October 20, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses Gov. JB Pritzker and media of ‘trying to demonize’ immigration officers
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/kristi-noem-pritzker-demonizing-immigration-officers/
— Immigration officials tell federal judge aggressive street tactics were response to agents being in danger
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/federal-judge-question-ice-immigration-officials/
— Whistles take over Chicago as the small, inexpensive device becomes popular way to alert of ICE activity
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/whistles-chicago-ice/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Some Mexican immigrants are making plans to leave Chicago before ICE deports them. A workshop that helps Chicago-area immigrants navigate the bureaucracy and the stress of returning to Mexico is in high demand.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/20/some-mexican-immigrants-are-making-plans-to-leave-chicago-before-ice-deports-them

DAILY HERALD
— 3 men accused of planning to impersonate police officers at protests
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251020/crime/3-men-accused-of-planning-to-impersonate-police-officers-at-protests/
— Lake County bans use of its properties for staging areas and other immigration enforcement activities
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251020/news/lake-county-bans-use-of-its-properties-for-staging-areas-and-other-immigration-enforcement-activitie/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Former longtime Illinois GOP leader asking near $7M for lakefront New Buffalo home
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/new-buffalo-lakefront-home-lee-daniels-hits-market

ABC7
— Chicago restaurants hurting as patrons, workers stay home due to immigration enforcement fears
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-news-fears-agents-raids-impacting-restaurants-like-el-mexico-de-belmont-cragin/18046709/

NBC5
— CTU President Stacy Davis Gates tabbed to lead state teachers union. Davis Gates was unanimously elected as the next leader of the Illinois Federation of Teachers.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ctu-president-stacy-davis-gates-tabbed-to-lead-state-teachers-union/3841027/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois House Republican Leader Tony McCombie said the leadership change is “bad news for Illinois students.” McCombie released a statement, saying in part: “Gates is a left-wing radical who runs Local 1 like a corrupt political machine instead of a force for student achievement and educational excellence.”)
— Illinois men conspired to impersonate police during ‘No Kings’ protests. The men allegedly planned to attend multiple protests while impersonating peace officers, according to authorities.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-men-conspired-to-impersonate-police-during-no-kings-protests/3840965/

WGN9
— 3 suburban men charged with impersonating police while heading to political protests
https://wgntv.com/news/dupage-county/3-men-charged-with-impersonating-police/

FOX32
— Students claim Northwestern antisemitism training mandate violates civil rights in lawsuit
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/northwestern-antisemitism-training-lawsuit
— Illinois trio conspired to impersonate law enforcement during ‘No Kings’ protests, prosecutors say
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-trio-conspired-impersonate-law-enforcement-no-kings-protests
— Federal workers stay home as shutdown drags on and both sides dig in
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1726838

WGN RADIO
— Should regular users of marijuana be allowed to own a gun?
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-should-regular-users-of-marijuana-be-allowed-to-own-a-gun/#/questions

WBEZ
— Some Mexican immigrants are making plans to leave Chicago before ICE deports them. A workshop that helps Chicago-area immigrants navigate the bureaucracy and the stress of returning to Mexico is in high demand.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/20/some-mexican-immigrants-are-making-plans-to-leave-chicago-before-ice-deports-them
— University of Illinois Chicago drops race, gender as factors in financial aid and faculty hiring. Some faculty see the changes as “voluntary capitulation” to the Trump administration. UIC leaders say they align with “current legal standards” and new University of Illinois System policy.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/10/20/university-illinois-chicago-drops-race-gender-factors-in-faculty-hiring-financial-aid-scholarships

JOURNAL COURIER
— Arab American history would be required in Illinois schools under proposed bill
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/llinois-arab-american-history-schools-bill-21110023.php

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-406/
— All heck breaks loose on Illinois’ far right after ‘leaked’ document ignites firestorm
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/20/all-heck-breaks-loose-on-illinois-far-right-after-leaked-document-ignites-firestorm/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

DON TRACY
— Democrats Fear Backlash from Far-Left Groups Instead of Opening Government for Service Members, Farmers, and Working Families
https://mailchi.mp/aa7211ba842d/democrats-fear-backlash-from-far-left-groups-instead-of-opening-government-for-service-members-farmers-and-working-families

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Major Donors Pressure Ted Dabrowski to Fire Jeanne Ives After Leak of Opponent’s Internal 2022 Campaign Document
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/major-donors-pressure-ted-dabrowski-to-fire-jeanne-ives-after-leak-of-opponents-internal-2022-campaign-document.html

ILLINOIS GOP
— Brad Schneider Stands with Protestors Calling for Trump’s Assassination
https://illinois.gop/brad-schneider-stands-with-protestors-calling-for-trumps-assassination/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Far too many of my critics/opponents are not merely RINOs, they are Democrat plants. I should write about them. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout and who had their operatives and their dupes a) destroy the Illinois Center Right Coalition, b) destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, and c) take many big adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Chicago Chapter of the Association of Government Accountants is at risk of closure.  I spent a lots time serving as it Treasurer 1983-1986 and as its Membership Director 1986-1996. None of its members came to my defense when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Congressional leaders admit shutdown won’t end anytime soon
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/20/congressional-leaders-admit-shutdown-wont-end-anytime-soon/
— Illinois police department failed miserably with hire of illegal Radule Bojovic. The fox has been allowed into the henhouse.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/20/illinois-police-department-failed-miserably-hire-illegal-radule/
— ‘No Kings’ demonstrations expose the left’s ignorance and hypocrisy. With voters rejecting their policies, Democrats turn to street theater instead of offering solutions.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/20/no-kings-demonstrations-expose-lefts-ignorance-hypocrisy/

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago elementary teacher mocks Charlie Kirk’s assassination with vile gun gesture at No Kings protest
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-news/chicago-elementary-teacher-mocks-charlie-kirks-assassination-at-no-kings-protest/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Selective empathy: When women’s rights are only for the privileged
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/selective_empathy_when_women_s_rights_are_only_for_the_privileged.html

BREITBART
— Trump’s DHS Arrests More than 480,000 Illegals in 9 Months; 7 in 10 Are Criminally Convicted or Charged
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/20/dhs-arrests-more-than-480000-illegals-9-months-7-in-10-are-criminally-convicted-charged/

DAILY SIGNAL
— DHS Closing in on Half-Million Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/20/dhs-closing-half-million-arrests-criminal-illegal-aliens/

FEDERALIST
— Western Culture Isn’t Feminized, It’s Transgender
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/20/western-culture-isnt-feminized-its-transgender/

NEWSMAX
— Newsom Picks New Fight With Trump Over Shutdown
https://www.newsmax.com/us/gov-gavin-newsom-press-releases-trump/2025/10/20/id/1231116/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Whistles Have Become Chicago’s Surprising Act of Protest. Residents angry with immigration crackdown air dissent—and warnings—with devices typically favored by athletic coaches.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/chicago-ice-protests-whistles-14c3968b
— Bible Sales Surged Following Killing of Charlie Kirk. A 36% jump in September, compared with a year earlier, indicates a religious revival for some in the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/bible-sales-surged-following-killing-of-charlie-kirk-7da17aec

October 19, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— George Santos blasts critics in first interview since release from prison
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-ny-rep-george-santos-blasts-critics-first-interview-release-federal-prison/18039315/

NBC5
— Secret Service discovers hunting stand with direct sight line to Trump’s Air Force One exit in Florida. The FBI is now leading an investigation following the discovery near the Palm Beach International Airport.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/secret-service-discovers-hunting-stand-direct-sight-line-trumps-air-force-one-exit-florida/3840619/

CBS2
— 2 federal immigration agents attacked while making arrest in Bolingbrook, Illinois
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/immigration-agents-attacked-bolingbrook-arrest/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Obama Presidential Center promises to be a very un-Chicago building
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/column-barack-obama-presidential-center-chicago-keegan/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blast Hegseth.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/hegseth-pentagon-press-rules-clarence-page/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blast Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/opinion-donald-trump-truth-facts-students/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/17/column-venezuela-argentina-donald-trump-shackelford/
— DD: If you are having trouble getting a good job, Democrat leaders blame Trump. I did the following to get better paying jobs: a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I earned six job-related professional certification, and d) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/americans-job-market-ap-norc-poll/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/19/no-kings-protest-chicago-politics-donald-trump

DAILY HERALD
— ICE agents search for detainee through Mount Prospect neighborhood
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251019/news/ice-agents-search-for-detainee-through-mount-prospect-neighborhood/
— Shutdown impact: What it means for workers, federal programs and the economy. DD: During the 1980s and 1990s, Gingrich used budget cuts to gut GAO. The agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious. They took their fury  out on me. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They flushed down their toilets what I had learned working for IRS for almost 9 years and earning three job related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251018/nation-and-world-politics/shutdown-impact-what-it-means-for-workers-federal-programs-and-the-economy/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The administration is also trying to fire thousands of federal workers in agencies that don’t align with its priorities. Republican leaders in Congress have said that’s part of the fallout from a shutdown. Past presidents, however, did not use shutdowns to engage in mass firings. The Republican administration has announced one reduction in force affecting 4,100 workers, with the biggest cuts happening at the departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, Education and Housing and Urban Development. White House budget chief Russ Vought said in an interview on “The Charlie Kirk Show” that many more are planned. “I think we’ll probably end up being north of 10,000,” Vought said. “We want to be very aggressive where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy,” Vought said. “Not just the funding, but the bureaucracy, that we now have an opportunity to do that.”)

SOUTHERN
— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson defended labeling this weekend’s “No Kings” rallies opposing President Donald Trump as “hate America” rallies, arguing that he was not referring to Democrats themselves but the message of the protesters.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/10/19/johnson-defends-calling-anti-trump-protests-hate-america-rallies/

WAND TV
— Trump calls Colombian President Petro an ‘illegal drug dealer’ and announces an end to US aid to the country
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-calls-colombian-president-petro-an-illegal-drug-dealer-and-announces-an-end-to-us/article_5406e3cc-7fd9-5efe-829c-ab26eac0c7c8.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— We The People, McHenry County, Urges Contact with County Board Members to Remind Them of the Promise to Cut Property Tax Levy in Exchange for Voting for Mental Health Sales Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/19/we-the-people-mchenry-county-urges-contact-with-county-board-members-to-remind-them-of-the-promise-to-cut-property-tax-levy-in-exchange-for-voting-for-mental-health-sales-tax/
— Good Thing I Wasn’t in Pennsylvania in 1955
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/19/good-think-i-wasnt-in-pennsylvania-in-1955/
— New York Post Covers Couple’s Death on Route 14 in Harvard
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/new-york-post-covers-couples-death-on-route-14-in-harvard/
— Don Tracy Reports $2 Million in Bank for U.S. Senate Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/don-tracy-reports-2-million-in-bank-for-u-s-senate-run/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If Trump had been elected earlier, how would that have impacted you? Hopefully for me, if Trump had been President: a) in 1968 and 1969, my Democrat Post Office superiors would not have disallowed my sick leave requests or forced me to resign in 1969, b) in 1971, EEOC would not have forced Oldsmobile to stop hiring Whites to settle a complaint, c) in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have disallowed my travel requests, d) in 1978, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have disallowed my education expenses, e) by in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, f) starting in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would always have assigned me to audits of IRS, g) by 1988, my GAO superiors would have promoted me to their Senior Executive Service, h) by 1997, Gingrich would have reformed GAO instead of gutting it, and i) in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have forced me to retire. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC has always existed to give more preference to Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Ever since I was 22 years old in 1971, EEOC has had a tremendous impact on me. Back then, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted because it had agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Bolingbrook Police Refuse to Arrest Attackers Who Beat Federal Agents
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/bolingbrook-police-refuse-to-arrest-attackers-who-beat-federal-agents.html
— Norine Hammond Betrays Conservatives – Backed Pritzker’s Law Letting Non-Citizens Serve as Police Officers
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/norine-hammond-betrays-conservatives-backed-pritzkers-law-letting-non-citizens-serve-as-police-officers.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Speaker Johnson rips ‘No Kings’ rallies: if Trump were a king, things would be different
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/19/speaker-johnson-rips-no-kings-rallies-trump-king-things-would/
— House Speaker Mike Johnson on Trump’s commutation of Santos’ sentence: ‘We believe in redemption’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/19/mike-johnson-house-speaker-trumps-commutation-santos-sentence-believe/
— How Trump rewrote the government shutdown playbook
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/18/trump-rewrote-government-shutdown-playbook/
— Democrats are driven by rage and resentment. It’s no longer about right and left, but adults and children.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/19/democrats-driven-rage-resentment/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— More evidence marijuana liberalization is a mistake. DD: I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3854932/more-evidence-marijuana-liberalization-a-mistake/

NEW YORK POST
— Secret Service investigating possible sniper’s nest with sight line to Trump Air Force One arrival near Palm Beach airport
https://nypost.com/2025/10/19/us-news/secret-service-investigating-possible-snipers-nest-with-sight-line-to-trump-air-force-one-arrival-near-palm-beach-airport/

BREITBART
— Illinois State University Teaching Assistant Derek Lopez Arrested for Destroying Turning Point USA Display
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/10/19/police-illinois-state-u-teaching-assistant-derek-lopez-arrested-for-destroying-turning-point-usa-display/

DAILY CALLER
— Controversial Left-Wing Chicago Teachers Union President Elected To Higher Position
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/19/chicago-teachers-union-president-stacy-davis-gates-elected-illinois-federation/

FOX NEWS
— Progressive publishers launch children’s Bible stories with social justice, diversity themes. DD: According to Democrat leaders, Jesus is a liberal Democrat who hates those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/progressive-publishers-launch-childrens-bible-stories-social-justice-diversity-themes.amp
— Illinois State University teacher’s assistant flips Turning Point USA table, tears down flyers: ‘Jesus did it’  Derek Lopez, Illinois State University teaching assistant, faces disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property charges after tossing the table.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-state-university-teachers-assistant-flips-turning-point-usa-table-tears-down-flyers-jesus-did-it

POST MILLENNIAL
— DD: The Democrat Party exists to promote more hatred against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-ag-hopes-people-who-willfully-promote-hatred-on-social-media-will-face-criminal-penalty

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump on protests: ‘I’m not a king’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5562619-trump-no-kings-protest/
— DD: How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC has always existed to give more preference to Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Ever since I was 22 years old in 1971, EEOC has had a tremendous impact on me. Back then, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted because it had agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5560748-eeoc-rejects-disparate-impact-claims/amp/

CBS NEWS
— Trump calls Colombia’s president an “illegal drug leader” and orders an end to U.S. aid
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-colombia-president-illegal-drug-leader-end-aid/
— Secret Service found a “suspicious stand” near Florida airport used by Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-service-suspicious-stand-florida-trump-fbi/

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: The Democrat Party exists to promote more hatred against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/democratic-campaign-ads-trump.html
— DD: My critics/opponents are woke, that is, they blame those who are following for their problems: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, have more money than they do, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010453273/the-right-has-gone-woke.html

DALLAS EXPRESS
— Cruz Blasts Chicago Head Tax Proposal As “A Penalty for Creating a Job”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/senator-ted-cruz-blasts-chicago-170026301.html

MERCURY
— Democrat governance is ruining America’s cities
https://www.pottsmerc.com/2025/10/19/jerry-shenk-governance-by-democrat-is-ruining-americas-cities/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Republicans Target Democrats Over Transgender Policies in This Year’s Races. DD: LGBTQ advocates have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/republicans-target-democrats-over-transgender-policies-in-this-years-races-13877b23

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

UNITED NATIONS
— DD: The Democrat Party exists to promote more hatred against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.un.org/en/observances/countering-hate-speech
https://press.un.org/en/2021/sgsm20942.doc.htm

October 18, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/no-kings-chicago-protest/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/photos-no-kings-protest-in-downtown-chicago/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/aurora-no-kings-protest/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/this-is-what-democracy-looks-like-valparaiso-no-kings-protest-draws-more-than-1000-people/
— DD: Democrat leaders fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/will-county-immigration-enforcement-ban/
— 11 arrested in second immigration raid at O’Hare rideshare lot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/ice-arrests-ohare-rideshare/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://chicago.suntimes.com/live/2025/10/17/no-kings-protests-chicago-suburbs-trump
— DD: Democrat leaders fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/18/to-stand-up-to-ice-agents-some-chicagoans-are-arming-themselves-with-whistles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/18/ice-latino-immigrants-maga-trump-racism-indian-rummana-hussain

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251018/nation-and-world-politics/no-kings-protests-against-trump-bring-a-street-party-vibe-as-gop-calls-them-hate-america-rallies/

ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://abc7chicago.com/post/no-kings-protest-chicago-today-thousands-gather-grant-park-oppose-donald-trump-administration-ice-arrests/18031765/
— Federal agents appear to detain landscaping company employees in Lake County
https://abc7chicago.com/post/video-appears-show-federal-agents-taking-landscaping-company-employees-custody-lake-county-illinois/18031654/

NBC5
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/illinois-gov-pritzker-addresses-no-kings-rally-in-chicago-250167365576
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/large-crowds-expected-at-no-kings-protests-in-chicago-across-us/3840235/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/no-kings-protests-against-trump-expected-saturday-in-dc-and-nationwide/3840241/

CBS2
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/no-kings-chicago-protest-grant-park-saturday/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-kings-trump-rallies-protests-october/

WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/protesters-march-in-chicago-for-no-kings-day/

FOX32
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/no-kings-protesters-pack-grant-park-to-protest-against-trump-administration
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1726456

WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/18/protesters-gather-downtown-chicago-part-national-no-kings-day-action

WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-no-kings-protests-against-trump-planned-nationwide-in-what-the-gop-calls-hate-america-rallies/

WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/10/18/no-kings-protests-trump-deportation-ice-border-patrol-grant-park
— Democrat leaders fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/18/to-stand-up-to-ice-agents-some-chicagoans-are-arming-themselves-with-whistles

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & PEORIA JOURNAL STAR & SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/no-kings-protests-against-trump-bring-a-street-party-vibe-as-gop-calls-them-hate/article_c6d234c3-1856-5e65-8c74-84fd6b707f31.html
https://www.pjstar.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/10/18/hundreds-gather-along-war-memorial-drive-for-peoria-no-kings-protest/86774578007/
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/10/18/we-need-unity-1000-protesters-take-part-in-springfield-no-kings-rally/86773833007/

HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/10/18/immigrants-built-this-country-no-kings-day-protests-in-joliet-bolingbrook-draw-thousands/

WAND TV
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/no-kings-protests-against-trump-bring-a-street-party-vibe-as-gop-calls-them-hate/article_7866fe40-0340-56e9-a505-1034a935e381.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/defiant-democrats-embrace-no-kings-rallies-as-american-as-motherhood-baseball-and-apple-pie/amp/

LAKE & MCHENRY COUNTY SCANNER
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their No Kings protests
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2025/10/18/well-over-15000-people-in-lake-mchenry-counties-attend-no-kings-protests-against-president-trump/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Teachers Union dues support 54 bosses making over $100K
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-dues-support-54-bosses-making-over-100k/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Hundreds, Maybe More Than a Thousand, Demonstrate Disaffection with Trump on Route 14 in Crystal Lake, More Photos Than You’ll Find Anywhere Else
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/hundreds-maybe-more-than-a-thousand-demonstrate-disaffection-with-trump-on-route-14-in-crystal-lake/
— Don Tracy Reports $2 Million in Bank for U.S. Senate Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/don-tracy-reports-2-million-in-bank-for-u-s-senate-run/
— Fox River Grove Petition Event on October 21 in El Sombrero
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/fox-river-grove-petition-event-on-october-21-in/
— Republican Don Tracy Goes After Pritzker and Potential U.S. Senate Opponent Stratton
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/republican-don-tracy-goes-after-pritzker-and-potential-u-s-senate-opponent-stratton/
— Is There Still Another Running for the GOP Nomination for Governor
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/is-there-still-another-running-for-the-gop-nomination-for-governor/
— Dombrowski Takes Lead in Fundraising
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/dombrowski-takes-lead-in-fundraising/
— Looking at Finances for GOP DeWitte Replacement Hopefuls
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/looking-at-finances-for-gop-dewitte-replacement-hopefuls/
— State Senator Says It’s Time to Build More Nuclear Power Plants
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/12761/
— State Rep. Jeff Keicher Says He Doesn’t Trust Billionaires
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/17/state-rep-jeff-keicher-says-he-doesnt-trust-billionaires/
— Gerrymandering Louisiana vs. Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/17/gerrymandering-louisiana-vs-illinois/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Mayor Johnson Protected by 150 Chicago Cops While Claiming City Is ‘Safe’
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/mayor-johnson-protected-by-150-chicago-cops-while-claiming-city-is-safe.html
— Norine Hammond Sided with Democrats on Climate Bank Bill That Could Hike Local Property Taxes
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/norine-hammond-sided-with-democrats-on-climate-bank-bill-that-could-hike-local-property-taxes.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Illinois State University faculty member flips Turning Point USA tables on campus: ‘Jesus did it’
https://nypost.com/2025/10/18/us-news/illinois-state-university-faculty-member-flips-turning-point-usa-tables-on-campus/
— New NY math guidelines tell teachers to stop testing kids on problem-solving speed to curb ‘anxiety’
https://nypost.com/2025/10/18/us-news/new-ny-state-math-guidelines-tell-teachers-to-stop-grading-kids-on-speed-solving-problems-because-it-causes-math-anxiety/
— Democrats are skewing crime stats ahead of the midterm elections
https://nypost.com/2025/10/18/business/trumps-doj-found-evidence-dems-are-skewing-crime-stats-ahead-of-the-midterm-elections/

FOX NEWS
— Illinois leaders accused of being ‘pro-illegal immigrant’ after cop arrested for living in U.S. illegally
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382931779112

NEWSMAX
— ICE Targeting Rideshare Drivers in Chicago
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ice-chicago-rideshare/2025/10/18/id/1230918/

TOWNHALL
— Feds Nab Illegal Alien Who Placed $10,000 Bounty on ICE Agents
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/10/18/illegal-alien-who-offered-10000-bounties-to-murder-ice-agents-arrested-in-dallas-n2665152

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— New Illinois Campaign Wants To Split State: ‘This Is Not Secession’
https://www.newsweek.com/new-illinois-campaign-wants-to-split-state-this-is-not-secession-10883726

CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-ice-director-says-trump-immigration-crackdown-putting-agents-in-terrible-position/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Judge Orders Some Federal Agents to Turn on Body Cameras in Chicago Area
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/chicago-ice-body-cameras.html
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army/
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010465573/trump-is-waging-war-on-americans-with-ice.html

GALLUP & BALTIMORE SUN & FORBES
— One in four workers lack advancement opportunities. DD: What did you do to advance your career? I earned a bachelor’s degree in management. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I became a licensed CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Government Financial Manager, Certified Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant. Nevertheless, my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 and my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13. If I had been a Democrat, minority, and/or female, they would have promoted me GS-14, GS-15, and Senior Executive Service.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695996/one-four-employees-lack-advancement-opportunities.aspx
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/17/feeling-stuck-one-in-four-workers-lack-advancement-opportunities-survey-finds/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariagraciasantillanalinares/2025/10/16/majority-of-americans-lack-quality-jobs-report-finds/

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 5, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump calling up 300 Illinois National Guard ‘immediately’ to protect ICE, buildings for 60 days
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/05/president-trump-calling-up-300-illinois-national-guard-immediately-to-protect-ice-buildings-for-60-days/
— Trump will celebrate the Navy’s 250th anniversary in the midst of the shutdown
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/05/trump-navys-250th-anniversary-shutdown/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: The more that you oppose Trump, the more that Democrat leaders promote you.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/04/broadview-mayor-katrina-thompson-ice-detention-center-arrests-kristi-noem-gregory-bovino
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/04/village-of-broadview-ice-facility-beach-street-noem-trump

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251005/chicago/using-helicopters-and-chemical-agents-immigration-agents-become-increasingly-aggressive-in-chicago/

ABC7
— Pentagon authorizes Illinois National Guard mission in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-guard-chicago-news-donald-trump-plans-federalize-300-troops-illinois-similar-plan-portland-oregon-blocked/17944659/
— A woman who was shot by a federal agent on Chicago’s Southwest Side on Saturday morning is among two people facing charges in the alleged vehicle-ramming incident that happened moments before shots were fired, according to federal prosecutors.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/brighton-park-shooting-marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-agent-anthony-ian-santos-ruiz-charged-39th-kedzie-incident/17944177/
— Trump will celebrate the Navy’s 250th anniversary in the midst of the shutdown
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-will-celebrate-navys-250th-anniversary-midst-shutdown-naval-station-norfolk-virginia/17943233/
— Car crashes into campaign office in Dolton
https://abc7chicago.com/post/car-crashes-campaign-office-dolton-village-trustee-kiana-belcher-video-shows/17943462/

NBC5
— Multiple arrests reported amid clashes between protesters, police in Broadview. An earlier shooting in Chicago led to more protests that were dispersed with chemical agents
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/multiple-arrests-reported-amid-clashes-between-protesters-police-in-broadview/3833773/
— 2 charged after ramming Border Patrol vehicle prior to Chicago shooting
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2-charged-after-allegedly-ramming-border-patrol-vehicle-prior-to-chicago-shooting/3833858/
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly blasts Trump
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-pritzker-opposes-guard-deployment-because-hes-afraid-for-his-life/3833889/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Bad Bunny
https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/bad-bunny-snl-51st-season-super-bowl-critics/3833800/

CBS2
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Duckworth
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/duckworth-federalizing-and-deploying-illinois-national-guard-misuse/

WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker’s war against Trump
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/wgn-exclusive-pritzker-gears-up-for-legal-battle-with-trump-over-federal-troops-responds-to-personal-insults/

FOX NEWS
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly blasts Trump
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/outrageous-un-american-pritzker-slams-trumps-national-guard-chicago-order

ENEWS PARK FOREST
— Intoxicated Man Fires Gun Near School
https://www.enewspf.com/law-and-order/local-park-forest-police-blotter/police-intoxicated-man-fires-gun-near-school/#gsc.tab=0

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Leftists in the Ivies & Wheaton College
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/10/02/leftists-in-the-ivies-wheaton-college

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Why People Should Run for Precinct Committeeman, Oops, Committeeperson  DD: I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. 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.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/05/why-people-should-run-for-precinct-committeeman-oops-committeeperson/
— Keicher and Sosnowski Hold Huntley Joint Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/05/keicher-and-sosnowski-hold-huntley-joint-fundraiser/
— Former State Rep. DeLoris Doederlein Celebrating 100th Birthday Sunday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/04/former-state-rep-deloris-doederlein-celebrating-100th-birthday-sunday/
— Woman Wielding Semi-Automatic Weapon Shot During Incident Where Protestors Boxed in ICE Vehicle with Ten Vehicles – ICE Press Release
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/04/woman-wielding-semi-automatic-weapon-shot-during-incident-where-protestors-boxed-in-ice-vehicle-with-ten-vehicles/
— U.S. Attorney Comments on Shooting of Woman Armed with a Semi-Automatic by ICE Officer
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/04/u-s-attorney-comments-on-shooting-of-woman-armed-with-a-semi-automatic-by-ice-officer/
— Remembering Bill Cellini in Galena
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/04/remembering-bill-cellini-in-galena/
— North Carolina Goes in Opposite Direction from Cashless Bail Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/04/north-carolina-goes-in-opposite-direction-from-cashless-bail-illinois/
— Two Involved in Boxing in ICE Agents Arrested
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/05/two-involved-in-boxing-in-ice-agents-arrested/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Newsom knows: Control the textbooks, control the state
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/5/newsom-knows-control-textbooks-control-state/
— Liberals’ politicization of everything exposes their contempt for faith and American traditions
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/5/liberals-politicization-everything-exposes-contempt-faith-american/

NEW YORK POST
— Google scraps Gmail ‘blacklist’ that labeled GOP fundraiser emails ‘dangerous’ — and sent them directly to spam.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/15/business/google-scraps-gmail-blacklist-that-labeled-gop-fundraiser-emails-dangerous/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Too Many Republicans are capitulating in the wake of Charlie Kirk
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/too_many_republicans_are_capitulating_in_the_wake_of_charlie_kirk.html

BREITBART
— Duckworth Accuses ICE Agents of Using ‘Gestapo Tactics’ in Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/05/duckworth-accuses-ice-agents-of-using-gestapo-tactics-in-chicago/
— Democrats Giving Health Care to Illegal Aliens to Buy Votes
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/05/exclusive-rep-joe-wilson-never-been-clearer-democrats-giving-healthcare-to-illegal-aliens-to-buy-votes/

DAILY CALLER
— CNN Panelists Clash Over Federal Funding For Illegal Immigrants
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/05/cnn-state-union-democrat-republican-congressmen-buddy-carter-debbie-dingell-clash-illegal-immigrants-funding-healthcare-government-shutdown/
— Charlie Kirk’s Death Exposes Democrats As The Amnesiac Cherry Pickers They Are
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/15/rooke-charlie-kirk-death-far-left-shapiro-hortman-hoffman-party-democrats/

NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
— National FOP and Illinois State FOP Condemn Reports that Chicago Police Officers Were Barred from Assisting ICE Agents
https://fop.net/2025/10/national-fop-and-illinois-state-fop-condemn-reports-that-chicago-police-officers-were-barred-from-assisting-ice-agents/

NEWSMAX
— Inside the Leftist Push to Label Charlie Kirk’s Assassin a Conservative Christian
https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/charlie-kirk-assassination-killing/2025/09/16/id/1226576/

TOWNHALL
— Trump Federalizing 300 Illinois National Guard Members
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/10/05/trump-federalizing-300-illinois-national-guard-members-n2664484

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly blasts Hegseth
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5539883-tammy-duckworth-pete-hegseth-women-military/

CNN
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly blasts Noem
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DtQW8iXo4v6k

October 4, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Protests continue at Broadview ICE facility in day of tense standoffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt1-qppOjq8
— Chicago federal intervention: Tracking surge in immigration enforcement operations
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-federal-intervention-latest-president-trumps-immigration-enforcement-possible-national-guard-deployment-live-updates/17758521/

NBC5
— 5 arrested during protests outside Broadview ICE Processing Center
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/5-arrested-during-protests-outside-broadview-ice-processing-center/3833553/

WGN9
— Noem visits Broadview ICE facility as protestors pushed into new ‘free speech zone’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u74_Wdu4kug

WBEZ
— Are Illinois State Police helping ICE in Broadview?  Top Illinois Democrats have said for months that local police won’t participate in immigration investigations, but they also won’t stand in the way.
https://www.wbez.org/public-safety/2025/10/03/are-illinois-state-police-helping-ice-in-broadview

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Arrests made at ICE facility in Broadview as feds put on show of strength
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/broadview-ice-facility-protest/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: I have always stressed that while all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/04/america-racial-inequity-spirit-76-confederate-union-petersburg-ben-jealous

CWB CHICAGO
— TikToks show South Shore building in ruin long before ICE raided it this week
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/10/exclusive-tiktoks-show-south-shore-building-in-ruin-long-before-ice-raided-it-this-week.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— DHS blames ‘sanctuary’ politicians for ICE violence
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7529613f-71b7-4667-9175-46d26956fb96.amp.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREITBART
— Woke Broadview Police Chief Threatens to Demolish Fence Protecting  ICE Facility
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/03/woke-suburban-chicago-police-chief-threatens-demolish-fence-protecting-ice-facility/amp/
— Antifa Scuffles with Police at Illinois ICE Facility
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/03/watch-you-nazis-antifa-scuffle-with-police-at-broadview-ice-facility/
— Dems’ Plan Funds More for Illegal Aliens Emergency Care via Medicaid than for America’s Most Vulnerable
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/03/leavitt-dems-plan-funds-more-for-illegal-aliens-emergency-care-via-medicaid-than-for-americas-most-vulnerable/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Hyde Amendment’s impact affected by state Medicaid programs, abortion law changes
https://www.christianpost.com/news/hyde-amendment-impact-affected-by-state-medicaid-programs.html

COLLEGE FIX
— Harvard student paper argues – again – that lack of right-leaning professors is no big deal
https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-student-paper-argues-again-that-lack-of-right-leaning-professors-is-no-big-deal/

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— ICE Says Violence in Broadview Is Fueled by Local Rioters
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ice-responds-to-broadview-mayor-who-claims-agency-is-at-war-with-community

WESTERN JOURNAL
— ICE Will Patrol Super Bowl Halftime Show Featuring Woke Puerto Rican Singer to Arrest Illegals
https://www.westernjournal.com/ice-will-patrol-super-bowl-halftime-show-featuring-woke-puerto-rican-singer-arrest-illegals/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Lawmakers have left Washington with no end to government shutdown in sight
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/government-shutdown-news-10-04-25

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/trump-refugee-admissions-south-africa.html
— Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes. The White House has cut or paused billions in funding to Democratic-run cities and states since the federal government came to a halt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/trump-shutdown-punish-foes.html
— DD: Hate-filled Hegseth-hating Hegseth-haters promote hatred against Hegseth. All the women who Democrats and RINOs advanced over me were minorities, younger than me, had less experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/women-military-hegseth-physical-standards.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats’ defiance on shutdown shows a new, tougher approach to Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/04/democrats-trump-shutdown-obamacare/
— Trump sees shutdown as tool to shrink government, target foes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/04/trump-shutdown-strategy/
— Trump pushes definition of national security to expand tariffs on goods. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want America to be dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/04/trump-tariffs-national-security/
— For beleaguered federal workers, shutdown is last straw. Staffers are working without pay or on furlough — all after months of job cuts, and amid the president’s vows to slash more agencies. DD: Ever-increasingly, while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the agency shrank because of Gingrich budget cuts. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates took their ever-increasing anger against Gingrich out on me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/04/government-shutdown-federal-workers/

FOX UTAH
— Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s defense could cost Utah taxpayers ‘eight figures’
https://www.fox8tv.com/alleged-charlie-kirk-assassin-tyler-robinsons-defense-could-cost-utah-taxpayers-eight-figures-experts/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: A hate-filled Hegseth-hating Hegseth-hater promotes hatred against Hegseth
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-embarrassing-pete-hegseth-e8e1e910

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employer use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaedwards-dashti/2025/10/03/what-businesses-lose-without-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/

SHRM
— 4th Circuit Reversal Says Job Reassignment Can Be Adverse Action. DD: Adverse actions that my Democrat GAO superiors said that they would take against me if I did not retire included adverse job transfers, adverse job assignments, and demotions. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/4th-circuit-reversal-says-job-reassignment-can-be-adverse

NEWS BREAK
— Illinois Shines in U.S. News Rankings With Four Elite Colleges DD: According to my critics/opponents, degrees from Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless.
https://www.newsbreak.com/century-homes-america-322339187/4271522330593-illinois-shines-in-u-s-news-rankings-with-four-elite-colleges

OTHER SOURCES

CLASSIC CARS JOURNAL
— It’s Been 20 Years Since the C6 Corvette Debuted. A look back at how America’s Sports Car has evolved and stayed traditional. DD: I have owned my 2005 Corvette since I bought it new 2005.
https://journal.classiccars.com/2025/01/11/its-been-20-years-since-the-c6-corvette-came-out/

September 30, 2025

TED DABROWSKI
— VIDEO: Former Elected IL Legislators Endorsed Ted For Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g-dmZJpial

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I have been the Illinois reporter for GOPUSA since 2000. What do you say to my Republican critics/opponents who ever-increasingly do not want me a) to know about their events, b) to promote their events, c) to attend their events, d) to speak with anyone at their events, e) to ask questions of the speakers at their events, or f) to report on their events? Ever-increasingly they have their operatives and their dupes try to stop me from speaking with anyone at their events. Ever-increasingly, they blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all of their problems, for all of my problems, for all of your problems, and for all of everyone’s problems. According to them, I paint Republican candidates as being more conservative than they want to be painted and that causes them to lose elections. Should I start writing about my Republican critics/opponents and their operatives and their dupes? I would focus on those who have succeed in a) stopping me from attending their events and b) throwing me out of their events. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do your Republican critics/opponents do? Mine have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my Republican critics/opponents who are still in the mix and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. Most commonly, they reject the equal opportunity plank in the Republican Party platform. They want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, citizens of foreign countries, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Your attitude toward Charlie Kirk shows your attitude toward conservatives. If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would host an event honoring Kirk and I would invite all those who knew Kirk to speak at that event. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, I would urge that organization to host a similar event. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Assata Shakur, the Chicago Teachers Union’s depressing idea of a role model
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/assata-shakur-ctu-chicago-teachers-union-rhetoric/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Illinois law prohibits sheriffs from assisting ICE with immigration enforcement. Some wish they could.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/illinois-sheriffs-ice-trust-act-21073538.php

STATE LINE
— Don Tracy aims for balance in Illinois politics with open Senate seat
https://www.mystateline.com/news/don-tracy-aims-for-balance-in-illinois-politics-with-open-senate-seat-run/amp/

WTVO
— Don Tracy, Republican, rallies support for Illinois Senate seat in Loves Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPabJGPmj14

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Seizing on the moment: GOP gubernatorial contender Darren Bailey poked at Pritzker. “It is a shame that the federal government has to send the military into Chicago just to protect ICE officers. This is what failed leadership looks like,” he said in a statement.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/09/30/pritzker-slams-plan-to-deploy-the-guard-00586114

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Mayor Johnson’s 6% Approval Shows: Race-Baiting Can’t Cover up Epic Public Safety Failure
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/mayor-johnsons-6-approval-shows-race-baiting-cant-cover-up-epic-public-safety-failure.html
— The United Nations Betrays Its Mission, Again
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/opinion-the-united-nations-betrays-its-mission-again.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Team of prominent defense lawyers steps in to defend accused Kirk assassin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/29/team-prominent-defense-lawyers-steps-defend-accused-kirk-assassin/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Inside the Biden Administration’s Censorship of Everyday Americans
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/inside-the-biden-administrations

NEW YORK POST
— Charlie Kirk wrote of his ‘deep love’ for Israel in letter to Netanyahu about how to counter rising opposition to the Jewish state in the US
https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/us-news/charlie-kirk-wrote-of-his-deep-love-for-israel-in-letter-to-netanyahu-about-how-to-counter-rising-opposition-to-the-jewish-state-in-the-us/

AMERICAN THINKER
— I do not trust Charlie Kirk’s ‘replacement’ Brilyn Hollyhand and neither should you
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/i_do_not_trust_charlie_kirk_s_replacement_and_neither_should_you.html

BLAZE
— Thousands wear ‘FREEDOM’ shirt in memory of Charlie Kirk at Oregon-Penn State game
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kirk-shirt-oregon-penn-game

DAILY WIRE
— Federal Retirement Dollars Used To Push Leftist Politics
https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-retirement-dollars-used-to-push-leftist-politics-watchdog-warns

FEDERALIST
— Democrats’ Relentless Demonizing Paves Way For The Next Political Assassination
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/30/democrats-relentless-demonizing-paves-way-for-the-next-political-assassination/

FOX NEWS
— Pritzker says ICE ‘harassing people for not being white.’  Democratic governor criticizes Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics in Chicago.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jb-pritzker-says-ice-harassing-people-not-being-white
— Leftist lawmakers prioritize ‘hatred’ of Trump over public safety
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380327595112
— Dems care about shielding illegals and catering to criminals
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380324485112

NEWS BUSTERS
— New York Times Weeps on Front Page Over Ghouls Fired for Disgusting Kirk Posts
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/09/29/new-york-times-weeps-front-page-over-ghouls-fired-disgusting-kirk

NEWSMAX
— Dems Want Shutdown, Free Care for Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rick-scott-democrats-government/2025/09/29/id/1228363/
— Charlie Kirk’s Assassination and the Shadowy Rise of ‘Trantifa’
https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/charlie-kirk-assassination-trantifa/2025/09/29/id/1228267/

USA HERALD
— Charlie Kirk’s Estate and Questions Over Turning Point Wealth and Life Insurance Payouts
https://usaherald.com/charlie-kirks-estate-raises-questions-over-turning-point-wealth-and-life-insurance-payouts/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5522184-trump-regime-threat-to-freedom/amp/

CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that “In aftermath of Kirk’s assassination, Republicans seek to galvanize support from young conservatives.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/politics/republican-candidates-charlie-kirk-death

NBC NEWS
— Pritzker calls armed immigration officers in Chicago an ‘attack on Americans’ DD: Attacking federal facilities is an act of war. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pritzker-blasts-trump-immigration-chicago-enforcement-rcna234501

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-free-speech.html
— Get Ready for Higher Health Insurance Premiums Next Year. DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government pays 72% of my health care premiums. Since I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been even more furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government pays 72% of my wife’s health care premiums.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/your-money/health-insurance-premiums-increase.html
— DD: Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites the promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/google-judge-mehta-remedy-monopoly.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: The Democrat Party is ever-increasingly more anti-Christian
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/29/charlie-kirk-christianity-conservatives-trump/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly call Trump a dictator.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/28/trump-makes-immigrants-nervous-authoritarian-dictator/86064657007/
— ICE wants National Guard troops in Chicago amid ‘riots’ and arrests. DD: Attacking federal facilities is an act of war. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/29/ice-national-guard-chicago-riots/86429274007/
— What working parents really need – and how the workplace can deliver. DD: All of my Democrat superiors in the federal government were working parents. They all decried the tremendous amount of time and money needed to raise children. They all hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they were underpaid and that if I had children, I would never would have been able a) to earn three job-related master’s degrees, b) earn six job-related professional certifications, c) earn a job-related professional license, c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, and 35, d) buy new cars when I was 23, 25, and 29, and e) buy collectors cars when I was 40 and 45.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/25/what-working-parents-really-need/86248270007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/04/raising-kids-cost-parents/85958383007/
— Parents face support issues. Helping adult children comes at huge cost. DD: My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother had never attended high school and had never worked outside of the home. I helped support her and my brother 1970-1972.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/09/26/stop-supporting-adult-children/86222216007/

ATLANTIC
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/maga-cancel-culture-revenge-tactics/684296/

BUZZFEED
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriavouloumanos/people-losing-jobs-posting-anti-charlie-kirk-content

SALON
— DD: Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly closer to officially declaring their Second Civil War against Republicans.
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/30/chicago-prepares-to-resist-federal-intimidation/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
— At the ADL, liberalism has trumped loyalty. Today, Jewish safety depends on strength. Jewish survival depends on sovereignty. And Jewish dignity depends on the refusal to be defined by others. The reborn State of Israel is the embodiment of that principle. Charlie Kirk knew that. The ADL does not.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/415617

ECONOMIC TIMES
— ADL labels Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA an extremist hate group, triggering backlash from Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk. DD: I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) officer 2003-2007. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that TAPROOT and ICRC were extremist hate groups.  They had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT in 2012 and ICRC in 2007.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/adl-labels-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-an-extremist-hate-group-triggering-backlash-from-donald-trump-jr-and-elon-musk/amp_articleshow/124226221.cms

September 28, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS2
— Democrat leaders decry that “Pepper bullets, tear gas deployed during protest outside Broadview immigration facility.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-ice-protests-saturday/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/28/ice-arrests-chicago-enforcement-operation-midway-blitz-mental-health-immigrants
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-arrests-chicago-immigration-mental-health-venezuela-anxieties

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leader ever-increasingly get faith leaders to promote more hatred against ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/ice-immigration-chicago-broadview-faith-leaders/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/letters-092825-ice-operations-immigration/
— DD: Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/opinion-jewish-high-holy-days-christian-nationalism/
— DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/opinion-affirmative-action-dei-admissions-colorblind/
— With mostly powerless voters, Illinois democracy hangs by an elongated thread. Gerrymandering is pernicious. Fair maps are essential.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/editorial-gerrymandering-fair-maps-elections-illinois-democracy/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn ICE and b) glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250927/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-feds-must-be-transparent-about-ice-operations-in-chicago-suburbs/

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Intense and intentional training is helping Democratic women gain state lawmaking seats
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/politics/article/intense-and-intentional-training-is-helping-21071484.php

KENDALL COUNTY NOW
— Charlie Kirk memorial in Yorkville
https://www.shawlocal.com/kendall-county-now/2025/09/27/a-revival-born-charlie-kirk-memorial-in-yorkville-darren-bailey-campaigns-for-governor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With antisniper security on rooftops in downtown Yorkville for the Sept. 27 Charlie Kirk memorial, one speaker remarked it’s sad this is the current state of American political discourse. Organized by Kendall Action, a conservative fundraising PAC, the event was part sermon, “a revival born in Charlie Kirk’s name,” part rally, with Darren Bailey campaigning as a Republican candidate for governor. A unifying message shared by the crowd was that the Sept. 10 killing of Kirk by a sniper’s bullet took something personal away from each of them, something that touches their faith. “When we exchange ideas as a society, we win,” State Rep. Jed Davis, R-Newark, said to the crowd. “When you start to silence that opportunity, that God-given right the founders of this nation wrote into the Constitution, that we have the right to free speech, the right to have free and open dialogue, when that is silenced, the people lose.” Kicking off his election tour, Bailey, a former Republican state senator, called Kirk’s killing a tragic loss of “a great American treasure.” He brought up Abraham Lincoln’s prescient warning. “He warned that if we as America falter and lose our freedom, it won’t happen from outside our borders, but it will happen from within,” Bailey said during the rally. “We’ve got a governor who’s using all of this as rhetoric against us to make life more unsafe for us.” In an interview, Bailey was asked what can be done to tone down political violence. “We need to focus on the people that we’re electing, because we have to bring unity to this nation,” Bailey said. “We look for a stronger and different candidate to take that position, a leader who’s bold and courageous and desires unity instead of division.”)

QUAD CITIES ONLINE
— A look inside Quad-Cities voting precincts and how both sides of the river become more red
https://qconline.com/news/local/government-politics/collection_a5ee88db-8430-58d0-b4e1-74ce6e025243.html

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— White House names nearly 30 elected officials as alleged ICE agitators. DD: Pritzker is 3rd on the list, Ramirez is 7th.
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/unhinged-crusade-white-house-releases-list-of-nearly-30-alleged-ice-agitators-president-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-walz-newsom-pritzker-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-dallas-texas-shooting
— Illinois SmartBuy program helps 533 new homeowners erase $16 million in student loans. DD: If I had gotten a student loan, my GPA would have been much higher and I would have gotten much better paying jobs. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-smartbuy-program-helps-533-new-homeowners-erase-16-million-in-student-loans


LOCAL 12
— DuPage County GOP Chairman Kevin Coyne slammed after criticizing political stunt at punk festival
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/riot-fest-gwar-dupage-county-gop-chairman-kevin-coyne-slammed-as-dork-a-loser-after-criticizing-political-stunt-at-punk-festival-doge-cincinnati-department-government-efficiency-parody-account-controversy-absurdist-spectacle-art-music-american-culture
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A GOP chairman was slammed as a “dork *** loser” after he criticized a gruesome political stunt that occurred at “Riot Fest” in Chicago. DuPage County, Illinois GOP Chairman Kevin Coyne went viral on Monday after criticizing a gruesome political stunt at “Riot Fest” in a now-deleted post to X. Riot Fest ’25 occurred on September 19 through September 21 at Douglass Park in the City of Chicago. According to The New York Post, during a performance by GWAR, a metal band that was first formed back in 1984, band members performed a mock beheading of Elon Musk, as well as a mock killing of President Donald J. Trump. While the band is known for its grotesque stunts, several social media users voiced criticism due to the political environment in the United States following the assassination of conversative activist Charlie Kirk. “That’s not edgy, it’s grotesque and reckless and normalizes violence against a real person. This is not okay. Riot Fest and GWAR crossed a major line,” a social media user wrote, per The Post. Screenshots of the now-deleted post appear to show that Coyne, who was in attendance at Riot Fest, wrote the following in reaction to GWAR’s stunt: “Riot Fest, it’s always so …. Interesting. Could’ve done without all the politics from the stage but it was fun nonetheless. Apparently we can’t even go to concerts now without the political divide being tossed in our faces. We’ll still go back but it was obnoxious.” The screenshot appears to show that Coyne’s post was seen more than 2.5 million times before being deleted. The message is followed by an @ to an apparent parody Riot Fest account, which boasts more than 95,000 followers. The Riot Fest parody account responded to Coyne’s criticism, writing the following, according to a screenshot: “Shut the (expletive) up you dork (expletive) loser. Seriously some of the softest dumbest people on the internet.” After being accused of “normalizing violence,” a GWAR representative issued the following statement to the publication: “Normalizing violence? Humans don’t need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a GWAR stage. GWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous.” The Anonymous X account also chimed in on the discussion, writing the following: ““(Expletive) Elon Musk. Call the manager you (expletive) loser. It’s like you never heard of GWAR before you (expletive) p–y,” Riot Fest is a three-day festival that was first held in 2005, and is one of the largest independently-owned music festivals in the United States.)

POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— Public Safety Open House welcomed hundreds of families
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2025/09/27/another-public-safety-open-house-welcomed-hundreds-of-families/153504

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Deep State Littlefinger James Comey With No Place to Hide
https://johnkassnews.com/deep-state-littlefinger-james-comey-has-no-place-to-hide/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Comments on Bailey Gubernatorial Campaign Rollout
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/27/comments-on-bailey-gubernatorial-campaign-rollout/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Protesters removed by police after disrupting Charlie Kirk prayer rally in Wheaton. DD: When will the Daily Herald report on this event?
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/675484139-protesters-removed-by-police-after-disrupting-charlie-kirk-prayer-rally-in-wheaton
https://x.com/DuPageCountyGOP/status/1972019256188641431
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Police removed a small group of protesters Sunday night who disrupted a prayer rally in Wheaton honoring the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The event drew about 1,500 attendees and was organized by local church leaders and Decision Point USA. The prayer rally took place under the French Market Pavilion in downtown Wheaton. Organizers said the event was held to pray for revival in the city, schools, churches, and the nation. “In this moment of grief and urgency, we believe God is our only hope,” a flyer from Decision Point USA said. “Together, we will lift our voices and ask Him to raise up courageous leaders, heal our land and pour out His Spirit on the next generation.” The meeting was organized by leaders from four churches in the Wheaton area who said they believe this time is an opportunity for community revival. The rally, structured around Christian worship and calls for unity, was briefly disrupted when several protesters, some masked and carrying signs, began shouting during a moment of prayer. “Bruha started by the few but noisy and disrespectful protestors during the prayer at the Wheaton Charlie Kirk Memorial tonight,” user Babette Holder said in a Facebook post. Wheaton police responded and escorted the protesters from the area. The rally continued as planned, ending with hymns “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” and “In Christ Alone.” Photos from the event showed protesters holding signs with messages such as “Honoring Charlie Kirk = Honoring Racism, Bigotry, Misogyny” and “I do not support what happened to Charlie but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.” One protester wore a shirt with “Palestine” printed on it, while another’s shirt displayed a profanity directed at President Donald Trump and his supporters. . .According to reports, the protesters were allegedly affiliated with Mutual Aid Dawning (MAD), a Glen Ellyn-based group formed during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Chicago. Those protests involved widespread property damage and arrests. MAD’s website describes the group as “intergenerational, largely non-religious and queer with sexualities and genders across the spectrum.” The group identifies with anti-capitalist and anti-colonial ideologies. The website includes political education materials referencing historical figures, including Mao Zedong. Critics have noted Mao’s legacy includes responsibility for millions of deaths and ongoing repression in China. MAD describes the suburban communities where it organizes as “highly resourced yet highly unengaged,” and states its goal is to challenge perceived complicity in systems of oppression. Though the protesters were few in number, their presence drew concern among attendees and organizers, who said the disruption highlighted a broader cultural and political divide. Breakthrough Ideas, an organization led by former state representative Jeanne Ives, responded to the event by calling for “more speech, not less,” and said Kirk’s vision based on constitutional and biblical principles must be defended publicly. “They’re hoping (Kirk’s) murder isn’t a real Turning Point in America,” the group said in a newsletter. “They hope people don’t start to evaluate the culture and realize that the Left has been feeding children, young adults, and even boomers progressive nonsense that debases society and breaks the social and constitutional contract that citizens in a free society should have with each other.”)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— GOP lawmaker calls for investigation after son’s high school celebrates ‘Bisexual Plus Awareness Week.’ DD: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/iowa-rep-ashley-hinson-calls-for-department-of-education-to-investigate-iowa-high-school-after-it-celebrates-bisexual-plus-awareness-week/
— DD: Democrats and RINOs oppose meritocracy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/companies-hiring-less-diverse-executives-amid-anti-dei-pushback/ar-AA1x4QNl

AMERICAN THINKER
— Kirk’s assassin’s gun doesn’t have a serial number.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/kirk_s_assassin_s_gun_doesn_t_have_a_serial_number_oh_no.html

BREITBART
— Taxpayers Could End Up Footing the Bill for Obama Presidential Library
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/27/report-taxpayers-could-end-up-footing-bill-obama-presidential-library/amp/
— Leftist Chicago Teachers Union Honors Cop Killer Assata Shakur
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/09/27/leftist-chicago-teachers-union-honors-convicted-cop-killer-assata-shakur-as-revolutionary-fighter/amp/

CHRISTIAN POST
— The NAACP promotes racial lies and propaganda
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/the-naacp-promotes-racial-lies-and-propaganda-as-usual.html

FOX NEWS
— Utah receiving $1M in taxpayer dollars to ensure alleged Kirk assassin has qualified defense team
https://www.aol.com/news/utah-receiving-1m-taxpayer-dollars-011311177.html
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380203997112

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-tactics-inflame-tensions-new-york-chicago-other-cities-2025-09-26/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrats decry Trump indicting Comey. While my Democrat IRS superiors never indicted me, they a) disallowed my travel vouchers when I was 25 years old in 1974 and b) disallowed my education deductions when I was 29 years old in 1978. The aforesaid adverse actions were not only career limiting, they were career ending. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. They took the aforesaid adverse actions against me because I had complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-comey-justice-department-james-schiff-309c573c2d9d16839afabb3af56ef2f8

NBC NEWS
— Trump orders troop deployments to protect ICE facilities
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/trump-orders-troop-deployments-to-protect-ice-facilities-248517701618

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters use their assignation of Kirk to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirk-republican-reaction.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirk-democrats-religion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html
— DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-justice-department.html
— DD: According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1970 NIU degree is worthless, my 1976 Loyola degree is worthless, my 1980 DePaul degree is worthless, and my 1997 IIT degree is worthless.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/college-admissions-seniors-stats.html
— Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year. Extensive subsidies that reduce premium costs for millions are set to expire, unless Congress extends them. DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government has paid 72% of my health care premiums. Since I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been even more furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government has paid 72% of my wife’s health care premiums.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/obamacare-cost-aca-health-insurance.html

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrats and RINOs support/promote Kirk critics.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/27/teachers-fired-charlie-kirk-lawsuits/86343546007/

PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
— Young Republican voters in Pittsburgh area ‘galvanized’ after Charlie Kirk’s death
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2025/09/28/charlie-kirk-college-students-gop-republican/stories/202509280079

NPR
— DD: The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you promote, the more that Democrats and RINOs call you an extremist.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5553395/whats-changed-about-reporting-on-extremism-in-america

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters use their assignation of Kirk to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/william-f-buckley-charlie-kirk-and-the-free-speech-right.html

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

SKY NEWS
— Charlie Kirk’s movement is growing in the wake of his assassination – as is the chasm in US politics
https://news.sky.com/story/charlie-kirks-movement-is-growing-in-the-wake-of-his-assassination-as-is-the-chasm-in-us-politics-13438530

OTHER SOURCES

MONEY TALKS NEWS
— 3 Ways Forced Retirement Makes Life Worse. Those pushed into retirement prematurely find the transition considerably more difficult.
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/3-ways-forced-retirement-makes-life-worse/

LEE ERNST
— FOR SALE AT IRON GATE MOTOR CONDOS: 2244 Ferry Road # J103, Naperville – $650,000
https://leeernst.exprealty.com/holp/listing/103/12467615

September 27, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— ICE tells Broadview officials agents will launch enforcement throughout suburb
https://abc7chicago.com/post/broadview-ice-protest-chicago-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-expected-standoff-between-agents-demonstrators/17892592/
— Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-birthright-citizenship-news-president-asks-supreme-court-justices-uphold-restrictions-he-wants-impose/17893001/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders expect their Protesters to return to Broadview immigration facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-ice-protests-saturday/
— Street vendors in Chicago face growing anxiety after ICE arrests
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/street-vendors-in-chicago-face-growing-anxiety-after-ice-arrests/

FOX32
— ICE to launch ‘enforcement action’ in Broadview amid outcry over feds’ response to protests
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/broadview-ice-enforcement-saturday.amp

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders condemn ICE presence in Broadview
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/27/broadview-village-leaders-condemn-ice-presence-in-suburb-and-threats-of-greater-enforcement-actions/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Blacks to hate Republicans. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Democrat Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/27/chicago-national-guard-threat-black-community/
— Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/27/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-order/
— Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, dies at 95
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/26/sara-jane-moore-obit/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ICE ‘launching enforcement action’ after Broadview mayor urges agents to end ‘siege’ on protesters, village officials say. Village officials said Saturday that federal agents warned the Broadview Police Department there would be “a sh– show” in Broadview in response to Mayor Katrina Thompson’s comments that ICE is “making war on my community.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/27/ice-broadview-action-mayor-katrina-thompson-immigration
— Democrat leaders charge ICE with making unlawful arrests during Operation Midway Blitz
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/27/ice-made-unlawful-arrests-during-operation-midway-blitz-new-court-filing-alleges
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/27/trump-immigration-ice-lgbtq-racism-news-chicago-natalie-moore

DAILY HERALD
— Democratic Party isolation is getting worse
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250927/syndicated-columnists/democratic-party-isolation-is-getting-worse/

SOUTHERN
— Democrat and RINO employers prefer foreign employees over American employees.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/09/27/trumps-h1-b-changes-raise-concerns-about-us-tech-economys-future-ability-to-recruit-specialty-talent/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump takes birthright citizenship case back to Supreme Court
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/27/trump-takes-birthright-citizenship-case-back-justices/
— Trump rages about claim that FBI undercover agents were in Jan. 6 crowd. “It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/27/trump-rages-claim-fbi-agitators-insurrectionists-jan-6-crowd/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What do women gain by hating men? I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Democrat female superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3827007/future-is-female-feminism-texas-women-only-commune/
— You either believe in free speech, or you don’t. My critics/opponents oppose/reject free speech. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents who are still in the mix, who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me, and the planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject and why. Equal opportunity is the plank that they most commonly reject. They want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, citizens of foreign countries, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3826256/believe-in-free-speech-fcc-jimmy-kimmel/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump rages at bombshell report alleging FBI had 274 plainclothes agents in crowd during Capitol riot
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/trump-rages-at-bombshell-report-alleging-fbi-had-274-plainclothes-agents-in-crowd-during-capitol-riot/
— Kamala Harris believes she’s still a leader in the Democratic Party — but even longtime backers are ready to move on.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/kamala-harris-believe-shes-still-a-leader-in-the-democratic-party-report/
— Charlie Kirk honored by Steak ‘n Shake after viral tribute
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/business/charlie-kirk-honored-by-steak-n-shake-after-viral-tribute/
— Anti-ICE protesters led by paid activists march across NYC in latest push against immigration enforcement
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/brooklyn-anti-ice-protest-draws-200/
— Comey indictment is the beginning of holding corrupt officials accountable
https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-is-the-beginning-of-holding-corrupt-officials-accountable/

BREITBART
— Wikipedia Editors Propose Deleting Page on Charlie Kirk Memorial Service, Add Nazi Comparisons
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/09/27/wikipedia-editors-propose-deleting-page-on-charlie-kirk-memorial-service-add-nazi-comparisons/
— Why Gavin Newsom Continues Incendiary Rhetoric After Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/27/pollak-why-gavin-newsom-continues-incendiary-rhetoric-after-charlie-kirk-assassination/

COLLEGE FIX
— The most shocking faculty reactions to Charlie Kirk’s assassination
https://www.thecollegefix.com/the-most-shocking-faculty-reactions-to-charlie-kirks-assassination/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Marco Rubio tells visa holders praising Charlie Kirk’s murder: ‘You’re not welcome in this country’
https://www.christianpost.com/news/marco-rubio-says-us-will-deport-visa-holders-praising-charlie-kirk-murder.html

DAILY SIGNAL
— Hillary Clinton Suggests Conservative Christian White Men Are ‘Doing Such Damage’ to America
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/27/hillary-clinton-suggests-conservative-christian-white-men-doing-such-damage-america/

FEDERATION FOR AMEREICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Armed Leftists Attack ICE Facility Near Chicago
https://rairfoundation.com/armed-leftists-attack-ice-facility-near-chicago-shoot/
— What DNC Chair Ken Martin Didn’t Say about the Dallas Attack is More Significant than What He Did Say
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/09/27/dnc-chair-ken-martin-comments-dallas-ice-attack

FOX NEWS
— Chicago Teachers Union honors Black militant convicted cop-killer after death in Cuba, drawing backlash. Assata Shakur was convicted of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a 1973 shootout.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-teachers-union-honors-black-militant-convicted-cop-killer-after-death-cuba-drawing-backlash.amp
— ‘Political awakening’ of young voters is benefitting conservatives post-Kirk assassination
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380198038112
— College students outraged by ‘fascist’ posters after Kirk’s murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtDYDuwnjDU

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Birthright Citizenship Faces Extinction, Trump Asks SCOTUS to Uphold Undoing 125 Year Exception for Illegals.
https://www.westernjournal.com/birthright-citizenship-faces-extinction-trump-asks-scotus-uphold-undoing-125-year-exception-illegals/
— We Now Know Why That Charlie Kirk Tribute Never Aired: Death Threats from the Leftists Who Murdered Him
https://www.westernjournal.com/now-know-charlie-kirk-tribute-never-aired-death-threats-leftists-murdered/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

POLITICO
— The impending retirement that could rock Capitol Hill. The director of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty of violating congressional spending law. DIERSEN: GAO falsely claims to be nonpartisan. The Democrats who run GAO hate Republicans. Anyone who reads the filings in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) would see that. Because I am a Republican, the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 used the subjectivity in their job assignment and performance appraisal systems, up-or-out, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, and Gingrich budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They rudely flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), c) earning six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and d) becoming a licensed CPA.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/17/gao-trump-impoundment-spending-00569967
(FROM THE ARTICLE: More than three dozen lawmakers are already planning to leave Congress next year. But there’s another impending legislative branch retirement that could have major implications in Washington. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, who heads the Government Accountability Office, hits the end of his 15-year term in late December and will be forced to vacate the post that occupies an increasingly crucial — and politically charged — oversight role. The comptroller general is uniquely empowered to call out the president for breaking the law by withholding federal cash, and Dodaro has done so repeatedly over the past eight months — putting himself at the center of a largely partisan fight over President Donald Trump’s funding moves that has exacerbated tensions between the White House and Capitol Hill. Now Trump gets to nominate Dodaro’s replacement, and key lawmakers are only just starting to take stock of a paradox: A president who continually tests the bounds of Congress’ spending powers gets to pick the legislative branch’s chief watchdog. “It sets up a very bad situation,” Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, the next Senate Democratic whip and a senior appropriator, said in an interview. “Among the things to be alarmed about, this is a new one.” The stakes are high: Whoever ends up running GAO once Dodaro’s term ends will be able to bolster, or undermine, Congress’ defenses against Trump in the separation-of-powers battle the president is stoking by terminating, freezing and reallocating hundreds of billions of dollars Congress previously approved. “When one party controls the Senate, the House and the White House, there’s a tendency to rally around the president and to do what the president wants,” said David Walker, Dodaro’s predecessor and the only living former GAO director. “But somebody’s got to be able to be the independent referee, and to try to do what they think is in the interest of the institution, the Congress and the country. And that’s what the comptroller general is.” All of this is taking place as Trump administration officials and some congressional Republicans have been trying to downsize and discredit the watchdog. That has included publicly questioning the GAO’s authority and accusing the agency of siding with Democrats in its multiple determinations that the White House unlawfully flouted Congress’ “power of the purse.” White House budget director Russ Vought said this month that GAO is “a quasi-legislative independent entity … something that shouldn’t exist. There have been other slights, too. In the Senate, the GAO told Republicans they could not skirt the filibuster in voting to override California’s pollution standards; Republicans did so anyway. In the House, GOP lawmakers endorsed cutting the agency’s roughly $800 million budget in half for the upcoming fiscal year. And Elon Musk, prior to leaving the Trump administration, attempted to send in a Department of Government Efficiency team to assess the GAO for mass staff reductions. Meanwhile, the legislative branch writ large has become more broadly vulnerable to the White House’s whims, seen most starkly in Trump’s abrupt firing of the librarian of Congress and the registrar of copyrights. It’s not yet clear what the Dodaro succession plan will look like; a White House spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. A 10-member panel of lawmakers is supposed to recommend at least three replacement candidates for Trump to consider. By law, that group is composed of the top leaders in each chamber, the chairs and ranking members of the key House and Senate oversight committees and the Senate president pro tempore. However, most congressional leaders have yet to start hunting for qualified contenders, and furthermore seem largely unaware they have any role to play in filling the slot. “I don’t even know the process,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in a brief interview. “It’s been a while. This hasn’t happened on my watch.” Two of the would-be commission members had kind words for Dodaro, including Sen. Rand Paul, chair of the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee. “I’ve always appreciated him, and I think he’s a straight shooter,” the Kentucky Republican said in an interview. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the panel’s ranking member, said he “would want somebody like Gene, who has been a really solid member.” On the House side, Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said in an interview he’s looking for the next GAO director to be “an aggressive person that looks for waste, fraud and abuse.” Comer added, “We want someone that communicates regularly with Congress, so we can kind of have an idea of what they’re doing.” But Trump could instead ask Republican senators to confirm a new watchdog of his own choosing — or forgo making a nomination altogether. It would leave a leadership vacuum at the top of the agency that not only monitors whether Congress’ spending directives are followed but is also empowered to examine the effectiveness of federal agencies on behalf of lawmakers. Further raising the stakes in confirming a new director, lawsuits are pending around the country challenging Trump’s withholding of congressionally approved funding, and a federal appeals court ruled this summer that only the GAO director can sue the administration for violating the decades-old impoundment law — not the groups that were set to receive the funding. Dodaro has so far chosen not to sue the Trump administration for withholding funding. But when he steps down, he’ll be able to pick an acting GAO director who also would have the power to file a lawsuit if they so choose. Still, said Molly Reynolds, head of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, “if you get a comptroller general in place who is Trump-friendly, that is going to foreclose that option” of GAO suing the administration. An acting director also wouldn’t be “in a position to make major transformational changes,” warned Walker, the former GAO director. When Walker resigned in 2008, he appointed Dodaro acting director, a title that stuck for more than two years because Congress and the president weren’t quick to work through the nomination process. Before that, it also took two years to formally install Walker in the post in 1998. Walker is now urging congressional leaders to recommend candidates who are willing to challenge executive branch officials regardless of who is president, as he did during his own tenure. A political independent who “leans Republican” and was confirmed by a GOP-led Senate, Walker sued the Republican vice president, Dick Cheney, for failure to provide GAO access to records. He is also agitating for lawmakers to quickly start the search for potential replacements: “There’s no reason that they shouldn’t be planning now so that they can end up trying to make a timely decision.”)

September 26, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Smoke, pepper bullets deployed on protesters in clashes outside Broadview ICE facility
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-operation-midway-blitz-protest-expected-broadview-facility-friday-sw-side-tamale-vendor-held/17885390/

CBS2
— Fundraiser held for tamale vendor Laura Murillo detained by ICE in Back of the Yards
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fundraiser-tamale-vendor-laura-murillo-ice-chicago/

WGN9
— Protestors clash with agents outside Broadview ICE processing facility amid ongoing demonstrations
https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/protestors-clash-with-agents-outside-broadview-ice-processing-facility-amid-ongoing-demonstrations/

WTTW
— Trump’s Transportation Department Pulls Trail and Bike Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/26/trump-s-transportation-department-pulls-trail-and-bike-grants-deemed-hostile-cars

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Feds fire baton rounds, more tear gas at ICE protesters in Broadview
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/26/ice-baton-rounds-tear-gas-chicago/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Broadview mayor says ICE is ‘making war on my community’ after latest protest at immigration facility. Federal officers again fired rubber pellets and chemical irritants into a crowd of protesters gathered Friday outside the fenced-off compound.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/26/protest-heats-up-again-outside-broadview-ice-facililty
— Illinois Dems press Chicago ICE director for Broadview facility oversight, details on deportation operations. Members of the Illinois delegation were scheduled to meet with an ICE Chicago field office director on Friday but were told the meeting had to be rescheduled to a later date.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/26/illinois-dems-press-chicago-ice-director-for-broadview-oversight-details-on-chicago-deportation-operations
— City Council leader wants to raise maximum age for starting police officer to 55. Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) argued there are plenty of jobs, particularly in policing, that could be performed by rookies in their 50s. Police and fire union leaders branded the proposal “crazy.” My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, that is, so far, they have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from working.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/09/26/chicago-police-maximum-age-entry-level-officer-proposal-gilbert-villegas
— Bid to atone for slavery’s sins ignites racially charged City Council clash. A resolution offering an apology to Black Chicagoans for the scourge of slavery passes overwhelmingly but sparks outrage when four Council members vote against the symbolic move.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/09/26/chicago-trump-slavery-apology-alderpeople-lamont-robinson-nick-sposato-city-council
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Four alderpersons voted against a resolution offering Black Chicagoans an apology for America’s enslavement of their ancestors, producing a racially charged clash within the City Council and a final roll call that one supporter called “appalling.” Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th), Nick Sposato (38th), Anthony Napolitano (41st) and James Gardiner (45th) sparked outrage from some of their colleagues for refusing to endorse the resolution, which ultimately passed. The measure sponsored by Ald. Lamont Robinson (4th) issued a formal apology from the City Council “to the Black citizens of Chicago for the historical injustices of slavery, segregation, systemic racism, and the policies that have perpetuated racial inequality.” It overwhelmingly passed 43-4 but not without fireworks at a marathon City Council meeting Thursday. “Shame on you!,” Robinson shouted after Lopez, Sposato, and Napolitano announced they would vote against the resolution. “You have to be able to share with your constituents, your Black constituents — in all damn 50 wards — why you would say no to this resolution. Shame on you!” Robinson said. While the City Council is no stranger to racially charged debates on how to address the city’s long, continued history of segregation and inequity, the “no” votes against the symbolic resolution came as a shock to some of the Council’s most level-headed members. “I was hoping this would be a unanimous one — of all the things we can unanimously support,” said Ald. Maria Hadden (49th), who is Black. “This is a surprising, shocking, appalling piece.” The debate played out against a national backdrop of the Trump administration’s crusade against diversity goals in government and businesses and its efforts to sanitize how Americans look back on the evils of slavery. This month, President Donald Trump ordered the National Park Service to remove from a Georgia historic site an iconic 1863 photograph titled “The Scourged Back” of a formerly enslaved man bearing the scars of past whippings on his back. Gardiner, a Northwest Side alderperson, didn’t explain his no vote. In a brief comment, Napolitano said he voted no because there has been “just as much harm done” to this city “over the last couple of years” as in the past. Sposato, a supporter of Trump, said he would not take responsibility for sins of the past. “There’s a lot of blame to go around, but certainly not the city of Chicago, certainly not my family,” Sposato said. “I apologize to absolutely nobody. I want my name off there. I do not want to be associated with this.” Lopez, a Southwest Side alderperson, said he wouldn’t endorse the resolution because Chicago’s “own economy was not slave driven.” Lopez noted that the city became a haven for freed men and women escaping southern slavery. Half a million people came to Chicago as part of the Great Migration. Lopez said the City Council should focus instead on how to correct current-day injustices “as opposed to constantly looking backwards.” “If we want to talk about the injustices to the Black community, I want to talk about where we have failed. We don’t have to look that far back,” Lopez said. Hadden acknowledged Lopez’s point that the city “didn’t directly deal in enslaved people,” but she rebutted that “the money that built this city and controlled the power did.” She further argued that Lopez and Sposato’s arguments against the resolution were “emblematic of some of the worst behavior that we’re seeing coming out of DC.” “Those who would accuse us of going backwards by recognizing fact and truth, I challenge that sentiment. We’re not the ones going backwards,” Hadden said. “Recognition and apology is part of repair… which are necessary to moving forward.” The resolution notes that slavery thrived in the Midwest after French explorers introduced it to the region in the mid-1700s. Even after Illinois was deemed a “free” state in 1818, state laws in place through the Civil War “subjected free Black residents to oppressive restrictions, including the denial of voting rights.” It goes on to state that following slavery’s abolition in 1865, Black Chicagoans continued to face racial discrimination through redlining, segregation, housing discrimination and other systemic inequities “which persist today.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson last year issued a formal apology from the city as a whole to Black Chicagoans through an executive order when he created a task force to study possible economic reparations for Black residents. Evanston, the city’s neighbor to the north, approved the country’s first reparations program for Black residents years ago.)

DAILY HERALD
— ‘It’s a black hole’: Broadview ICE facility sparks complaints of inhumane conditions
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250926/nation-and-world/broadview-ice-facility-sparks-complaints-of-inhumane-conditions/
— As Illinois congressional delegation seeks answers, ICE cancels meeting
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250926/news/as-illinois-congressional-delegation-seeks-answers-ice-cancels-meeting/
— Bailey jumps into the governor’s race for a second time with Palatine’s Del Mar
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/illinois-state-politics/bailey-jumps-into-the-governors-race-for-a-second-time-with-palatines-del-mar/

WGLT
— During B-N stop, conservative governor candidate Ted Dabrowski vows to fight for economic change in Illinois
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-09-26/during-b-n-stop-conservative-governor-candidate-ted-dabrowski-vows-to-fight-for-economic-change-in-illinois

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-391/
— Wirepoints’ deficit spending continued as assets were further depleted ahead of staff exodus
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/26/wirepoints-deficit-spending-continued-as-assets-were-further-depleted-ahead-of-staff-exodus/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— How Erika Kirk is transforming America after husband Charlie’s assassination
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/26/erika-kirk-transforming-america-husband-charlies-assassination/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— House Republicans move to end mail delivery of abortion pill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3825635/house-republican-bill-end-mail-delivery-abortion-pill-mifepristone/
— After Dallas ICE shooting Democrats want to ban all guns
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3826529/dallas-ice-shooting-democrats-gun-control-hunting-rifles/
— The married-with-children party vs. the single-and-childless party
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3820260/married-with-children-vs-single-and-childless/

BREITBART
— Illinois: Rioters Chant ‘Kill ICE! Shoot ICE!’ at Migrant Detention Center
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/26/sanctuary-state-illinois-rioters-chant-kill-ice-shoot-ice-outside-detention-center-holding-criminal-illegal-aliens/amp/

DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE Continues Arrests of ‘Criminal Illegal Aliens’ Following Dallas Shooting
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/26/exclusive-ice-continues-arrests-criminal-illegal-aliens-following-dallas-shooting/

FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— ICE is Increasingly Taking the “Sanctuary” out of Sanctuary Jurisdictions
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/09/26/ice-increasingly-taking-sanctuary-out-sanctuary-jurisdictions

FOX NEWS
— Chicago anti-ICE protesters block vehicles, get hit with tear gas and pepper balls
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-anti-ice-protesters-block-vehicles-get-hit-tear-gas-pepper-balls
— Protestors face off with Illinois ICE agents
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380155512112
— Protest turns violent outside Illinois ICE facility
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380153714112

NEW AMERICAN
— The 1619 Project: Mostly Marxist Myth
https://thenewamerican.com/opinion/book-reviews/the-1619-project-mostly-marxist-myth/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid-funding/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hegseth to Push ‘Warrior Ethos’ in Meeting of Top Generals
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-to-push-warrior-ethos-in-meeting-of-top-generals-9cfd7fb4?mod=djemwhatsnews
— Trump Pledges That Others Will Be Indicted After Comey
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-doj-indictments-fbi-james-comey-49910fd3

NEW YORK SUN
— Judge To Hear Arguments in Lawsuit Over ‘Racist Reparations’ Program in Evanston
https://www.nysun.com/article/judge-to-hear-arguments-in-lawsuit-over-racist-reparations-program-in-evanston-illinois

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Masked protesters clash with ICE, attack vehicles at Broadview facility in Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DNIRE0ndzvm8