1/ Come sit with me for a while. I pulled out a box of pastels, probably 50 years old, and talked while I cleaned them. This is what that 50-year-old box of pastels taught me about grief. 🧵

President Trump yesterday posted that the Senate is letting the Daylight Saving bill die and said "TAKE A VOTE!" This is one of the VERY FEW things I disagree with President Trump about. He's right that ALL of us want to stop changing our clocks. BUT he's wrong about which clock to keep. Permanent Daylight Saving Time is not natural. I want permanent standard time. Keep the clock the way God made it. The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House 308 to 117 this summer. It would lock us into permanent daylight time. That means dark winter mornings, kids waiting for the bus in the dark, and our body clocks out of sync all year. Awful. And just to be clear: there is no such thing as an “extra hour” of daylight. That’s like saying you can make a rope longer by cutting off one end and moving it to the other end. That’s ridiculous. Days are just shorter in the winter. Period. if you truly want longer daylight between September and March, move to the southern hemisphere where it is actually summer during those months. There's a better bill. The Sunshine for Our Kids Act would make standard time permanent. The sleep doctors agree: the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the AMA both back permanent standard time. I get why people love those long summer evenings. I do too. And the President is right that the Senate should take a vote. Let's just vote for the right clock. States can already stay on standard time all year. Hawaii and most of Arizona do. Virginia could too. Clocks fall back this Sunday at 2 a.m. Standard time or daylight time? Which side are you on?

My great uncle died in the first wave of Marines at Iwo Jima. He’s buried at Arlington Cemetery. This is NOT OK.

I was an AI skeptic. Now I believe it may be the biggest leap forward since the Industrial Revolution. Here's what changed my mind. I noticed something. I saw influencers on both sides using scare tactics to turn people off AI. Then the same thing happened with data centers. It felt like the next boogeyman we were all supposed to fear. When I see what looks like coordinated pushback on something this big, I can't help but wonder who benefits from keeping the masses from discovering just what's available to us. They’ve been doing it for decades. Why stop now? Then President Trump spoke up. He said the people telling us AI will destroy the world and data centers are bad for our neighborhoods are the same folks who said climate change would end the world. "WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!" he wrote. China is the only one happy about the backlash. Turn away from data centers and we'd be killing the golden goose. Every breakthrough brings fear.
The first steam locomotives scared the daylights out of people. All that power without horses, mules or oxen. And then came the Wright Brothers. What do you mean, man can fly? Now enter Elon's flying car. AI/SI. And rockets. You get where this is going. Where would we be if nobody had been willing to take a chance on those things? On October 8, President Trump honored Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and other tech leaders at the White House's National Medals of Science ceremony. "This is the golden age," he said. For a long time America fell behind in innovation and manufacturing. Watching that, and using AI every day, I feel like I'm getting a glimpse of what's possible. To be fair, the worries aren't all made up. People have real questions about jobs, power bills, water use near data centers, and privacy. Those deserve honest answers, not dismissal. Trump himself now requires big new data centers to make their own electricity so local bills don't go up. Leading on AI means getting those answers right too. I'm 61 and not a tech person, and I'm all in. I see this technology — in the right hands — as the great equalizer of our time. It is right on par with the Gutenberg press and movable type. President Trump in his first inauguration speech spoke of returning power to the people. I believe this is a huge step in that direction. There is no limit to what an individual can accomplish with this tool at our fingertips. I’m excited for the future! Follow @marygrace for more about my adventures with AI.

A few months before our Dad had his stroke, I planted dahlias in the back garden. Then when he was hospitalized, I didn't know if he would see them bloom. Through hospital stays and rehab, the dahlias kept opening one by one, like God whispering hold on. Now our dad gone. But It's late October and these dahlias are still blooming. God reminds us every day of His faithfulness. What reminds you He's still there?

Loudoun County residents just did something almost nobody has done. They got Amazon to back down. Amazon paid $427 million for the old George Washington University campus in Ashburn and planned four data centers there, more than 800,000 square feet of them. Now that plan is off. Under a deal announced this week, Amazon will: 
• withdraw its data center application
• promise not to sue the county to build them anyway
• hand the county about 25 acres, worth around $65 million, for an indoor sports facility and a community arts center
• give $5 million to the county's housing fund In return, the county will fast-track rezoning the rest of the land for housing. Board Chair Phyllis Randall said: "There will be no data centers or infrastructure that would support data centers on the GW campus." The county itself says Amazon came to the table because of the "significant opposition" from residents. Neighbors showing up and speaking out made the difference. To be fair, data centers bring Loudoun a lot of tax money, and that money helps fund schools and keep property taxes lower than they'd otherwise be. They also bring construction jobs. And this deal isn't final yet. Some supervisors say they won't trust it until they see the fine print. Here's the bigger picture: AI runs on data centers, and they need huge amounts of power. Northern Virginia is already the data center capital of the world. The fight over where they go is just getting started. What do you think? Should communities have the final say on where data centers go, even if it means giving up the tax money?

Somebody is actually going to jail this time. A federal judge on Friday sentenced Christopher Harwood, 44, of Fort Lauderdale to 20 years in federal prison for a $46.2 million Medicare fraud scheme. Harwood ran a telemedicine company called TelevisitMD that used telemarketers to push braces and genetic tests on seniors who didn't need them, then paid doctors to sign off on orders with no real patient relationship. Medicare paid out $17.9 million on the false claims. Harwood pocketed more than $10.4 million himself. He pleaded guilty back in March. Now he owes $17.9 million in restitution and forfeits the $10.4 million he stole. You tell me. Is 20 years enough?

You don't understand anything happening in the US right now unless you read Elon Musk all the way through. When he says that by 2036 money won't matter anymore, most people hear a billionaire's provocation. I hear something else. Money is the fuel of every corruption system. Earmarked subsidies, public contracts negotiated behind closed doors, lobbies, front NGOs, regulatory rents. The day AI and robots produce more than humanity can consume, that lever disappears. And everyone who lives off that lever disappears with it. There are a lot of them. And they've understood perfectly. That's why we're now reading that Musk is preparing for "war" if Democrats take back Congress. He's not the one declaring war. It's an entire system that knows it's fighting for its survival. Because we're at a turning point in human history. And there are only two ways out. Either the Democrats win, and we enter 1984. A hyper-class that controls the AI models, the robot fleets, the data, the currency, and owns 99% of everything. Below them, the rest of humanity on life support, dependent on an income that can be granted and taken away. Klaus Schwab's Davos Forum summed up this world in one sentence: "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy." It's communism, except instead of promising equality, it embraces caste. And for the first time in history, a caste won't need the consent of the people to hold power: robots will do the policing, AI will do the surveillance. Or we build a new order founded on merit, freedom, and private property. Where everyone remains the owner of their life, their work, and their share of the abundance. Where the collective ambition isn't managing scarcity, but understanding the universe and colonizing the cosmos. That's Elon Musk's project. The technology is the same in both cases. What changes is who owns it. Choose carefully which world you want to live in. And beware of socialists who promise to share the pie: they always end up keeping the knife.

BOOM. The Great Reclamation has begun. The Supreme Court just restored Trump’s constitutional power to remove rogue commissioners from federal agencies. For the first time in ninety years, the President can clean house. The walls of bureaucratic tyranny are cracking. Since 1935, the presidency has been a hostage. A hidden ruling called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States created a shield around unelected bureaucrats buried inside so-called independent agencies. They could not be fired. Not by Congress. Not by the people. Not even by the Commander in Chief. These were the Deep State’s castles inside the government. Protected. Untouchable. Writing rules with the power of law while answering to no one. For decades, they dictated policy, destroyed accountability, and made every president a figurehead in his own house. That ended this week. In a ruling few expected but history will never forget, the Supreme Court confirmed that President Trump has full constitutional authority to remove Democratic commissioners Mary Boyle, Richard Trumka Jr, and Alexander Hoehn-Saric from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Court reminded the nation that executive power belongs to the President alone. Not to agencies. Not to boards. Not to faceless lawyers. The 6-3 decision has detonated the foundation of bureaucratic immunity. Trump can now terminate any commissioner who obstructs reform, dismantle ideological mandates, and reclaim executive control over agencies that have operated like private empires. The ruling sets a precedent that can sweep through every corner of the federal maze — FTC, SEC, NLRB, CDC, FDA, DOE. Hundreds of unelected operators who hid behind the term “independent” are now exposed. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is only the beginning. Nearly 700 positions across Washington fall under the same model. With this judgment, Trump holds the legal weapon he was denied in his first term. The sword is back in his hands. Inside the Deep State, panic has already begun. For decades, they didn’t need to win elections. They only needed to control who stayed behind. By embedding loyal operatives inside untouchable posts, they guaranteed their agenda survived every presidency. They wrote laws under the cover of regulation. They censored industries through “safety standards.” They shifted policy without ever standing for a vote. That structure is now collapsing. This decision is not about staffing. It’s about sovereignty. The hidden coup that began ninety years ago has been reversed. The unelected state no longer outranks the elected one. The legal scaffolding that protected the regime is being dismantled piece by piece. That is why the media is silent. They understand what this means. If Trump uses this authority — and he will — the entire architecture of shadow governance will fall. Agencies that weaponized policy for ideology will be stripped of power. Mandates will be rescinded. Political infiltrators will be removed. The Deep State’s invisible army is finally within reach. Trump’s second term begins now, with the power he was denied in 2016. The presidency is no longer a cage. It is a command post. He can purge the administrative state, rebuild federal institutions that answer to the people, and restore a government that serves its citizens instead of its masters. This is The Great Reclamation. The end of ninety years of executive humiliation. The day the balance returns. The Deep State buried the presidency under red tape and called it democracy. But the chains have been cut. And Trump now holds the axe.

NEW RULE: California is DONE being the butt of every joke!

Spanberger is restoring voter rights to dead felons. Jay Jones wants DOJ election monitors kept out of the polls. Louise Lucas just got indicted for running a drug racketeering ring. This is Virginia Democrat leadership. 12 days. Vote like it matters. 🇺🇸

Absolutely correct. It’s not 1890 and it’s not 1990. Immigration at this point in American history should be extremely restrictive. Only the elite. We don’t need more mass immigration after decades of it, and we don’t need more low-skilled labor in the age of AI and robotics.