July 28, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump calls for Kamala Harris, celebrities who endorsed her, like Oprah, Beyoncé, to be prosecuted
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-calls-former-vp-kamala-harris-celebrities-endorsed-like-oprah-beyonce-prosecuted/17338450/

NBC5
— Pritzker signs new gun safety bills, with DOJ opposition emerging to laws
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-signs-new-gun-safety-bills-with-doj-opposition-emerging-to-laws/3799637/

WTTW
— Chicago Organizers, Officials Call on ICE to Keep Away From Fiesta del Sol and Other Community Events. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/28/chicago-organizers-officials-call-ice-keep-away-fiesta-del-sol-and-other-community

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker ever-increasingly demonizes, denigrates, and condemns gun owners.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/28/illinois-gun-laws/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/07/28/fiesta-del-sol-organizers-immigrant-ice-arrests
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/07/28/the-rundown-trump-targets-signs-of-homelessness-not-causes

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Former Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy weighs run for governor
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_d10557a5-6fe8-561c-8d29-35f32083164c.html

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/carlinville-protesters-stories-illinois-macoupin-20782377.php

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with their illegals against America.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-07-28/immigrants-sue-over-trumps-mandatory-detention-no-bail-policy

BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Did Burr Ridge Mayor Post On Politics In Right Spot?  Mayor Gary Grasso announced his candidacy on a page that may be seen as linked to the village government.
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/did-burr-ridge-mayor-post-politics-right-spot

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois GOP chair Kathy Salvi blasts Pritzker’s North Carolina speech
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_593340e7-467c-4407-a396-3e2345cf84dc.html

WIREPOINTS
— Once an Illinois showpiece E.V. maker, bankrupt Lion Electric voids warranties on school buses sold in Illinois and across the U.S.
https://wirepoints.org/once-an-illinois-showpiece-e-v-maker-bankrupt-lion-electric-voids-warranties-on-school-buses-sold-in-illinois-and-across-the-u-s-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats conduct political autopsy but ignore the real cause of death. Party driven by socialism, open borders, and gender ideology heading for more election defeats.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/28/democrats-conduct-political-autopsy-ignore-real-cause-death/
— California’s 2.2 million illegal immigrants constitute a national security crisis.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/28/californias-22-million-illegal-immigrants-constitute-national/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The True Roots of Transgenderism. The pro-family movement is surging back, aiming not just to stop transgenderism—but to roll back the entire LGBT agenda and restore a culture rooted in biology, truth, and tradition.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/28/the-true-roots-of-transgenderism/
— Democrats Are Endangering ICE Agents to Support Open Borders
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/26/democrats-are-endangering-ice-agents-to-support-open-borders/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Law Firm Discrimination
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/law_firm_discrimination_an_insider_s_view.html
— Chicago believes it just scored a huge win over Trump’s lawsuit against ‘sanctuary’ policies – but it’s a hollow victory
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/chicago_believes_it_just_scored_a_huge_win_over_trump_s_lawsuit_against_sanctuary_policies_but_it_s_a_hollow_victory.html
— Major Shipping Line Matson Closes the Hatch on Transport of Electrical Vehicles
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/major_shipping_line_matson_closes_the_hatch_on_transport_of_electrical_vehicles.html
— It’s Time for the Administration To Start Creatively Downsizing The Federal Workforce Again. Democrats run the federal government. They use budget cuts to get rid of any remaining Republican employees.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/it_s_time_for_the_administration_to_start_creatively_downsizing_the_federal_workforce_again.html

BREITBART
— Majority Favor Deporting Migrants in the Country Illegally
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/28/immigration-poll-majority-favor-deporting-migrants-in-the-country-illegally/

COLLEGE FIX
— Drones, cameras, AI: University of Illinois real time crime center raises privacy concerns
https://www.thecollegefix.com/drones-cameras-ai-university-of-illinois-real-time-crime-center-raises-privacy-concerns/

DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Using Time Off To Travel To Red States, Try Convincing People Trump’s Bad
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/democrats-time-off-travel-red-states-convincing-people-trump-bad/
— Wealthy Residents Of Maine Resort Town Fret Over Losing Access To Cheap Illegal Labor
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/28/wells-maine-police-department-ice-immigrants-hospitality-economy/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens Have Made a Real Impact on Public Safety
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/28/exclusive-dhs-celebrates-falling-crime-rates-amid-removal-of-worst-of-the-worst-criminal-illegal-aliens/

FEDERALIST
— Apple Puts America At Risk By Partnering With China
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/apple-puts-america-at-risk-by-partnering-with-china/
— Continued Enrollment Slide For Public Schools. Most public schools are now failing in three critical areas that parents care about when deciding on their children’s K-12 education: academic rigor, student discipline, and the campus’ moral influence.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/heres-why-new-data-finds-continued-enrollment-slide-for-public-schools/
— ‘Riddled With Errors,’ Dirty Voter Rolls Pose Growing Threat To Election Integrity
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/riddled-with-errors-dirty-voter-rolls-pose-growing-threat-to-election-integrity/
— American Birth Rates Drop To Levels Of Civilizational Suicide
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/25/american-birth-rates-rates-drop-to-levels-of-civilizational-suicide/

FOX NEWS
— Dems’ sanctuary policies shield ‘gangbangers,’ harm Latino families, businesses
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-sanctuary-policies-shield-gangbangers-harm-latino-families-businesses-says-hispanic-gop-lawmaker

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
— Electricity Generated from Wind and Solar Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels
https://heartland.org/opinion/electricity-generated-from-wind-and-solar-cannot-replace-fossil-fuels/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dept. Education Investigates Discrimination Against American-Born Students
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/dept-education-investigates-discrimination-against-american-born-students-after-equal-protection-project-complaints/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wall Street Journal Poll Finds Lowest Approval for Democratic Party in 35 Years
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wall-street-journal-poll-finds-lowest-approval-for-democratic-party-in-35-years/

TOWNHALL
— Do Republicans Have a Decent Shot at Defying History in the Midterms?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/07/28/early-analysis-do-republicans-have-a-decent-shot-at-defying-history-in-the-midterms-n2661004
— Democrats Are the Physically Broken Party
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/kurtschlichter/2025/07/28/democrats-are-the-physically-broken-party-n2661047

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

FED SMITH
— The IRS Is Targeting Federal Workers Over Unpaid Taxes
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/07/24/irs-is-targeting-federal-workers-over-unpaid-taxes/

AGA
— Jeffrey C. Steinhoff.  One could compare and contrast Steinhoff’s very successful 40-year GAO career with my failed 18-year GAO career. While both Steinhoff and I are CPAs, Certified Fraud Examiners, and Certified Government Financial Managers, I am also a Certified Internal Auditor, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant and a licensed CPA. While Steinhoff served as a National President of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), I only served on the Executive Committee of AGA’s Chicago Chapter for 13 years. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. Steinhoff had no interest in me even though a) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) I had earned an MBA 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. I completed those requirements in 1980 and I subsequently earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997.
https://www.agacgfm.org/Chapters/Washington-DC-Chapter/OurChapter/Chapter-Awards-2025-Winners.aspx

July 28, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— About your complaints on Trumpian gerrymandering, Gov. Pritzker
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/28/gerrymandering-illinois-political-maps-redistricting/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/27/homeless-executive-order-forced-hospitalization-donald-trump-chicago
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/john-slocum
— Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are racists and that if you are a Republican, your ancestors were Republican, and that the longer that they have been in America, the more that you have benefitted from their racism. What were your ancestors doing in 1919? On my father’s side, they were operating Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side, they were operating a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/violet-miller

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-its-a-year-of-rapid-change-except-when-it-comes-to-trumps-approval-numbers-ap-norc-polling-finds/
— Democrat leaders decry Trump’s vacations. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government decried the vacations that I earned and took. I earned 13 vacation days per year during my first 3 years, then 20 per year during my next 15 years, and then 26 per year during the rest of the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-trump-once-decried-the-idea-of-presidential-vacations-his-scotland-trip-is-built-around-golf/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— See the articles below concerning Trump making Matthew Lohmeier an Air Force Under Secretary. Like Lohmeie, I fought Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI in the federal government. Since the 1960s, the Democrats who run the federal government have used AA and DEI to make the federal government a hostile work environment for Republicans, to waste the careers of Republicans, and to get rid of Republicans. If Republican Presidents, U.S. Senators, and U.S. Representatives had stopped AA and DEI in the federal government, 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 except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Further, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have been able to a) never promote me beyond GS-12, b) disallow my education deductions, and c) disallow my travel vouchers. Further, my Democrat Post Office superiors would not have been able to a) force me to resign and b) disallow my sick leave requests.
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s deportation machine advances despite court hurdles
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3482843/trump-deportation-machine-advances-despite-court-hurdles/

NEW YORK POST
— Anti-DEI ex-Space Force officer Matthew Lohmeier confirmed as Air Force Under Secretary
https://nypost.com/video/anti-dei-ex-space-force-officer-matthew-lohmeier-confirmed-as-air-force-under-secretary/
— Dems are finally speaking up on Mamdani’s sickening embrace of antisemitism — but New York’s leaders remain silent
https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/opinion/dems-are-finally-speaking-up-on-mamdanis-antisemitism-while-new-yorks-leaders-remain-silent/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Graveyard of Progressive Misadventures. Progressive overreach alienated the middle class, replacing working-class roots with elite dogmas—and now the Democrats are reaping the whirlwind they sowed.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/28/the-graveyard-of-progressive-misadventures/

BLAZE
— How coveting empowers wokeness, socialism, and cancel culture. Envy is the animating force of all conflict. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government were filled with envy. They were envious of the new cars and real estate that I bought. They were envious of the college degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I earned. They were envious of my wife’s income. According to them, I did not disserve what I had a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft and b) my wife and I gave up trying to have children.
https://www.theblaze.com/align/how-one-ancient-sin-empowers-wokeness-socialism-and-cancel-culture

BREITBART
— Amnesty for illegals Is treason. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/27/kentucky-gop-senate-candidate-nate-morris-declares-amnesty-for-illegals-is-treason/
— During the last 4 years under Biden, not one Democrat asked for Epstein files.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/27/mullin-last-four-years-under-biden-not-one-dem-asked-for-epstein-files/

DAILY CALLER
— Jay Leno Blasts Late Night Hosts For Partisan Jokes That Alienate Viewers
https://www.aol.com/jay-leno-blasts-night-hosts-154633386.html

FEDERALIST
— Senate Confirms Matthew Lohmeier As Next Under Secretary Of The Air Force
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/24/senate-confirms-matthew-lohmeier-as-next-under-secretary-of-the-air-force/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A former fighter pilot for the Air Force and later the Space Force, Lohmeier was removed from service under the Biden administration in May 2021 after espousing concerns about the military’s embrace of Marxist ideology. The lieutenant colonel specifically criticized the force’s obsession with DEI racism and critical race theory.)

FOX NEWS
— Sanctuary cities ‘make it safe’ for criminal migrants to roam our neighborhoods.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376208068112
— Chicago-based group hosted a summer camp for anti-Trumpers
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376215116112
— Dems’ goal isn’t to make us safer, it’s to create chaos so they can maintain power
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376211923112
— America’s skies are wide open to national security threats drone expert warns
https://www.foxnews.com/us/americas-skies-wide-open-national-security-threats-drone-expert-warns?lid=yb8lbgt38x7i

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Massive Upgrade to DoD: Matthew Lohmeier Confirmed as Under Secretary of the Air Force. Former Air/Space Force Lieutenant Colonel F-15 pilot becomes #2 person in the Air Force, and Legal Insurrection couldn’t be happier.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/massive-upgrade-to-dod-matthew-lohmeier-confirmed-as-under-secretary-of-the-air-force/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel squadron commander who was fired, forced to resign without a pension just before his retirement date, and subjected to a Pentagon Inspector General investigation after publishing his bestselling book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military, which tore the lid off the military’s obsession with DEI and racist and radical “woke” ideologies.)

NEWSMAX
— Blagojevich to Newsmax: ‘Lunatics’ Have Taken Over Democrats’ ‘Asylum’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rod-blagojevich-democrats-left-wing/2025/07/27/id/1220259/

TOWNHALL
— Lohmeier, Fired by Biden for Exposing Pentagon DEI, Confirmed by Senate As Air Force Under Secretary.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/07/27/lohmeier-fired-by-biden-for-exposing-pentagon-dei-confirmed-by-senate-as-air-force-under-secretary-n2660921
— Media Ignore Trump Successes to Focus on Epstein
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2025/07/28/media-ignore-trump-successes-to-focus-on-epstein-n2661017

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— Virtually all, if not all, GAO employees are Democrats. GAO falsely claims to be non-partisan. I should write a book about that. I would use how the Democrats who run GAO treated me as an example. If I had been a Democrat, they would not have forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They would not have kept me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They would not have delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They would not have always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They would not have forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have wasted what I learned working 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.  They would not have wasted what I learned earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. They would not have wasted what I learned earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. They would not have wasted what I learned to become a licensed CPA.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-violated-law-in-delaying-us-head-start-education-funding-gao-report-finds/ar-AA1JahXB

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-college-governance-dei-635834c9e09e4361f319257ab9fa3724
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Islam.
https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/muslim-leaders-increase-security-after-vandalism-20787509.php

AOL
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use AI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-004445924.html

MSN
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, when Whites, males, older people, Protestants, and German Americans do better than minorities, females, younger people, non-Protestants, and non-German Americans, it is because they benefit from discrimination against minorities, females, younger people, non-Protestants, and non-German Americans. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use the aforesaid argument to give more and more and more preference to minorities, females, younger people, non-Protestants, and non-German Americans. America’s enemies do not want America to be led by Whites, males, older people, Protestants, or German Americans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/equity-is-not-a-handout-it-s-a-head-start-why-fairness-requires-more-than-equality/ar-AA1J7LtR

CBS LOS ANGELES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/jewel-thais-williams-lgbtq-trailblazer-remembered-at-beloved-west-hollywood-venue-catch-one/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mamdani.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/opinion/mamdani-race-college-admissions.html
— Gas Stations Are Adding E.V. Chargers and Reasons to Wait Around
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/business/gas-station-expansion-evs.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/27/justice-epstein-memo-bondi-blanche-patel-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/27/scotland-donald-trump-protests-golf/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— We Won’t Miss Government Media. At NPR and PBS, bias has long been the biggest problem. Let 1,000 podcasts bloom.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/we-wont-miss-government-media-ce321e65
— Antisemitism Moves Into the Political Mainstream. It used to be taboo to say you hated the Jews and wanted to wipe Israel off the map. Not anymore.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/antisemitism-moves-into-the-political-mainstream-13763ea8

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly unite those who are liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time against those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2025/07/27/allyship-is-leadership-why-people-with-power-are-an-untapped-resource/

RAMIREZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more poverty and crime.
https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-ramirez-slams-trumps-efforts-criminalize-neighbors-impacted

DAILY BEAST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Joe Walsh.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-republican-congressman-joe-walsh-unpacks-brutality-behind-south-parks-trump-burn/

GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders use billboards to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/27/medicaid-cuts-billboards-democrats

July 23, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-calls-cook-county-illinois-shut-down-broadview-ice-facility-alleging-inhumane-conditions/17250357/
— Secret Service one of few federal agencies currently hiring; Chicago field office talks recruitment. One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/secret-service-few-federal-agencies-hiring-look-changes-president-donald-trump-assassination-attempt/17251198/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/gov-pritzker-discusses-trump-administration-immigration-policies/3795459/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1678881

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Ever-increasingly, everyone in health care in America is more and more and more of the following: citizens for foreign countries, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/federal-student-loans-limits-medical-students/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: To advance those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace objective criteria with subjective criteria.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/district-204-piloting-weighted-grading/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/07/22/a-family-came-to-chicago-seeking-asylum-he-was-deported-now-she-wants-to-leave
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/chicago-immigration-resource-guide

SHAW LOCAL
— Feds weigh in on lawsuit challenging how Illinois maintains voter registration rolls. Suit alleges Illinois fails to properly maintain registration lists.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/23/feds-weigh-in-on-lawsuit-challenging-how-illinois-maintains-voter-registration-rolls/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat leaders use NPR to destroy Republicans.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/npr-illinois-weighs-future-amid-federal-funding-20775396.php

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump. I should write the following who have done the most to promote hatred against me: 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, d) conservative leaders, e) religious leaders, f) those who I have sued and their attorneys, and g) my Democrat superiors in the federal government.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-favorability-has-fallen-among-aapi-adults-since-last-year-aapi-data-ap-norc-poll-finds/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/07/22/illinois-head-start-providers-confused-after-trump-administration-guidance/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/23/epsteins-shadow-reaches-illinois-00469094

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-557/
—  Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-350/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Gov.-run grocery stores are a political arrogance that robs taxpayers
https://wirepoints.org/gov-run-grocery-stores-are-a-political-arrogance-that-robs-taxpayers-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— A wake-up call for NYC from the Windy City
https://wirepoints.org/a-wake-up-call-for-nyc-from-the-windy-city-wirepoints-on-the-chicago-way-with-john-kass/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you are White and/or male, the less education and/or less money that your parents have and/or had, the more that Affirmative Action and DEI harm you. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. All my potential employers and all my employers were always under tremendous pressure to hire, to retain, and to promote young minorities and young females. Virtually my coworkers who they promoted over me were minorities and/or females who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump slashes 25% of IRS workforce with buyouts, firings of nearly 26,000 agency staff
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/22/trump-slashed-25-irs-workforce/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fake deportation stories replace fake hate crimes for Democrats
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3478664/fake-deportation-stories-ice-raids-replace-fake-hate-crimes-for-democrats/

NEW YORK POST
— GOP Sen. Jim Banks introduces bill banning wokeness, ‘divisive narratives’ at Smithsonian museums: ‘Stop letting activists rewrite our past’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/22/us-news/new-bill-would-ban-wokeness-at-smithsonian-museums/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Polls, Propaganda, and the Truth About Trump’s Deportation Agenda
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/polls_propaganda_and_the_truth_about_trump_s_deportation_agenda.html

BLAZE
— 5 things Trump must do to fulfill his mass deportation mandate
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/5-things-trump-must-do-to-fulfill-his-mass-deportation-mandate

BREITBART
— Americans Firmly Oppose Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, Back Trump’s Deportation Agenda
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/22/exclusive-poll-americans-firmly-oppose-amnesty-for-illegals-back-deportations/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Here’s How Much Taxpayer Cash the Groups Now Suing Trump Received Under Biden
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/22/ngos-suing-block-trump-reforms-received-1-7b-taxpayer-cash-under-biden/
— Lawsuit Over California School’s Race-Based Scholarships Could Deal Massive Blow to DEI. From what I see, virtually all those who get scholarships are minority and/or female.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/22/lawsuit-over-california-schools-race-based-scholarships-could-deal-massive-blow-dei/

DAILY WIRE
— Soros-Tied Groups Back Republican Bill To Give Amnesty To Millions Of Illegal Aliens. Groups with ties to the Democrat billionaire are cheering on Rep. Salazar’s legislation as they bash the Trump admin’s policies.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-tied-groups-back-republican-bill-to-give-amnesty-to-millions-of-illegal-aliens

FEDERALIST
— The Federal Government Must Prosecute Activists Who Harbor Illegal Immigrants In Cities Like L.A.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/22/the-federal-government-must-prosecute-activists-who-harbor-illegal-immigrants-in-cities-like-l-a/

FOX NEWS
— Trump’s immigration enforcement push results in skyrocketing arrests of criminal illegal aliens
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trumps-immigration-enforcement-push-results-skyrocketing-arrests-criminal-illegal-aliens
— Red state universities admit to rebranding DEI efforts to skirt Trump orders
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375988851112

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— ‘Who Will Pick Our Cotton?’: Cory Booker Slammed for Video Promising to Protect Illegal Aliens
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/who-will-pick-our-cotton-cory-booker-slammed-for-video-promising-to-protect-illegal-aliens/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Hunter Biden Lashes Out at Democratic Party Elite for Turning on His Father
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-lashes-out-at-democratic-party-elite-for-turning-on-his-father/

NEW AMERICAN
— Illegals Staging “Kidnapping,” Deportation Hoaxes to Get Sympathy, Money
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/illegals-staging-kidnapping-deportation-hoaxes-to-get-sympathy-money/

NEWSMAX
— Flag Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-nps-history/2025/07/22/id/1219683/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Such content includes signs about how climate change contributes to rising sea levels at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, exhibits on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, and language on the imprisonment of Native Americans at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in St. Augustine, Florida.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HIIL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5414628-democrats-hardball-epstein-files/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5414632-trump-epstein-controversy/

CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that markets are booming under Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/investing/us-stock-market
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/trump-epstein-maxwell-justice-department-analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_8p7ffNRDA
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-latest-bid-to-end-epstein-storm-weaponizing-the-federal-government/ar-AA1J6IAd

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-epstein-files-conspiracy-controversy-defense-arguments-maga-rcna220009

NBC NEWS
— What percent become citizens of America for bad reasons?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/calls-strip-zohran-mamdanis-citizenship-trump-denaturalization-power-rcna216653

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Republicans seek to undermine GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able a) to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) to delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) to keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Because I was one of GAO’s few remaining Republican employees, my Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich GAO budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/trump-spending-government-accountability-office.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/migration-deportation-sudan-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/arts/television/late-night-trump-epstein.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration pauses student loan forgiveness. I did not get a student loan. If you also did not get a student loan, what if you had gotten one? If I had gotten a student loan, I would have gotten better paying jobs because my GPA would have been higher. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying. Nevertheless, a) I graduated debt-free from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE and b) I earned enough money to buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, pay for graduate evening business courses 1972-1976, buy a new town home University Park in 1972, buy condos in downtown Chicago in 1974 and 1976, pay for graduate evening accounting courses 1976-1980, get married and buy a home in Wheaton with my wife in 1978, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/22/trump-administration-student-loan-forgiveness-pause-ibr-plan/

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/23/where-are-the-docs-trump-attempts-to-wriggle-out-of-epstein-disclosures/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/07/21/trump-epstein-files-release-maga/85248117007/

BLOOMBERG
— If you are White and/or male, the less education and/or less money that your parents have and/or had, the more that Affirmative Action and DEI harm you. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. All my potential employers and all my employers were always under tremendous pressure to hire, to retain, and to promote young minorities and young females. Virtually my coworkers who they promoted over me were minorities and/or females 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.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-23/andreessen-is-wrong-about-dei-and-the-working-class

NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198247/trump-epstein-fiasco-ron-wyden

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/23/house-democrats-jeffrey-epstein-trump-politics-00469042
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/22/democrats-epstein-attack-plans-00468534
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/22/trump-epstein-urges-doj-obama-00467514
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/22/congress/house-gop-huddles-on-epstein-drama-00466738

PBS
— Hunter Biden lashes out at George Clooney, other Democratic ‘elites,’ over Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/hunter-biden-lashes-out-at-george-clooney-other-democratic-elites-over-joe-bidens-2024-campaign

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5476530/president-trump-deflects-questions-about-epstein-probe-with-accusations-about-obama

WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/23/atug-j23.html

July 18, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Trump administration hands over Medicaid data to ICE. What percent of illegals are on Medicaid?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/afternoon-briefing-trump-administration-hands-over-medicaid-data-to-ice/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/chicago-set-as-flagship-city-for-good-trouble-protests-planned-across-the-country-thursday-against-trump/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/cicero-resident-stopped-unmarked-agents/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/chicago-history-july-18/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/opinion-immigrant-rights-chicago-poll/
— Democracy thrives on competition. Run for office. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINOs leaders discourage you from running: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/opinion-elections-candidates-democracy-illinois-gop/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/live/chicago-good-trouble-protest-john-lewis-trump
— City Council members pushing to legalize video gambling — at Chicago airports or even citywide. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton. Subsequently, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/07/17/city-council-legalize-video-gambling-chicago-airports-citywide
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/17/jeffrey-epstein-list-maga-pam-bondi-s-e-cupp

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250717/news/good-trouble-lives-on-rally-draws-hundreds-in-elgin/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Argonne and Fermi may dodge DOGE budget cuts. GAO’s Chicago office was not able to dodge Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely for that. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Previously, they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. The forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/technology/argonne-fermilab-may-avoid-budget-cuts-energy-chief-says

ABC7
— Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE. What percent of illegals are on Medicaid?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-gain-access-medicaid-recipients-personal-data-agreement-department-homeland-security-trump-admin/17165162/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPYWw45Zxzo

NBC5
— WSJ says Trump sent Epstein a ‘bawdy’ 50th birthday letter. Trump to sue.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-sent-jeffrey-epstein-bawdy-50th-birthday-letter-wsj/3792338/
— Democrat leaders have always used PBS and NPR to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pbs-npr-fundings-cuts-now-head-to-trumps-desk-how-will-public-radio-tv-in-illinois-be-impacted/3792533/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/lgbtq-crisis-support-hotline-shutdown/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-good-trouble-protests-trump-rally
— What kind of “help” do you need/want/demand from the federal government? The biggest “help” that I needed, but that I did not get, was protection against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/americans-trump-policies-helped-them-poll
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/lgbtq-youth-support-option-ends-on-national-crisis-line-after-trump-administration-cuts

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/17/illinois-will-continue-providing-lgbtq-youth-support-988-suicide-prevention-hotline-amid
— Number of Unhoused Chicagoans Dropped 60% But Remains at All-Time High. The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/17/number-unhoused-chicagoans-dropped-60-remains-all-time-high-survey-found

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders use public media to promote more hated against Republicans
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/07/17/the-rundown-illinois-public-media-stations-brace-for-cuts
https://www.wbez.org/nation-world/2025/07/17/public-media-senate-cuts-npr-pbs

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER & MORRIS HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.sj-r.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/07/17/good-trouble-lives-on-rally-at-the-illinois-capitol-see-photos/85266878007/
https://www.shawlocal.com/morris-herald-news/2025/07/17/people-gather-in-morris-to-make-good-trouble-by-protesting-trump-administration-policies/

SOUTHERN
— Musk floods X with posts attacking Trump over Epstein
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/17/its-a-cover-up-musk-floods-x-with-posts-attacking-trump-over-epstein/

STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-maintains-lgbtq-youth-support-on-988-hotline-amid-federal-cuts/

WMBD
— Number of Illinois jobs reach record high in June. What percent of the jobs in Illinois are bad jobs, that is, what percent are the jobs that my critics/opponents would never stoop to take?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/number-illinois-jobs-reach-record-212616651.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-347/


FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES


WASHINGTON TIMES
— Zohran Mamdani blowing away the competition in Democrats’ free-for-all. How many Democrats in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct would vote for Mamdani?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/zohran-mamdani-blowing-away-competition-democrats-free/
— Trump orders release of grand jury transcripts from Epstein case
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/trump-orders-release-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts/
— Trump says salacious Epstein letter attributed to him is ‘fake,’ and plans lawsuit against WSJ
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/trump-epstein-letter-wall-street-journal-attributed-fake-plans/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump creates new classification of non-career federal government worker. My Democrat superiors in the federal government put advancing the Democrat Party platform above all else, that is, they put wasting the careers of and getting rid of their Republican employees above all else. They certainly wasted my career and got rid of me. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3475158/trump-new-classification-non-career-federal-government-worker/
— The true cost of today’s ‘free’ public education
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3469115/the-true-cost-of-todays-free-public-education/

NEW YORK POST
— Bondi, Burgum tour Alcatraz as Trump wants to ‘renovate and reopen’ notorious island prison
https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/us-news/bondi-and-burgum-tour-alcatraz-as-trump-seeks-to-renovate-and-reopen-notorious-island-prison/

BREITBART
— Chicago Medical Center ‘Pauses’ Transgender Treatment for Minors After Trump’s Executive Order
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2025/07/17/chicago-medical-center-pauses-transgender-treatment-for-minors-after-trumps-executive-order/
— Trump’s Deputies Use Medicaid Data to Help ICE Find Migrants. How many illegals are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/17/trumps-deputies-use-medicaid-data-to-help-ice-find-migrants/

DAILY CALLER
— Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee is introducing a bill Thursday to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order to restore equal opportunity and meritocracy in the workplace. Lee’s Restoring Equal Opportunity Act seeks to remove “disparate impact” on minorities in civil rights law, putting equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome. According to my critics/opponents, when those who have demographics that vote for Republicans do better than those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, it because Republicans discriminate against Democrats. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/17/mike-lee-disparate-impact-workplace-trump-executive-order/
— Liberal Groups Aim To Make Immigration Courts Safe Haven For Illegals
https://ijr.com/liberal-groups-aim-to-make-immigration-courts-safe-haven-for-illegals/

DAILY WIRE
— Republicans Just Launched An Open Revolt Against Trump’s Deportation Operation. Yes, we have multiple prominent Republicans declaring that illegal aliens are not, in fact, criminals.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-just-launched-an-open-revolt-against-trumps-deportation-operation
— Annoying Libs Just Don’t Learn: The Biggest Ways Dems Have Fallen Right Back Into Wokeness. Liberals are doubling down on all of the things that sent them to the woodshed on November 5, 2024.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/annoying-libs-just-dont-learn-the-biggest-ways-dems-have-fallen-right-back-into-wokeness

WESTERN JOURNAL
— White House Lining Up Replacement for RINO Senator Who Keeps Opposing Trump Bills. I should write about leaders of the following who have done the most to defeat conservative candidates, that is, who have done the most to defeat Republican candidates: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization.
https://www.westernjournal.com/white-house-lining-replacement-rino-senator-keeps-opposing-trump-bills/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— House passes Trump’s $9 billion DOGE cuts package. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need do DOGE.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/house-trump-doge-cuts-bill
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/video/988-lgbtq-youth-crisis-lifeline-vrtc

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump fires Maurene Comey. My Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, they forced me to retire. I should write about that.
https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-fear-is-the-tool-of-a-tyrant-fired-federal-prosecutor-maurene-comey-tells-colleagues/

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigrant-father-us-30-years-challenging-warrantless-ice-arrests-rcna219277
— Congress to hand Trump billions to recruit more ICE agents
https://www.aol.com/congress-set-hand-trump-billions-211624975.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Congress Agrees to Claw Back Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-bill-pbs-npr-foreign-aid.html
— How diverse is your precinct? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse in terms of household income, housing values, and household net worth.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/25/nyregion/nyc-mayor-election-results-map-mamdani-cuomo.html
— Not that I could have gotten a student loan, but my working my way through college instead of getting a student loan enabled me to a) graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE, b) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, c) pay for graduate business and accounting courses 1972-1980, d) buy a new town home University Park in 1972, d) buy a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, e) buy a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976, f) get married in 1978, f) buy a home in Wheaton with my wife in 1978, g) etc.
https://www.nytiges.com/2025/07/15/your-money/student-loans/student-loan-repayment-plans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/17/good-trouble-protests-john-lewis-trump/
— Trump tells Justice to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony. White House tries to calm political furor over the Epstein case as Trump threatens to sue Wall Street Journal over new allegation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-epstein-grand-jury-testimony/
— White House defends handling of Epstein files, chides press for coverage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-presidency-news/
— White House shares diagnosis in rare acknowledgment of Trump’s age. Trump has chronic venous insufficiency, White House physician says, a diagnosis common in people over 70. How old are you? I am 76. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my age against me the most.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-health-chronic-venous-insufficiency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/18/antisemitism-task-force-dei-universities-trump/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— WSJ says Trump sent lewd birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein; president vows to sue
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-17/trump-denies-sending-epstein-lewd-message-drawing
— ICE is gaining access to trove of Medicaid records. How many illegals are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-17/ice-getting-access-to-medicaid-records-sparks-new-fears-across-california

BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/metro/black-america-in-state-of-emergency-report-says/

USA TODAY
— PBS, NPR push liberal propaganda. Trump is right to cut their funding.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/18/trump-npr-pbs-defunded-budget-cuts/85255733007/
— Trump is right to shrink our government. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need do DOGE.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/17/trump-federal-government-layoffs-state-department-education/85245671007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2025/07/17/good-trouble-protests-july-17-trump-live/85207089007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/16/trump-no-bond-policy-immigration-detainees-ice/85207175007/

SLATE
— College Isn’t for Everyone. Let’s Stop Pretending It Is. When you were in high school, were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses. I got an ACT score of 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. I got accepted by UIC. My father often decried his not having a college degree.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/03/college-isnt-for-everyone-lets-stop-pretending-it-is.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. Thumps says it is fake.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796
— Of the 50 elements deemed critical to the American economy and national security by the U.S. Geological Survey, the United States is 100% dependent on foreign suppliers for 12 of them and is more than 50% reliant on non-domestic sources for another 29. Democrat and RINO leaders have no problem with that.
https://deloitte.wsj.com/sustainable-business/how-the-united-states-can-enhance-critical-minerals-supply-7dc347e8
— Congress Approves Trump’s Plan Clawing Back Foreign Aid, Public Media Funding. House follows Senate in passing measure rescinding $9 billion of federal spending.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-passes-bill-to-cancel-funds-for-foreign-aid-public-media-20ddf921
— The Economics of DIY. I have always done more DIY than my peers.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-diy-and-opportunity-cost-for-americans-f6fbf17d

MOTLEY FOOL
— Laid off in your 60s? Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you should anticipate/expect that you will be gotten rid of: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/07/13/laid-off-60s-social-security-unemployment/84746588007/

DUCKWORTH
— Did your father earn enough money so that your mother could stay home and raise you? Because my father did, my critics/opponents have always used that to paint me as being filthy rich. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. What was your mother’s earning potential? My mother’s earning potential was very limited because she never attended high school.
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-durbin-help-reintroduce-bill-to-help-families-get-the-affordable-child-care-they-need


July 17, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/shane-gillis-trump-epstein-files-2025-espys-monologue/3791309/

WGN9
— Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfs0XMqGg3E

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that if businesses owned by minorities, women, people with disabilities, and veterans do not get contracts, it is because of discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/opinion-illinois-contract-procurement-job-creation-minorities/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois leaders blast State Farm as it hikes home insurance rates
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/07/16/illinois-leaders-attack-state-farm-as-it-hikes-home-insurance-rates

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad, including bad weather.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250716/nation-and-world-politics/noaa-was-developing-tool-to-help-communities-prepare-for-extreme-rainfall-trump-officials-stopped-i/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250716/nation-and-world-politics/trump-slams-his-own-supporters-who-are-angered-over-how-his-team-has-handled-the-epstein-case/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/07/16/rush-medical-center-halts-gender-affirming-care-for-new-patients-under-18

WGLT
— Democrat leaders had no problem when inflation raged under Biden.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-07-16/inflation-picks-up-in-june-as-trumps-tariffs-start-to-impact-prices
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-tries-to-blame-others-as-tensions-rise-around-handling-of-epstein-case/

FOX ILLINOIS
— GOP lawmaker pushes for policy fix to border crisis
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/gop-pushes-for-policy-fix-to-border-crisis-non-governmental-organizations-faith-illegal-immigration-biden-administration-grants-work-facilitate-republicans
(FROM THE ARTICLE: During a fiery House Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday, Republicans accused non-governmental organizations– many of which were faith-based groups– of incentivizing illegal immigration during the Biden administration by providing services or support to migrants, even though many of the same Republicans voted to fund grants that helped facilitate their work. During the hearing titled “An Inside Job: How NGOs Facilitated the Biden Border Crisis,” Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., accused many of the NGOs of acting as a “launching pad for mass illegal immigration.” “FEMA provided grants to numerous NGOs, many of whom were operating at the southwest border,” Guest said. “These groups spent billions of taxpayers’ dollars.”)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-553/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Richard Porter Visits McHenry County Executive Committee Meeting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/17/richard-porter-visits-mchenry-county-executive-committee-meeting/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREITBART
— Trump Signs Law Classifying Fentanyl-Related Substances as Schedule I Drugs
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-signs-law-classifying-fentanyl-related-substances-schedule-one-drugs/

DAILY WIRE
— Congresswoman Mary Miller Says Pornography Is ‘A Rot In Our Culture’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/congresswoman-mary-miller-says-pornography-is-a-rot-in-our-culture

FEDERALIST
— Leftist Bureaucrats In Charge Of Government-Run Media Refuse Peaceful Transition Of Power
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/16/leftist-bureaucrats-in-charge-of-government-run-media-refuse-peaceful-transition-of-power/

FOX NEWS
— Illinois’ population is aging ‘faster’ than the rest of the country. Under Pritzker, if you are young, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is in Illinois: conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/news/illinois-population-aging-faster-rest-000045392.html

NEWSMAX
— Majority of Deportees Pose a Threat
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-homan-immigration-ice/2025/07/16/id/1219012/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/lgbtq-crisis-lifeline-hotline/2025/07/16/id/1218983/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Trump Administration Deports ‘Uniquely Barbaric’ Migrants to Little-Known Nation
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-administration-deports-uniquely-barbaric-migrants-little-known-nation/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump administration is considering possible changes to its immigration enforcement policy as it relates to farm and hospitality workers. Ever-increasingly, Americans fail/refuse to take the bad jobs that I took. My critics/opponents cannot say that. Their parents had lots of money. They bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://thehill.com/immigration/5405518-homan-hints-trump-farm-worker-policy-is-coming/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5402940-lgbtq-lifeline-988-hotline-closure-the-trevor-project-suicide-mental-health-trump-cuts/

CNN
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/politics/trump-powell-epstein-poll-numbers-analysis

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSAwo11A3Z4

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2025-07-17/nationwide-protests-planned-against-trumps-immigration-crackdown-and-health-care-cuts

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUmdFmAmHoM
— Trump holds signing ceremony for the HALT Fentanyl Act
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-live-trump-holds-signing-ceremony-for-the-halt-fentanyl-act-243343941517

NEW YORK TIMES
— 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-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-files-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/republicans-congress-trump-epstein.html
— My critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. They falsely paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/university-virginia-president-trump-dei-jefferson-council.html
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/trump-dei-race-gender-mental-health.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/politics/trump-political-enemies-evil.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/immigration-trump-ice-raids.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/16/trump-epstein-obama-biden-comey-democrats-conspiracies/5a3b8b6a-6293-11f0-bf70-56d8888ebb94_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/hud-section-8-vouchers-congress-budget-cuts/e153b408-62c3-11f0-bf70-56d8888ebb94_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/hud-section-8-vouchers-trump-budget-cuts/bcd06c34-62c3-11f0-bf70-56d8888ebb94_story.html
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/16/trump-dei-george-mason-university/

USA TODAY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, there is no such thing as “illegal.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2025/07/16/why-trump-immigration-policies-are-unconstitutional-illegal-immigrants-opinion/84640831007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/17/mike-pence-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files/85251255007/
— The Trump administration is telling organizations working to prevent teen pregnancy that they must stop teaching content that doesn’t align with the administration’s views on transgender people and parental rights or they’ll risk losing their federal funding.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/15/lgbtq-teen-pregnancy-program-trump/85190050007/

WCBM
— Here’s the House Republican Who Wants Amnesty for Illegals. My critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://wcbm.com/national-headline/heres-the-house-republican-who-wants-amnesty-for-illegals/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Can Anything Save the Democrats? As 2026 approaches, they’re disliked, divided and devoid of effective leaders.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-anything-save-the-democrats-election-voters-midterms-2026-3bfb36fe
— Mamdani and the Left’s Alliance With Radical Islam. He won’t impose Shariah on New York, but his views give plenty of reason for legitimate concern.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mamdani-and-the-lefts-alliance-with-radical-islam-new-york-mayor-658b68ad
— Dividing Doctors by Race. A new report shows racial preferences continue at medical schools. Ever-increasingly, everyone in healthcare is a citizen of a foreign country, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or has ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medical-schools-racial-preferences-do-no-harm-report-62470941

FORTUNE
— High income taxpayers in California and New York set for a SALT windfall in 2026.  My critics opponents were furious a) that I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 because I itemized and b) that my wife and I paid less federal income tax 1978-2017 because we itemized. I should write about that.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/salt-cap-california-new-york-trump-tax-bill/

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— IRS is building a vast system to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE. Illegals use phony Social Security numbers.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/07/irs-building-vast-system-share-millions-taxpayers-data-ice/406739/

PHYS
— According to my critics/opponents, a) they owe all their successes to meritocracy and b) I owe all my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scholar-meritocracy-schools-redefine-purpose.html

July 16, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump lashes out at Republicans over Jeffrey Epstein file demands
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-lashes-out-at-republicans-over-jeffrey-epstein-file-demands/3790673/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— A second chance for school choice in Illinois. My patents had far less money because they paid to send me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Ironically, the public grade school was across the street from our home. My father almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/school-choice-illinois-pritzker-ecca/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/07/16/china-illinois-soybean-production-research-trumps-usaid-cuts-dick-durbin


SOUTHERN
— Churches, now allowed to endorse candidates, could transform campaign finances. The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/16/churches-now-allowed-to-endorse-candidates-could-transform-campaign-finances/

RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Stresses Urgent Need to Modernize Our Air Traffic Control Systems. I worked for GAO on an audit of FAA Air Traffic Control Systems in the early 1980s.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-stresses-urgent-need-to-modernize-our-air-traffic-control-systems-at-summit-84378.cfm?

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/teaching-antiracism-is-a-practice-of-freedom-20449933

RUSS STEWART
— TRUMP’S SUCCESS INFURTIATES DEMOCRATS, LEFTISTS WITH TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
http://www.russstewart.com/russ-analysis.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-346/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— School choice is one of those 80/20 issues Illinois leaders are out-of-step on. My patents had far less money because they sent me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Ironically, the public grade school was across the street from our home. My father almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://wirepoints.org/school-choice-is-one-of-those-80-20-issues-illinois-leaders-are-out-of-step-on-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats repeat their despicable history of encouraging defiance of federal laws
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/16/democrats-repeat-despicable-history-encouraging-defiance-federal-laws/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Effort to end freebies for illegal immigrants gets a big thumbs up
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3473245/effort-to-end-freebies-for-illegal-immigrants-gets-a-big-thumbs-up/
— Secret Service compliant with nearly half of congressional reform requests. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3470826/secret-service-reforms-congressional-requests-butler-anniversary/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3471194/women-dont-need-men-to-have-children-birth-rate-marriage/

NEW YORK POST
— New GAO Butler shooting report exposes the Secret Service’s shocking culture of incompetence. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, who had less education than I had, who 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, and/or younger.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/opinion/butler-shooting-details-expose-the-secret-services-shocking-culture-of-incompetence/

BREITBART
— Trump Cuts Biden’s Parole Scheme by 100%
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-cuts-bidens-parole-scheme-by-100-percent-as-zero-migrants-freed-into-us-last-month/
— Trump: ‘Jeffrey Epstein Hoax’ Is Left’s Latest Media Scam to Distract from My Success
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-is-lefts-latest-media-scam-to-distract-from-my-success/
— General Motors Announces Plan to Expand Production of Gas-Powered Vehicles
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/15/general-motors-announces-plan-to-expand-production-of-gas-powered-vehicles-in-michigan/
— Promises Made, Promises Kept: Egg Prices Fell 19.8% in June, Down 61% Since February
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/promises-made-promises-kept-egg-prices-fell-19-8-in-june-down-61-since-february/

DAILY CALLER
— Here’s All The Nauseatingly Sexual Books The Left Wants Military Kids Reading
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/16/books-banned-dod-schools-sexual-topics-leftist-platitudes-military-kids/

FOX NEWS
— Trump’s controversial plan to fire federal workers finds favor with Supreme Court. Trump’s executive order for federal workforce reduction advances as Supreme Court permits mass layoffs at Education Department despite legal challenges.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-controversial-plan-fire-federal-workers-finds-favor-supreme-court

TOWNHALL
— Bills Introduced Requiring Sanctuary Cities to Repay Feds for Sending in Troops
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeremyfrankel/2025/07/16/bills-introduced-requiring-sanctuary-cities-to-repay-feds-for-sending-in-troops-n2660470

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump calls Epstein controversy a “Hoax” and “bulls***,” denouncing “weaklings” in GOP
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-republicans/

WASHINGTON POST
— The White House’s plan to downsize the federal government, in charts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/white-house-budget-federal-government/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Some Republicans Push to Protect Unauthorized Immigrants. Lawmakers say agricultural industry will be devastated if workers are deported. My critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. My critics/opponents cannot say that because their parents had lots of money.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/immigration-law-agriculture-deportations-6d090129

FORBES
— Returning To A Past Where Only The Privileged Are Protected. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been privileged. But I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNSE83dgpcI

WTOP
— Montgomery Co. steps up to help laid-off federal workers.  No help was given to GAO employees like me who lost their jobs because of Gingrich budget cuts.
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2025/07/montgomery-county-steps-up-to-help-laid-off-federal-workers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In response, the county council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a bill that will give displaced federal workers preferential treatment for county job openings. Only qualified veterans and people with disabilities will receive higher priority.)

PENN STATE
— Internships open up a multitude of options for hard-working student. I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. They stress a) that I did not get any scholarships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and d) that I did not get any internships. In my defense, I stress that instead of studying, I worked far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://www.psu.edu/news/bellisario-college-communications/story/internships-open-multitude-options-hard-working-student

SI LIVE
— These 19 companies will help pay for your college degree. I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. They stress a) that I did not get any scholarships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and d) that I did not get any internships. In my defense, I stress that instead of studying, I worked far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://www.silive.com/business/2025/07/these-19-companies-will-help-pay-for-your-college-degree-report-says.html

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— State Dept layoffs necessary for ‘higher quality’ workforce, deputy secretary tells lawmakers. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was a Democrat who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/07/state-dept-layoffs-necessary-for-higher-quality-workforce-deputy-secretary-tells-lawmakers/

ECONOMIST
— Having rich parents trumps hard work. Because my parents had enough money to send me to Missouri Lutheran Synod grade schools, my critics/opponents have always demonized them and me as being filthy rich. But my father never made more than $50,000 a year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/05/01/why-having-rich-parents-may-trump-hard-work

CONVERSATION
— Why it’s important to get a good job. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I got were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://theconversation.com/why-its-important-young-unemployed-australians-get-a-good-job-instead-of-just-any-job-260817

July 14, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 21 shot, 3 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-6-shot-1-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-say/17086053/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/record-festival-turnout-after-federal-agents-are-spotted-in-chicago/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/chicago-ice-lawsuit/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois Democrat leaders blame Trump for vaccine-preventable-illnesses
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/illinois-official-calls-out-trump-administration-for-dangerous-misinformation/84540517007/
— Democrat leaders decry Trump’s firing the Librarian of Congress. No one decried my Democrat GAO superiors firing me, that is, forcing me to retire in 1997. No one decried my Democrat Post Office superiors firing me in 1969, that is, forcing me to resign. Of course, my critics/opponents stress that. GAO works for Congress. They especially stress that neither Hyde, Fitzgerald, Hastert, nor Bush decried my GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.86 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/07/14/former-librarian-of-congress-joins-mellon-foundation/84693514007/

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— How dependent on Medicaid funding are the nursing homes in your area? To avoid having to go on Medicaid, my outstanding aunt, who never attended college, worked as a key-punch operator, lived frugally, and saved more than $600,000 for her retirement.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/study-579-us-nursing-homes-at-risk-of-closing-over-medicaid-cuts/84538477007/

QUAD CITY TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://qctimes.com/article_e3741520-d1a7-433d-81a6-36bca8cc0036.html

WHEATON PATCH
— What did you focus on when you were young? I focused on earning job-related college degrees, job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license to qualify myself for better paying jobs.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/calendar/event/20250715/cf201694-f4b4-4237-bdb3-c8e122796c4b/dupagepads-young-professionals-council-kick-off

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republicans lining up against Pritzker
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/14/republicans-lining-up-against-pritzker-00450761
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A few Republicans are looking to get in the ring. Ted Dabrowski and Aaron Del Mar are testing the waters, speaking with GOP insiders and potential donors about mounting campaigns. They would face DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who’s already jumped in, and Joseph Severino who’s posted in social media that he’s running, too. Darren Bailey, who challenged Pritzker in 2024, hasn’t made any decisions yet about 2026. Jeanne Ives, who ran in 2018, says she’s not running. And though state Rep. Dan Ugaste and Posen Park District Supervisor Phil Perez toyed with the idea, neither will run for governor in 2026. Mendrick, a law-and-order candidate, has raised just $127,000 since he announced in February, according to filings with the state. Dabrowski and Del Mar, who are better known around the state for their work in policy and politics, would likely have an easier time raising funds. Del Mar is recognized in party circles across the state as he’s a former co-chair of the Illinois GOP and current Cook County Republican chair who ran as lieutenant governor alongside Gary Rabine in 2022. Dabrowski is president of Wirepoints Corp., the conservative-leaning media company. While he lacks campaign experience, he’s a former banking executive and policy wonk whose fiscal message could resonate at a time of economic uncertainty. Severino has made two unsuccessful bids for Congress, first as a Republican and then as an Independent. Along with the money challenge, messaging will be an issue for GOP candidates as Pritzker and his Democratic Party will blame Republicans and President Donald Trump for the megabill that’s giving tax breaks to the wealthy and cutting Medicaid and food assistance programs. . .Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders held a fundraiser in Barrington the other day at the home of Rick and Alisa Heidner. Among the attendees were Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, state Sen. Andrew Chesney, political strategist Brett Corrigan, businessman and 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate Gary Rabine, possible 2026 gubernatorial candidate Aaron Del Mar, Illinois National Republican Committee member Dean White, former Chicago GOP Chair Eloise Gerson and McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Troubling Case of Jeffrey Epstein
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-troubling-case-of-jeffrey-epstein/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— State Farm faces backlash over $523 million insurance rate hike in Illinois
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3469774/state-farm-faces-backlash-over-insurance-rate-hike-in-illinois/

NEW YORK POST
— NY scraps race-based STEM program after Asians claim discrimination
https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/us-news/ny-scraps-race-based-stem-program-after-asians-claim-discrimination/

AMRICAN THINKER
— Pot farm raided for illegals has a big history of violating labor law, donating to Democrats
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/pot_farm_raided_for_illegals_has_a_big_history_of_violating_labor_law_donating_to_democrats.html

FOX BUSINESS
— Trump says Powell should resign immediately from Federal Reserve leadership position over economic missteps. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted me to resign because I refused to become a Democrat. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me. My RINO leaders in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party want me to become a RINO. Because I refuse to become a RINO, they ever-increasingly take more and bigger adverse actions against me.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-says-powell-should-resign-immediately-from-federal-reserve-leadership-position-over-economic-missteps

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— What websites serve those who share your demographics?
https://www.aol.com/websites-serving-harvard-undergrad-women-134724551.html

YAHOO
— To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to promote discrimination
https://www.aol.com/finance/more-200-p-500-companies-143039217.html

CBS NEWS
— Scathing report on Trump assassination attempt released.  One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/scathing-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-released-trump-says-hes-satisfied-with-it/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding the University of Illinois with foreign students. UIC accepted me when I was 17, NIU when I was 20, Loyola when I was 23, DePaul when I was 27, and IIT when I was 43. But they all would have accepted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/dining/chinese-food-urbana-champaign-student-visa.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion/medicaid-pregnancy-danger.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/democrats-transgender-rights.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Senate report details failures ahead of Trump assassination attempt. One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/13/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-investigation/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/13/homan-border-czar-ice-raid-death-california/85081107007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight bringing manufacturing jobs back to America
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/29/tariffs-boost-us-manufacturing-revival/84284972007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Cleared to Lay Off Workers, Some Federal Agencies Find Many Already Left. Thousands of workers in government jobs have taken buyouts or retired early. Many say morale is low. Ever-increasingly, after I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 year old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors made I ever-increasingly clear that they wanted to get rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat. Nevertheless, to thwart their ever-increasing efforts to get rid of me, a) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) I became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) I earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. However, that was not enough. They succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-layoff-plans-buyout-offers-9d115dcd
— The Federal Government Is Retreating From Student Lending. Did you get a student loan? I did not even try. Did you get any scholarships? I did not even apply. I was not viewed as being college material. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother had never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes. My critics/opponents have always stressed the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-student-loans-tax-spending-bill-9dfc96eb

MOTLEY FOOL
— The 4 Banks That Rule Illinois
https://www.aol.com/news/2013-10-11-the-4-banks-that-rule-illinois.html

AUTOGUIDE
— The 10 Most Iconic American Cars. I am big on American cars. I own a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 and 1972 Corvette, and 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX. I used to own a 1958 and 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air, 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1968 Charger R/T, 1969 Charger SE, 1990 Thunderbird LX, 1994 Thunderbird, and 2016 Mustang.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/top-10/s-fourth-of-july-the-10-most-iconic-american-cars-44622346
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Ford Mustang . . . 2. Chevrolet Corvette . . . 4. Dodge Charger . . . 5. Chevrolet Bel Air. . . 8. Pontiac GTO)

WNEM
— Tough questions to ask your boss. My Democrat superiors in the federal government made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to a) defend and advance the Democrat Party platform, most importantly, its race and gender based preference giving plank and b) help them get rid of their Republican employees. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I am amazed that I survived for almost 3 years at the Post Office, for almost 9 years at IRS, and for almost 18 years at GAO. I would not have survived if I had not earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.wnem.com/2025/07/11/ask-advance-tough-questions-ask-your-boss/

TIMES OF INDIA
— Amid US federal pressure, Harvard replaces DEI offices with ‘community and culture’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/amid-us-federal-pressure-harvard-replaces-dei-offices-with-community-and-culture/articleshow/122418960.cms
— To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to oppose meritocracy
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/harvard-quietly-dismantles-student-diversity-offices-without-notice-is-this-the-end-of-inclusion-on-campus/ar-AA1Il8kv

WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE
— How much money did your parents have? My critics/opponents have always painted my parents, and therefore me, as having been filthy rich a) because my father made enough money that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother and b) because they sent me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools K-8. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/13/lomy-j13.html

INDEPENDENT
— Voters label Democrats ‘out of touch’ and ‘weak’ in latest troubling poll ahead of 2026 midterms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/voters-label-democrats-out-of-touch-and-weak-in-latest-troubling-poll-ahead-of-2026-midterms/ar-AA1IrkEa

July 13, 2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— Trump Administration is Putting Americans First
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/sunday-shows-trump-administration-is-putting-americans-first/

DUPAGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
— Sheriff James Mendrick Welcomes Gary Sinise to DuPage County. Yesterday, Sheriff Mendrick had the honor of welcoming Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band to DuPage County for a powerful concert at Cantigny Park, hosted by the West Suburban Foundation for Disabled Veterans (WSFDV) as part of their Rockin’ For Our Vets event. This incredible benefit concert was held to support U.S. Veterans and their families, with all proceeds going toward housing and essential living needs for disabled veterans—a mission at the heart of WSFDV, a dedicated non-profit organization. We extend our deepest thanks to the Gary Sinise Foundation, Cantigny Park, and Michelle Senatore, co-founder and president of WSFDV, for making this event possible. The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office was proud to stand behind this meaningful cause and be part of such a heartfelt community effort.
https://www.facebook.com/dupagesheriff/posts/sheriff-james-mendrick-welcomes-gary-sinise-to-dupage-county-yesterday-sheriff-m/1147540134064543/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between Bondi and Bongino at the Justice Department
https://abc7chicago.com/post/furor-jeffrey-epstein-files-fallout-sparks-clash-between-pam-bondi-dan-bongino-donald-trumps-justice-department/17099169/
— Mayor Johnson calls for more state funding for CPS
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mayor-brandon-johnson-calls-more-state-funding-chicago-public-schools-chat-grand-crossing-new-life-covenant-church/17105055/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— How dependent on Medicaid funding is your hospital?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/13/safety-net-hospitals-medicaid/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had turning my Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/12/big-beautiful-bill-chicago-black-community-inequity-economic-struggles-alden-loury

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://chicagodefender.com/how-trumps-2025-budget-bill-threatens-snap-benefits-for-340000-illinois-residents/

CITIES 92.9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad, including bad weather
https://www.cities929.com/2025/07/13/illinois-congressman-pushes-for-nws-funding-as-trumps-budget-faces-scrutiny/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump threatens to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship. What have your critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes take away from you? Mine had them take away a) my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) the west half of my precinct in 2015, d) my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, e) my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee in 2007, f) my membership on the America Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors in 2004, g) my GAO employment in 1997, and h) my Post Office employment in 1969. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to do everything that they can a) to stop me from sending out GIOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading them.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-lashes-out-at-rosie-odonnell-threatens-to-take-away-us-citizenship/

WCIA
— My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-from-tariffs-to-universities-trumps-negotiating-style-is-often-less-dealmaking-and-more-coercion/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Jeanne exposes the permanent Cook County law that waives traffic fines for low-income residents, allowing rule-breakers to avoid consequences while law-abiding citizens pay the cost. With Illinois ranking 39th in freedom nationwide, this policy change highlights a disturbing trend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbrBF6mG138

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pot sellers want hemp sales to be regulated because hemp sales cut into their pot sales
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/illinois-lawmaker-convenes-initial-meeting-to-discuss-challenges-for-states-hemp-industry/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP senator, Trump back embattled AG Bondi after Epstein’s purported ‘client list’ remains unproven
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/13/john-barrasso-wyoming-republican-vouches-ag-pam-bondi-amid-maga/
— ‘Despicable’: DHS Secretary Noem rips Democrats for playing politics on Texas flooding
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/13/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary-accuses-democrats-playing/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad, including bad weather
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3469736/illinois-congressman-pushes-for-funding-as-trump-budget-faces-scrutiny/
— Democrats defend child labor at California marijuana farms
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3468811/democrats-defend-child-labor-california-marijuana-farms/

NEW YORK POST
— Ramaswamy: Resist the left’s Mamdani trap — fight his ideas, not his ethnicity
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/opinion/vivek-ramaswamy-resist-the-racist-lefts-mamdani-trap/
— Top US Democrats don’t even dare denounce Zohran Mamdani’s extremism
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/opinion/top-us-democrats-dont-even-dare-denounce-zohran-mamdanis-extremism/
— Cheering assaults on ICE, Democrat leaders want a Second Civil War against Republicans
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/opinion/violent-attacks-against-ice-fed-by-dem-rhetoric/
— Democrat leaders fan the flames of ‘assassination culture’ against ICE
https://nypost.com/2025/07/11/opinion/dems-fan-the-flames-of-assassination-culture-against-ice/

BREITBART
— Homan: We Have Most Secure Border in History Because ‘We’re Enforcing Immigration Law’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/13/homan-we-have-most-secure-border-in-history-because-were-enforcing-immigration-law/
— Chicago: Over 2,200 Shooting Victims During Last 12 Months
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/07/13/chicago-over-2200-shooting-victims-during-last-12-months/

EPOCH TIMES
— 10 Non-Tax Policies in Trump’s Megabill That Will Affect Americans. The mammoth legislation reforms entitlements and boosts funding for border security and air traffic control.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/10-non-tax-policies-in-trumps-megabill-that-will-affect-americans-5885827

FOX BUSINESS
— Blue cities’ low quality of life does not justify the price tag
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/new-report-shows-blue-cities-quality-life-fails-justify-price-tag

FOIX NEWS
— AOC should be sued ‘into bankruptcy’ over latest attack on Trump, stunned critics seethe. Critics reference ABC’s $15M settlement with Trump after similar characterization by George Stephanopoulos. My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I am a spammer, b) that I falsely say that I am a journalist, c)that the real reason why my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, took many/big adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 was that I have always been an extremely bad person and even worse things, and d) that all the big adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me were justified. I should sue my critics/opponents.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-should-sued-into-bankruptcy-over-latest-attack-trump-stunned-critics-seethe

PJ MEDIA
— The New ‘Superman’ Movie: Super-Woke Crap
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/07/13/the-new-superman-movie-super-woke-crap-or-truth-justice-and-the-american-way-n4941710

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat leaders attack conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility
https://thehill.com/national-security/5398732-noem-defends-conditions-at-alligator-alcatraz-detention-facility/

ABC NEWS
— Trump backs Bondi over Epstein probe criticism
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=123527438
— Epstein files fallout has ‘real potential to influence’ Trump’s key messengers
https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/epstein-files-fallout-real-potential-influence-trumps-key-123719413

CBS NEWS
— President Trump defends cabinet amid scrutiny
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-defends-cabinet-amid-scrutiny/
— Sen. Rand Paul accuses Secret Service of “cultural cover-up” regarding Butler shooting. One of my closest friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sen-rand-paul-accuses-secret-service-of-cultural-cover-up-regarding-butler-shooting/

HARVARD POLITICAL REVIEW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout a minorities and at females that White male Republicans cause all problems that minorities and females have.
https://theharvardpoliticalreview.com/medical-racism-motherhood/

ATLANTIC
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and b) glorify and praise those who oppose Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/don-bacon-congress-retirement/683520/

July 11, 2025 Evening Edition

NRCC
— “Defund ICE, Fund Illegals” – The New Democrat Motto
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/07/11/defund-ice-fund-illegals-the-new-democrat-motto/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Additional security at Glen Ellyn pool following ‘unruly’ teen take over
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/11/glen-ellyn-teen-takeover-pool-police-chicago-naperville/
— State Farm lowers the homeowners insurance boom on Illinoisans. The good neighbor people are about to vacuum hundreds more out of your wallet if you own a home they insure.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/11/editorial-state-farm-homeowners-insurance-premiums/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/11/oak-park-gender-affirming-care/
— What vacations did you take when you were young? My critics/opponents have always used against me my having taken vacations in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, etc. They stress that my peers were dying in Vietnam.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/11/gen-z-micro-vacation-pto-retirement/
— Will County Board member Julie Berkowicz, a Naperville Republican, has announced plans to run in the 2026 primary for the state senate seat representing District 21, which covers portions of Will and DuPage counties.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/11/berkowicz-will-board-naperville-senate-ellman/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration and dependency on government
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/07/11/head-start-will-be-cut-off-for-immigrants-without-legal-status-trump-administration-says
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/07/11/illinois-head-start-trump-immigrants-ban-aclu-child-care

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250711/local-politics/immigrants-can-learn-about-their-rights-at-wheeling-library/
— Inmate death prompts changes at DuPage County jail
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250711/news/inmate-death-prompts-changes-at-dupage-county-jail/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise citizens of foreign countries, b) flood America with them, and c) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250711/nation-and-world-politics/how-us-views-of-immigration-have-changed-since-trump-took-office-according-to-gallup-polling/

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ventura-county-california-immigration-raids-jaime-garcia-life-support-injury-during-camarillo-raid-family-says/17071639/
— What the next election cycle means for Illinois Democrats as several Congressional seats open up
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2026-midterm-elections-what-election-cycle-means-illinois-democratic-party-several-congressional-open/17073610/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-food-pantries-federal-snap-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/protesters-clash-with-agents-at-ice-raid-on-southern-california-cannabis-farm/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/11/how-trump-s-immigration-crackdown-could-impact-illinois-farming-industry

WGLT
— State Farm says Pritzker’s rate hike claims are ‘factually incorrect’ political rhetoric
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-07-11/state-farm-says-pritzkers-rate-hike-claims-are-factually-incorrect-political-rhetoric

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Undocumented minors found amid raid of California cannabis farm
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/undocumented-minors-found-amid-raid-of-california-cannabis-farm-dhs-says/amp/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/snap-cuts-illinois-vulnerable-residents/

SOUTHERN & WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://thesouthern.com/life-entertainment/health/illinois-hospitals-fear-massive-cuts-under-trump-domestic-policy-law/article_9bcfc289-d382-5624-8896-2216e6a5eed6.html
https://www.wandtv.com/news/federal-budget-cuts-will-hurt-local-hospitals/article_cd797a81-8df2-4481-9cc8-bcf594e4af22.html

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Illinois State Police graduates largest cadet class in 25 years. The first 6 months that I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer in 1971 was classroom training in the Loop. According to Google AI: key areas of Revenue Officer training include: “Tax Law and Procedures: This is fundamental, encompassing various aspects of tax law, regulations, and IRS procedures applicable to individuals and businesses. Business Law: Revenue officers may need to understand business law principles to navigate legal and financial situations encountered during their work. Investigative Techniques: They are trained in investigative methods to uncover discrepancies, errors, or potential fraud in tax filings. Collections Procedures: A significant part of the role involves working with taxpayers to discuss payment options and resolve delinquent tax accounts, according to ZipRecruiter. Training covers various collection strategies and techniques. Negotiation and Communication: Since they interact with taxpayers to discuss sensitive financial matters, revenue officers must possess strong negotiation and communication skills, says ZipRecruiter. Training often focuses on developing these interpersonal abilities. Ongoing Development: Revenue officers are expected to engage in continuous learning to stay abreast of changes in tax laws and regulations, industry trends, and best practices. In essence, IRS revenue officer training prepares individuals to effectively apply tax law, investigate tax-related issues, negotiate with taxpayers, and collect delinquent taxes in a professional and ethical manner.” In today’s dollars, my salary was $55,850/year.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-state-police-graduates-largest-cadet-class-in-25-years

IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://ipmnewsroom.org/champaign-urbana-residents-unite-for-be-the-light-protest/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-343/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Time to end federal union bosses’ monopoly over the government workforce. I was a union member while I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969 and for IRS 1971-1980.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/10/time-end-federal-union-bosses-monopoly-government-workforce/
— Radical left campaigns and failed education system fuel generational divide over patriotism. Teaching American pride matters more than ever in divided times.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/10/radical-left-campaigns-failed-education-system-fuel-generational/
— Left-wing activists exploit Texas flood tragedy to push a political agenda
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/10/editorial-left-wing-activists-exploit-texas-flood-tragedy-push/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Left’s obsession with illegal immigration gets weirder
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3468882/left-obsession-illegal-immigration-raids-weird/
— Where did all the male role models go?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3465832/where-did-male-role-models-go/

NEW YORK POST
— James Carville blasts Democrats for continuing to alienate men with ‘future is female’ talk
https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/media/carville-pans-democrats-for-continuing-to-alienate-men-with-future-is-female-talk/

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/zohran-mamdani-reveals-the-absurdity-of-affirmative-action/

BREITBART
— ICE Arrests 30,000 Illegals in June — the Most in at Least Half a Decade
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/11/report-ice-arrests-over-30k-illegals-june-most-at-least-half-decade/

EPOCH TIMES
— Tariff Windfall Drives Surprise $27 Billion US Budget Surplus in June. A record-high tariff haul in June fueled a rare budget surplus—and set the stage for even bigger collections ahead.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/tariff-windfall-drives-surprise-27-billion-us-budget-surplus-in-june-588624

FOX NEWS
— LA Mayor Bass provides cash payments to illegals, issues order to thwart immigration enforcement. White House slams move as ‘pathetic’ stunt while immigration operations continue targeting criminal illegal immigrants.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/la-mayor-bass-provides-cash-payments-illegals-issues-order-thwart-immigration-enforcement

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

PEW RESEARCH
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/11/with-trump-back-in-office-people-in-mexico-view-the-us-much-more-negatively/

July 10, 2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— Taxpayer-Funded Benefits Are for American Citizens — Not Illegals
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/taxpayer-funded-benefits-are-for-american-citizens-not-illegals/
— Democrats Inspire Vicious, Escalating Attacks on ICE
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/democrats-inspire-vicious-escalating-attacks-on-ice/
— ICE Remains Undeterred in Getting Dangerous Criminal Illegals Off Our Streets
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/ice-remains-undeterred-in-getting-dangerous-criminal-illegals-off-our-streets/
— President Donald J. Trump Ensures Accountability and Prioritizes Public Safety in Federal Hiring. 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, or veteran who would take the job. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school friend had not invited me to take the postal employment examination with him earlier that year. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ensures-accountability-and-prioritizes-public-safety-in-federal-hiring/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-food-assistance-snap-changes-threaten-benefits-thousands-illinois-thanks-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-act/17056084/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/suburban-food-banks-bracing-for-impact-of-federal-snap-funding-cuts/3786886/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/10/wisconsin-illinois-abortions/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Office demand freefall resumes as downtown vacancy reaches a new record high
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/chicago-downtown-office-vacancy-reaches-new-record-high

RIVER BENDER
— If Duckworth wanted to, what would she use against you? Against me, she would use a) my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, b) my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, c) my opposing race and gender based preference giving, d) my only making GS-13 (Major in the military), e) my being forced to retire early, f) my supporting Roskam, g) her success in throwing me out of her press conference in 2006, h) the many big adverse actions that Republican leaders have had their operatives and their dupes take against me, i) the lawsuits that I have filed, j) etc.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-grills-trumps-singapore-ambassador-nominee-this-is-not-a-glamour-postingyou-need-to-shape-up-and-do-your-homework-84217.cfm

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois public media could lose millions in federal tax funds
https://www.cities929.com/2025/07/10/watch-illinois-public-media-could-lose-millions-in-federal-tax-funds/

CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movie-feature/shea-coulee-drag-queen-ironheart-marvel/

CAPITOL HILL ILLINOIS
— How dependent on Medicaid is your hospital?
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-hospitals-fear-massive-cuts-under-trump-domestic-policy-law/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-342/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago pension debt climbs to $36B, up 13% in five years
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_21e2f65b-f2ee-4669-ba36-87d0582394ee.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order, certifies class action
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/10/judge-blocks-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-certifies-class/

BREITBART
— DNC Chair on Mamdani Not Condemning Intifada Slogan: We’re a Big Tent
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/09/dnc-chair-on-mamdani-not-condemning-intifada-slogan-were-a-big-tent/

DAILY CALLER
— Dems Unveil Anti-ICE Face Mask Bill Immediately After Coordinated Attack Against Agents
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/09/dems-push-mask-bills-amid-ice-attacks/
— Trump Admin’s Latest Move Expected To Save Americans Millions Doled Out To Illegals
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/10/hhs-boots-illegals-from-taxpayer-programs/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump’s Dept Of Education Shuts Door On Free Tuition For Illegals
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-dept-of-education-shuts-door-on-free-tuition-for-illegals

EPOCH TIMES
— Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order After Supreme Court Ruling
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-issues-new-nationwide-block-targeting-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-5885598

NEWSMAX
— Illegals Barred From Head Start, Other Programs
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigrants-federal-programs-hhs/2025/07/10/id/1218337/

TOWNHALL
— HHS Bans Illegals From Getting Benefits
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeremyfrankel/2025/07/10/hhs-bans-illegals-from-getting-benefits-n2660194

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— According to my critics/opponents, I was able to do the following only because I benefitted tremendously from tremendous discrimination against minorities and against females: a) earn three master’s degrees, b) earn six professional certifications, and c) earn a professional license. I should write about my Democrat IRS and GAO minority and female coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-dei-practice-trump-is-trying-dismantle-2025-01-30/

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— B-Schools for High-Paying Finance, Accounting Jobs. Alumni of these schools working in the finance and accounting industry often earn six-figure salaries. I should have majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and NIU 1969-1970. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses at DePaul until 1976. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until 1979. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until 1980. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until 1981. I did not become a licensed CAP until 1981. But by then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. On top of that, the accounting profession was under tremendous pressure to hire, retain, and promote young minorities and young women.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/slideshows/mba-programs-that-lead-to-high-paying-finance-and-accounting-jobs

BOSTON COLLEGE
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/10/opinion/trump-harvard-accreditation-risk/

WCBM
— HHS Bans Illegals From Getting Benefits
https://wcbm.com/national-headline/hhs-bans-illegals-from-getting-benefits/

WIBQ
— Duckworth helps introduce bill on ICE identification. Many, most, if not virtually everyone looks down on/despises/hates federal employees. I know that because I was one for almost 30 years and because I have been a retired federal employee for almost 28 years. I should write about that. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school friend had not invited me to take the postal employment examination with him earlier that year. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://wibqam.com/2025/07/10/illinois-senator-helps-introduce-bill-on-ice-identification/

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders oppose meritocracy because it hinders their giving preference to minorities and to females. My Democrat IRS superiors were furious when I earned an MBA in 1976 and when I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 because my Democrat minority and female coworkers who they wanted to promote over me had not done anything like what I did.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katymcfee/2024/03/21/the-dangerous-myth-of-meritocracy-and-how-it-hurts-women/

MEDIAITE
— If Duckworth wanted to, what would she use against you? Against me, she would use a) my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, b) my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, c) my opposing race and gender based preference giving, d) my only making GS-13 (Major in the military), e) my being forced to retire early, f) my supporting Roskam, g) her success in throwing me out of her press conference in 2006, h) the many big adverse actions that Republican leaders have had their operatives and their dupes take against me, i) the lawsuits that I have filed, j) etc.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/tammy-duckworth-torches-unqualified-singapore-ambassador-nominee-do-some-homework/

ECONOMIST
— Anti-Americans ever-increasingly fight harder to destroy America
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/07/10/the-global-asylum-system-is-falling-apart