FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Johnson, Pritzker, other local leaders ponder steps to counter potential Pentagon plans to deploy National Guard in Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/24/illinois-chicago-leaders-react-trump-national-guard-deployment/
CRAINS’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Because of Democrat and RINO leadership failures, more than 1.8 million people (15%) in Illinois rely on SNAP to help buy food.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-state-and-local-food-policy/snap-changes-expected-shake-illinois-food-system
ABC7
— Pentagon planning National Guard deployment in Chicago, Mayor Johnson responds
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-responds-washington-post-report-president-donald-trump-preparing-deploy-national-guard-troops/17635877/
NBC5
— Mayor Johnson: Chicago military deployment would be ‘flagrant violation’ of Constitution
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-military-deployment-would-be-flagrant-violation-of-constitution-mayor/3814180/
CBS2
— 4 dead, 19 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-aug-22-to-25/
FOX32
— Chicago residents split on National Guard presence as officials resist Trump’s plan
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-residents-split-national-guard-presence-officials-resist-trumps-plan
25 NEWS NOW
— Duckworth sides with Chicago criminals against Trump
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/24/duckworth-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-comes-trumps-authoritarian-playbook/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-575/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Another $26 Billion of Debt Has Magically Disappeared From Illinois Financial Statements
https://wirepoints.org/poof-another-26-billion-of-debt-has-magically-disappeared-from-illinois-financial-statements-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do your critics/opponents do? My critics/opponents ever-increasingly paint themselves as being protectors of those who are the following, if not champions of those who are the following: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.golillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— From Murder Capital to Migrant Crisis: Why Trump Must Deploy the National Guard to Chicago
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/from-murder-capital-to-migrant-crisis-why-trump-must-deploy-the-national-guard-to-chicago.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Partner with us’: Rahm Emanuel on potential National Guard deployment to Chicago
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/24/rahm-emanuel-ex-chicago-mayor-questions-potential-deployment-national/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Vance says GOP redistricting a ‘push back’ to Democrats ‘aggressively’ gerrymandering. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander. Pritzker has had tremendous success gerrymandering Illinois.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3780141/vance-republican-redistricting-democrats-gerrymandering/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrats’ policies are the problem
https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/opinion/democrats-wokeism-is-annoying-but-their-policies-are-the-problem/
— House Dem leader Jeffries accuses Trump of trying to ‘steal’ midterms with redistricting. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander. Pritzker has had tremendous success gerrymandering Illinois.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/us-news/hakeem-jeffries-accuses-trump-of-trying-to-steal-midterms/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The fall of wokeness
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/the_fall_of_wokeness.html
— The Return of Eugenics
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_return_of_eugenics.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— 3 Reasons True Christians Must Oppose Transgender Orthodoxy
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/24/why-true-christians-must-reject-cruel-dehumanizing-false-gospel-transgender-orthodoxy/
— Court Upholds Ban on ‘Unusually Dangerous Weapons’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/24/federal-court-upholds-connecticut-ban-on-assault-weapons/
— What Is the Democrat Alternative to Trump?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/22/what-is-democrat-alternative-trump/
— Unhinged Washington Protesters Show Why Democrats Are Losing Ground
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/23/unhinged-washington-protesters-show-why-democrats-are-losing-ground/
— US an Outlier on Mail-In Voting Among Advanced Democracies
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/24/trump-wants-get-rid-mail-ballots-most-other-countries-already-have/
— Mamdani Surges Ahead in NYC Race, Promises to Dismantle Traditional Policing
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/24/mamdani-surges-ahead-in-nyc-race-promises-to-dismantle-traditional-policing/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Modern Radicals Diminish Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/modern-radicals-diminish-martin-luther-king-jr-s-message/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrats are on the wrong side of normal. The people — they’re out of step with the norms of society. To vote for Democrats is to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/24/reince_priebus_the_electoral_elephant_in_the_room_is_democrats_are_on_the_wrong_side_of_normal.html
TOWNHALL
— Crackdown and Clean-Up in DC
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2025/08/25/crackdown-and-clean-up-in-dc-n2662267
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump to sign order targeting cashless bail
https://thehill.com/homenews/5468513-donald-trump-cashless-bail/
CNN
— Chicago Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Chicago criminals. How has Chicago crime impacted you? The theft of my 1969 Dodge Charger SE while I worked for IRS in Chicago in 1971 had a big impact on me. The theft of my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air while I worked for IRS in Chicago in 1973 had a big impact on me.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/politics/trump-crime-washington-dc-chicago-baltimore-national-guard-analysis
MSN
— More Americans applying for refugee status in Canada
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-americans-applying-for-refugee-status-in-canada-data-shows/ar-AA1KYyey
AOL
— OPM has announced that federal employees will no longer be required to send a “5 things” email at the end of each working week, during which they were expected to summarize their work and list five things they accomplished. What do you accomplish? I put together and send out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter each and every morning, and when warranted, an evening edition too.
https://www.aol.com/white-house-ends-controversial-practice-140747345.html
ABC NEWS
— Four ways ICE is training new agents and scaling up. I should write about the 6 months of training that IRS gave me in 1971 to be a GS-7 Revenue Officer, currently $55,850/year.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ways-ice-training-new-agents-scaling-124929833
THE HILL & REUTERS & AOL & POLITICO & NBC NEWS & YAHOO & MSN & LOS ANGELES TIMES & ABC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander. Pritzker has had tremendous success gerrymandering Illinois.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5465782-partisan-gerrymandering-democracy-warning/
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5466970-dont-forget-who-unleashed-the-partisan-gerrymandering-war/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5467859-vance-republicans-fairness-congressional-map/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-redistricting-push-could-bring-decades-republican-rule-us-house-2025-08-24/
https://www.aol.com/news/political-gerrymandering-legal-083543528.html
https://www.aol.com/democrats-gavin-newsom-win-gold-095500751.html
https://www.aol.com/majority-dems-gerrymandering-never-acceptable-141205887.html
https://www.aol.com/newsom-announces-liberation-day-november-223808887.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/24/jeffries-democratic-redistricting-texas-california-00521839
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/jd-vance-defends-gop-redistricting-democrats-have-gerrymandered-their-states-245658693958
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-congressional-map-faces-court-220303211.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-supreme-court-declines-to-halt-dem-led-gerrymandering-efforts-in-the-state/ar-AA1KVOrp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-redraws-congressional-map-here-s-the-worst-gerrymanders-in-the-us/ar-AA1KX0Pj
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-24/california-redistricting-newsom-gerrymander-citizens-commission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulfEIZ9wYo
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Says Chicago and New York Are Next for Federal Crackdown on Crime. President Trump wants to use Washington as a template to target crime in cities around the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-chicago-new-york-crime.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/trump-crime-national-guard-community.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that deportations reach a new high
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/08/21/us/trump-deportations-summer-data-immigration-arrests.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders oppose vetting of visa holders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/continuous-vetting-visa-holders.html
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/trump-far-right.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Chicago leaders denounce Pentagon plans for military deployment in city. Chicago’s leaders sharply criticized Pentagon proposals that The Washington Post reported could deploy thousands of troops there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/24/chicago-national-guard-deployment/
— The government’s Intel stake is antithetical to American greatness. The Trump-engineered 10% stake in long-struggling Intel is a dangerous intrusion of government into private enterprise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/24/trump-intel-government-marketplace/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/23/trump-republicans-midterms-redistricting/85769182007/
— President Trump threatens Chris Christie with new ‘Bridgegate’ investigation. My Democrat IRS superiors were furious when GAO ruled in my favor in Diersen v. IRS in 1977. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11-0 & https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11 To punish me, they did not promote me beyond GS-12. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. They badmouthed me to GAO when I applied to transfer to GAO in 1980.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/24/donald-trump-chris-christie-bridgegate-investigation/85811006007/
— Five ways students can avoid or reduce college debt. Back in the good old days, I was able to work myself through college delivering mail par-time and graduate debt-free from NIU owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970. I would not have been able to do that if my parents had not provided me with room and board in their Crete home while took courses at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/15/ways-to-avoid-reduce-college-debt/85674155007/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/23/trump-republicans-midterms-redistricting/85769182007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Red vs. Blue: Who’s Next in the Redistricting Fight. Republican and Democratic legislatures consider new maps to tilt the U.S. House their way.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/texas-california-redistricting-congressional-maps-fd2af203
— FRONT PAGE: Trump’s Next Fight With Universities: Racial ‘Proxies’ in Admissions. Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to give preference to Democrats and to RINOs, that is, to get rid of Republicans. Because Democrats and RINOs are far more of the following than Republicans, Democrats and RINOs give them preference big time: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about how Democrats and RINOs above me who have given the most preference to those who are the aforesaid since the 1960s.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trumps-next-fight-with-universities-racial-proxies-in-admissions-c8677633
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In late July, Attorney General Pam Bondi warned in a memo against using “unlawful proxies” for race—such as geography or applicant essays on overcoming hardships—in admissions. Soon after, the U.S. Education Department announced it would require universities to report new data on applicants, broken down by race, to “ensure race-based preferences are not used.”)
— Training Speeds Up as ICE Ramps Up’ I should write about the 6 months of training that IRS gave me in 1971 to be a GS-7 Revenue Officer, currently $55,850/year.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/we-spent-six-hours-at-ice-training-school-heres-what-we-learned-bdbc175d
— Scientists Strip ‘Diversity’ Language From Research to Keep Federal Grants. To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/health/scientists-are-removing-dei-language-to-keep-federal-grants-d092833b
— The Doctors Who Cry ‘Science’ The AMA aligns itself with the left on abortion, climate, transgenderism and affirmative action.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-doctors-who-cry-science-506d9b4e
FORBES
— Bernie Sanders Holds Rally In Chicago After Trump Threatens To Send Troops There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohnTvh50YGo
BLOOMBERG
— Trump Threatens NBC, ABC Licenses Over News Coverage. My critics/opponents do not threaten me, instead, they have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me. In 2024, they had their operatives and their dupes throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they had their operatives and their dupes end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-nbc-abc-licenses-030745625.html
WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— For Democrats. education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/24/higher-education-trump/
POLITICO
— Democrats: Federal agency watchdogs burdened by staff losses. Lawmakers say budget cuts, hiring freezes and departures are hollowing out inspectors general offices. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/08/18/dems-agency-watchdogs-burdened-by-staff-losses-00513534
MIRROR
— Staggering number of Americans applying for refugee status in Canada since Trump took office
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/staggering-number-americans-applying-refugee-1347603
HUFFINGTON POST
— Chicago Mayor Blasts Trump Military Threats As ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of Constitution. “The city of Chicago does not need a military occupation,” he said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brandon-johnson-chicago-trump-national-guard_n_68ab93b3e4b0176c52bfa5f7
GOOGLE AI
— Advocate conservative principles I advocate conservative principles. I advocate the Republican Party platform. My critics/opponents reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform. I should write about my critics/opponents and the planks that they reject. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.google.com/search?q=advocate+conservative+principles
— Slaves built America. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In defense of my ancestors, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois. That on my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago for 10 years before they homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township. That on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border before they bought that farm.
https://www.google.com/search?q=slaves+built+america
