on ‘Hannity.’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376556781112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Flight of the Legislators
https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/the-flight-of-the-legislators/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Democratic Texas Rep. Harold V. Dutton Jr. speaks alongside other Texas democrats during a press conference at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in Warrenville, Ill., August 4, 2025.)
NEWSMAX
— Pritzker Vows to Protect Texas Dems From Arrest
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jb-pritzker-protect-texas-democrats/2025/08/04/id/1221258/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Economists sound alarm over Trump firing. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, the following did not come to my defense: a) the Association of Government Accountants; I had served on the Executive Committee of its Chicago Chapter for 13 years and b) the Illinois CPA Society; I had served on its membership committee for 8 years.
https://thehill.com/business/5435904-economists-sound-alarm-over-trump-firing/
NBC NEWS
— White House searches for a new BLS chief with ‘credibility’ and ‘experience.’ All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-search-new-bls-chief-credibility-experience-rcna222910
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/swing-district-republicans-object-texas-redistricting-plan-democrats-t-rcna222972
CBS NEWS
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrat-who-fled-texas-over-redistricting-says-were-willing-to-face-whatever-consequences/
CNN
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court-texas
— Are/were you “little-known.” According to my critics/opponents, I have always been “little-known” notwithstanding my having been the subject of a 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/documents/ That article made me very well-known to the Democrats who ran IRS and GAO. They used everything in that article against me that they could. They used the article mainly to paint me as being a grossly overpaid draft avoider. That helped them force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/bls-commissioner-trump-firing-decision
REUTERS
— Tesla’s brand loyalty collapsed after Musk backed Trump
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-brand-loyalty-collapsed-after-musk-backed-trump-data-shows-2025-08-04/
MSN
— Top Trump Official Says Americans on Medicaid Should Replace Deported Farm Workers. I was never a farm worker, but I did do yard work, deliver newspapers, wash dishes, clean golf shoes, chip slag, pump gasoline, and deliver mail.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-trump-official-says-americans-on-medicaid-should-replace-deported-farm-workers/ar-AA1IczMz
CNBC
— President Donald Trump said Tuesday that JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, the two largest U.S. banks, previously rejected him as a customer, reviving claims that conservative clients were being unfairly denied accounts.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/trump-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-rejected-bank-customer.html
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-victim-pam-bondi-2108809
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/hochul-new-york-texas-redistricting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/texas-redistricting.html
— Democrat leaders side with Erika McEntarfer against Trump. Republican leaders did not side with me against the Democrats who ran GAO.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-bls-firing-economic-reports.html
— Are Democrat leaders moving their eggs from their Epstein basket to their McEntarfer basket?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/columnists/friedman-trump-labor-firing.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Inside Texas Democrats’ plan to seek refuge with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The potential 2028 presidential candidate has quietly talked with Lone Star State lawmakers for weeks, as he and other ambitious governors seek to ways to join their fight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/illinois-pritzker-texas-democrats-redistricting/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders flood Republican town halls with booing Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/04/mike-flood-donald-trump-town-hall-nebraska/85518190007/
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/04/texas-redistricting-map-congress-trump-takeaways/85508969007/
— Trump praises Sydney Sweeney ad, but does he know American Eagle is super WOKE? Sydney Sweeney may be a registered Republican, but I have discovered that American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is – and it pains me to write this – incredibly, unconscionably woke.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/05/trump-sydney-sweeney-tweet-american-eagle-ad/85512067007/
— Because GAO audits IRS, my having worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, should have been enough for GAO to offer me a transfer at GS-13, currently $117,807/year in 1980. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, GAO offered me a transfer only at GS-9 Step 10 Level, currently $88,808/year, a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars To add insult to injury, GAO ignored/dismissed/belittled that most of what I did for IRS was similar to what I would do for GAO, that I had earned an MBA in 1976, that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/07/29/apply-for-job-experience-but-no-degree/85362393007/
WBUR
— According to Democrat leaders, it is not possible to rig jobs numbers. My Democrat superiors in the federal government falsely argued that they did not rigg their employment decisions against me. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have a) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors would not have a) never promoted me beyond GS-12 and disallowed my education deductions in 1978 and my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors would not have a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/08/04/bureau-of-labor-statistics
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/texas-gerrymandering-house-seats-democrats-republicans-congress-f1514f89
BLOOMBERG
— American Eagle Jumps Most Since 2000 After Trump Praises Sydney Sweeney Ad
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/american-eagle-gains-meme-status-with-biggest-jump-since-2000?embedded-checkout=true
POLITICO
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/california-fires-back-at-texas-redistricting-00493314
PBS
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/is-political-gerrymandering-illegal-6-things-to-know-as-texas-dispute-carries-on
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly deny that Trump was elected.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-trying-to-insulate-himself-from-the-will-of-the-public-texas-democrat-says
— My Democrat GAO superiors wasting my career, taking many big adverse actions against me, and forcing me to retire sent a very strong message to those who have the following demographics to not apply to work for GAO: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/firing-of-labor-statistics-head-undermines-trust-in-key-data-ex-trump-official-warns
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/tamara-keith-and-jasmine-wright-on-trumps-bls-firing-and-trust-in-institutions
PEOPLE
— Trump Pits ‘Woke’ Taylor Swift Against Sydney Sweeney
https://people.com/trump-pits-taylor-swift-against-sydney-sweeney-11784508
August 2, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker signs police and fire pension bill expected to cost Chicago billions
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-signs-005100717.html
CHICAGO SUIN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/08/01/illinois-sues-the-trump-administration-to-protect-access-to-gender-affirming-care
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/29/maga-trump-epstein-kash-patel-bondi-mona-charen
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/08/02/hate-illinois-journalism-job-cuts-immigrants-christianity-maga-summer
DAILY HERALD
— Trump administration requests voter data from Illinois elections
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/news/trump-administration-requests-voter-data-from-illinois-elections/
— Kelly leans on experience in Illinois’ Democratic Senate primary. Politics is nasty/vicious. When I ran for the open Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer position in 2004, I stressed my experience. At that time, I was serving as the Illinois Center Right Coalition Treasurer. I had served as the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter Treasurer for 3 years. I was a licensed CPA. I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I had a master’s degree in accounting. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years and for GAO for almost 18 years. But my opponent had his operatives and his dupes demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me. He got 69 votes and I got only 13. He blamed me big time for George Ryan’s problems and for Jim Ryan’s loss to Blagojevich. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/news/kelly-leans-on-experience-in-illinois-democratic-senate-primary/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against corporations.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/08/02/new-legislation-would-provide-corporate-accountability-opinion/85442384007/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders drive the stock market down.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/01/stocks-tumble-after-trump-unveils-sweeping-new-tariffs/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— What if you had gotten a student loan? For me, my GPA would have been higher because I spend far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://chicagodefender.com/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-limits-student-loan-forgiveness-for-millions/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all the problems that Blacks have. What are your demographics? Who causes your problems?
https://chicagodefender.com/black-workers-at-risk-as-trump-slows-equity-focused-job-investments/
SUBURBAN LFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/07/22/engaged-and-connected-many-protesters-doing-more-than-attending-rallies-protests-to-advocate-for-change/
NAPERVILLE PATCH
— Naperville Hispanic Heritage Festival September 13
https://patch.com/illinois/naperville/save-date-naperville-hispanic-heritage-festival
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Embattled Biden Warns of “Dark Days” Under Trump in Fiery Chicago Speech to National Bar Association
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/embattled-biden-warns-of-dark-days-under-trump-in-fiery-chicago-speech-to-national-bar-association.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Fire bad federal employees and reward good ones. According to my critics/opponents, all the many big adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me were justified because I was a bad employee. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job related professional license.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/2/trump-right-fire-bad-federal-employees-reward-good-ones/
NEW YORK POST
— Biden stumbles through speech at Chicago gala as he warns US in ‘dark days’
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/us-news/biden-takes-aim-at-trump-as-existential-threat-to-black-americans-in-speech-to-lawyers-group/
BREITBART
— U.S.-Bound Illegal Immigration Through Panama’s Darien Gap Drops 99.98%
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/01/u-s-bound-illegal-immigration-through-panamas-darien-gap-drops-99-98/
DAILY CALLER
— Liberal Groups Aim To Make Immigration Courts Safe Haven For Illegals
https://www.aol.com/liberal-groups-aim-immigration-courts-152513289.html
FEDERALIST
— Immigration Crackdown Protects Americans From Murderers And Rapists Biden Released Into The Streets
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/immigration-crackdown-protects-americans-from-murderers-and-rapists-biden-released-into-the-streets/
FOX NEWS
— Illegals being deported have no one to blame but themselves. Illegals will argue that Democrat and RINO leaders invited them in.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376474118112
— Democratic states sue Trump admin over ending sex change surgeries for minors
https://www.foxnews.com/us/democratic-states-sue-trump-admin-ending-sex-change-surgeries-minors
NEWSMAX
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages. When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, but if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/illegal-immigrants-workers-tom-homan/2025/08/01/id/1221021/
— 2M Illegal Immigrants Ordered Deported Remain in US
https://www.newsmax.com/us/illegal-migrants-donald-trump-ice/2025/08/01/id/1220979/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump administration revokes Biden era abortion rule for veterans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at women that getting fast free abortions should be their top priority.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5433244-trump-administration-revokes-biden-era-abortion-rule-for-veterans/
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference. To give one group preference is to discriminate against other groups. My critics/opponents brag that they give preference not only to Blacks, but to all minorities, females, young people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/discrimination-black-people-ap-poll-rcna222306
AOL
— Hunter Biden Says He Would Invade Sovereign Nations To Bring Illegals Back To US
https://www.aol.com/hunter-biden-says-f-ing-204936412.html
YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage federal employees to be LGBTQers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-greenlighting-discrimination-against-220258175.html
CBS NEWS
— Everyone has always know that Biden’s parole program was illegal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-expedited-deportations-of-those-who-entered-u-s-legally-possibly-curtailing-ice-courthouse-arrests/
ABC LOS ANGELES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7.com/post/socal-ice-raids-appeals-court-keeps-order-blocking-trump-administration-indiscriminate-immigration-sweeps/17400025/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/climate/trump-climate-skeptics-science-report.html
— Democrat leaders defend a job data report showing surprisingly weak hiring in July and large downward revisions to job growth in the previous two months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/economy/trump-bls-firing-jobs-report.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mamdani.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opinion/zohran-mamdani-progressives-left-black-voters.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders come to Erika McEntarfer’s defense. I should write about those who could have and should have come to my defense, but did not. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/01/who-is-erika-mcentarfer-bls-fired-by-trump/1f94b186-6f2b-11f0-aab6-8141d7095676_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. Everyone has always know that Biden’s parole program was illegal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/01/trump-parole-expedited-removals-chnv-deportations/
WPRO
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages. When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, but if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.997wpro.com/2025/08/01/homan-to-newsmax-illegals-reduce-us-workers-wages/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/stop-the-ice-workplace-raids-immigration-trump-illegal-5e09b05f
— Democrat leaders drive the stock market down.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/jobs-report-today-stock-market-08-01-2025
— Trump Orders Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief. GAO works for Congress. In 1997, when I was 49 years old, my Democrat GAO superiors acted like the Democrat U.S. Senators and Congressmen who represented Illinois ordered them to fire me, that is, to force me to retire. The Senators were Carol Moseley Braun and Paul Simon. The ten Democrat Congressmen included Bobby Rush, Dick Durbin, and Jesse Jackson Jr. The ten Republican Congressmen included Henry Hyde, Dennis Hastert, Ray LaHood, Harris Fawell, and Phil Crane. At that time, I was one of the very few remaining Republican employees in GAO’s Chicago Office and I was the only one who was an active member of a class action lawsuit that charged GAO with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-orders-firing-of-bureau-of-labor-statistics-chief-d8eaa272
AXIOS
— Trump admin rescinds Carter‑era DEI mandates for federal hiring. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. 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.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/trump-doj-dei-federal-hiring-carter
INDEPENDENT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all the problems that Blacks have. What are your demographics? Who causes your problems?
https://www.aol.com/more-70-black-voters-disapprove-205101322.html
August 1, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN9
— Chicago’s budget deficit threatened by pension bill that awaits Pritzker’s signature. My GAO superior who focused on getting rid of me was so furious that I got almost 3 years of full-time Civil Service Retirement System credit while I worked only part-time for the Post Office 1966-1969 that he got Congress to change the law so that now only prorated credit is given.
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/chicagos-budget-deficit-threatened-by-pension-bill-that-awaits-pritzkers-signature/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The bill would boost pension benefits for officers and firefighters hired after 2010 by increasing the cap on pensionable salary and the annual cost-of-living adjustment for pensioners.)
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/01/illinois-joins-lawsuit-challenging-trump-administration-s-efforts-restrict-gender
— Duckworth, Durbin Urge Trump Administration to Reinstate EPA Workers Who Signed ‘Declaration of Dissent.’ I did far more than sign a letter of dissent. When I was 40 years old in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. GAO audits IRS. They had unofficially thrown me off audits of IRS before I was 40 in 1988 because I had complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. They had kept me off audits of IRS 1980-1985. They had forced the GAO manager to retire in 1987 who had hired me in 1980 and who had finally been able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986. They had delayed my promotions, had never promoted me beyond GS-13, and had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Democrats run GAO and IRS. They do not want Republicans to audit IRS.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/01/duckworth-durbin-urge-trump-administration-reinstate-epa-workers-who-signed-declaration
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/01/mayors-office-completes-internal-review-of-chicago-police-response-to-june-immigration-raid
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/08/01/illinois-sues-the-trump-administration-to-protect-access-to-gender-affirming-care
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ICE says it has made tentative job offers to more than 1,000 as hiring ramps up. Just kidding, but will Speaker Johnson force GAO to rehire me with backpay. Many of my Democrat GAO superiors who forced me to retire have now retired themselves. My backpay would be $2.4 million ($4.3 salary minus $1.9 Civil Service Retirement System pension.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/ice-hiring-tentative-job-offers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Many of these offers were to ICE officers who retired under President Biden because they were frustrated that they were not allowed to do their jobs,” she said. “Now under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is excited to get back to work to remove rapists, murderers, gang members and pedophiles from our communities.”)
— Casten shouted down at town hall in La Grange, pro-Palestinian protesters removed
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/u-s-rep-sean-casten-pro-palestinian-protesters/
— Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report. I should write about the following who have done the most to remove me as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 because my newsletters have reported Republican defeats: past and present 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 and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. It is called shooting the messenger who brings the bad news.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/trump-removes-jobs-data/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/judge-pauses-fast-track-deportations/
— Lake County Sheriff Martinez starts to repay county for $157,785 of overpayment of benefits. According to my critics/opponents, my federal salary 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, my $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension in today’s dollars since 1997, and my and my wife’s 72% federal healthcare insurance subsidy is much too high. In my defense, I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/lake-co-sheriff-martinez-starts-to-repay-county-for-overpayment-of-benefits/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: All of the extra pay that Martinez received was from the collective bargaining agreement that covers the sheriff’s police officers. The State Board of Accounts contended under state code that Martinez is an officeholder who is not entitled to benefits for police officers negotiated under the collective bargaining agreement.
DAILY HERALD
— Duckworth ever-increasingly makes it clear that she is anti-those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250801/illinois-state-politics/diversity-in-crash-test-dummies-can-save-womens-lives-duckworth-gop-senators-say/
WGN RADIO
— College Visits: What to ask to get the whole picture. In 1966, UIC was the only college that I considered attending. I could afford UIC because my parents could and did provide me with room and board while I attended UIC 1966-1968 and the summers of 1967 and 1968 in between. In 1969, NIU was the only college that I considered transferring to because my parents could and did provide me with room and board weekends during my first semester there and the summer of 1969. I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969.
https://wgnradio.com/jobs/career-vision/college-visits-what-to-ask-to-get-the-whole-picture/
WBEZ
— Chicago teens on the job this summer. What summer jobs did you have? I did yard work during the summers of 1962 and 1963. I delivered newspapers during the summers of 1962-1966. I washed dishes during the summer of 1965. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline during the summer of 1966. I delivered mail during the summers of 1967-1969. My critics/opponents never had to take such jobs because their parents had lots of money, bought them cars, and paid for their college expenses.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/08/01/teenagers-summer-jobs-lifeguard-chuck-e-cheese-international-museum-surgical-science
FOX NEWS
— Hamas should be blamed for the starvation in Gaza
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/hamas-should-blamed-starvation-gaza-says-deputy-state-dept-spokesperson-tommy-pigott-middle-east-special-envoy-steve-witkoff-mike-huckabee
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Plaintiff optimistic, DOJ interested in case against Illinois elections board
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_748c769f-a4b8-463a-b8a1-873b7c66c20a.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A legal case is moving forward against the Illinois State Board of Elections over allegations that the state failed to maintain voter registration lists. Former state Rep. Jeanne Ives, R-Wheaton, said the National Voter Registration Act requires the state to perform list maintenance and remove ineligible voters. U.S. District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis dismissed two plaintiffs from the case last week, but Ives’ group, Breakthrough Ideas, was not dismissed and retains standing as a plaintiff along with Illinois Family Action. The groups filed suit with Judicial Watch attorneys in March of 2024. Ives said it’s obvious that voter lists are not well-maintained in Illinois. “This creates extra costs people should not have to incur and it wastes time as well, not to mention it invites fraud when you do not have cleaned-up voter lists,” Ives told The Center Square. Ives said the dead have voted in Illinois. “I’ve pointed out a couple of dead people that I know casted votes, and there was no adequate explanation for why that occurred. Because they were not cleaned off the voter roll, it invited fraud one way or another. In the state of Illinois, this becomes even more problematic when you have permanent vote by mail,” Ives explained. “So you will have ballots being sent to people that are possibly moved or dead, which makes list maintenance even more important in the state of Illinois.” Ives said 23 Illinois counties with a combined registration list of 980,089 voters reported removing only 100 registrations over a two-year period. “That is an absurdly small number. There is no possible way those counties were conducting a general program that makes an effort to clean up the voter rolls, because only a hundred people died in 23 counties? Nobody believes that, so we know that they’re not doing what they should do,” Ives said. On July 8, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a 15-page statement of interest in the case. “When Illinois voters cast their ballots, they should be confident that their vote is given its due weight, undiluted by ineligible voters,” the statement began. “It is critical to remove ineligible voters from the registration rolls so that elections are conducted fairly, accurately, and without fraud,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a press release regarding the statement of interest. “Under the NVRA, states have the responsibility to conduct a robust program of list maintenance. The Department of Justice will vigorously enforce those requirements to ensure compliance.” Ives said the case could have ramifications across the country. She said it is possible that the DOJ will file its own lawsuit. As for what’s next, Ives said parties were waiting for a written ruling and it’s possible there could be a hearing later this month. Ives said she suspects there could be a settlement in the case.)
— Youth mental health screenings may have long-term impact, IL legislator warns. Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_61d88fa0-db2a-49ed-8f3a-1ec239a0a422.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois economy declines 2.2% in early 2025, one of biggest drops in U.S.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-economy-declines-2-2-in-early-2025-one-of-biggest-drops-in-u-s/
— Illinois government pension crisis worst in U.S.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-shows-illinois-government-pension-crisis-worst-in-u-s/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ICE is deporting people at record pace: Nearly 1,300 per day
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/1/ice-deporting-people-record-pace-nearly-1300-per-day/
— Democrats’ civility goes out the window so progressives can pretend to be tough
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/1/editorial-democrats-civility-goes-window-progressives-pretend-tough/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats want to unmask the ICE agents they are putting in danger
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3488819/democrats-ice-agents-masks/
NEW YORK POST
— How can socialist Zohran Mamdani revel in his family’s colonial privilege?
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/opinion/how-can-socialist-zohran-mamdani-revel-in-his-familys-colonial-privilege/
FEDERALIST
— Immigration Crackdown Protects Americans From Murderers And Rapists Biden Released Into The Streets
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/immigration-crackdown-protects-americans-from-murderers-and-rapists-biden-released-into-the-streets/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
KVOR
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages
https://www.kvor.com/2025/08/01/homan-to-newsmax-illegals-reduce-us-workers-wages/
REASON
— The IRS Is Now 25 Percent Smaller (and, Hopefully, Less Dangerous) I should write about those who have used against me the most my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years 1971-1980.
https://www.aol.com/news/irs-now-25-percent-smaller-110004637.html
August 1, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Naperville Halal Fest expects to bring about 20,000 attendees to Frontier Park this weekend
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/chicagoland-halal-fest-naperville-diversity/
— Democrat leaders promote Biden.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/31/joe-biden-national-bar-association/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders promote Biden.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/07/31/biden-trump-president-chicago-speech-national-bar-association-gala-immigrants
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to create good little Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/07/31/trump-deal-northwestern-univeristy-dei-antisemitism-funding-frozen
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who share Trump’s demographics. How successful have Democrat leaders been doing that in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/31/zohran-mamdani-young-democrats-progressives-s-e-cupp
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Mexican Independence Day Festival to return to West Chicago after hiatus
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250731/festivals-and-fairs/mexican-independence-day-festival-to-return-to-west-chicago-after-hiatus/
— ‘Building bridges’: Naperville Halal Fest connects businesses with burgeoning market
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250731/business/building-bridges-halal-fest-connects-businesses-with-burgeoning-market/
ABC7
— Chicago Mayor Johnson implementing hiring freeze for city through end of 2025 amid budget crisis. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the agency was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes because of Gingrich budget cuts. GAO is just a shell of what it once was.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-implementing-hiring-freeze-city-end-2025-amid-budget-crisis/17379048/
NBC5
— Giannoulias pushes for changes in how Illinois auto insurance rates are calculated. Of course, according to Democrat leaders, those who have demographics that vote for Democrats are paying too much for auto insurance. Those demographics are liberal, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-married, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7f-CXhraao
— Illinois becomes first state to require mental health screenings for students. Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-becomes-first-state-to-require-mental-health-screenings-for-students/3802933/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/31/fiesta-del-sol-kicks-pilsen-organizers-say-they-plan-protect-attendees-ice-activity
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/07/31/living-and-working-in-america-the-new-reality-for-refugees-and-asylum-seekers
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/07/30/student-visa-changes-creating-fear-chaos-among-people-hoping-to-study-in-america
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/07/31/illinois-senators-call-for-release-of-the-epstein-files/85458840007/
NPR ILLINOIS
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to create good little Democrats.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-07-31/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-heightens-uncertainty-for-colleges-and-universities
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/protestors-rally-against-lahood/
— Democrat leaders shout at Democrats that Republicans discriminate against Democrats.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-how-americans-views-of-racial-discrimination-have-shifted-since-2021-according-to-ap-norc-polling/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Biden.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/01/biden-sounds-the-alarm-in-chicago-00488175
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois ranks in the top 5 worst or bottom 5 best in every metric. It’s time to change that.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-ranks-in-the-top-5-worst-or-bottom-5-best-in-every-metric-its-time-to-change-that-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
JOHN KASS
— The Faustian Bargain of Rock and Roll. Do drugs make musicians more creative?
https://johnkassnews.com/the-faustian-bargain-of-rock-and-roll/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— No more diversity statements: DOJ guidance draws line on ‘unlawful DEI’. Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/31/justice-department-releases-guidance-explaining-unlawful-dei/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The many problems with driver’s licenses for illegal aliens
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/the_many_problems_with_driver_s_licenses_for_illegal_aliens.html
BLAZE
— MAGA’s biggest threat isn’t Democrats — it’s internal sabotage
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/blaze-news-tonight/magas-biggest-threat-isnt-democrats-its-internal-sabotage
BREITBART
— Windmill Delusions and Nuclear Solutions: Trump’s Energy Agenda and How to Learn from Europe’s Mistakes
https://web.breitbart.com/videos/windmill-delusions-and-nuclear-solutions-trump-s-energy-agenda-and-how-to-learn-from-europe-s-mistakes
CAMPUS REFORM
— ICE offers $110k incentives to college recruits under Trump expansion
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ice-offers-110k-incentives-college-recruits-trump-expansion/28368
CENTER SQUARE
— Bill would require transparency of foreign influence in K-12 schools. There were no foreign influences on me while I attended grade school and high school.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_f979ebde-3fc9-49b5-a30e-5efbd665c692.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Left’s Hitler Derangement Syndrome
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/30/stop-dishonoring-my-murdered-relatives-by-comparing-trump-to-hitler/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— DHS Launches $600 Million Grant Program for State Detention Centers
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/07/31/dhs-600-million-dollar-grant-state-detention-centers
FOX NEWS
— Mamdani reveals in resurfaced video how one of his ‘greatest victories’ benefitted illegal immigrants. Zohran Mamdani has pledged to fight for illegal immigrants if he is elected mayor.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-reveals-resurfaced-video-how-greatest-victories-benefitted-illegal-immigrants
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is ‘in over his head’ running the city, Blagojevich lodges
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376416811112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump Is Right to Point the Finger at Hamas for Gaza Woes
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/trump-is-right-to-point-finger-at-hamas-for-gaza-woes/
PJ MEDIA
— Leftist Squeamishness on Admitting the Crimes of Illegals and Jihadis
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/31/leftist-squeamishness-on-admitting-illegals-jihadis-crimes-n4942278
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Trump Gets Backlash Over RNC Chair Endorsement: An LGBT ‘Ally’ Who ‘Just Tried to Pass Amnesty’
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-gets-backlash-rnc-chair-endorsement-lgbt-ally-just-tried-pass-amnesty/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— ICE says it has made tentative job offers to more than 1,000 as hiring ramps up
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/politics/article/ice-says-it-has-made-tentative-job-offers-to-more-20796627.php
MSN
— DEI rollbacks are having an impact on hiring practices. 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 who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/dei-rollbacks-are-having-an-impact-on-hiring-practices/ar-AA1JFRks
https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2025/07/31/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-trump-hiring-jobs.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC ended my career in the automotive industry. Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted when I was 22 years old in 1971 because Oldsmobile agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Stores boss fired me because I had accepted that offer. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/andrea-lucas-equal-employment-opportunity-commission.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump brings back presidential physical fitness test canceled by Obama. By the time I got to eight grade, I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/31/trump-physical-fitness-test-returns/
USA TODAY
— To get more votes, Democrat and RINO candidates promise more government handouts.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/31/hawley-rebate-checks-trump-tariffs/85430292007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charities.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/07/30/trump-cuts-legal-services-rural-america/85340070007/
HEARTFORD COURANT
— Trump plans to revive the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren. By the time I got to eight grade, I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness.
https://www.courant.com/2025/07/31/trump-presidential-fitness-test/
FAST COMPANY
— Ever-increasingly, the Democrat Party exists to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91377373/trumps-ftc-spreading-lies-about-trans-people-kosa
HIGHER ED DRIVE
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to create good little Democrats.
https://www.highereddive.com/news/justice-department-threatens-federal-funding-colleges-dei-policies/756510/
BROOKINGS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use AI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trumps-executive-orders-politicize-ai/