FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Mullin plan to punish sanctuary jurisdictions by targeting their airports faces fierce headwinds. ‘We shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities,’ Mullin said.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dhs-security-secretary-markwayne-mullin-plan-punish-sanctuary-jurisdictions-targeting-airports-faces-pushback/19213439/
— DOJ says it will abide by ruling that temporarily paused ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund. The statement came amid reports that the DOJ was backing away from the fund.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/doj-says-will-abide-ruling-temporarily-paused-anti-weaponization-fund/19213909/
FOX32
— Federal lawsuit targets major cannabis companies. A federal class-action lawsuit is drawing comparisons between the cannabis industry and big tobacco.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-dh28yb2ofvslr1nh
— Best used cars for teen drivers in 2026. DD: I bought a 1958 Chevrolet BelAir when I was 16 in 1964 with money I earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, poor man’s GTO, when I was 17 with money I earned washing dishes. I bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 when I was 19 with money I earned delivering mail. I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE when I was 20 with money I earned delivering mail.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/experts-rank-best-used-cars-teen-drivers-2026
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & WBEZ
— Housing program to give eligible Chicagoans up to $70,000 toward down payment. The HomeGrown Purchase Assistance Grant comes at a time when homeownership is becoming increasingly out of reach for many city residents. DD: When I was 24 in 1972, HUD made the new townhome that I bought in University Park ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ ) affordable. I could not have afforded to buy that townhome if it had cost more. In today’s dollars, I paid about $180,000 for it. In today’s dollars, my IRS Revenue Officer salary had increased from $56,409/year to $68,999/year. The down payment came from what I had earned working for IRS for 15 months and for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. According to Zillow, the townhome is currently worth $94,200. That says worlds about real estate values in University Park.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2026/06/01/homegrown-purchase-assistance-program-eligible-chicagoans-70-000-down-payment
https://www.wbez.org/housing/2026/06/01/homegrown-purchase-assistance-program-eligible-chicagoans-70-000-down-payment
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pentagon policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service, appeals court panel rules
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/01/pentagon-transgender-troops/
— Pritzker’s multiunit housing plans for Illinois stall in Springfield’s spring session. DD: Since 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my Wheaton precinct on the south side of Roosevelt Road.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/01/pritzker-build-housing-bill-fails/
DAILY HERALD
— How DuPage County plans to fight rat invasion near Bensenville
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260601/news/how-dupage-county-plans-to-fight-rat-invasion-near-bensenville/
SOUTHERN & EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Area Republican Legislators Unhappy with More Taxes and Bigger State Budget
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2026/06/01/area-republican-legislators-unhappy-with-more-taxes-and-bigger-state-budget/
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/illinois-budget-opposition-metro-east-gop-22286138.php
RIVER BENDER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzkers-statement-on-passage-of-electronic-medical-records-protection-legislation-93884.cfm
CHICAGO READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagoreader.com/city-life/queers-on-the-rocks/
CHAMBANA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chambanatoday.com/news/298892-champaign-urbana-celebrates-pride-month-with-support-visibility-and-community/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois lawmakers give raises to diversity commissioners they criticized
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1b0e2c94-cdf7-40c3-9b1e-8c0e09df6575.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use buyouts and early retirement to get rid of employees who are Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pension-buyout-extension-passes-forecast-to-save-1-4-billion/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Freedom Held the Line: How ISRA Delivered Major Victories for Illinois Gun Owners in 2026.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/freedom-held-the-line-how-isra-delivered-major-victories-for-illinois-gun-owners-in-2026.html
— Democrat Dysfunction May Be Driving the Chicago Bears to Indiana
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/democrat-dysfunction-may-be-driving-the-chicago-bears-to-indiana.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Justice Department to drop Anti-Weaponization Fund in compliance with court ruling
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/1/justice-department-drop-anti-weaponization-fund-compliance-court/
— American deaths at the hands of non-English-speaking drivers mount. When will Congress pass ‘Dalilah’s Law’? DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/1/american-deaths-hands-non-english-speaking-drivers-mount/
— American companies should hire Americans first. Foreign worker pipelines have devalued U.S. degrees and displaced skilled employees. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/31/american-companies-hire-americans-first/
— DD: My critics/opponents look down on the working class. I was a member of the working class 1964-1997. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critic/opponents.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/1/letter-editor-anyone-works-hard-earns-paycheck-working-class/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin pushed to probe CUNY ‘Black Male’ program for blocking out other students
https://nypost.com/2026/06/01/us-news/trump-justice-dept-urged-to-probe-cuny-black-male-initiative-as-exclusionary/
— Teens can learn more from retail and service work than at a fancy summer internship in an office. DD: When you were young, what did you do after-school, weekends, and summers? I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid proves that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/31/opinion/why-teens-should-skip-the-fancy-summer-internship-in-an-office/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— The 50 best conservative places to live in America. DD: Barrington Hills is on the list. Conservative places promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration law enforcement, anti-vice, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Conservative places do not promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, or Affirmative Action, DEI, or wokeness/wokeism, that is, they do not promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/the-50-best-conservative-places-to-live-in-america-according-to-data/ss-AA245laC
USA TODAY
— Pence warns of GOP ‘departure’ from conservative principles
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/31/republican-party-populism-mike-pence-donald-trump/90343125007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Administration Signals ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund About-Face.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/trump-administration-signals-anti-weaponization-fund-about-face-f775f25c
— Hegseth Blocks Eight Navy Senior Officer Promotions. The defense secretary is trying to promote at least one member of his inner circle who was previously passed over for promotion several times. DD: I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I was an IRS employee 1975-1980 and a GAO employee 1980-1997. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-blocks-eight-navy-senior-officer-promotions-aa536aa2
JD SUPRA
— EEOC wants to eliminate safe harbor for voluntary affirmative action plans. DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eeoc-wants-to-eliminate-safe-harbor-for-9517970/
NEW YORKER
— Patriotism. DD: What makes you patriotic? For me, it includes my being able to earn enough money to do the following even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, he died when he was 47 and I was 21, and my mother never attended high school: a) work my way through college and earn a bachelor’s degree in management, master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, a CPA certificate, a Certified Internal Auditor certificate, four more job-related professional certifications, and a CPA license, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., and c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/01/how-problematic-is-patriotism
POLITICO
— Trump administration retreats on ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/01/trump-weaponization-fund-retreat-00944656
FROM FOREIGN SOURSES
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— In promoting his new book, Mike Pence cautions that the Republican Party faces an internal divide.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/what-mike-pence-said-about-trump-and-jd-vance-explosive-claims-spark-gop-debate-new-threat-to-101780254624294-amp.html
FROM OTHER SOURCES
GMAC
— Work experience. DD: For Democrat and RINO employers, hiring, retaining, and promoting young minorities and young females is their top priority. Because young minorities and young females have less work experience, Democrat and RINO employers devalue work experience. Because I am not a minority or female, my Democrat GAO superiors wasted the almost 18 years of work experience that I had. My Democrat IRS superiors wasted the almost 9 years of work experience that I had. And my Democrat Post Office superiors wasted the almost 3 years of work experience that I had.
https://www.gmac.com/resources/learners/how-to-apply/application-guidance/mba-work-experience
