grammie

Wife of @Papa_maddox, data nerd, casual star gazer, bird watcher, retired software quality test engineer. #Wedolifetogether.

[grammie @MamaMaddox]

Judge Miles Lord was famous for “legislating from the bench” based on his own views and opinions. And he was proud of that power.

Judge Thomas is correct: 1 judge should not have such sweeping powers...

https://t.co/DLqPqoP9jA

[Philiponet Rémi 🇨🇵 @RPhiliponet]

Le président Vladimir Vladimirovitch Poutine s'adresse aux Allemands, en particulier à Friedrich Merz 🇩🇪 choqué par les résultats obtenus par l'AFD.

« Nous ne voulons pas vous attaquer ! Pourquoi le ferions-nous ? Cette époque est révolue depuis longtemps ! Quiconque a encore toute sa tête et sait réfléchir le comprend.

1) Vous avez déjà une dette nationale de 2 500 milliards d'euros, et aucun économiste sérieux ne sait comment vous comptez la rembourser.
(Alice Weidel déclare son pays en faillite.)
Et maintenant, vous voulez emprunter 1 000 milliards de plus pour vous armer contre nous.
2) Votre pays regorge de millions de migrants qui vous coûtent 50 milliards d'euros par an.
3) Une partie considérable de votre population est tellement dérangée qu'elle croit pouvoir influencer le climat en faisant du vélo et en mangeant des insectes.
4) Votre système éducatif était autrefois exemplaire. Aujourd'hui, dans de nombreuses salles de classe, il n'y a pratiquement plus d'enseignement car presque personne ne parle allemand.
5) Vos infrastructures tombent en ruine et vous n'arrivez pas à suivre le rythme des réparations.
6) Vos chemins de fer faisaient autrefois la fierté du monde entier. Aujourd'hui, vos trains circulent comme en Inde.
7) Nous n'avons pas besoin de vos célèbres ingénieurs. Pendant les sanctions, nous avons appris que nous pouvions nous en passer. Mais si nous en avions finalement besoin, nous nous tournerions vers la Chine. Là-bas, ils sont non seulement moins chers, mais
aussi meilleurs.
8) Vous ne possédez ni matières premières ni sources d'énergie. Alors, pourquoi devrions-nous conquérir votre pays ? Pour résoudre des problèmes que nous n'aurions même pas autrement ? Soyons réalistes : même si vous nous appeliez,
si vous capituliez et hissiez le drapeau blanc, nous ne viendrions pas pour autant ! »

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.

[KOMO News @komonews]

The world's first light rail line over a floating bridge is inadvertently killing fish in Lake Washington, and now Sound Transit is scrambling to find a solution.

It's unclear how many fish have died and how long the problem has existed since the Crosslake Connection first opened on March 28, linking Seattle to the Eastside along the I-90 floating bridge.

"On August 3, we were alerted by our partners at the Washington State Department of Transportation to some number of deceased fish in the vicinity of the I-90 floating bridge," said Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine on Thursday.

Full story here: https://t.co/ToWcRffxNe

[Canterbury Park @CanterburyPark]

The fastest dog in MN was crowned today @CanterburyPark Best In Show. The winner? Spud, a bulldog from Shakopee. Check out this finish!!
#SCTop10 @ESPNAssignDesk

[🇺🇸STOP SEATTLE DEMs 2026🇺🇸 @TurnSeattleRed]

WA Dems: Trump ruined Labor Day.

Olympia: signed the stack you pay at the pump, the tire shop, the car lot, and the utility.

Gas tax 49.4¢ → 55.4¢. Vehicle excise 0.3% → 0.5%. Tire fee $1 → $5. New tax on IT/services. B&O up in 2027. OFM: ~$8.8B extra through 2029.

That’s not Tehran. That’s Ferguson’s pen.

Baumgartner and Newhouse don’t set WA’s gas tax. Your governor does. Quote the cookout. Hide the receipt.

[S.A. Dupres @Susan_Dupres]

Washington State

A Democrat Socialist Communist Totalitarian Controlled State

Sept. 4, 2026

Washington State has a Democrat Trifecta and a Democrat triplex. The Democrat Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature.

Press Release from Washington State DEMS for Labor Day.

See below.

H/T: @muthaPNW

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“One of the reasons it has taken so long for some people to finally see through Barack Obama is that people do not like to admit, even to themselves, that they have been played for fools by a slick-talking politician.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Explodeintospace @Explodeintospa1]

@DataRepublican @watilo Data Republican lays out a global scheme of foreign influence that has captured the US Administrative State.

Her critics don't question the depth of the corruption but are terribly concerned about who paid to expose it?

Lunacy

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

HOLEE SHIZZLES!
NO KINGS Financials Released!

The Financers:
- Arabella: $79M
- Warren Buffet: $16M
- Ford: $51M
- Rockefeller: $26M
- Soros: $72M
- Tides: $45M

$294,487,641 MILLION

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

In 20 years, every major education system is just going to be 1,200 make-work administrative staffers with three degrees HRing each other

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

My rule, that you shouldn't murder people, is a lot simpler than your rule, that it's ok or not based on their W2

[Jack @MrBeagleman]

The generation that can’t figure out change for a dollar without a calculator or change a tire, and think the economy is an actual pie. I’m sure it’ll be riveting.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

After Constantinople fell on 29 May 1453, Muslims broke into Hagia Sophia, where thousands of Christians had taken refuge, and killed them. The historians that were inside Constantinople on 29 May 1453 (Doukas, George Sphrantzes, Kritovoulos) mention that the Muslims were slaughtering Christians inside the church for days. Kids, women and men. Kids and women also sold as slaves. Those historical events are well documented. The only thing you have to do is to open some books.

65 years after the Fall of Constantinople, Sultan Selim I Yavuz, grandson of Mehmed "the Conqueror" and father of Suleiman, decided to definitively abolish the Patriarchate of Constantinople during the patriarchate of Theoleptos I, and to slaughter all the subjugated Christians (rayah) of the empire who refused to convert to Mohammedanism and Islam.

Just 65 years after the Fall of Constantinople, the Greeks of Thrace were collectively placed before the forced dilemma of either converting or being wiped off the face of the earth, that is, to suffer ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Between those two barbaric options, the Greeks of Thrace (the ancestors of today’s Muslim Greeks of Thrace) chose ethnic cleansing at their own expense; that is, they chose to convert in order to survive as an ancient indigenous people, in the hope that at some point in the future their descendants would regain their national self-awareness and their religious independence, and would then voluntarily return to the bosom of the Greek Nation and of Greek Orthodoxy.

Ottoman expansion was primarily a result of racial and religious grand plan. Just like the genocide of the Christian population of Anatolia (Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians) 100 years ago by the muslim Turks. A genocide and expulsion motivated by racial and religious hatred.

Ottoman expansion was primarily the result of a racial and religious grand plan, just like the genocide of the Christian population of Anatolia (Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians) a century ago by the Muslim Turks, a genocide and expulsion motivated by racial and religious hatred under the commands of Mustafa Kemal.

Greece experienced almost 400 years of Ottoman slavery, during which Muslim Turks tortured, murdered, and raped countless thousands of Greeks, targeting them solely for their religion and ethnicity, with the sole aim of forcing them to change their faith and convert to Islam. The entire modern history of Greece, from the fall of Constantinople until 1822, is filled with events of hatred by Islam toward Christianity and Greeks.

And I have not even mentioned the Janissaries.

[Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Victor Davis Hanson: Sanctuary Cities Reignite the Left’s Confederate Beliefs

All of the sudden, the Left has turned into rightwing, State’s Rights people

Full video: https://t.co/5qQNipzVXd

@VDHanson

[grammie @MamaMaddox]

@tanpukunokami We do the same- but the temple is “goodwill” or “garage sale”

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

JUST IN - EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that people's savings accounts are a problem

and that she must put this money "to the service of European companies"

says her plan to "securitize them" and "supervise them"

They're coming for your savings, Europe.

[grammie @MamaMaddox]

@HenryWycislo @HistorianUSA1 Exactly. Lexus is ripe for a law suit.

[DocumentingLibs @USADocumented]

An Asian guy is doing 63 in a 65.

Not swerving. Not on his phone. Lexus writes him up anyway:

CLOSED EYES DETECTED

LOOK FORWARD

An infrared camera in the steering column just scored his eyelids.

That is the product. Not a chime. A gaze model aimed at a specific face, deciding whether this man is allowed to look like he’s paying attention.

These systems fail unevenly. Eye shape, lid fold, glasses, height, lighting — the model was not built around every face it now polices. So the car doesn’t just watch you. It guesses. And when it guesses wrong, the dash still treats you like a problem.

You can mute the beep.

You cannot fire the camera.

Lexus says the face video “stays in the car.” The driving file does not: speed, braking, steering, attention flags. A behavior profile with a safety sticker on it.

This is the emerging surveillance state in a personal vehicle. You bought the car. They kept a supervisor. Blink, sit too low, or have the wrong face for the sensor, and the cabin writes you up.

A car that watches your eyes is not a feature. It is a checkpoint you take home.

Should a vehicle be allowed to monitor a driver’s face? I say “no.” What say you?

[Karen Kennedy @realkarenjean]

Just so we’re clear, Tina Peters @realtinapeters was thrown in prison for “improperly using another official’s ID.” She got a 9-year sentence. Pramilia should pay her “fair share” in physical restitution for using Maxine’s ID to vote 14 times. @HouseGOP