FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— US students performing worse in school than 10 years ago. DD: Democrats run education in America.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-students-performing-worse-school-10-years-ago-education-scorecard-researchers-harvard-stanford-dartmouth/19101276/
CBS2
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/supreme-court-preserves-access-to-abortion-pill/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DuPage County approves a 35% raise for its board chair. Taxpayers should ask why.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/15/dupage-county-deb-conroy-raises-illinois-legislature/
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot win elections unless the racially gerrymander.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/14/south-suburban-black-leaders-southern-redistricting/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies against America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/15/column-defense-budget-pete-hegseth-shackelford/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Has Facebook begun the long slide toward ruin?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/05/14/facebook-popularity-decline-meta-mark-zuckerberg
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference. To keep my Black subordinate from leaving GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave him my job and my preferred corner office. He had less education than I had, he had less work experience than I had, he had one professional certification while I had six, and he had no professional license like the one I had.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/05/14/redistricting-black-white-voters-democrat-republican-trump-s-e-cupp
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 is being sued by a parent who claims her constitutional rights were violated when the district aided her child’s gender transition without parental involvement. The lawsuit was filed this week in federal court on behalf of the mother of a high school student. DD: In your school district, how strongly do Democrat teachers push LGBTQ?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260514/news/parent-sues-district-300-over-students-gender-transition/
DURBIN
— Durbin Speaks Against Extreme, Unqualified Trump U.S. Attorney Nominees. DD: GAO works for Congress. Durbin was one of my U.S. Senators when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Of course, Durbin did not speak out against that. My Democrat GAO superiors gave my job to my Democrat Black subordinate who had less education than I had, who had less work experience than I had, who had one professional certification while I had six, and who had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/videos/view/durbin-speaks-against-extreme-unqualified-trump-us-attorney-nominees
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Dems fine-tune midterm message
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/05/14/illinois-democrats-midterm-message-00922460
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-525/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEWS TALK ST. LOUIS
— Dabrowski on gerrymandering, jobs and outmigration in Illinois
https://omny.fm/shows/newstalk-stl/ted-dabrowski-of-wirepoints-5-12-2026
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Google AI, Trump exhibits hostility toward federal employees. Federal employees are demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being lazy, incompetent, and grossly overpaid. How hostile are you toward federal employees and retirees? My critics/opponents have always been hostile toward federal employees and retirees. I was cursed as being a postal employee 1966-1969, an IRS employee 1971-1980, and a GAO employee 1980-1997. I have been cursed as being a federal retiree since 1997. In my defense, I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment test with him. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I would not have become a GAO employee in 1980 if my Democrat IRS superiors had not made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. Further, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government were always hostile toward me because I am a Republican, because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, and because I benefitted from rights that federal employees have to transfer between federal agencies. Further, while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS, I worked for their Collection Division. IRS employees who work for other IRS divisions look down on IRS Collection Division employees. Further, while I worked the Democrats who ran GAO, they stressed that GAO is part of the legislative branch. They looked down on executive branch employees like I had been for almost 12 years. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago drug store closure is another case study in Leftist failure.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4568031/chicago-drug-store-closure-case-study-leftist-failure/
— One in five Fairfax County residents is an illegal immigrant or lives with one.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4568989/fairfax-county-illegal-immigrants-david-bier-cato-institute/
— DD: My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout at those who are the following that conservatives cause all their problems: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are noncitizen.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/conservatives-must-embrace-personal-responsibility-and-reject-victimhood/ar-AA231zZA
CITY JOURNAL
— Straight White Males Strongly Encouraged Not to Apply
https://www.city-journal.org/article/straight-white-males-strongly-encouraged-not-to-apply
COLLEGE FIX
— White males need not apply: Universities continue to hire faculty that meet diversity quotas
https://www.thecollegefix.com/white-males-need-not-apply-universities-continue-hire-faculty-meet-diversity-quotas/
— 6 to 1: Democratic speakers dominate 2026 commencement stages at Top 100 universities.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/democrats-outnumber-graduation-speakers-6-to-1/
DAILY CITIZEN
— SPLC Has Been Poisoning Pupils’ Minds for Years
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/the-splc-has-been-poisoning-pupils-minds-for-years/
DAILY SIGNAL
— It’s All According to Plan: Protesters Target Jewish Area in Mamdani’s NYC
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/14/protesters-target-jewish-mamdanist/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— DOJ Targets Criminals and Terror Suspects for Denaturalization
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/doj-targets-criminals-and-terror-suspects-denaturalization
FOX NEWS
— Hundreds of criminals now UNTRACEABLE in Illinois. Cook County officials admitted they lost track of hundreds of people on electronic monitoring systems, including 21 charged with murder.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6395547655112
EPOCH TIMES
— The Age of Cultural Tribalism Has Begun. Why We’ve Become Increasingly Siloed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qov9Ukqb3RE
INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES
— Modern Marriage. DD: I owe my successes in life to my parents and to their traditional marriage.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/modern-marriage-for-our-kids
NATIONAL REVIEW
— DEI or DIE: White Males Need Not Apply
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dei-or-die-white-males-need-not-apply/
NEW AMERICAN
— SCOTUS Redistricting Decision Just Ended Affirmative Action — for House Democrats
https://thenewamerican.com/us/scotus-redistricting-decision-just-ended-affirmative-action-for-house-democrats/
USA FACTS
— Immigrants were 18.9% of employed workers in Illinois in 2024. Immigrants are defined as foreign-born residents, including those who became US citizens, are authorized to work in the US, or are undocumented residents. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://usafacts.org/answers/what-percent-of-the-workforce-in-the-us-are-immigrants/state/illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump promised to hold 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo. A year later, it’s mostly empty.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-guantanamo-bay-migrants/
MSN
— Gita Gopinath slams all-male US-China summit
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/end-of-meritocracy-gita-gopinath-slams-all-male-us-china-summit/ar-AA23c8Hu
— DD: Those who speak for Democrats ever-increasingly make it clear that Democrats hate Republicans and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/reid-claims-america-was-built-by-weak-chinned-mediocre-white-men/ss-AA23b1HG
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/opinion/trump-arrives-china-xi-beijing.html
— DD: Yale medical school favors Black applicants. My Democrat GAO superiors favored my Black subordinate. They forced me to retire and gave him my job and my preferred corner office. He had less education than I had, he had less work experience than I had, he had one professional certification while I had six, and he had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/doj-lawsuit-yale-medical.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Republicans: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote for Democrats: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/14/redistricting-census-shed-light-democrats-immigration-stand/
— Why the U.S. job market is so hard, especially for recent college graduates. DD: When you earned your bachelor’s degree, what harmed your job search? For me, it was potential employers seeing me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Further, potential employers were under tremendous pressure from Democrat elected officials to hire Democrats who were minority, female, and/or veteran and I was none of the aforesaid. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. But it was for a job that did not really require a college degree.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/13/why-us-job-market-is-so-hard-recent-college-graduates/
USA TODAY
— DD: According to Democrats and to RINOs, when Whites and males do better than minorities and females, it is because Whites and males discriminate against minorities and females. Virtually all their employees who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors assigned me to supervise were Democrats who were minority and/or female. They blamed me for all the problems that my subordinates had.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/05/14/trump-dei-crackdown-fewer-women-boardroom/90069767007/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Jesus is a liberal Democrat who hates those who are conservative, Republicans, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05/13/catholic-church-fights-border-wall-on-sacred-mountain/90062506007/
WSJ
— The Congressional Pension Racket
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-congressional-pension-racket-b2fd3eac
FORBES
— 10 Scholarships And Grants For Adults Going Back To School. DD: I went back to school when I was 23 in 1972. I started taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola. But by then, it was too late.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/scholarships-for-adults/
GAO
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those who are the following will be ever-increasingly under-represented: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106320
LAW & LIBERTY
— Embracing the American Family. DD: I owe my successes in life to my parents and to their traditional marriage.
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/why-the-decline-of-marriage-matters/
BROOKINGS
— DD: My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But according to my critics/opponents, I was able to accomplish the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-sequence-of-personal-responsibility/
CATO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.cato.org/testimony/fairfax-virginia-highlights-the-value-of-immigration-to-the-country
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Gita Gopinath calls out lack of female representation at US-China high-level talks. Gita Gopinath’s post about the all-male Xi-Trump meet has gone viral.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/gita-gopinath-calls-out-lack-of-female-representation-at-us-china-high-level-talks-101778819282136-amp.html
GUARDIAN
— Photo of US-China delegation criticized over absence of women: ‘masculine, militarized and exclusionary.’ ‘Backward’ photo panned for display of patriarchy, signaling that ‘women’s voices don’t matter in shaping global order.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/us-china-delegation-photo-no-women
ECONOMIST
— The Republican Party has lurched towards populism and illiberalism. DD: My critics/opponents in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization would love it if I would leave the Republican Party and join the Conservative Party of Illinois. SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(United_States)#Illinois
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/31/the-republican-party-has-lurched-towards-populism-and-illiberalism
