May 31, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump set to headline ‘Great American State Fair’ after artists drop out over ties
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-set-headline-great-american-state-fair-artists-drop-ties/19201064/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
—  Trump’s physician says the president is in ‘excellent health’ and is ‘fully fit’ to serve
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/30/donald-trump-health/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/30/ice-immigrants-michigan-illinois/
— DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/31/opinion-gun-violence-chicago-prison-sentences/
— DD: The more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, and/or German American.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/31/vintage-tribune-i-am-an-american-day/
— DD: Ever-increasingly, newspapers serve as mouthpieces for the Democrat Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/27/column-charles-selle-newspapers/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote tattooing.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/inking-well-tattoos/2026/05/29/portage-park-man-honors-four-years-sobriety-tattoo

DAILY HERALD
— Ex-Glendale Heights president pleads guilty to perjury
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260530/crime/ex-glendale-heights-president-pleads-guilty-to-forgery/

WBEZ
— Muslim families look to Arabic immersion education to give their children a foundation in faith and identity. Chicago-area Muslim families are flocking to a small southwest suburban school for its rigorous, play-based curriculum taught entirely in Arabic.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2026/05/30/chicago-muslim-families-arabic-immersion-education-faith-identity-bridgeview-quran-mas-blossoms

NPR ILLINOIS
— Pride celebrations struggle as corporate sponsorships dry up. DD: To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-05-30/pride-celebrations-struggle-as-corporate-sponsorships-dry-up

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump calls out Pope Leo for meeting with ‘useless’ Chicago mayor
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-calls-out-pope-leo-for-meeting-with-useless-chicago-mayor/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— State Sen. Dale Fowler says he’ll step down at end of legislative session. The Harrisburg Republican has served his southern Illinois district for a decade.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/state-sen-dale-fowler-says-hell-step-down-at-end-of-legislative-session/

FULCRUM ILLINOIS
— A Year of Resistance, Advocating for Representation in Legislature, at Latino Unity Day. DD: I live in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered it to elect and to reelect Latino Delia Ramirez.
https://thefulcrum.us/illinois-latino-unity-day-2026-advocacy-representation-legislature

IPM NEWSROOM
— Illinois pension divestment repeal sparks debate over free speech
https://ipmnewsroom.org/illinois-pension-divestment-repeal-sparks-debate-over-free-speech/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Mayor’s Political Ideology Is Costing Lives
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-mayors-political-ideology-is-costing-lives

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— “Silent Majority” Demonstration in McHenry – Religious Aspects
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/31/silent-majority-demonstration-in-mchenry/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you do? I use my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to promote conservative principles and the Republican Party platform. Who has the greatest impact on what you do? For me it is Illinois Republican Party (IRP) chairman Bob Grogan, IRP State Central Committee member Mike Flynn, DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC) chairman Kevin Coyne, and DCRCC Secretary and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) chairman Jeff Castle. What position do the aforesaid have on the many big adverse actions that IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO leaders have taken against me since 2000 a) to stop me from sending out my newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading them? What is going to change under Grogan? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Hold parents, not social media, accountable for teen takeovers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/4586836/hold-parents-not-social-media-accountable-for-teen-takeovers/
— The woke era that began in 2014 ended in 2024. Wokeness, of course, is not dead — it still hangs over many school districts and colleges and will make a comeback with Democratic victories over the next three years — but it no longer is the default mindset. DD: All my critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4583453/out-of-boundaries/
— While teachers unions push politics, reading scores hit historic lows
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/while-teachers-unions-push-politics-reading-scores-hit-historic-lows/ar-AA24pCFm
— Democratic Party activists have long targeted standardized testing by defaming it as a tool of racial oppression. DD: What standardized tests have you passed? I passed all the tests required to earn a) a bachelor’s degree in management, b) master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, and c) a CPA certificate and a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) certificate. I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, something that only about 20% do. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was able to do the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4587100/california-right-to-junk-woke-admissions-standards/

NEW YORK POST
— ‘Teen takeovers’ will bring bloody chaos nationwide this summer — because Blue America isn’t bending. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/opinion/teen-takeovers-will-bring-bloody-chaos-nationwide-this-summer/
— Mamdani-tapped NYC sheriff has long history of claiming NYPD is ‘racist’ and tied to slave patrols
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/us-news/mamdani-tapped-nyc-sheriff-has-long-history-of-claiming-nypd-is-systemically-racist-and-tied-to-slave-patrols/
— New York’s new sanctuary state laws are a recipe for chaos
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/opinion/new-yorks-new-sanctuary-state-laws-are-a-recipe-for-chaos/
— In California, public safety loses to open-border theater
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/opinion/in-california-public-safety-loses-to-sanctuary-theater/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— One in Three American Men No Longer Working. Just 66 percent of men age 20 and older were employed or actively seeking work. DD: To get more votes from women, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly dump men who are conservative, Republican, White, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/29/one-in-three-american-men-no-longer-working/

DAILY CALLER
— Clock Ticking On GOP To Pass Literally Anything As Midterms Loom
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/31/clock-ticking-gop-midterms-agenda/

DAILY SIGNAL
— The Selective Outrage and Hypocrisy of Antisemitism
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/28/selective-outrage-of-antisemitism/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Anti-ICE ‘Protests’ are Propaganda Disguised as Citizen Activism
https://www.fairus.org/anti-ice-protests-are-propaganda-disguised-citizen-activism

FOX NEWS
— Dead voter allegation fuels concerns about voting safeguards as Illinois official turns herself in. Sylvia Sims Bolton, an alderman in Waukegan turned herself in on Wednesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dead-voter-allegation-fuels-concern-about-voting-safeguards-illinois-official-turns-herself
— Pope Leo meets with Chicago’s far-left mayor, George Floyd’s family lawyer at the Vatican. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson led the delegation, which included George Floyd family lawyer Antonio Romanucci.  DD: Democrat leaders and their operatives and their dupes will forever use George Floy to promote more hated against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pope-leo-meets-chicagos-far-left-mayor-george-floyds-family-lawyer-vatican
— New Jersey agitators bite, kick and punch ICE agents as Delaney Hall clashes continue; 9 more arrested. Federal agents use pepper spray as Newark detention demonstrations intensify.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-jersey-agitators-bite-kick-punch-ice-agents-delaney-hall-clashes-continue-9-arrested-dhs
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn

JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
— The Relationship Between Higher Education and Family Formation. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2021/11/examining-the-relationship-between-higher-education-and-family-formation
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As educational attainment continues rising, the presumed price of admission to the middle class increasingly seems to require a college degree. In the United States, more young adults than ever attend college, and more young adults than ever rely on student loans. The percentage of all households with any outstanding student loan debt rose from 8.9 percent in 1989 to 21.4 percent in 2019. And from 2006 to 2020, the average amount of outstanding student loan debt per working-age American grew from under $4,000 to over $13,000. At the same time, a growing cultural emphasis on “individual financial and personal responsibility as a necessary precursor for marriage” has led to a profound shift in attitudes towards family formation. Marriage has become more of a “capstone,” signaling a full transition into adulthood, and less of a “cornerstone,” on which young couples begin to build a life together.)

NEW AMERICAN
— Soul Killers in the Classroom. DD: My teachers were overwhelming conservative. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/education/soul-killers-in-the-classroom/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There has been much talk in recent years about “misinformation” on social media. There’s relatively little focus, however, on the misinformation pumped directly into the most damaging place of all: young people’s minds. Moreover, this misinformation — or “brainwashing,” as a critic puts it — has supplanted real learning to the point where youths now lack basic skills. A major reason why, too, is that while some proclaim “wokeness’” death, it’s alive and well. And this is because, says that critic, independent journalist Emil Hasle, wokeness-mind-virus carriers pervade American education. Publishing at Substack last Sunday, the journalist laments a decades-long ideological transformation in Western education, writing: Conservatives have become vanishingly rare in academia, and even moderates now find themselves marginalized as a fringe group. Data on U.S. faculty ideology from 1969 to 2022 illustrates this shift dramatically: the share of liberals and far-left educators rose from 45% to 74%, while centrists declined to 15% and conservatives to just 11%.)

TOWNHAL
— To hear Democrats talk about black people is a mix of arrogance, racism and more condescension than could be crammed into the Grand Canyon. What do I mean by that? It’s pretty simple, really: the left simultaneously insists black people are perpetual victims with economic hardship thrust upon them by “systemic racism” and the sole builders of everything good and superior to everyone else. None of it is true, but all of it is designed to manipulate. Democrats, even black Democrats, treat the average black American like they’re a child and special; neither is true. They’re just people, like everyone else.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/05/31/black-people-are-not-children-nor-are-they-special-n2676957

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— A proposal by the Trump administration to push federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) has sparked accusations that the White House is trying to silence its workforce, including those who have been speaking to the press. DD: When I was 40 years old in 1988, I went public against my Democrat GAO superiors. I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. To punish me, they a) threw me off audits of IRS, b) gave me bad job assignments, c) gave me unfair performance expectations, d) gave me unfair performance appraisals, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Previously, they had a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in when I was 31 years old in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS until 1986, c) delayed my promotions, and d) never promoted me beyond GS-13. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5901850-nondisclosure-agreements-federal-workers-trump-administration/

MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do more to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS

AOL
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aol.com/articles/lawsuit-alleges-gender-age-race-121500000.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-immigrants-health-housing.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/us/customs-airports-markwayne-mullin.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/magazine/voting-rights-act-reconstruction-civil-rights-redistricting.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/opinion/israel-palestinians-boycott-eurovision.html?searchResultPosition=1

POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/30/ice-immigration-privacy-data-advertising-00939078

FROM OTHER SOURCES

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Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.