Midwest Miniature Guy

More painting tonight at 8pm CST over on twitch.tv/midwestminiatu…! Time to start on more dwarves, a monk, and a wizard! See you there! #twitchstreamer #commissionpainting #minipainting

Hello Punchbowl News, The central finding: "Most K Street leaders (88%) say the Trump administration's approach to immigration enforcement will harm Republicans in the midterms." Eighty-eight percent of K Street leaders. Let me introduce you to Main Street. McLaughlin & Associates conducted a national survey of 2,000 likely voters between February 27 and March 3, 2026 — the same window as your K Street poll. Here is what actual Americans said: 🔹 Seventy-two percent say addressing illegal immigration is an important priority. 🔹 Eighty-two percent agree immigration policy should serve the interests of American citizens, including 71% of Democrats and 81% of independents. 🔹 Seventy-eight percent agree immigration to the United States is a privilege and not a right, including 60% of Democrats and 70% of Hispanics. 🔹 Seventy-six percent agree the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens, including 57% of Democrats and 72% of Hispanics. 🔹 Two-thirds support deporting migrants who enter the country illegally, including 62% of independents and 59% of Hispanics. Your 88% says immigration enforcement hurts Republicans. America's 72% says it's an important priority. Your 88% says the GOP is in danger. America's 66% says deport them. Your K Street leaders are not predicting the midterms. They're telling you what they want, and you're publishing it as news. Now let's talk about who's in the room. Your article identifies the survey partner as "independent public affairs firm, LSG," hyperlinked to teamlsg[.]com... which redirects to locuststreet[.]com, the Locust Street Group. LSG is a Washington, D.C. public affairs firm whose website describes its services as "integrated strategic communications and public affairs campaigns." That is not an independent research firm. That is a lobbying and public affairs shop with registered LDA filings, running legislative campaigns for corporate clients who need things from Congress. And you called them "independent" in the same sentence where you presented their survey of K Street lobbyists as a news finding about American politics. You surveyed the lobbying industry, in partnership with a lobbying firm, many of whose partners also sponsored Punchbowl, and reported the result as though it were a measure of political reality. Eighty-eight percent of K Street wants immigration enforcement to stop. That is an interest declaration from the people who profit from the status quo, laundered through a press credential. About that credential. Senate Standing Rule VI governs the congressional press galleries. The rules require that credentialed members are "(a) not engaged in paid publicity or promotion work" and "(b) not engaged in any lobbying activity and will not become so engaged while a member of the gallery." Your 2026 sales deck offers corporations $300,000 for custom content "mutually agreed upon" between sponsor and outlet. It prices "Fly Out Day" lawmaker appearances at $75,000 to $100,000 a month. It sells newsletter sponsorships at $225,000 per week. Goldman Sachs, PhRMA, ExxonMobil, Meta, JPMorgan, Blackstone, and the American Investment Council (all documented sponsors) are not buying journalism. You are conducting paid publicity for corporate clients under a credential whose rules explicitly prohibit paid publicity. No wonder why John Thune felt comfortable passing a bill at 2 AM that defunded immigration enforcement while 76% of the country, including 57% of Democrats, agrees the government's first duty is to protect American citizens. He didn't need to read the polls. He read Punchbowl. The Standing Committee of Correspondents should review whether Punchbowl News meets the requirements for congressional press gallery credentials. If "mutually agreed upon" content for $300,000, lawmaker appearances priced at $100,000 a month, and surveys conducted in partnership with a registered lobbying firm do not constitute "paid publicity" or "lobbying activity" under Rule VI... then the rule has no meaning, and the press gallery is just another K Street address with better hallway access. You are the story, Punchbowl News.

@MarieleRedclaw I can see it.

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Here are the figures that were completed on last night's stream. A polar bear, a gnome or dwarf warrior with a huge axe, & a grimdark human male Paladin. All painted for a client's collection. Thanks for looking! #PaintingMiniatures #miniatures #minipainting #commissionpainting

Draven from League of Legends is completed & will be heading back to the client on Thursday evening! On tonight's stream, I'll be painting more of Nate's figures for his collection. 8pm CST on twitch.tv/midwestminiatu…! #miniatures #commissionpainting #twitchaffiliate

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism. You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like. Bro. You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai. You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested. The modern left's definition of fascism: You love your country? Fascist. You want to enforce the border? Racist. You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot. You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow. Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left. But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them. Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected. Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign. Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king. Okay buddy. You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours. And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968. Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote. During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant. But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression. The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That's how you keep power without wearing a crown. Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire." They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho... Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn't stop at speech. The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook. During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings. January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided. Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated. CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up. 75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable. Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated. One side talks. The other side screams. The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday. Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism. The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud. 500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry. The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing. "Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right. Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over. Today his own party would call him a fascist. The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth. The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote. The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children. Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026: Censorship of political opposition. Democrats. Contempt for democratic process. Democrats. Tolerance of political violence. Democrats. State ideology forced on families. Democrats. Corporate-state fusion. Democrats. Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides. Cult of personality. Both sides. Ultranationalism. Republicans. Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared. You marched against kings on Saturday. You marched FOR kings. You just didn't know which was which. Stop being gaslit. I hope you understand what's at stake.

@realMaalouf @glennbeck I hear they like to behead infidels. Strange... we feel the same about pagans, pedophiles, and demon worshippers. But alas, I repeat myself.

Palestinian Islamic scholar in Chicago, Mohammad Nusairat: “We did not come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah!” Thoughts?!

Wanted fugitive child sex offender Brett Thomas Green, 37, was apprehended and booked into custody by Minneapolis police this afternoon. Being held on a DOC hold (on parole) and probable cause failure to comply with predatory offender registration. Green was just released from prison in December. Prior convictions include 1st degree criminal sexual conduct involving a minor age 13-15, 1st degree home invasion burglary, possession of burglary tools, thefts, and drugs.

@CrimeWatchMpls Hazard a guess on if the family is black or Somalian?

Coon Rapids - Responders dispatched for a 1.5-year-old who fell from a 2nd story window onto the concrete. 108xx Robinson Dr 13:10

@emmiemaccrae Playing music with a band is 100% better than jamming alone. Completely different experience.

@MidMiniGuy She's adjusting really well to working with the band! She absolutely loves it and it's wonderful to watch!

YA'LL ONE OF MY BABIES (youth student) IS PLAYING DRUMS WITH THE WORSHIP TEAM SUNDAY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I'M A PROUD SPIRITUAL MAMA!!!!!!!

@ErebusValmar @JeremyTate41 @RonColeman Demolitions.

@JeremyTate41 @RonColeman Charter school

The rapidly shrinking Department of Education is abandoning its headquarters, widely regarded as the ugliest building in DC. What should the building be used for now?

@Awennon You're welcome!

@MidMiniGuy Thanks man!

It's always a pleasant surprise when I get more than 25 likes on a hobby post. Thank you all! 🙏 Anyway, the sculpting and adding decorations is done. I'll paint him after I'll be done painting my homebrew 1st Company Captain.

Instead of middle-aged podcasters telling folks what they should think about Ashley Sheatz's testimony, here is Ashley telling us what she thinks about it: "But I wasn’t embarrassed at all by it because I’ve been sharing my testimony for years. It was more of a “Praise God, Praise God that my testimony is being seen by millions of people, millions of unsaved people, and the gospel is being magnified in that. I have zero shame. And my husband knows I do not mind him at all sharing any aspects of my testimony. He’s a wise, godly man. I trust what he does. And he is discreet when he needs to be. I have no issues with it." The godliness this young woman has shown in the face of serious slander, snarkiness, unfairness, and outright hostility has been a serious blessing to many of us. @AshleySheatz, the way you have weathered this (with Trevor!) has edified so many, and even strengthened our faith in some way. And that is to say NOTHING of the millions of people who have now heard of God's amazing grace in your life. Amazing! There will be people in heaven, I am guessing, because of this.

@MiscMini Thank you!

@MidMiniGuy I like it

Finished a Reaper Miniatures Cave Bear for a client's collection. Did a image search for a color scheme, & I liked this one best. Thanks for looking! #miniatures #minipainting #commissionpainting #reaperminiatures

@DragonArt2024 Good call!

@MidMiniGuy Lol I wouldn't even be in it's vicinity lol.

@DogMeat4Amy Thank you. Years of practice.

@MidMiniGuy You do nice work.

@DragonArt2024 LOL hopefully you're using a long distance lens!

@MidMiniGuy Oh look it's a Kodiak moment

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.