Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 86. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset is 8:36, for 15 hours, 20 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 64.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1673, Marquette & Joliet reach the Mississippi: “”Here we are, then, on this so renowned river, all of whose peculiar features I have endeavored to note carefully.”
Captured killer Vance Luther Boelter’s manifesto included the names of nearly a dozen Wisconsin lawmakers:
Eleven Wisconsin lawmakers are named in a manifesto written by a gunman suspected of killing a Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and shooting another lawmaker and his wife, according to Democratic sources.
Wisconsin Democrats gathered June 14 at their annual convention under increased security after the two Democratic lawmakers in neighboring Minnesota were gunned down in their homes overnight.
Authorities say Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were injured at their homes by 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, who was impersonating law enforcement in what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called a “politically motivated assassination.” Hoffman and Hortman are both members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Democratic sources told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that 11 Wisconsin lawmakers’ names are on a manifesto police recovered in their search for Boelter, who was apprehended in Minnesota on June 15. In some cases, the Wisconsin lawmakers were relocated from their homes to keep them safe as the search for Boelter continued, according to the sources. The group of Wisconsin lawmakers included eight women and three men, according to one source. All are Democrats.
“I just learned that. And that’s just shocking, to be honest with you, that is just absolutely shocking,” Democratic state Sen. Brad Pfaff of Onalaska said. “I don’t understand the level of anger that would lead to such a violent outburst that took place today in the Twin Cities, and I don’t understand why state legislators here in Wisconsin would also be on such a list.”
He said his name was not among those on the list.
Pfaff said he’s concerned that intensifying political rhetoric has pushed the country to this point.
See Molly Beck, Laura Schulte, and Daniel Bice, 11 Wisconsin lawmakers named in manifesto of Minnesota gunman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 16, 2025.
While disturbing, there’s nothing surprising about this: pardoning violent insurrectionists, for example, shows support for political violence.
See also Brian Klaas, Understanding Trump’s incitements to violence, The Contrarian, June 16, 2025.
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