Mary Miller and Fabrice Ambrosini
Posing at Mar-a-Lago with a far-right German politician.
A happy warrior in Illinois
“To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom, and opportunity, and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior. You come for my people, you come through me.”
University library or storage room?
“A university library without academic librarians is called a storage room.”
Firing the librarians
Western Illinois University fires its librarians.
In it and of it?
“Do you have any pens that need filled?”
Revised cosmology
It’s cicadas all the way down.
“Mad Hot Cicada Spring”
Elaine wrote a short piece for piccolo and violin, “Mad Hot Cicada Spring.”
Mary Miller, shilling
East-central Illinois’s Mary Miller (IL-15) was one of the faithful yelling outside the courthouse today.
Florida fail, Illinois fail
Hey, Illinois: don’t issue regular plates and FP plates with the same numbers.
At another rest stop
CAUTION WET FLOOR. They weren’t kidding. But there wasn’t a mop in sight.
Welcome to Illinois
Not a great look.
A hate crime in Illinois
The news I woke up to: in a Chicago suburb, a seventy-one-year-old man killed a six-year-old boy and wounded the boy’s mother because they were Muslim.
Illinois-15 in The Washington Post
“Political scientists and analysts said that when state Democrats packed so many conservatives into a single district, they created the environment for [Mary] Miller to win despite holding views that are out of step with most general-election voters in Illinois and even with most GOP House members.”
Plenty of nothing
Champaign-Urbana’s News-Gazette reports that millions in federal money are going to projects in downstate Illinois. But nothing for Mary Miller’s congressional district.
First!
Illinois bans book bans.
Precedented
From today’s installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American: “This is the first time in history a former United States president has been indicted, although it is worth remembering that it is not new for our justice system to hold elected officials accountable.” Including a number of Illinois governors.
The midwestern sublime
The midwestern sublime is composed of equal parts vast muddy fields and vast grey skies, as seen from a car on a two-lane rural route.
Flight need
“Does the system need repaired and upgraded?”
About last night
In Illinois: we have a Democratic governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, &c. Voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.
What’d I do, NYT?
I am disappointed to see that a comment I left this morning on the New York Times article about dfp-supporting politicians and "devil terms" has still not made it online. Humph.
Mary Miller in The New York Times
Ms. Miller’s inflammatory words underscore the extent to which polarizing rhetoric is now entrenched among Republicans in the House of Representatives, especially among those like Ms. Miller who voted against certifying the Biden victory, according to an examination by The New York Times of partisan language over the past 10 years.
Mary Miller, the veteran’s friend
She voted against The Food Security for All Veterans Act.
Masonic [need + past participle]
“His hair needed cut”: so says a witness in the Perry Mason episode “The Case of the Wrathful Wraith” (November 7, 1965).
A letter to “my” representative
I don’t expect an answer. But I take pleasure in writing to “my” representative. She won’t read it, but someone in her office might. And might then have something to think about.
Where’s Mary?
“When reporters repeatedly asked IL GOP chair Don Tracy about her absence at the rally, he responded, ‘I don’t know where Mary Miller is.’”
Darren Bailey posted to Facebook
And he said, among other things, “Let’s move on.”
Rodney Davis vs. Mary Miller
The New York Times has an article about their primary contest.
Miller White Life?
Mary Miller calls the end of Roe v. Wade a “historic victory for white life.”
Feeding kids
It’s no surprise to me to learn that Mary Miller (R, IL-15) is one of just forty-two members of the House of Representatives who voted on Thursday against the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022, created to help fund meal programs throughout the year. Miller is zealous about prohibiting abortion and allowing unlimited access to weapons. Not so zealous about feeding children.
Mary Miller, lying
Congresswoman Mary Miller (R, IL-15) questions Dr. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education and offers a crazy quilt of lies and irrelevancies ending in a self-own.