FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Academics in Chicago sound the alarm on ‘viewpoint discrimination’ as government targets student protesters.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/13/student-activism-crackdown-viewpoint-discrimination/
— Democrat leaders say “Pritzker and Illinois educators condemn Trump’s cuts at Department of Education.” (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, very few condemned Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts. Gingrich cut GAO’s budget 15 percent in 1996 and 10 percent in 1997. SEE: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-OCG-96-4/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-OCG-96-4.pdf )
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/13/pritzker-department-education-trump/
— Democrat leaders say “Trump Justice Department sends letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson about alleged antisemitism on campuses.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/13/trump-justice-department-letter-chicago-antisemitism-campuses/
— Democrat leaders acknowledge “City of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools are fighting over dangerous levels of indebtedness. Same taxpayers are on the hook, either way.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-city-chicago-chicago-public-100000624.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Trump administration wants us to believe only white men make military great. The administration is trying to rewrite history by deleting references to the Tuskegee Airmen, women and others with milestone achievements in the military.” (COMMENT: Republicans oppose Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they oppose race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/13/trump-administration-deletes-women-black-men-minorities-from-military-history-tuskegee-ben-jealous
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders say “Trump takes aim at Chicago again — this time with a federal task force on antisemitism.” (COMMENT: I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors who forced their Jewish employees to do their dirty work. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors who punished me the most a) because in 1990, I volunteered to work for their group that was led by GAO’s most prominent Chicago office Jewish manager and b) because I continuing to work for her. In 1997, they forced her and my other two Jewish GAO Chicago Office superiors to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/03/13/federal-task-force-antisemitism-schools-campus-chicago-brandon-johnson-bondi-justice-department
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Jews
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/03/13/northwestern-faculty-and-students-say-efforts-to-appease-trump-chill-free-speech
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/13/mahmoud-khalil-has-rights
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/13/trump-tariffs-taxes-burden-poor-middle-class-steel-alcohol-canada-marc-morial
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote criminals and crime.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/13/formerly-incarcerated-people-seeking-jobs-need-clean-slate-law-illinois-johnathon-bush
DAILY HERALD
— Scott A. Brown: 2025 candidate for Wheaton City Council North District
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250314/local-politics/scott-a-brown-2025-candidate-for-wheaton-city-council-north-district/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago Sun-Times editorial page editor leaving as buyout deadline looms (COMMENT: I sued my Democrat GAO superiors over their threats if I did not take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf They made it clear to me that if I did not take their “offer,” they would make my next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement a living hell for me. The least of which they would do would be to demote me and to give me adverse transfers. Previously, they had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and forced to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS. GAO was not unionized; it did not unionize until 2007.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marketing-media/lorraine-forte-departing-chicago-sun-times-amid-buyouts
NBC5
— Federal agencies are under a Thursday deadline to turn over plans to the Office of Personnel Management on how they plan to reduce the size of their respective agencies, including through reductions in workforce. A federal judge ruled Thursday that thousands of probationary employees who were abruptly terminated last month must be re-instated. (COMMENT: Democrats run GAO. I have saved voluminous records of what my Democrat GAO superiors did to deal with Gingrich budget cuts 1980-1997. They used Gingrich’s budget cuts along with Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, subjectivity in their personnel systems, etc. to get rid of their Republican employees like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I would not have survived for almost 18 years if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, c) earn a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/federal-agencies-face-deadline-proposed-cuts-layoffs/3697147/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/watch-chicago-chefs-attempt-worlds-largest-cannabis-infused-pizza-for-pi-day/3696841/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders say “Numerous Chicago employees let go in cuts to U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Civil Rights.” (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, the Chicago news media did not report on Democrat success in using Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO employees in its Chicago office like me who were Republican.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-employees-cuts-dept-education-civil-rights/
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs denounces 3 a.m. protest at his house.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-treasurer-michael-frerichs-protest-house/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/we-will-not-let-you-harm-our-children-illinois-educators-react-to-dismantling-of-department-of-education/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ask “Could Illinois be the first state in the nation to legalize prostitution?” and crow that “Lawmakers in Illinois are debating a bill that would create a “Sex Workers Bill of Rights.” (COMMENT: How successful might Democrat leaders be getting your children to major in sex work in college and become professional prostitutes?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1608014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyBYnvjtqKI
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-politics
— Democrat leaders say “Pritzker pushes back on Trump’s education cuts.” (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Extremely few pushed back against Gingrich GAO budget cuts during that time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnkYpfLtfZs
— Democrat leaders say “‘DOGE bags in Washington’: Gov. Pritzker addresses Illinois educators on federal education cuts.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/doge-bags-in-washington-gov-pritzker-addresses-illinois-educators-on-federal-education-cuts
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders say “Chicago attorneys accuse federal agents of violating immigrants’ rights and take legal action.”
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/03/13/chicago-attorneys-accuse-federal-agents-of-violating-immigrants-rights-and-take-legal-action
— Democrat leaders say “Northwestern faculty and students say efforts to appease Trump chill free speech.”
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/03/13/northwestern-faculty-and-students-say-efforts-to-appease-trump-chill-free-speech
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders acknowledge that “Nearly half of cannabis users think driving high doesn’t impair skills.”
https://www.mystateline.com/news/cannabis-users-driving-high/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders say “President Trump’s attempts to shrink government target civil rights efforts.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-13/president-trumps-attempts-to-shrink-government-target-civil-rights-efforts
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ask “Could IL townships be dissolved?” and say “Bills supporting the decision are resurfacing, but some oppose the idea.”
https://www.wcia.com/news/could-il-townships-be-dissolved-bills-supporting-the-decison-are-resurfacing-but-some-oppose-the-idea/
NEWS BREAK
— Illinois clarifies no local laws can restrict homeless camping in public areas (COMMENT: Democrat leaders would love to set up a big homeless camp in the Prairie Path Park ( https://www.wheaton.il.us/747/Prairie-Path-Park ) in my precinct.)
https://www.newsbreak.com/mystateline-com-wtvo-wqrf-1589920/3854313830110-illinois-clarifies-no-local-laws-can-restrict-homeless-camping-in-public-areas
POLITICO
— Chicago in Trump’s sights, again
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/14/chicago-in-trumps-sights-again-00230531
CAPITOL FAX
— Democrats say “Morning briefing.”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-474/
— Democrat leaders say “Afternoon roundup.”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-267/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MILTON TOWNSHIP REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
— Statement to the Residents of Milton Township from Chairman of Milton Township Republican Organization Jeff Castle
https://miltongop.org/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— QUESTION: What if Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of cutting its budget, including 15 percent in 1996 and 10 percent in 1997? ANSWERS: a) there would be no need for DOGE today, b) my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, c) I might still be a GAO employee, d) my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, keep me off audits of IRS, delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, or force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, and e) GAO would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, by the time I was 40 years old in 1988. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— If Pritzker Were a Federal Employee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/12/if-pritzker-were-a-federal-employee/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: To JB Pritzker: Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager, the people of Illinois. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. Sincerely, The Illinois Republican Party P.S. We’re pretty sure you aren’t going to respond, so here are some suggestions: Compared Republicans to Nazis – A desperate, disgusting attack to distract from his own failures. Classy. Went on MSNBC for a Love Fest – Instead of working for Illinois families, he spent his time trying to impress liberal elites. Pushed More Tax Hikes – Because clearly, Illinois families and businesses just aren’t paying enough already. Doubled Down on Sanctuary Policies – Inviting even more illegal immigrants to Illinois while ignoring the financial and safety crisis it creates. Continued Pretending to Be President – Instead of fixing Illinois, he’s out there demanding that Trump and Congress listen to him. Delusional. Meanwhile, Illinois Republicans are focused on REAL solutions: Fighting for lower taxes and economic growth, Protecting our communities from crime and lawlessness, Standing with President Trump to secure our borders, Stopping Pritzker’s radical policies before they do even more damage)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/12/illinois-coerced-utilities-dei-report/
— DeVore Says He’s Going RINO Hunting, May Be Seeking to Take Out the Only Local Republican State Representative Who Can Pass a Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/devore-says-hes-going-rino-hunting-seeking-to-take-out-the-only-local-republican-state-representative-who-can-pass-a-bill/
— McHenry County Assistant Transportation Director Scott Hennings Testifies Against Giving Chicago Total Control of RTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/mchenry-county-assistant-transportation-director-scott-henning-testifies-against-giving-chicago-total-control-of-rta/
— Reick Promotes Witness Slip Filing on Home Schooling Regulation Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/reick-promotes-witness-slip-filing-on-home-schooling-regulation-bill/
— No Bobcat Hunting in McHenry County and Much of Eastern Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/12/no-bobcat-hunting-in-mchenry-county/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump is not delivering for his voters
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3346197/trump-not-delivering-for-his-voters/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Illinois Runs a Scholarship That Excludes White Applicants. It Could Get the State’s Top Universities Defunded. Experts say the program, which includes Northwestern and the University of Chicago, is patently unlawful. (COMMENT: According to Democrat leaders and to RINO leaders, Republicans marginalize and oppress students who are the following, and that is why they should get scholarships: Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have an ancestor who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/illinois-runs-a-scholarship-that-excludes-white-applicants-it-could-get-the-states-top-universities-defunded/
NEW YORK POST
— Tesla terrorism only reveals the Left’s impotence
https://nypost.com/2025/03/13/opinion/tesla-terrorism-only-reveals-the-lefts-impotence/
CATHOLIC VOICE
— Biden spent ‘staggering’ $1 trillion on DEI programs (COMMENT: How successful was Biden in using DEI to promote more hatred against those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct who are Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have in America for a long time? I should write about Biden’s success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. I will get a measure of Biden’s success in my precinct when I hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter.)
https://catholicvote.org/biden-spent-staggering-1-trillion-on-dei-programs-study-finds/
CENTER SQUARE
— Lawmakers propose banning all federal labor unions (COMMENT: I was a federal union member for almost 12 years. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized before 1997, I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2289d674-003a-11f0-b149-8f0333472fb8.html
FEDERALIST
— 7 Trump Orders Congress Should Codify To Keep Wokeness Out Of The Military
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/14/7-trump-orders-congress-should-codify-to-keep-wokeness-out-of-the-military/
FOX NEWS
— Illinois Democrat lawmaker pushes bill to legalize attacks on police for people having mental health episode. Critics say the bill would embolden those who attack police.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-dem-lawmaker-pushes-bill-legalize-attacks-police-people-having-mental-health-episode
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders say “DOGE proposes cutting IRS workforce by a total of nearly 20%.” (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980. If I was still an IRS employee, they would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.komu.com/news/nationworld/doge-proposes-cutting-irs-workforce-by-a-total-of-nearly-20/article_75a2c451-4da5-5326-9abb-d7273d7ef24f.html
— Democrat leaders say “Protesters arrested after storming Trump Tower to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/us/mahmoud-khalil-protesters-arrested-trump-tower/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders say Trump to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to carry out deportations to Guantanamo
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-alien-enemies-act-1798-deportations-guantanamo/
— Democrat leaders say “USPS to cut 10,000 workers through voluntary early retirement program.” I worked for the Democrats who ran USPS 1966-1969. If I was still a USPS employee, they would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usps-cut-10000-workers-elon-musks-doge/
— Democrat leaders say chief counsel is demoted and replaced with DOGE ally
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-de-mello-irs-william-paul-doge-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE WITH FOUR PHOTOS: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/pageoneplus/quote-of-the-day-leaders-standing-up-to-trump-widen-their-support-at-home.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/opinion/america-trump-europe.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders say “Judges order Trump officials to offer jobs back to thousands of fired workers.” (COMMENT: If you were forced to retire early, would you take a reinstatement offer? After my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, a low-level employee in GAO’s personnel office hinted verbally that he might be able to get me reinstated. I asked that he put the terms in writing, but he never did. To force me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors made it clear to me that if I did not, they would make my next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement a living hell for me. According to them, they would demote me, give me adverse transfers, give me bad job assignments, give me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, and even worse things. Previously, they had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO from IRS when I was 31 years old in 1980. Previously, they had focused on making all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates despise me, if not hate me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, White, male, older, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, a Wheaton resident since 1978, and an IRS employee 1971-1980. They stressed that my wife had a good job, that we had no children or other dependents, that we had a home built in Wheaton in 1984, that we had no debts, that we owned two collector cars, etc. If GAO had been unionized, my GAO superiors would not have been able to take the aforesaid adverse actions against me that they did.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/13/trump-probationary-federal-worker-firings-judge-ruling/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders say “How Trump and Musk have sought greater control over federal employees.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/12/trump-musk-impact-federal-workforce/82235676007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders say: Make the U.S. Civil Service Effective Again (COMMEMT: Democrats run the federal government. They do everything that can to not hire Republicans and to get rid of Republican employees, and especially those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. To accomplish the aforesaid, they use Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they use race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. They use up-or-out and the subjectivity in their personnel policies. They ever-increasingly lower hiring, retention, and promotions standards.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-the-u-s-civil-service-effective-again-efficiency-flexibility-states-b71fe701
— How low will Democrat leaders drive stocks down?
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-inflation-dow-nasdaq-sp500-03-13-2025
GAO
— 1996 FLASHBACK: DEMOCRAT LEADERS SAY: GAO’s DOWNSIZING EFFORTS (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Gingrich cut GAO’s budget 15 percent in 1996 and 10 percent in 1997.)
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-OCG-96-4/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-OCG-96-4.pdf )
(FROM THE REPORT: Last year, the Congress directed a 25 percent reduction in our funding—15 percent to be accomplished in fiscal year 1996 and an additional 10 percent in fiscal year 1997. Because nearly 80 percent of our budget pays for salaries and personnel-related costs, we reached the unavoidable conclusion that the agency could not absorb these reductions without significantly downsizing our workforce. In response to this budget situation, the Comptroller General established a team of senior level managers to assess the impact of the funding reductions and develop a plan for achieving these reductions. In July 1995, the Comptroller General approved the team’s plan to reduce GAO’s workforce by about 850 employees over 14 months. Under the plan, GAO’s workforce would be reduced to about 3,500 by the beginning of fiscal year 1997. The goal of the plan was to achieve large reductions in a way that would avoid major disruptions in our workplace, while leaving us with the skills required to carry out our mission and maintain current production levels.)
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders say “Tens of thousands of fired federal workers must be reinstated immediately, judge rules. U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/fired-federal-probationary-employees-court-ruling-00228721
