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[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@FiveTimesAugust What was your favorite? I really loved Bryce Canyon.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

There's a 911 in Upstate New York!! Ain't that right @GovKathyHochul ?? Kathy, why do you hate Upstate farmers so much? Let's see what America has to say about this, shall we? If you stand with American Farmers, hit REPOST. Volume UP!👇

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@SonofmanChrist2 @NguyenThih36 @cnni Blame Trump for what China is doing to Peru and other places? Make that make sense

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@willchamberlain not always bad.

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@willchamberlain Why do Republicans want the Congress or for to be "yes men"? Why don't we so want free thinkers? I think it is ridiculous when Democrats vote in lock step almost 100% of the time. I think it's good when there is fiery debate about who should be speaker of the house. Dissent is 1/

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@StrategyJackV @Milajoy @PNWConservative I'm from Washington. I saw this and was flabbergasted, but not particularly surprised. Kind of surprised to learn it's NOT true, though. And kind of mad that someone just have them a new idea. But California has to do it first - we just follow all their awful policies.

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@GovBobFerguson Please - tax us more in the name of climate change. You know you want to. Income tax for all. Stop discriminating. 🤡

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@DrJoelGator Why would Biden's FDA not release evidence that these were safe?

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@JimWalshLD19 Are there any good candidates running?

[Shane Kidwell @shanerkidwell]

There is a "No Kings" movement happening right now in Washington state. They wave every flag you can imagine...

The argument is that Republicans are operating like royalty. Unaccountable. Unelected. Making decisions that affect millions of people without a vote.

I want to talk about something closer to home. Who dictates your utility bill costs...

Puget Sound Energy serves 1.1 million customers in King and Snohomish counties. Snohomish County PUD serves another 370,000. Seattle City Light covers most of Seattle. Every single person in this region wakes up and pays whatever these utilities charge. You have no choice. You cannot switch providers.
PSE's electric bill is up 30% since 2023. If you are an Avista customer in eastern Washington, you are up over 40% since 2022. Nobody asked you. Nobody voted on it.

Here is how it happened.

Three people set PSE's profit rate. Not elected. All three appointed by Democratic governors. The current chair came from a clean energy advocacy organization. The governor who appointed him signed the law that requires PSE to make billions in new capital investments. Under the rules these three commissioners enforce, every dollar of that investment earns PSE a guaranteed 9.9% annual return. Collected from your bill. For decades.

The profits do not stay in Washington. PSE is owned by a consortium of Canadian and Dutch pension funds. Your utility payment leaves this state every month.

In King County, you can vote for your school board. Your city council. Your county executive. You cannot vote for a single person who decides what you pay for electricity.

That is not a Republican system. That is not a Democratic system. That is three people, appointed by one party that has held the governorship for 40 years, setting the price of a service you cannot refuse to buy.

The "No Kings" crowd wants you looking at Washington D.C.

I think we should start by looking at Olympia.

I publish the full research and sourced breakdowns on Substack every week. Search Shane Kidwell if you want the deeper dive.
@GovBobFerguson @komonews @KING5Seattle @KIRO7Seattle @fox13seattle @seattletimes

[Future 42 @future42org]

Our CCA Climate taxes are why we have the 3rd highest gas prices in the USA, and just hit a record for our state. But now that WA Ecology has released the climate data, KIRO's Charlie Harger points out:

"We spent Billions. We missed our own [climate] targets. And we finished middle of the pack behind states 'like Tennessee and Florida' that barely tried."

But hey, those Seattle community climate groups are not going to fund themselves.

@KIROCharlie | @KIRONewsradio
'Why WA Gas Is $1.51 More Than Average'

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@lakemonstercl1 Yes! But she should also be considered for the Supreme Court when a spot is open.

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@realannapaulina Hold the line! I don't think Democrats will support that either - at last not the ones that aren't paid for by Big Pharma.

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@RepKimSchrier @habitatskc for years. They just need a helping hand bc of high housing costs. 2/2

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@RepKimSchrier @habitatskc Any idea why working single moms on the KCHA housing choice voucher program were suddenly given notice that they were losing their support and their housing? I've heard that's at least 500 people. These are new recipients of the voucher, so it's not like they've been on it 1/2

[Died Suddenly @DiedSuddenly_]

Former CDC director: “About 15% of my clinical practice have injuries from the vaccines. The mRNA vaccines have been responsible for significant vaccine injury, which many people only got because they were forced to.”

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@KennyCarmody I am so pissed off for you. They DEMANDED you get vaccinated - they should be there for you. The gov't, the employer who told the employees to get it or else. I'm so sad for your struggle and the constant pain. I'm so glad you have God in your life to help you stay positive. 💚🙏

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@QuantumGuard17 😂😂😂 We ALL have the RIGHT to be audited by our government.

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

This independent farmer just declared that we need to “break up the big meatpackers” immediately.

“This level of concentration is a crisis.”

“We cannot have adequate food security, we cannot have rural economic revitalization, we cannot have clean water and clean air if we don’t break up the big meatpackers.”

Anna Pesek’s independent hog farm is being driven out of the market by the Big Four meatpackers’ monopoly.

Her top priority for the 2026 Farm Bill is for Congress to step up antitrust enforcement.

She warned that the Big Four meatpackers’ monopolization of the market is “not good for anyone except for their profits and their shareholders’ profit.”

“I think that is a bipartisan position.”

“A lack of competition is not good market practice for literally anyone involved.”

“When we concentrate industries, we also really concentrate the risk.”

“It’s not good for food security in the United States to have such a concentrated industry that really can’t withstand shocks.”

“The argument is often that [more diverse supply chains are] less efficient.”

“However, they’re more resilient.”

“And I think there is efficiency in something being resilient.”

Anna is not alone in calling this level of market consolidation a crisis for independent farmers and rural economies.

But Congress has a chance to address it with the 2026 Farm Bill.

Read our full blog on rethinking the 2026 Farm Bill below:🧵

[Seattlite @Seattlite20]

@SenatorCantwell We already put insurance companies in charge of health care.