FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— George Santos blasts critics in first interview since release from prison
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-ny-rep-george-santos-blasts-critics-first-interview-release-federal-prison/18039315/
NBC5
— Secret Service discovers hunting stand with direct sight line to Trump’s Air Force One exit in Florida. The FBI is now leading an investigation following the discovery near the Palm Beach International Airport.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/secret-service-discovers-hunting-stand-direct-sight-line-trumps-air-force-one-exit-florida/3840619/
CBS2
— 2 federal immigration agents attacked while making arrest in Bolingbrook, Illinois
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/immigration-agents-attacked-bolingbrook-arrest/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Obama Presidential Center promises to be a very un-Chicago building
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/column-barack-obama-presidential-center-chicago-keegan/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blast Hegseth.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/hegseth-pentagon-press-rules-clarence-page/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blast Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/opinion-donald-trump-truth-facts-students/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/17/column-venezuela-argentina-donald-trump-shackelford/
— DD: If you are having trouble getting a good job, Democrat leaders blame Trump. I did the following to get better paying jobs: a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I earned six job-related professional certification, and d) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/americans-job-market-ap-norc-poll/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/19/no-kings-protest-chicago-politics-donald-trump
DAILY HERALD
— ICE agents search for detainee through Mount Prospect neighborhood
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251019/news/ice-agents-search-for-detainee-through-mount-prospect-neighborhood/
— Shutdown impact: What it means for workers, federal programs and the economy. DD: During the 1980s and 1990s, Gingrich used budget cuts to gut GAO. The agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious. They took their fury out on me. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They flushed down their toilets what I had learned working for IRS for almost 9 years and earning three job related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251018/nation-and-world-politics/shutdown-impact-what-it-means-for-workers-federal-programs-and-the-economy/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The administration is also trying to fire thousands of federal workers in agencies that don’t align with its priorities. Republican leaders in Congress have said that’s part of the fallout from a shutdown. Past presidents, however, did not use shutdowns to engage in mass firings. The Republican administration has announced one reduction in force affecting 4,100 workers, with the biggest cuts happening at the departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, Education and Housing and Urban Development. White House budget chief Russ Vought said in an interview on “The Charlie Kirk Show” that many more are planned. “I think we’ll probably end up being north of 10,000,” Vought said. “We want to be very aggressive where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy,” Vought said. “Not just the funding, but the bureaucracy, that we now have an opportunity to do that.”)
SOUTHERN
— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson defended labeling this weekend’s “No Kings” rallies opposing President Donald Trump as “hate America” rallies, arguing that he was not referring to Democrats themselves but the message of the protesters.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/10/19/johnson-defends-calling-anti-trump-protests-hate-america-rallies/
WAND TV
— Trump calls Colombian President Petro an ‘illegal drug dealer’ and announces an end to US aid to the country
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-calls-colombian-president-petro-an-illegal-drug-dealer-and-announces-an-end-to-us/article_5406e3cc-7fd9-5efe-829c-ab26eac0c7c8.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— We The People, McHenry County, Urges Contact with County Board Members to Remind Them of the Promise to Cut Property Tax Levy in Exchange for Voting for Mental Health Sales Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/19/we-the-people-mchenry-county-urges-contact-with-county-board-members-to-remind-them-of-the-promise-to-cut-property-tax-levy-in-exchange-for-voting-for-mental-health-sales-tax/
— Good Thing I Wasn’t in Pennsylvania in 1955
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/19/good-think-i-wasnt-in-pennsylvania-in-1955/
— New York Post Covers Couple’s Death on Route 14 in Harvard
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/new-york-post-covers-couples-death-on-route-14-in-harvard/
— Don Tracy Reports $2 Million in Bank for U.S. Senate Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/18/don-tracy-reports-2-million-in-bank-for-u-s-senate-run/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If Trump had been elected earlier, how would that have impacted you? Hopefully for me, if Trump had been President: a) in 1968 and 1969, my Democrat Post Office superiors would not have disallowed my sick leave requests or forced me to resign in 1969, b) in 1971, EEOC would not have forced Oldsmobile to stop hiring Whites to settle a complaint, c) in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have disallowed my travel requests, d) in 1978, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have disallowed my education expenses, e) by in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, f) starting in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would always have assigned me to audits of IRS, g) by 1988, my GAO superiors would have promoted me to their Senior Executive Service, h) by 1997, Gingrich would have reformed GAO instead of gutting it, and i) in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have forced me to retire. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC has always existed to give more preference to Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Ever since I was 22 years old in 1971, EEOC has had a tremendous impact on me. Back then, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted because it had agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Bolingbrook Police Refuse to Arrest Attackers Who Beat Federal Agents
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/bolingbrook-police-refuse-to-arrest-attackers-who-beat-federal-agents.html
— Norine Hammond Betrays Conservatives – Backed Pritzker’s Law Letting Non-Citizens Serve as Police Officers
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/norine-hammond-betrays-conservatives-backed-pritzkers-law-letting-non-citizens-serve-as-police-officers.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Speaker Johnson rips ‘No Kings’ rallies: if Trump were a king, things would be different
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/19/speaker-johnson-rips-no-kings-rallies-trump-king-things-would/
— House Speaker Mike Johnson on Trump’s commutation of Santos’ sentence: ‘We believe in redemption’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/19/mike-johnson-house-speaker-trumps-commutation-santos-sentence-believe/
— How Trump rewrote the government shutdown playbook
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/18/trump-rewrote-government-shutdown-playbook/
— Democrats are driven by rage and resentment. It’s no longer about right and left, but adults and children.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/19/democrats-driven-rage-resentment/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— More evidence marijuana liberalization is a mistake. DD: I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3854932/more-evidence-marijuana-liberalization-a-mistake/
NEW YORK POST
— Secret Service investigating possible sniper’s nest with sight line to Trump Air Force One arrival near Palm Beach airport
https://nypost.com/2025/10/19/us-news/secret-service-investigating-possible-snipers-nest-with-sight-line-to-trump-air-force-one-arrival-near-palm-beach-airport/
BREITBART
— Illinois State University Teaching Assistant Derek Lopez Arrested for Destroying Turning Point USA Display
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/10/19/police-illinois-state-u-teaching-assistant-derek-lopez-arrested-for-destroying-turning-point-usa-display/
DAILY CALLER
— Controversial Left-Wing Chicago Teachers Union President Elected To Higher Position
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/19/chicago-teachers-union-president-stacy-davis-gates-elected-illinois-federation/
FOX NEWS
— Progressive publishers launch children’s Bible stories with social justice, diversity themes. DD: According to Democrat leaders, Jesus is a liberal Democrat who hates those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/progressive-publishers-launch-childrens-bible-stories-social-justice-diversity-themes.amp
— Illinois State University teacher’s assistant flips Turning Point USA table, tears down flyers: ‘Jesus did it’ Derek Lopez, Illinois State University teaching assistant, faces disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property charges after tossing the table.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-state-university-teachers-assistant-flips-turning-point-usa-table-tears-down-flyers-jesus-did-it
POST MILLENNIAL
— DD: The Democrat Party exists to promote more hatred against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-ag-hopes-people-who-willfully-promote-hatred-on-social-media-will-face-criminal-penalty
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump on protests: ‘I’m not a king’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5562619-trump-no-kings-protest/
— DD: How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC has always existed to give more preference to Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Ever since I was 22 years old in 1971, EEOC has had a tremendous impact on me. Back then, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted because it had agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5560748-eeoc-rejects-disparate-impact-claims/amp/
CBS NEWS
— Trump calls Colombia’s president an “illegal drug leader” and orders an end to U.S. aid
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-colombia-president-illegal-drug-leader-end-aid/
— Secret Service found a “suspicious stand” near Florida airport used by Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-service-suspicious-stand-florida-trump-fbi/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: The Democrat Party exists to promote more hatred against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/democratic-campaign-ads-trump.html
— DD: My critics/opponents are woke, that is, they blame those who are following for their problems: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, have more money than they do, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010453273/the-right-has-gone-woke.html
DALLAS EXPRESS
— Cruz Blasts Chicago Head Tax Proposal As “A Penalty for Creating a Job”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/senator-ted-cruz-blasts-chicago-170026301.html
MERCURY
— Democrat governance is ruining America’s cities
https://www.pottsmerc.com/2025/10/19/jerry-shenk-governance-by-democrat-is-ruining-americas-cities/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Republicans Target Democrats Over Transgender Policies in This Year’s Races. DD: LGBTQ advocates have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/republicans-target-democrats-over-transgender-policies-in-this-years-races-13877b23
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
UNITED NATIONS
— DD: The Democrat Party exists to promote more hatred against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.un.org/en/observances/countering-hate-speech
https://press.un.org/en/2021/sgsm20942.doc.htm
