Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 92. Sunrise is 5:17 and sunset is 8:37, for 15 hours, 20 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 5.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Lakes Advisory Committee meets at 4:30 PM and the Urban Forestry Commission meets at 5:30 PM. The Whitewater School Board meets at 7 PM.
On this day in 1917, in a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
The national press has begun to notice what’s been evident locally for weeks: that Wisconsin congressional redistricting before 2026 will bring changes to the state’s partisan congressional mix. (See from FREE WHITEWATER on 5.13.25 Probable Consequences of Redrawn Wisconsin Congressional Maps.) Dan Merica and Matthew Choi write:
Wisconsin has only eight congressional districts, and many of them are considered safe seats. However, because the state may undergo a rare mid-decade redistricting process ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, two districts currently controlled by Republicans could become significantly more competitive.
Just ask one of the Republicans representing one of those districts.
“We both lose,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden said when asked by CNN about the stakes of redistricting in the state, referring to himself and Rep. Bryan Steil. “So that’s why everyone’s paying attention to this on a national level.”
The last redistricting in the state occurred under a conservative-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court that applied the “least change” standard, which Democrats contend left the districts biased in favor of Republicans. The state’s legislative maps were redrawn in 2023 after the court abandoned that standard, but the congressional maps were not.
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“It’s hard to think of a standard that would lead to maps getting even more skewed in favor of Republicans in Wisconsin, so Derrick Van Orden has about a year and a half to decide how to spend his final months in Congress,” said Ben Wikler, the outgoing chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. “The writing is on the wall here.”
See Dan Merica and Matthew Choi, How voters in rural Wisconsin could decide the House majority, Washington Post, June 23, 2025.
Merica and Choi write elsewhere in their story that “[h]yperbole aside, the result could decide control of the House,” but that strikes me as hyperbole in the middle of it: could decide is possible but only in the way that many causes and effects are possible.
I’ve no idea whether Wisconsin’s congressional results will decide the national House majority. It’s enough to know that congressional redistricting in Wisconsin is probable before the 2026 election, and that Van Orden and Steil would both lose if their district maps are redrawn.
Kevin the Canadian Chihuahua has his own way to beat the heat:
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