January 23, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DOJ vows to push immigration enforcement in Chicago, other sanctuary cities
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-deportations-fears-raids-loom-public-schools-returns-classes-trump-authorizes-ice-target/15825308/
— Trump wipes out federal DEI programs  (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always promoted DEI.)
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/donald-trump-2nd-term-live-updates-more-executive-action-planned-amid-day-1-fallout/15820865/
— Pritzker criticizes President Trump’s courting of tech CEOs, lack of communication
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jb-pritzker-news-illinois-governor-criticizes-president-donald-trumps-courting-tech-ceos-lack-communication/15825993/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/glaad-award-nominations-agatha-abbott-shadows-celebrate-lgbtq-visibility/15826462/

NBC5
— DEI is race and gender based preference giving, that is, DEI is patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. DEI is what Democrats and RINOs use to get in power and to stay in power.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/what-is-a-dei-program-and-what-did-trump-change-heres-an-explainer/3653396/

CBS2
— U.S. border agents told to deport migrants without granting asylum hearings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/u-s-border-agents-told-to-deport-migrants-without-granting-asylum-hearings/

WGN9
— Democrats reject Trump’s election. Democrats reject the rule of law.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-immigrant-protection/
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/dei-policies-rollback-threatens-future-of-minority-women-contractors-in-illinois/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPEuwfQkpo

FOX32
— Trump shuts down US-Mexico border as House poised to pass ‘Laken Riley Act’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1581201
— More than 1,000 active-duty troops will head to southern border
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/active-duty-troops-heading-to-southern-border
— Illinois among states impacted in ICE’s first large-scale arrest operation under Trump administration
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-ice-arrest-operation-trump

WTTW
— White House Orders Federal Government DEI Employees to be Placed on Leave Effective Immediately (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, under the Democrats, the federal government has existed to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/22/white-house-orders-government-dei-employees-be-placed-leave-effective-immediately

WBEZ
— What President Trump’s ‘national energy emergency” means for Illinois
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/01/22/what-president-trumps-national-energy-emergency-means-for-illinois

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago illegals stay home from work to avoid potential ICE arrests
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/daywatch-immigrants-stay-home-from-work-to-avoid-potential-ice-arrests/
— Chicago schools, churches and hospitals vow to protect migrants in US illegally after Trump lifts ban that limited immigration arrests in safe spaces (COMMENT: Chicago Democrats ever-increasingly reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/chicago-trump-immigration-fears-deportation/
— Chicago Public Media offering buyouts to Sun-Times editorial staffers, WBEZ business employees (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/chicago-public-media-buyouts-sun-times-wbez/
— TikTok lives on. So does its harmful effect on kids.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/23/editorial-tiktok-lives-on-so-does-its-harmful-effect-on-kids/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/01/22/bullying-hate-speech-schools-already-bad-will-worsen-second-donald-trump-era-gina-caneva

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly manipulate/dominate religious leaders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250122/nation-and-world-politics/trump-demands-an-apology-from-bishop-who-asked-him-to-have-mercy-on-lgbtq-people-and-migrants/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— A new Illinois pension reform bill would increase contributions to the state’s three largest retirement systems by a total of nearly $30 billion through fiscal year 2045, according to an actuarial impact study by Segal Group.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-tier-2-pension-reform-could-cost-30-billion-cogfa

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Labor’s dream: More money for higher pension benefits
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-labors-dream-more-money-for-higher-pension-benefits/article_f6aa7418-d83f-11ef-9621-7bd973968aa2.html

WCIA
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wcia.com/news/state-news/illinois-lgbtq-organization-responds-to-trump-executive-order-slashing-gender-identity-protections/

WREX
— To what extent do those who enforce laws in your county, township, municipality, and school district reject Trump’s election, and therefore, reject the rule of law? While I was an IRS Revenue Officer  ( SEE: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/tax-collection-enforcement ) 1971-1980, I enforced federal tax laws. During my last 5 1/2 years, I worked at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.wrex.com/news/rockford-police-chief-releases-statement-explaining-stance-on-enforcing-immigration-laws/article_004bbdd8-d809-11ef-bdb4-7fe77ee28417.html
(FROM IRS: As a Revenue Officer, you will conduct tax related civil enforcement investigations, and will be trained in tax law, collection, and civil investigative techniques, to collect delinquent taxes and tax returns. Most of your work is in the field, where you will interact with taxpayers, taxpayer representatives, and third parties at their residences and/or places of business. You will protect taxpayers’ rights, counsel taxpayers on their obligations, and determine how to resolve tax delinquencies.)

WSIL TV
— DEI is race and gender based preference giving, that is, DEI is patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/what-is-dei-and-why-is-it-dividing-america/article_48a7c66a-9773-50de-bc00-4184de4955e9.html

FOX2 WCIA
— Illinois Democrat lawmakers introduce bill to decriminalize prostitution
https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/illinois-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-decriminalize-prostitution/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-democratic-lawmakers-propose-bill-of-rights-for-sex-workers/ar-AA1xgj1Y

WPSD
— Illinois, State Rep. Patrick Windhorst, R-Metropolis, launches petition against decriminalizing prostitution
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/illinois-rep-launches-petition-against-decriminalizing-sex-work-citing-safety-concerns/article_ec9ef8a2-d454-11ef-8452-6779cb9ef2f9.html

POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, Panel Discussion is planned Jan. 31. Moderated by former Illinois Lt. Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti, the panel will include Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart; DuPage County States Attorney Bob Berlin, and Executive Director at Noomi’s House, Blythe Struck. The DuPage County Historical Museum is located at 102 E. Wesley Street in Wheaton. The Public is invited. (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote prostitution.)
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2025/01/22/january-is-human-trafficking-prevention-month-panel-discussion-is-planned-jan-31/147476

ELMHURST PATCH
— Dennis Reboletti, supervisor of Addison Township, has seen a big increase in his pay since being elected to the position in 2016. . .His supervisor’s salary started at $54,000. Before his re-election, the board voted unanimously to increase the position’s pay to $79,990, a 48 percent increase. Earlier this month, Patch reported that the supervisor’s pay was going up to $124,900 with the new term starting after the April 1 election. . .According to the township’s latest salary resolution, the position in question is now listed as “Supervisor/Highway Commissioner.”
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/elmhurst-politician-sees-pay-rise-lot

BLACK PRESS
— In a historic step toward economic justice and accountability, Illinois State Representative Sonya Harper has introduced HB1227 to create the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, marking a major milestone in the fight for reparative justice. This legislation means that any corporation or institution with ties to enslavement or the transatlantic slave trade discloses its historical involvement and provides redress if it wishes to do business with the State of Illinois. (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, Illinois Democrats will force everyone in Illinois to disclose their ties to enslavement or the transatlantic slave trade. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped and then bought and operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses just north of downtown Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store.)
https://blackpressusa.com/press-room-illinois-introduces-landmark-slavery-disclosure-and-redress-bill-hb1227-press-conference-set-for-january-28/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Icing out ICE at the DMV. Nearly 180,000 people have taken advantage of a new law allowing them to apply for a driver’s license or state ID that does not identify their immigration status. The secretary of state by law isn’t sharing the paperwork.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/01/23/illinois-drivers-licenses-dont-identify-undocumented-people-00200187

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-441/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-233/
— Illinois-related Trump coverage roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/22/illinois-related-trump-coverage-roundup/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Do you live in Illinois? Did you vote for Trump? If you live in Illinois and you voted for Trump, what are you doing to protect yourself from Pritzker? Pritzker ever-increasingly makes it clear that he is going to get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump. What makes you more vulnerable? The less money that you have, the more vulnerable that you are. The fewer who voted for Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct, the more vulnerable that you are. In my precinct, only 373 voted for Trump, but 478 voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Everyone knows that virtually all asylum and refugee claims are false. Everyone knows that citizens of foreign countries come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally because Democrat and RINO leaders want them to and because they know that Democrat and RINO leaders will give free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free education, free transportation, free etc., Everyone knows a) that virtually all illegals want/need/demand tremendous government assistance, b) that virtually all illegals lack education and/or job skills, and c) that many if not most illegals have health and/or other problems. Democrat leaders want illegals because sooner or later, if not already, illegals vote for Democrats. RINOs want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPONTS
— 45% of Illinoisans voted for Trump, those voters can be powerful base of advocates for change
https://wirepoints.org/theres-45-of-people-that-voted-for-trump-those-voters-can-be-powerful-base-of-advocates-for-change-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-newstalkstl/
— Trump’s deportations won’t create ‘chaos,’ Illinois’ sanctuary policies already create chaos
https://wirepoints.org/trumps-deportations-wont-create-chaos-illinois-sanctuary-policies-already-create-chaos-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Trump brings Stellantis jobs to Illinois. Pritzker takes credit.
https://wirepoints.org/trump-brings-stellantis-jobs-to-illinois-pritzker-takes-credit-wirepoints-quickpoint/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Richard Tado Sends Postcard Advancing His Candidacy for Algonquin Township Supervisor
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/22/richard-tado-sends-postcard-advancing-his-candidacy-for-algonquin-township-supervisor/
— Political Money Poured into Democrat Kelli Wegener’s Campaign to Head McHenry County Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/22/political-money-poured-into-democrat-kelli-wegeners-campaign-to-head-mchenry-county-board/
— Wilcox Questions Need for New State Flag
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/22/wilcox-questions-need-for-new-state-flag/
— 300 Republicans Celebrate Inauguration in Marengo
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/republicans-celebrate-inauguration-in-marengo/
— Feds Accuse Pot Exec, Golf Buddies of Insider Trading
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/feds-accuse-pot-exec-golf-buddies-of-insider-trading/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: Re-Sa
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/projected-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-re-sa/
— Concealed Carry for Visitors May Be Mandated by Republican Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/concealed-carry-for-visitors-may-be-mandated-by-republican-congress/
— Tribune Continues to Protect Biden
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/tribune-continues-to-protect-biden/
— Trump Presidential Source Documents
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/trump-presidential-source-documents/
— How Did Democrat Kelli Wegener Spend $71,000 on Her Campaign to Head County Board after September?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/how-did-democrat-kelli-wegener-spend-71000-on-her-campaign-to-head-county-board-after-september/
— Resentment of “Black Boys” Expressed by Southern Illinois State Rep. Who Voted for MLK Holiday Bill for Lack of Reciprocity on Mineral Extraction Tax Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/black-boy-resentment-expressed-by-southern-illinois-state-rep-who-voted-for-mlk-holiday-bill-for-lack-of-reciprocity-on-mineral-extraction-tax-bill/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WHITE HOUSE
— GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION: Today, President Trump signed an Executive Order that suspends the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-the-states-and-the-american-people-by-closing-the-border-to-illegals-via-proclamation/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump agency says employees are free to say ‘illegal’ and ‘alien’ again
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/dhs-agency-cancels-mayorkas-ban-using-words-like-i/
— Future of DEI up in the air after Trump strips it out of the federal government (COMMENT: In 1971, when I was 22 years old, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/future-dei-air-donald-trump-strips-federal-governm/
— Trump orders 1,500 troops to border
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/trump-orders-1-500-troops-border/
— Russia is turning Latin America against the U.S. with veiled propaganda. Little attention has been paid to the damage Moscow is causing in America’s hemisphere. (COMMENT: In WWIII, which countries will side with Russia and China against America? Those countries are ever-increasingly using their citizens to invade, infiltrate, infest, and destroy America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/russia-turning-latin-america-u-veiled-propaganda/
— Cracking down on illegal immigration will raise wages for lower-income Americans (COMMENT: Illegals drive wages down. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/cracking-illegal-immigration-would-raise-wages-low/
— Blitz on illegal immigration underway with troops to border, DOJ investigating sanctuary cities
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/blitz-illegal-immigration-underway-troops-border-d/
— Trump saves the whales in ‘green energy’ showdown. President bans leases for offshore wind farms blamed for deaths of endangered species.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/trump-saves-whales-green-energy-showdown/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s new policy bans BLM and LGBT pride flags at US embassies and outposts
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3297968/new-policy-bans-blm-lgbt-pride-flags-us-embassies/
— Trump deals a heavy blow to DEI — hopefully it’s lethal (COMMENT: If my Democrat superiors in the federal government had not had Affirmative Action and DEI to use against me, I would have made Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old. Extremely few of my Democrat coworkers earned job-related master’s degrees, professional certifications, or professional licenses. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3297779/trump-deals-heavy-blow-dei-hopefully-lethal/
— Top anti-abortion lawyer talks strategy for new Trump administration
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3297679/top-anti-abortion-lawyer-strategy-new-trump-administration/

NEW YORK POST
— Foot traffic drops 50% in busy Chicago shopping district known as ‘Mexico of the Midwest’ as Trump immigration raids loom
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/foot-traffic-drops-50-in-bustling-chicago-shopping-district-as-trump-immigration-raids-loom/
— ICE arrested 308 illegal migrants — including attempted murderer and a child molester —on Trump’s first full day in office
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/ice-arrested-308-illegal-migrants-on-trumps-first-day-in-office-border-czar-tom-homan-says/
— Trump rips ‘idiot’ Gov. Gavin Newsom over sanctuary cities, management of Calif. before devastating LA wildfires
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/trump-rips-gov-gavin-newsom-for-not-managing-california-forests-before-devastating-la-wildfires-like-a-nuclear-weapon-went-off/
— Egomaniacal Bishop Budde’s woke rant just makes her another liberal pawn aiming to cut down Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/opinion/miranda-devine-egomaniacal-bishop-buddes-woke-rant-just-makes-her-another-liberal-pawn-aiming-to-cut-down-trump/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Donald Trump’s inauguration has revealed the existence of two realities inhabiting the same plane of existence. Normal Americans—largely but not exclusively Republicans—inhabit actual, objective, scientifically examined reality. Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) reality is a Bizzarro World/backward existence where Normal American victims are aggressors and D/s/c aggressors are victims. It’s a world of self-delusion, raging, drooling, and terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/donald_trump_and_alternate_reality.html

AMMOLAND
— Trump Shuts Down Biden’s White House Office of Gun Control
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/01/president-trump-shuts-down-bidens-white-house-office-of-gun-control/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump gives DEI staffers orders to exit by EOD Wednesday, merit-based hiring resumes immediately (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs have long since dumped meritocracy to advance Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/22/trump-gives-dei-staffers-orders-to-exit-by-eod-wednesday-merit-based-hiring-resumes-immediately-1517729/

BLAZE
— 2,000 immigrants from Southern Mexico join caravan in hope of entering US despite Trump’s orders
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-caravan-mexico-new

BREITBART
— Durbin: We Should ‘Encourage’ Government Agencies to Defy Trump DEI Order (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/01/23/durbin-we-should-encourage-government-agencies-to-defy-trump-dei-order/

CENTER SQUARE
— Trump’s ‘invasion’ order includes provisions to implement mass deportation plan. Order puts in place processes for mass deportation, prosecutions, targets sanctuary cities.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_3574f1c8-d8ef-11ef-ba1d-a797bb57ca54.html

DAILY CALLER
— Democrat Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez Says ‘Left’ Is Out For Blood After He Criticized Chicago’s Shielding Of Illegal Migrants From ICE
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/20/chicago-dem-says-left-coming-after-him/

DAILY WIRE
— America’s Golden Age Starts, And The Left Still Goes Woke. Wokeness is now the core philosophy of the Democratic Party.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-golden-age-starts-and-the-left-still-goes-woke
— Woke Bishop’s Anti-Trump Sermon Is The End Result Of A Marxist Plot. Budde used a nonpartisan prayer service to lecture Trump about illegal immigrants, transgenderism.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-bishops-anti-trump-sermon-is-the-end-result-of-a-marxist-plot
— Fake Feminist ‘Bishop’ Turns Inaugural Prayer Service Into Woke Anti-Trump Lecture
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1520
— Crazed Priestess Berates Trump On Wokeness
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mks-ep-1657

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Orders 1,500 More US Troops to Southern Border
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-orders-1500-more-us-troops-to-southern-border-5797029

FOX BUSINESS
— Trump is waging a campaign for meritocracy  (COMMENT: My critics/opponents oppose meritocracy.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5pPtskcZkg
— Federal workers should be hired based on meritocracy (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. If they had promoted employees based on meritocracy, they would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old. Extremely few of my Democrat coworkers earned job-related master’s degrees, professional certifications, or professional licenses. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6367529292112

FOX NEWS
— Trump’s ICE racks up hundreds of arrests, including illegal immigrants arrested for horror crimes. Over 460 arrests were made in the first 33 hours of the administration.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-ice-racks-up-hundreds-arrests-including-illegal-immigrants-arrested-horror-crimes
— Judge Jeanine reacts to woke bishop: Where’s the separation of church and state?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJfke_54KeM

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump’s Mass Deportation Operation Begins with Over 300 Criminal Aliens Rounded Up on Day One
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trumps-mass-deportation-operation-begins-with-over-300-criminal-aliens-rounded-up-on-day-one/
— Trump Speaks with Hannity About Resounding Electoral Victory, Start to Second Term
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-speaks-with-hannity-about-resounding-electoral-victory-start-to-second-term/

NEW AMERICAN
— ICE Collars Hundreds of Illegal-alien Criminals; Summary Deportations at Border Begin
https://thenewamerican.com/us/ice-collars-hundreds-of-illegal-alien-criminals-summary-deportations-at-border-begin/

TOWNHALL
— Trump Is Sure to Infuriate the Left With His Latest Offensive Against ‘Wokeness’ in Government (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors ever-increasingly became woke influencers.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/01/22/state-department-bans-pride-and-black-lives-matter-flags-from-embassies-with-one-flag-policy-n2650957
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Trump administration fired another shot at “woke” influences in the federal government by targeting the display of Black Lives Matter and Pride flags. Newly-appointed State Department Secretary Marco Rubio issued an order establishing a “One Flag Policy” which prohibits the display of any flag other than the American flag on U.S. outposts on American soil and abroad.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Pentagon is sending 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the US-Mexico border
https://apnews.com/article/troops-border-deploy-active-duty-09324578d2b89db5c44e0ba08f42df47

CNN
— US military ordering thousands more troops to southern border
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/us-military-troops-southern-border/index.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/us/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-explained/index.html

NEWSWEEK
— White House Gun Violence Prevention Website Goes Offline
https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-gun-violence-prevention-website-offline-2018801

NBC NEWS
— Trump moves to fire or force out thousands of federal employees  (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors ever-increasingly focused on firing their Republican employees.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5FrLtdd5g

CBS NEWS
— Trump calls bishop a “hater” after sermon directed at president about LGBTQ rights, immigration (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump. 77 million voted for Trump last year.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-calls-bishop-a-hater-after-sermon-directed-at-president-about-lgbtq-rights-immigration/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Those who voted for Harris/Walz eject Trump’s election and reject the rule of law. 3 million voted for Harris/Walz in Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/sanctuary-cities-trump-immigration.html
— To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group. To give preference to those who are Democrat, 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 is to discriminate against those who are Republican, conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/trump-order-discrimination-federal-hiring.html
— Border, Asylum, Citizenship: Trump Kicks Off Vast Immigration Changes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/trump-birthright-citizenship-border-asylum-immigration.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/trump-dei-corporate-reaction.html
— CNN Plots Major Overhaul as It Enters a New Trump Era (COMMENT: 77 million Americans voted for Trump last year.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/media/cnn-layoffs-mark-thompson.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump to fight invasion by sending 10,000 troops to the southern border. Illegals are invading, not seeking asylum.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/22/trump-asylum-border-troops-immigration/
— Trump targeted federal workers in his opening act, starting with DEI employees. President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at overhauling the federal workforce, but the details will determine who is affected and how. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted DEI big time, that is, they promoted hatred against their Republican employees big time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/22/federal-workers-trump-remote-work/
How Trump’s executive orders could affect federal workers
— Trump has issued orders that terminate DEI positions. Here’s what we know so far. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted DEI big time, that is, they promoted hatred against their Republican employees big time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/22/federal-workers-trump-orders-dei-return-office/
— Layoffs loom as Trump administration orders leave for federal DEI workers. Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they all ever-increasingly became DEI workers.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/22/dei-federal-employees-trump/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/22/anti-lgbtq-politics-youth-mental-health-laws/77858409007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Threatens Sanctions, Tariffs on Russia if Putin Won’t End War in Ukraine. The president urged the Russian leader to make a deal.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-war-truth-social-316f0fe5
— Trump Gives Gun, Drug Agents Deportation Power
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-gives-gun-drug-agents-deportation-power-a62903b4

NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly outrageously, disgustingly, and falsely hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans want to deport all immigrants, both legal and illegal.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5268920/chicago-braces-for-ice-crackdown
— Trump calls DEI programs ‘illegal’ and ‘immoral’. Here’s how he’s ending them. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents promote DEI.)
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5271588/trump-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-federal-workers-government
— How To Survive College When You’re Paying Your Own Way (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always known that I had to work my way through college. But they have nevertheless always outrageously, disgustingly, and falsely hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my parents were filthy rich.)
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729906856/survive-college-when-youre-paying-your-own-way

TASK & PURPOSE
— Two officers were fired for bucking their chain of command. Now they’re going to work at the Pentagon. Along with Trump’s nominee for defense secretary Pete Hegseth, both men have criticized military diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, or DEI. (COMMENT: Since at least the 1960s, the federal government has been a Democrat Party patronage machine. Because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, their reverse discrimination, and their age discrimination, and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit in 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997. Previously, they had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, forced the GAO manager to retire in 1987 who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and promote me in 1986, kept me off audits of IRS for all by 3 years (1986-1988) of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472 pay cut (21%) in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Previously, because of my aforesaid opposition, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. Previously, because of my aforesaid opposition, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969.)
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/trump-pentagon-scheller-lohmeier/

REASON
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump and everyone who voted for him are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump last year.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/22/calling-someone-white-supremacist-in-online-debate-is-opinion/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Calling Someone “White Supremacist” in Online Debate Is Opinion and thus not actionable defamation, unless defendant “implies undisclosed facts by insinuating that the plaintiff” engaged in specific racist acts or made (undisclosed) racist statements. This is the standard view under American defamation law; it had in the past been applied to allegations of Communism, Socialism, etc., but more recently has often been applied to allegations of racism, sexism, white supremacy, etc.)

PBS
— Trump administration moves to begin cutting all federal DEI staff (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, under the Democrats, the federal government has existed to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-moves-to-begin-cutting-all-federal-dei-staff

POLITICO
— Federal DEI websites go dark after Trump order and threat of ‘consequences’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/dei-web-pages-cms-nih-go-dark-00200123

SALON
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/23/donald-on-dei-is-not-about-merit/

GUARDIAN
— DOJ says it will prosecute officials who resist Trump’s immigration crackdown (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump is cracking down on all those in America who do not share Trump’s demographics, and especially those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/justice-department-trump-immigration

DAILY MAIL
— Steve Bannon demands reparations for U.S. tech workers in MAGA row (COMMENT: What about reparations for the non-veteran older Republican White male employees a) who GAO wasted the careers of and got rid of 1980-1997, b) who IRS wasted the careers of and got rid of 1971-1980, and c) who the Post Office wasted the careers of and got rid of 1966-1969?)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/steve-bannon-demands-reparations-for-us-tech-workers-in-maga-row/ar-AA1wJm7s

INDIAN EXPRESS
— Trump says there are only 2 sexes: The transgender debate in sports (COMMENT: Transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete against other transgender athletes.)
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sports/trump-2-sexes-the-transgender-debate-in-sports-9794638/

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.