FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES
ABC7
— USPS Chicago: Postal service touts crackdown on postal crime, with over 600 arrests since May. US postal carriers robbed in Chicago earlier this year. (COMMENT: I worked for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969.)
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-robberies-usps-mail-postal-carriers-robbed-news/13971494/
NBC5
— City of Chicago inks new $40M agreement with Favorite Healthcare Staffing to staff migrant shelters. The new contract comes with reduced hourly rates. NBC 5 Investigates found hourly rates still range from $40 to $156 per hour. – Katy Smyser, Connor Dore, Lisa Capitanini and Bennett Haeberle
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/city-of-chicago-inks-new-40m-agreement-with-favorite-healthcare-staffing-to-staff-migrant-shelters/3260598/
— Chicago police say stolen vehicles used as battering rams in recent smash-and-grab burglaries – Charlie Wojciechowski (COMMENT: While I worked for IRS in Chicago, my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-police-say-stolen-vehicles-used-as-battering-rams-in-recent-smash-and-grab-burglaries/3260517/
— Chicago ranked lower than expected on a Halloween list (COMMENT: On Saturday, October 21, 2023, Iron Gate Motor Condo owners in Naperville held an extremely positive and an extremely successful Halloween event for children.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/chicago-ranked-lower-than-expected-on-a-halloween-list-for-1-big-reason/3260040/
CBS2
– Mass shooter Robert Card remains at large in Lewiston, Maine. At least 22 people are dead, dozens more are injured, and there is a shelter-in-place for the entire city. – Charlie De Mar
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/mass-shooter-remains-at-large-in-lewiston-maine/
— Where did the money come from to pay for your bachelor’s degree? Mine came from what I earned washing dishes 1964-1966, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966, delivering mail 1966-1969, and working on an automobile assembly line in 1970.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/haunted-house-tuition/
WGN9
— Chicago ranked among worst cities in US for retail theft, study finds – Veronica Catlin, Addy Bink
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/retail-theft-is-the-worst-in-these-10-us-cities-study-finds/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Pritzker, never shy about criticizing Republicans, calls for ‘common ground’ at national conference – Rick Pearson and Jeremy Gorner (COMMENT: RINO leaders have more in common with Democrats than with conservatives. RINO leaders reject the individual responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. I should write a book about the biggest RINO leaders in Illinois, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 2000. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. In 2021, RINO leaders in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton rallied together and ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks; a role that I had since 2005.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-jb-speech-rhetoric-calm-20231025-iks2on6wnng6pj37djv7mauepm-story.html
— FRONT PAGE: Sexually active LGBTQers vote for Democrats. Therefore, Democrats ever-increasingly encourage/force children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-canceled-musical-hampshire-20231025-e3kdsu2kbjadbanzhi5b65f2x4-story.html
— Chicago faces a critical moment in its affordable housing crisis. It needs more federal funding. – Tracey Scott (COMMENT: What helped you afford housing? For me, it was my working for Firestone Stores 1970-1972, for IRS 1971-1980, and for GAO 1980-1997. For my wife, it was her working for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions 1970-1992. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious a) that I could afford to buy a new town home in University Park in 1972 when I was 24 years old, a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, and a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976 and b) that my wife and I could afford to buy 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ) in 1978. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious that my wife and I could afford to have 915 Cove Court built in Wheaton ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/915-Cove-Ct-60189/home/18126600 ) in 1984. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates always a) painted themselves as being grossly underpaid and b) demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-chicago-affordable-housing-federal-funding-20231025-mcrvjguuhjfnbiijtarzvjep2i-story.html
— Euthanizations up 25% in Chicago animal shelter; city director points to post-pandemic return to work, inflation – Alice Yin
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-animal-care-control-euthanasia-intakes-up-20231026-hrykbbrzyvgghcuiw6f2rttewq-story.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The speaker of the U.S. House nobody knows, Mike Johnson. I’ve been covering Congress for years, and I never heard of the man who was elected speaker on Wednesday. – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/10/25/23932728/house-speaker-mike-johnson-congress
— City fumbles on migrant issue again with bid to put tent camp in Brighton Park. Of all places, the city picks a site that once contained a zinc smelting operation — a process that can potentially leach toxins into the soil. It’s another example of blunders on handling Chicago’s migrant crisis. – Editorial (COMMENT: Will the Democrats who run Chicago Heights put an migrant tent camp on the Stauffler Chemical Plant Superfund Site at 111th & Arnold Street on the east side of Chicago Heights? SEE: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/calinfo.cfm?id=0500156 My father worked in the office of that plant from 1941 until he died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/10/25/23932204/city-hall-fumbles-migrant-issue-again-bid-tent-camp-brighton-park-asylum-seekers-editorial
— Democrats have an antisemitism problem on the far left. Just as Donald Trump exposed a dark and ugly underbelly of the far right, the Hamas attacks have exposed a dark and ugly underbelly on the far left, S.E. Cupp writes. – S. E. Cupp (COMMENT: Many of my Chicago office Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates acted like they were anti-Semites. They acted like they did not want to supervise, work with, and/or work for Jews. Because I am conservative, Republican, White, and male, they were beyond dumbfounded when in 1989, when I was 41 years old, volunteered to work for the office’s highest profile Jewish employee, a liberal Democrat female GS-15 (currently $152,527-$183,500/year). She managed the office’s audits of federal financial industry regulators. Beyond being Jewish, they did not want to supervise, work with, or work for her because she put them to shame because she had earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and she had passed the CPA examination on her first attempt. On top of that, she was very demanding, young, attractive, and wealthy. Because I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981, I was not intimidated by her many accomplishments. But they believed that she had been unfairly promoted over them because of her demographics. They were further dumbfounded when I got her appointed to serve on the board of directors of IIT’s graduate financial markets and trading program in 1992. While I worked for her, a) I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997 and b) completed 16 graduate evening courses and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. Nevertheless, my other two Chicago office Democrat GAO superiors, both of whom were Jewish (one a Senior Executive Service member, currently $183,500/year, and the other a GS-15 male) succeeded in forcing her a) to play a very big role in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old and b) to give my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/10/25/23932077/democrats-far-left-antisemitism-problem-israel-hamas-palestinians-se-cupp
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly encourage people to take illegals into their homes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/10/26/23919871/chicago-area-retiree-opens-home-to-migrants-new-family-members-stuck-at-police-stations
DAILY HERALD
— Why the DuPage County Board will hold one night meeting next year – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20231026/why-the-dupage-county-board-will-hold-one-night-meeting-next-year
— Sexually active LGBTQers vote for Democrats. Therefore, Democrats ever-increasingly encourage/force children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20231025/will-the-show-go-on-d300-superintendent-reconsiders-decision-to-postpone-the-prom-musical
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Illinois Republicans rally behind new House speaker Mike Johnson – JJ Bullock
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2023/10/25/illinois-republicans-rally-behind-new-house-speaker-mike-johnson/71318154007/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Just 0.08% of Illinois gun owners register banned firearms in Week 3 of registry – Greg Bishop (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans who own “banned firearms.”)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1ddd6e46-737e-11ee-89d9-73b7b802bd68.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The governor said bringing people together is possible when government helps people succeed. “It actually brings people together if you can make it easier for people to raise their family, save for retirement, send their kids to college, buy a house. If we can make it just a little bit easier for people, I think that brings the temperature down.” The one issue that will always divide: Abortion rights, Pritzker said. “We’re just not going to come together” on that, he said. Pritzker’s kumbaya “didn’t last long,” reports the Tribune’s Rick Pearson and Jeremy Gorner. Soon after his remarks, the Democratic Governors Association sent out a fundraising email from Pritzker in which he wrote: “GOP radicals are working night and day to enact an extremist Republican agenda” to curb abortion, LGBTQ+ and voting rights, fighting gun safety and pushing discrimination and book bans.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2023/10/26/state-senates-moment-of-silence-00123697
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2023/10/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-172/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2023/10/25/afternoon-roundup-176/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago has no plan for controlling the migrant crisis
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-has-no-real-plan-for-controlling-the-migrant-crisis-wirepoints-on-am-560/
— Debunking the latest attempt to claim Illinois is growing – Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/debunking-the-latest-attempt-to-claim-illinois-is-growing-ted-dabrowski-on-cities-929-with-cat-petersen/
WEST CENTRAL REPORTER
— OUTSTANDING: Davidsmeyer Files Bill to End Illinois’ Sanctuary for Undocumented Immigrants
https://westcentralreporter.com/stories/650697889-davidsmeyer-files-bill-to-end-illinois-sanctuary-for-undocumented-immigrants
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 5 PROBLEMS WITH REPORT IMPLYING ILLINOIS IS GROWING. PROBLEM NO. 1: IT’S NOT – Bryce Hill
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/5-problems-with-report-implying-illinois-is-growing-problem-no-1-its-not/
— WHY 911 DOESN’T RESPOND IN CHICAGO
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/policy-shop/the-policy-shop-why-911-doesnt-respond-in-chicago/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats reward illegals while destroying America – Cheryl K. Chumley
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/26/democrats-reward-illegals-while-destroying-america/
— House gridlock breaks with new speaker who promises ‘aggressive schedule’ for the people’s business – Susan Ferrechio and Kerry Picket
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/25/mike-johnson-new-house-speaker-promises-aggressive/
— House elects Rep. Mike Johnson as new speaker, breaking weekslong stalemate – Susan Ferrechio, Kerry Picket and Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/25/mike-johnson-elected-house-speaker-breaking-weeksl/
— New House speaker has reputation for being a man of faith, family and conservative convictions – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/25/mike-johnson-new-house-speaker-has-reputation-man-/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mike Johnson won the House speaker fight. What about conservatives? – W. James Antle III
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/mike-johnson-won-the-house-speaker-conservatives
— Los Angeles students trained to be ‘anti-racist leaders’ in required ethnic studies course – Breccan F. Thies (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly run America and demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans as being racists and even worse things and especially Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and have ancestor who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/los-angeles-students-forced-anti-racist-ethnic-studies
— Border hawks like Mike Johnson – Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/border-hawks-like-mike-johnson
AMAC
— Democrats’ Noncitizen Voting Scam
https://amac.us/newsline/elections/democrats-noncitizen-voting-scam/
BREITBART
— Sanctuary State Illinois: Illegal Aliens Freed from Jail After Allegedly Stealing $1.7K in Clothes from Macy’s – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/25/migrants-accused-stealing-macys-illinois/
— GOP Celebrates Unanimous Election of Speaker Mike Johnson: ‘Champion of Our Republic’ – WENDELL HUSEBØ
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/25/gop-celebrates-unanimous-election-speaker-mike-johnson-champion-republic/
— RNC Calls on Republicans to ‘Unite Behind Speaker Johnson’ – HANNAH BLEAU
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/25/rnc-calls-republicans-unite-behind-speaker-johnson/
— Left Holds ‘Queers for Palestine’ Rally Despite Israel’s Pro-LGBTQ+ Laws – ALANA MASTRANGELO
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/25/left-holds-queers-for-palestine-rally-despite-israels-pro-lgbtq-laws/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— 95.8 Percent of Illegal Migrants Who Preschedule Their Illegal Entries Are Allowed In – Andrew R. Arthur
https://cis.org/Arthur/958-Percent-Illegal-Migrants-Who-Preschedule-Their-Illegal-Entries-Are-Allowed
CENTER SQUARE
— Mike Johnson elected speaker of the House after three weeks of infighting – Casey Harper
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_315eaf26-735a-11ee-9ac5-0fe5d7cc5f2f.html
DAILY CALLER
— Mike Johnson Wins Speakership On First Vote – MARY LOU MASTERS
https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/25/mike-johnson-wins-speakership-round-voting/
DAILY WIRE
— Over A Quarter Million ‘Inadmissible Aliens’ Released Into U.S. After Using CBP App, Homeland Security Documents Reveal – Spencer Lindquist
https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-a-quarter-million-inadmissible-aliens-released-into-u-s-after-using-cbp-app-homeland-security-documents-reveal
EPOCH TIMES
— Mike Johnson Elected House Speaker, Ending 22 Days of Paralysis – Lawrence Wilson
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/mike-johnson-elected-house-speaker-ending-22-days-of-paralysis-5516587
FOX NEWS
— Nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers blame Biden for migrant crisis, over half agree it’ll ‘destroy’ NYC. New York migrant crisis could have election consequences for Democrats in ‘true blue state,’ Siena Poll suggests. – Danielle Wallace
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nearly-two-thirds-new-yorkers-blame-biden-migrant-crisis-over-half-agree-itll-destroy-nyc-poll
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Mainstream Media Mislead on New Abortion Figures – MICHAEL J. NEW
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mainstream-media-mislead-on-new-abortion-figures/
NEWSMAX
— Johnson Facing 5 Key Issues – Charles Kim
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/johnson-house-speaker/2023/10/26/id/1139746/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Dem rep says Rashida Tlaib should face censure over pro-Hamas comments – Jarryd Jaeger
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-rep-says-rashida-tlaib-should-face-censure-over-pro-hamas-comments
TOWNHALL
— This Is How Many New Yorkers Blame Joe Biden for the Migrant Crisis – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/10/25/poll-shows-new-yorkers-blame-joe-biden-for-the-migrant-crisis-n2630379
TURNING POINT USA
— The Scary Truth about Sanctuary Cities – ANTHONY WATSON
https://www.tpusa.com/live/the-scary-truth-about-sanctuary-cities
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Border Numbers So Disastrous Feds Release Them When No One Is Paying Attention – Samantha Chang
https://www.westernjournal.com/border-numbers-disastrous-feds-release-no-one-paying-attention/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES
CNN
— Latest on mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/lewiston-maine-shootings-active-shooter-10-25-23/index.html
CNN & ABC NEWS & NEW REPUBLIC & HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
— Anticipate/expect that LGBTQ leaders will soon destroy Johnson because he does not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/index.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-spent-years-fighting/story?id=104312903
https://newrepublic.com/post/176445/republicans-new-house-speaker-called-lgbtq-people-destructive
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/as-extreme-as-it-gets-supposed-moderates-in-gop-conference-choose-as-speaker-an-election-denier-who-called-lgbtq-people-a-deviant-group
UPI
— Speaker Mike Johnson leads GOP majority weakened by declining party authority – Matthew Green
https://www.upi.com/Voices/2023/10/26/house-speaker-mike-johnson-republican-party-decline/3131698320925/
REUTERS
— Ford, UAW reach tentative deal to end strike including record pay raise – Joseph White and David Shepardson (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who are the most filled with hatred against unions. They stress that I was a union member for almost 12 years. They shout that I was grossly overpaid because of that. In today’s dollars, during those years, my salary increased from $18.05/hour to $104,583/year. In my defense, during those years, a) I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, b) I earned an MBA from Loyola, c) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and d) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-uaw-negotiators-reach-labor-deal-cnbc-2023-10-25/
NBC NEWS
— Robert Card Lewiston, Maine, shootings live updates
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/lewiston-maine-shooting-manhunt-gunman-police-live-rcna122270
WASHINGTON POST
— Mike Johnson is the new House speaker, but the ally of Donald Trump faces same GOP challenges ahead – Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, Farnoush Amiri and Kevin Freking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/26/congress-speaker-johnson-republicans-trump/444626d6-73b5-11ee-936d-7a16ee667359_story.html
— Three things to know about the House’s new speaker – Rachel Roubein
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/26/three-things-know-about-houses-new-speaker/
NEW YORK TIMES
— The Trump Loyalty Test at the Center of Republicans’ Speaker Endgame – Shane Goldmacher
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-loyalty-test-center-republicans-123850858.html
— What Awaits Mike Johnson – Liam Donovan
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/opinion/mike-johnson-republican-house.html
— Maine Robert Card mass shooting: Sheltered Maine resident ‘locked and loaded’ during manhunt for mass shooting person of interest – Christopher Scarglato and Nicholas McEntyre
https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/news/maine-mass-shooting-dozens-dead-as-gunman-opens-fire-in-multiple-locations/
— In Johnson, House Republicans Elevate One of Their Staunchest Conservatives – Annie Karni
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/mike-johnson-house-speaker.html
— The Far Right Gets Its Man of the House. The new speaker, Mike Johnson, is virtually unknown to most Americans, but he can be expected to press a hard-right social and fiscal agenda. – Carl Hulse (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I have always been too far right. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly its individual responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/mike-johnson-republican-house-speaker.html
USA TODAY
— Mike Johnson is House speaker. But will GOP chaos actually help Biden win reelection? I have a question for the burn-it-down wing of the GOP and for those who carry their matches: Why are you helping Joe Biden win reelection? – Tim Swarens
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/10/25/house-speaker-vote-test-republicans-trump-biden-election/71305724007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hamas Fighters Trained in Iran Before Oct. 7 Attacks. Roughly 500 Palestinian militants got specialized combat instruction at Iranian facilities as recently as September. – Dov Lieber and Benoit Faucon
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-trained-in-iran-before-oct-7-attacks-e2a8dbb9
WBUR
— The border crisis arrives in Chicago – Daniel Ackerman, Meghna Chakrabarti, Tim Skoog
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/10/26/the-border-crisis-arrives-in-chicago
ATLANTIC
— A Speaker Without Enemies—For Now. Mike Johnson’s win was as sudden as it was improbable. – Russell Berman (COMMENT: I should write a book about my service as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. I would focus on my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who succeeded in ending my chairmanship and in destroying TAPROOT in 2012. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/10/mike-johnson-house-speaker-trump/675766/
CNN & ABC NEWS & NEW REPUBLIC & HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
— Anticipate/expect that LGBTQ leaders will soon destroy Johnson because he does not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/index.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-spent-years-fighting/story?id=104312903
https://newrepublic.com/post/176445/republicans-new-house-speaker-called-lgbtq-people-destructive
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/as-extreme-as-it-gets-supposed-moderates-in-gop-conference-choose-as-speaker-an-election-denier-who-called-lgbtq-people-a-deviant-group
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— New Speaker Mike Johnson Made His Name as Cultural Conservative. Louisiana Republican played key role in legal effort to overturn 2020 election. Mike Johnson was elected to Congress in 2016 after serving in the Louisiana state legislature. – Eliza Collins, Siobhan Hughes, Katy Stech Ferek
https://www.wsj.com/politics/new-speaker-mike-johnson-made-his-name-as-cultural-conservative-f1e51e78
— Pritzker and the Illinois Children. The Democratic Governor can save a scholarship program for low-income families. Will he? – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/invest-in-kids-j-b-pritzker-illinois-scholarship-program-education-5dcdba14
— The Disgrace of the United Nations on Israel. The Secretary-General abandons Israel, a state the U.N. helped to create. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/antonio-guterres-united-nations-israel-palestine-hamas-gaza-c4adf77a
25 NEWS NOW
— Sorensen blasts Speaker Johnson’s stance on gay marriage, LaHood welcomes GOP unity – Howard Packowitz
https://www.25newsnow.com/2023/10/26/sorensen-blasts-speaker-johnsons-stance-gay-marriage-lahood-welcomes-gop-unity/
UNHERD
— How the Democrats betrayed the Jews. The sick thrill of antisemitism has a price. – DAVID MAMET
https://unherd.com/2023/10/how-the-democrats-betrayed-the-jews/
POLITICO
— No Labels’ call: Speaker Mike Johnson is ‘not a Trump Republican’ But Trump called him ‘MAGA MIKE JOHNSON!’ – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/25/no-labels-mike-johnson-not-a-trump-republican-00123673
— ‘Who’s Mike Johnson?’: Diplomats scratch their heads at new speaker. “Just a minute, don’t tell me,” said an Irish government adviser as he searched the name online. “I’m curious how blood-red his state might be.” – MATT BERG, DAN BLOOM, SHAWN POGATCHNIK and ESTHER WEBBER
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/26/whos-mike-johnson-diplomats-scratch-their-heads-at-new-speaker-00123637
GUARDIAN
— Mike Johnson’s speaker win reveals the iron grip Trump still has on Republicans. The previously little-known rightwinger from Louisiana shows all the hallmarks of the ex-president’s voice – Robert Tait (COMMENT: Who has an iron grip on you? No one has ever had an iron grip on me. I should write a book about a) my critics/opponents, b) those who they have an iron grip on, and c) the biggest adverse actions they have taken against me. My critics/opponents have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/mike-johnson-trump-house-speaker-analysis
TELEGRAPH
— Robert Card: Maine shootings suspect ‘previously threatened gun attack at US Army base’ The 40-year-old suspect is reportedly a military-trained firearms instructor who police say is ‘armed and dangerous’ – Jamie Bullen (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will use Card to the hilt to further push their demand to abolish the Second Amendment. They will a) stress that Card is a White male and a) paint him as being a typical conservative.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2023/10/26/man-wanted-maine-gun-attack-robert-card/
