#wingnuts

Just 3 of Illinois's 17 US House members are Republicans. MAGA fringe loony Mary Miller is one of them. Think of her as Marjorie Taylor Greene but without the charisma.

Miller is a rancid bigot, who has at least one point of agreement with Hitler, and thinks climate change is a sham because "God controls climate".

Like many Capitol Hill Republicans she is not keen on town halls. She snubbed a community group in March.

Although IL-15 is ruby red, scores of constituents held a protest outside Miller's office in Quincy (population: 40,000) last spring.

(click to embiggen)I was reading a very interesting blog post elseweb where one of the regular commenters asked “Why is it that American right-wingers have against trains?” And several other people (a few of whom I know aren’t from the U.S.) gave some answers that contain parts of the answer. I typed a really long comment going into great detail based on debates I’ve been having with fellow…

When you put Republicans in total control of a state, here's what happens after they've banned books, banned abortion, and persecuted the LGBTQ+ community.

The Idaho legislature, with GOP supermajorities, is taking up a bill dealing with cannibalism. The bill was proposed by Republican (of course) State Rep. Heather Scott who was motivated by a satirical Tik-Tok video which she took to be real.

A preoccupation of mine is that we need to pay much more attention to state government and especially state legislatures. Check now to see who represents you in your state legislature.

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