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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump officials say Chicago immigration crackdown coming, top cop hopes to avoid ‘adversarial environment’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/28/chicago-top-communication-feds-troops-deployed/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at women that Republicans cause all the problems that women have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/29/letters-naperville-203-equality-contract-imea/
— The National Guard has been activated to Chicago 18 times from 1877-2021. Here’s a breakdown.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/28/chicago-when-national-guard-was-activated/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/08/29/chicago-crime-violence-o-block-oblock-parkway-gardens-donald-trump-national-guard
— What jobs did you have while you were in high school? While I was a high school student, I did yard work during my first 2 years, I delivered newspapers during all 4 years, and I washed dishes during my last 2 years. My critics/opponents have always used my high school jobs against me to paint me as being a loser. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/08/28/chance-the-rapper-gives-100-000-to-five-cps-high-schools
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Nehemiah Narvaez, a senior at Simeon Career Academy in Chatham, is already learning how to run his own business while practicing his barber skills. “It’s been a dream,” Narvaez said. “I see what it can bring. It brings a lot of connections, a lot of opportunities. It’s like everybody gets a chance.” Narvaez, 17, of Englewood, is just one of many students enrolled in the Career & Technical Education program, a Chicago Public Schools initiative that provides students with career-focused experiential learning programs. On Thursday, Chance the Rapper visited the South Side high school to announce that his nonprofit, SocialWorks, would give $100,000 in grants to five Chicago schools to support career-focused programs over the next three years, which will include Simeon Career Academy’s barber and cosmetology program.)

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their cashless bail.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250829/crime/what-to-make-of-trumps-push-to-end-cashless-bail-in-illinois/

ABC7
— Lake Co. leaders pushing back against plans to use Naval Station Great Lakes Naval to host ICE
https://abc7chicago.com/post/lake-county-leaders-pushing-back-plans-use-naval-station-great-lakes-host-ice-immigration-agents/17682128/
— CPD prepares for possible arrival of National Guard troops, immigration enforcement expected. Border czar says Chicago could be targeted for immigration enforcement next week.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-department-preps-deployment-national-guard-troops-orders-president-donald-trump/17674116/
— Evanston, Oak Park end contracts with license plate reader company under investigation in Illinois. Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/evanston-oak-park-end-contracts-flock-safety-license-plate-reader-company-investigation-illinois/17678137/

WTTW
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/28/trump-administration-plans-big-immigration-enforcement-operation-chicago-soon-next-week
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their cashless bail.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/28/trump-threatens-illinois-federal-funding-over-elimination-cash-bail-here-s-what-know

CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their cashless bail.
https://chicagocrusader.com/illinois-lawmakers-slam-trumps-executive-order-targeting-pretrial-reform/
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasing reject federal law.
https://chicagocrusader.com/pritzker-mayor-trump-come-to-chicago-national-guard-chicago/

MILWAUKEE INDEPENDENT
— Democrat leaders blame Republicans for Canadian wildfires.
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/republicans-vent-outrage-canada-wildfires-choking-u-s-cities-denying-climate-change/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Unions fight back as Trump terminates federal workers’ union rights. GAO unionized in 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, if GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-29/unions-fight-back-as-trump-terminates-federal-workers-union-rights

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime
https://www.wandtv.com/news/life-insurance-companies-can-no-longer-discriminate-against-people-with-criminal-records-under-illinois-law/article_ccb9d1fa-7507-4a46-8798-b45b9bbebe61.html

CAPITOL FAX
— 70 percent of Chicagoans oppose sending in the Army, 65 percent oppose National Guard intervention
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/29/m3-poll-70-percent-of-chicagoans-oppose-sending-in-the-army-65-percent-oppose-national-guard-intervention/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-580/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker claims Trump plans election interference with troop deployment
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_9e694fb9-3034-4123-84ad-f0377d604378.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
—  Commentary on Pitches Made to “Take Back the Republican Party” From a Friend of McHenry County Blog: Another view on Republican precinct committeemen
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/29/commentary-on-pitches-made-to-take-back-the-republican-party/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman confessed he was ‘tired of being trans’: ‘I wish I never brain-washed myself.’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/28/us-news/minneapolis-school-shooter-robin-westman-confessed-he-was-tired-of-being-trans/
— Embattled Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook hit with 2nd criminal referral from Trump housing director. All that my Democrat GAO superiors could use to justify their forcing me to retire was the adverse actions that they had taken against me. They had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance. They had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They had kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them. They had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. All that my Democrat IRS superiors could use to justify their never promoting me beyond GS-12 was the adverse actions that they had taken against me. They had disallowed my travel vouchers and my education deductions. All that my Democrat Post Office superiors could use to justify their forcing me to resign was the adverse actions that they had taken against me. They had disallowed my sick leave requests. They falsely claimed that I was not available to work enough part-time hours.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/us-news/federal-reserve-gov-lisa-cook-hit-with-2nd-criminal-referral-from-trump-housing-director/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Air Force reverses Biden-era snub to provide funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/28/air-force-reverses-biden-era-snub-to-provide-funeral-honors-to-ashli-babbitt-1580760/

BREITBART
— ABC News, CNN Downplay Minneapolis Shooter’s Trump, Catholic Hatred. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/27/abc-news-cnn-downplay-minneapolis-shooters-trump-catholic-hatred/

COLLEGE FIX
— Med schools still accept Black students with lower MCAT scores than rejected Asians, Whites.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/med-schools-still-accept-black-students-with-lower-mcats-than-rejected-asians-whites/

DAILY SIGNAL
— The Left’s Misdefinition of Americanism
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/29/lefts-misdefinition-americanism/

FOX BUSINESS
— Chicago leaders reject Trump’s crime aid because they don’t want him to succeed.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6377631882112

FOX NEWS
— Obama slams Trump’s use of National Guard to help cities fight crime as ‘dangerous trend’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-slams-trumps-use-national-guard-help-cities-fight-crime-dangerous-trend
— Vance accuses Newsom of being a ‘cheap imitation’ of Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/media/vance-accuses-newsom-being-cheap-imitation-trump
— Trump floats holding Republican National Convention before midterm elections. President announces consideration of pre-midterm gathering while touting party fundraising success.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-floats-holding-republican-national-convention-before-midterm-elections
— Families devastated as shooter’s disturbing motive emerges
https://www.foxnews.com/us/grieving-father-calls-minneapolis-shooter-coward-took-life-8-year-old-son-fletcher-mass

LIFE NEWS
— Pope Leo Tells Catholic Politicians: You Can’t be Catholic and Pro-Abortion. I should write about Catholic Republican politicians in Illinois who promote abortion. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/08/28/pope-leo-tells-catholic-politicians-you-cant-be-catholic-and-pro-abortion/

REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— China’s Elite Students Are Gaming the System and American Students Are Paying the Price
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/08/29/chinas_elite_students_are_gaming_the_system_and_american_students_are_paying_the_price_1131741.html

WASHINGTON STAND
— New Illinois Law Turning College Campuses into Abortion Pill Distribution Centers.
https://washingtonstand.com/article/new-illinois-law-turns-college-campuses-into-abortion-distribution-centers

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Journal details warning signs, violent obsessions of Minneapolis shooter
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/us/journal-minneapolis-shooter-robin-westman-invs

ABC NEW YORK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans cause everyone’s problems.
https://abc7ny.com/post/rev-al-sharpton-holds-march-economic-justice-wall-street-manhattan/17670804/

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders say no red flags were raised before Minneapolis church shooter amassed an arsenal of guns.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigators-say-no-red-flags-raised-minneapolis-church-shooter-rcna227856

CBS NEWS
— To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors did not attack me publicly. They took adverse actions against me. They a) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and e) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-noem-bondi-trump-administration-baseless-public-attacks/

MSN
— I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/censorship-of-black-history-is-fascist/ar-AA1L74eG

MSNBC
— Ramirez: I represent part of Chicago in Congress. Trump wants us scared and silent. We don’t need the president’s troops on our streets.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-chicago-national-guard-delia-ramirez-rcna227833

NEW YORK TIMES
— 2 Weeks, 1,000 Arrests: How a Surge of Feds Changed D.C. Policing. Crime has fallen since federal agents started policing the streets of Washington in large numbers. Court records show that they have been involved in about a third of arrests that resulted in prosecution, many of them for minor offenses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/federal-crackdown-washington-dc-arrest-data.html
— Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections. GAO unionized in 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, if GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-union-protections.html
— Trump Fires Officials. Democrats ever-increasingly run GAO. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired. While I worked for them 1980-1997, they ever-increasingly got rid of GAO’s remaining Republican employees. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/opinion/trump-facts-statistics-data.html
— Mamdani Widens Fund-Raising Lead
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/nyregion/mamdani-adams-cuomo-money.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/black-parents-washington-dc-crackdown-federal-law-enforcement.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/opinion/dc-trump-washington.html
— Trump has fired another official without giving a reason. GAO works for Congress. Officially, my Democrat GAO superiors gave no reason why they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. However, they hinted/implied that they forced me to retire because that was what Congress wanted them to do. They also hinted/implied it was a) because of Gingrich-led budget cuts, c) because they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) because they delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, e) because they kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and e) because they forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. The aforesaid is very significant because I had earned a) three job-related master’s degrees, b) six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-related professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/business/trump-robert-primus-stb-board-fired.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump floats an unusual Republican National Convention before the midterms. Democrats are also considering holding such a gathering before the November 2026 elections.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/28/trump-republican-convention-midterm-elections/
— RISE Dispensary, a medical marijuana shop, said in a statement that Westman had worked at a Minnesota store for several months this year, but was not employed at the time of the shooting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/27/robin-westman-minneapolis-school-shooting/
—  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/29/trump-immigration-detention-europe-reform-uk/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/08/29/trump-national-guard-crime-stats/befd8050-848d-11f0-a8f4-28ba053d904b_story.html
— D.C. mayor praises federal surge, angering residents and pleasing Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/28/federal-police-surge-mayor-bowser-crime-decrease/

USA TODAY
— Lisa Cook files federal lawsuit to fight Trump firing her from Fed. I filed Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) in 1998 knowing full-well that that the deck was stacked against me. The lawsuit enabled me to put my evidence in the record.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/28/lisa-cook-lawsuit-fed-trump/85864406007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Wants to Fight Chicago Crime. JB Pritzker Says Stay Out
https://www.wsj.com/video/wsj-opinion-trump-wants-to-fight-chicago-crime-jb-pritzker-says-stay-out/98C35770-8349-4C83-901A-3DCEB3C12C3D
— Another Mass Shooting in a ‘Gun-Free Zone’  The Minneapolis killer made the point in his manifesto. The media insist on ignoring it.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/another-mass-shooting-in-a-gun-free-zone-55e29255

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/play-game-change-game-leave-game-pathways-black-empowerment-prosperity-and-joy

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda

SPLC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emmett Till to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/emmett-till-70th-anniversary-murder/

NDTV
— India Uses US Dollars To Buy Russian Crude Oil.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/india-using-us-dollars-to-buy-russian-oil-trump-adviser-peter-navarros-new-tariff-rant-9179270

TIMES OF INDIA
— Did Robin Westman’s ‘transition’ drugs fuel Minneapolis shooting? RFK Jr. blames antidepressants; probe underway.  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/did-robin-westmans-transition-drugs-fuel-minneapolis-shooting-rfk-jr-blames-antidepressants-probe-under-way/articleshow/123578561.cms