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Mary Miller again
Mary Miller again
For a third time, Representative Mary Miller (R, Illinois-15) appears in The New Yorker (January 31). She’s mentioned in Jane Mayer’s long, revealing article about Virginia Thomas, the hard-right activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
#democracy#Illinois#politics#MaryMiller#autocracy
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Mary Miller again
Red and blue
Red and blue
David Leonhardt: “The gap in Covid’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.”
#COVID-19#politics
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Red and blue
Centrist?
Centrist?
It’s difficult to understand how being a “key holdhout,” a party of one, makes someone a “centrist.”
#politics
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Centrist?
Performative again
Performative again
Arts & Letters Daily recently linked to a short commentary on the word performative. The commentary is crotchety and overwrought, with talk of corruption and senseless violence and infestations of body lice. I’m not linking. It so happens that I wrote what seems to me a far clearer, more helpful, and less wrought commentary on performative back in March. That commentary I’ll link to.
#words#culture#politics
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Performative again
Six parties
Six parties
A New York Times quiz: “If America Had Six Parties, Which Would You Belong To?”
#politics
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Six parties
Useful reading
Useful reading
A ten-point checklist from Samuel L. Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma: How can we spot #ChristianNationalism in the wild? My representative in Congress, Mary Miller (R, Illinois-15), hits on at least eight of ten.
#democracy#Illinois#politics#MaryMiller#autocracy
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Useful reading
Nuts in Illinois
Nuts in Illinois
My representative in Congress is hosting another member of Congress, the xenophobic space-laser Q lady, at a July fund-raising event in a nearby city.
#Illinois#politics
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Nuts in Illinois
The Millers in Esquire
The Millers in Esquire
Congresswoman Mary Miller has now made it into Esquire as a member of the Sedition Caucus. Also appearing in a supporting role: her husband (and Illinois state representative) Chris. The Millers’ ignominious appearance in Esquire joins previous appearances in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair.
#Illinois#politics#MaryMiller
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The Millers in Esquire
Another Mary Miller vote
Another Mary Miller vote
Mary Miller (Illinois-15) was one of twenty-one Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted yesterday against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to all police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6. The measure passed with 406 votes.
#Illinois#politics#MaryMiller
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Another Mary Miller vote
Where the money goes
Where the money goes
From Popular Information: “These twenty-five rainbow flag-waving corporations donated more than $10 million to anti-gay politicians in the last two years.”
#politics
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Where the money goes
Walter Mondale (1928–2021)
Walter Mondale (1928–2021)
I remember riding in an elevator in 1984 with a clean-cut collegian wearing an orange button on his jacket. In black letters on an orange background: FRITZ IS A WIMP. I think that moment must have been my first awareness of toxic masculinity at work in politics.
#democracy#politics#autocracy
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Walter Mondale (1928–2021)
Mary Miller on a billboard
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.
#Illinois#politics#MaryMiller
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Mary Miller on a billboard
Mary Miller and trans rights
Mary Miller and trans rights
Her first bill would require sex-segregation in school bathrooms and locker rooms and on sports teams, with sex defined as “biological sex, not gender identity.” No friend to trans rights — in other words, human rights.
#politics#MaryMiller
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Mary Miller and trans rights
Heather Cox Richardson on the NRA
Heather Cox Richardson on the NRA
In today’s installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson, historian, offers a brief history of the NRA’s shift from “sports” to “gun rights.”
#death#politics
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Heather Cox Richardson on the NRA
Performative
Performative
In speech-act terms, a performative is a statement that does something. In current everyday use, performative describes a statement that pretends to do something, that is merely a performance, that substitutes for doing anything of substance.
#culture#politics#words
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Performative
Signed today
Signed today
Heather Cox Richardson: “The bill, which President Biden is expected to sign Friday, is a landmark piece of legislation, reversing the trend of American government since Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax cut.”
#democracy#politics#autocracy
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Signed today