Tag: retaliation

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/trumps-tariffs-explainer/
— The historic Crown Point Courthouse saw one of several demonstrations organized across 50 states ahead of President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday evening.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/region-residents-join-nationwide-demonstrations-on-eve-of-trump-speech-in-congress/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/lake-countys-congressmen-give-trump-speech-the-cold-shoulder-he-stands-for-only-one-thing-himself/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/06/opinion-homelessness-criminalization-grants-pass-camping-bans-illinois-legislation/
— Early voting for April 1 election begins Friday in Kane County
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/early-voting-for-april-1-election-begins-friday-in-kane-county-officials-say/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly a) promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Mayor of Chicago  and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump..
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/05/brandon-johnson-sanctuary-city-hearing-chicago-house-oversight-committee
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-illinois-businesses-facing-scary-times
— Robert Crimo III signs trial waiver ‘Donald Trump’ after pleading guilty to Highland Park parade shooting. Experts say his guilty plea should stand. “He can sign Mickey Mouse or Donald Trump,” said Richard Kling, a law professor at Kent College of Law. What matters, he said, is that there is a transcript of Crimo orally pleading guilty, which Crimo did Monday.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/highland-park-parade-shooting/2025/03/05/highland-park-parade-shooting-robert-crimo-trial-waiver-donald-trump

DAILY HERALD
— Early voting ahead of April 1 election begins Friday for some, March 17 for others (COMMENT: As a Republican Precinct Committeeman, I will use 805 mailing labels to hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and marked sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican or one Independent voter.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/local-politics/early-voting-ahead-of-april-1-election-begins-friday-for-some-march-17-for-others/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Lisle mayor, trustees at odds over police chief hiring process (COMMENT: How did you get your jobs? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, or veteran who would take the job. For the Post Office job, I had passed the postal employment examination and I had earned a high school diploma. For the IRS job, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU. For the GAO job, I had earned an MBA from Loyola, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/news/lisle-mayor-trustees-at-odds-over-police-chief-hiring-process/

NBC5
— Appeals court allows Trump to remove Office of Special Counsel (OSC) ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger — for now (COMMENT: OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-to-remove-federal-ethics-watchdog/3689910/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Special Counsel’s job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals,”)
— DOGE recommends closing multiple Social Security offices across the U.S., including in Illinois. The proposed closure comes after reports that the Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off least 7,000 people from its workforce. (COMMENT: My Medicare is more than my Social Security. That may explain why I did not get a SSA-1099. But the Social Security website would not let me request one and no one answered at Social Security after hours of being in hold.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doge-recommends-closing-multiple-social-security-offices-across-the-u-s-including-in-illinois/3689639/

FOX32
— LaHood calls Johnson ‘tone deaf’ to needs of Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DTtTNdlAl7lA

SOUTHERN
— Trump administration hit with over 100 lawsuits since inauguration
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/06/trump-administration-hit-with-over-100-lawsuits-since-inauguration/

RIVER BENDER
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/trump-administration-cuts-funding-for-grants-that-support-illinois-farmers-and-food-banks-80297.cfm?

STATELINE
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-gov-pritzker-warns-1-million-may-lose-health-care-coverage-if-medicaid-funding-cut/

CLINTON JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://theclintonjournal.com/stories/tariffs-on-illinois-largest-trading-partners,86466

WAND TV
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/legislative-leaders-urge-illinois-gop-congressional-delegation-to-vote-against-medicaid-cuts/article_88944766-fa08-11ef-b1f9-632b456fc219.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Appeals court rules that Trump can remove head of  the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-03-05/trump-administration-can-remove-head-of-federal-watchdog-agency-appeals-court-rules
(FROM THE ARTICLE: OSC is responsible for guarding the federal workforce from illegal personnel actions, such as retaliation for whistleblowing. It investigates whistleblower claims of reprisal, can pursue disciplinary action against employees who punish whistleblowers and provides a channel for employees to disclose government wrongdoing.)

AXIOS CHICAGO
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/05/house-budget-medicaid-cuts-illinois

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Brandon Johnson gets a D.C. grilling
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/06/brandon-johnson-v-darin-lahood-00215402

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-468/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— One of the first targets for an Illinois DOGE? Chicago’s 20 nearly-empty, failing schools. Here’s the 2025 list.
https://wirepoints.org/one-of-the-first-targets-for-an-illinois-doge-chicagos-20-nearly-empty-failing-schools-heres-the-2025-list-wirepoints/

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Illinois officials have the constitutional authority to essentially thumb their nose at federal immigration agents and complicate federal efforts to locate and remove illegal immigrants, according to a new filing from Illinois’ state attorney general. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject the rule of law.)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/670297274-new-filing-illinois-has-constitutional-authority-to-ignore-immigration-law-complicate-deportations

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat-led mainstream news media ever-increasingly spins negatively everything that Trump says and does. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
— All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals, But OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis Tries for Congress Again (COMMENT: I did much to help Oberweis win general elections. Of course, my critics/opponents always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at him that I caused all his defeats. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/oberweis-tries-for-congress-again/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Trump Declares ‘America is Back’ as House Speaker Removes Rep. Al Green for Disrupting Presidential Speech to Congress
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/trump-declares-america-is-back-as-house-speaker-removes-rep-al-green-for-disrupting-presidential-speech-to-congress.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

U.S. HOUSE
— Sanctuary Mayors Refuse to Change Policies That Obstruct Federal Immigration Enforcement and Protect Dangerous Criminal Aliens
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-sanctuary-mayors-refuse-to-change-policies-that-obstruct-federal-immigration-enforcement-and-protect-dangerous-criminal-aliens/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats are delusional in their open embrace of illegals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/6/democrats-delusional-open-embrace-illegals/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump’s triumphant vision as America’s renewal shines in historic address
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/trump_s_triumphant_vision_as_america_s_renewal_shines_in_historic_address.html

BREITBART
— Trump Reforms Yield Several Arrests of Illegal Aliens Taking American Jobs
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/trump-reforms-yield-several-arrests-illegals-taking-american-jobs/
— The more demographics that you have that vote for Republicans and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more hatred that Democrat and RINO leaders promote against you.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/there-is-no-america-without-migrants-says-democrat-attorney-general/

DAILY CALLER
— Soaring Levels Of Non-English Speaking Students May Be Driving National Reading Test Scores Into Ground (COMMENT: Delay in dumping German held my ancestors back big time. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Yet, all my grandparents still spoke German. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/05/soaring-levels-of-non-english-speaking-students-may-be-driving-national-reading-test-scores-into-ground/

FOX BUSINESS
— Mayors gave ‘woke wonderment’ and ‘double-talk’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6369653272112

FOX NEWS
— DNC hires new top exec with long history of pushing racial grievances, leftist ideology. Roger Lau previously worked for progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-hires-new-top-exec-with-long-history-pushing-racial-grievances-leftist-ideology?lid=4j232h861vbo
— Republican, independent voters react positively to Trump declaring US ‘woke no longer’  Democrats in the focus groups tests did not react at all favorably to Trump’s statements during his address to Congress.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/republican-independent-voters-react-positively-trump-declaring-us-woke-no-longer

GREG GIROUX
— Former Illinois state Sen. Jim Oberweis (R), who relocated to SW Florida after close loss to Rep. Lauren Underwood (D) in 2020, filed papers to seek #FL19 seat Rep. Byron Donalds (R) is giving up to run for governor. (COMMENT: I did much to help Oberweis win general elections. Of course, my critics/opponents always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at him that I caused all his defeats. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://x.com/greggiroux/status/1897388737275031939

JAMES A. FUREY
— Education bureaucrats lower standards in the name of ‘equity’ and call it progress.  In reality, they are condemning students, particularly the most vulnerable, to a lifetime of limited opportunity. (COMMENT: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://x.com/JamesAFurey/status/1897400171593654726

JIM OBERWEIS FOR CONGRESS
https://votejimo.com/

NEWSMAX
— Sanctuary City Mayors ‘Put Illegals First’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/james-comer-chicago-denver/2025/03/05/id/1201616/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-trump-plans-revoke-legal-111130604.html

NEWSWEEK
— Sanctuary City Hearing Descends Into Chaos: ‘This Is My Right!’ (COMMENT: How strongly are your county, county district, township, municipality, municipal district, school district, and precinct sanctuaries for illegals?)
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-city-hearing-james-comer-ayanna-pressley-chaos-2040235

C-SPAN
— Trump Praises Efforts to End DEI “Woke” Policies in Defense Dept.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5155812/president-trump-praises-efforts-end-dei-woke-policies-defense-dept

CBS NEWS
— Highland Park parade shooter signed “Donald Trump” on trial waiver rather than his own name after guilty plea
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/highland-park-parade-shooter-donald-trump-name-document/

NEW YORK TIMES
— More Than 70 Million Americans Are on Medicaid. This Is Where They Live. (COMMENT: How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Why are they on Medicaid?)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/medicaid-enrollment.html
— There Is No Musk Exception in the Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/elon-musk-trump-constitution.html
— ‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump’s Takeover. “We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/theater/hamilton-kennedy-center-trump-miranda.html

WASHINGTON POST
— D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won’t hire from any school with ‘DEI’ (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to lower standards for Democrats who are minority, female, and/or younger.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/05/dc-us-attorney-ed-martin-georgetown-law-dei/
— The Democratic fight over how to respond to Trump has already begun (COMMENT: I wonder what the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will shout at me as I hand-deliver sample ballots and Republican campaign literature in my precinct.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/democrats-trump-speech-reaction-debate/

USA TODAY
— Canadian province leader threatens to cut off energy to 3 US states, imposes 25% surcharge
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/ontario-canada-tariff-retaliation-energy-states/81350351007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/04/trump-dei-backlash-explained/81170427007/

NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-many-immigrants-will-die-in-us-custody

FINANCIAL REVIEW
— All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/gender-data-shows-any-lack-of-meritocracy-is-working-in-favour-of-men-20250225-p5lf18

PRESS AND GUIDE & NEWS HERALD
— Today in history: John Belushi’s death shocks hometown of Wheaton
https://www.pressandguide.com/2025/03/05/today-in-chicago-history-john-belushis-death-shocks-the-city/
https://www.thenewsherald.com/2025/03/05/today-in-chicago-history-john-belushis-death-shocks-the-city/