Mary Miller on a billboard
In Effingham, Illinois, the heart of Illinois’s fifteenth congressional district, the Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association has rented a billboard to share Representative Mary Miller’s words with the world.
In Illinois-15
Representative Mary Miller’s response to mass murder: to retweet Lauren Boebert and Ben Shapiro.
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Chris Miller, censured by the Illinois House.
Rep. Mary Miller in The New Yorker
In The New Yorker, Nathan Heller offers “tips for the congresswoman Mary Miller and anyone who might drop an accidental ‘Sieg heil!’ on the lecture circuit.”
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I get a reply from the National Weather Service.
An unambiguous forecast
“Between 1 and 2 inches of snow is expected by supper time today.”
Springfield 1908
“Illinois‘s two senators have called on President-elect Joe Biden to make the site of a 1908 race riot in Springfield a national monument.”
His ’n’ her resignations are in order
For Chris and Mary Miller.
Mary Miller, still in trouble
Representative Jan Schakowsky (D, Illinois-15) will introduce a measure to censure fellow representative Mary Miller (R, Illinois-15).
A letter to Mary Miller
I’m sharing the text of a letter I’ve sent to my district’s representative in Congress, the representative now known on Twitter as #hitlerlady.
Mary Miller in the news
Representative Seth Moulton (D, Massachusetts-6) reports that when he took a photograph of Republican members of Congress “proudly refusing to wear masks” while sheltering in place in the Capitol Building, “a freshman Trump acolyte, Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, ran over and started screaming in my face.”
The objectors included Mary Miller
The New York Times this morning lists the members of Congress who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Only two members of the Illinois House delegation signed on to the effort. “My” representative, Mary Miller (R, Illinois-15) was one of them. With her objection, Rep. Miller continues to distinguish herself as a new member of the House. Yesterday she made the news for saying, to a pro-Trump* gathering, that “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’” There’s already a petition calling for Miller’s resignation.
January 6 in D.C., with Mary Miller
My representative in Congress, Mary Miller (R, Illinois-15) pledged in December to object to what she called “tainted election results” and to fight against what she called “the greatest heist of the 21st century.” Like so many older hands, she too is complicit. Miller made the news for saying yesterday that “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’”
COVID follies
In Illinois’s Region 6, things are bad. And yet — a nearby restaurant is offering an indoor Thanksgiving buffet.
“Illinois has no place to go”
Except to the polls, to vote this president out.
Sour apples
A letter to an orchard whose employees don’t wear masks.
Sociopathy unmasked
My little corner of Illinois is a coronavirus hotspot, thanks to freedom-loving asshats of all shapes and sizes.
Chris Miller, ugh
Our representative in the Illinois House is a fool.
Another day in downstate Illinois
A member of a school board resigns after making racist and homophobic comments on Facebook.
Tammy Duckworth responds
In The New York Times, Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) responds to attacks on her patriotism from the Trump* world.
Domestic comedy
Shibboleth, Illinois.
A [need past participle] day
It needs posted.
Shimkus
My representative in Congress, John Shimkus (R, Illinois-15), has announced that he will not seek reelection. Good riddance.
Needs studied
From Chicago magazine, “A Downstate Illinois Dictionary.” With fronted o, need + past participle, and positive anymore.
Toilet trouble
From WBEZ, Chicago: “Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, his wife and his brother-in-law are under federal criminal investigation for a dubious residential property tax appeal that dogged him during his gubernatorial campaign last year.”
Public Official A
A new podcast series from WBEZ, Chicago: Public Official A, the rise and fall of the now-imprisoned Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois.
Defunding public higher education
The American Federation of Teachers examines the result of cuts to higher education in Illinois (41% since FY 2000): layoffs, program elimination, increased tuition, lower enrollments.
Net neutrality in Illinois
For Illinois readers only.
Union Iron Works
[“Union Iron Works. Decatur, Ill.”
Not exactly a profile in courage
Our representative in Congress, John Shimkus (R, Illinois-15), commenting on the possibility of Chinese tariffs on soybeans and other crops: “I’m just a legislator.”