Anne Mckague

Butterflyway Ranger Beyond Hope BC. Obsessed by the climate thing. Born at 312ppm.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

10/10. No notes.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

The unscripted energy and genuine reactions turn a simple bit into one of those unforgettable comedy moments fans still love.

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Rumour has it that the US is after Iran's Weapons of Mass Distraction.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Anne Mckague @amckague]

Yikes!

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

It’s hard to grasp just how quickly Chinese humanoid robots are advancing.

In the space of a single year, they’ve gone from looking and moving like obvious machines to something that feels strikingly human.

[Anne Mckague @amckague]

Good one!

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

Bruce Fanjoy has launched a petition to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top security clearance.

It's open for a couple of months.

https://t.co/qpptwjFbyE

[Mark Cecchini, CFP® @markcecchini]

Simply go to "File" -- "Make a Copy" to fill it out for yourself

https://t.co/VwWsGtw2QI

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Ever notice how the Trump administration never says, “We are actively investigating and it is too soon to speculate or offer comment,” but instead somehow always seem to know exactly how everything happened, mere minutes after the event?

It’s almost unbelievable.

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

Why PM Mark Carney got a standing ovation:

[Anne Mckague @amckague]

Here, here..( hear, hear?)

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

As someone who never stopped physically going to work during COVID - I side with Ontario workers who want hybrid working conditions. I'm an ER doc - and of course I need to physically go to work - just like a truck driver. 👇👇

Forcing people to go to the office 5 days a week is stupid policy. Making them sit in transit 3 hours a day is stupid policy. They can do meetings online. They can decide when a face to face is needed with their manager. They can go in when required.

Hybrid conditions is better for workers because they also happen to be human beings. They have parents and children that need to be cared for. They have a dog that appreciates a noon-hour walk. The cost of transit chips away at their income and puts them into a zombie state.

Even though 99% of my work life is seeing patients I need to attend hospital meetings and those have almost all moved to hybrid. I can fold clothes, I can walk our dogs (which is good for my health) and I can make a home lunch while attending a meeting with headphones on. I can make our kid supper. I value those things as well. Making me commute 3 hours for a 2 hour meeting is policy insanity.

The policy position of the Ontario government and other employers at the end of the day seems mean and punitive to me. Yah - you have the right to force people to the office that need a job - but it's advancing a policy that feels like a jerk.

[Anne Mckague @amckague]

An occasion only eclipsed by Mamdani's win...

[Bruce Fanjoy 🍁 @brucefanjoy]

Happy New Year Canada! Wishing each and every one of you the best in 2026.

[Anne Mckague @amckague]

Yup...

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I agree with Bette. 😢

[Anne Mckague @amckague]

Told ya...

[lindsay 🙈🏳️‍🌈 @virtueemoir29]

“As you know, I am a former prosecutor - his DNA is all over it. All over it.” ~ @KamalaHarris, October 27, 2025

It was always explicitly clear that Project 2025 would be implemented in full, and quickly, if Trump was elected.

She warned of it constantly. People didn’t listen.

[Anne Mckague @amckague]

I'm doing FINE!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Well, this certainly puts things in perspective. 😂🤣👇

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Well, this certainly puts things in perspective. 😂🤣👇

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Time for a bit of music - how about some Eminem and his new anti-Trump song? Here is a little taste. #DemsUnited

[Anne Mckague @amckague]

Words to live by...

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻

In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.

Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.

*****

"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

I’m writing this to tell you something simple:

Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.

Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

With love and gentleness,

Patricia Routledge

*****

Once more, rest in peace. 🤍

[PaulleyTicks @PaulleyTicks]

"Well, there's your problem..."

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

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