FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Crews dismantle fence surrounding Broadview ICE facility to meet judge’s order
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-news-crews-dismantle-fence-surrounding-broadview-facility-meet-judges-order/18010395/
— Agents tackle US citizen after East Side operation leads to crash, spills into Walgreens. Federal agents deployed tear gas into a crowd of people protesting two immigration-related arrests, exposing 13 CPD officers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crash-massive-law-enforcement-presence-south-avenue-east-side-live/18005825/
NBC5
— Fencing outside Broadview ICE processing facility removed just before deadline
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/deadline-nears-for-removal-of-fencing-outside-broadview-ice-processing-facility/3838747/
— Tear gas released on Chicago crowd as Border Patrol describes chase, crash and arrests. Chicago police said they were attempting to de-escalate the situation when “individuals then began throwing objects at the federal agents.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/tear-gas-released-on-chicago-crowd-as-border-patrol-describes-chase-crash-and-arrests/3838716/
CBS2
— Former Chicago Ald. Bob Fioretti to run for Illinois Attorney General
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/former-chicago-ald-bob-fioretti-run-illinois-attorney-general/
— Broadview ICE facility fence taken down within hour of deadline
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/broadview-ice-facility-fence-taken-down-within-hour-of-deadline/
— Illinois Drivers Alliance working with Mayor Johnson to keep federal agents away from O’Hare rideshare lot
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-drivers-alliance-brandon-johnson-ohare-rideshare-lot/
WTTW
— Trump Administration Continues Crackdown on Press, Critics Following Federal Judge’s Ruling in Illinois
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/14/trump-administration-continues-crackdown-press-critics-following-federal-judge-s-ruling
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Controversial security fence around Broadview ICE facility comes down shortly ahead of court-ordered deadline
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/broadview-ice-fence-removed/
— Elections board hearing officer recommends Illinois Senate President Don Harmon pay nearly $10 million fine
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/don-harmon-10-million-fine-upheld-hearing-officer/
— DD: Hundreds in Waukegan side with illegals against America
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/waukegan-peace-march/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ICE facility fence in Broadview has been removed, in compliance with federal judge’s order. U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt of the Northern District of Illinois had set a deadline for 11:59 p.m. Tuesday for the removal after finding that ICE had placed the fence on city property without permission, exceeding its authority.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/ice-facility-fence-in-broadview-removed
— DD: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are solders in the Democrat Army.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/10/15/trump-ice-1968-chicago-protests-judy-gumbo-frank-joyce-abe-peck-don-rose-lee-weiner
— Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/top-cook-county-judge-bars-civil-arrests-at-courthouses-citing-chilling-effect
— Federal immigration agents to continue to use Naval Station Great Lakes until at least December
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/federal-immigration-agents-to-continue-to-use-naval-station-great-lakes-until-at-least-december
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their illegals
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-pulse/patients-fear-ice-pressures-chicago-health-centers
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— DD: Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/10/15/illinois-community-colleges-feed-the-need-campus-food-drive-2025/86581956007/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Thousands of federal employees are getting laid off. Will a judge intervene? DD: No judge intervened when Gingrich gutted GAO during the 1980s and 1990s. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-15/thousands-of-federal-employees-are-getting-laid-off-will-a-judge-intervene
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-611/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— McCombie and Norine Hammond Face Growing Backlash Over Taxpayer Spending and Political Favoritism
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/pillowgate-mccombie-and-norine-hammond-face-growing-backlash-over-taxpayer-spending-and-political-favoritism.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Delay-prone F-35 program was led by DEI advocates, rewarded by Biden for late deliveries
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3849654/delay-prone-f-35-program-led-by-dei-advocates/
NEW YORK POST
— Stubborn Columbia now the last Ivy League holdout to not require SAT or ACT scores — but why? DD: If I had not gotten an ACT score of 24, UIC would not have admitted me in 1966. UIC would have admitted a minority, female, and/or veteran instead of me.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/14/opinion/princeton-reinstates-sat-requirement-making-stubborn-columbia-the-last-test-optional-ivy/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Fired library director wins $700K settlement after dispute over LGBTQ children’s books. DD: How successful have Democrats been making the children in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/14/fired-library-director-wins-700k-settlement-after-dispute-over-lgbtq-childrens-books-1592463/
— U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended herself against criticism from within her own party, with a direct rebuke of “weak Republican men.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/14/marjorie-taylor-greene-continues-media-blitz-from-hell-by-bashing-republican-men-1592487/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Oakland student required to attend DEI networking event to graduate. DD: I should write about the Affirmative Action and DEI training that my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors required their employees to take.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/exclusive-oakland-student-required-attend-dei-networking-event-graduate-/28768
— Auburn University promoted DEI grading rubric despite state ban
https://www.campusreform.org/article/auburn-university-promoted-dei-grading-rubric-despite-state-ban/28763
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— ‘Sanctuary’ Policies Are at the Heart of L.A., Chicago, Portland Stand-Offs. If states and localities really believe only a small minority of immigrants are criminals, give ICE access to the criminals and watch the ‘at large’ arrests plummet.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Sanctuary-Policies-Are-Heart-LA-Chicago-Portland-StandOffs
COLLEGE FIX
— 22 states (including Illinois) still offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrant students
https://www.thecollegefix.com/22-states-still-offer-in-state-tuition-to-illegal-immigrant-students/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As part of a string of recent lawsuits seeking to enforce the 1996 law, President Trump’s Department of Justice recently sued the state of Illinois, which offers illegal immigrants comprehensive access to in-state tuition. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is fighting the lawsuit. “While the Trump Administration strips away federal resources from all Americans, Illinois provides consistent and inclusive educational pathways for all students,” a spokesperson for the governor said, according to Axios.)
DAILY SIGNAL
— Newsom Forces Schools to Promote Radical Trans Group’s LGBTQ ‘Hotline’ on Student IDs. DD: How successful have Democrats been making the children in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/14/newsom-forces-schools-to-promote-radical-trans-groups-lgbtq-hotline-on-student-ids/
DAILY WIRE
— Rioters In Chicago Hurl Rocks At Feds After Illegal Immigrant Rams Border Patrol Car. “This incident is not isolated.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-in-chicago-hurl-rocks-at-feds-after-illegal-immigrant-rams-border-patrol-car
FOX NEWS
— Illegal immigrants arrested after ramming Border Patrol in Chicago amid violent clash with protesters
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrants-arrested-after-ramming-border-patrol-chicago-amid-violent-clash-protesters
NEW AMERICAN
— ICE Data on Oklahoma Busts: 120 Illegals Captured, 91 Had Commercial Driver Licenses
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/ice-data-on-oklahoma-busts-120-illegals-captured-91-had-cdl/
NEWSMAX
— Pritzker Broke Law Threatening ICE
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/markwayne-mullin-jb-pritzker-threats/2025/10/14/id/1230356/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Greene: ‘There’s a lot of weak Republican men’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5554265-greene-republican-men-criticism/amp/
NEWSWEEK
— Democrats Unveil Plans to Reign in ICE Agents If They Win Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-ice-oversight-midterms-10870867
— Los Angeles County Declares State of Emergency Over ICE Raids
https://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles-county-declares-state-of-emergency-over-ice-raids-10880807
ABC NEWS
— Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents
https://abcnews.go.com/US/cartels-issuing-bounties-50000-hits-ice-cbp-agents/story?id=126521867
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly downplay crime in their Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-chicago-dangerous-city-data/
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigrants-detained-denied-bond-ice-self-deportation-rcna237505
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/15/pritzker-trump-democrats-national-guard/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/15/chicago-war-ice-national-guard-protests/86606913007/
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/14/miss-major-transgender-activist-stonewall-death/86570840007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Since 1965, Democrat leaders have used to Civil Rights Act to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/13/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-black-louisiana-redistrict/86659491007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Racial Gerrymandering Is a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Gone
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymandering-is-a-bad-idea-whose-time-has-gone-05b55106
FORBES
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/10/14/with-the-new-eeoc-set-will-an-end-dei-mentality-eliminate-eeo-1-reporting-for-business/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— 10 occupations that are still dominated by men. DD: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs. Because the federal jobs that I had were bad jobs, my federal superiors had great difficulty hiring and retaining qualified minorities and females to take and keep those jobs. Qualified minorities and females could always get better jobs in the private sector. Consequently, all the many minorities and females who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.businessinsider.com/male-jobs-women-underrepresented-numbers-2019-8
ADVISORY BOARD
— Do you have a ‘good’ job? DD: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs. Because the federal jobs that I had were bad jobs, my federal superiors had great difficulty hiring and retaining qualified minorities and females to take and keep those jobs. Qualified minorities and females could always get better jobs in the private sector. Consequently, all the many minorities and females who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2022/10/06/good-jobs
BRITANNICA
— DD: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted at women that men who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time cause all the problems that women have who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, younger, veteran, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism/The-second-wave-of-feminism
COUTHOUSE NEWS
— DD: How successful have Democrats been making the children in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://courthousenews.com/parents-who-claim-school-lgbtq-club-turned-their-kids-trans-denied-supreme-court-redo/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— DD: Socialists ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/15/grls-o15.html
SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
— DD: Socialists ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2025/10/14/shut-down-trumps-invasion-of-chicago/
Tag: trump
October 14, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Medal of Freedom ceremony for Charlie Kirk held at White House
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-set-posthumously-award-charlie-kirk-presidential-medal-freedom/18003731/
— ICE has until Tuesday night to remove fence around Broadview facility to meet judge’s deadline
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-news-has-tuesday-night-remove-fence-around-broadview-facility-meet-judges-deadline/18003437/
NBC5
— Armed federal agents reported in Chicago neighborhood as crowd gathers. The footage, taken by NBC Chicago photographers and Sky 5 helicopter around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, showed the situation near 105th Street and Avenue N.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/heavy-ice-presence-reported-in-chicago-neighborhood-as-crowd-gathers/3838342/
— Chicago airports refuse to air DHS video blaming Democrats for gov’t shutdown. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem released a video blaming Democrats for the shutdown, with numerous airports refusing to show it to travelers.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-airports-refuse-to-air-dhs-video-blaming-democrats-for-govt-shutdown/3838545/
— Chicago air traffic controllers receive partial paycheck amid government shutdown. Members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association passed out pamphlets to travelers Tuesday detailing shutdown impact.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-air-traffic-controllers-receive-partial-paycheck-amid-government-shutdown/3838435/
— DD: Anticipate/expect that under the Democrats, poverty, crime, and demands on food pantries will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-food-pantries-deal-with-increased-demand-even-as-potential-cuts-loom/3838520/
CBS2
— Federal agents fire tear gas during standoff with crowd in East Side, Chicago, after car crash
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ice-agents-east-side-chicago-105th-avenue-n/
FOX32
— Illinois lawmakers return to Springfield, discuss tributes to Charlie Kirk, George Floyd. Despite needing to tackle big issues like transit funding during their fall veto session, Illinois state lawmakers return to Springfield this week and started with resolutions to honor Charlie Kirk and George Floyd. DD: Democrats promote George Floyd. Republicans promote Charlie Kirk.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1724065
WBEZ
— Feds ‘ram’ SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd. The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago’s East Side.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/14/feds-ram-suv-in-chase-down-residential-street-in-chicago-then-tear-gas-crowd
— Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request. The group ICE Sighting-Chicagoland has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/14/facebook-suspends-popular-chicago-ice-sightings-group-at-trump-administrations-request
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Everyone is welcome, except I.C.E.’ Cafes, restaurants across Chicago put up signs barring immigration agents.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/chicago-restaurants-ice-agents/
— What to do if ICE stops you
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/what-to-do-if-ice-stops-you/
— Tear gas used by federal immigration agents following East Side traffic crash, neighborhood uprising
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/ice-deploys-tear-gas-after-crash/
— Facebook removes Chicago-area page dedicated to ICE sightings after Justice Department intervenes
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/facebook-removes-chicago-ice-watch-page/
— Aurora Mayor John Laesch condemns federal immigration enforcement activity after protest at City Hall
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/aurora-mayor-john-laesch-condemns-federal-immigration-enforcement-activity-after-protest-at-city-hall/
— US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/us-revokes-visas-charlie-kirk-speech-2/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd. The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago’s East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/crash-involving-immigration-agents-in-east-side-leads-to-tear-gas-detentions
DAILY HERALD
— We see the ICE arrests. But what happens next for detainees?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251014/news/we-see-the-ice-arrests-but-what-happens-next-for-detainees/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— State Farm faces lawsuit from Illinois amid scrutiny over rate increases
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/illinois-sues-state-farm-blocking-insurance-examination
— Stellantis announces it will make Jeep SUVs again in Belvidere
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing-logistics/stellantis-will-make-jeep-suvs-again-belvidere
SHAW LOCAL
— ‘The government came down with a hammer’ – Immigration crackdown fears impacting Illinois restaurant industry. DD: I washed dishes for the minimum wage for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I was the only White male who did that.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/10/14/the-government-came-down-with-a-hammer-immigration-crackdown-fears-impacting-illinois-restaurant-industry/
ILLINOIS PATCH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests on Saturday, October 18
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/no-kings-protests-planned-weekend-across-il-what-know
AURORA PATCH
— ‘No Kings’ Protests Planned This Weekend In Aurora. The “No Kings” protest is planned in opposition to the Trump administration.
https://patch.com/illinois/aurora/no-kings-protests-planned-weekend-auroraORA PATCHPATC
DAILY ILLINI
— Federal activation of National Guard in Chicago includes UI students
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/world-news/state-news/2025/10/14/federal-guard-chicago-ui-students/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-402/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-610/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Pritzker Overspends by $547 Million on Free Health Care for Illegal Aliens – Total Cost to Taxpayers Tops $2.5 Billion
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/pritzker-overspends-by-547-million-on-free-health-care-for-illegal-aliens-total-cost-to-taxpayers-tops-2-5-billion.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Senate vote fails for the eighth time to break Democrats’ filibuster of stopgap spending bill
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/14/senate-vote-fails-eighth-time-break-democrats-filibuster-stopgap/
— Trump to release list of ‘socialist’ government programs he’s canceling because of shutdown
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/14/trump-release-list-socialist-government-programs-hes-canceling/
— Abortion is not health care and never will be. Instead, it’s a recipe for lifelong trauma.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/14/abortion-health-care-never/
BREITBART
— Pritzker Suggests Democrats May Try to Prosecute ICE Agents. DD: While my Democrat superiors in the federal government never prosecuted me, they took many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/14/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-suggests-democrats-may-try-to-prosecute-ice-agents-dhs-officials/amp/
— Dem-Led Oregon on Track to Spend $500 Million More for Healthcare Program that Includes Illegals than for State Police. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/14/report-dem-led-oregon-on-track-to-spend-500-million-more-for-health-care-program-includes-illegals-than-for-state-police/
DAILY WIRE
— Mexican Cartels Place Bounties On Federal Agents In Chicago
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mexican-cartels-place-bounties-on-federal-agents-in-chicago
FOX NEWS
— Texas National Guard members removed from 60-day Illinois deployment for failing ‘mission requirements’ 7 service members failed to meet mission requirements during pre-deployment validation process.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-national-guard-members-removed-from-60-day-illinois-deployment-failing-mission-requirements
— Democratic lawmakers celebrate order to remove fence at Illinois ICE facility
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382737125112
— Trump floats using Insurrection Act to combat Chicago crime, says Pritzker should ‘beg’ for his help. Trump wants to curb crime in big cities by deploying the National Guard.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-floats-using-insurrection-act-combat-chicago-crime-says-pritzker-should-beg-his-help
NEWSMAX
— Left-Wing Group Instructs How to Fight ICE in Chicago
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-ice-dhs/2025/10/14/id/1230254/
PJ MEDIA
— Oregon Will Spend $700M+ More on Illegals’ Healthcare Than Police
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/10/14/oregon-will-spend-700m-more-on-illegals-healthcare-than-police-n4944833
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump awards Charlie Kirk with posthumous Medal of Freedom
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5554911-trump-presents-medal-charlie-kirk/
CBS NEWS
— Trump awards Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-awards-charlie-kirk-presidential-medal-of-freedom/
— Trump says U.S. struck 5th boat accused of carrying drugs off coast of Venezuela, killing 6
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-venezuela-boat-drugs/
— CBS News, other media outlets, won’t sign on to new Pentagon press restrictions
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-media-outlets-pentagon-press-restrictions/
NEWSWEEK
— Pritzker Looking at Prosecuting ICE Agents in Chicago. DD: While my Democrat superiors in the federal government never prosecuted me, they took many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-looking-at-prosecuting-ice-agents-in-chicago-10877062
CATO
— Federal Government Wastes 59 Cents on the Dollar. 89 Percent Favor Auditing All Government Spending to Root Out Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My Democrat Post Office superiors wasted what I learned delivering mail for almost 3 years while I completed courses in management at UIC and NIU. They forced me to resign falsely arguing that I was not available to work enough part-time hours. My Democrat IRS superiors wasted what I learned collecting delinquent taxes for almost 9 years while I completed graduate evening business and accounting courses at Loyola and DePaul and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. They refused to promote me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors wasted what I learned auditing federal agencies for almost 18 years while I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, became a licensed CPA, and completed graduate evening finance courses. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They refused to promote me beyond GS-13 and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, they have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work. They would not have done the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-say-federal-govt-wastes-59-cents-dollar
October 13, 2025 Evening Edition
Democrat leaders ever-increasing make it clear that they always have done and that they always will do everything that they can to flood America with their illegals.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns
https://abc7chicago.com/post/vice-president-jd-vance-warns-deeper-cuts-ahead-federal-workers-shutdown-continues/17997267/
— Democrat leaders call for fence around Broadview ICE facility to be torn down
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-fencing-around-broadview-facility-set-removed-live/17997242/
— Columbus Day parade marches through downtown Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/abc7-broadcast-2025-christopher-columbus-day-parade-downtown-chicago-monday-indigenous-peoples/17998220/
NBC5
— Northwestern University ranked 10th and University of Chicago ranked 17th. DD: 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.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2-illinois-universities-make-list-of-best-in-u-s-for-2026/3837894/
CBS2
— Broadview, Illinois shrinks area where protests are allowed outside ICE facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-illinois-shrinks-area-protests-ice-facility/
WGN9
— Suspicious device with anti-ICE message found at Chicago’s Midway Airport
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/suspicious-package-with-anti-ice-message-found-at-chicagos-midway-airport/
FOX32
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/no-kings-protest-returns-chicago-saturday
— Chicagoans celebrate Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1723444
WTTW
— Broadview Mayor Shrinks Designated Protest Area Outside ICE Facility
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/13/broadview-mayor-shrinks-designated-protest-area-outside-ice-facility
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Federal immigration agents step up activity in Lake County.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/lake-county-federal-agents-arrests/
— ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him. Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ice-fines-chicago-man-for-not-having-papers-on-him/
— Michelle Obama’s Girls Opportunity Alliance pledges $2.5 million for grassroots education for girls.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/michelle-obamas-girls-opportunity-alliance-pledges-2-5-million-for-grassroots-education-for-girls/
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ev-electric-vehicles-china-detroit-automakers-manufacturing/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/13/poll-chicagoans-national-guard-policing-deportation-campaign-norc-university-of-chicago
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/12/arrival-national-guard-troops-chicago-area-what-readers-say
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County clerk goes to court to get two election vendors paid
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251013/news/dupage-county-clerk-goes-to-court-to-get-two-election-vendors-paid/
— Glenbard school board president appointed to state House seat
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251013/news/glenbard-school-board-president-appointed-to-state-house-seat/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/cardinal-cupich-raps-trumps-immigration-raids-chicago
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— ‘No Kings’ protests return Oct. 18 to ‘fight dictatorship.’
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/13/no-kings-rallies-oct-18-list-of-illinois-protests-times-locations-near-me-chicago/86624492007/
SOUTHERN
— Bailey, Del Mar bring campaign stop to Marion
https://thesouthern.com/news/bailey-del-mar-bring-campaign-stop-to-marion/article_ff61b34b-55a3-57a8-a0e9-15893a3f6b49.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FREEDOM CAUSUS
— Veto Session This Week In Springfield
https://substack.com/home/post/p-176045108
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Don Tracy Celebrates Historic Gaza Hostage Release and Calls for Continued Peace
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/republican-candidate-for-u-s-senate-celebrates-trumps-peace-victory/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Budget gimmicks, pension debt and late financial reports are leaving Illinois taxpayers in the dark, according to Truth in Accounting which gives Illinois another “F” grade.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1aeb5bba-eeea-4b1e-b745-f8befe9ab6bd.html
— Illinois House Speaker: ‘Mr. Trump, tear down this fence!’ DD: Back then, East Germany stopped its citizens from leaving. Today, foreign countries dump their unwanted citizens on America.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_011592ec-68c1-4e1c-a696-9165b9bab8d5.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois checks, balances? Not under Pritzker.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-checks-balances-not-under-pritzker/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Leftists refuse to help ICE and then blame murderous illegals on Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/13/leftists-refuse-help-ice-blame-murderous-illegals-trump/
— Legislation seeks to save Columbus Day from being replaced by Indigenous Peoples’ Day
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/13/legislation-seeks-save-columbus-day-replaced-indigenous-peoples-day/
— Speaker Johnson says no quick fix to Obamacare subsidy ‘boondoggle’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/13/speaker-mike-johnson-says-no-quick-fix-obamacare-subsidy-boondoggle/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Broadview, Illinois reduces ICE protest zone after ‘chaos,’ 15 arrests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3848374/broadview-illinois-reduces-ice-protest-zone-after-chaos-arrests/
— Virginia’s proposed abortion ‘right’ would take power from parents
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3848533/virginia-abortion-fundamental-right-to-protective-freedom-takes-power-from-parents/
— ‘We’re back, Italians,’ Trump proclaims in recognition of ‘hero’ Christopher Columbus
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/3847895/were-back-italians-trump-proclaims-in-recognition-of-hero-christopher-columbus/
BREITBART
— Illinois State Police Arrest Unlawful Anti-ICE Protesters
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/12/illinois-state-police-arrest-unlawful-anti-ice-protesters/
— ‘Incompatible Ideology’: Rep. Chip Roy’s Bill Aims to Protect U.S. from Illegals Who Observe Sharia Law
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2025/10/13/incompatible-ideology-rep-chip-roy-aims-to-protect-u-s-from-illegals-who-observe-sharia-law/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Trinity Washington University hosts event honoring convicted cop killer Assata Shakur
https://www.campusreform.org/article/trinity-washington-university-hosts-event-honoring-convicted-cop-killer-assata-shakur/28757
CHRISTIAN POST
— A day of remembrance for assassinated conservative Christian figure Charlie Kirk is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, which would have been the political activist’s 32nd birthday.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/charlie-kirk-national-day-of-remembrance-to-be-held-this-week.html
DAILY WIRE
— Portland Protesters Stage Nude ‘Die-In’ To Stop Trump’s Deportations
https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-protesters-stage-nude-die-in-to-stop-trumps-deportations
FOX BUSINESS
— Billionaire Ken Griffin says Citadel’s Chicago exodus was ‘not hard,’ cites crime, taxes. Ken Griffin’s hedge fund relocated global headquarters to Miami in 2022 citing crime and tax concerns
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/billionaire-ken-griffin-says-citadels-chicago-exodus-not-hard-crime-taxes-drove-workers-away
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Evanston Has Doled Out Millions in Housing Reparations
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/this-illinois-town-has-doled-out-millions-in-housing-reparations-but-ownership-remains-out-of-reach/amp/
TPUSA
— Left-Wing University of Minnesota Club to Honor George Floyd in Protest of Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance. DD: Democrats promote George Floyd. Republicans promote Charlie Kirk.
https://tpusa.com/live/left-wing-university-of-minnesota-club-to-honor-george-floyd-in-protest-of-charlie-kirk-day-of-remembrance/
TOWNHALL
— During the Schumer Shutdown, Democrats Are Using Americans As Pawns
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/13/schumer-says-trump-and-russell-vought-using-americans-as-pawns-n2664864
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Hegseth touts push to replace heavyset National Guard troops in Illinois
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5553001-hegeseth-emphasizes-military-fitness/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Vance warns of deeper cuts ahead for federal workers
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-vance-trump-furlough-congress-fired-6179d3359c0d6f547e963822d67c28b4
CBS NEWS
— Newsom signs law banning new Glock sales in California
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/newsom-to-decide-bill-glock-sales-california/
— Pain for federal workers as government shutdown continues. DD: Federal employees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid. Since September of 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, no one has had any sympathy for my losing 56% of my annual income. In today’s dollars a loss of $86,371/year ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension. They have always stressed my wife’s income, our not having any dependents, our being debt-free, our retirement and other savings, the federal government paying 72% of our health insurance, our home in Wheaton, our cars, etc.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/pain-for-federal-workers-as-government-shutdown-continues/
WASHINGTON POST
— Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government. Tens of thousands of federal employees have taken retirement or other voluntary departures on top of the Trump administration’s latest layoffs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/13/retirements-buyouts-federal-government-trump/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: In Diersen v. GAO, the courts abolished federal Civil Service protections and gave the federal government the power to force its employees to retire, that is, to fire them. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.aol.com/news/opinion-trump-wants-supreme-court-110028479.html
BALTIMORE SUN
— Trump to award Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom on what would’ve been his 32nd birthday
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/13/trump-to-award-charlie-kirk-medal-of-freedom-on-what-wouldve-been-his-32nd-birthday/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Furloughed Federal Workers Turn to Side Hustles to Survive Shutdown. Gig jobs for Lyft and others are helping employees across the government stay afloat until paychecks resume. DD: Federal employees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid. Since September of 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, no one has had any sympathy for my losing 56% of my annual income. In today’s dollars a loss of $86,371/year ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension. They have always stressed my wife’s income, our not having any dependents, our being debt-free, our retirement and other savings, the federal government paying 72% of our health insurance, our home in Wheaton, our cars, etc.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/federal-worker-side-hustles-government-shutdown-bd55612c
CEO TODAY
— DD: For Democrats, government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all government employees are Democrats. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who would take the job. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and an earning a job-related bachelor’s degree. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning a job-related master’s degree and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2025/10/trump-federal-purge-washington-civil-service-collapse-2025/
FED SMITH
— Going for Broke? This Shutdown is Different, May Last Longer and Reshape the Federal Government.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/10/13/shutdown-is-different-may-last-longer-and-reshape-federal-government/
PBS
— Some Indigenous Peoples Day events strike conciliatory tone as Trump focuses on Columbus
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/some-indigenous-peoples-day-events-strike-conciliatory-tone-as-trump-focuses-on-columbus
ATLANTIC
— Trump’s Costly Cuts to the Civil Service. The administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce. DD: Needless-to-say, I have never been viewed as being one of the best and the brightest federal employees. My critics/opponents stress the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me. They stress that my IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 even though I earned an MBA and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. They stress that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 even though I earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, became a licensed CPA, earned four more job-related professional certifications, and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/worst-way-cut-government-spending/684478/
October 12, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders: What to know about National Guard deployments in other cities after plans stalled in Chicago.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-know-national-guard-deployments-memphis-other-cities-trumps-plans-stalled-chicago-portland/17993154/
FOX32
— Trump plans whirlwind trip to Israel, Egypt before rushing back for Charlie Kirk honor
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-israel-egypt-trip-gaza-peace-deal
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/pritzker-vance-national-guard-illinois/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/ice-fears-chicago-school-districts/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/gov-jb-pritzker-national-guard-trump-levers-of-power/
— Vance warns ‘deeper’ cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/jd-vance-federal-workers-shutdown/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Feds deploy tear gas in Albany Park
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/12/ice-chicago-albany-park-tear-gas
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County looks to regulate short-term rental properties with annual fee, inspection
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251012/news/dupage-county-looks-to-regulate-short-term-rental-properties-with-annual-fee-inspection/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders get 400 in Rogers Park to protest ICE
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/400-rogers-park-neighbors-rally-after-ice-arrests-4-including-tamale-vendor/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
TED DABROWSKI
— Celebrate Columbus Day, reject those who try to divide us
https://mailchi.mp/tedforillinois/colombusday-323?e=c4ad197eda
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Lakewood Plans Affordable Housing Near Intersection of Routes 47 and 176 In Woodstock School District 200
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/12/lakewood-plans-affordable-housing-near-intersection-of-routes-47-and-176-in-woodstock-school-district-200/
— Armed Alleged Antifa Northeastern Illinois Professor Arrested, Homeland Security Press Release That Won’t End Up in the Mainstream Media
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/11/armed-alleged-antifa-professor-arrested/
— A New Finding Concerning Chicago’s Depopulation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/12/a-new-finding-concerning-chicagos-depopulation/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Federal Officials: WGN Producer Arrested for Assaulting ICE Agents, Not for Reporting
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/federal-officials-wgn-producer-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-ice-agents-not-for-reporting.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Vance criticizes Pritzker over Chicago violence
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/12/jd-vance-vice-president-criticizes-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-chicago/
— Neither side flinches as shutdown pain intensifies, thousands of federal workers lose their jobs
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/12/neither-side-flinches-shutdown-pain-intensifies-thousands-federal/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker says Trump can’t invoke Insurrection Act unless there is ‘rebellion’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3847381/pritzker-trump-insurrection-act-rebellion/
— Europe continues to guzzle Russian gas
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3846371/europe-continues-guzzle-russian-gas/
NEW YORK POST
— Spoiled leftists despise Columbus Day— but what they really hate is America
https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/opinion/spoiled-leftists-despise-columbus-but-really-just-hate-america/
— Illinois State Police CONFRONT Aggressive Anti-ICE Protesters in Broadview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbHZgrAfz-c
BLAZE
— PBS tries to destroy notion of black 2-parent households
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/fearless-with-jason-whitlock/black-family
BREITBART
— Illinois State Police Arrest Unlawful Anti-ICE Protesters in Broadview
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/12/illinois-state-police-arrest-unlawful-anti-ice-protesters/
DAILY CALLER
— Corporate Fact Checkers Keep Ignoring Key Facts When Denying Dems Want To Give Illegals Free Healthcare
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/12/fact-checkers-wrong-on-migrant-healthcare/
EPOCH TIMES
— The Death of Personal Responsibility. DD: My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-death-of-personal-responsibility-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-freedom-5917141
FOX NEWS
— Blagojevich: Pritzker ‘doesn’t care’ that citizens are ‘less safe’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382637847112
— IL leadership’s refusal to accept help from Trump admin is out of ‘hatred of the President’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382658981112
JOHNATHAN TURLEY
— Princeton Joins Move Back to Standardized Testing. DD: How has standardized testing impacted you? UIC would not have accepted me in 1966 if I had not gotten an ACT score of 24 and graduated in the upper 20% of my class. The Post Office would not have hired me in 1966 if I had not passed the postal employment examination and earned a high school diploma. Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU. IRS would not have hired me in 1971 if I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination. GAO would not have hired me in 1980 if I had not earned an MBA from Loyola and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/10/12/princeton-joins-move-back-to-standardized-testing/
NEWSMAX
— Vance: Pritzker Should Pay for Chicago’s Failures
https://www.newsmax.com/us/jd-vance-jb-pritzker-chicago/2025/10/12/id/1230041/
PJ MEDIA
— Democrats Are Quietly Pulling the Plug on Free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants. DD: For me since 1966, and for my wife and I since 1978, the federal government paying 72% of our healthcare insurance helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors to get rid of me.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/12/democrats-are-quietly-pulling-the-plug-on-free-healthcare-for-illegal-immigrants-n4944764
TOWNHALL
— Leftist Social Media Is a Cesspool, but One We Must Be Keenly Aware About
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/12/sun-vip-reddit-wants-to-kidnap-gop-kids-and-reeducate-them-n2664750
TPUSA
— DHS Purchases Chicago Buildings to Support Operations
https://tpusa.com/live/dhs-purchases-chicago-buildings-to-support-operations/
— University of Chicago Condemns Violence After Professor Charged in Anti-ICE Riot
https://tpusa.com/live/university-of-chicago-condemns-violence-after-professor-charged-in-anti-ice-riot/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5551298-no-kings-protests-what-to-know/
CNN
— Protesters clash with police outside Broadview ICE facility
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/us/video/protesters-clash-police-broadview-vrtc
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/us/video/protest-clash-broadview-ice-digvid
NEWS NATION
— At least 15 arrested during protests at Broadview ICE facility
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/at-least-15-arrested-protests-broadview-ice-facility/
NBC NEWS
— Vance says Trump is ‘looking at all his options’ as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/vance-trump-options-invoke-insurrection-act-national-guard-rcna237060
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/opinion/mensa-ice-raids-chicago-black-citizens.html
TEXAS TRIBUNE
— Texas GOP censures five lawmakers. DD: I should write about the following who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform: a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/11/texas-gop-srec-censure/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under the Texas GOP’s censure rule, lawmakers can be reprimanded for working against the state party’s legislative priorities or the broader principles outlined in the party platform and preamble.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Where Have All the Young Home Buyers Gone? Check the Stock Market. The rent vs. buy debate has taken on new meaning for Gen Z thanks to soaring share prices and more investment options.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/where-have-all-the-young-home-buyers-gone-check-the-stock-market-e79f89ad
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
TIMES OF INDIA
— ICE Broadview Facility Attacked; Dramatic Fighting
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/ice-broadview-facility-attacked-dramatic-fighting-near-chicago-fed-agents-vs-anti-trump-mob/videoshow/124496930.cms
SKY NEWS
— Immigration without assimilation labelled ‘reckless beyond belief’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Their slow assimilation held them back. All my grandparents spoke German. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1zIhHHpO8
October 11, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Appeals court upholds ruling blocking Trump admin. from deploying National Guard in Illinois. DD: Democrat leaders and their criminals and their illegals are overjoyed.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/protest-chicago-area-broadview-ice-facility-faith-march-expected-saturday-trump-admin-appeals-national-guard-ruling/17985076/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Meanwhile, another federal judge ruled the metal fence outside the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility must come down by early next week. On Saturday morning, faith leaders marched to the facility. At 10 a.m. Saturday, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said one person has been arrested near the facility. They are charged with Criminal Damage to Government Property. The Department of Justice says the National Guard is needed to protect federal officers from violent attacks and called Judge April Perry’s move to grant the temporary restraining order “extraordinary.”)
WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their Saturday October 18 NO KINGS protests
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/what-to-know-about-upcoming-no-kings-protests/
— Chicago city leaders hand out ‘ICE-free zone’ signs to local businesses, residents
https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/chicago-city-leaders-hand-out-ice-free-zone-signs/
FOX32
— Sweeping layoffs ‘have begun’ as government shutdown drags on. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, GAO shrank from over 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees because of Gingrich-led budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious. They took their fury out on me.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/sweeping-layoffs-have-begun-government-shutdown-drags
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting Hispanic religious leaders to hate Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/procession-to-broadview-ice-facility/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at minorities and at women that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/trumps-indictment-letitia-james/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Broadview’s mayor.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/refusing-position-of-fear-broadviews-mayor-deals-with-ice-and-a-national-spotlight/
— Civic leaders: State lawmakers should reject massive pension benefit sweetener. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, condemned my Civil Service Retirement System pension and my and my wife’s 72% federal health insurance subsidy as being much too generous. My critics/opponents either a) would never stoop to take a federal job and/or b) failed/refused to qualify themselves for federal jobs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/opinion-illinois-pension-benefit-bill/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Democrats call for investigation of Chicago ICE raids. After a chaotic month of federal immigration enforcement in the Chicago area, Democratic leaders asked top federal watchdogs to review actions by the Department of Homeland Security.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/ice-investigation-chicago-illinois-congressional-democrats-robin-kelly
— Democrat leaders crow that “National Guard deployment still blocked in Illinois after federal appeals court steps in Saturday.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/10/trump-asks-appeals-court-to-intervene-after-judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-illinois
— Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility. Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting Hispanic religious leaders to hate Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/11/broadview-detention-immigration-enforcement-ice-religious-leaders-communion-fence-protests
NPR ILLINOIS
— India is forcibly deporting Muslims, including its own citizens, after Kashmir violence
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-11/india-is-forcibly-deporting-muslims-including-its-own-citizens-after-kashmir-violence
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Pritzker Reports From ‘War-Torn Chicago’ On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The Illinois governor said, “there is no hellscape I’d rather be in” during a Kimmel segment mocking Trump’s latest attacks on Chicago. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly downplay crime in Chicago.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/10/jb-pritzker-reports-from-war-torn-chicago-on-jimmy-kimmel/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois has among highest-paid state employees
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_347479b5-0797-49b2-b45f-04cbd2d28423.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Armed Alleged Antifa Northeastern Illinois Professor Arrested, Homeland Security Press Release
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/11/armed-alleged-antifa-professor-arrested/
— Why the Property Tax Will Not Be Abolished
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/11/why-the-property-tax-will-not-be-abolished/
— Huntley Police Reports Twelve Months of Enhanced Enforcement Results
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/10/huntley-police-reports-twelve-months-of-enhanced-enforcement-results/
— Best Parade in the County in Marengo Sunday at 2PM
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/10/best-parade-in-the-county-in-marengo-sunday-at-2pm/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The deadly danger of marijuana legalization
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/10/deadly-danger-marijuana-legalization/
— DHS reveals grand plan for border: 1,422 miles of wall along Mexico boundary. The $4.5 billion in new contracts issued in September covers 10 projects.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/10/dhs-reveals-grand-plan-border-1422-miles-wall-along-mexico-boundary/
BLAZE
— From West Point to Woke Point: The long march through the ranks
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/from-west-point-to-woke-point-the-long-march-through-the-ranks
FOX NEWS
— Blagojevich says Chicago crime issues are ‘life or death,’ Democrats need new leadership, and gives his thoughts on how to handle crime in Chicago.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382599395112
— One month after Charlie Kirk’s murder, key questions remain unanswered
https://www.foxnews.com/us/one-month-after-charlie-kirks-murder-key-questions-remain-unanswered
— Leftist club smears Charlie Kirk on campus flyers spotted ahead of their event honoring George Floyd instead
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/leftist-club-smears-charlie-kirk-campus-flyers-spotted-ahead-event-honoring-george-floyd
— Charlie Kirk’s friends debunk out-of-context clips about slain conservative icon
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirk-friends-feel-moral-120015873.html
— Erika Kirk posts tribute to Charlie Kirk one month after his assassination
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382593867112
— Steak ‘n Shake’s giant flag initiative meets growing appetite for patriotic displays. Flags will be ‘tallest and biggest’ that local governments allow, Steak ‘n Shake says, even as some object. DD: I displayed an 18′ X 12’ – foot American flag in my first and second Iron Gate Motor Condo units in Naperville, but not in my third unit because of lack of wall space.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/steak-n-shakes-giant-flag-initiative-meets-growing-appetite-patriotic-displays
— Democrats are ‘afraid of the far-Left’ amid government shutdown
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382626469112
NEWSMAX
— Blagojevich: Senators ‘Pandering for Cameras’ With ICE Protest
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rod-blagojevich-dick-durbin-tammy-duckworth/2025/10/11/id/1229951/
REAL CLEAR HEALTH
— Free Healthcare for Illegals Would End America
https://www.realclearhealth.com/2025/10/11/free_healthcare_for_illegals_would_end_america_1140408.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrat candidates and b) to defeat Republican candidates.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5549251-gop-trump-media-challenge/
REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/chicago-ice-raids-national-guard-troops-prompt-new-school-leaflets-know-your-2025-10-10/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote poverty and crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/opinion/ice-trump-safety-crisis.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/nyregion/schools-immigrant-children-deportation.html
— DD: What have you done that your critics/opponents use to justify their having their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you? I have always promoted conservative principles and the Republican Party platform. I fought the installation of a stoplight hat Harrison and President in Wheaton. I filed lawsuits against them. I brought Fox News Channel on Comcast to Wheaton. I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000. I backed Republican candidates who ran against them. I served as an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer. I served as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman. I promoted Republican participation in Wheaton Independence Day parades. I fought the sale of booze in Wheaton. I stopped video gambling in Wheaton. I stopped the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/trump-letitia-james-comey-revenge.html
DESERET NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/10/11/better-stories-about-immigrants/
KRIS
— Charlie Kirk memorial billboard goes up in Corpus Christi. Local Republican groups fund $5,000 billboard honoring late conservative activist Charlie Kirk on busy Corpus Christi highway. DD: How successful would fundraising be for billboards honoring Kirk in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/charlie-kirk-memorial-billboard-goes-up-in-corpus-christi-to-promote-unity
KTXS
— Trump to award Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom on what would’ve been his 32nd birthday
https://ktxs.com/news/nation-world/trump-to-award-charlie-kirk-medal-of-freedom-on-what-wouldve-been-his-32nd-birthday-political-activist-shot-killed-deadly-shooting-murdered-assassinated-homicide-investigation-fbi-tyler-robinson-guns-turning-point-usa-president-donald-trump
NPR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote poverty and crime and b) protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5567987
BILLBOARD
— Turning Point USA Announces MAGA-Approved Super Bowl Halftime Show to Protest Bad Bunny
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/turning-point-usa-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-1236085982/
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— DD: Socialists side with Democrats
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/11/tecb-o11.html
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters ever-increasingly use Kirk’s assassination to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies
ECONOMIC TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote poverty and crime and b) protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/deploying-troops-would-add-fuel-to-fire-judge-blocks-trump-national-guard-plan-in-illinois/videoshow/124443827.cms
October 10, 2015 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 4 arrested during protests at Broadview ICE facility; DOJ to appeal to National Guard ruling. A judge has ordered the removal of a fence surrounding the Broadview ICE facility by Tuesday night.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/broadview-ice-facility-protest-expected-donald-trump-administration-appeals-judge-april-perrys-chicago-national-guard-ruling/17977464/
— New federal changes to commercial driver’s licenses already impacting CA truck drivers
https://abc7news.com/post/new-us-department-transportation-changes-commercial-drivers-licenses-already-impacting-california-truck/17981185/
— Chicago alderman asks Trump to consider amnesty for undocumented immigrants with clean records. Republican President Reagan in 1986 gave millions opportunity of a lifetime: United States citizenship.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-alderman-ray-lopez-asks-president-donald-trump-consider-amnesty-undocumented-immigrants-clean-records/17980847/
— WGN-TV employee detained by federal agents in Lincoln Square
https://abc7chicago.com/post/wgn-tv-employee-debbie-brockman-detained-border-patrol-agents-lincoln-foster-avenues-square-chicago-video/17980398/
NBC5
— ICE agents detain several people at O’Hare Airport rideshare parking lot
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ice-agents-detain-several-people-at-ohare-airport-rideshare-lot/3836759/
— Trump administration appeals, releases statement on National Guard ruling in Chicago
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-administration-appeals-releases-statement-on-national-guard-ruling-in-chicago/3836585/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/trump-fanning-the-flames-of-unrest-says-chicago-judge-in-ruling-against-deployment/3836366/
— Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility. Durbin said this was the fourth time they’ve requested to tour the facility with no response from ICE officials.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/sens-durbin-and-duckworth-visit-broadview-ice-processing-facility/3836809/
CBS2
— WGN-TV employee arrested by ICE agents in Lincoln Square
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/wgn-tv-employee-arrested-by-ice-agents-in-lincoln-square/
— Women arrested by ICE in front of Chicago elementary school, accused of stalking agents
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/women-arrested-ice-agents-west-side/
FOX32
— Durbin, Duckworth denied access to Broadview ICE facility amid legal disputes
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/durbin-duckworth-denied-access-broadview-ice-facility-amid-legal-disputes
— Trump administration appeals ruling blocking National Guard deployment in Chicago area
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-appeals-ruling-blocking-national-guard-deployment-chicago
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Protesters return to Broadview on Friday after judge temporarily blocks National Guard
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/ice-national-guard-chicago-1011/
— Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/firings-federal-workers-government-shutdown/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251010/dining/the-deployments-create-fear-immigration-crackdown-hurting-restaurant-staffing-reservations/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Feds conduct immigration raid at rideshare lot near O’Hare
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/feds-conduct-immigration-operation-rideshare-lot-near-ohare
DECATUR RADIO
— Teen Alcohol Use Rising To Alarming Rate In Illinois
https://www.decaturradio.com/2025/10/10/teen-alcohol-use-rising-to-alarming-rate-in-illinois/
WTHI TV
— Firings of federal workers underway as shutdown drags on, White House budget chief announces
https://www.wthitv.com/news/firings-of-federal-workers-underway-as-shutdown-drags-on-white-house-budget-chief-announces/article_5b604fd0-2e9d-58ea-8684-4a462de3709f.html
CHICAGO READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicagoreader.com/news/make-it-make-sense/ice-arrests-protests-cook-county/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-401/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DON TRACY
— Statement from Don Tracy on Pritzker-Trump Administration Legal Dispute
https://mailchi.mp/667e0fc2f8ed/statement-from-don-tracy-on-pritzker-trump-administration-legal-dispute?e=bb81f0fe1e
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Biden-Appointed Judge With Soros Ties Blocks National Guard From Chicago as City Remains a Warzone
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/biden-appointed-judge-with-soros-ties-blocks-national-guard-from-chicago-as-city-remains-a-warzone.html
— The World Owes Trump an Apology — and the Media Owes America the Truth
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/the-world-owes-trump-an-apology-and-the-media-owes-america-the-truth.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Trump’s doctor touts president’s ‘exceptional health’ after undergoing ‘semiannual physical’
https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/us-news/trumps-doctor-touts-presidents-exceptional-health-after-undergoing-physical/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Party like it’s 1859
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/party_like_it_s_1859.html
— The new asylums
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/the_new_asylums.html
BIZPAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor predictably goes right to the race card after Trump calls for his arrest
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/09/chicago-mayor-predictably-goes-right-to-the-race-card-after-trump-calls-for-his-arrest-1591297/
BREITBART
— Chicago Residents Welcome Border Patrol in Contrast to Leftist Anti-ICE Radicals
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/10/10/watch-chicago-residents-welcome-border-patrol-in-contrast-to-leftist-anti-ice-radicals/amp/
— Illinois Teacher Arrested for Grooming, Sharing Explicit Content with Student
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/10/09/illinois-teacher-arrested-for-grooming-sharing-explicit-content-with-student/
FOX NEWS
— Trump declared in ‘excellent overall health’ by doctor after Walter Reed visit
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declared-excellent-overall-health-doctor-after-walter-reed-visit
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Here’s How Chicago Has Been Putting Illegal Aliens Above American Citizens
https://www.westernjournal.com/chicago-putting-illegal-aliens-american-citizens/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump, 79, has “cardiac age” of 65-year-old, doctor says
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-79-get-second-medical-check-up-this-year-2025-10-10/
WPSD
— National Guard stands down in Illinois while troops patrol in Memphis with local police
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/national-guard-stands-down-in-illinois-while-troops-patrol-in-memphis-with-local-police/article_e64452dd-d66e-4756-8bfb-5b5d68b98d6d.html
FORBES
— Tammy Duckworth And Dick Durbin Hand Out Water To Protesters Outside ICE Facility In Broadview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-D0rwfQus
October 9, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Troops arrive at Broadview ICE facility as federal court to weigh Trump’s National Guard deployment
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-guard-chicago-area-thursday-federal-court-weigh-trumps-deployment-troops-protect-ice-officers-broadview/17970024/
— Hammond city officials shut down ICE staging at police department
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-hammond-indiana-mayor-thomas-mcdermott-jr-says-city-officials-shut-down-staging-police-department-thursday/17971934/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get the Pope a) to not promote personal responsibility, b) to promote dependency on government and charity, and c) to get people to blame their problems on those who have more money than they have.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/vatican-document-news-pope-leo-xiv-condemns-economies-marginalize-poor-wealthy-live-bubble-luxury/17973300/
NBC5
— Federal officials to buy Chicago buildings in immigration enforcement operations. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the purchases indicate the resolve of federal agents to continue immigration enforcement actions.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/federal-officials-to-buy-chicago-buildings-in-immigration-enforcement-operations/3836191/
— Judge orders new guidelines for agent encounters with protesters and press. Just Sara Ellis said the order goes into effect immediately and will be in force for 14 days while arguments in the overall complaint continue.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/judge-orders-new-guidelines-for-agent-encounters-with-protesters-and-press/3836141/
CBS2
— U.S. District Court chief judge says National Guard not needed at Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/u-s-district-court-chief-judge-national-guard-dirksen-federal-building/
FOX32
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly urge the Pope to advance the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pope-meets-chicago-union-leaders-urges-migrant-welcome-crackdown
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Federal judge blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/09/trump-national-guard-restraining-order/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly urge the Pope to advance the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/09/pope-leo-chicago-union-migrant/
— Will County puts off immigration resolution vote as leaders seek compromise
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/09/will-county-immigration-resolution-delay/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their criminals and their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/09/immigrant-crime-donald-trump-deportation-campaign-chicago-national-guard
— Bally’s warns video gambling in Chicago would cost the city $74M in yearly revenue and up to 1,050 jobs
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/10/09/ballys-casino-anthony-beale-video-gambling-proposal-chicago-lost-revenue
DAILY HERALD
— Security increased around National Guard base in Elwood as activity draws public’s attention
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251009/news/security-increased-around-national-guard-base-in-elwood-as-activity-draws-publics-attention/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251009/news/community-leaders-in-speak-out-on-ice-activity-in-will-county/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Trump puts America first even if that harms his personal finances.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/trumps-chicago-crackdown-hurts-business-chipparoni
WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pat Brady against Trump.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-i-dont-know-what-the-end-game-is/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— Iowa Gov. Reynolds orders E-Verify checks for state hires, licenses
https://qctimes.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_954518ec-03a5-42fa-bb04-f00d8074b419.html
RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth, Durbin Join Schatz, Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Protect Federal Workers and Their Families During Shutdown. New legislation aims to shield federal employees from eviction, defaults amid ongoing government shutdown. DD: So far, in today’s dollars, my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 has cost me $86,371/year or $2.9 million. That is, $153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension. To paint my wife and I as being filthy rich, my Democrat GAO superiors stressed my wife’s income, that we had no dependents, that we had no debts, that had retirement savings, that we owned a 13-year-old home in Wheaton, that we owned a 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, 1990 Thunderbird LX, 1972 Corvette, 1968 Dodge Charger R/T, and 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-durbin-join-schatz-colleagues-in-introducing-legislation-to-protect-federal-workers-and-their-families-during-shutdown-87063.cfm?
WQAD
— Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signs executive order requiring state departments to use E-Verify
https://www.wqad.com/video/news/politics/iowa-politics/kim-reynolds-signs-executive-order-requiring-state-departments-to-use-e-verify/526-b3dbb4fb-2f48-43fa-8aad-5f2630c3005c
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more mass/illegal immigration. To promote mass/illegal immigration is to destroy the world.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-09/pope-leo-says-faith-and-love-for-migrants-are-connected
AXIOS CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly create more poverty and crime.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/10/09/trumps-chicago-jail-pritzker-johnson-illinois-ice-police-agents
CAPITOL FAX
— Mendrick: ‘These ICE raids are JB Pritzker’s raids’
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/09/mendrick-these-ice-raids-are-jb-pritzkers-raids/
— Feds handed third court loss in a row
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/09/feds-handed-third-court-loss-in-a-row/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-400/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Federal judge grants Illinois restraining order against Trump for Guard deployment
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f3859f5a-bd8d-4710-8ac2-a49725120b69.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Congressman Mike Bost’s Suit against Accepting Ballots after Election Day – Transcript Linked
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/09/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-congressman-mike-bosts-suit-against-accepting-ballots-after-election-day/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Without reforms, pension insolvency will eat Chicago alive
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/without-reforms-pension-insolvency-will-eat-chicago-alive/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Judiciary chairman says impeachment is ‘on the table’ for anti-Trump judges
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/9/jim-jordan-judiciary-chairman-says-impeachment-table-anti-trump/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DHS eyeing buildings in Chicago and Portland for immigration operations
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3844754/dhs-eyeing-buildings-chicago-portland-immigration-operations/
— Chicago has no sovereign right to its own immigration policy
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3842691/chicago-no-sovereign-right-immigration-policy/
— Donald Trump Jr. swears off ‘RINO network’ Fox News
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/entertainment/3841171/donald-trump-jr-rino-network-fox-news/
NEW YORK POST
— Turning Point USA to air its own ‘All American’ Super Bowl LX halftime show to compete with NFL’s Bad Bunny
https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/turning-point-usa-to-air-its-own-all-american-super-bowl-lx-halftime-show-to-compete-with-nfls-bad-bunny/
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE
— Shutdown Costs Americans Jobs, Services, and Economic Security
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/shutdown-costs-americans-jobs-services-and-economic-security
BREITBART
— Confederate Mayor Brandon Johnson Won’t Say He’d Deport Someone Who Raped His Wife
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/09/nolte-confederate-mayor-brandon-johnson-wont-say-hed-deport-illegal-if-wife-raped/amp/
FEDERALIST
— Democrats Rebelling Against Trump Resurrect Confederate Talking Points
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/09/dems-rebelling-against-trump-resurrect-confederate-talking-points/
— Democrats Are Holding The Government Hostage To Get Taxpayer-Funded Health Care For Illegals
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/09/democrats-are-holding-the-government-hostage-to-get-taxpayer-funded-health-care-for-illegals/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— America’s Adversaries are Exploiting U.S. Immigration Policies
https://www.fairus.org/two-new-fair-reports-expose-how-americas-adversaries-are-exploiting-us-immigration-policies
FOX NEWS
— ‘Pritzker is a joke’: Texas Gov. Abbott mocks sanctuary governor for opposing National Guard troops. Texas National Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Tuesday, tasked with protecting federal personnel and property amid anti-immigration protests
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-joke-texas-gov-abbott-mocks-sanctuary-governor-opposing-national-guard-troops
— ‘Operation Midway Blitz’: Inside DOJ’s push to tackle crime, illegal immigration in Chicago. FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche visit field office during massive immigration operation.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/operation-midway-blitz-inside-dojs-push-tackle-crime-illegal-immigration-chicago
–DD: Trump is fighting big problems that Democrats created.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-tammy-duckworth-trumps-domestic-troop-deployments-betray-military-nation
HOMELAND SECURITY TODAY
— ICE and Oklahoma Highway Patrol Arrests 91 Illegal Aliens Driving 18-Wheelers in I-40 Operation
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/border-security/ice-and-oklahoma-highway-patrol-arrests-91-illegal-aliens-driving-18-wheelers-in-i-40-operation/
ISSUES & INSIGHTS
— Democrats, Call Off Your Animals
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/10/08/democrats-call-off-your-animals/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The GOP Is Letting Democrats Win the Shutdown
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-gop-is-letting-democrats-win-the-shutdown/
NEWSMAX
— Federal Judge: Chicago’s Warrantless ICE Arrests Unlawful
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-ice-dhs/2025/10/09/id/1229686/
— GOP Govs Must Back Trump on Census, Redistricting
https://www.newsmax.com/us/david-bossie-gop-governors/2025/10/08/id/1229536/
ZERO HEDGE
— Democrat Claims Trump Crime Crackdown Is “The Very Same Thing” As The Rise Of Third Reich
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-claims-trump-crime-crackdown-very-same-thing-rise-third-reich
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— GOP senators urge RFK Jr. to crack down on medication abortion
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5548128-gop-senators-rfk-jr-medication-abortion/
MSN
— The 20 best conservative places to live in the US. DD: Buyer beware. Republicans create prosperity and safety. Democrats create poverty and crime. When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-20-best-conservative-places-to-live-in-the-us-according-to-data/ss-AA1O6vC4
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— ICE to Expand Footprint in Chicagoland, Homeland Secretary Noem Pledges. Illinois Gov. Pritzker says feds ‘just looking for ways to provoke people.’
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-to-expand-footprint-in-chicagoland-homeland-secretary-noem-pledges-c057b08b
POLITICO
— Illinois judge blocks federal authorities from using force against Chicago journalists
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/chicago-journalists-ice-lawsuit-00600209
October 8, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Texas National Guard troops expected to deploy to Broadview ICE facility Wednesday evening. Trump says Johnson, Pritzker ‘should be in jail’ for ‘failing to protect’ ICE officers
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-national-guard-chicago-area-troops-arrive-elwood-illinois-protests-expected-city-wednesday/17962765/
— Federal workers, local leaders hold rally downtown Chicago as government shutdown continues
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-workers-chicago-area-union-political-leaders-hold-rally-downtown-loop-government-shutdown-continues/17966499/
— IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as the government shutdown enters a second week
https://abc7chicago.com/post/irs-will-furlough-half-workforce-government-shutdown-enters-second-week/17965825/
— How furloughed government workers plan to weather shutdown. Roughly 750,000 federal workers have been furloughed.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/how-furloughed-government-workers-plan-weather-shutdown/17963562/
CBS2
— 500 National Guard troops arrive in Chicago area amid legal battle over deployment
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/texas-national-guard-members-deploy-chicago-area/
— Furloughed federal workers in Chicago rally against Trump’s threat of no back pay when government shutdown ends
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-furloughed-federal-workers-rally-against-trumps-threat-of-no-back/
— Pope Leo urges U.S. bishops to speak about Trump’s immigration crackdown after being shown migrants’ letters. DD: Those who want to destroy America promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-leo-trump-immigration-crackdown-migrant-letters/
— Federal judge further limits ICE ability to arrest without warrants, probable cause
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/consent-decree-ruling-ice-arrest-no-warrant-chicago/
WGN9
— Charges dismissed against 3 arrested during protest at Broadview ICE facility
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/charges-dismissed-against-3-arrested-during-protest-at-broadview-ice-facility/
FOX32
— ‘Come and get me’: Pritzker responds to Trump saying he should be in jail
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1720910
WBEZ
— Federal workers in Chicago ‘emotionally exhausted’ from government shutdown, year of uncertainty
https://www.wbez.org/work/2025/10/08/federal-workers-in-chicago-emotionally-exhausted-from-government-shutdown-year-of-uncertainty
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders seek to limit immigration enforcement in Will County
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/will-county-board-immigration-enforcement/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker responds to Trump threat to jail him, mayor over ICE: ‘Come and get me’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/08/jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson-donald-trump-truth-social-jail-threat
— Texas National Guard expected to be deployed in Chicago area tonight. The troops will be deployed Wednesday evening to the Broadview ICE facility.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/08/texas-national-guard-broadview-illinois
— U.S. Supreme Court hears Rep. Mike Bost’s case tied to Illinois mail voting law. Conservative justices signaled their openness to allowing the downstate congressman’s challenge to proceed against the state’s mail balloting law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/10/08/supreme-court-mail-ballot-illinois-challenge
DAILY HERALD
— It was business as usual Wednesday at O’Hare International Airport, but concerns remain about a repeat of the Federal Aviation Administration’s ground delay issued Tuesday evening. Problems have erupted at a number of airports across the U.S. amid the government shutdown and a slight increase in sick calls from air traffic controllers, authorities said.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251008/transportation/the-situation-appears-to-be-deteriorating-ohare-is-back-to-normal-but-for-how-long-amid-shutdown/
WCIA
— IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as the government shutdown enters a second week
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-irs-to-furlough-nearly-half-of-its-workforce-as-shutdown-enters-second-week/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-399/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump is conservative. As Trump has more conservative successes, if you are conservative, anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly anti-conservatives will ignore you, dismiss you, belittle you, badmouth you, isolate you, ostracize you, marginalize you, blacklist you, cancel you, demonize you, denigrate you, condemn you, punish you. and get rid of you. It is called displaced aggression. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster that anti-conservatives will get rid of you. In addition to being conservative, Trump is Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago mayor says businesses must pay, wants progressive revenue from state
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2c6e4257-6492-49d9-80ad-24aadbbea27e.html
TED DABROWSKI
— Lt. Gov. Candidate Mendoza Calls Pritzker’s False Nazi Comparisons Disqualifying
https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?e=c4ad197eda&u=fa4b4d821c51392600207140c&id=8adbd47aa6
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— McHenry County GOP Rift: Move to Oust MAGA Committeewoman Draws Comparisons to Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un-Style Censorship. DD: I should write about how the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have treated me since 1999.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/mchenry-county-gop-rift-move-to-oust-maga-committeewoman-draws-comparisons-to-xi-jinping-and-kim-jong-un-style-censorship.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In McHenry County, a storm is brewing inside the Republican Party – not against Democrats, but against one of its own. Jacqueline Garretson, a proud precinct committeewoman, conservative activist, and unapologetic supporter of President Donald Trump, is under attack from within her own ranks. Garretson has dedicated years of service to expanding the conservative movement in Illinois. She volunteers tirelessly – knocking on doors, organizing events, and raising funds to elect Republicans who actually stand for Republican values. She has become a trusted voice for the grassroots, a leader unafraid to challenge corruption or cowardice — no matter which side of the aisle it comes from. But that honesty has made her a target. Now, RINOs inside the McHenry Township Republican Organization are reportedly moving to remove Garretson from her elected position as precinct committeewoman. Her so-called “offense?” Speaking truth and calling out fake Republicans who use the GOP label but push Democrat-lite policies once in power. This isn’t just an attack on one woman – it’s an attack on the entire grassroots conservative movement. Garretson’s fight mirrors a broader pattern happening across Illinois, where establishment insiders have tried to muzzle anyone who dares to question their grip on power. Illinois Republican leaders have even attempted to silence Illinois Review – the largest conservative news publication in the state, known for exposing corruption, holding politicians accountable, and giving a voice to the forgotten Republican base. Illinois Review has been shared by President Donald Trump himself on Truth Social – a testament to its reach and credibility among real conservatives. Yet instead of embracing this powerful platform, party insiders tried to shut it down, block it from events, and cut off communication – all because it refused to play along with their backroom politics. This type of censorship is something Americans expect from dictators like Vladimir Putin, Nicolas Maduro, Kim Jong-Un, and Xi Jinping – not from Republican leaders in the Land of Lincoln. In those regimes, anyone who challenges authority is silenced, punished, and jailed. Now, that same authoritarian mindset is creeping into the Illinois GOP. The move to remove Garretson – and to silence Illinois Review – is nothing short of an assault on the First Amendment. It sends a chilling message: if you speak out, if you expose hypocrisy, if you stand with President Trump and the MAGA movement, you’ll be targeted. Grassroots conservatives in McHenry County see what’s happening, and they’re not fooled. They know that Garretson’s real “crime” is refusing to bow to establishment pressure. They know she represents a new generation of Republicans – bold, patriotic, and fiercely loyal to America First values. If the McHenry Township Republican Organization follows through with its plan to remove her, it won’t just be ousting a precinct leader – it will be signaling to every patriot in Illinois that free speech and conservative conviction are no longer welcome. But history has shown that attempts to silence the truth only make it louder. Just ask Donald Trump.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Uncle Sam ends fiscal year 2025 $1.8 trillion in the red
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/8/uncle-sam-ends-fiscal-year-2025-18-trillion-red/
— America’s children are getting dumber
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/8/americas-children-getting-dumber/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats’ blue-state failures are becoming a political problem
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3821729/democrats-blue-state-failures-political-problem/
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE
— The Radical Left’s Shutdown Puts Americans Last, Illegals First
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/the-radical-lefts-shutdown-puts-americans-last-illegals-first
BREITBART
— 2.2 Million Decline in Foreign Population Thanks to Record Low Illegal Immigration and Migrants Returning Home
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/08/golden-age-2-2-million-decline-foreign-population-thanks-to-record-low-illegal-immigration-migrants-returning-home/
DAILY SIGNAL
— White House Memo Exposes Democrats’ History of Pushing Health Care for Illegals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/08/exclusive-white-house-memo-exposes-democrats-history-expanding-health-care-illegals/
FOX NEWS
— Trump calls Chicago mayor and Illinois governor ‘grossly incompetent’ in new White House video
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor-grossly-incompetent-new-white-house-video
— DHS fact-checks Pritzker’s claims about ICE as Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382290226112
— Pritzker hurls ‘dementia’ claim at Trump amid National Guard feud despite defending Biden’s mental fitness. Illinois governor previously defended Biden’s mental fitness after special counsel report.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-hurls-dementia-claim-trump-amid-national-guard-feud-despite-defending-bidens-mental-fitness
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Ending Affirmative Action Will Take More Than Supreme Court Decisions
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/ending-affirmative-action-will-take-more-than-supreme-court-decisions/
NEWSMAX
— US Bishops Say Pope Urging Them to Speak Up for Illegals. DD: Those who want to destroy America promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/pope-catholic-church/2025/10/08/id/1229449/
— Chicago Mayor Should Be Jailed for Not Protecting ICE Agents
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rudy-giuliani-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson/2025/10/07/id/1229431/
PATRIOT POST
— Chicago Mayor Hoping His ICE-Free Zones Work Better Than His Gun-Free Zones
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/121552-chicago-mayor-hoping-his-ice-free-zones-work-better-than-his-gun-free-zones-2025-10-08
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: Illinois is “One Step Short of Insurrection” Simply to Advance Pritzker’s Career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo2YenOQZJo
TOWNHALL
— Don’t Believe Google’s Claim That It’s Done Blacklisting Conservatives
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryschilling/2025/10/08/dont-believe-googles-claim-that-its-done-blacklisting-conservatives-n2664599
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Pritzker Has Had it With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump. The Illinois governor, a potential presidential candidate, is fighting the presence of National Guard troops and the activities of ICE agents in Chicago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/pritzker-trump-national-guard-chicago.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court seems ready to revive GOP challenge to Illinois mail-in ballot law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/08/supreme-court-mail-ballots-republican-elections-trump/c559219c-a47d-11f0-a79e-ccb5b1f59130_story.html
TEXAS TRIBUNE
— Texas GOP to consider blocking lawmakers from 2026 primary ballot in first test of new censure rule
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/08/texas-republican-party-censures-rule-44-primary-ballot/
https://myparistexas.com/texas-gop-to-consider-blocking-lawmakers-from-2026-primary-ballot-in-first-test-of-new-censure-rule/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican Party of Texas’ governing board is set to meet in the state Capitol on Saturday to consider censuring state representatives who party leaders deem insufficiently conservative to bear the GOP brand, potentially banning them from the 2026 Republican primary ballot. The tribunal will be the first of its kind, a daylong meeting to determine whether 10 Texas House Republicans tried to thwart GOP priorities during the Legislature’s 140-day session earlier this year. Although many Republicans lauded the 2025 session as the most conservative ever, some party activists believe members of House leadership scuttled long-sought GOP priorities and should be barred from the primary ballot under an untested rule adopted at the Texas GOP’s 2024 convention. . .The effort comes after delegates at last year’s convention expanded Rule 44 — the part of the Texas GOP’s rulebook dealing with censures — to bar officials from the primary ballot if they have been censured within the last two years. Lawmakers can be reprimanded for working against the state party’s legislative priorities or the broader principles outlined in the party platform and preamble. For members facing censures Saturday, the transgressions include voting for Burrows as speaker and approving this year’s House rules package, which banned Democrats from serving as committee chairs but left them with other means of influence. Activists in the party initially teased a more sweeping effort to censure the 36 House Republicans who joined with Democrats to elevate Burrows to the speakership in January. But enthusiasm within the party to invoke Rule 44 has waned after the Burrows-led House shepherded numerous conservative bills to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk, and as Abbott and President Donald Trump have thrown their support behind the first-term speaker. Some within the party have argued the infractions don’t merit such a drastic maneuver as denying ballot access, which critics have long framed as an illegal tactic that runs afoul of democratic norms. “Rule 44 is not a campaign strategy, it is not a substitute for the primary,” SREC member Rolando Garcia wrote on social media recently. “It is an extraordinarily penalty intended to be used sparingly on only the most egregious cases.” How Rule 44 came to be In 2023, the divide between the business-oriented establishment and the socially conservative grassroots of the Texas GOP reached a boiling point. However, those tensions had been simmering for years. The Texas GOP first defined Rule 44 at the party’s 2016 convention in Dallas, allowing local party leaders to initiate censures against their elected officials for three violations of the party platform. The language also allowed the state party and local parties to campaign against a censured official.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades. The president and Illinois governor have had a tense relationship their entire political careers.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pritzker-illinois-governor-relationship-9db5ab09
DAILY KOS
— DD: To get more votes from minorities, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that minorities have.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/8/2347596/-This-Is-White-Privilege-at-Its-Most-Dangerous
October 8, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gov-jb-pritzker-says-president-233400557.html
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative haters dominate Illinois. Anticipate/expect that they will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/opinion-fired-social-media-posts-charlie-kirk-cancel-culture/
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/column-charles-selle-banned-booksrevolutionary-act/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Lake County Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/news/great-fear-and-uncertainty-lake-county-leaders-speak-out-against-escalating-ice-operations/
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/editorials/daily-herald-editorial-a-war-of-words-we-need-leaders-to-tone-down-the-rhetoric-before-things-get/
ABC7
— Insurrection Act explained: How 1807 law could be used as Trump deploys National Guard in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-is-insurrection-act-1807-us-president-donald-trump-threatens-law-heres-how-been-used-could-work-2025/17959363/
FOX32
— Trump says Johnson, Pritzker ‘should be in jail’ for not protecting ICE
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-brandon-johnson-pritzker-ice
GO PRIDE CHICAGO
— Protest planned Oct. 8 downtown Chicago as Texas troops enter Illinois
https://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/139873329
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-607/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Confederate Chaos in Chicago
https://johnkassnews.com/confederate-chaos-in-chicago/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Cuban-led caravan en route to Mexico City as Trump policies deter migrants from US
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/world-news/cuban-led-caravan-en-route-to-mexico-city-as-trump-policies-deter-migrants-from-us/
— Parents flex their power with anti-woke ‘Cancel Netflix’ boycott
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/opinion/parents-flex-their-power-with-anti-woke-cancel-netflix-boycott/
AMAC
— HIJACKED: The Radical Left Takeover of the Democrat Party
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/hijacked-the-radical-left-takeover-of-the-democrat-party-amac-magazine-exclusive/
— Charlie Kirk: America Must Choose: MAGA or Mamdani-ism
https://publication.amac.us/view/864872783/8/
— Netflix in Crisis as Subscribers Flee Over Woke Kids Shows
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/netflix-in-crisis-as-subscribers-flee-over-woke-kids-shows/
BLAZE
— 8 things Chicago has done to put illegal immigrants first
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-helping-illegal-aliens-history
BREITBART
— Speaker Johnson Shows What Democrats Are Demanding in Order to Reopen Government: Taxpayer-Funded Illegal Alien Health Care, $1.5 Trillion in Partisan Spending
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/07/speaker-johnson-shows-what-democrats-are-demanding-to-reopen-government-taxpayer-funded-illegal-alien-health-care-1-5-trillion-partisan-spending/
— Democrat Spending Proposal Funds Woke Programs, Upends Trump Executive Order to End Crime, Fix Homeless Crisis
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/07/democrat-spending-proposal-funds-woke-programs-upends-trump-executive-order-to-end-crime-fix-homeless-crisis/
FOX NEWS
— Trump drives the shutdown coverage, but leaderless Democrats have broken through with healthcare message. White House stays above the fray as congressional leadership dukes it out.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-drives-shutdown-coverage-leaderless-democrats-have-broken-through-healthcare-message
— You never see the left fight this hard for Americans
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382230908112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Trump Calls for Chicago Mayor, Illinois Governor to Be Jailed
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-10-08/trump-calls-for-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor-to-be-jailed
ASSOCIAED PRESS
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly side with their criminals and with their illegals against America.
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/national-guard-deployment-portland-chicago-084e526027510d3f7501f475f737bc81
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://apnews.com/article/trinidad-us-military-venezuela-strikes-fishing-fcd24c441f58162b811a24b247334fc5
REUTERS
— Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-threat-invoke-insurrection-act-escalates-showdown-with-democratic-cities-2025-10-07/
CNN
— Trump compares Democrats to ‘insurrectionists’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCZMMIp4IQ
— India has a festival where a Hindu goddess slays a demon. This year the demon is Trump. DD: In WWIII, will India side with China and Russia or with America?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/india/india-hindu-festival-demon-trump-intl-hnk-dst
MSNBC
— DD: Democrat leaders say “Neighbors push back as Trump’s ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs.” Those who run the mainstream news media are Democrat leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dx266qOOic
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Chicago Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/fear-ice-chicago.html
— National Guard Troops Assemble in Chicago Area as Trump Officials Make Visits. Troops from Texas arrived in Illinois and are expected to deploy in the Chicago area on Wednesday, a U.S. military official said. Officials there and in Portland, Ore., are trying to block the deployments in court.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/07/us/trump-national-guard-illinois-texas
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly replace citizens of America with citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-universities.html
— Supreme Court to Consider Illinois Mail-In Balloting Lawsuit. The case, one of several challenges to mail-in ballot rules lodged by allies of President Trump, involves an effort to exclude votes received after Election Day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/supreme-court-mail-ballots-illinois.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— Shutdown Politics Has G.O.P. Singing Government’s Praises. As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/shutdown-republicans-trump-government.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump declares English the official language
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/08/trump-univision-youtube/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration and abortion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/09/16/trump-immigration-14th-amendment-supreme-court/85977588007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: $1.5M is a retirement ‘magic number.’ Here’s how long it lasts in every state. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the deferral government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/10/06/retirement-savings-social-security-florida-arizona/86550681007/
BOSTON HERALD
— Democrats’ dream, America’s nightmare
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/10/08/howie-carr-democrats-dream-americas-nightmare/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Oct. 7 Warning for the U.S. on China. Israel got complacent, thinking war would never come. Are we doing the same with Taiwan?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-oct-7-warning-for-the-u-s-on-china-5a60023a
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— 6 Red Flags That Keep Good Candidates from Getting Hired. DD: From what I see, ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or if you have ancestors who had been in America for a lone time. I should write about that.
https://hbr.org/2025/10/6-red-flags-that-keep-good-candidates-from-getting-hired
INC.
— DD: What did you do that your superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates did not do? Mine did not earn job-related master’s degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license like I did. Instead. they focused on helping their superiors get rid of their employees like me who were conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a lone time. I should write about that. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.inc.com/roy-dekel/stop-caring-about-college-degrees-when-youre-hiring/91249033
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Trump Officials Reportedly Discussing Selling Off Student Loans. DD: If you got a student loan, a) you did not work your way through college, b) your GPA should have been higher, c) you should have gotten a job that required a college degree faster, and d) your pay should have been higher. I did not get a student loan. My GPA was lower because I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying. I did not get a job that required a college degree until 10 months after I graduated and my salary was only $55,850/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/08/trump-officials-reportedly-discussing-selling-student-loans
— DD: For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree (management), b) three job related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), c) six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and d) a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/08/how-trumps-compact-threatens-higher-ed-funding
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— House Republicans advance plan to undermine civil service protections. DD: If you are a federal employee, the more of the following that you are, the fewer protections that you have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/04/house-republicans-advance-plan-cut-federal-worker-benefits-and-undermine-civil-service-protections/404969/
DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that conservatives cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/7/2347210/-Black-Kos-It-doesn-t-have-to-be-Black-History-month-to-learn-and-celebrate-Black-History
AXIOS
— DD: Do you know any past or present federal employees or retirees? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for 28 years. I should write about the attitude that people have toward federal employees and retirees. Overwhelmingly, they believe that federal employees are overpaid, their benefits are too generous, and that federal pensions are too generous. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. My Civil Service Retirement System Pension is $66,780/year.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/government-shutdown-federal-workers
October 7, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Mayor Johnson says ‘Trump declared war on Chicago’ as Texas National Guard troops arrive in suburbs. Questions surround what the National Guard’s role will be in the Chicago area.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-national-guard-patrol-chicago-area-troops-depart-texas-trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act/17956187/
— Chicago anarchist website is targeting ICE agents, facilities
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-anarchist-website-targeting-agents-facilities-law-enforcement-security-bulletins-say/17953253/
— Air traffic staffing shortage hits O’Hare amid government shutdown; delays possible
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-ohare-delays-possible-amid-air-traffic-controller-shortage-government-shutdown-continues/17959136/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/north-suburban-residents-congressman-brad-schneider-speak-escalating-immigration-enforcement-lake-county/17958114/
NBC5
— Ground delay issued at O’Hare Airport due to staffing shortages. A shortage of air traffic controllers also led to delays at airports in Boston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Houston, Chicago and Las Vegas, the FAA said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ground-delay-issued-at-ohare-airport-due-to-staffing-issues/3835020/
— White House looks for a loophole in the law that ensures federal workers get paid after a shutdown. The memo suggests furloughed workers are not entitled to back pay, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/white-house-looks-for-loophole-in-law-ensuring-federal-workers-get-paid-after-a-shutdown/3834851/
— National Guard troops appear to arrive in a Chicago suburb. A spokesperson for an Illinois congresswoman with knowledge of the situation confirmed troops had arrived at the Elwood U.S. Army Reserve, located about 50 miles outside of Chicago.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/national-guard-troops-have-arrived-in-a-chicago-suburb-officials-say/3834871/
CBS2
— Texas National Guard members arrive in Illinois, troops could begin assignments Wednesday
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/texas-national-guard-deploying-not-clear-illinois/
— Broadview mayor signs order limiting protest times outside ICE facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-mayor-executive-order-protest-times-ice-facility/
WGN9
— White House memo argues furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay
https://wgntv.com/news/white-house-memo-argues-furloughed-workers-not-guaranteed-backpay/
FOX32
— University of Chicago professor charged with felonies after ICE protests in Broadview
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/university-chicago-professor-charged-felonies-ice-protests-broadview
WBEZ
— Texas National Guard members arrive at Chicago area military training facility. Military troops arrived at an Elwood training center after weeks of threats from President Donald Trump’s administration, over the objections of local leaders.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/07/national-guard-chicago-texas-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-elwood-will-county
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/national-guard-arrives-chicago-illinois/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson says federal agents who break city law should be charged with crime. DD: Federal law trumps state and local law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/mayor-brandon-johnson-federal-agents-break-city-law-charged-crime/
— Oak Park elected officials stand against ICE after township trustee Juan Munoz detained in Broadview
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/oak-park-officials-stand-against-ice/
— Back of the Yards activists call on shopping plaza to block ICE operations on their property
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/back-of-the-yards-ice-immigration/
— Oak Park vote to protect gender affirming care generates community debate
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/oak-park-gender-affirming-care-discussion/
— Waukegan mayor intercedes in Border Patrol arrest
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/waukegan-mayor-ice-arrest/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Texas National Guard members arrive at Chicago area military training facility. Military troops arrived at an Elwood training center after weeks of threats from President Donald Trump’s administration, over the objections of local leaders.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/07/national-guard-chicago-texas-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-elwood-will-county
— Federal workers in Chicago feeling ‘emotionally exhausted’ from government shutdown. Three workers who spoke with the Sun-Times said they haven’t been furloughed, but they’ve dealt with uncertainties and fragmented coordination since the federal government shut down Oct. 1.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/10/07/federal-workers-in-chicago-feeling-emotionally-exhausted-from-government-shutdown
— Broadview mayor signs executive order setting fixed protest hours outside ICE facility. Broadview mayor signs executive order setting fixed protest hours outside ICE facility. The new protest hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, citing public safety concerns, according to the executive order. Protests have popped up almost daily outside the ICE facility since President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign ramped up last month. DD: Protesters do not pop up, they do what their Democrat leaders tell them to do.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/06/broadview-mayor-signs-executive-order-setting-fixed-protest-hours-outside-ice-facility
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/10/07/expert-says-threats-of-militarization-and-immigration-enforcement-fuel-anxieties
DAILY HERALD
— Texas National Guard troops mobilize in Chicago region
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/nation-and-world-politics/texas-national-guard-troops-mobilize-in-chicago-region/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— U.S. shutdown creates air traffic delays at O’Hare
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/airlines-airports/us-shutdown-creates-air-traffic-delays-chicago
— Trump weighs Insurrection Act as National Guard arrives near Chicago
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-weighs-insurrection-act-troops-reach-chicago
— DD: Chicago business groups (Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and Civic Federation) ever-increasingly fight to protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-biz-groups-push-back-trump-national-guard-plan
— Meet Crain’s 40 Under 40 class of 2025. DD: The list includes Greg Hart. What did you accomplish by the time you were 40? By the time I was 33 in 1982, I had become a licensed CPA, passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, earned an MBA from Loyola, and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/awards/meet-crains-40-under-40-class-2025
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/abortion-will-continue-be-legal-illinois-feigenholtz-op-ed
SOUTHEN
— Air traffic controllers working without pay begin to call out sick, leading to flight cancellations and delays nationwide
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/10/07/air-traffic-controllers-working-without-pay-begin-to-call-out-sick-leading-to-flight-cancellations-and-delays-nationwide/
HERALD WHIG
— Dabrowski encouraged by response of area Republicans to his candidacy
https://www.whig.com/news/elections/dabrowski-encouraged-by-response-of-area-republicans-to-his-candidacy/article_4ba2da5d-7666-4ec4-a9dd-95457da61746.html
COD COURIER
— Political Post Sparks Local Controversy for Glen Ellyn Pizzeria Owner. The owner of Pie Life Pizzeria, Joe Smith, has faced backlash after he made a post following Charlie Kirk’s death, and a Republican organization has called attention to it.
https://codcourier.org/political-post-sparks-local-controversy-for-glen-ellyn-pizzeria-owner/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the post, shared on Smith’s personal Facebook account within 24 hours of Kirk’s death, he wrote, “Play Nazi games, win Nazi prizes.” The comment quickly spread through social media after the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) reposted it. A community member notified the Republican organization of this post, so they reposted a photo of Smith and his original post and wrote, “Everyone meet Joe. Joe owns ‘Pie Life Pizzeria’ on Roosevelt Rd. in Glen Ellyn. Joe has a lot of opinions and loves airing them on social media. Well, we want to make sure Joe gets his message out to the folks of Glen Ellyn so they know what he stands for. The post received dozens of reactions and comments from community members. Some called for others to stop supporting the restaurant, with one user writing, “Making this viral so all can boycott this guy,” and another asking, “So are there any other East Coast-style pizza places near Wheaton that at the very least keep their political opinions to themselves and make good pizza?” Smith has also stated that he has received voicemails leaving fake pizza orders followed by threatening messages. The Republican organization chairman, Jeff Castle, later described Smith’s comment as “extremely inappropriate and disgusting,” saying that any language which appears to justify, excuse or minimize political violence is wholly unacceptable in civil society. “The MTRO believes that community leaders and business owners have a responsibility to uphold higher standards, as their public remarks carry significant influence and reflect upon the values of the communities they serve,” Castle said. However, the group emphasized that it did not call for a boycott of Pie Life Pizzeria but rather wanted to inform.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-398/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
TED DABROWSKI
— Dabrowski/Mendoza Campaign Recognizes October 7th as Jewish Day of Remembrance
https://tedforillinois.com/#news
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Diane Harris Announces Candidacy for Republican Nomination for Secretary of State
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/07/diane-harris-announces-candidacy-for-republican-nomination-for-secretary-of-state/
— Fifteen-Minute Video of the Weekend Protests in Chicago, Complete with Illinois State Police in Action
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/07/fifteen-minute-video-of-the-weekend-protests-in-chicago-complete-with-illinois-state-police-in-action/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republicans label Democrats ‘liars’ amid public safety, shutdown debate
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_92375672-7c91-4ea0-9347-36a56426a5b4.html
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Political Pandering Won’t Heal Chicago’s Black Community DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that conservatives cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/political-pandering-chicago-black-community
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Attorney General Bondi challenges Democrats to let go of ‘hate’ for Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/7/attorney-general-bondi-challenges-democrats-let-go-hate-trump/
— Trump blasts ‘absolutely ridiculous’ Bad Bunny pick for Super Bowl
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/7/trump-blasts-absolutely-ridiculous-bad-bunny-pick-super-bowl/
— Americans, tragically, immorally, are turning against Israel
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/7/americans-tragically-immorally-turning-israel/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson’s Civil War rhetoric is deranged
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3840918/brandon-johnson-civil-war-rhetoric-deranged/
— Trump pushes back decision on federal employee mass firings by ‘four or five days’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3840751/trump-federal-employee-mass-firings-decision-delayed-four-or-five-days/
— The 1619 Project’s fingerprints are all over the Smithsonian’s African American museum
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3839578/1619-project-fingerprints-smithsonian-african-american-museum/
NEW YORK POST
— ICE on track to deport 600K migrants in 2025, 2 million have left: ‘Just the beginning’
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/us-news/trumps-ice-on-track-to-deport-600k-migrants-in-2025-2-million-have-left-the-country-dhs-says/
— Charlie Kirk and George Floyd’s shared day exposes America’s fault lines
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/opinion/charlie-kirk-george-floyds-shared-day-exposes-americas-fault-lines/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Whoopi doles out bizarre tip to help illegals avoid ICE at the Super Bowl
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/07/whoopi-doles-out-bizarre-tip-to-help-illegals-avoid-ice-at-the-super-bowl-1590714/
BREITBART
— Democrats Want ICE Investigated After Agents Arrest Illegal Aliens in Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/07/democrats-want-ice-investigated-after-agents-arrest-illegal-aliens-in-chicago/
COLLEGE FIX
— Black student alliance hosts day-long celebration for cop killer Assata Shakur
https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-student-alliance-hosts-day-long-celebration-for-cop-killer-assata-shakur/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Bondi Clashes With Illinois’ Durbin Over Sending National Guard Troops to Chicago
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/07/bondi-dunks-durbin-discusses-law-enforcement/
EPOCH TIMES
— Link Between Transgenderism and Violence in Spotlight. Shootings by transgender individuals raise concern over convergence of mental illness, medication, and radicalization.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/link-between-transgenderism-and-violence-in-spotlight-5921088
FOX NEWS
— Bondi clashes with Durbin on National Guard deployment: ‘Love Chicago as much as you hate President Trump.’ Illinois’ governor and Chicago’s mayor have sued to block federal troops from being sent to the city.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi-clashes-durbin-national-guard-deployment-love-chicago-much-you-hate-president-trump
— Far-left University of Chicago professor charged with violent felonies during anti-ICE riots in Broadview. Eman Abdelhadi faces two counts of aggravated battery to government employee and resisting arrest charges.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/far-left-university-chicago-professor-charged-violent-felonies-during-anti-ice-riots-broadview
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly equate their illegals with their slaves.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-msnbc-host-joy-reid-claims-illegals-new-n-word-republicans
NEWSMAX
— Portland Unrest Is ‘Pure Insurrection’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/donald-trump-portland-insurrection/2025/10/06/id/1229288/
PJ MEDIA
— Yes, They Are Trying to Replace Us. Let Me Show You Their Plan.
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/10/07/yes-they-are-trying-to-replace-us-let-me-show-you-their-plan-n4944590
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— AG Pam Bondi vs. Illinois Sen. Durbin: “If You’re Not Going To Protect Your Citizens, President Trump Will”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/10/07/ag_pam_bondi_vs_illinois_sen_durbin_.html
— What Would You Call An Organized Campaign Of Violence To Disable A Law Enforcement Agency, Other Than Domestic Terrorism?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/10/07/stephen_miller_what_would_you_call_an_organized_campaign_of_violence_to_disable_a_law_enforcement_agency_other_than_domestic_terrorism.html
REAL CLEAR WIRE
— The Progressive Flight From Reality
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/10/03/the_progressive_flight_from_reality_153363.html
TOWNHALL
— Trump Sent in the Troops – Now the State Is Suing
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/10/06/illinois-chicago-sue-trump-administration-over-national-guard-deployment-n2664527
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker: Some Republicans talking about ‘breaking away’ from Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5542794-pritzker-republicans-breaking-trump/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Pritzker is about as qualified to talk about Republican Party thinking as he is to give fitness advice,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.)