FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FOX32
— The University of Chicago (UC) Laboratory Schools, an institution associated with the university, will no longer be flying an LGBTQ pride flag outside its courtyard after university administrators determined it would violate institutional neutrality.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-university-removes-lgbtq-pride-flag-over-institutional-neutrality-concerns
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Bailey seeks to block Corbett from Nov. 3 ballot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/03/bailey-garcia-challenge-opponents-illinois-election/
— Republicans won the redistricting battle. Now voters will decide whether they win Congress.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/03/republicans-redistricting-battle/
— DD: Since the 1960s, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those who are minority, female, and/or younger have ever-increasingly received more preference.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/03/trumps-education-department-black-students/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260603/festivals-and-fairs/celebrate-pride-month-with-parades-and-festivals-in-june/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Lawyers for the Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford and the Illinois Catholic diocese have filed a brief in its appeal of an Illinois law that prohibits discrimination based on a person’s reproductive health decisions. The lawyers for an organization called Alliance Defending Freedom argue in court documents that the law forces religious ministries to hire employees who don’t share their religious beliefs, especially on issues like abortion.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2026/06/03/rockford-pregnancy-center-seeks-appeal-of-abortion-rights-challenge/90387132007/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists 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. I should write about the many big Prohibited Personnel Practices that my Democrat superiors took against me, not the least of which included a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delaying my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forcing me take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-03/trump-strips-job-protections-from-8-000-federal-workers
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Trump has issued an executive order turning an estimated 8,000 federal workers into at-will employees, which means the government could fire them without providing any reason. The move culminates an effort Trump launched during his first term to strip vast numbers of federal employees of civil service protections designed to insulate their work from political interference. Nearly all of the 8,000 people affected are at the highest level of the civil service, known as GS-15. The Trump administration characterizes the roles as senior positions with significant influence over policy. They include leaders of policy offices and their chiefs of staff, heads of regional offices, program managers, senior public affairs officers and those overseeing spending and grants. The number of positions affected by Wednesday’s executive order is smaller than many anticipated. Originally, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) estimated some 50,000 positions could be reclassified. The administration has not ruled out expanding the pool at a later time. Tripling the number of at-will employees. The federal government currently has about 4,000 political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president. Until now, the rest of the workforce of approximately 2 million people could only be fired for certain reasons, such as inadequate performance or misconduct. In those situations, agencies must follow formal processes, including giving the employee an opportunity to appeal. But in February, the administration finalized a rule creating a new category of at-will employees called Schedule Policy/Career. (During Trump’s first term, it was known as Schedule F.) It was facing multiple lawsuits even before Wednesday’s order which spells out which jobs are now at-will. “The people responsible for protecting our public health, safeguarding our environment, delivering our mail, managing our airports, protecting our public lands, and enforcing our laws should be allowed to do their jobs, not targeted by the same government they serve,” said Skye Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, one of the organizations suing the Trump administration over the rule. “When government experts can be fired without cause, it’s not just federal workers who are harmed — it’s the people across the country who rely on these essential services every day.)
UIC
— UIC Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://today.uic.edu/uic-alcohol-and-other-drugs-policy-32/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republican state Rep. Blaine Wilhour: New budget shows ‘addiction’ to taxes.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_93c760e0-c017-4a7c-8cf3-7f46d1ebc170.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Session Ends, But the Cosmic Battle Continues
https://illinoisfamily.org/uncategorized/session-ends-but-the-cosmic-battle-continues/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Pride’ overload: Veterans and parents each get one day; LGBTQ gets 30.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/pride-overload-veterans-parents-get-one-day-lgbtq-gets-30/
— House passes war powers resolution to end hostilities in Iran, weakens Trump’s negotiating leverage
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/house-passes-war-powers-resolution-end-hostilities-iran-weakens/
— Trump refuses to commit to dropping $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/trump-refuses-commit-dropping-18-billion-anti-weaponization-fund/
— America cannot be the world’s welfare office
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/america-cannot-worlds-welfare-office/
NEW YORK POST
— The Southern Poverty Law Center paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate groups — even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a shocking superseding indictment filed Tuesday.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/us-news/liberal-southern-poverty-law-center-reimbursed-klan-members-for-cross-burnings-feds-say-in-stunning-court-documents/
— From Delaney Hall to ‘Freedom 250,’ lefty violence is what real insurrection looks like
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/opinion/from-delaney-hall-to-freedom-250-lefty-violence-is-what-insurrection-looks-like/
DAILY CALLER
— Harley-Davidson Backsliding On Wokeness Despite Previous Policy Reversal
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/03/harley-davidson-backsliding-on-wokeness-despite-previous-policy-reversal/
NEWSMAX
— Democrats Autopsy Far Removed from Reality
https://www.newsmax.com/ericgolub/autopsy-gingrich-warren/2026/06/03/id/1258469/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— House votes to rein in Trump on Iran as war loses GOP support
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-iran-war-powers-4th-vote-trump/
WMAC
— DD: Democrat leaders know they cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.wamc.org/commentary-opinion/2026-06-03/gerrymandering-and-discrimination
HR DRIVE
— Illinois pushes back against Trump in move to ban disparate impact bias. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists 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. I should write about the many big Prohibited Personnel Practices that my Democrat superiors took against me, not the least of which included a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delaying my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forcing me take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/illinois-pushes-back-against-trump-in-move-to-ban-disparate-impact-bias/821864/
