All eight Republican township candidates on my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 ballot lost because the Democrats in the township, including my precinct, voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump. How successful were your Republican township candidates? Ever since my wife and I moved to Milton Township in 1978, all of the Milton Township elected officials have been Republican. Since 2000, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, I have done much to help elect and reelect Republican Milton Township candidates, including hand-delivering their campaign literature to the residences in my precinct (currently 400) that have at least one Republican or one Independent registered voter.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Richard Irvin concedes defeat to John Laesch in Aurora mayoral race
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/richard-irvin-concedes-defeat/
— Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau concedes defeat in bid for third term
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/orland-park-mayoral-race-results/
— Evanston voters re-elect Daniel Biss as mayor, per unofficial results
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/evanston-mayor-election-results/
— Illinois AG Kwame Raoul warns legal community against ‘being complicit’ with Trump. Federal law trumps state and local law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/illinois-ag-kwame-raoul-warns-legal-community-against-being-complicit-with-trump/
— Lawsuit claims Chicago approval for cannabis store in Streeterville was illegal
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/streeterville-cannabis-store/
— Wisconsin votes to enshrine voter ID requirement in state constitution
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/wisconsin-election-education-official-voter-id-amendment/
— Democratic-backed Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, cementing liberal majority
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-control/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-liberation-day/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use pollution to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/trump-epa-pollution-climate-change/
— Democrats on Illinois’ high court must recuse themselves on gerrymandering. I should write about the gerrymandering my precinct in 2015.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/opinion-illinois-gerrymandering-state-supreme-court/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/01/trumps-tariff-smarter-trade-strategy-american-workers-environment-manufacturing-ben-jealous
DAILY HERALD
— School board incumbents fare well in DuPage County
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250401/local-politics/school-board-incumbents-fare-well-in-dupage-county/
— Burket edges past Fasules in Glen Ellyn village president’s race; mayors losing in other DuPage towns
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250401/local-politics/burket-edges-past-fasules-in-glen-ellyn-village-presidents-race-mayors-losing-in-other-dupage-town/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Republicans eye $25,000 SALT cap as Trump’s tax cuts take shape. I started itemizing in 1972 and my wife and I in 1978. We paid less federal income tax because we itemized. But SALT ended our itemizing.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-tax-cuts-gop-eyes-raising-salt-cap
— Democrat leaders promote the lawyer leading Jenner’s battle with Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/jenner-blocks-rep-trump-case-michael-attanasios-backstory
ABC7
— Aurora mayoral election: Two-term incumbent Richard Irvin concedes race to challenger John Laesch. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss is projected to win a second term in office.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/aurora-mayor-election-2025-voters-head-polls-mayoral-race-incumbent-richard-irvin-facing-challenger-john-laesch/16114822/
— Jason House projected to win Dolton mayoral election, replacing Tiffany Henyard: ‘It’s a new day’ State Sen. Napoleon Harris projected to win the Thornton Township supervisor election.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dolton-illinois-election-results-today-voters-seek-replace-tiffany-henyard-mayor-thornton-township-supervisor/16116392/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8_DMNhvFo
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “financial experts” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-news-today-financial-experts-raising-concerns-consumer-protections-costs-current-administration/16116870/
NBC5
— Suburban Chicago race results
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/2025-illinois-election-results-wisconsin-supreme-court/3711433/
— Chicago suburb hires private security to help patrol amid police shortage
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-suburb-winnetka-private-security-police-help/3711369/
— Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, GOP keeps House specials
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-wisconsin-florida-elections-april-01-2025-live-updates/3710727/
CBS2
— Dodge wins in Orland Park, Biss wins another term in Evanston
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2025-municipal-elections-chicago-suburbs/
— Chicago area school district prepares for potential drop in federal funding
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-area-school-district-prepares-for-potential-drop-in-federal-funding/
WGN9
— Illinois court rules lawsuit against maker of gun used in Highland Park mass shooting can proceed. What if he had used an SUV to kill people?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-court-rules-lawsuit-against-222626925.html
FOX32
— Illinois election results
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-election-results-live-updates
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Duckworth to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617771
— Trump administration begins mass layoffs of federal workers. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. The agency shrank from more than 6,000 to less than 3,000. It was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617888
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use farmers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617885
WBEZ
— Because Democrats run Illinois, 25% of Illinois residents are on Medicaid.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/01/potential-medicaid-cuts-leave-25-of-illinois-at-risk
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/01/venezuelans-in-chicago-relieved-their-deportation-protection-is-safe-for-now
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/04/01/the-rundown-what-tariffs-could-mean-for-your-budget
EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Effingham GOP celebrates second Trump presidency. How strongly have the leaders of your county and township Republican organizations celebrated Trump’s second presidency?
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/effingham-gop-celebrates-second-trump-presidency/article_4146c186-2160-42a8-9b6a-04b4e65258fb.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use foreign college students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/01/some-foreign-college-students-are-being-targeted-for-deportation-what-rights-do-they-have/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Dan Brady wins Bloomington mayor race
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/your-local-election-hq/dan-brady-wins-bloomington-mayoral/
— Democrats ever-increasingly call you a racist if you do not promote illegal immigration.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/no-tip-for-illegal-customers-leave-racist-note-for-lax-server/
— — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-trump-is-set-to-announce-reciprocal-tariffs-in-a-risky-move-that-could-reshape-the-economy/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump and Musk support not enough to overturn the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-02/trump-and-musk-support-not-enough-to-overturn-the-wisconsin-supreme-courts-liberal-majority
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use bad weather to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-04-01/weather-experts-say-federal-cuts-could-impact-forecasting
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s executive orders to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-01/administration-lawyers-make-missteps-in-defending-trumps-orders
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/transgender-day-of-visibility-means-resistance-and-solidarity-for-c-us-lgbtq-community/
CWB CHICAGO
— New law would ban fines, criminal penalties for homeless people occupying public land
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/new-law-would-ban-fines-criminal-penalties-for-homeless-people-occupying-public-land.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Election Night winners and losers
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/02/election-night-winners-and-losers-00265592
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In DuPage County, Democratic Party Chair Reid McCollum said “we’re leading in 48 of 49 partisan races and only down in the one by 35 votes. Several of our townships have never had an elected Dem, and it’s sweep after sweep tonight,” via BlueSky. . .Greg Hart elected Hinsdale president)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-487/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-280/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How successful were your Republican township candidates? All eight of my Republican Milton Township candidates lost both townshipwide and in my precinct. Ever since my wife and I moved to Milton Township in 1978, all of the Milton Township elected officials have been Republican. The eight lost in this election because the Democrats in the township voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— The numbers don’t lie. Illinoisans aren’t prospering, our neighbors are.
https://wirepoints.org/the-numbers-dont-lie-illinoisans-arent-prospering-our-neighbors-are-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
JOHN KASS
— NPR & Public Television: Leftists Using Government to Take Your Money Without Asking
https://johnkassnews.com/npr-public-television-using-government-to-take-your-money/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL Attorney General vows to use resources to sue Trump administration
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4cfeb377-1e98-4d45-98fa-0f44547b8106.html
ILLINOIS RECORD
— Inside DuPage County Sheriff Mendrick’s Social Media Meltdown
https://www.illinoisrecord.com/p/inside-dupage-county-sheriff-mendricks
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Vallas: Brandon Johnson’s war against Chicago’s Black community
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-brandon-johnsons-war-against-chicagos-black-community/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— DOGE Reportedly Finds Millions of Illegals on Social Security Rolls
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/01/irs-ice-partnershiptrump-administration-nears-historic-deal-as-doge-reportedly-finds-millions-of-illegals-on-social-security-rolls/
— Democrats Appointed 92% of Judges Blocking Trump Agenda: ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/01/democrats-appointed-92-of-judges-blocking-trump-agenda-judicial-coup-detat/
DAILY CALLER
— Anti-Musk Group Behind ‘Day Of Action’ Against Tesla Offers Tips On ‘Jail Support,’ Finding ‘Target’s’ Home Address
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/01/anti-musk-group-behind-day-of-action-against-tesla-offers-tips-on-jail-support-finding-targets-home-address/
— How Small Town America Stopped A Chinese Communist Party Takeover
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/01/small-town-michigan-stopped-chinese-communist-party-takeover-gotion/#google_vignette
DAILY SIGNAL
— Hegseth Bids Adieu to Military Wokeness
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/01/hegseth-bids-adieu-to-military-wokeness/
FOX NEWS
— ‘A bubble of unreality’: Illinois GOP chair blasts governor for Mexico trade agreement. Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi joins ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss Gov. JB Pritzker signing a trade agreement with Mexico despite business fleeing the state.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370868324112
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump demands Republicans defund, ‘totally disassociate’ from NPR, PBS
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-demands-republicans-defund-totally-disassociate-from-npr-pbs
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trumps-tariffs-cause-recession-experts/story?id=120329597
— Democratic base’s anger puts some party leaders on shaky ground
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/democratic-bases-anger-puts-party-leaders-shaky-ground-120326767
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-deported-238-venezuelans-el-salvador-dozens-have-active-asylum-cases-2025-04-01/
MSN
— Pritzker Bans Capitol Rioters Pardoned by Trump From Being Hired for Government Jobs. Constructively, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49years old in 1997, they banned me from being hired for any job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-governor-bans-capitol-rioters-pardoned-by-trump-from-being-hired-for-government-jobs/ar-AA1yclU8
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/elon-musk-social-security-immigrants/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— In Chicago, the Union Wins Again. Teachers get hefty raises, while test scores and enrollment fall.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chicago-teachers-union-contract-public-schools-students-brandon-johnson-e9f4b64e?mod=opinion_lead_pos4
— U.S. Looks for More Countries to Take Migrants. Officials say they have asked several countries in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Migrants prefer America because Democrat and RINO leaders give citizens of foreign countries tremendous preference over citizens of America.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-looks-for-more-countries-to-take-migrants-3db9af5a
— The Campus DEI Retreat Is a Tactical Withdrawal. Colleges are learning to rebrand and lie low during the Trump years. Enjoy the sanity while it lasts.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-campus-dei-retreat-is-a-tactical-withdrawal-enjoy-it-while-it-lasts-636f88d0
— Mike Johnson Loses Battle to Limit GOP Rebels’ Power. House speaker fails to kill proposal allowing proxy voting by House lawmakers who are new parents. All my Democrat GAO superiors were parents who hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that parents should get more preference and b) that I was unfairly advantaged because I was not a parent.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mike-johnson-republican-proxy-voting-parents-3a48ccf4
FORBES
— Duckworth ever-increasingly takes the lead in promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYiV7gWpnc
NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229709/trump-dei-ban-whats-lost
INDEPENDENT
— Democrats want to punish Trump in the 2026 midterms. All eight Republican township candidates on the ballot in my precinct lost because the Democrats in the township voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-want-punish-trump-2026-184520308.html
Tag: Republican
April 1, 2025
Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use international students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-immigration-news-concern-local-colleges-us-student-visa-revoked-southern-illinois-university-enrollee/16113193/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders say “ICE and IRS: Unholy alliance or border saviors.”
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/ice-and-irs-unholy-alliance-or-border-saviors/3710504/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump executive orders to promote more hatred against him..
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-executive-orders-tariffs-march-31-2025-live-updates/3709767/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-gov-pritzker-declares-march-31-as-transgender-day-of-visibility/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use postal workers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/31/postal-workers-union-pushes-back-potential-usps-cuts-and-outlines-impact-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against him.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/31/illinois-cook-county-public-health-officials-say-federal-funding-cuts-came-little-notice
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ask “Why it’s important to vote in local elections.”
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/why-its-important-to-vote-in-local-elections/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump executive orders to promote more hatred against him.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/dr-hartman-trump-is-trying-to-whitewash-history/
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-says-hes-not-joking-about-a-third-term-republicans-insist-he-is/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/protests-elon-musk-tesla/
— Democrat ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/trump-legal-protections-venezuelans/
— Democrat ever-increasingly use bad weather to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/tornado-season-weather-service-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for antisemitism.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/amid-trump-administration-crackdown-on-campus-antisemitism-northwestern-reports-dip-in-incidents/
— Democrat leaders say Trump is stronger on immigration and weaker on trade.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/trump-immigration-trade/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum/
— Paul Vallas: The decline in Black teachers has nothing to do with CPS’ evaluation system
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/opinion-chicago-decline-black-teachers/
— Democrat leaders use joint World Cup to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/us-canada-mexico-world-cup/
— Democrat leaders say Illinois becomes first state to mandate halal, kosher meals be available in public institutions such as schools
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/halal-kosher-meals-schools/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/03/31/trump-liberation-day-tariffs-eu-korea-brazil-coming-heres-what-mean-for-you
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders say “Guide to voting in the suburbs Tuesday: Polling places, ID rules, write-ins and more.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250331/news/guide-to-voting-in-the-suburbs-tuesday-polling-places-id-rules-write-ins-and-more/
— Democrat leaders make endorsements in April 1 elections
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250319/endorsements/a-summary-of-daily-herald-endorsements-in-april-1-elections/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders do not want any of their illegals to be deported.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trumps-michael-jordan-jersey-immigration-guidance-challenged
— Democrat leaders have their law firms work against Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-daily-gist/chicago-law-firm-pushes-back-against-trump
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/opinion-stop-autocratic-attacks-legal-profession
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/business/2025/04/01/illinois-eagle-closes-springfield-office-still-publishing-online/82745002007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders say State Sen. Michael Hastings, a Democrat from Frankfort, won his last two elections. Now he’s filed lawsuits against defeated Republicans that charge they led a “smear campaign” against him.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-state-senator-taking-former-opponents-to-court/article_9a9088de-1a74-45dc-9db5-7f97d3291918.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving the stock market down to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/31/markets-jittery-as-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-loom/
HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s executive orders to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/03/28/joliet-activists-to-join-nationwide-protest-against-trump-musk-on-april-5/
OUR QUAD CITIES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/march-31-officially-designated-transgender-day-of-visibility-in-illinois/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/illinois-transgender-athletes-protected-from-discrimination-despite-trumps-orders
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Green Card holders and travelers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-01/green-card-holders-travelers-caught-in-trumps-immigration-crackdown
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders do not want any of their illegals to be deported.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-administration-deports-more-migrants-to-salvadoran-prison/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use disabled people to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-03-31/intellectual-and-developmental-disability-services-brace-for-potential-medicaid-cuts
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/how-is-the-trans-community-faring-under-the-trump-administration
CHICAGO MAROON
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for antisemitism.
https://chicagomaroon.com/46758/news/uchicago-to-investigate-faculty-members-posters-for-alleged-antisemitism/
CWB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders acknowledge that Streeterville alderman encourages residents to demand mayoral action on teen takeovers.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/arrest-made-in-march-9-teen-trend-shooting-as-alderman-calls-on-mayor-to-take-action.html
STATE OF ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://gov.illinois.gov/news/press-release.31087.html
https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/illinois/iisnewsattachments/31087-3.31.25-illinois-recognizes-march-31st-as-transgender-day-of-visibility-final-002.pdf.pdf
CAPITOL FAX
— Democrat leaders say “Morning briefing.”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-486/
— Democrat leaders say “Afternoon roundup.”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/31/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-279/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans hit by nation’s 9th-worst economic growth, 3rd-worst wage gains
https://wirepoints.org/fresh-2024-data-illinoisans-hit-by-nations-9th-worst-economic-growth-3rd-worst-wage-gains-wirepoints/
— The six-figure salaries of school superintendents turn into massive pensions when they retire. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is a) only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and b) less than what my salary was in 1972.
https://wirepoints.org/the-six-figure-salaries-of-school-superintendents-turn-into-massive-pensions-when-they-retire-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To what extend did your teachers make you woke, that is, to what extent did they make you anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-nonveteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time? My teachers did none of the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump DHS sued for requiring illegal immigrants to register with government
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3364657/trump-dhs-sued-requiring-illegal-immigrants-register-government/
NEW YORK POST
— Illegal border crossings hit stunning new low in March, down 94% in a year because migrants are ‘scared there are consequences now’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/us-news/illegal-border-crossing-for-march-hit-stunning-new-low/
BLAZE
— Florida sheriff’s deputies make feds’ jobs easier by catching illegal aliens by the truckful
https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-sheriff-s-deputies-make-feds-jobs-easier-by-catching-illegal-aliens-by-the-truckful
BREITBART
— Musk: ‘Tesla Takedown’ Events Are ‘Paid Protests’ Funded and Organized by Trump Haters
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/03/31/elon-musk-tesla-takedown-events-are-paid-protests-funded-and-organized-by-trump-haters/
— Tariffs: Economic ‘liberation’ or straitjacket?
https://www.breitbart.com/news/tariffs-economic-liberation-or-straitjacket/
— CBS Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Support Trump’s Mass Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/31/cbs-poll-nearly-6-in-10-americans-support-trumps-mass-deportations/
FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— With New Agreements, the Trump Administration Expands its Whole-of-Government Approach to Combatting Illegal Immigration. Yes, but virtually all federal employees are Democrats.
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/trump-whole-government-approach-illegal-immigration
FOX NEWS
— Chicago alderman slams the murder capital’s ‘disregard for human life’ The city was named the US murder capital for the 13th year in a row.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-alderman-slams-murder-capitals-disregard-human-life
— SCOTUS must stop leftist judges’ lawless sabotage of Trump agenda. District judges are causing a Constitutional crisis with partisan overreach.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/scotus-must-stop-leftist-judges-lawless-sabotage-trump-agenda
— Colleges in ICE’s deportation crosshairs shelled out discounts, financial aid to illegal immigrants. Trump admin’s immigration crackdown has so far affected Columbia, Tufts, among others.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colleges-ices-deportation-crosshairs-spent-years-courting-illegals-discounts-financial-aid-gop-rep
NEW AMERICAN
— Trump Terminates Parole for Some 530,000 “Migrants” Whom Biden Imported
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/trump-terminates-parole-for-some-530000-migrants-whom-biden-imported/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5221094-trans-day-of-visibility-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5224628-trump-administration-cutting-funds-planned-parenthood/
— Democrat ever-increasingly use bad weather to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5220484-trump-energy-policy-global-warming/
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/us/pride-month-protests-lgbtq/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-college-university-leaders-funding-threatened-federal-level/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ask “Do Americans Approve of President Trump?”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders say “As Trump Squeezes the Immigrant Work Force, Employers Seek Relief. Businesses that rely on immigrants are pushing for legislation to ensure an adequate, legal flow of laborers from abroad as deportations ramp up.” If they could have, all my employers would have hired immigrants instead of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/economy/trump-immigrant-workers-visas.html
— Democrat leaders say “America Has Never Been Wealthier. Here’s Why It Doesn’t Feel That Way.” Everyone in politics, government, and journalism should be required to disclose where their money came from. Recently, my money came from inheritance. Before that, Social Security since 2010, CSRS pension since 1997, GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, Firestone Stores 1970-1972, Chrysler in 1970, Post Office 1966-1969, John’s Sinclair, Thrall Car, and Flossmoor Country Club in 1966, S.S. Kresge 1964-1966, delivering newspapers 1962-1966, and doing yard work 1962-1964.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/economy/wealth-cash-inequality.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders say that Trump says that the ultimate fruits of tariffs will be worth the pain.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/31/trump-tariffs-benefits-costs/82700560007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use postal employees to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/30/postal-service-changes-doge-musk/82696231007/
KENTUCKY LANTERN
— Democrat leaders say top Democrats in Congress are asking GAO to open an investigation into whether the Trump administration violated federal law by freezing funding for several programs.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/01/repub/democrats-ask-congressional-watchdog-agency-to-probe-trumps-funding-freezes/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders say Trump Doesn’t Need Congress to Cut Waste. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-doesnt-need-congress-to-cut-waste-courts-law-63db5289
— Democrat leaders say “Trump Takes On the Judges.”
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-trump-takes-on-the-judges/5276BB29-B0CE-436B-BF19-100A413AB2F9
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders say “The Democrats Who Are Fighting—and Winning—Against Trump in Court. State attorneys general have brought 11 lawsuits against the president and his administration; strategy carries political risk.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-democrats-lawsuits-states-8b765117
— Democrat leaders say “A $6 Trillion Trump Tax Increase? Navarro says tariffs will raise $600 billion a year for the government, but he says this is a tax cut.”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-peter-navarro-6-trillion-tax-increase-2e5cc39d
— Democrat leaders say “Retire at 65? It’s More Like 62. People are overly optimistic about how much they can work later in life.” If your employer is Democrat or RINO, anticipate/expect that the more of the following that you are, the sooner that you will be forced to retire: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/retire-at-65-its-more-like-62-d5f943c4
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders get Chicago’s retired teachers to question pension’s Tesla holdings.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-31/tesla-stock-plunge-raises-questions-for-chicago-teachers-pensions?srnd=phx-businessweek
NATION
— Democrats a) run the federal government and b) use the federal government to destroy Republicans.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/doge-white-supremacy-racism/
March 31, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/march-trans-equality-held-downtown-chicago-supports-members-lgbtq-community-ahead-transgender-day-visibility/16107997/
— Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-politics-donald-trump-says-hes-considering-ways-serve-third-term-president-united-states/16107562/
— Trump’s promised ‘Liberation Day’ of tariffs is coming. Here’s what it could mean for you. ‘I couldn’t care less because if the prices on foreign cars go up, they’re going to buy American cars,’ Trump said of auto tariffs. https://abc7chicago.com/post/tariffs-trump-how-presidents-liberation-day-car-more-could-impact-us-economy/16107094/
NBC5
— Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ of tariffs to start this week
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-executive-orders-tariffs-march-31-2025-live-updates/3709767/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/rally-for-trans-visibility-scheduled-for-sunday-afternoon-in-downtown-chicago/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders, that is, LGBTQ leaders, ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/30/transgender-people-are-about-1-us-population-why-have-they-become-political-lightning
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/trans-rights-protest-downtown-chicago/
— Trump roars down multiple paths of retribution as he vowed. Some targets yield while others fight
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/trump-retribution-executive-orders/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders a) promote more and more and more government spending and b) shout that you will die without it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/tornado-season-weather-service-cuts/
— To be anti-conservative is to be anti-Republican. Jim Edgar has always been anti-conservative. That is why Democrat and RIN leaders have always promoted him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/column-jim-edgar-governor-statesmanship-shaw/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/03/30/trump-says-hes-considering-ways-to-serve-a-third-term-as-president
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/30/gay-chicago-firefighters-cfd-show-daniel-kyri
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: They were fired in the name of efficiency based on ‘a lie.’ Then the VA paid them not to work. Democrats run the federal government. GAO audits federal agencies including IRS. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. To get rid of me when I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire and b) forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $5,565/month, or $66,780/year for life, or $1.8 million so far in today’s dollars to not work, that is, to not audit federal agencies. Democrats run the federal government. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. I have always been a Republican. In 1997, I was a licensed CPA. In addition, I was a Certified Internal Auditor and I had four other job-related professional certifications. I had three job-related master’s degrees. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/30/elon-musk-doge-federal-probationary-workers-firings-north-chicago-va-hospital-donald-trump
— ALL OF THE FRON PAGE: To donate to the Chicago Sun-Times is to donate to the Democrat Party.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/become-a-member
WBEZ
— Chicago law firm Jenner & Block sues to block Trump executive order. A blistering order from President Donald Trump accused the powerhouse firm of “obvious partisan representations.” The firm calls it a presidential effort to silence opponents.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/03/30/jenner-block-trump-executive-order-chicago-law-firm
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrats run DuPage County. They want more housing for those who vote for Democrats. Those who vote for Democrats have financial, health, and/or other problems, lack education and/or job skills, and/or are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2025/03/17/how-dupage-county-could-expand-affordable-housing/
JOURNAL COURIER
— Despite president’s order, Illinois won’t require voter proof of citizenship
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/illinois-voters-citizenship-proof-trump-order-20248654.php
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article303029984.html
FOX2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use veterans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaK-r9Qg414
WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/30/rockford-joins-transgender-day-visibility-with-rally-supporting-trans-rights/
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly arrange more protests against Trump.
https://www.wcia.com/news/champaign-county/hundreds-in-urbana-come-out-to-protest-trump/
NPR ILLINOIS
— To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that non-Whites have.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-29/scholars-say-trump-administration-is-trying-to-erase-americas-non-white-history
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly arrange more protests against Trump.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/rally-for-democracy-attracts-over-200-protests-trump-administration-in-downtown-urbana/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Durbin pokes at Musk’s undue influence
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/31/durbin-pokes-at-musks-undue-influence-00260051
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/31/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-485/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Lawyers PAC funnels over $1 million to Illinois Democrats
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f8d6254d-1d4a-40ba-a307-d42747ce823a.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrats run the federal government. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. GAO audits federal agencies including IRS. To get rid of me when I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $5,565/month, or $66,780/year, or $1.8 million so far in today’s dollars to not work. I have always been a Republican. In 1997, I was a licensed CPA and a Certified Internal Auditor, Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant. I had master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. 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. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— UAW President Shawn Fain applauds Trump auto tariffs, says they will bring back jobs to U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/30/shawn-fain-uaw-president-applauds-trump-auto-tariffs-says-bring-back/
— Musk invited to CIA to discuss government efficiency. GAO is supposed to focus on promoting government efficiency. If Gingrich had reformed GAO during the 1980s and 1990s instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/30/elon-musk-invited-cia-discuss-government-efficiency/
DAILY WIRE
— House To Again Vote On Bill Requiring Voters Prove Citizenship. The SAVE Act passed the lower chamber last year, but never got a vote in the Senate.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-to-again-vote-on-bill-requiring-voters-prove-citizenship
TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin Moves to Cut Federal Funds for ‘Sanctuary’ Cities
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/03/30/rump-admin-to-withhold-federal-funds-from-sanctuary-cities-n2654697
WORLD
— The canceled pro-lifer. An Illinois county decides to insult the memory of Rep. Henry Hyde.
https://wng.org/opinions/the-cancelled-pro-lifer-1743402071
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Americans want Trump’s focus more on prices, not tariffs; most approve of deportation efforts
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opinion-poll-trump-economy-tariffs-deportation-immigration/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status. The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States before Trump took office. But Trump is making one exception. White South Africans seeking asylum in America should be advised that when the next Democrat President is elected, they will be the first to be gotten rid of.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html
— The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen faster than for other workers over the past few years. How worried should they be? To hire, retain, and promote more young minorities and more young females, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered standards. Because I am a White male, that ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/business/economy/white-collar-layoffs.html
— Trump’s Budget Chief Aims to Wield an Ax, Not a Scalpel, on Agencies and Programs. Democrats run the federal government. They use Republican budget cuts to get rid of their Republican employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts-russell-vought.html
WASHINGTON POST
— States rush to hire federal workers out of work after DOGE cuts. As the Trump administration’s cuts to federal agencies left tens of thousands of workers in limbo, state and local governments began to recruit them. Democrat and RINO employers do not want to hire Republicans. After the Democrats who ran GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, the following did want to hire me: other federal agencies, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/30/state-governments-hiring-doge-cuts/
USA TODAY
— Trans Day of Visibility is Monday. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/30/trans-visibility-day-2025-transgender-people/82703517007/
— My Democrat GAO superiors blamed their problems on their children. According to them, if my wife and I had children, I would never had been able to do the following: a) pass the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, b) become a licensed CPA, c) earn four more job-related professional certifications, or d) earn two job-related master’s degrees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/03/31/declining-birth-rate-parenting-kids-forum/82565786007/
— According to Democrat leaders, tattoos are an ineffective form of ID
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/28/dhs-fbi-documents-question-tattoos-identification-tren-de-aragua/82695605007/
POLITICO
— The more that Hispanics vote for Republicans, the faster that Democrat leaders will dump them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/30/latino-voters-trump-ticket-splitting-028498
DAILY KOS
— Soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare in America will be a citizen of a foreign country, liberal/moderate, LGBTQ, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/30/2311665/-Amid-plummeting-diversity-at-medical-schools-a-warning-of-DEI-crackdown-s-chilling-effect
LATIN TIMES
— Musk Claims Democrats Are Using IRS Refund ‘Fraud Payments’ to ‘Attract and Retain Illegal Immigrants in the USA’ “That’s why they are so opposed to DOGE stopping this!” Musk added.
https://www.latintimes.com/elon-musk-claims-democrats-using-irs-refund-fraud-payments-attract-retain-illegal-immigrants-579544
LGBTQ NATION
— Pritzker ever-increasingly destroys those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/governor-stands-with-trans-kids-wont-take-soul-sucking-path-of-sacrificing-their-rights/
NDTV
— The Trump administration has paused Green Card processing for certain immigrants, including approved refugees. With Indian asylum seekers in the U.S. rising from 9,000 in 2018 to 51,000 in 2023—a 466% increase—this move could leave many in limbo. How will it impact Indians?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B36PhbHzAcU
March 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump. I should write about those who took down the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tesla-takedown-protestors-rally-elon-musk-downtown-chicago-dealership-north-rush-street-side/16103560/
— 15-year-old boy shot as large crowd of teens gather in Streeterville. Streeterville today, your neighborhood tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shooting-injures-boy-large-crowd-teens-seen-north-city-front-plaza-drive-streeterville-cpd/16102153/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/protesters-rebelling-against-elon-musks-purge-of-us-government-swarm-tesla-showrooms/3709285/
— Brandon Johnson, other officials react to massive Streeterville teen gatherings. Streeterville today, your neighborhood tomorrow.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/brandon-johnson-other-officials-react-to-massive-streeterville-teen-gatherings/3709275/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-tesla-dealership-protests-elon-musk/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-tesla-dealership-protests-elon-musk/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-protesters-rally-at-tesla-showrooms/
— Trump says he’s considering all options to obtain Greenland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQc6S_8tjTw
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1616579
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against large corporations to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/26/some-consumers-are-boycotting-large-corporations-over-dei-rollbacks-here-s-what-know
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/28/illinois-intellectual-and-developmental-disability-services-brace-potential-medicaid
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/hundreds-gather-at-gold-coast-tesla-dealership-as-part-of-national-protests-against-doge/
— Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/student-protester-deportations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump executive orders to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/trump-election-order-confusion/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote crime and criminals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/opinion-second-chance-month-reentry-incarceration/
— More Black families are choosing to homeschool. A new bill undermines their choices.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/opinion-homeschool-regulation-illinois-black-families/
— Springfield missed another opportunity to cut red tape and get Illinoisans back to work
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/jobs-economy-licensing-springfield/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing unite those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/03/29/black-brown-community-migrants-federal-cuts-democrats-trump-musk-durbin-music-editorials
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/03/28/veterans-affairs-nurse-va-jesse-brown-protest
DAILY HERALD
— The hottest mayor’s races to watch in DuPage, Kane counties. What about the hottest township supervisor races?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250329/news/the-hottest-mayors-races-to-watch-in-dupage-kane-counties/
— Partisan politics creeping into local races
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250329/local-politics/unnecessary-angst-partisan-politics-creeping-into-local-races/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Illinois is a state where effective government ideas go to die
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-illinois-is-a-state-where-effective-government-ideas-go-to-die/article_d3275911-c755-4a55-903c-d95ffa057b99.html
JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/farmers-trump-tariffs-impact-20200091.php
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Trump’s election order creates much confusion before the next federal election in 2026. President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to change how elections are run in the U.S. is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/article_11d9359e-f855-5a37-8e45-fb582a081a2e.html
HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/03/28/joliet-activists-to-join-nationwide-protest-against-trump-musk-on-april-5/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly argue/shout against deporting their illegals.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/29/southwest-border-mission-has-cost-330m-so-far-with-over-40m-for-guantanamo-bay-alone-sources/
— Dozens of emotional Department of Education employees took part in a final “clap-out” in Washington, D.C., after losing jobs amid the Trump administration’s agency restructuring. Needless-to-say, I got no clap out from my Democrat GAO coworkers on my last day September 30, 1997. They were furious about Gingrich’s gutting of the agency. They took their anger against Gingrich out on me.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/29/emotional-education-department-clap-outs-celebrate-departed-federal-employees/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-transgender-people-are-about-1-of-the-us-population-yet-theyre-a-political-lightning-rod/ .
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-juggling-advocacy-with-schoolwork-2-new-hampshire-transgender-girls-fight-to-play-team-sports/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-protesters-rebelling-against-elon-musks-purge-of-us-government-swarm-tesla-showrooms/
WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/29/intellectual-developmental-disability-services-brace-potential-medicaid-cuts/
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois’ rainy-day fund, emergency reserves lowest in country
https://www.cities929.com/2025/03/29/illinois-rainy-day-fund-emergency-reserves-lowest-in-country/
CWB CHICAGO
— Street takeovers clog North Side streets again as CPD tries to beef up its response
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/street-takeovers-clog-north-side-streets-again-as-cpd-tries-to-beef-up-its-response.html
— 1 shot, 1 stabbed, at least 15 arrested as teen mob swarms downtown Chicago again
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/1-shot-1-stabbed-at-least-15-arrested-as-teen-mob-swarms-downtown-chicago-again.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Are Democrats Whitewashing Hitler with Lame Attacks on Trump?
https://johnkassnews.com/are-democrats-whitewashing-hitler-with-lame-attacks-on-trump/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump administration returns immigration authority to the states
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/opinion-restoring-america/3363012/trump-administration-returns-immigration-authority-to-the-states/
— AOC and Bernie Sanders fill the Democratic Party leadership vacuum. Pritzker wants to fill that vacuum.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3363162/progressives-leadership-vacuum-biden-2024-loss/#google_vignette
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The Inconvenient Truth about H-1B Visas. Americans are told that mass immigration will bring the world’s geniuses to our country. The numbers tell a different story.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-inconvenient-truth-about-h-1b-visas/
BREITBART
— ICE Has Nearly 50,000 Illegal Migrants in Detention
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/29/ice-has-nearly-50000-illegal-migrants-in-detention/
DAILY WIRE
— Homan Steps In After Officers In Sanctuary City Targeted For Helping ICE. “Help is coming!” Gingrich did not step up for Republican GAO employees like me who my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of because of Gingrich GAO budget cuts.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-steps-in-after-officers-in-sanctuary-city-targeted-for-helping-ice
EPOCH TIMES
— Nationwide ‘Tesla Takedown’ Demonstrations Bring Out Protesters, Counter-Protesters. Seeking a nationwide ‘Tesla Takedown’ protest, organizers published an online interactive map for hundreds of protests across the country on March 29. I should write about those who took down the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/nationwide-tesla-takedown-demonstrations-bring-out-protesters-counter-protesters-5833559
— Federal Judge Halts Shutdown of Voice of America
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-halts-shutdown-of-voice-of-america-5833487
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/tesla-elon-musk-anti-trump-protests-rcna198708
— Trump administration is working to reinstate fired federal employees to comply with court orders. During the 1980s and 1990s, Republican Senators and Congressmen did not come to the defense of GAO’s Republican employees who the Democrats who ran GAO got rid of because of Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts.
https://www.aol.com/trump-administration-says-working-reinstate-164826963.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/worldwide-protests-at-tesla-dealerships-blast-trump-and-musk-for-u-s-government-purge/
CNBC
— In Trump era, companies are rebranding DEI efforts, not giving up
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/30/in-trump-era-companies-are-rebranding-dei-efforts-not-giving-up.html
AOL
— Melania Trump Reveals Barron Trump’s Living Situation For College. Like Barron, I lived with my parents while I attended college. I lived with them in Crete while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends while I attended NIU during the winter/spring of 1969, and the summer of 1969.
https://www.aol.com/melania-trump-reveals-barron-trumps-120119348.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Melania Trump said her son Barron Trump is living at home while he attends New York University. “I could not say I’m an empty nester. I don’t feel that way,” the former first lady told Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt in an interview that aired Thursday. “It was his decision to come here, that he wants to be in New York and study in New York and live in his home, and I respect that.” That would presumably mean that the new college man is living at the family’s longtime Trump Tower residence on Fifth Avenue and commuting a few miles south to the Greenwich Village campus. Barron Trump is former President Donald Trump’s youngest son and his only child with Melania Trump. He graduated from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, in May and began classes at NYU’s Stern School of Business in early September.)
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less that you belong in America: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/finance/merrill-lynch-wealth-adviser-lgbtq-212907655.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— The Democrats Are in Denial About 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/democrats-strategy-2024.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Bernie Sanders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/bernie-sanders-rallies-anger.html
— They Want More Babies. Now They Have Friends in the White House. According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/business/economy/birthrate-politics-vance-musk.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s threat of towering tariffs on European booze is sobering. Wine and spirits can be markers of national and regional identity — which could make a coming trade fight between the U.S. and Europe much more emotional. The Democrat GAO Chicago office manager who led the Democrat effort to waste my career and to get rid of me was an extremely big drinker. If he had not had to go on extended sick leave in 1985 because of his big drinking, the GAO manager who arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 would not have been able to assign me to audits of IRS in 1986 or to promote me in 1986.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/30/trump-tarrifs-alcohol-wine-spirits/
— Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of his tariffs. My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and more especially muscle cars, and even more especially Corvettes. I have owned American nameplate cars since 1964, muscle cars since 1966, a 1972 Corvette since 1971, and a 2005 Corvette since 2005. The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/29/trump-auto-tariffs-prices-rise/
— Trump seeks takeover of elections in a bid for more presidential power
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/30/trump-seeks-takeover-elections/
USA TODAY
— Republicans have turned on judges. Imagine who they would pick for SCOTUS. I should write about the judges and justices who have ruled against me. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) sided with GAO, that is, they sided with political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and retaliation. Their rulings tremendously discourage those who share my demographics from applying to work for GAO. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and I have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I have three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/28/trump-supreme-court-maga/82665953007/
KGW NEWS
— After more than 30 years as a social security worker, Laura Novakoski’s last day on April 7. She’s worried about how staff shortages will impact the agency. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would no need for DOGE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT0lDC12Nqw
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Taiwan Dares to Hope Trump Will Back It Against Beijing. White House push to confront China has reassured officials in Taipei, who watched Trump’s shift on Ukraine with alarm.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/trump-taiwan-support-china-8041630d
POLITICO
— White House Correspondents’ Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-00259299
INDEPENDENT
— Why plans are already in motion for a Trump third term – no matter what the law says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-third-term-republicans-b2723487.html
March 29, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration names Andrew Boutros as interim US Attorney for Northern District of Illinois. The U.S. Attorney in Diersen v. GAO sided with GAO, that is, he sided with what my Democrat GAO superiors used to force me to retire, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-administration-names-andrew-boutros-interim-us-attorney-northern-district-illinois-team/16098899/
— Winnetka signs agreement to augment police force with private security. Winnetka today, your municipality tomorrow as crime ever-increasingly increases under the Democrats and under the RINOs.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/village-winnetka-signs-agreement-augment-police-force-4-security-solutions/16099301/
NBC5
— Videos show large teen gatherings in downtown Chicago. How soon, if not already, will there be large teen gatherings in your municipality?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/videos-show-large-teen-gatherings-in-downtown-chicago/3709040/
WGN 9
— Illinois Democrat leaders to defy Trump voter order for April election
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/illinois-trump-voter-order-april-election/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zI0oEsCKc
FOX32
— Illinois elections heat up: High-stakes races in Orland Park, Aurora
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-election-orland-park-aurora-arlington-heights
— Chicago lawyer appointed interim U.S. Attorney for Northern District of Illinois
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-lawyer-appointed-interim-us-attorney-northern-district-illinois
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Andrew Boutros officially announced as interim U.S. Attorney in Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/28/andrew-boutros-officially-announced-as-interim-u-s-attorney-in-chicago/
— Vance accuses Denmark of uninvesting in Greenland as Trump presses for US takeover of the island
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/28/jd-vance-greenland/
— Hegseth tells Philippines the Trump administration will ramp up deterrence against China threat
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/28/hegseth-philippines-trump-china/
— Democrat leaders crow that a federal judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/28/trump-dei-orders/
CHICAGO SUIN-TIMES
— Illinois Elections Board, that is, the Democrats who run Illinois, reject Trump’s executive order.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/28/illinois-elections-board-trump-executive-order-april-1-elections
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side the Tren de Aragua gang
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/28/tren-de-aragua-venezuela-gang-trump-tom-homan-terrorism-violence-crime-chicago-colombia-honduras-ecuador-nicolas-maduro-salvador
— From repairs to insurance, President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs could make owning a car more expensive
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/28/trump-auto-tariffs/
— Former prosecutor Andrew Boutros named Chicago’s interim U.S. Attorney
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/28/former-prosecutor-andrew-boutros-named-chicagos-interim-u-s-attorney
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/28/trump-administration-lies-truth-alternative-facts-robert-kennedy-vaccines-mona-charen
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/21/trump-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-wars-america-james-huffman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/29/usaid-agency-international-development-humanitarian-death-disease-trump-musk-amy-yee
— Chicago-area Vietnam War veterans commemorate 50 years since war’s end. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used against me my avoiding the Vietnam War draft the most. I would focus on my Democrat superiors in the federal government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/03/28/chicago-area-vietnam-war-veterans-commemorate-50-years-since-wars-end-that-was-a-brotherhood
DAILY HERALD
— Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency was almost always under hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes because of Gingrich budget cuts. Of course, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious about that. To punish Gingrich, my Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors took many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250327/nation-and-world-politics/internal-white-house-document-details-layoff-plans-across-u-s-agencies/
— Democrats argue Republicans waited too long to file latest redistricting lawsuit
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250329/news/democrats-argue-republicans-waited-too-long-to-file-latest-redistricting-lawsuit/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— GOP leaders target Northwestern law school in growing antisemitism probe
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/gop-leaders-target-northwesterns-pritzker-school-law
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Pritzker under fire from House Committee on Education for providing free legal representation to pro-Palestinian protestors
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/28/campus/pritzker-under-fire-from-house-committee-on-education-for-providing-free-legal-representation-to-pro-palestinian-protestors/
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/illinois-public-health-funding-cuts-20244050.php
WAND TV
— US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions. The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service academy.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/us-naval-academy-ends-affirmative-action-in-admissions/article_3cbd91b0-229c-52db-988c-149ff322c28e.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.wandtv.com/news/trump-admin-cuts-idph-funding-puts-communities-at-risk/article_95271225-6394-4dc8-b135-68390d5f7a20.html
CITIES 92.9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more homelessness and blame it on Republicans. While Jews in Israel are overwhelming conservative, that is, pro-Republican, Jews in America are overwhelmingly liberal, that is pro-Democrat.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/03/28/illinois-bill-to-protect-homeless-from-fines-faces-law-enforcement-backlash/
IPM NEWSROOM
— Congressional committee asks University of Illinois for information on Chinese international students
https://ipmnewsroom.org/congressional-committee-asks-university-of-illinois-for-information-on-chinese-international-students/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-278/
— Trump targeted Chicago’s Jenner & Block, now they’re suing him. My Democrat superiors in the federal government targeted me big time. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. They especially targeted me because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. They even more especially targeted me after 1988 when I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/28/trump-targeted-chicago%e2%80%99s-jenner-block-now-they%e2%80%99re-suing-him/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS CENTER SQUARE
— Illinois GOP chair calls Governor’s trade mission ‘irresponsible’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cece7299-39d0-4dc8-b197-d86ed4215e47.html
WHEATON RECORD
— Wheaton Professor Prays with Pro-Israel Demonstrators
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/03/28/pro-israel-demonstrators/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats and media allies play politics with organized agitation in GOP town halls. Planned disruptions reveal the left’s inability to cope with 2024 defeat.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/27/democrats-media-allies-play-politics-organized-agitation-gop-town/
— How major American law firms became a tool of the left
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/major-american-law-firms-became-tool-left/
NEW YORK POST
— Musk on why being in the government is ‘disadvantageous’ — as he blasts ‘jerk’ Tim Walz for mocking Tesla’s falling stock. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/28/us-news/elon-musk-blasts-jerk-tim-walz-for-mocking-teslas-falling-stock/
— Democrats’ response to losing? Profanity chic and terrorist porn.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/28/opinion/democrats-response-to-losing-profanity-chic-and-terrorist-porn/
— How the Trump Smithsonian order is fighting another bulwark of woke insanity
https://nypost.com/2025/03/28/opinion/how-the-trump-smithsonian-order-is-fighting-another-bulwark-of-woke-insanity/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrats Reveal How They Will Change The Rules To Take Back Power
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1565-democrats-reveal-how-they-will-change-the-rules-to-take-back-power
EPOCH TIMES
— University of Michigan Guts DEI Programs. The university was estimated to have spent $250 million on DEI programs since 2016. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because of terrible demographics, I doubt that they would today.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/university-of-michigan-guts-dei-programs-5833032
FOX NEWS
— Chicago dubbed America’s murder capital as Democrat leaders ‘demonize’ police, splurge on migrants: alderman. Alderman Anthony Napolitano criticized sanctuary city leaders’ priorities as Chicago hit 573 homicides last year.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-dubbed-americas-murder-capital-democrat-leaders-demonize-police-splurge-migrants-alderman
NEWSMAX
— DHS Puts Funds for Sanctuary Cities on Chopping Block
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/dhs-kristi-noem-fema/2025/03/28/id/1204841/
TOWNHALL
— Trump Signs Executive Order to Eliminate ‘Divisive, Race-Centered Ideology’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/03/28/trump-signs-executive-order-to-eliminate-divisive-race-centered-ideology-from-smithsonian-museums-n2654652
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Musk tries to rehab DOGE after backlash, mistakes. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the 1980s and 1990s, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of that team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://thehill.com/business/5220638-elon-musk-improving-government-efficiency-image/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— IRS Criminal Investigation Division (CID) announces modernization program as financial crimes use more tech. GAO audits IRS. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO on audits of IRS’s CID 1986-1988 at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. My Democrat GAO superiors wasted what I had learned about CID doing that. They also wasted what I had learned about IRS’s Collection Division. I worked for that Division 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/irs-crime-fighting-arm-announces-modernization-20245906.php
MSN
— Black Americans describe how being a federal worker was their path to the middle class — and the heartbreak of losing it. According to my critics/opponents, the jobs that I got in 1964 (washing dishes), 1966 (cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline), 1970 (working on an automobile assembly line and selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances), 1971 (pumping gasoline and collecting delinquent taxes), and 1980 (auditing federal agencies) and the promotions that I got in 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1986 should have been given to Blacks. They were overjoyed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/markets/black-americans-describe-how-being-a-federal-worker-was-their-path-to-the-middle-class-and-the-heartbreak-of-losing-it/ar-AA1BTjBR
AOL
— The ‘Meritocracy’ Lie. The judges in Diersen v. GAO rejected meritocracy and promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about Diersen v. GAO.
https://www.aol.com/news/meritocracy-lie-144541218.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Inside the New Texas College Offering ‘Anti-Woke’ Education. To promote DEI is to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/in-depth-features/inside-the-new-texas-college-offering-anti-woke-education/8CC358EA-E4E6-47FB-AF98-9F60CD84F686
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters side with Canada against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/video/carney-says-canada-will-respond-to-trumps-tariffs-we-wont-back-down/2C8A6B67-6BC9-4D2F-9DC8-4950309F51B6
— ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ Review: The War That Wouldn’t Die. The Civil War was Democrats against Republicans. Democrats started the war and they have never surrendered
WIREPOINTS
— Why is Chicago the nation’s homicide capital? Bad guys know the chance of getting punished here is near-zero.
https://wirepoints.org/why-is-chicago-the-nations-homicide-capital-bad-guys-know-the-chance-of-getting-punished-here-is-near-zero-wirepoints-on-fox-news/. Democrats ever-increasingly destroy Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/lincolns-peace-review-the-war-that-wouldnt-die-90e7cb9c
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy municipalities, especially big municipalities.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-yorks-top-cop-has-what-democrats-need-policing-public-safety-crime-edf10604
FOIRBES
— ‘We Want Our Service Academies To Focus On War Fighting, Lethality, Patriotism’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uoxWziscJ8
FAST COMPANY
— Trump wants to destroy unions. A general strike is the only way to fight back. I was a union member for almost 12 years 1966-1969 and 1971-1980. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91308349/trump-wants-to-destroy-unions-a-general-strike-is-the-only-way-to-fight-back
FIERSE HEALTHCARE
— Federal union draws up lawsuit over Trump EO as RFK Jr. readies 10,000 HHS cuts. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, the union would have sued Gingrich over his GAO budget cuts. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/rfk-jr-prepares-10000-job-cuts-across-hhs-new-wave-worker-reductions
March 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump invokes wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up deportations (COMMENT: Constructively, many countries have declared war on America. Democrat leaders not only side with those countries, they glorify and praise those countries.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-invokes-wartime-alien-enemies-act-1798-declare-invasion-gangs-speed-deportations/16028956/
NBC5
— US plans to deport about 300 alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/us-plans-to-deport-about-300-alleged-venezuelan-gang-members-to-el-salvador/3698808/
— Republican legislation seeks to ban Chinese nationals from studying in the US
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/republican-legislation-seeks-to-ban-chinese-nationals-from-studying-in-the-us/3698682/
CBS2
— Trump’s use of wartime act to deport immigrants will end up before Supreme Court soon
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/donald-trump-alien-enemies-act-supreme-court-legal-analyst/
WGN9
— Trump signs order to gut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/ap-trump-signs-order-to-cut-staff-at-voice-of-america-and-other-us-funded-media-organizations/
FOX32
— Judge blocks Trump’s use of 1798 law to deport Venezuelan migrants
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-alien-enemies-act-1798
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Donald Trump has invoked for deportations
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/15/alien-enemies-act/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/03/15/trump-invokes-18th-century-law-to-declare-invasion-by-gangs-and-speed-deportations
RIVER BENDER
— Democratic Party of Illinois Announces Electoral Program for Municipal Races Across the State
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/democratic-party-of-illinois-announces-electoral-program-for-municipal-races-across-the-state-80617.cfm
SOUTHERN
— USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://thesouthern.com/news/usps-agrees-to-work-with-doge-on-reform-planning-to-cut-10-000-workers/article_26448728-4af0-56fa-b536-772848cd8fc3.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump signs order to gut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-signs-order-to-cut-staff-at-voice-of-america-and-other-us-funded-media-organizations/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal judge blocks Trump’s plan to target ‘alien enemies’ for deportation
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-15/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-plan-to-target-alien-enemies-for-deportation
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— As Chicago Targeted By ICE, City Council’s Immigration Committee Hasn’t Met In 8 Months
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/14/as-chicago-targeted-by-ice-city-councils-immigration-committee-hasnt-met-in-8-months/
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY PUBLIC TELEVISION
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.nctv17.org/spotlight/peoples-resource-center-helps-neighbor-to-neighbor/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of the team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is/was your employers’ top priority? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969. Their top priority was hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. To achieve the aforesaid, they ever-increasingly a) lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards and b) used the extreme subjectivity in their personnel policies a) to give preference to their employees who were the aforesaid and b) to waste the careers of and to get rid of their employees who were not the aforesaid. The aforesaid ever-increasing rendered worthless a) my three job-related master’s degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my jo-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents want illegals because illegals take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I took were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take. What do you say to my critics/opponents? Will illegals take the bad jobs that I took doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automotive assembly line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumping more gasoline, collecting delinquent federal taxes, and auditing federal agencies? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivated you to pursue college? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He was discouraged from pursuing college because he had type 1 diabetes from childhood. He was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. Neither of my parents attended college. My mother never attended high school. If I was in high school today, because of my terrible demographics, I question if I could find enough motivation to pursue college. Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Comments on Extension of Covid Fraud Penalties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/lahood-comments-on-extension-of-covid-fraud-penalties/
— Inappropriate Behavior Charges Traded by Nunda Township Road Commissioner Mike Lesperance and His Challenger Rob Parrish
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/nunda-township-road-commissioner-mike-leverance-reports-on-lawsuit-against-challenger-rob-parrish/
— Schakowsky Attends Another Demonstration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/schakowsky-attends-another-demonstration/
— Vocal Opponent of McHenry Mayor Wayne Jett
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/vocal-opponent-of-mchenry-mayor-wayne-jett/
— Dick Durbin Votes to Allow Vote on Continuing Resolution
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/dick-durbin-votes-to-allow-vote-on-continuing-resolution/
— Chicago Tribune Cartoonist Again Demonstrates His Animus toward Donald Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/chicago-tribune-cartoonist-again-demonstrates-his-animus-toward-donald-trump/
— Early Voting Starts Monday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/early-voting-starts-monday/
— Kane County GOP Attacks Sales Tax Hike Referendum
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/kane-county-gop-attacks-sales-tax-hike-referendum/
— Cary Mayor Mark Kownick Holds Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/cary-mayor-mark-kownick-holds-fundraiser/
— Schakowsky’s Criticism of Republican Budget Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/schakowskys-criticism-of-republican-budget-bill/
— What’s a Shell Bill?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/whats-a-shell-bill/
— Feds Arrest Teacher for Child Porn
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/feds-arrest-teacher-for-child-porn/
— Algonquin Township Supervisor Funk Finks Out, Shows Vindictiveness
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/funk-finks-out-shows-vindictiveness/
— McHenry County Assistant Transportation Director Scott Hennings Testifies Against Giving Chicago Total Control of RTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/mchenry-county-assistant-transportation-director-scott-henning-testifies-against-giving-chicago-total-control-of-rta/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— USPS strikes deal with Elon Musk’s DOGE team for reform help as agency agrees to cut 10K workers (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/usps-strikes-deal-with-elon-musk-s-doge-team-for-reform-help/ar-AA1ASThy
AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Racist Jasmine Crockett argues we need illegals to pick our food and clean our hotels (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want illegals because illegals take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I took were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take. What do you say to my critics/opponents? Will illegals take the jobs that I took doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automotive assembly line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumping more gasoline, collecting delinquent federal taxes, and auditing federal agencies?)
https://americanwirenews.com/racist-jasmine-crockett-argues-we-need-illegals-to-pick-our-food-and-clean-our-hotels/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Signs Order to Dismantle 8 Federal Agencies, Including VOA Parent Entity
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-signs-order-to-dismantle-8-federal-agencies-including-voa-parent-entity-5826100
— Trump Revokes 19 Biden-Era Executive Actions in 2nd Round of Roll Backs. The president on his first day of office rescinded nearly 80 executive orders and memoranda issued by President Joe Biden.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-revokes-19-biden-era-executive-actions-in-2nd-round-of-roll-backs-5826148
PJ MEDIA
— Federal Judge Tells Trump He Can’t Use the Law to Deport Illegals
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/15/federal-judge-tells-trump-he-cant-use-the-law-to-deport-illegal-n4937960
— Antisemitism in Universities Is Uncivil and Incompatible with Sound Education
https://pjmedia.com/philip-carl-salzman/2025/03/14/anti-semitism-in-universities-is-uncivil-and-incompatible-with-sound-education-n4937926
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Voice of America staff put on leave, Trump ally says agency ‘not salvageable’ (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/
MSN
— America’s postmaster general knew that sooner or later, DOGE would come calling at the US Postal Service. So Louis DeJoy decided to have DOGE work with him. (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/can-elon-musk-save-the-post-office-the-us-postmaster-general-thinks-so/ar-AA1AVw9V
CBS NEWS
— Venezuelan immigrants sue Trump over order to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-immigrants-sue-trump-over-order-invoking-wartime-alien-enemies-act-of-1798/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Judge Orders Halt on Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/15/us/trump-news
— Pew surveys show boys tend to feel discouraged in the classroom, and are less likely than girls to pursue college. (COMMENT: What motivated you to pursue college? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He was discouraged from pursuing college because he had type 1 diabetes from childhood. He was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. Neither of my parents attended college. My mother never attended high school. If I was in high school today, because of my terrible demographics, I question if I could find enough motivation to pursue college. Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/teenagers-school-girls-boys.html
— Can Trump and Musk Convince More Conservatives to Buy Teslas?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/business/elon-musk-trump-tesla-conservatives.html
— How Trump’s Hard-Line Tactics Are Driving Down (ILLEGAL) Migration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/mexico-trump-migration.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, governments exist a) to take money from those who have more money and b) to give that money to those who have less money.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-16/doge-elon-musk-donald-trump-government-layoffs
USA TODAY
— Torching Teslas? Climate-loving liberals driven crazy by Trump harm their cause. Liberals across the country are attacking a bunch of electric vehicles and infrastructure – once a symbol of Democrats’ climate-saving agenda. Essentially, they are sabotaging their own cause.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/14/trump-musk-tesla-protests-ev-violence/82330639007/
BOSTON HERALD
— Transgender Americans weigh leaving US over Trump’s policies. Some already have.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/03/15/transgender-americans-leaving/amp/
NEW YORK SUN
— First-in-the-Nation Reparations Program Runs Into Financial Problems, Halts Payouts. In Evanston, Illinois, lagging recreational pot sales – which are used to fund the city’s disbursements to African Americans – have been lagging below projections.
https://www.nysun.com/article/first-in-the-nation-reparations-program-runs-into-financial-problems-halts-payouts
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Attacks Political Enemies in Speech at Justice Department. President Trump vowed to restore “fair, equal, and impartial justice” to the U.S. in his speech at the Department of Justice.
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-attacks-political-enemies-in-speech-at-justice-department/56264406-A6C3-4787-B6BB-B510A0E311FA
WEEK
— J.D. Vance: Trump’s attack dog (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents and the attack dogs who they currently use against me and have used against me in the past. They include present and past members of the Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce members.)
https://theweek.com/politics/j-d-vance-trumps-attack-dog
NPR
— A tale of two states: Florida and Illinois’s responses to the Trump administration
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5324551/a-tale-of-two-states-florida-and-illinoiss-responses-to-the-trump-administration
MEDIAITE
— Homan: I’m Deporting Illegals Biden Tried to Turn Into Voters
https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/future-democratic-voters-trump-border-czar-tells-stephen-a-smith-theyre-deporting-the-illegals-biden-was-changing-census-to-count/
CBC
— Fans at BMO Field boo U.S. anthem prior to Toronto FC’s home opener against Chicago. Steady booing was followed by enthusiastic rendition of O Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/mls/bmo-field-fans-boo-us-anthem-tfc-home-opener-1.7484851
March 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Scum,’ ‘crooked’ elections and ‘corrupt’ media. What Donald Trump said inside the Justice Department.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/what-trump-said-inside-the-justice-department/
— University of Chicago under investigation as part of Trump’s anti-DEI initiative (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/universities-investigated-for-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Dems split on bill to avert government shutdown
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/14/illinois-democrats-shutdown-federal-budget-vote-reaction-durbin-duckworth-casten
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders get Black faith leaders to threaten corporations if they do not restore DEI. Democrat and RINO corporations use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://chicagodefender.com/black-faith-leaders-to-corporations-restore-dei-or-lose-our-business/
ABC7
— Appeals court allows Trump to enact anti-DEI executive orders
https://abc7chicago.com/post/appeals-court-lifts-blocks-trumps-orders-restricting-diversity-equity-inclusion-programs/16024964/
NBC5
— Appeals court lifts blocks on Trump’s orders restricting DEI programs (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/appeals-court-lifts-blocks-on-trumps-orders-restricting-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-programs/3698406/
CBS2
— Chicago area food pantries, farmers say federal funding cuts causing ‘sense of panic’ (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more will be dependent on food pantries.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-food-pantries-farmers-federal-funding-cuts-panic/
FOX32
— Chicago university under investigation in Trump’s anti-DEI campaign (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-university-under-investigation-trumps-anti-dei-campaign
— Trump Tower protests: 150 Mahmoud Khalil supporters storm Midtown building; 90+ arrested (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil and what he does.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/students-storm-trump-tower-support
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSIONESS
— Trump administration targets University of Chicago over DEI (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/uchicago-investigated-trump-administration
WBEZ
— Trump takes aim at Chicago again — this time with a federal task force on antisemitism (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil and what he does.)
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2025/03/14/federal-task-force-antisemitism-schools-campus-chicago-brandon-johnson-bondi-justice-department
— Trans people facing gender-affirming care bans flee to Illinois, shield law states (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.)
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2025/03/14/trans-people-facing-gender-affirming-care-bans-flee-to-illinois-shield-law-states
STATELINE
— Illinois GOP introduce bills to reduce property taxes and address migration issues
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-republicans-propose-property-tax-bills/
RIVER BENDER
— Pritzker, Stratton, Statements On Government Funding Bill In Congress (COMMENT: What about statements in opposition?)
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/pritzker-stratton-statements-on-government-funding-bill-in-congress-80607.cfm
WJBC
— In remarks to teachers union, Pritzker lashes out at Trump’s education cuts (COMMENT: Few objected to Gingrich’s dramatic GAO budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors used those cuts along with the following to waste my career and to get rid of me: Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans preference.)
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/03/14/in-remarks-to-teachers-union-pritzker-lashes-out-at-trumps-education-cuts/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump reclaims a DOJ reshaped in his wake (COMMENT: Biden shaped his DOJ. All presidents shape their DOJs. The DOJ that Bush shaped 2000-2008 sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. To side with GAO is promote Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans’ preference.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-14/trump-reclaims-a-justice-department-reshaped-in-his-wake
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Most disapprove of Trump’s approach to Ukraine, Russia
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/most-disapprove-of-trumps-approach-to-ukraine-russia-survey/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump calls European Union ‘nasty’ for its treatment of American businesses
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-calls-european-union-nasty-for-its-treatment-of-american-businesses
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-268/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals Working for Congress?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/illegals_working_for_congress.html
BREITBART
— Trump Administration to Modernize IRS, Make Agency ‘Most Efficient and Effective’ for Taxpayers (COMMENT: Democrat IRS and GAO leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. They certainly did not want me to audit IRS. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of that almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997. They did that even though I had a) worked for IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master/s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997, c) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981, and e) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/14/trump-admin-to-modernize-irs-make-agency-most-efficient-and-effective-for-taxpayers/
— Actor John Cusack Compares Trump Buying a Tesla to Hitler, Calls Musk ‘Only Immigrant I Wanted Deported’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/03/14/actor-john-cusack-compares-trump-buying-a-tesla-to-hitler-calls-musk-only-immigrant-i-wanted-deported/
— Trump touts law-and-order vision, sounds off on past grievances with DOJ, FBI
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-touts-law-and-order-vision-sounds-off-on-past-grievances-with-doj-fbi/
FOX NEWS
— Trump rallies support for ‘tough on crime’ agenda at DOJ visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J1u244Kv_8
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Vance booed by Kennedy Center crowd in wake of Trump takeover
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/14/vice-president-jd-vance-booed-kennedy-center-crowd-wake-trump/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Pentagon Schools Instruct Use of Minecraft to Promote DEI Trojan Horse (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/14/pentagon-schools-instruct-use-minecraft-promote-dei-trojan-horse/
FEDERALIST SOCIETY
— FOID Cards and the Second Amendment at the Illinois Supreme Court
https://fedsoc.org/scdw/foid-cards-and-the-second-amendment-at-the-illinois-supreme-court
FOX NEWS
— Reparations fight hits Congress as GOP looks to defund new DC task force. DC is expected to form a slavery reparations task force this year.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reparations-fight-hits-congress-gop-looks-defund-new-dc-task-force
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Appeals court allows Trump administration to enforce ban on DEI programs, for now (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-enforce-ban-dei-programs-now-rcna196551
REUTERS
— Countries considered for Trump’s potential new travel ban (COMMENT: What do say to countries a) that despise/hate America and/or b) that illegally send their citizens into American and/or illegally keep their citizens in America to destroy America?)
https://www.reuters.com/world/countries-considered-trumps-potential-new-travel-ban-2025-03-15/
MSN
— ‘Chilling’: NYT reveals list of words banned by Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ initiatives
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chilling-nyt-reveals-list-of-words-banned-by-trump-s-anti-woke-initiatives/ar-AA1AvE2k
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-order-voice-of-america.html
— Appeals Court Lets Trump’s DEI Crackdown Proceed (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-dei-court-ruling.html
— Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries. A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States. (COMMENT: Based on their actions, far too many who come to America despise/hate Americans who are Jewish, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. All those who come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally a) want/need/demand massive government assistance, b) lack education and/or job skills, and/or have severe financial, health, and/or other problems.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
— Trump Administration Expels South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/south-africa-ambassador-marco-rubio.html
— Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale. The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if attempts to promote diversity aren’t stopped. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/world/africa/south-africa-whites-trump.html
USA TODAY
— Trump talks tough on antisemitism while Musk reposts vile Hitler excuse
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/15/elon-musk-hitler-trump-antisemitism/82408339007/
BLOOMBERG
— A Fair Workplace? Not Everywhere. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers do not treat their employees who are the following fairly: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that their employees are, the more unfairly that Democrat and RINO employers treat them.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1999-04-26/a-fair-workplace-not-everywhere
STARS & STRIPES
— ‘What’s happening to veterans is not right’: Thousands attend rally on National Mall to protest cuts to jobs, services (COMMENT: During all the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they always protected their Democrat employees who were veterans from the adverse impacts of Republican budget cuts.)
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-03-14/veterans-rally-national-mall-17143611.html
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
— What is it like to argue before the Supreme Court? (COMMENT: I argued Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange before the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, in 1996. SEE: https://casetext.com/case/diersen-v-chicago-car-exchange and https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1385001.html I should write about the material factual errors in the decision. I argued Diersen v. GAO before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2000-2005. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf I should write about the material factual errors in the decision.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhxlH18iHg
POLITICO
— Trump calls for imprisoning his opponents in bellicose speech at Justice Department. For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence. (COMMENT: Biden shaped his DOJ. All presidents shape their DOJs. The DOJ that Bush shaped 2000-2008 sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. To side with GAO is promote Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans preference.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/14/trump-doj-speech-prison-opponents-00231438
March 8, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Volunteer work is the best remedy for our anxious times (COMMENT: What volunteer work do you do? I spend 15+ hours each and every day and thousands of dollars every year putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out every day. Those newsletters promote the Republican Party platform. What motivates you to do the volunteer work that you do? For me, it is filling the tremendous void in communication from the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO). The IRP should be doing what I do for Illinois Republicans daily. The DCRCC and MTRO should be doing what I do for DuPage County and Milton Township Republicans at least weekly. Political organizations exist to help elect candidates in their jurisdictions who can and will defend and advance their platform. Democrat organizations do not have to do what I do because the mainstream news media promotes the Democrat Party platform.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/07/volunteer-work-kindness-best-remedy-anxiety-polarizing-times-culture-wars-happiness-carol-larson
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County unveils plans to replace Heritage Gallery in Wheaton (COMMENT: The Democrats who have invaded and conquered DuPage County despise/hate Republicans. They want drive all Republicans out of DuPage County.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250307/news/dupage-county-unveils-plans-to-replace-heritage-gallery-in-wheaton/
— Hundreds rallied Thursday at the Capitol in Springfield to voice their opposition to a bill that would require oversight of families who home-school their children (COMMENT: Democrats hate home schooling because Democrats use education to make students good little Democrats.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250308/news/l/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump budget cuts.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/stand-science-rally-thousands-federal-plaza-chicago-oppose-trump-administration-research-funding-cuts/15989395/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump budget cuts.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-farmers-food-pantries-hit-hard-by-trumps-budget-cuts/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump budget cuts.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1604992
WTTW
— Illinois Joins Lawsuit Seeking to Halt ‘Illegal’ Mass Firings of Federal Workers and Thrust Into Unemployment, Axed Federal Workers Face Relatives Who Celebrate Their Firing (COMMENT: My critics/opponents stress that virtually no one came to my defense when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was grossly overpaid ($153,151/year in today’s dollars) and that I must be an extremely bad employee because I was forced to retire even though I had three job-related master’s degrees (1997, 1980, and 1976), six job-related professional certifications (1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979), and a job-related professional license (1981).)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/07/illinois-joins-lawsuit-seeking-halt-illegal-mass-firings-federal-workers
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/07/thrust-unemployment-axed-federal-workers-face-relatives-who-celebrate-their-firing
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts to the IRS threaten to cost more than DOGE will ever save (COMMENT: I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112.280/year. My Democrat IRS superiors took adverse actions against me and wasted my career. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. To waste my GAO career and to get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, except for 3 years 1986-1988.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/07/doges-cuts-irs-threaten-cost-more-than-doge-saves
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump wants to gut HUD. Illinois can’t afford to lose it. (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO during the 1990s instead of gutting it, there would no need for DOGE today.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/illinois-cant-afford-lose-hud-under-trump-opinion
FOX ILLINOIS
— DOGE’s power curbed amid reports of tension within Trump Administration
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/doges-power-curbed-amid-reports-of-tension-within-trump-administration-elon-musk-marco-rubio-sean-duffy-cabinet-trump-agency-democrats-finances
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-07/trump-freeze-on-resettlement-funding-leaves-new-refugees-scrambling-to-adjust-in-u-s
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-263/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To end Affirmative Action and DEI is to end a) race and gender based preference giving, b) patronage, c) political affiliation discrimination, d) reverse discrimination, e) age discrimination, f) religious discrimination, and g) and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How would your life been different if Democrats had not had Affirmative Action and DEI to use against Republicans? For me, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, long before I was 40 years old. I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA). None of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me had anything close to that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your attitude toward fired federal employees? My critics/opponents stress that virtually no one came to my defense when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was grossly overpaid ($153,151/year in today’s dollars) and that I must be an extremely bad employee because I was forced to retire even though I had three job-related master’s degrees (1997, 1980, and 1976), six job-related professional certifications (1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979), and a job-related professional license (1981). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— A big reason why I got virtually no sympathy when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 was that that I immediately started getting a Civil Service Retirement System pension of $66,780/year in today’s dollars and that the federal government continues to pay 72% of my and my wife’s health care premiums. But in today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $153,151, and therefore, I suffered a $86,371/year or 56% loss of income. But virtually everyone accepted back then and continues to accept the hinting/implying/arguing/shouting from my critics/opponents that I was grossly overpaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. If you accept that, you can understand why my employers had such a hard time recruiting and retaining women for those jobs and why they gave the women who they did hire so much preference over men. With Affirmative Action and DEI, the women who they hired could always get better jobs elsewhere. All the women who my employers promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one that I had. They were all Democrat, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If Republicans had reformed GAO instead of gutting it while I worked for it 1980-1997, I would have been promoted into its Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. But instead, the Democrats who ran GAO wasted my career and got rid of me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— RINOs want Trump to fail, that is, RINOs want America to fail. RINOs are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-those who have more money than they have, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors. I should write about the biggest RINOs in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Astounding Social Security Bonus! (COMMENT: My Social Security ($3,000/year) is only about a third of what it should be ($9,000/year) because I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension ($67,000/year). Because Biden signed a law that ended that reduction, I will get about $6,000 for 2024 and $750/month instead of $250/month starting this year.)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/07/astounding-social-security-bonus/
— Congressman Darin LaHood Questions Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/07/congressman-darin-lahood-questions-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson/
— Opioid Deaths Up in McHenry County, While State Sees Downturn
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/07/opioid-deaths-up-in-mchenry-county-while-state-sees-downturn/
— Oakland Hills Dares Hold an “EASTER” Egg Hunt
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/07/oakland-hills-dares-hold-an-easter-egg-hunt/
— New State Senator Darby Hills Sends First Newsletter
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/07/new-state-senator-darby-hills-sends-first-newsletter/
— More Concern for Data Centers Electric Use
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/07/more-concern-for-data-centers-electric-use/
WIREPOINTS
— Emanuel shouldn’t get a pass just because Lightfoot was bad and Johnson is even worse.
https://wirepoints.org/rahm-emanuel-shouldnt-get-a-pass-just-because-lightfoot-was-bad-and-mayor-johnson-is-even-worse-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinoisans pay nation’s highest combined state, local taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-illinoisans-pay-nations-highest-combined-state-local-taxes/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— HB2827 Threatens Homeschool Freedom—Fight Back Before It’s Too Late!
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/hb2827-threatens-homeschool-freedom-fight-back-before-its-too-late.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DEI and deviancy: Wealth doesn’t always buy protection.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3311108/dei-and-deviancy-wealth-doesnt-always-buy-protection/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Three FEMA supervisors fired after probe of directive to skip homes with Trump signs
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/03/08/three-fema-supervisors-fired-after-probe-of-directive-to-skip-homes-with-trump-signs-1527711/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Education Department Launches ‘End DEI’ Portal for K-12 Discrimination Reporting (COMMENT: To end DEI is to end a) race and gender based preference giving, b) patronage, c) political affiliation discrimination, d) reverse discrimination, e) age discrimination, f) religious discrimination, and g) and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/06/education-department-launches-end-dei-portal-for-k-12-discrimination-reporting/
EPOCH TIMES
— US Stopping All Federal Funding to South Africa (COMMENT: As discrimination against Whites in America diminishes because of Trump, more White South Africans may want to immigrate to America.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/us-stopping-all-federal-funding-to-south-africa-trump-5821808
FOX NEWS
— Obama Presidential Center: DEI-linked firm’s racial lawsuit blasted as baseless ‘smears’ Engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti was accused of racially discriminating against a Black-owned subcontractor after criticizing their work.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-presidential-center-dei-linked-firms-racial-lawsuit-blasted-baseless-smears
NATIONAL REVIEW
— DEI Meets an IED (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly do everything that they can to keep DEI, that is, to keep a) race and gender based preference giving, b) patronage, c) political affiliation discrimination, d) reverse discrimination, e) age discrimination, f) religious discrimination, and g) and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/04/dei-meets-an-ied/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSNBC
— Trump’s outreach to white South Africans isn’t (just) about Elon Musk. The president’s offer for white farmers to leave post-apartheid South Africa and gain U.S. citizenship says a lot about how he views America. (COMMENT: As discrimination against Whites in America diminishes because of Trump, more White South Africans may want to immigrate to America.)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-elon-musk-south-africa-rcna195340
MSN
— IRS worker laid off by DOGE had received just 1 paycheck before getting fired (COMMENT: A big reason why I got virtually no sympathy when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 was that that I immediately started getting a Civil Service Retirement System pension of $66,780/year in today’s dollars and that the federal government continues to pay 72% of my and my wife’s health care premiums. But in today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $153,151, and therefore, I suffered a $86,371/year or 56% loss of income. But virtually everyone accepted back then and continues to accept the hinting/implying/arguing/shouting from my critics/opponents that I was grossly overpaid.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/we-are-the-easy-targets-irs-worker-laid-off-by-doge-had-received-just-1-paycheck-before-getting-fired/ar-AA1At9AV
CBS NEWS
— Some migrants hoping to cross U.S. border consider turning back due to Trump crackdown
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-mexico-border-migrants-trump-crackdown/
NEW YORK TIMES
— I’m a Rust Belt Democrat From a Swing District. Anti-Tariff Absolutism Is a Mistake.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/opinion/tariffs-democrats-mexico.html
— Asked if U.S. Needs Education Department, Its Head Says ‘No’ (COMMENT: For Democrats, the Department of Education exists to crank out good little Democrats.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/education-department-mcmahon-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The 10 Republicans who could be Trump’s heir apparent in 2028. Vice President JD Vance is the obvious and prohibitive frontrunner, but here’s who else could be in the mix.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/08/10-republicans-who-could-be-trumps-heir-apparent-2028/
— For some federal workers, Trump and Musk offer a career springboard (COMMENT: If Republicans had reformed GAO instead of gutting it while I worked for it 1980-1997, I would have been promoted into its Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. But instead, the Democrats who ran GAO wasted my career and got rid of me.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/08/trump-musk-doge-workforce/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/07/canada-tariffs-affect-us-goods/81799529007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats Are Busy Fighting Over What to Fight Over. Progressives want confrontation while moderates fear that will turn off the centrist voters who can put them back in power.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrat-party-strategy-progressive-moderates-13e8df10
— RINOs want Trump to fail, that is, RINOs want America to fail. RINOs are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-those who have more money than they have, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors. I should write about the biggest RINOs in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/snap-out-of-it-democrats-trump-congressional-address-showed-they-wont-win-for-a-long-time-1757d3c4
— Trump Is Overturning the World Order That America Built. As the president embraces Putin, longtime allies are starting to view the U.S. not just as unreliable but as a possible threat to their own security.
https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-is-overturning-the-world-order-that-america-built-10981637?page=1
FORBES
— Democrat and RNO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2025/03/07/trump-immigration-policy-ending–protection-for-18-million-immigrants/
WRAL
— Dismantling modern DEI policies will hurt women in corporate culture, especially in heavily male-centric organizations, experts warn. (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. If you accept that, you can understand why my employers had such a hard time recruiting and retaining women for those jobs and why they gave the women who they did hire so much preference over men. With Affirmative Action and DEI, the women who they hired could always get better jobs elsewhere. All the women who my employers promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one that I had. They were all Democrat, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wral.com/business/women-workforce-dei-policies-change-corporate-america-march-2025/
March 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/trumps-tariffs-explainer/
— The historic Crown Point Courthouse saw one of several demonstrations organized across 50 states ahead of President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday evening.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/region-residents-join-nationwide-demonstrations-on-eve-of-trump-speech-in-congress/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/lake-countys-congressmen-give-trump-speech-the-cold-shoulder-he-stands-for-only-one-thing-himself/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/06/opinion-homelessness-criminalization-grants-pass-camping-bans-illinois-legislation/
— Early voting for April 1 election begins Friday in Kane County
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/early-voting-for-april-1-election-begins-friday-in-kane-county-officials-say/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly a) promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Mayor of Chicago and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump..
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/05/brandon-johnson-sanctuary-city-hearing-chicago-house-oversight-committee
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-illinois-businesses-facing-scary-times
— Robert Crimo III signs trial waiver ‘Donald Trump’ after pleading guilty to Highland Park parade shooting. Experts say his guilty plea should stand. “He can sign Mickey Mouse or Donald Trump,” said Richard Kling, a law professor at Kent College of Law. What matters, he said, is that there is a transcript of Crimo orally pleading guilty, which Crimo did Monday.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/highland-park-parade-shooting/2025/03/05/highland-park-parade-shooting-robert-crimo-trial-waiver-donald-trump
DAILY HERALD
— Early voting ahead of April 1 election begins Friday for some, March 17 for others (COMMENT: As a Republican Precinct Committeeman, I will use 805 mailing labels to hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and marked sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican or one Independent voter.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/local-politics/early-voting-ahead-of-april-1-election-begins-friday-for-some-march-17-for-others/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Lisle mayor, trustees at odds over police chief hiring process (COMMENT: How did you get your jobs? 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 who was minority, female, younger, or veteran who would take the job. For the Post Office job, I had passed the postal employment examination and I had earned a high school diploma. For the IRS job, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU. For the GAO job, I had earned an MBA from Loyola, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/news/lisle-mayor-trustees-at-odds-over-police-chief-hiring-process/
NBC5
— Appeals court allows Trump to remove Office of Special Counsel (OSC) ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger — for now (COMMENT: OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-to-remove-federal-ethics-watchdog/3689910/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Special Counsel’s job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals,”)
— DOGE recommends closing multiple Social Security offices across the U.S., including in Illinois. The proposed closure comes after reports that the Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off least 7,000 people from its workforce. (COMMENT: My Medicare is more than my Social Security. That may explain why I did not get a SSA-1099. But the Social Security website would not let me request one and no one answered at Social Security after hours of being in hold.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doge-recommends-closing-multiple-social-security-offices-across-the-u-s-including-in-illinois/3689639/
FOX32
— LaHood calls Johnson ‘tone deaf’ to needs of Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DTtTNdlAl7lA
SOUTHERN
— Trump administration hit with over 100 lawsuits since inauguration
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/06/trump-administration-hit-with-over-100-lawsuits-since-inauguration/
RIVER BENDER
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/trump-administration-cuts-funding-for-grants-that-support-illinois-farmers-and-food-banks-80297.cfm?
STATELINE
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-gov-pritzker-warns-1-million-may-lose-health-care-coverage-if-medicaid-funding-cut/
CLINTON JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://theclintonjournal.com/stories/tariffs-on-illinois-largest-trading-partners,86466
WAND TV
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/legislative-leaders-urge-illinois-gop-congressional-delegation-to-vote-against-medicaid-cuts/article_88944766-fa08-11ef-b1f9-632b456fc219.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Appeals court rules that Trump can remove head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-03-05/trump-administration-can-remove-head-of-federal-watchdog-agency-appeals-court-rules
(FROM THE ARTICLE: OSC is responsible for guarding the federal workforce from illegal personnel actions, such as retaliation for whistleblowing. It investigates whistleblower claims of reprisal, can pursue disciplinary action against employees who punish whistleblowers and provides a channel for employees to disclose government wrongdoing.)
AXIOS CHICAGO
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/05/house-budget-medicaid-cuts-illinois
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Brandon Johnson gets a D.C. grilling
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/06/brandon-johnson-v-darin-lahood-00215402
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-468/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— One of the first targets for an Illinois DOGE? Chicago’s 20 nearly-empty, failing schools. Here’s the 2025 list.
https://wirepoints.org/one-of-the-first-targets-for-an-illinois-doge-chicagos-20-nearly-empty-failing-schools-heres-the-2025-list-wirepoints/
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Illinois officials have the constitutional authority to essentially thumb their nose at federal immigration agents and complicate federal efforts to locate and remove illegal immigrants, according to a new filing from Illinois’ state attorney general. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject the rule of law.)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/670297274-new-filing-illinois-has-constitutional-authority-to-ignore-immigration-law-complicate-deportations
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat-led mainstream news media ever-increasingly spins negatively everything that Trump says and does. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
— All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals, But OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis Tries for Congress Again (COMMENT: I did much to help Oberweis win general elections. Of course, my critics/opponents always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at him that I caused all his defeats. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/oberweis-tries-for-congress-again/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Trump Declares ‘America is Back’ as House Speaker Removes Rep. Al Green for Disrupting Presidential Speech to Congress
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/trump-declares-america-is-back-as-house-speaker-removes-rep-al-green-for-disrupting-presidential-speech-to-congress.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
U.S. HOUSE
— Sanctuary Mayors Refuse to Change Policies That Obstruct Federal Immigration Enforcement and Protect Dangerous Criminal Aliens
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-sanctuary-mayors-refuse-to-change-policies-that-obstruct-federal-immigration-enforcement-and-protect-dangerous-criminal-aliens/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats are delusional in their open embrace of illegals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/6/democrats-delusional-open-embrace-illegals/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump’s triumphant vision as America’s renewal shines in historic address
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/trump_s_triumphant_vision_as_america_s_renewal_shines_in_historic_address.html
BREITBART
— Trump Reforms Yield Several Arrests of Illegal Aliens Taking American Jobs
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/trump-reforms-yield-several-arrests-illegals-taking-american-jobs/
— The more demographics that you have that vote for Republicans and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more hatred that Democrat and RINO leaders promote against you.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/there-is-no-america-without-migrants-says-democrat-attorney-general/
DAILY CALLER
— Soaring Levels Of Non-English Speaking Students May Be Driving National Reading Test Scores Into Ground (COMMENT: Delay in dumping German held my ancestors back big time. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Yet, all my grandparents still spoke German. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/05/soaring-levels-of-non-english-speaking-students-may-be-driving-national-reading-test-scores-into-ground/
FOX BUSINESS
— Mayors gave ‘woke wonderment’ and ‘double-talk’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6369653272112
FOX NEWS
— DNC hires new top exec with long history of pushing racial grievances, leftist ideology. Roger Lau previously worked for progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-hires-new-top-exec-with-long-history-pushing-racial-grievances-leftist-ideology?lid=4j232h861vbo
— Republican, independent voters react positively to Trump declaring US ‘woke no longer’ Democrats in the focus groups tests did not react at all favorably to Trump’s statements during his address to Congress.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/republican-independent-voters-react-positively-trump-declaring-us-woke-no-longer
GREG GIROUX
— Former Illinois state Sen. Jim Oberweis (R), who relocated to SW Florida after close loss to Rep. Lauren Underwood (D) in 2020, filed papers to seek #FL19 seat Rep. Byron Donalds (R) is giving up to run for governor. (COMMENT: I did much to help Oberweis win general elections. Of course, my critics/opponents always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at him that I caused all his defeats. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://x.com/greggiroux/status/1897388737275031939
JAMES A. FUREY
— Education bureaucrats lower standards in the name of ‘equity’ and call it progress. In reality, they are condemning students, particularly the most vulnerable, to a lifetime of limited opportunity. (COMMENT: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://x.com/JamesAFurey/status/1897400171593654726
JIM OBERWEIS FOR CONGRESS
https://votejimo.com/
NEWSMAX
— Sanctuary City Mayors ‘Put Illegals First’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/james-comer-chicago-denver/2025/03/05/id/1201616/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-trump-plans-revoke-legal-111130604.html
NEWSWEEK
— Sanctuary City Hearing Descends Into Chaos: ‘This Is My Right!’ (COMMENT: How strongly are your county, county district, township, municipality, municipal district, school district, and precinct sanctuaries for illegals?)
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-city-hearing-james-comer-ayanna-pressley-chaos-2040235
C-SPAN
— Trump Praises Efforts to End DEI “Woke” Policies in Defense Dept.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5155812/president-trump-praises-efforts-end-dei-woke-policies-defense-dept
CBS NEWS
— Highland Park parade shooter signed “Donald Trump” on trial waiver rather than his own name after guilty plea
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/highland-park-parade-shooter-donald-trump-name-document/
NEW YORK TIMES
— More Than 70 Million Americans Are on Medicaid. This Is Where They Live. (COMMENT: How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Why are they on Medicaid?)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/medicaid-enrollment.html
— There Is No Musk Exception in the Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/elon-musk-trump-constitution.html
— ‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump’s Takeover. “We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/theater/hamilton-kennedy-center-trump-miranda.html
WASHINGTON POST
— D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won’t hire from any school with ‘DEI’ (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to lower standards for Democrats who are minority, female, and/or younger.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/05/dc-us-attorney-ed-martin-georgetown-law-dei/
— The Democratic fight over how to respond to Trump has already begun (COMMENT: I wonder what the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will shout at me as I hand-deliver sample ballots and Republican campaign literature in my precinct.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/democrats-trump-speech-reaction-debate/
USA TODAY
— Canadian province leader threatens to cut off energy to 3 US states, imposes 25% surcharge
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/ontario-canada-tariff-retaliation-energy-states/81350351007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/04/trump-dei-backlash-explained/81170427007/
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-many-immigrants-will-die-in-us-custody
FINANCIAL REVIEW
— All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/gender-data-shows-any-lack-of-meritocracy-is-working-in-favour-of-men-20250225-p5lf18
PRESS AND GUIDE & NEWS HERALD
— Today in history: John Belushi’s death shocks hometown of Wheaton
https://www.pressandguide.com/2025/03/05/today-in-chicago-history-john-belushis-death-shocks-the-city/
https://www.thenewsherald.com/2025/03/05/today-in-chicago-history-john-belushis-death-shocks-the-city/
March 5, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago Mayor Johnson defends spending on migrant crisis during Capitol Hill hearings
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-defends-spending-migrant-crisis-during-sanctuary-city-hearings-washington-dc/15981771/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson testifies in DC at sanctuary city hearing
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-set-testify-washington-dc-sanctuary-city-hearing/15979555/
— Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-issues-last-warning-hamas-release-remaining-hostages-held-gaza/15981541/
— Trump administration plans to fire over 70K employees at Department of Veterans Affairs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-administration-planning-fire-70k-employees-us-department-veterans-affairs-memo-shows/15981426/
— ‘Partisan and divisive’: House leadership on Trump’s joint address
https://abc7chicago.com/post/democrats-republicans-react-president-trumps-joint-address-congress/15980125/
— Illinois legislative revenue estimate more than $700M lower than Gov. Pritzker’s proposed budget
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-legislative-revenue-estimate-737-million-lower-governor-jb-pritzkers-proposed-state-budget/15982106/
NBC5
— House Republicans seek to censure Rep. Al Green after interrupting Trump’s speech
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/house-republicans-seek-to-censure-rep-al-green-after-interrupting-trumps-speech/3689903/
— LaHood questions Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson during testimony before Congress
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/il-rep-darin-lahood-questions-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-during-testimony-before-congress/3689776/
CBS2
— Mayor Brandon Johnson defends Chicago’s immigration policies on Capitol Hill; “Chicago is and always has been a proud city of immigrants.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/after-prep-mayor-johnson-testify-capitol-hill-immigration/
FOX32
— Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers opening statement in sanctuary cities hearing
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DliSvuXQIHh8
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson defends Chicago’s sanctuary laws in GOP-led congressional hearing
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/mayor-brandon-johnson-congress-committee-sanctuary-laws/
— Democrat leaders say “Trump uses Democrats as stooges at address to Congress” and ask “When will the party learn some common sense?”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/editorial-donald-trump-uses-democrats-as-stooges-at-state-of-the-union-when-will-the-party-learn-some-common-sense/
— City begins rehousing efforts for Gompers Park homeless encampment residents
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/chicago-rehousing-efforts-gompers-park-homeless/
— Aurora mayoral candidates Richard Irvin, John Laesch to answer questions at upcoming forum (COMMENT: While I was the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005 -2012, far too many Republican candidates objected to my asking them after their speeches that if elected, would they defend and advance all the planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/aurora-mayoral-candidates-richard-irvin-john-laesch-to-answer-questions-at-upcoming-forum/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Heavily-scripted Mayor Brandon Johnson survives congressional hot seat on Chicago’s sanctuary city policy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/brandonjohnson/2025/03/05/chicago-sanctuary-city-brandon-johnson-testimony-updates-file
DAILY HERALD
— ‘Insulting and disrespectful’: Suburban Democratic lawmakers slam Trump’s address to Congress
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/us-congress-politics/insulting-and-disrespectful-suburban-democratic-lawmakers-slam-trumps-address-to-congress/
— Illinois lawmakers boycott, bring pointed guests to Trump speech
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250304/nation-and-world-politics/illinois-lawmakers-boycott-bring-pointed-guests-to-trump-speech/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Brandon Johnson argues sanctuary city law keeps Chicago safer in high-profile House testimony
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/brandon-johnson-defends-chicagos-sanctuary-city-law-dc
SOUTHERN
— Trump, Musk raise questions about whether nation’s gold at Fort Knox has been stolen
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/05/trump-musk-raise-questions-about-whether-nations-gold-at-fort-knox-has-been-stolen/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Volunteers help fired federal workers re-enter the job market (COMMENT: No one helped me or my Republican GAO coworkers who were fired because of Republican-led budget cuts during the 1980s and 1990s.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-05/volunteers-help-fired-federal-workers-re-enter-the-job-market
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Republicans push for special master in Illinois redistricting lawsuit
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/republicans-push-for-special-master-in-illinois-redistricting-lawsuit#
KDHL RADIO
— Cannabis Edible Sends Illinois Teen To Emergency Room
https://kdhlradio.com/ixp/722/p/cannabis-edible-illinois/
WHEATON
— Women of Wheaton (COMMENT: What About Men of Wheaton?)
https://www.wheaton.il.us/1069/Women-of-Wheaton
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-261/
— Underutilized CPS schools driving up costs
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/05/report-underutilized-cps-schools-driving-up-costs/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— It all comes out in the wash. As time goes on, it becomes all the more clear that all my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican reject many, most, if not virtually all of the planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Antics at speech highlight Democrats’ Trump problem
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/5/antics-speech-highlight-democrats-trump-problem/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Chicago Mayor: Sanctuary Policies Make Cities Safer Because ‘Undocumented Immigrants Come Forward To Report Crimes’
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/chicago-mayor-sanctuary-policies-make-cities-safer-because-undocumented-immigrants-come-forward-to-report-crimes/
BREITBART
— Biden Quadrupled Unvetted Immigration Through Parole Program Abuse
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/report-biden-quadrupled-unvetted-immigration-through-parole-program-abuse/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— USDA employees fired en masse by Trump administration reinstated (COMMENT: I was among the more than 3,000 GAO employees who Republicans fired during the 1980s and 1990s. What if we had been reinstated?)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/usda-employees-fired-reinstatement/index.html
NBC NEWS
— Trump grants automakers a 1-month exemption on tariffs; Vance visits southern border
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/live-blog/live-updates-trump-vance-musk-doge-immigration-russia-ukraine-rcna194067
CBS NEWS
— JD Vance touts Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration in Texas
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jd-vance-touts-trump-administrations-crackdown-on-illegal-immigration-in-texas/
— House Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff arrested for DUI after Trump speech
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-johnson-chief-of-staff-hayden-haynes-arrested-dui-trump-speech/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Chicago’s Mayor Pushes Back as Republicans Attack Immigration Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/brandon-johnson-chicago-mayor-sanctuary-city-hearing.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Americans don’t love Trump’s methods on Ukraine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/americans-dont-love-trumps-methods-ukraine/
— Trump administration plans 15 percent cut to VA workforce (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO during the 1980s and 1998s, Republicans cut half its workforce.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/veterans-affairs-cut-employees-trump-doge/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Tariff Concerns Paralyze Businesses, Raising Uncertainty
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-tariff-concerns-paralyze-businesses-raising-uncertainty/9883E3CA-F5B0-4DB2-A2FB-0845198B7542
INDEPENDENT
— Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff arrested on DUI charge after Trump’s speech
https://www.yahoo.com/news/speaker-mike-johnson-chief-staff-213942800.html