FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— To get more votes from minorities, females, and younger people, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at them that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/opinion-chicago-brandon-johnson-diverse-hiring-trump-lawsuit/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders applaud Mayor Johnson for fanning the flames of his political war against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/05/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-war-of-words-donald-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/27/budget-reconciliation-bill-scapegoating-immigrants-jobs-working-class-america-trump-ben-jealous
DAILY HERALD
— Congressional candidate says she’s hiring security because of comments, vandalism
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250527/us-congress-politics/congressional-candidate-says-shes-boosting-security-because-of-threat-vandalism/
— FRONT PAGE: DuPage County setting up land bank as part of affordable housing push. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my wife and got married in 1978 and bought a) 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ) and b) two new cars. According to them, I was grossly overpaid, that is, I should not have been promoted in 1972, 1973, or 1974.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250527/news/dupage-county-setting-up-land-bank-as-part-of-affordable-housing-push/
ABC7
— Trump asks Supreme Court to make it easier to deport migrants to Sudan and other ‘third’ countries
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-asks-supreme-court-make-easier-deport-migrants-south-sudan-other-third-countries/16567561/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders use NPR to promote the Democrat Party platform
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/npr-sues-trump-over-executive-order-slashing-funding/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1648113
— Trump wants to cut all federal ties with Harvard
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1648176
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Fitch downgrades Chicago’s credit outlook to ‘negative’
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/fitch-gives-chicago-negative-credit-outlook
— As Trump targets foreign enrollment, IIT could be hardest hit. I took graduate evening courses and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. I did that because my Democrat GAO superiors had made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS again in 1989, because they had assigned me to audits of federal financial institution regulators since 1990, because I had not taken many courses in finance, and because my supervisor wanted/demanded that her subordinates have master’s degrees in finance.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/illinois-tech-has-high-percentage-international-students
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/05/27/5-years-after-george-floyds-murder-chicagoans-protest-amid-setbacks-in-racial-justice-and-police-reform
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use slavery to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.sj-r.com/things-to-do/events/?_evDiscoveryPath=/event/3069243-free-ish-juneteenth-and-the-long-legacy-of-1619-a-conversation-with-nikole-hannah-jones
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/health-harvest/2025-05-27/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois legislators support #StopTheHate campaign to combat antisemitism. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote antisemitism.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/27/watch-illinois-legislators-support-stopthehate-campaign-to-combat-antisemitism/
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat leaders want Pritzker to fight Trump even harder
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/talk-is-cheap-illinois-needs-gov-pritzker-to-act-to-protect-our-students-and-families/
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discourage assimilation. My ancestors were slow to assimilate. Because of that, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/05/27/illinois-bill-aims-to-expand-dual-language-programs/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-521/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-313/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— $800,000 to build a single “affordable” house is not affordable
https://wirepoints.org/800000-to-build-a-single-affordable-house-is-not-affordable-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Why Cook County’s property tax ‘relief fund’ is a hoax
https://wirepoints.org/why-cook-countys-property-tax-relief-fund-is-a-hoax-wirepoints-quickpoint/
CHICAGO PARENT
— DuPage County’s Best Faith-Based Schools Ranked for 2025. Each school offers a unique blend of academic excellence and religious values.
https://www.chicagoparent.com/education/private-schools/faith-based-schools-dupage-county/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have elected officials impacted your career? GAO works for Congress. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Tip O’Neill was the Speaker of the House 1980-1987 and then Jim Wright 1987-1989 and then Tom Foley 1989-1995 and then Newt Gingrich 1995-1997. Gingrich was the Speaker while my lawsuit was pending against GAO in in 1998 and 1999 and then Dennis Hastert 1999-2005. Johnson was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969 and then Nixon in 1969. Nixon was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1974 and then Ford 1974-1977 and then Carter 1977-1980. Carter was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 and 1981 and then Reagan 1981-1989 and then Bush 1989-1993 and then Clinton 1993-1997. Henry Hyde was my Congressman 1978-2007. Peter Fitzgerald was my U.S. Senator 1999-2005. I should write about how each of the aforesaid impacted my career. My Democrat superiors took their biggest adverse actions against me in 1968, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1989, and 1997-2005. I would focus on Hyde, Gingrich, Fitzgerald, and Hastert. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood on Qatari Jet Gift
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/lahood-on-qatari-jet-gift/
— Democrats to Demonstrate on June 8th in Woodstock
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/democrats-to-demonstrate-on-june-8th-in-woodstock/
— After Not-So-Good Memorial Day Weather, See What Celebrating Original Holiday Will Bring This Year
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/after-not-so-good-memorial-day-weather-see-what-celebrating-original-holiday-will-bring-this-year/
— Legislators Becoming Concerned about Data Center Electricity Use Pushing Up Residential Prices
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/legislators-becoming-concerned-about-data-center-electricity-use-pushing-up-residential-prices/
— Americans for Prosperity Continue Attempt to Influence Sue Ness to Vote against Tax Hikes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/americans-for-prosperity-continue-attempt-to-influence-sue-ness-to-vote-against-tax-hikes/
— Book by Local Author Worth Ordering on Memorial Day
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/book-by-local-author-worth-ordering-on-memorial-day/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Only 4 states tax services by default, but Illinois may join them
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/only-4-states-tax-services-by-default-but-illinois-may-join-them/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— 11 million? 20 million? 50 million? Estimates of the illegal immigrant population soar. How many illegals are in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Democrat and RINO leaders want them to stay there.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/27/11-million-20-million-50-million-estimates-illegal-immigrant/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The national reaction to George Floyd’s death was unnecessary and destructive.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3422838/national-reaction-george-floyd-death-police-racism/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin pauses all student visas, considers vetting new applicants’ social media. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/trump-admin-stops-all-new-student-visa-interviews/
— Melania Trump quashes conspiracy theory about Barron Trump and why the president is targeting Harvard
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/melania-trump-quashes-conspiracy-theory-about-barron-trump-and-why-the-president-is-targeting-harvard/
— The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will immediately end/reverse everything that Trump has done. Johnson was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969 and then Nixon in 1969. Nixon was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1974 and then Ford 1974-1977 and then Carter 1977-1980. Carter was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 and 1981 and then Reagan 1981-1989 and then Bush 1989-1993 and then Clinton 1993-1997.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/opinion/the-woke-left-will-never-recover-from-donald-trump/
AMERICAN THINKER
— NYT whines about low-information voters supporting Trump… but hides real information about the corruption of big government
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/nyt_whines_about_low_information_voters_supporting_trump_but_hides_real_information_about_the_corruption_of_big_government.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Proudly racist Chicago mayor wants to wish everyone a ‘Happy Africa Day’ for Memorial Day
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/27/proudly-racist-chicago-mayor-wants-to-wish-everyone-a-happy-africa-day-for-memorial-day-1546476/
BLAZE
— Brandon Johnson remains defiant against Trump after civil rights probe from DOJ
https://www.theblaze.com/news/brandon-johnson-remains-defiant-against-trump-after-civil-rights-probe-from-doj
BREITBART
— Anchor Babies Benefit Hugely from Taxpayer-Funded Welfare
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/27/ny-times-admits-anchor-babies-benefit-hugely-taxpayer-funded-welfare/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Illinois Wesleyan University promotes ‘Gender Diversity’ with ‘Rainbow Floor,’ ‘Universal Bathroom Map’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/illinois-wesleyan-university-promotes-gender-diversity-rainbow-floor-universal-bathroom-map-/27987
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Isn’t Turning A Blind Eye To States Who Dole Out Medicaid Benefits To Illegal Migrants
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/27/trump-administration-warns-states-about-crackdown-on-medicaid-spending-for-illegals/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s Mayor Johnson is so focused on race he can’t see the truth about humanity
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chicagos-mayor-johnson-so-focused-race-he-cant-see-truth-about-humanity
TOWNHALL
— NYT Twists Itself Into a Pretzel to Avoid Exposing How Illegals Get Access to Welfare Benefits
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/05/27/nyt-twists-itself-into-a-pretzel-to-avoid-exposing-how-illegals-get-access-to-welfare-benefits-n2657689
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump expands list of targets for his ire. Every time the Democrats who ran GAO assigned a new manager to run their Chicago office 1980-1997, they gave that manager a list of employees to get rid of. Of course, I was on all those lists along with the office’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. I would not have survived until 1997 if I had not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5320937-donald-trump-ire-list-expansion/
CBS NEWS
— Musk says he’s “disappointed” by Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” and what it means for DOGE
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-disappointed-by-trump-big-beautiful-bill-doge/
CNN
— Musk says Trump’s agenda bill ‘undermines’ DOGE mission
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/politics/elon-musk-trump-spending-bill-doge
REUTERS
— Trump administration halts scheduling of new student visa appointments. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-scheduling-new-student-visa-appointments-2025-05-27/
MSN
— Could you pass the Army’s new physical fitness test? I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. They blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. My critics/opponent could stress that I was able to stand and wash dishes.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/health/other/could-you-pass-the-army-s-new-physical-fitness-test/ar-AA1FnjTh
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the first exercise, soldiers are required to deadlift the maximum weight possible three times, using a 60-pound hex bar and plates. Then, they must complete as many hand-release push-ups as possible in two minutes, completely lowering the body to the ground and extending the arms to the side before starting the next push-up. For the sprint-drag-carry exercise, they must perform 5 x 50-meter shuttles as quickly as possible with a 2 x 40-pound kettlebell and a 90-pound sled. Soldiers must then hold the plank position for as long as possible to assess muscular endurance, before finishing off with a two-mile run on a “generally flat outdoor course.”)
NEWSWEEK
— College Graduates Are Feeling Pessimistic About the Job Market. What frustrated your job search? In 1970, potential employers viewed me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got and it was for a job that did not really require a college degree.
https://www.newsweek.com/2025/05/16/jobs-class-2025-college-graduates-2067359.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/immigrants-federal-aid-us-citizens.html
USA TODAY
— Generation Z gives up on the America dream. What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/05/27/gen-z-economy-student-loan-debt-online-shopping/83632729007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— King Charles Defends Canada’s Sovereignty From Trump. Rare parliamentary address capped king of Canada’s first visit as monarch.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/king-charles-canada-sovereignty-trump-ccd4a4bf
— My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate were furious when my wife and got married in 1978 and bought a) 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ) and b) two new cars. According to them, I was grossly overpaid, that is, I should not have been promoted in 1972, 1973, or 1974.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/first-time-home-buyers-downsize-amid-tight-supply-high-interest-rates-2b89511b?mod=Searchresults_pos8&page=1
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/starter-homes-smaller-rising-costs-2cc918e6
CHALKBEAT NEW YORK
— Hundreds of NYC students walk out of class for ‘anti-Trump, nonpartisan’ protest
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/05/27/high-school-students-protest-trump-higher-education-immigration/
TRUTHOUT
— Chemical Plants Near Black Neighborhoods Pollute While Hiring Few Black Workers. “People don’t have the jobs here, but people do have cancer.” My father worked in a nasty chemical plant in the Black northeast side of Chicago Heights for 29 years until he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969.
https://truthout.org/articles/chemical-plants-near-black-neighborhoods-pollute-while-hiring-few-black-workers/
ACCOUNTING TODAY
— Illinois passes licensure changes bill. Who do you know who is a licensed CPA? I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. Very few CPAs become licensed CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious because my becoming a licensed CPA frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. None of them were licensed CPAs and most were not CPAs. They were also furious that I had also passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination that year and I had earned a master’s degree in accounting the year before.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/illinois-passes-cpa-licensure-changes-bill
GOOGLE AI
— The 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T likely attracts buyers who are enthusiasts with a passion for performance and a desire for a practical, family-friendly vehicle. Dodge’s buyers tend to be younger and represent a diverse range of demographics, including Asian, African American, and Latino customers. I just bought a new red 2025 Charger Daytona R/T. But I am not young or a minority. I have owned a red 2013 Charger R/T Max since 2012. I owned a blue 1968 Charger R/T show car 1994-2005. I owned a blue 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%222025+dodge+charger+daytona+r%2Ft%22+buyers+demographics
TOP ELECTRIC SUV
— We check out the Dodge Charger Daytona R/T before its discontinuation. I just bought a new red 2025 Charger Daytona R/T. How should I react to its discontinuance?
https://topelectricsuv.com/news/dodge/dodge-charger-daytona-rt/
Tag: Republican
May 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— FBI reopens investigations into cocaine at White House, leaked Dobbs opinion.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fbi-reopens-investigation-cocaine-white-house-leaked-dobbs-opinion/16555524/
NBC5
— Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/cuban-exiles-were-shielded-from-deportation-now-trump-is-cracking-down/3754038/
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS10122HIBg
WTTW
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Senior Leadership Team Nearly 50% Black, More Than Half Female.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-s-senior-leadership-team-nearly-50-black-more-half-female-analysis
— Can Chicago-Born Pope Leo Remain a U.S. Citizen Now That He’s a Foreign Head of State?
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/25/can-chicago-born-pope-leo-remain-us-citizen-now-he-s-foreign-head-state
WGN RADIO
— Chicago’s own Gary Sinise: Serving military families of the fallen, first responders, veterans, and The Memorial Day concert.
https://wgnradio.com/dave-plier/chicagos-own-gary-sinise-serving-military-families-of-the-fallen-first-responders-veterans-and-the-memorial-day-concert/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— With the Chinese outpacing our tech advances, has our ‘Sputnik moment’ come and gone?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/opinion-us-china-students-education-sputnik/
— Illinois Teacher of the Year from Indian Prairie District 204 has hosted dozens of discussions across the state on belonging. Sadly, if not tragically, the more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the less that you feel like you belong in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. Far too many leaders of the aforesaid organizations reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform. I support all the planks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/illinois-teacher-of-the-year-from-indian-prairie-district-204-has-hosted-dozens-of-discussions-across-the-state-on-belonging/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/24/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/25/northwestern-uic-medical-researchers-diabetes-hiv-trump-funding-budget-cuts
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250526/news/cuts-to-school-mental-health-grants-could-trickle-down-to-local-districts/
WIFR
— Major General John Borling: A Memorial Day Tribute “We Are Americans.” In 2004, Borling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Borling ) was a candidate in the Republican Primary for the United States Senate.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/26/memorial-day-tribute-we-are-americans/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Homeless vets in LA hope that Trump order will create housing for them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-26/homeless-vets-in-la-hope-that-trump-order-will-create-housing-for-them
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mote illegal immigration.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-bill-could-allow-immigrants-to-become-driving-instructors/article_0fbe828b-ff74-4e28-9660-d922ed7fffcd.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-26/where-the-racial-justice-movement-stands-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/26/chicagoans-mark-5-years-since-george-floyds-murder-with-protest-the-work-here-is-far-from-done/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-520/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— What’s behind Chicago’s welcome, but belated, drop in crime
https://wirepoints.org/whats-behind-chicagos-welcome-but-belated-drop-in-crime-wirepoints/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis’ New Owners Expanding in Congressional District in Which Jim Oberweis Is Running for Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/oberweis-new-owners-expanding-in-congressional-district-in-which-jim-oberweis-is-running-for-congress/
— Tribune Reporter Misinformed about Motive for Consolidating RTA Governing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/tribune-reporter-misinformed-about-motive-for-consolidating-rta-governing/
— Too Cold for the Beach?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/too-cold-for-the-beach/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Legislative Update for the Last Week of May 2025
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/legislative-update-for-the-last-week-of-may-2025/
— Assisted Suicide Bill Pops Up In Last Week of Session
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/shell-games-with-assisted-suicide-bill/
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Pritzker Calls for “Summer of Love” 2.0?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/pritzker-calls-for-summer-of-love-2-0/
— Illinois School District Defies Title IX… Again
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-school-district-defies-title-ix-again/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s Department of Education right to combat racial discrimination. Ending DEI policies a legal imperative.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/trumps-department-education-right-combat-racial-discrimination/
— Justice Department says it’s ‘absurd’ and ‘wrong’ to suggest U.S. marshals won’t protect judges.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/justice-department-says-absurd-wrong-suggest-us-marshals-wont-protect/
— Charlie Kirk dismisses SPLC as ‘laughingstock’ for listing Turning Point on ‘hate map.’ My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/charlie-kirk-dismisses-splc-laughingstock-listing-turning-point-hate/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump can’t be bought
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3421969/trump-cant-be-bought-big-tech-finding-out-hard-way/
NEW YORK POST
— US military’s greatest challenge is here at home: How to solve the recruitment crisis.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/opinion/the-us-militarys-biggest-challenge-is-right-here-at-home/
— Pentagon’s new anti-woke ad: ‘No more gender confusion’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/us-news/pentagon-rolls-out-epic-new-ad-touting-end-of-wokeness-under-trump-hegseth-no-more-gender-confusion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hjyt9QRA20
— ‘Forest Gump’ star Gary Sinise open to Hollywood comeback under ‘right circumstances’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/entertainment/gary-sinise-open-to-hollywood-comeback-under-right-circumstances/
DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Education Secretary Pushed Men Into Women’s Sports.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/bidens-education-secretary-who-pushed-men-into-womens-sports-announces-new-gig/
— Trump Announces What He Might Do With $3 Billion He Threatens To Take Away ‘From A Very Antisemitic’ Harvard.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/trump-announces-3-billion-threatens-antisemitic-harvard-dei-trade-school/
FOX NEWS
— Trump fires off Memorial Day message targeting ‘SCUM’ who sought to ‘DESTROY’ the US. The president asserts the nation ‘WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN!’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fires-off-memorial-day-message-targeting-scum-who-sought-destroy-us
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Federal workers grapple with canceled health insurance, bungled benefits after Trump’s layoff chaos
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/politics/federal-workers-benefits-health-insurance
CBS NEWS
— Trump says he’s considering rerouting $3 billion in Harvard grants to U.S. trade schools. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my job-related degrees from NIU (1970), Loyola (1976), DePaul (1980), and IIT (1997) are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government who treated not only my degrees as being worthless, but also my job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997) and my professional license (1981). I would focus on my critics/opponents who have degrees from Ivy League universities.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harvard-trade-schools-3-billion-grant-money/
— At DNC, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth calls Trump “draft-dodging coward.” I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/at-dnc-sen-tammy-duckworth-uses-her-personal-history-to-call-out-donald-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Electric Vehicles Died a Century Ago. Could That Happen Again? Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/business/electric-vehicles-history.html
— Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/electric-vehicles-house-tax-bill.html
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
— As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests. The president and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/republican-crackdown-on-aid-to-immigrants-would-hit-us-citizens.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/05/26/hes-throwing-global-pride-trumps-backyard-whos-with-him/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will forever get votes from those who are the following by using government to give them more preference: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, those who lack education and/or job skills, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/democrats-language-elite-politically-correct/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/veterans-affairs-cuts-morale-layoffs/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/senate-reconciliation-big-bill/
USA TODAY
— Work till you drop? Here’s why America’s average retirement age keeps rising. If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/22/retirement-age-rising-social-security-medicare/83767525007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing people born in America with people born in foreign countries. Democrat leaders want that because people born in foreign countries vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want that because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/business/california-population-growth-immigration-h-1b-visa-4b526478
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries. Most, if virtually all foreign countries despise/hate America.
https://www.wsj.com/business/buy-made-in-america-challenges-e53efd43
— The New Retirement Age in Denmark Is 70. The Danes set an example for timorous American politicians who refuse to reform unaffordable entitlements. If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-new-retirement-age-in-denmark-is-70-574b5259
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/trump-s-research-funding-cuts-create-job-drought-for-scientists
FAST COMPANY
— GM wants to be all-electric by 2035. Why did it lobby to kill California’s EV rule? GM celebrated the Senate’s vote to block California’s EV mandate—which was also supposed to go fully into effect by 2035.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91339643/gm-wants-to-be-all-electric-by-2035-why-did-it-lobby-to-kill-californias-ev-rule
NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5398042/trump-cuts-could-harm-after-school-programs
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/1253189688/what-trumps-cuts-to-intelligence-could-mean-for-national-security
POLITICO
— GOP declares war on GAO. Republicans are undermining the Government Accountability Office, the century-old agency that roots out waste, fraud and abuse. Who do you know who works for GAO or has worked for GAO? I worked for the Democrats who ran 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.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/gop-declares-war-on-gao-00369762
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The independent Government Accountability Office has served Congress as the nation’s chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century. Now it’s under assault. The typically uncontroversial, under-the-radar agency is fighting to retain power against attempts by Republicans in the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill to undercut its legal conclusions and independence — an onslaught that has been fast and furious. . .Vought also claimed that GAO had played “a partisan role” in the “impeachment hoax” of Donald Trump’s first presidency, referencing the House’s vote in 2019 to remove the president ahead of GAO’s conclusion that the administration violated the same “impoundment” law by withholding aid to Ukraine. Sen. Mike Lee piled on a day later. “GAO has lost credibility as an independent body,” the Utah Republican wrote on social media, reacting to Vought’s criticism. Taken together, these events show the extent to which Republicans are increasingly willing to denigrate an agency that has frequently validated their policies and positions, while sometimes delivering findings conservatives don’t like. And this political posture could upend the relationship members of both parties have had with GAO for decades. . .And while GAO is a legislative branch agency, Trump has the ability to dismiss its leader, akin to his firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. GAO spokesperson Jasmine Berry Franklin said in a statement that agency officials “stand behind the quality of our work.” The watchdog’s mission is to deliver “non-partisan, fact-based information to Congress, to help it carry out its constitutional legislative, appropriations, and oversight functions and protect the power of the purse,” she continued. “Our legal decisions do not take a position on the policy goals of a program, they only examine the procedural issues and compliance with the law.” At a recent congressional hearing, Dodaro also stressed that GAO doesn’t want to be in the partisan crosshairs, has no interest in having political sway and is committed to its mandate to respond to requests from lawmakers with the facts. “We’re just responding to help Congress,” Dodaro said. “We’re not trying to influence things one way or the other. We’re nonpartisan. We’re asked a question; we give an answer. It doesn’t matter who it is.”)
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/catholic-relief-services-faces-uncertain-future-after-trump-cuts-aid-funding
TIME
— How Grads Can Futureproof Themselves As Career Ladders Weaken. Timing is everything. My not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970 was a very big career mistake. I erroneously though that I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, or veteran.
https://time.com/charter/7286901/how-grads-can-futureproof-themselves-as-career-ladders-weaken/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the “bottom rung of the career ladder breaking,” according to Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, new graduates and other workers early in their careers face less certain paths for getting professional toeholds and experience that can serve them over their lifetimes. That also ups the stakes for managers and mentors to help young workers identify and cultivate the skills that will best serve them.)
DC MEDIA GROUP
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject meritocracy a) because they want votes from minorities and from females and b) because with meritocracy, Whites males do better. Overwhelmingly, those who passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on their first attempt like did were White males.
https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/05/26/the-myth-of-meritocracy-diversity-will-never-die/
ECONOMIC TIMES
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I should write about my critics/opponents who are major Republican donors. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trumps-campaign-received-scores-of-donations-from-problematic-donors/articleshow/121429265.cms
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
— Mass Deportations Would Deliver a Catastrophic Blow to the U.S. Economy. Should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits? Fewer and fewer and fewer citizens of American will take bad jobs like I did. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I got those bad jobs because my employers could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take them. Again, should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits?
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/12/mass-deportations-would-deliver-a-catastrophic-blow-to-the-u-s-economy
KYIV POST
— Ukraine blasts Trump for avoiding the Vietnam War draft. I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53398
NTD
— What did you do to avoid financial stress? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45 47, and 48, and c) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.ntd.com/5-ways-couples-can-curb-financial-stress_1067416.html
AUTO BLOG
— Tesla’s Odometer Lawsuit Could Be EV Industry’s Dieselgate Moment. A class-action suit claims Tesla rigs odometers with software to void warranties early—costing drivers thousands. Could this be Silicon Valley’s Dieselgate?
https://www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-odometer-warranty-lawsuit
May 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump confronts South Africa’s president in Oval Office, shows evidence of genocide
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-host-south-africa-president-cyril-ramaphosa-amid-tensions-resettlement-afrikaners/16492596/
WGN9
— Federal budget cuts threaten academic support for at-risk Chicago youth. What did you do while you were in high school? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, and washed dishes.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/federal-budget-cuts-threaten-academic-support-for-at-risk-chicago-youth/
FOX32
— Johnson calls Trump ‘a monster’ while defending diverse hiring amid DOJ probe
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-calls-trump-monster-defends-diverse-hiring-doj-probe
— LaHood urges party to put aside differences on Trump’s tax bill. LaHood is vowing that President Trump’s tax bill will not kick any Illinoisans off Medicaid or food stamp programs, and that it’ll just root out waste, fraud and abuse.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1645209
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa/
— Firearm arrest No. 10 made at Naperville Topgolf parking lot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/naperville-police-topgolf-gun-arrest-2/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/first-homosexuals-exhibit-returns-chicago/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with South Africa against America
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa/
— Speak incautiously about race, Mr. Mayor, and you invite federal scrutiny. Brandon Johnson still has to learn there are some things a mayor should not say.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/editorial-mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-contracting-trump/
— Waukegan parade organizer accuses alderman of intimidation. I should write about my critics’/opponents’ success in ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades in 2021, a role that I had since 2005.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/waukegan-council-victor-felix/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/21/trumps-anti-immigrant-ice-raids-deportation-chicago-rainbow-push-ben-jealous
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Naperville police chief says the city will have ‘zero tolerance’ to unlawful conduct at gatherings
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250521/news/naperville-police-chief-says-the-city-will-have-zero-tolerance-to-unlawful-conduct-at-gatherings/
— Defense Department accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s use
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250521/nation-and-world-politics/defense-department-accepts-boeing-747-from-qatar-for-trumps-use/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/22/mayor-calls-trump-a-monster-00364698
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-518/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-310/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Broken cities, bad governance: Blue state city residents voting with their feet
https://wirepoints.org/broken-cities-bad-governance-blue-state-city-residents-voting-with-their-feet-fox-news/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Votes for, Explains Federal Budget Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/22/lahood-votes-for-explains-federal-budget-bill/
— Keicher School Safety Bill Passes Both Houses
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/keicher-school-safety-bill-passes-both-houses/
— Could Republicans Be Taking U.S. Senate Race Seriously?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/could-republicans-be-taking-u-s-senate-race-seriously/
— Florida and Illinois Black Leaders Trade Places at Republican Events
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/florida-and-illinois-black-leaders-trade-places/
— McHenry Organization Gains Housing Subsidy
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/mchenry-organization-gains-housing-subsidy/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump puts evidence of ‘White genocide’ in front of South African leader
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/21/trump-plays-video-south-african-leader-showing-purported-evidence/
— House passes Trump agenda bill, sending massive tax and spending cut package to the Senate. Blue-state moderates get more on SALT exemption; conservatives win on green energy, immigration, firearms.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/21/house-republicans-tweak-big-beautiful-bill-ahead-floor-vote/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Hillary Clinton wants immigrant women to do the job American women aren’t doing. I was the only White male who washed dishes in the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights. I did that 1964-1966.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3417646/hillary-clinton-immigration-foreign-women-do-job-americans-arent/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/supreme_court_children_of_illegal_aliens_or_tourists_are_not_u_s_citizens.html
— Can You Be a Trump-Supporter and a Good Christian? The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/can_you_be_a_trump_supporter_and_a_good_christian.html
BREITBART
— Illinois GOP Calls for Federal Intervention as Tensions Mount Over the State’s Trans Athlete Rules
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/05/21/illinois-gop-calls-for-federal-intervention-as-tensions-mount-over-states-trans-athlete-rules/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Forces South African President To Watch Video Of Country’s Leaders Calling For Genocide
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/21/trump-forces-south-african-president-to-watch-video-of-countrys-leaders-calling-for-genocide/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Confronts Ramaphosa Over ‘Afrikaner Genocide’ in Oval Office Meeting
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-ramaphosa-clash-over-afrikaner-genocide-in-white-house-meeting-5861261
— 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed in DC Shooting Near Jewish Museum. The FBI says the attack is being investigated as a potential federal hate crime.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/two-israeli-embassy-staffers-shot-in-dc-near-jewish-museum-noem-5861621
— House Passes Trump Agenda Bill in Early Morning Vote. After weeks of negotiations, in a tight vote just before 7:00 a.m., the House approved the ‘big beautiful bill’ central to the president’s agenda.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/house-passes-trump-agenda-bill-in-early-morning-vote-5861273
FOX NEWS
— Naperville trans athlete conflict grows after tense track meet as state Republicans call for Trump’s help. State representative calls situation ‘disgusting’ as calls grow for the Trump administration to pull federal funding.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/illinois-trans-athlete-conflict-grows-after-tense-track-meet-state-republicans-call-trumps-help
FOX SPORTS
— Illinois state lawmakers get hostile during debates on trans athletes in girls’ sports. Democrat accused Republicans of being ‘obsessed with children’s genitalia’ as tensions mount following Naperville track controversy.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/illinois-state-lawmakers-get-hostile-during-debates-trans-athletes-girls-sports
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chicago Resident Confronts Mayor Johnson: ‘Why are You a Racist?’ Mayor Johnson is a despicable human being.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/chicago-resident-confronts-mayor-johnson-why-are-you-a-racist/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— No, Ending DEI Programs Would Not Be a Loss to Education
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/no-ending-dei-programs-would-not-be-a-loss-to-education/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump’s cultural overhaul throttles local arts, humanities programs nationwide
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/politics/trump-culture-arts-humanities-grants-funding
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/frank-kameny-lgbtq-gay-rights-100th-birthday-rcna207654
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with South Africa against America
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africans-praise-ramaphosa-keeping-cool-amid-trump-attack-2025-05-22/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/under-attack-by-trump-south-africas-ramaphosa-responds-with-trade-deal-offer-2025-05-21/
NEWSWEEK
— Trump Responds to Israeli Embassy Staff Killings in DC: ‘Must End’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-responds-isreali-embassy-shooting-washington-dc-2075553
NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump. The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/qatar-plane-trump-air-force-one.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump confronts South African president over violence against White farmers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-violence/
WALL STREET JOIRNAL
— The GOP’s SALT Deal Folly. Republicans make it easier for Democrats to raise state taxes. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/salt-cap-house-republicans-mike-johnson-mike-lawler-nick-lalota-tax-bill-7a6ef2ca?mod=opinion_lead_pos2
— You Can Still Negotiate a ‘Best and Final’ Job Offer. Job hunters can talk their way into a better deal, even if the salary is set. Ever since I was 31 years old in 1980, my critics/opponents have used against me big time my taking a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that pay cut proved a) that IRS had grossly overpaid me, that is, that IRS should not have promoted me in 1972, 1983, and 1974 and b) that was an extremely bad person because 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/year, because much of what I would do for GAO was similar to what I did for IRS, because GAO audits IRS, because I has almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting, because I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and because I had earned an MBA in 1976. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-offer-negotiations-82550489
BLOOMBERG
— Trump Ramps Up Criminal Charges Against Migrants in California
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/trump-ramping-up-criminal-charges-against-migrants-in-sanctuary-cities
POLITICO
— Trump administration accepts Qatari jet for Air Force One
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-administration-accepts-qatari-jet-for-air-force-one-00362805
— Trump puts South Africa’s president on the defensive over ‘genocide’ claims
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa-defensive-genocide-00362831
— Trump admin deportation flight to South Sudan violated court order, judge rules
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-deportations-south-sudan-00362919
MEDIAITE
— Reporter William Kelly Slams Chicago Mayor for ‘Black Power Rhetoric’ and Asks Him: ‘Why Are You a Racist?’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/far-right-reporter-slams-chicago-mayor-for-black-power-rhetoric-and-asks-him-why-are-you-a-racist/
DAILY KOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/21/2323597/-Surprise-Trump-s-base-is-motivated-by-racist-hate-and-deep-bigotry-not-economics
May 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Medicaid to promote more hatred against Trump. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republicans-proposing-medicaid-cuts-part-president-donald-trump-spending-bill-leaving-americans-worried/16439037/
— DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-homeland-security-says-beginning-stages-vetting-process-immigrant-reality-show-citizenship/16447461/
NBC5
— Joliet surpassed by fellow Chicago suburb as Illinois’ third-largest city. Naperville is now the state’s third-largest city, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joliet-surpassed-fellow-chicago-suburb-illinois-third-largest-city/3748213/
FOX32
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tells-walmart-eat-tariffs
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/south-africa-afrikaners-refugee-white/
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me a) to paint me as being stupid and b) to paint my parents as having been filthy rich. They stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/federal-dei-crackdown-threatens-illinois-graduate-student-scholarship-program/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/16/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents
DAILY HERALD
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly paint the Pope as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/pope-leo-xiv-not-registered-as-a-republican-in-illinois/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Candida Cain leaves GOP, announces run for Kane treasurer as a Democrat. Move could lead to potential 2026 contest against her former boss.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/18/candida-cain-leaves-gop-announces-run-for-kane-treasurer-as-a-democrat/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Candida “Connie” Cain on Saturday declared her intent to seek the Democratic nomination in the March 17, 2026 primary for Kane County Treasurer. A Certified Public Account from Gilberts, Cain had worked for current Treasurer Chris Lauzen as Director of Financial Operations from May 2023 until he fired her Nov. 22. In an email, Lauzen, a Republican elected as treasurer in 2022, did not state if he planned to seek a second term. If Lauzen goes for another term, and Cain wins the Democratic nomination, the contest would pit Cain against her former boss in the general election on Nov. 3, 2026. A former Republican, Cain said she has now transitioned to the Democratic Party.)
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-investigations/2025/05/17/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents
LOOP NORTH NEWS
— Bally’s drops racial preferences for Chicago casino IPO. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that. Further, since I have been involved in Republican politics since 1999, those above me have been under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.loopnorth.com/news/casino0518.htm
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/article_48b5b309-272a-5089-a031-5ad51d5443d8.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/article_70550ee6-0906-5acd-9d87-56f31d030b0e.html
KWQC
— Battle over video gaming terminals in Illinois. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/05/17/battle-over-video-gaming-terminals-illinois/
WMBD
— LaHood reacts to Trump Administration announcements
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/17/lahood-reacts-to-trump-administration-announcements/
CITIES 92.9
— SEIU spends big on politics, little on members
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/17/report-seiu-spends-big-on-politics-little-on-members/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders use Walz to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-walz-calls-trump-a-tyrant-who-is-trampling-americans-rights-and-violating-the-rule-of-law/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries who have demographics that vote for Democrats to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, socialist, communist, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, etc.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-asylum-seekers-still-arrive-at-the-us-border-but-what-will-happen-to-them/
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-clash-with-the-courts-raises-prospect-of-showdown-over-separation-of-powers/
NPR ILLINOIS
— The Democrats who run Congress run GAO. They do the bidding of Democrat leaders against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/how-doge-has-tried-to-embed-beyond-the-executive-branch
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-doj-focuses-in-on-voter-fraud-with-a-murky-assist-from-doge
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-attacks-on-dei-are-complicating-corporate-sponsorship-of-pride-events
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write about the success that they have had in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-05-16/attorneys-general-ask-educators-for-courage-on-dei-policies
CWB CHICAGO
— DuPage judge refuses to detain man accused of robbing postal worker, trafficking checks stolen from the mail
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/judge-refuses-to-detain-man-accused-of-robbing-postal-worker-trafficking-checks-stolen-from-the-mail.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fleeing persecution, South African arrivals scramble refugee politics. The next Democrat or RINO President will send them back.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3414599/fleeing-persecution-south-african-refugees-scramble-politics/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/assessing-the-wreckage-of-affirmative-action/
AMERICAN THINKER
— 86 47 and what madness the U.S. is coming to
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/86_47_and_what_madness_the_u_s_is_coming_to.html
— Robert De Niro’s Trump obsession and Hollywood’s hypocrisy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/robert_de_niro_s_trump_obsession_and_hollywood_s_hypocrisy.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Democrats push misleading ‘cuts to Medicaid’ narrative after enrolling 1.4 million illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/dems-push-misleading-cuts-to-medicaid-narrative-after-enrolling-1-4-million-illegals-1544202/
— Trump blasts SCOTUS for blocking effort to deport illegal Venezuelan ‘gang members’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/trump-blasts-scotus-for-blocking-effort-to-deport-illegal-venezuelan-gang-members-1544193/
BREITBART
— Court allows Trump to stop collective bargaining for thousands of federal workers. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been tremendously overpaid by the federal government. In today’s dollars, between 1966 and 1997, my federal pay increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151 /year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) I earned a job-related professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they could done, but failed to do, to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/court-allows-trump-to-stop-collective-bargaining-for-thousands-of-federal-workers/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Columbia College Chicago says DEI values remain despite program rebranding
https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-college-chicago-says-dei-values-remain-despite-program-rebranding/27913
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Refusing Radical Demands Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/refusing-radical-demands-week-in-education/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/05/18/assessing_the_wreckage_of_affirmative_action_646859.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct.
https://apnews.com/article/institute-museum-library-services-funding-cuts-trump-d3a236243b3a5c2b04e85d2004d1a946
MSN
–Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will foist the sins of your ancestors on you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-knew-the-pain-of-apartheid-how-dare-trump-embrace-afrikaners-as-refugees/ar-AA1EWbdx
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-judge-rules-it-s-ok-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-people/ar-AA1EVI6U
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-funding-cuts-to-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-will-have-lethal-consequences/ar-AA1EI5C1
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate/expect that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI preference that American citizenship gives minorities and females over Whites and males.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-freaks-after-scotus-trashes-his-birthright-citizenship-arguments/ar-AA1EUxfs
— Those who promote muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/dodge-is-already-pulling-the-plug-on-its-cheapest-muscle-car/ar-AA1EW4Jt
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2025/05/17/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-canceled-slow-sales/83675336007/
https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-r-t-discontinued-ram-ev-delays
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/you-arent-buying-it-so-dodge-might-kill-the-electric-charger-daytona-r-t/
https://moparinsiders.com/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-scat-pack-brings-big-changes/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/denying-due-process-pritzker-sends-clear-message-in-blow-to-trump/ss-AA1EYa6X
MSNBC
— Episcopalians help Democrat leaders promote hatred against South African Whites.
https://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/episcopal-church-refuses-trump-and-says-it-won-t-help-resettle-white-south-africans-239823942002
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zL9mESgmU
NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-latest-polls-2072624
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-democrats-trump-2028-president-2073019
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders are overjoyed that Pence criticizes Trump on tariffs and key foreign policy issues as he watches from afar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/mike-pence-criticizes-trump-tariffs-key-foreign-policy-issues-watches-rcna206755
NEW YORK TIMES
— A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency was happy to review “out-of-the-box pitches.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/trump-politics-corruption.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
— DOJ’s defense of GAO in Diersen v. GAO was politically motivated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/17/trump-justice-department-prosecutions/
— Democrat leaders use college newspapers to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/17/college-newspapers-trump-international-students/
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/17/walmart-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders say Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/18/trump-enforcement-halt-regulations-laws/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/18/usaid-withdrawal-africa-healthcare/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-17/bruce-springsteen-president-trump-manchester-concert
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote student loans. I never got any student loans. If I had, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes 1964-1966 and delivering mail 1966-1969. But that enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-17/student-loans-have-been-confusing-lately-heres-a-guide-to-know-where-you-stand
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/18/supreme-courts-decisions-trump-religion-transgender-care/83675865007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/trump-big-beautiful-bill-immigration-tax/83697340007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the Pope despises/hates Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/donald-trump-jd-vance-pope-leo-marco-rubio/83672296007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/
— Democrat leaders say that Vance is a brawler for Trump who avoids Harris and Pence mistakes and his assertive public profile sets him up for 2028 Republican support.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/vice-president-jd-vance-visibility-outspoken/83630581007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-attacks-walmart-for-tariff-related-price-increases-63ef9db8
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say that major companies are anxiously awaiting to see whether or not they will be targeted by the federal government for a DEI investigation.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-dei-deadline-investigation-companies-federal-government/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-walmart-tariffs-trade-rising-prices-2025-5
NPR
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/18/1252312214/us-competitive-autocracy
BILLBOARD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-trump-unfit-president-stage-speech-1235974885/
PRESS READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sunday-world-8839/20250518/281711210554249
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/making-of-elon-musk-childhood-apartheid-south-africa
May 14, 2025
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in those parades. I would focus on those who are working the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. They argue that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) cannot afford the $1,500 cost of entry fees and candy for the parades. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s 2007 parade. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ I served as the Republican fundraiser for the Wheaton Independence Day parades 2005-2021. In my book, I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged MTRO to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressional District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parades. Please join me in urging MTRO to participate in the parades. Please join me in urging Republican candidates to participate in the parades. I certainly hope that LaHood walks in both parades. His father walked in Wheaton’s 2005 parade. I spoke with him before the parade kicked off. Bob Dole walked in Wheaton’s 1996 parade, Jim Ryan in its 2002 parade, and Obama and his wife in its 2004 parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will the Illinois GOP show up for the 2026 state elections?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-illinois-republican-party-candidates-2026-funding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We are in the important pre-primary phase of the 2026 elections in Illinois (circulation of petitions opens in September), when prospective candidates strut their endorsements — and money raised — in efforts to scare off possible opponents. In our basically one-party state, Democratic wannabes are coming off a long bench to make their cases. In contrast, Republicans have no bench of experienced, well-known prospects to speak of. Because of extreme gerrymandering, the GOP has few state legislators and no statewide officials whatsoever. Attractive but no-name candidates are being counseled by Republican insiders that this is a no-win year for the GOP and it’s better to stay out. Will the GOP even show up with a slate of credible candidates for the U.S. Senate, the governorship and all other statewide offices? After all, the party in the White House generally does poorly in the midterm election. And Gov JB Pritzker has more money than Croesus ($3.7 billion, according to Forbes) and seemingly giddy enthusiasm for spending it. Recent history shows he stands ready to bankroll all the Democratic statewide candidates with more than enough money to blow away the opposition. After all, he wants to show national Democrats that he leads his party to victory up and down the line. GOP woes don’t end there. Illinois Republicans are divided into a downstate (outside the seven metro Chicago counties) that is enthusiastically pro-Donald Trump, versus the suburbs, where moderates and Democrats reign. For example, DuPage County and its 920,000 residents used to be largely white and GOP. But the times, they are a’changin’. According to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), a language other than English is now spoken at home in nearly one-third of the households in the six counties surrounding Cook. Republican George Ryan won the governorship in 1998 with 70% of the DuPage County vote, whereas Trump garnered 42% of that county’s vote in 2024. GOP nominees for the U.S. Senate and governorship will have to declare their position on Trump, a no-win situation: Come out strongly for Trump and lose the suburbs or come out against Trump and watch voters downstate sit on their hands in November. Be wishy-washy on Trump, and lose votes across the board. And who will bankroll GOP candidates in the face of such dour prospects? Billionaire Ken Griffin has departed Illinois for Florida, with his millions for GOP causes. Make no mistake: Big money has replaced party organization as the engine of candidate success. Lightning does strike, however. In 2004, little-known state Sen. Barack Obama entered a crowded field that sought an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Trailing in the polls throughout in the Democratic primary, Obama surged to victory when, near the end of the primary, the front-runner’s candidacy imploded almost overnight as a result of juicy revelations of messy marital discord. In the general election campaign that followed, the attractive GOP nominee dropped out of the race because of sexual peccadilloes revealed in unsealed divorce records, and Obama skated into the U.S. Senate. The rest, as they say … I expect there will be no-name and, maybe otherwise, very attractive candidates on the ballot next year for the GOP but with little money. I have mentioned money several times in this essay. In the past decade, Pritzker has spent $400 million on his own and associates’ campaigns. A Democrat, he even sabotaged the Republican primary campaign for governor in 2022. In that year, according to this newspaper, Pritzker spent $24 million to boost the nomination of possibly the weakest of his possible opponents for the general election. Pritzker’s money advertised that Darren Bailey was “too extreme” for Illinois — which was, irony definitely intended, an attractive message for a big swath of conservative GOP primary voters. Shameful politics. Big money, corrosive of democracy, could be the overarching issue for Republican candidates in 2026: “You can’t buy my vote! Don’t let JB Pritzker continue to buy elections in Illinois!” Lightning does strike. But you have to show up.)
— 2002 FLASHBACK: Politicians parade for voters at 4th fests. Jim Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor, began his parade marching in Wheaton in DuPage County, the heart of GOP territory in the Chicago area. Ryan looked fresh and cool after stepping out of an air-conditioned van into the boiling morning heat. He and his wife, Marie, joined the procession just as his sweaty supporters, who had been standing in the sun waiting for him, began their way down North Main Street. “All politics is local–never forget your base,” Ryan said. Indeed, blue-and-white Ryan balloons were fastened to lawn chairs, strollers and benches along the parade route. Only an occasional sign for his Democratic rival, Rod Blagojevich, could be spotted. . .. .But political jockeying surely was in play Thursday. An old political tradition holds that the more influence a politician wields, the closer he will be to the front of the parade line. For example, in GOP-laden Wheaton, U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) launched the parade, with Ryan right behind him. In third place was Republican Joe Birkett, the DuPage County state’s attorney who is running for Illinois attorney general. His Democratic rival, Lisa Madigan, was placed far back.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/07/05/politicians-parade-for-voters-at-4th-fests/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Trump-themed shop in Huntley could be closed over code issues, but owner says it’s political
— Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans who are labeled gang members
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/alien-enemies-act-deport-venezuelans/
— Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/wisconsin-judge-immigration-case/
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/column-journalism-decline-chicago-local-news-washington/
— From what I see, in the Chicagoland area, jurors are overwhelmingly Democrats
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-juror-act-trial-reform-paul-st-louis/
— Why is CPS treating charter and private schools like liquor stores?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/chicago-charter-schools-vacant/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— City Council committee OKs removal of college degree requirement for city jobs. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements 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. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/13/city-council-committee-paper-ceiling-college-degree-city-jobs
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hated against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/14/five-years-george-floyds-murder-national-urban-league-racial-justice-dei-police-reform-marc-morial
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker budget team slashes state’s revenue forecast by $536 million
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-budget-office-cuts-revenue-forecast-536m
— State Farm cleared to hike California homeowner premiums 17%
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/state-farm-cleared-hike-california-homeowner-rates-17
ABC7
— Federal judge in Pennsylvania rules that Trump’s invocation of Alien Enemies Act is lawful
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-judge-pennsylvania-rules-trumps-invocation-aea-is-lawful/16406471/
— Inflation eased after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-inflation-data-reveal-impacts-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs/16400850/
NBC5
— Senate Republicans react to Qatar gifting Trump a $400 million jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/watch-senate-republicans-react-to-qatar-gifting-trump-a-400-million-jet/3744811/
— Democrat leaders promote a Trump critic
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/commentator-hasan-piker-detained-ohare-airport/3744867/
— Chuck Schumer to block Trump DOJ nominees over Qatari jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/chuck-schumer-pauses-trump-justice-department-nominees-over-qatari-jet/3744418/
FOX32
— 22 Chicago students ingest weed edibles at South Side elementary school. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/22-chicago-students-ingest-weed-edibles-south-side-school
— A new SmartAsset study ranked the 10 wealthiest counties in Illinois based on income, home values, and investment income. Lake, DuPage, and Kendall counties took the top three spots. Cook County, which includes Chicago, ranked ninth overall.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-wealthiest-counties-study
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer in America are on track to become productive members of society.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640556
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emma Shafter to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/13/family-of-emma-shafer-felt-exploited-by-recent-kristi-noem-visit/83568796007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trumps-plan-to-accept-free-air-force-one-replacement-from-qatar-raises-ethical-and-security/article_909d5190-12f5-59fe-b541-d2d9b9ed1829.html
SOUTHERN
— Republicans dodge, laugh off questions about Trump’s gift plane from Qatar
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/13/republicans-dodge-laugh-off-questions-about-trumps-gift-plane-from-qatar/
RIVER BENDER
— Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Suing Trump Administration Over Illegal Immigration Conditions Placed On Billions In Federal Funding. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-leads-coalition-suing-trump-administration-over-illegal-immigration-conditions-placed-on-billions-in-federal-funding-82440.cfm?
NPR ILLINOIS
— Jewish people in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Jewish people in America are overwhelming liberal. Enough said.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-14/multiple-trump-white-house-officials-have-ties-to-antisemitic-extremists
WGLT
— Before Trump weaponized the IRS to advance his political agenda, there was Nixon. How did Nixon impact you? Nixon was president while I worked for the Democrats a) who ran the Post Office in 1969 and b) who ran IRS 1971-1974. They despised/hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon, and therefore Republicans, for America losing the Vietnam War. They punished me, a draft avoider, to punish Nixon. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave request and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They did the aforesaid even though a) I earned an MBA in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-05-13/before-trump-weaponized-the-irs-to-advance-his-political-agenda-there-was-nixon
WMBD RADIO
— Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/13/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders cite Democrat think tanks
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/12/campus/northwestern-study-finds-democrats-left-leaning-think-tanks-cite-scientific-studies-more-than-republicans/
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://newschannel20.com/question/vote-do-you-support-the-irs-sharing-data-with-ice-to-help-track-down-illegal-migrants-question-of-the-day-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-border-patrol-deportation-trump-administration
NPR ILLINOIS
— Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition. According to Democrat leaders, only Whites discriminate. White Afrikaners should anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will deport them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/episcopal-church-refuses-to-resettle-white-afrikaners-citing-moral-opposition
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-05-13/new-study-suggests-changes-to-illinois-community-college-university-pipeline
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn Native Americans against Republicans.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/our-identity-has-been-frozen-in-time-how-native-american-advocates-are-influencing-springfield/
WHEATON PARK DISTRICT
— 2016 FLASHBACK: WHEATON PARK DISTRICT HOSTS INDEPENDENCE DAY “CELEBRATION!” At press time, sponsors for the Independence Day Celebration included Jerry Haggerty Chevrolet, DuPage County Republicans, and the City of Wheaton.
https://wheatonparkdistrict.com/wheaton-park-district-hosts-independence-day-celebration-july-3-and-4/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-512/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-304/
— Democrat leaders blame Trump and Musk for revenue dip. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump and Musk for everything that is bad.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/manar-trump-musk-are-to-blame-for-revenue-dip/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Illinois DOGE Profile: Centro De Trabajadores Unidos gets $4 million to help illegal aliens evade ICE
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671354954-illinois-doge-profile-centro-de-trabajadores-unidos-gets-4-million-to-help-illegal-aliens-evade-ice
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL House Republicans call out $1B for NGOs, plan their own budget proposal
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_105bd8f5-b568-41b5-b567-bf49c03bfc51.html
— Legislation would limit how consumers can buy an electric vehicle in Illinois. I should write my experience buying a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in that American nameplate muscle car. I also own a 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, and 1972 Corvette. Phone: 630-653-0462 (home) and 630-414-6079 (cell). Email: diersen@aol.com
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1352ecca-a4b6-41f6-b0ae-b18e6dc01128.html
WIREPOINTS
— These NGO funds don’t help ordinary Chicagoans, they sustain networks that keep failed politicians in power.
https://wirepoints.org/these-ngo-funds-dont-help-ordinary-chicagoans-they-go-to-sustain-networks-that-keep-failed-politicians-in-power-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower standards. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements 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. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to a recent study, White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Is David Axelrod Pimping for Rahm?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/is-david-axelrod-pimping-for-rahm/
— Americans for Prosperity Send Second Postcard Seeking to Put Pressure on Sue Ness to Vote against Hiking Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/americans-for-prosperity-send-second-postcard-seeking-to-put-pressure-on-sue-ness-to-vote-against-hiking-taxes/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Protesters swarm House committee as Republicans take up cuts to Medicaid, taxes
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/13/protesters-swarm-house-committee-republicans-take-cuts-medicaid-taxes/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There’s no such thing as a free jet. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3409713/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one/
— Trump’s deal for illegal immigrants will increase deportations and decrease spending
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3410142/trump-deal-illegal-immigrants-increase-deportations-decrease-spending/
NEW YORK POST
— Officials describe persecution of South African refugees who are arrived in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te_Syuqog8A
— Trump recklessly accepting a plane from Qatar is the type of unnecessary risk that could ruin his presidency
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/opinion/michael-goodwin-trump-accepting-financial-gifts-from-qatar-is-one-of-the-many-ways-he-can-ruin-his-legacy/
BREITBART
— Saudi Arabia Sets Up Mobile McDonald’s for Trump’s Visit to the Middle East
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/saudi-arabia-sets-up-mobile-mcdonalds-for-trumps-visit-to-the-middle-east/
— Pope Leo’s Brother: The Pope Is Not Woke — He Will ‘Be Down the Middle’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/pope-leos-brother-the-pope-is-not-woke-he-will-be-down-the-middle/
FOX NEWS
— Gianno Caldwell seeks justice for brother killed in blue city ‘enamored with criminals’ rights’: alderman Gianno Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother was fatally shot, along with a female victim, in Chicago in June 2022
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gianno-caldwell-seeks-justice-brother-killed-blue-city-enamored-criminals-rights-alderman
MEGYN KELLY
— Racist and Hypocritical Left and Media Attack White Afrikaners Arriving in United States as Refugees
https://www.megynkelly.com/watch/racist-and-hypocritical-left-and-media-attack-white-afrikaners-arriving-in-united-states-as-refugees/
NRCC
— Hardworking Californians Get the Bill, Illegals Get the Benefits
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/05/13/hardworking-californians-get-the-bill-illegals-get-the-benefits-2/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Medical Schools Are Still Discriminating by Race
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/medical-schools-are-still-discriminating-by-race/
NEWSMAX
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lgbtq-rfk-hhs/2025/05/13/id/1210803/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/13/msnbc_panel_trumps_refugees_descendents_of_the_people_who_created_the_most_diabolical_system_of_white_supremacy_in_human_history.html
TOWNHALL
— Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2025/05/13/the-democrats-just-cant-stop-pushing-nonsensical-assault-weapon-bans-n2656972
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5298112-house-democrats-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-funding-cuts/
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5296524-x-tiktok-meta-youtube-instagram-lgbtq-users-glaad/
ASSOCIATE PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly blame Trump’s tariffs for all price increases.
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-tariffs-trump-5436b90e8e5a003f228c1bd08186589c
NEW YORK TIMES
— Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-immigration.html
— Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-welfare-medicaid-requirements.html
— Democrat leaders pay “researchers” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump. Who are the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How successful have they been?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-due-process-habeas-corpus.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/13/trump-democrats-sanctuary-lawsuit-immigration/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race based preference giving, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against Whites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/black-doctors-scholarship-ohio/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-14/trump-guts-fema-as-climate-disasters-worsen
— Democrat leaders used Voice of America to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-14/voice-of-america-pbs-npr-trump
MIAMI TIMES
— White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/business/studies-show-white-women-benefit-more-from-dei-than-black-people/article_f0bb761e-334c-4151-832d-f3fa0026531a.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/12/slowing-inflation-trump-tariffs/83524058007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/14/gay-pride-month-lgbtq-forum/83583013007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/13/democratic-lawmakers-urge-kennedy-to-save-lgbtq-lifeline/83600490007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire. Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-ivy-league-earned-donald-trumps-ire-higher-education-colleges-universities-96631031
— The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly. At its peak, a Ford factory produced one B-24 bomber an hour during World War II.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-s-once-built-airplanes-quickly-7e526511
— FRONT PAGE: The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send White Afrikaners back
https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-south-africa-refugee-d5ad7b94
— How Young People Are Coping With Economic Anxiety. I should write about how my avoiding the Vietnam War draft negatively impacted my career big time.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/how-young-people-are-coping-with-economic-anxiety/3ea69cb0-9736-49c5-8f94-f5c1f9be316a
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over Catholic organizations in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-college-presidents-decry-trump-administrations-interference-higher-ed
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-mexico-border-surveillance
May 8, 2025 Evening Edition
FOX NEWS
— Trump Hails ‘Great Honor’ of First American Pope
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-politics-newsletter-trump-hails-great-honor-first-american-pope
— Pritzker accused of ‘insulting’ ICE with sanctuary policies as Noem, Angel families protest
https://www.foxnews.com/media/illinois-gov-pritzker-accused-insulting-ice-sanctuary-policies-noem-angel-families-protest
ILLINOIS GOP
— ILGOP Celebrates New Pope And Chicago Native, Cardinal Robert Prevost
https://illinois.gop/newsroom/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost elected pope, taking name Leo XIV
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2025-is-new-pope-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost-1st-american-chicago-elected-catholic-church-leader/16358670/
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/2025-papal-conclave-cardinals-gather-elect-pope-vatican-city-rome/16339118/
WLS AM
— New Pope Registered Republican in Illinois; Trump Critic
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wlsam.com/2025/05/08/new-pope-registered-republican-in-illinois-trump-critic/
WBEZ
— DePaul president faces off against GOP members of Congress. Conservative lawmakers who questioned DePaul President Robert Manuel were accused of using antisemitism claims to chill free speech.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/05/07/depaul-president-faces-off-against-gop-members-of-congress
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago native Robert Prevost becomes the first American pope in history
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/robert-prevost-pope/
— Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of every priest and nun’ at St. Mary’s on Chicago’s South Side
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/robert-prevost-chicago-pope-xiv/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders accuse Congressional Republicans of political witch hunt in antisemitism hearing involving DePaul president. University president Robert Manuel faced three hours of heated questions.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/07/depaul-president-faces-off-against-gop-members-of-congress
DAILY HERALD
— At home in New Lenox, new pope’s brother found out like everyone else
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/news/it-was-a-shocking-moment-new-popes-brother-lives-in-new-lenox/
— Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, overcame a taboo against a US pontiff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/religion/prevost-now-pope-leo-xiv-overcame-a-taboo-against-a-us-pontiff/
— Trump says he is naming Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor in DC
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/nation-and-world-politics/trump-says-he-is-naming-fox-news-host-and-former-judge-jeanine-pirro-as-top-federal-prosecutor-in-dc/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— The new pope is from Chicago. Here are some of his ties to Illinois
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/08/new-pope-is-from-chicago-here-are-some-of-his-ties-to-illinois/83516559007/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Central Illinois bishops greet new pope ‘with hearts full of joy and hope’
https://pantagraph.com/life-entertainment/local/faith-values/article_a5c62ee3-422e-42e3-8dd4-23258ad65fdf.html
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders use “social justice” to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/whats-in-a-name-pope-leo-xivs-choice-signals-a-commitment-to-social-justice/article_2ecfa121-cf15-57b1-ad99-3066a475a21e.html
— Wisconsin Republicans kill marijuana legalization
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/wisconsin-republicans-kill-marijuana-legalization-and-tax-increases-for-millionaires/article_a345cc22-1a98-5f33-99aa-3954b9bbcf88.html
RIVER BENDER
— After Sec. Noem’s Springfield Visit, Davidsmeyer Again Calls for End of Illinois’ Failed Sanctuary Policy
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/after-sec-noems-springfield-visit-davidsmeyer-again-calls-for-end-of-illinois-failed-sanctuary-policy-82245.cfm?
— Attorney General Raoul Files Lawsuit To Stop Illegal Termination Of Federal Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Funding
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-files-lawsuit-to-stop-illegal-termination-of-federal-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-funding-82248.cfm?
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are on Medicaid?
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/senator-duckworth-leads-vigil-against-medicaid-cuts-82271.cfm?
WEST SUBURBAN JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://westsuburbanjournal.com/welch-house-democrats-rally-in-response-to-trump-officials-rhetoric-during-illinois-visit/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/fighting-back-against-trump-20133313
FOX ILLINOIS
— Republicans push college presidents to protect Jewish students
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/house-gop-continues-to-push-colleges-to-do-more-to-combat-antisemitism-on-campus-haverford-college-depaul-university-california-polytechnic-state-university-house-education-committee
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-08/americans-are-already-seeing-trumps-tariffs-kick-in-they-sent-in-receipts-to-prove-it
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote segregation.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trumps-anti-dei-push-doesnt-stop-black-kentucky-grads-from-holding-an-off-campus-celebration/
IPM ILLINOIS
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are on Medicaid?
https://ipmnewsroom.org/republicans-have-medicaid-in-their-crosshairs-and-illinois-residents-who-depend-on-it-are-worried/
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
— Illinois Youth Survey finds troubling substance use trends
https://news.illinois.edu/illinois-youth-survey-finds-troubling-substance-use-trends/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/8/robert-prevost-1st-american-pope-history-catholic-church-take-name/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The SALT terrorists holding Trump’s agenda hostage need to put up or shut up. SALT ended itemization. By itemizing, my wife and I paid less federal income tax starting in 1978 when we got married and I paid less federal income tax starting in 1972.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3405221/salt-deduction-terrorists-holding-trump-agenda-hostage-put-up-or-shut-up/
BREITBART
— Rep. Hageman Introduces ‘No Student Visas for Sanctuary Cities Act’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/07/exclusive-rep-hageman-introduces-no-student-visas-for-sanctuary-cities-act/
FEDERALIST
— Where Was Democrats’ Outrage When Obama And Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers And Gardeners?
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/08/where-was-democrats-outrage-when-obama-and-biden-deported-illegal-alien-housekeepers-and-gardeners/
HUMAN EVENTS
— Jack Posobiec criticizes Pope Leo XIV for “promoting anti-Trump and anti-Bukele articles regarding the deportations of criminal illegals”
https://www.mediamatters.org/jack-posobiec/jack-posobiec-criticizes-pope-leo-xiv-promoting-anti-trump-and-anti-bukele-articles-0
LIVE ACTION
— First American pope in history has strong record of defending sanctity of human life
https://www.liveaction.org/news/first-american-pope-record-sanctity-human-life/
NEWSMAX
— New Pope Registered Republican in Illinois; Trump Critic
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pope-leox-iv-voter-registration-republican/2025/05/08/id/1210160/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Pope Leo XIV Has Voted Often in Illinois, Public Records Show. He voted in November’s presidential election with an absentee ballot, according to records from a suburban Chicago county.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/pope-leo-xiv-politics-voting.html
NBC NEWS
— New pope’s social media posts offer some insight into his politics. On social media before he became pope, Robert Prevost expressed support for gun reform and immigration — and showed some disagreement with the Trump administration.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pope-leo-social-media-posts-vance-rcna205677
NEWSWEEK
— Is Robert Prevost a Republican?
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-prevost-political-afiliation-what-we-know-2069880
CBS NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV grew up in Dolton studied and taught in Chicago area
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-leo-xiv-born-in-chicago-grew-up-dolton-illinois/
WCCS RADIO
— ‘Democracy in crisis?’ DC universities offering Trump-themed class this fall. Democrats and RINOs use democracy to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.wccsradio.com/rss/democracy-in-crisis-dc-universities-offering-trump-themed-class-this-fall/
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow that “Trump’s Policies Have Been Stopped by Courts More Than 200 Times.”
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/cannabis/trumps-policies-have-been-stopped-by-courts-more-than-200-times
TPM
— MAGA Melts Down Over First American Pope
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/maga-melts-down-over-first-american-pope
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 71% of Democrats Want Elon Musk in Prison
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/71_of_democrats_want_elon_musk_in_prison
DODGE GARAGE
— Next-Level Muscle: Why the 2025 Dodge Charger EV Impresses EV Fans
https://www.dodgegarage.com/news/article/owners-clubs/2025/04/next-level-muscle-why-the-2025-dodge-charger-ev-converts-a-loyal-enthusiast.html
TORQUE NEWS
— My Fourth EV Is A 2025 Charger EV, After Owning Model Y, Mustang Mach-E, And F-150 Lightning, This Electric Muscle Car Finally Gets Everything Right
https://www.torquenews.com/17998/my-fourth-ev-2025-charger-ev-after-owning-model-y-mustang-mach-e-and-f-150-lightning-electric/amp
May 8, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/trump-trade-deals/
— Pritzker, if you want to solve problems, lose the contempt
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/opinion-jb-pritzker-civil-discourse/
— Harold Washington librarians concerned for their safety with security incidents on the rise
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/harold-washington-library-safety-concerns/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/07/elon-musk-trump-spending-cuts-doge-government-accountability-office-jacob-sullum
DAILY HERALD
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/columns/the-complicated-unproductive-search-for-the-narrative/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/libya-judge-says-deporting-migrants-would-violate-order/16350758/
— Illinois regains access to $77M in federal education funds following judge’s order. Democrats use education funds to create good little Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-regains-access-77m-federal-education-funds-following-judges-order-blocking-trump-administration-restricting-money/16353598/
NBC5
— Massive signs erected outside Illinois Governor’s Mansion amid Kristi Noem visit. Noem had traveled to Illinois Wednesday for a press conference aimed at Illinois’ “sanctuary” policies.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/massive-signs-erected-outside-illinois-governors-mansion-amid-kristi-noem-visit/3740250/
WTTW
— New Study Suggests Changes to Illinois’ Community College-University Pipeline. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/07/new-study-suggests-changes-illinois-community-college-university-pipeline
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emma Shafer’s parents to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/05/08/parents-of-2023-homicide-victim-call-out-homeland-security-secretary/83499875007/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “cultural events” to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/05/07/the-rundown-chicago-cultural-events-face-canceled-grants
WTVO
— 50% of Illinois residents would move out of the state if they could. Illinois Democrats led by Pritzker ever-increasingly drive Republicans out of Illinois, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-50-illinois-residents-move-204254687.html
WGLT
— For Democrats, education exists to create good little Democrats.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-05-07/its-a-challenge-higher-ed-must-do-everything-everywhere-all-at-once
WJBC
— Illinois regains access to $77M in federal education funds following judge’s order. Democrats use education funds to create good little Democrats.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/05/07/illinois-regains-access-to-77m-in-federal-education-funds-following-judges-order/
NPR ILLINOIS
— How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-07/what-trump-administration-cuts-mean-for-mental-health-in-one-rural-school-district
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-07/trumps-tariffs-are-showing-up-in-americans-receipts
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders use Pritzker, Underwood, and Emma Shafer’s parents to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/08/kristi-noem-highlights-immigration-at-springfield-media-event-00335220
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-508/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Offices on the 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct include U.S. Senate, all five Illinois statewide offices, and countywide offices. What are the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township organizations doing to recruit the best possible candidates to run? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— They’ve destroyed jobs and opportunity for black Chicagoans. My Democrat GAO superiors can stress that to give my job to my Black Democrat subordinate, they forced me to retire when I was 49 year old in 1997. 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 processional license like the one I had.
https://wirepoints.org/theyve-destroyed-jobs-and-opportunity-for-black-chicagoans-wirepoints/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aacb2da9-2b4c-4b72-8637-eefc2ade43d1.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Homeland Security Secretary Baits the Beast in Springfield
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/07/homeland-security-secretary-baits-the-beast-in-springfield/
CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— IL Freedom Caucus Joins Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem On Failed Sanctuary State Policies and Immigration
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/il-freedom-caucus-joins-homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem-on-failed-sanctuary-state-policies-and-immigration/
— Rep. Adam Niemerg joins Sec. Kristi Noem in calling for compliance with federal immigration laws
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/rep-adam-niemerg-joins-sec-kristi-noem-in-calling-for-compliance-with-federal-immigration-laws/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Legal immigration is protecting blue state electoral power
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3403948/legal-immigration-protecting-blue-state-electoral-power-reapportionment/
NEW YORK POST
— Thousands of migrants still living at NYC’s historic Roosevelt Hotel — despite ticking clock for shelter to close. How many illegals are still living in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/us-news/nearly-2k-migrants-still-housed-in-nycs-historic-roosevelt-hotel-despite-city-saying-it-will-shutter-the-shelter-next-month/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ICE checking for illegals at swanky DC eateries, workers in a state of panic
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/07/ice-checking-for-illegals-at-swanky-dc-eateries-workers-in-a-state-of-panic-1541715/
BLAZE
— University of Chicago prof canceled midterm test and encouraged students to join protest against ‘authoritarian’ Trump
https://www.theblaze.com/news/univ-chicago-email-protest-trump
BREITBART
— Migrant Nonprofits Seek Donations as Trump Cuts Federal Funds
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/07/migrant-nonprofits-seek-donations-as-trump-cuts-federal-funds/
COLLEGE FIX
— UChicago professor cancels exam so students can protest Trump
https://www.thecollegefix.com/inappropriate-uchicago-professor-cancels-exam-so-students-can-protest-trump/
DAILY CALLER
— Companies Sidestep Trump’s DEI Crackdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/07/american-companies-may-sidestep-trump-dei-crackdown/
FOX BUSINESS
— The US must hold China accountable for ripping us off
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6372483675112
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— U. Chicago Prof Cancels Midterm, Tells Students to Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/u-chicago-prof-cancels-midterm-tells-students-to-join-anti-trump-protest-instead/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump signs order to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing home to the US. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://thepostmillennial.com/trumps-signs-order-to-bring-pharmaceutical-manufacturing-home-to-the-us
— Salt Lake City council votes to make LGBTQ Pride flags official city flags in defiance of state law
https://thepostmillennial.com/salt-lake-city-council-votes-to-make-lgbtq-pride-flags-official-city-flags-in-defiance-of-state-law
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream new media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Toyota Says Tariffs Will Erase $1.3 Billion in Profits in Just 2 Months. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/business/toyota-earnings-trump-tariffs.html
— To those who demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being pro-Trump, I say that I am pro-conservative principles, that I am pro-Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america.html
— West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html
— What motivated you the most to get a college degree? For me, it was my father decrying that he did not have one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/opinion/college-technical-vocational-education.html?searchResultPosition=2
WASHINGTON POST
— Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s new transit and homelessness grant conditions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/07/trump-cities-grants-lawsuit/b2e0ce5e-2bb3-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
— Chief justice touts judicial independence, rejects impeaching judges. The judges and justices who have ruled against me have made it clear that they promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, that they promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, that they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/07/chief-justice-roberts-judicial-independence-buffalo/
USA TODAY
— Whose enemies lists are you on? I should write about those who have me on their enemies lists. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of clout in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party. I would focus on those who continue to blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/05/06/trump-targets-schools-science-federal-funding/83378205007/
— Democrat leaders decry reduced efforts to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/06/pride-month-defections-dei-backlash/83376447007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2025/05/07/the-companies-standing-up-to-trump-on-dei/83503855007/
NBC NEWS
— Some brands are doing tariff-related price hikes on May 1 — here’s what to buy now. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.nbcnews.com/select/shopping/what-to-buy-tariffs-rcna200485
CNN
— Chief Justice John Roberts stresses judicial independence amid tensions with Trump. The judges and justices who have ruled against me have made it clear that they promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, that they promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, that they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/politics/john-roberts-event-judicial-independence
REUTERS
— States sue Trump administration over $3 billion in blocked EV charging grants. I just bought an EV, but I am extremely reluctant to charge it anywhere other than in my garage.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/money/cars/2025/05/08/states-sue-trump-ev-charging-grants/83507390007/
NEWSWEEK
— Parents Need School Choice. If my parents had not sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, or get accepted by UIC. But because of the tuition they paid, I had to work my way through college and my GPA was lower.
https://www.newsweek.com/parents-need-school-choice-congress-can-help-opinion-2063846
MSN
— What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-wants-tariffs-on-medicine-here-s-what-it-could-mean-for-you/ar-AA1ElZqA
— Here Are All the Countries Where Your Car Is Actually Made. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/here-are-all-the-countries-where-your-car-is-actually-made/ar-AA1DVZzU
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders say “Trump scoffs at rising prices for families while his inner circle cashes in on foreign deals.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXiPr-mW1X8
CITY JOURNAL
— Pritzker’s Progressive Trap. The Illinois governor seems determined to stick with left-wing cultural politics as he eyes a White House bid in 2028.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/illinois-governor-j-b-pritzker-democratic-presidential-nomination-2028
BLOOMBERG
— What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/phrma-says-trump-drug-price-idea-could-cost-industry-1-trillion
FORBES
— Car Ownership Statistics 2025. The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. What is the most recent car that you bought? I just bought a new red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-statistics/
REAL CLEAR MARKETS
— The Many Difficulties In Bringing Manufacturing Back. What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/05/02/the_many_difficulties_in_bringing_manufacturing_back_1107669.html
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Five years after India opened the door for American colleges, IIT became the first to accept the invitation. I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT when I was 48 in 1997. I did that a) because my Democrat GAO superiors had made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS, b) because they had assigned me audits of federal financial institution regulators since 1990, c) because I had previously not taken that many courses in finance, and d) because my supervisor wanted me to earn that degree. But in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors flushed my IIT degree down their toilet by forcing me to retire.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/us-colleges-world/2025/05/08/illinois-tech-establishes-first-us-campus-india
ECONOMICS TIMES
— What percent of what you buy was made in a foreign country?
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/trumps-trade-war-how-tariffs-are-shaping-global-trade/slideshow/120988615.cms
May 7, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stops in Springfield to criticize state’s immigration policies
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem-stops-in-springfield-to-criticize-states-immigration-policies/
— School board president paves way for interim CEO to lead CPS without required license. While I worked GAO 1981-1997, I was the only licensed CPA in its Chicago office.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/cristina-pacione-zayas-interim-cps-ceo/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: But first, board members told the Tribune on Wednesday that Harden is trying to corral a majority vote of 11 members to undo a resolution that passed unanimously at a March board meeting, which requires that both the next CEO and the interim CEO must have a “valid Illinois Professional Educator License, with a Superintendent endorsement.” Pacione-Zayas does not have a superintendent license.)
— Brandon Johnson strong-arms Board of Ed to install his ill-qualified chief of staff
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/editorial-chicago-public-schools-pacione-zayas/
CHICAGO SUNTIMES
— In Springfield visit, Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem takes aim at Gov. Pritzker’s sanctuary policies
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/07/homeland-security-kristi-noem-pritzkers-sanctuary-policies
ABC7
— DHS Sec. Kristi Noem attacks Pritzker, Illinois sanctuary policies
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kristi-noem-secretary-department-homeland-security-attacks-gov-jb-pritzker-sanctuary-policies-springfield-il/16349267/
NBC5
— Kristi Noem blasts JB Pritzker in Springfield, Illinois governor responds The Homeland Security secretary traveled to Springfield, celebrating Trump’s immigration policies and criticizing Illinois
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/kristi-noem-blasts-pritzker-in-springfield-illinois-governor-responds/3740018/
— ‘Do her damn job’: Illinois Sec. of State criticizes Kristi Noem ahead of Springfield visit. While her visit was not expected to focus on the big change for travelers, Giannoulias issued a statement, saying Noem’s messaging around Real ID sparked “pure panic among residents.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/do-her-damn-job-illinois-sec-of-state-criticizes-kristi-noem-ahead-of-springfield-visit/3739920/
CBS2
— DHS Secretary Noem and Illinois Gov. Pritzker spar over state’s immigration policies: “Performing for Fox News”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kristi-noem-springfield-illinois-immigration-sanctuary-laws/
FOX32
— Noem slams Illinois’ sanctuary policies in Springfield, Pritzker fires back
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/clash-springfield-noem-pritzker-spar-over-immigration
— Noem and Pritzker clash over Illinois immigration policies
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1637426
WLS AM
— Sec. Noem: Ill. Gov. Pritzker Protects ‘Illegal Criminals’
https://www.wlsam.com/2025/05/07/sec-noem-ill-gov-pritzker-protects-illegal-criminals/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Homeland Security Secretary to Pritzker: ‘Change your ways and protect your people’
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/05/07/pritzker-calls-out-trump-noem-for-violating-the-us-constitution/83475775007/
JOURNAL TOPICS
— Homeland Security secretary’s visit draws heated reactions from protestors, state officials
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/kristi-noem-criticizes-illinois-immigration-20314919.php
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in the military
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-slams-farright-supreme-courts-shameful-decision-to-allow-enforcement-of-trumps-trans-military-service-ban-82210.cfm?
WFIN
— Pritzker in hot seat after parents harmed by sanctuary policies lash out
https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/blue-state-governor-in-hot-seat-after-parents-harmed-by-sanctuary-policies-lash-out-gut-punch/
WJBC & WMBD & WGEM
— Pritzker calls Noem’s Illinois stop on immigration laws a “publicity stunt.”
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/05/07/dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-illinois-stop-on-immigration-laws-called-publicity-stunt/
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/07/dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-illinois-stop-on-immigration-laws-called-publicity-stunt/
https://www.wgem.com/2025/05/07/dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-illinois-stop-immigration-laws-called-publicity-stunt/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-300/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Effort Surfaces to Draft Rod Blagojevich for GOP Nomination for United States Senator
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/07/effort-surfaces-to-draft-rod-blagojevich-for-gop-nomination-for-united-states-senator/
— Raja Krishnamoorthi’s U.S. Senate Candidacy Announcement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/07/raja-krishnamoorthis-u-s-senate-candidacy-announcement/
— Tax Burden in Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/07/tax-burden-in-illinois/
— Reactions to Pritzker May the 4th Be with You Tweet Just Hilarious
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/07/reactions-to-pritzker-may-the-4th-be-with-you-tweet/
— State Senator Laura Fine Seeks Schakowsky Seat in Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/06/state-senator-seeks-schakowsky-seat-in-congress/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans put California’s EV mandate on the chopping block
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/7/republicans-put-californias-ev-mandate-chopping-block/
— Time to pay back student loans. No more shirking responsibility.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/7/time-pay-back-student-loans/
NEW YORK POST
— It’s up to Congress, not DOGE, to slash runaway spending
https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/opinion/now-elon-tells-us-congress-not-doge-must-slash-spending/
BREITBART
— Raja Krishnamoorthi Eyes a Senate Run; Brags of Standing Up to ‘Bullies’ Like Trump
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/07/raja-krishnamoorthi-eyes-a-senate-run-brags-of-standing-up-to-bullies-like-trump/
— Kristi Noem, Angel Families Call on Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to ‘Abandon Dangerous Sanctuary Policies’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/07/kristi-noem-angel-families-call-on-illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-abandon-dangerous-sanctuary-policies/
DAILY CALLER
– American Manufacturers Overwhelmed With Orders After Trump’s Tariff Crackdown On China
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/05/american-business-returns-trump-tariffs-china/
EPOCH TIMES
— Crackdown on Student Loan Defaulters to Begin With Benefit Seizure, Then Wage Garnishment.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/crackdown-on-student-loan-defaulters-to-begin-with-benefit-seizure-then-wage-garnishment-5853392
FOX NEWS & WFIN
— Protesters gather outside Pritzker mansion to disrupt Noem presser, only to find she was never actually there
https://www.aol.com/protesters-gather-outside-pritzker-mansion-204705275.html
https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/protesters-gather-outside-pritzker-mansion-to-disrupt-noem-presser-only-to-find-she-was-never-actually-there/
LIFE NEWS
— Rep. Mary Miller Leads Fight to Defund Planned Parenthood
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/05/07/pro-life-congresswoman-leads-fight-to-defund-planned-parenthood/
NEWSMAX
— Sec. Noem: Ill. Gov. Pritzker Protects ‘Illegal Criminals’
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/dhs-ice-kristi-noem/2025/05/07/id/1209948/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Duckworth announces legislation protecting VA jobs. There was no legislation to protect GAO jobs while Gingrich gutted the agency during the 1980s and 1990s.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5288430-duckworth-bills-va-jobs/
— Pritzker’s office mockingly calls for ‘all pet owners’ to beware ahead of Noem visit
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5288021-pritzker-illinois-noem-trump-immigration-springfield/
NEWSWEEK
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-showing-democrats-how-stand-trump-opinion-2068770
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— $70,000/year salaries offered to high school juniors taking shop classes. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970. In today’s dollars, my IRS starting salary was $55,850/year when I was 22 in 1971. It was $68,315/year when I was 24 in 1972. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257
FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/article/corporate-social-responsibility-strategy-dei-backlash/
FORBES
— Workplace Competition: Pros and Cons. My Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted negative competition between their employees big time to get rid of their 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. They did not want their employees who were the aforesaid to band together. I should write about my Democrat superiors in the federal government who had the most success turning my coworkers who were the aforesaid against me.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2025/01/26/workplace-competition-pros-cons/
INSIDE EVs
— ‘A Trump Gift To China’: 17 States Sue Over EV Charger Funding Freeze
https://insideevs.com/news/758913/states-sue-trump-nevi-charger/
May 6, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— President Donald Trump criticizes construction progress at Obama Presidential Center in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/barack-obama-library-update-donald-trump-criticizes-presidential-construction-progress-jackson-park-chicago/16343255/
— Pritzker to testify to Congress on sanctuary policies, House Oversight Committee says. Pres. Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, which could have a huge impact on Chicago.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/govs-jb-pritzker-tim-walz-kathy-hochul-testify-sanctuary-city-immigration-policies-house-oversight-committee-hearing/16341230/
— Chicago’s Michelada Fest 2025 canceled due to uncertainty surrounding artists’ visas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2025-michelada-fest-chicago-canceled-due-uncertainty-surrounding-artists-visas-organizers-say/16343015/
NBC5
— Trump calls Obama Presidential Center ‘disaster,’ criticizes ‘DEI’ hires
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-calls-obama-presidential-center-disaster-criticizes-dei-hires/3739540/
— Pritzker, other governors to testify before Congress on ‘sanctuary’ policies. Pritzker will be joined by two other governors at the June hearing.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/jb-pritzker-testify-congress-sanctuary-city-policies/3739337/
— Noem visit to Springfield draws sarcastic response from Pritzker’s office
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/noem-visit-to-springfield-draws-sarcastic-response-from-pritzkers-office/3739586/
— Chicago Urban League report reveals stark data on wealth of Black residents
https://www.nbcchicago.com/local-2/chicago-urban-league-report-reveals-stark-data-on-wealth-of-black-residents/3739448/
CBS2
— Trump calls Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center “a disaster,” blames “woke” construction
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/president-trump-obama-presidential-center-disaster-blames-woke-construction/
— Pritzker’s office slams, mocks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ahead of visit
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-office-slams-mocks-homeland-security-kristi-noem/
WGN9
— White House requests $46.5 billion for border wall construction
https://wgntv.com/news/national/white-house-requests-46-5-billion-for-border-wall-construction/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/06/advocates-say-cuts-head-start-could-be-devastating-illinois-families
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker to testify before Congress on Illinois’ ‘sanctuary’ immigration policies
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/06/gov-jb-pritzker-to-testify-before-congress-on-illinois-sanctuary-immigration-policies/
— Pritzker should stop trying to make Juliana Stratton the inevitable successor to Dick Durbin
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/06/editorial-jb-pritzker-juliana-stratton-senate-democrats/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson defends deal on Columbus statues
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/06/mayor-brandon-johnson-deal-columbus-statues/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘State of Black Chicago’ report lays out path to building wealth amid stark racial gaps. The Chicago Urban League report highlights one key statistic: The median net worth for a Black family is $0, compared with $210,000 for a white family.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/05/06/state-of-black-chicago-report-lays-out-path-to-wealth-building-amid-stark-racial-gaps
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump goes off on ‘woke’ Obama Center construction
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-rants-about-woke-obama-center-construction
RIVER BENDER
— Under Pritzker, Illinois is ever-increasingly hostile to those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzker-invites-canadian-travelers-to-enjoy-illinois-600000-visit-state-each-year-82172.cfm?
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-299/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Calling All Masochists – Tax Bills Are Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/06/calling-all-masochists-tax-bills-are-up/
— Opposition to Slaughter House Next to Greenwood Cemetery Surfaces
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/06/opposition-to-slaughter-house-next-to-greenwood-cemetery-surfaces/
— State by State Summary of Trump Approval Ratings
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/state-by-state-summary-of-trump-approval-ratings/
— Politico Reads McHenry County Blog
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/politico-reads-mchenry-county-blog/
— Brush Fire on 100-Acre McHenry County Conservation District Property Near Island Lake
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/brush-fire-on-100-acre-mchenry-county-conservation-district-property-near-island-lake/
— Tom DeVore to Aim Negative Mailing against House Republican Leader Tony McCombie
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/tom-devore-to-aim-negative-mailing-against-house-republican-leader-tony-mccombie/
— Grafton Township GOP Schedules Fifth Golf Outing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/05/grafton-township-gop-schedules-fifth-golf-outing/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Tariff troubles highlight Chicago’s precarious pension situation
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/tariff-troubles-highlight-chicagos-precarious-pension-situation/
— Illinois fixing shortage by changing foreign-trained doctor licensing
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-fixing-shortage-by-changing-foreign-trained-doctor-licensing/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— During President Biden’s tenure, the federal workforce grew by nearly 6%, with nearly every major agency adding hires and new departments. In Mr. Biden’s final two years, only 74% of jobs came from the private sector. One out of every four were created by the federal government.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/6/crying-tears-joy-massive-federal-layoffs/
NEW YORK POST
— Left’s ‘Big Bird defense’ won’t work this time as Trump axes funds for biased PBS, NPR
https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/opinion/big-bird-defense-wont-work-this-time-as-trump-axes-pbs-npr-funding/
EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Lets Military Ban Troops Who Identify as Transgender. The ruling is in place as the case against the ban continues.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-lets-trump-admin-ban-troops-who-identify-as-transgender-5853172
FOX NEWS
— Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., is calling on sheriffs in her state to defy Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state’s sanctuary laws and instead uphold federal immigration law.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-republican-calls-county-sheriffs-defy-sanctuary-law-dem-governor-rumored-2028-run
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Deportee Nightmare – A Very Questionable Rwanda Is Eyeing America’s Illegals
https://www.westernjournal.com/deportee-nightmare-questionable-rwanda-eyeing-americas-illegals/
May 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/trump-restrict-abortion-medication/
— Trump has threatened a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/trump-tariffs-foreign-made-films/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joins 19 counterparts in trying to stop Trump election order. A Trump administration executive order issued in March demands states not count mail-in ballots received after Election Day and requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. The attorneys general argue that the power to regulate elections rests with Congress, the states.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/05/05/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-opposes-trump-election-order
— Illinois, other states sue Trump administration for blocking wind energy development. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump because of his spending cuts. To what extent are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? To what extent are you, your neighbors, your friends, and your relatives dependent on federal spending?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/05/05/illinois-states-wind-energy-sue-trump-administration-executive-order
DAILY HERALD
— The mainstream news media is an arm of the Democrat Party. It glorified and praised Biden’s executive orders as much as it demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump’s executive orders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250506/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-imbalance-of-power-policy-is-worthy-of-debate-and-subject-to-change-but-we-c/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Tariff impact on Chicago companies: $1B and counting
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/tariff-impact-chicago-companies-1-billion-and-counting
ABC7
— Pritzker wooing Canadian tourists to visit Illinois. Under Pritzker, Illinois is ever-increasingly more unfriendly to those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/governor-jb-pritzker-wooing-canadian-tourists-visit-illinois/16338163/
NBC5
— Trump’s Hollywood tariffs announcement is met with confusion and fear. Democrats control entertainment in America.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-hollywood-tariffs-confusion-fear/3738587/
— Why 21 empty school buildings are costing Chicagoans millions
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/nbc-5-investigates-why-21-empty-school-buildings-are-costing-chicagoans-millions/3738226/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlKnlXoMRys
STATELINE
— GOP lawmakers seek to ban Pride flags, stirring tensions with liberal cities. Bills in more than a dozen states would prohibit the flags at city halls, schools and state buildings.
https://stateline.org/2025/05/05/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-pride-flags-stirring-tensions-with-liberal-cities/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-05/democrat-led-states-sue-trump-administration-over-dei
WIFR
— The more demographics that people have that vote for Republicans, the more that Pritzker discourages them a) from coming to Illinois and b) from staying in Illinois.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/05/illinois-tourism-officials-say-industry-is-trending-down-this-year/
WQAD
— State program helping Illinois students save thousands on grad school. Age discrimination is real, and especially for those who are White, male, and/or non-veteran. It is called up-or-out. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27. By then, it was too late. Why didn’t I earn an MBA sooner? My father died suddenly when I was a senior at NIU in 1969. My mother had never worked outside of the home. My brother was having troubles. I applied for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support them. I needed a job. Potential employers saw me as being draft bait. I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was a job that did not really require a college degree. I started taking graduate evening business courses, but only one at a time. Because of that, I did not earn an MBA from Loyola until I was 27. By then, it was too late. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul until I was 31. By then, again, it was too late. It took me 4 years because again, I took only one graduate evening accounting course at a time. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, again, it was too late. I did not earn a master’s degree in finance from IIT until I was 48. By then, again, it was too late. It took me 5 years because again, I took only one graduate evening finance course at a time. Why did I take only one graduate evening course at a time? Because that was all that I could afford in terms of time, attention, and money. Age discrimination is real, and especially for those who are White, male, and/or non-veteran. It is called up-or-out. I should write about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimLqEXF_XE
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-506/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois is an island on both gas taxes and school choice
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-is-an-island-on-both-gas-taxes-and-school-choice-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Illinois’ Great Exodus
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-great-exodus
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ‘Homeschool Act’ is about limiting school choice
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/homeschool-act-is-about-limiting-school-choice/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMAC
— Trump “Skinny Budget” Boosts Border Security, Armed Forces
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/trump-skinny-budget-boosts-border-security-armed-forces/
BREITBART
— Trump’s DOJ Pressuring Sanctuary Cities and States to Stop Blocking Immigration Enforcement
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/05/trumps-doj-appears-to-launch-anti-sanctuary-city-campaign/
— Trump on Self-Deportations: ‘Maybe Someday, with Little Work, They Can Come Back In
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/05/trump-on-self-deportations-maybe-someday-with-little-work-they-can-come-back-in/
— Trump Promises Illegals ‘Beautiful Flight’ Out of U.S. If They Self-Deport
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/05/trump-promises-illegals-beautiful-flight-out-u-s-if-they-self-deport/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Harvard rebrands DEI office as Office of Community and Campus Life
https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvard-rebrands-dei-office-office-community-campus-life/27898
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Makes Move To Super-Charge Deportations Using Local Cops. The agreements could prove to be a valuable force multiplier for the DHS, potentially enabling the agency to boost deportation numbers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-dhs-partners-with-100s-of-police-departments-to-supercharge-deportation-campaign
MRC TV
— ‘12 Reasons Why NPR And PBS Deserved To Be Defunded’
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/12-reasons-why-npr-and-pbs-deserved-be-defunded
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCITED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-hud-fair-housing-trump-lgbtq-turner-915634741f56f3d5ea265e316cd396bb
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation and for everything else that is bad. What do your critics/opponents blame you for? My critics/opponents blame me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://apnews.com/article/cost-coalition-group-bipartisan-trump-harris-inflation-e9c8b000ff751458d49b3089672cb570
— Child care in the Capitol: As more women run for office, some are bringing their kids
https://www.shorelinemedia.net/ludington_daily_news/videos/child-care-in-the-capitol-as-more-women-run-for-office-some-are-bringing-their/video_d45f0797-5a3a-5920-8e21-34133f3759a6.html
MSNBC
— Massive ‘No Kings’ protest expected to rain on Donald Trump’s (military) parade. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Obama and against Biden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vwhKYDuOsw
MSN
— Pence criticizes Trump’s tariffs, stance on Russia in CNN interview
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-criticizes-trump-s-tariffs-stance-on-russia-in-cnn-interview/ar-AA1Eey0m
— “Americans are going to see consequences”: Pence breaks with Trump on tariffs, deportations
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/americans-are-going-to-see-consequences-pence-breaks-with-trump-on-tariffs-deportations/ar-AA1EdGea
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump because of his spending cuts. To what extent are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? To what extent are you, your neighbors, your friends, and your relatives dependent on federal spending?
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/us/unions-cities-nonprofits-sue-to-block-trump-workforce-cuts/ar-AA1DQyVF
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Battles Academia, but Especially the Ivy League. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless..
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/trump-ivy-league.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in making foreign countries hate America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/business/tariffs-europe-boycott-american-goods.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/world/canada/global-elections-trump.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/05/05/connie-britton-the-motherhood-single-moms-hallmark/83324634007/
— Seriously delinquent student loan borrowers hit record high and climbing
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/05/05/delinquent-student-loans-credit-scores-collections-resume/83412433007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Jockeying for a new pope already has started. Democrat leaders want a Pope who will promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/02/cardinals-jockey-for-pope-before-conclave/83355920007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Trump Administration Threatens Schools With Student-Loan Restrictions. Nearly 10 million borrowers could soon be in default, and the Education Department wants to hold schools responsible.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-administration-threatens-schools-with-student-loan-restrictions-864f244f
FED SMITH
— Total Federal Compensation 5% Higher Than Private Sector at All Education Levels But Lags at Higher Levels. Federal employees with a professional degree or doctorate earned 24 percent less, on average, than their private-sector counterparts. To demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as having been grossly overpaid, my critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled that I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2024/04/29/cbo-report-total-federal-employee-compensation-higher-than-private-sector/
https://www.fedsmith.com/2022/10/28/average-federal-employee-salaries-with-benefits/
THE NATION
— The Case for Meritocracy. How have your critics/opponents used meritocracy against you? My critics/opponents stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, c) that I got no scholarships, d) that it took me 4 years to earn an MBA and my GPA was not that great, e) that while I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, my scores on its four parts were not that great, f) that it took me 4 years to earn a master’s degree in accounting and my GPA was not that great, g) that while I became a licensed CPA, it was not until I was 32, h) that it took me 5 years to earn a master’s degree in finance and my GPA was not that great, i) that none of degrees were from Ivy League universities, j) that notwithstanding my degrees, certifications, and license, my superiors in the federal government took many big adverse actions against me, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, and k) my superiors in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, etc. took many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nation.com.pk/06-May-2025/the-case-for-meritocracy