Ang

boy mom. this is the best place to be a fly on the wall.

[Ang @angnaumann]

@PNW_working_mom @flypdx Also…there is pee all over every seat. There’s a reason we don’t like to share!!

[Ang @angnaumann]

They fixed it.

[Ang @angnaumann]

This is why I homeschool.

[rebelEducator @rebelEducator]

Free curriculum for homeschoolers (and school leaders) on the history of the West.

The online resources to homeschool your kids are numerous and expanding, and a lot of them are way better than what a kid would get in public school.

Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t deliver a world class education to your own kids — everything you need to do so is at your fingertips.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Guys. IT'S ALL FRAUD. Every penny. How can any sane person with an IQ near room temperature look at increasing homelessness + increasing spending on homelessness and not realize that it's just a money laundering scheme? The entire homeless industrial complex needs to be nuked.

[Rip Wheeler @WheelerRipWA]

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON STATE GOVERNMENT

Where the cart doesn’t just go before the horse—it gets a $78 million capital appropriation and leaves the horse standing in the parking lot.

Washington spent roughly $78.75 million building the Brockmann behavioral-health campus in Vancouver.

Three buildings.

48 beds
Brand new
Construction completed in 2025

And the best part? Nobody is using it.

Why?

Because after spending the money to build the damn thing, Washington hadn’t provided the operational funding necessary to actually staff and operate it.

That’s right. They remembered the buildings, they forgot the employees.

Apparently, psychiatrists, nurses, technicians and support staff are considered optional accessories.

Maybe they were supposed to be included in the next biennium.

You know… Like batteries sold separately.

And here’s another little detail that makes this whole thing even more interesting:

Vancouver iTech Preparatory—a public STEM school serving roughly 600 students—is across the street. So Washington has a brand-new behavioral-health campus sitting unused near a school full of kids. I’m sure somebody thought through that proximity when they selected the site.

iTech Prep is at 16100 NE 50th Ave
Brockmann is 16015 NE 50th Ave

Right?

I mean, what could possibly go wrong with putting a secure behavioral-health facility next to a school?

Oh wait…

It isn’t even operating. So I guess that’s one way to solve the safety concern: Just don’t open it. Problem solved.

Of course, that does raise another question:

If the facility is so important that Washington spent nearly $79 million building it, why isn’t it important enough to fund the staff required to operate it?

That’s where Washington’s budgeting genius really shines:

Build it
Don’t fund it
Lock it up
Pay someone to maintain it
Hold listening sessions
Study the problem
Then ask taxpayers for more money

Brilliant.

And let’s be clear: Washington needs behavioral-health beds. That’s what makes this even more infuriating.

The problem isn’t building treatment capacity.

The problem is spending tens of millions on the building without having the operational plan and recurring funding lined up to actually use it.

Imagine doing this in your own life:
You build a $500,000 garage
Buy all the tools
Install the lifts
Pave the driveway

Then realize you forgot to budget for mechanics.

So you lock the doors, hire a security guard and hold six meetings to decide what you’re going to do with your new garage.

Your spouse would probably have some questions.

In Olympia? That’s apparently called strategic planning. And that’s the real problem with Washington’s budget priorities.

There is always money for:

Another program
Another agency
Another study
Another consultant
Another lawsuit
Another spending package
Another shiny government initiative

But somehow there’s not enough money to open the facility taxpayers already paid to build. This isn’t fiscal responsibility. It’s government spending with a ribbon-cutting fetish. Capital projects are easy to announce. They photograph well.

Politicians get to stand in front of a shiny new building and tell everyone how much they’re accomplishing.

But staffing?
Operating costs?
Maintenance?
Long-term commitments?
That’s where the bill comes due.

And that’s apparently where the planning ends, so congratulations, Washington.

You built a 48-bed behavioral-health facility for nearly $79 million and turned it into a taxpayer-funded monument to the phrase:

“We’ll figure that part out later.”
And while you’re figuring it out, you’ve got a public STEM school nearby serving hundreds of students.

But don’t worry
The building is secure
The alarms work
The locks work
The taxpayers are paying for maintenance
And the beds remain empty

Because apparently in Washington state, the only thing that needs to be operational is the spending machine.

The rest can wait

https://t.co/0UlHYqGHSw

[Ang @angnaumann]

The best part about raising boys? Watching them become men.

[Ang @angnaumann]

@BiblicalBeauty Christy Miller series by Robin Jones Gunn

[Ang @angnaumann]

@Breaking57 Why do rats steal content and repost it for their own views?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Ang @angnaumann]

@TodayUpdates0 👍🏻

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

At this rate, it’s not even about being a Democrat or Republican anymore. It’s literally the American people versus a uniparty establishment that is corrupt to the core. It’s time for voters to wake up when they go to vote on Election Day. Stop sending the same garbage to the Senate.

[Hannah Ward 👩🏻‍🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer @HannahWardEdu]

@SoledadFrancis It's an actual crisis.
Parents- YOU are your child's first, best, and most important teacher.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Here is what a tax like this does:

1) It excites people with zero agency and infinite envy. Beware of these people.

2) It will keep middle class people firmly in the middle class with no real chance of getting wealthy if they stay in Washington State. It should be clear that this IS the strategy. Learned helplessness of the electorate will keep Washington State’s current elected officials in office.

3) It will never allow the upwardly mobile of building any assets or real wealth unless they move.

Capping the American Dream is a dystopian and malevolent scheme. It cannot be a valid strategy.

But unless droves of middle and upper middle class people leave Washington State, this strategy will win.

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

Parents are the best educators.

Literacy starts at home!

[Ang @angnaumann]

@thegenesisbl0ck She homeschools her kids…leading more than she ever knew she could.

[megan @hollowandhome]

so i heard getting married, having kids, making a cozy home is boring.

anyway, here’s to the comfort, joy, wonder, and security of ‘boring’ 🫶🏼🕯️✨

[Ang @angnaumann]

@choeshow Went at 10:30 am on day 2 and had our food by 11. They have. Great team working the crowds!

[Ang @angnaumann]

“In other words, the ACT and CLT correlate with the old SAT better than the current SAT does.”

Being able to pay attention to texts of extended length should indeed be a prerequisite for college. https://t.co/uTcVVodFfW

[Mark Hyman, M.D. @drmarkhyman]

A recent study found that having just one meaningful conversation with a friend each day can boost happiness, lower stress, and reduce feelings of loneliness.

Connection is the ultimate biohack.