April 18, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— More than 1,000 international students have had visas or legal status revoked. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have admitted international students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/international-student-visas-revoked/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/naperville-protest-indivisible-trump-musk/.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/photos-day-of-action-protests-at-northwestern-and-uic/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/18/column-donald-trump-due-process-el-salvador-prison-shackelford/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & WBEZ
— Duckworth hammers President Trump over veterans’ care. Duckworth went off on the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to services for veterans. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrat veterans. They promoted the veterans preference and stressed that I had avoided the Vietnam War draft. According to them, Democrat veterans should have gotten all the promotions that I got. I should write about my Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/17/tammy-duckworth-donald-trump-veterans-care-daily-show
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/04/17/u-s-sen-tammy-duckworth-hammers-president-donald-trump-over-veterans-care-in-the-daily-show-interview

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Pritzker says public safety is ‘under attack by Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/17/jb-pritzker-public-safety-trump-administration-chicago-anti-violence-programs
— Nearly 1 in 4 out-of-state abortion patients come to Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/abortion/2025/04/17/out-of-state-abortion-patients-illinois-chicago-guttmacher-institute-roe-v-wade
— Trump’s termination of international student visas jolts Illinois colleges. Trump is erasing students’ immigration status without explanation. School officials at the University of Illinois Chicago, Northwestern and the University of Chicago say they’re not even receiving notification. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have admitted international students instead of me if they could have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/04/17/trump-immigration-visa-terminations-illinois-college-students-uic-northwestern-university-of-chicago
— The Democrat Party ever-increasingly promotes criminals and crime.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/17/donald-trump-detain-deport-pro-palestinian-el-salvador-prison-immigrants-kilmar-garcia-mona-charen
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/17/northwestern-students-and-faculty-protest-trumps-campaign-against-higher-education
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/17/donald-trump-detain-deport-pro-palestinian-el-salvador-prison-immigrants-kilmar-garcia-mona-charen
— Trump guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/17/layoffs-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-cut-trump-government-downsizing
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/04/17/chicagos-small-business-owners-are-stocking-up-and-bracing-for-the-impact-of-trumps-tariffs

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTOS: Lisle trustee candidates separated by single vote, while Queen Bee school board race ends in a tie
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250417/local-politics/lisle-trustee-candidates-separated-by-single-vote-while-queen-bee-school-board-race-ends-in-a-tie/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Abortions in Illinois dipped only slightly in 2024 despite new hurdles. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/illinois-abortion-numbers-dip-slightly-2024

ABC7
— Judge orders suspect detained in DePaul attack on Jewish students
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-adam-erkan-due-court-hate-charges-attack-2-jewish-depaul-students-lincoln-park-campus/16190158/
— Trump says he’s in ‘no rush’ to end tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italys-meloni-will-test-mettle-eu-us-bridge-when-she-meets-trump-washington/16191357/

NBC5
— Suspect accused in DePaul hate crime attack will remain in custody
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suspect-accused-in-depaul-hate-crime-attack-will-remain-in-custody/3725195/

CBS2
— Immigrant rights groups, labor unions plan May Day march to demand end to Trump’s mass deportations. Mass/illegal immigration harms American workers. All the employers that hired me would have hired citizens of foreign countries if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/may-day-protest-rally-immigrant-rights-march-trump-administration-deportations/
— Man charged in hate crime attack on 2 Jewish students at DePaul University to stay in jail
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/adam-erkan-charged-hate-crime-attack-jewish-students-depaul-university/
— Northwestern ever-increasingly fights Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/northwestern-research-grants-trump-federal-funding-freeze/

WTTW
— Nearly 25% of All Out-of-State Abortions Took Place in Illinois Last Year. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/17/nearly-25-all-out-state-abortions-took-place-illinois-last-year-study

WBEZ
— Pritzker says public safety is under attack by Trump. The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. Democrat leaders promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/04/17/governor-jb-pritzker-says-public-safety-is-under-attack-by-trump-administration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/17/northwestern-students-and-faculty-protest-trumps-campaign-against-higher-education

CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Reps. Davis, Ford urge voters to “fight back” to save democracy. If you are a Republican, anticipate/expect that the Democrats in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct will ever-increasingly take more/bigger adverse actions against you to punish you because of Trump.
https://chicagocrusader.com/reps-davis-ford-urge-voters-to-fight-back-to-save-democracy/

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat colleges exist to crank out good little Democrats.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/17/lateststories/funding-freezes-at-northwestern-elite-universities-divide-federal-lawmakers/

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/04/18/grad-students-union-protests-trump/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Jews to promote more hatred against Republicans. I should write about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had using my many Democrat superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-17/wesleyan-university-president-says-trumps-antisemitism-fight-doesnt-protect-jews
— As Trump jettisons its staff, HUD puts its D.C. headquarters up for sale. I should write about how GAO jettisoned its staff in response to Gingrich budget cuts. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-17/as-trump-jettisons-its-staff-hud-puts-its-d-c-headquarters-up-for-sale

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois Dems push banning cops from ticketing students for breaking school rules. Democrats ever-increasingly destroy education.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/17/illinois-dems-push-banning-cops-from-ticketing-students-for-breaking-school-rules/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-the-abrego-garcia-case-pulls-democrats-into-the-immigration-debate-trump-wants-to-have/
— Ben Carson among most liked politicians
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/obama-sanders-ben-carson-among-most-liked-politicians-surveys-show/

WAND TV
— 14-year-old arrested for possession of drugs with intent to deliver on school grounds. Who are the biggest pot pushers in your school district?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/crime/police-14-year-old-arrested-for-possession-of-drugs-with-intent-to-deliver-on-school/article_a7287556-ae24-4e10-b191-ed30506a2b67.html

WTHR
— Bill to invite Illinois counties to join Indiana passes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7I7u9a7xUw

WIFR
— Illinois program can help clear old cannabis records. Pot and gambling destroys people. I led the successful efforts to stop the sale of pot and video gambling  in Wheaton. Those who want pot and/or video gambling in Wheaton want to kill me. I should write about them.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/17/illinois-program-can-help-clear-old-cannabis-records/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Hemp Sales Banned In Parts Of Far South Side As Some Dispensary Owners Urge Tougher State Rules. Hemp sales cut into pot sales.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/17/hemp-sales-banned-in-parts-of-far-south-side-as-some-dispensary-owners-urge-tougher-state-rules/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Conservative activists are trying to get sanctuary status referendums on 2026 ballots, and they expect some Democrats could support them.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/18/activists-want-immigration-on-the-ballot-00298301

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hate Trump. What are your demographics? What will your future be? In Illinois, the more demographics that you share with Trump, the bleaker that your future is. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the sooner that Democrat and RINO leaders will get rid of you. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Trump is in this tariff fight to even the playing field for Illinois farmers.
https://wirepoints.org/trump-is-in-this-tariff-fight-to-even-the-playing-field-for-illinois-farmers-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
— Illinois lawmakers ignore where the real transit savings are
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-ignore-where-the-real-transit-savings-are-wirepoints-quickpoint/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago Flips Red founder Zoe Leigh said Pritzker is the one who is a threat. “He is a threat to the state of Illinois being the governor. Our mayor is a threat to the city of Chicago being the mayor, because they don’t care about the Chicago citizens’ safety. If they did, we wouldn’t be a sanctuary state any more,” Leigh said. . .Chicago Flips Red vice president Danielle Carter-Walters said crimes involving noncitizen migrants were not reported. “They were not recording anything that they did illegally. They just let it slide, let it go away. We know for a fact they are not reporting the illegal alien crime,” Carter-Walters told The Center Square.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7e354608-ed86-430a-8d2f-41b41c7ffc30.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Kane County part of voter wave saying ‘no’ to more taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/kane-county-part-of-voter-wave-saying-no-to-more-taxes/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago’s Failing Mayor Smears President Trump as a “Terrorist” for Threatening to Withhold Federal Funding While Harboring Dangerous Illegal Migrants
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/04/chicagos-failing-mayor-smears-president-trump-as-a-terrorist-for-threatening-to-withhold-federal-funding-while-harboring-dangerous-illegal-migrants.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court expected to consider giving Trump more firing power, overruling 90-year-old precedent. The justices and judges in Diersen v GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) ruled that federal agencies can force their employees to retire, that is, they can fire their employees, a) because they are active members in class action lawsuits that charge them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, or retaliation, b) because they oppose political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination, and/or c) because they are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/17/supreme-court-expected-consider-giving-trump-firing-power-overruling/

NEW YORK POST
— Liberals refuse to date Trump voters, Tesla owners as political polarization ‘on steroids’: DC matchmaker
https://nypost.com/2025/04/17/media/dc-matchmaker-says-political-polarization-on-steroids-as-liberals-refuse-to-date-trump-voters-tesla-owners/
— IRS workers only had to show up to work once a week in person, before Trump took over.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/18/us-news/irs-workers-only-had-to-show-up-to-work-once-a-week-in-person-before-president-trump-took-over/

DAILY CALLER
— Illinois Joins List Of States Who Are Refusing To Comply With Trump’s Executive Order On Trans Athletes
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/17/illinois-donald-trump-executive-order-transgender/

DAILY WIRE
— Most Americans Side With Trump On Illegals, Want Them ALL Deported
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported

CENTER SQUARE
— Bill seeks to take millions in guns from federal tax collectors. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0f1d9642-f8b3-4d06-a894-40c0333fdcb4.html
— DHS, IRS join government funding crackdown on Harvard over antisemitism charges
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_18dc2d32-b8c5-4c86-9640-9f3ae7d4c627.html

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Trump: I Was Elected To Get The Criminals and Murderers Out Of This Country, It Was The Number One Factor
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/17/trump_i_was_elected_to_get_the_criminals_and_murderers_out_of_this_country_it_was_the_number_one_factor.html
— Democrats Hate Trump So Much They Are Willing To Grovel To Illegals
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/17/hawley_democrats_hate_trump_so_much_they_are_willing_to_grovel_to_illegals_personally_escort_every_illegal.html

WHITE HOUSE
— Extension of Hiring Freeze. All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO, the agency was almost always under Gingrich-caused hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely because of that. 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 always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They flushed down their toilets my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. What does Gingrich have to say about that? If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/extension-of-hiring-freeze/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS & CNN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard-5e1e0ffacfa040ccdeaf4e43fb72b5fe
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/politics/powell-trump-federal-reserve-tariffs/index.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-trump-maryland-el-salvador-2090f0dd508bbc3d2f60845842af27b4
— Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-status-international-students-07a10958bf078cb04b59d1fc9a3a27a8

MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders exist to destroy Trump.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-authoritarian-push-stumbles-as-resistance-diversifies-and-grows-237812805755
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3635knGj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWukpq9Y-gE

CBS NEWS
— Trump is drastically shrinking the size and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It is a lot easier to gut a federal agency than to reform it. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-cutting-nearly-90-percent-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/world/asia/china-xi-trump-cambodia.html
— Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/harvard-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/harvard-donors-trump.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html
— With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will. Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/trump-irs.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/18/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard/514a345e-1c0a-11f0-9160-306c35f9b3a8_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Harvard enrolls about 10,000 international students. IIT enrolled me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have enrolled international students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-dhs-international-students-enrollment-e4bc3ea6
— Trump Demands Harvard’s Foreign Funding Records
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-demands-harvards-foreign-funding-records-acc11947

POLITICO
— Trump’s tighter grip on agencies turns to financial regulators. I worked for GAO on audits of federal financial industry regulators for 8 years at the GS-13 Step 3-10 Levels, currently $125,661-$153,151/year.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2025/04/18/trumps-tighter-grip-on-agencies-turns-to-financial-regulators-00298285

LINKEDIN
— My critics/opponents a) attribute their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meritocracy-myth-hiring-already-fair-take-challenge-jenn-tardy-vgdze

INSIDE HIGHER ID
— Public education in America exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/04/18/what-know-about-trumps-funding-threats-colleges

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Trump cannot say ‘you are fired’ to Fed chair Jerome Powell amid economic tensions. For federal employees, the more of the following that they are, the fewer protections that they have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trump-cannot-say-you-are-fired-to-fed-chair-jerome-powell-amid-economic-tensions-heres-why/articleshow/120402427.cms

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.