FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— House Republicans press CPS chief over DEI, transgender student policies
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/10/cps-chief-testifies-congress/
— Is the U.S. redistricting war slowing down? Or is it an arms race with no foreseeable end? DD: Democrat leaders know they cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/09/ncsl-gerrymandering-redistricting-fair-maps-illinois-indiana-virginia-california-new-york-south-carolina/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/06/10/what-to-know-as-cps-ceo-macquline-king-prepares-to-testify-before-congress-under-subpoena
DAILY HERALD
— Pritzker plays offense and defense in game of political football over elusive Bears deal
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260609/news/pritzker-plays-offense-and-defense-in-game-of-political-football-over-elusive-bears-deal/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois Republicans hope to re-engage Bears with new proposals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-chicago-bears-republican-proposals-20260609/
— Downtown Chicago apartment rents hit another record high. DD: When IRS promoted me to a GS-12 (currently $100,059/year) Revenue Officer job in the Loop when I was 25 in 1974, I never considered renting. I bought a studio apartment in the Outer Drive East building. I walked to/from it and my job and graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/commercial/ccb-first-quarter-downtown-rental-market-20260610/
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use GAO against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/story/largest-ice-detention-facility-wasted-millions-put-detainees-risk-report-finds/19270304/
NBC5
— GOP lawmakers grill Chicago Public Schools’ CEO over transgender student policies. Some Democrats on the committee admonished their colleagues for what they called “political theater.” DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/house-republicans-grill-chicago-public-schools-ceo-over-transgender-student-policies/3946797/
— Tens of thousands without power as strong storms roll through Chicago area. More outages are likely as the storms continue to churn through the area. DD: What exposure do you have to weather-caused power, internet, and phone outages? Overhead lines about 200 feet long to the west of my home at 915 Cove Court in Wheaton expose me to weather-caused power, internet, and phone outages big time. The line is in a utility easement on private property that is full of trees that have not been trimmed for decades and pull the lines down and to the north. I have filed a “tree and vegetation request” with ComEd, and outstandingly, a ComEd employee can out today to inspect. According to Xfinity and AT&T, they cannot do any trimming until ComEd is done. It would be great if all the lines would be put underground. The last outage caused me more problems because my 17-month-old 24kW Generac failed.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/nearly-20000-without-power-across-the-chicago-area-as-powerful-storms-roll-through/3946633/
WBEZ
— DD: My critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance premiums since 1966 and 72% of my wife’s health insurance premiums since 1978 because I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and because I have been a federal retiree for almost 29 years.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2026/06/10/affordable-care-act-enrollment-in-illinois-continues-to-drop-new-state-data-shows
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/curious-city/2026/06/10/how-did-hollywood-beach-become-chicagos-gay-beach
EVANSTON PATCH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://patch.com/illinois/evanston/27th-annual-race-against-hate-bring-thousands-evanston
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in turning veterans against Trump. Democrat leaders had great success in tuning my many Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who veterans against me. They stressed that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-10/veterans-and-relatives-see-no-place-for-trumps-arch-near-arlington-national-cemetery
— DD: My father worked in a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights for 29 years. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2026-06-10/study-finds-waste-sites-with-cancer-causing-chemicals-more-common-near-marginalized-communities
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use GAO against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-10/report-ice-wasted-millions-endangered-detainees-in-largest-immigration-facility
NORTHERAN PUBLIC RADIO & CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Raoul suggests underfunding of his office could make winning legal battles against Trump harder. DD: The Bush DOJ had all the money it needed to defeat me in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf That is, the Bush had all the money it needed to promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2026-06-10/raoul-suggests-underfunding-of-his-office-could-make-winning-legal-battles-against-trump-harder
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/raoul-suggests-underfunding-of-his-office-could-make-winning-legal-battles-against-trump-harder/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrats do everything that they can to get as many as the can on Medicaid.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/10k-illinois-noncitizens-to-lose-medicaid-coverage-due-to-federal-changes/
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— 10K Illinois noncitizens to lose Medicaid coverage due to federal changes. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-10k-illinois-noncitizens-to-lose-medicaid-coverage-due-to-federal-changes/
METRA
— Public transit is the best way to get to the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening
https://metra.com/newsroom/public-transit-is-the-best-way-to-get-to-the-obama-presidential-center-grand-opening
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-540/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Media’s Slippery Slope Into Lawlessness. When Chicago journalism stops defending the rule of law, it starts defending the breakdown of civilization itself.
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-media-slippery-slope-lawlessness
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Happy Fidelity Month! Red states, feds promote June rebrandings in rebuff to Pride
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/10/happy-fidelity-month-june-undergoes-rechristening-red-states-feds-go/
— Trump blasts Platner, Democrats’ Senate nominee in Maine, as ‘low-level thug’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/10/trump-blasts-graham-platner-democrats-senate-nominee-maine-low-level/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/10/republicans-troll-graham-platner-domain-name-opening-salvo-maine/
— What happens if the U.S. fails to build more data centers? That’s the real AI question we should be asking.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/10/happens-us-fails-build-data-centers/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— College Faculty are ‘only slightly less left-leaning’ than Bernie Sanders. DD: I escaped liberal Democrat indoctrination by majoring in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4603272/college-faculty-members-slightly-less-left-leaning-bernie-sanders/
NEW YORK POST
— New York Times reporter downplays accusations against Graham Platner as ‘not like classic abuse allegations’
https://nypost.com/2026/06/10/us-news/new-york-times-reporter-downplays-accusations-against-graham-platner-as-not-like-classic-abuse-allegations/
DAILY CITIZEN
— SPLC ‘Hate List’: Christian Pro-Life Groups ON, Antifa OFF
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/splc-hate-list-christian-pro-life-groups-on-antifa-off/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— ICE mandates additional training for new hires. DD: The first 6 months in 1971 that I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer was classroom training.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-training-new-hires-backlash/
— DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government crowed about their success in hiring. retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger, that is, their success in discriminating against Republicans who were White, male, and/or older.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/uc-davis-school-of-medicine-admission-processes-discriminates-doj/
KIPLINGER
— Parent PLUS Caps Just Changed the Math on Paying for College: How Will You Fill the Gap? For years, Parent PLUS filled whatever tuition gap was left over. Starting July 1, it comes with a hard ceiling. What should families do if they now have fewer options than they expected? DD: In today’s dollars, my father never earned more than $50,000/year.
https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/student-loans/new-parent-plus-caps-how-to-fill-borrowing-gaps
(FROM THE ARTICLE: If you take out your first PLUS loan for a child starting a program on or after July 1, 2026, you can borrow $20,000 a year per student, up to $65,000 in total. . .Why $65,000 falls short fast. Sixty-five thousand dollars sounds like plenty until you hold it against a real tuition bill. At an in-state public university, it might stretch across all four years. At a private college running $80,000 or $90,000 a year, it barely dents the gap PLUS used to close. The old program rose with the price of the school. The new one ignores it. A family sending a child to a $25,000 school and a family sending one to a $90,000 school get the same $65,000, which means the households that stretched hardest for an expensive school are the first to hit the wall.)
