FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois Democrats condemn Trump’s executive order to dismantle Department of Education
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-education-illinois-democrats-condemn-president-donald-trumps-executive-order-dismantle/16058847/
— Congressman Sean Casten Downers Grove town hall shut down by police after protester jumps on stage. In another instance, a woman in the audience stood up and yelled at Casten about U.S. support going to Israel.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/democrat-us-rep-sean-casten-downers-grove-town-hall-shut-down-police-pro-palestinian-protester-jumps-stage/16058039/
— Former Trump Tower Chicago board member alleges racketeering scheme, retaliation in new lawsuit.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-trump-tower-chicago-board-member-onisim-dorneanu-alleges-racketeering-scheme-retaliation-new-lawsuit/16059400/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhoatbT4Lo
NBC5
— Trump AG highlights three Tesla arson cases, adding to White House defense of Musk’s company.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-ag-highlights-three-tesla-arson-cases-adding-to-white-house-defense-of-musks-company/3703111/
— Tough lesson for Chicago employees of US Education Dept.: they’re gone. Friday is final day at Ed’s Office for Civil Rights; NBC5 Investigates what will happen to hundreds of complaints and open cases. I should write about the audit work that GAO would have done if Gingrich had not gutted the agency during the 1980s and 1990s.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tough-lesson-for-chicago-employees-of-us-education-dept-theyre-gone/3703088/
CBS2
— Musk says Tesla has activated security cameras on vehicles at dealerships amid attacks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-elon-musk-dealerships-security/
— Pritzker and Underwood hold Romeoville event about protecting Social Security. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Republicans want harms everyone, and especially Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-jb-pritzker-lauren-underwood-romeoville-social-security/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders get doctors and patients to rally against Trump-backed Medicaid cuts.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-doctors-patients-rally-against-trump-backed-medicaid-cuts-im-furious
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more Medicaid. What percent are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_YkiIS49s
WTTW
— Thousands of Venezuelans in Illinois Could Lose Deportation Protections by April
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/20/thousands-venezuelans-illinois-could-lose-deportation-protections-april
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/trump-closing-education-department-executive-order/
— Sen. Seth Lewis: Just trust Chicago? Not when it comes to public transit
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/opinion-metra-public-transit-fiscal-cliff-chicago/
— US Rep. Sean Casten’s town hall cut short amid protests over Israel and Gaza
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/casten-town-hall-shut-down/
— If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/amid-discontent-at-classical-station-wfmt-employees-announce-intent-to-unionize/
— HUD Midwest director, other longtime Chicago staff retiring early amid Trump administration threats, cuts to agency. I should write about the tremendous amount of work experience that my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors flushed down their toilets when they got rid of their Republican employees who were the following 1980-1997 because of Gingrich budget cuts: White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/hud-midwest-director-staff-retire-trump/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Eight Chicago-based U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development staffers with more than 180 years of service collectively have retired or are retiring later this year as the agency undergoes scrutiny and faces cuts from billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and President Donald Trump.)
— Pritzker’s Illinois Democratic Party targets Richard Irvin as he seeks third term as Aurora mayor.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/21/richard-irvin-aurora-mayor-governor-bid/
CHICAGO SUN-TINES
— A flood of emails, ‘intimidation’ allegations as homeschooling advocates fight regulation. The measure that is dividing the state Capitol would require homeschooling families to notify their school districts when they decide to homeschool and require administrators to have a minimum high school education.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/20/home-school-regulation-proposed-legislation-illinois-general-assembly
— Don’t take it as a joke when Trump and his allies say he’ll run again in 2028. “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” Steve Bannon said. “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/20/president-trump-third-term-2028-no-joke-constitution-22nd-amendment-se-cupp
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2025/03/20/dispensary-33s-chicago-weed-shops-employee-owned
— Is the Flamingo endangered? Trump fires workers who look after federal artwork. The General Services Administration owns a wide assortment of collector-quality sculptures, paintings and other art from top-tier artists, most of it accessible to the public and now at risk under President Trump. Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ) featured a big picture of me and the Flamingo. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/03/20/flamingo-sculpture-trump-firings-general-services-administration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are anti-American if not America-haters.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/21/trump-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-wars-america-james-huffman
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump Organization sued over alleged malfeasance at Chicago tower.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/trump-sued-over-alleged-malfeasance-chicago-tower
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject the rule of law unless they can use it to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/donald-trump-seeks-retribution-against-lawyers-op-ed
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicagocrusader.com/could-trumps-anti-dei-initiatives-spark-the-return-of-jim-crow/
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Democrat leaders get doctors and patients to rally against Trump-backed Medicaid cuts.
https://www.bnd.com/news/politics-government/article302415079.html
SOUTHERN
— DNC reports record February grassroots fundraising haul
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/21/dnc-reports-record-february-grassroots-fundraising-haul/
NPR ILLINOIS
— 3 people face federal charges for Tesla attacks. Such acts are domestic terrorism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/3-people-face-federal-charges-for-tesla-attacks-are-such-acts-domestic-terrorism
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders have forced employers to give more and more and more preference to minorities and to females. I should write about the tremendous preference that my employers gave.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/with-trumps-crackdown-on-dei-some-women-fear-a-path-to-good-paying-jobs-will-close
WAND TV
— Proposal requiring contraception, medication abortion at public college health centers heads to House floor. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/proposal-requiring-contraception-medication-abortion-at-public-college-health-centers-heads-to-house-floor/article_4fd237ae-fefc-4348-a465-37e386740b43.html
25 NEWS NOW
— Illinois bill would require public higher ed. institutions to provide contraception, abortion medication. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/20/illinois-bill-would-require-public-higher-ed-institutions-provide-contraception-abortion-medication/
KWQC
— Illinois Republicans push gerrymandering lawsuit. I should write about the 2015 gerrymandering of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/03/21/illinois-republicans-push-gerrymandering-lawsuit/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— More than 80% of cannabis users admit to driving within hours of consuming. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Anticipate/expect that vehicle accidents will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/more-than-80-of-cannabis-users-admit-to-driving-within-hours-of-consuming-report/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-479/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-272/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Homeschooling and the hypocrisy of Illinois politicians
https://wirepoints.org/homeschooling-and-the-hypocrisy-of-illinois-politicians-wirepoints/
JOHN BIVER
— How to Help Political Judges and Lawyers: Teach Law in High Schools
https://johnbiver.com/how-to-help-political-judges-and-lawyers-teach-law-in-high-schools/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. My precinct having three different ballot styles complicates matters. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois Federation of Teachers spends $46.1M on state politics
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-federation-of-teachers-spends-46-1m-on-state-politics/
FROM INATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— It’s absolutely legal to deport hate-monger Mahmoud Khalil.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/20/opinion/its-absolutely-legal-to-deport-hate-monger-mahmoud-khalil/
— Trump accuses federal judge of trying to ‘usurp’ his presidential power amid legal fight over deportation flights
https://nypost.com/2025/03/21/us-news/trump-accuses-federal-judge-of-trying-to-usurp-his-presidential-power-amid-legal-fight-over-deportation-flights/
CENTER SQUARE
— Michigan Senate passes resolution promoting Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_cb2fcc40-cdcc-4492-bc98-e92cac978a07.html
EPOCH TIMES
— Attorney General Announces Federal Charges for Tesla Dealership Attacks. ‘If you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars,’ Pam Bondi says.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/attorney-general-announces-federal-charges-against-3-tesla-attackers-warns-against-domestic-terrorism-5828736
FOX NEWS
— Fox News Poll: Voters are split on Trump policies. Banning trans women from women’s sports is the most popular, closing the DoEd much less so.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-are-split-on-trump-policies
— Canadian politician claims Trump admin’s ’51st state’ rhetoric is an ‘act of war’ ‘That’s an act of war,’ a Canadian member of Parliament said of the Trump admin’s tariffs and ’51st state’ comments. Many countries, including Mexico, want to take America.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/canadian-politician-claims-trump-admins-51st-state-rhetoric-act-war
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Slimmed-Down Education Dept. Will Focus On Fighting DEI Discrimination. Under Trump’s Executive Order the revamped DoEd will be fully aligned with our mission of fighting discrimination done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/03/slimmed-down-education-dept-will-focus-on-fighting-dei-discrimination/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The ABA Should Have No Role in the Judicial Nomination Process.
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-aba-should-have-no-role-in-the-judicial-nomination-process/
NEWSMAX
— Trump Admin Sends New Group of Migrants to Gitmo
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-administration-migrants-gitmo/2025/03/20/id/1203719/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly reject Trump’s election, that is, Democrats ever-increasingly reject democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-republicans-attack-democrats-actblue.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats are anti-manufacturing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/20/trump-manufacturing-mirage/
— Musk steps up criticism of judges, offers $100 to voters who will do the same. The billionaire’s political group will pay Wisconsin voters who sign a petition against ‘activist judges’ ahead of a state Supreme Court race. The judges in Diersen v. GAO rejected meritocracy and promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about Diersen v. GAO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/20/musk-trump-impeach-judges/
HARTFORD CUURANT
— 67,000 White South Africans have expressed interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status. They should be advised that as soon as the next Democrat President is elected. Affirmative Action and DEI will resume, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination will resume.
https://www.courant.com/2025/03/20/south-africa-trump-white-refugees/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Tesla Recalls Most Cybertrucks. More than 46,000 of the electric vehicles have potential exterior panel issue, federal agency says.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-recalls-most-cybertrucks-71ef6fee
— Trump Signs Order Seeking to Abolish Education Department. Existing law doesn’t allow the president to unilaterally shut an agency established by Congress.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-education-department-executive-order-e88561b5
FOWARD
— How Pritzker uses the Holocaust to position himself as the (Jewish) face of Trump resistance. Pritzker, one of five Jewish governors, has taken a combative tone against President Trump in rallying Democrats after election loss.
https://forward.com/news/705526/jb-pritzker-trump-holocaust/
PBS
— Legal Showdown Over Sanctuary Laws Tests Federal vs. State Power Again. Federal law trumps state and local laws.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again
FED SMITH
— Federal Workforce Freedom Act Would Ban Federal Employee Union Representation. If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/03/17/legislation-would-ban-union-representation/
AXIOS
— Trump suggests sending Tesla vandals to El Salvador prisons
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/trump-musk-tesla-protests-el-salvador-prisons
ECOMOMITC TIMES
— As Barron Trump turns 19, US President reveals what the business college student plans to do for a career. As a business student when I turned 19 in 1967, I planned on a career in the automotive industry. But that all ended in 1971 when a) I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, b) my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I gave him my 2-week notice, and c) Oldsmobile withdrew its offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/as-barron-trump-turns-19-us-president-reveals-what-the-business-college-student-plans-to-do-for-a-career/articleshow/119303470.cms?from=mdr
INDIAN EXPRESS
— We are looking for you: Trump says those ‘sabotaging’ Tesla cars may face up to 20 years in jail
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/donald-trump-tesla-attack-jail-term-elon-musk-9898438/lite/
