The cost of individual health plans could go up a whopping 20% next year after WA state OK’d premium hikes that even the insurance commissioner called “sticker shock.” The they will use that to argue for "Medicare For All" and that healthcare is exploitive.

Here’s what a problematic activist judge looks like in WA.

Look at this North African thug in Italy going berserk, smashing chairs, swinging them around, and terrorizing locals in a public cafe like it’s normal. This is exactly what mass migration from incompatible cultures delivers: chaos, fear, and violence spreading to every corner. Italy needs to grow a spine and start deporting these people in massive numbers before it’s too late.

The fact that @NaomiAKlein expressed regret is a positive. The key question is how she avoids ideological capture coloring her opinions and ignoring evidence in the future.

🚨 The President of Venezuela offered rare praise for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) rescue team: "I would like to announce that yesterday we received a highly professional and skilled team from Israel, who arrived as a result of a connection established through the Jewish community in Venezuela. I would like to thank Rabbi Cohen for all the arrangements that made it possible for us to establish contact with the Israeli government and to bring here, at this very moment, a team of experts who have begun implementing the protocol for initiating the process of restoring infrastructure and assessing the condition of the infrastructure. And most importantly, this is a team of experts who are capable of determining whether there are any living people in a particular location or whether there are spaces that need to be evacuated, even before any other process of infrastructure restoration can begin. I am grateful to them for this. They have already held meetings with the authorities in Venezuela. This is a team with a very high level of training and professionalism, and I hope that we can continue to make progress at this stage."

Washington drops to 31st in new national educational ranking. Of course WA OSPI claims that the state is making progress even as it continues to lag and that the key need is for more funding. seattletimes.com/education-l…

Melbourne Australia was fun a decade ago. Since then it has declined dramatically, just like Seattle. What do they have in common? A leftist government that excuses and enables bad behavior and homelessness. skynews.com.au/australia-new…

> Maybe they could pay a little bit more so that all of our kids can go to good schools and travel functional roads and get good healthcare. This is a lie. No amount of taxes can create a new good school or build a new hospital with new doctors and mri machines. In fact, you need capital to underwrite the risk of building and training people, and the more you tax capital the less of it there is to underwrite risk. Shortages persist because they benefit someone politically.

How morally corrupt does the Democratic party have to be for one of their chief strategists to say this about an abusive nazi admiring candidate that they are running for congress: huffpost.com/entry/james-car…

For over two years, the UN laundered Hamas propaganda, manufactured fake aid statistics, and called it "authoritative data." Today, the curtain comes down. The systematic information manipulation machine operating under the UN is now exposed. See the evidence for yourself: 👇 govextra.gov.il/mda/un-agenc…

theurbanist.org/seattle-soci… Tiffani McCoy, the Interim CEO of the Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD), is a prominent grass-roots organizer and policy advocate, not a real estate expert.

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

If only Washington state Democrats paid attention to what leading Democrats said...

This article speaks of Mamdani, but the core concepts apply equally to the WA state Governor and Dems in our legislature that have been adopting many of those same principles. washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…

This is a long post but a reflection of life during the first week of the war from my seat on the front row right in the bullseye. It's 7:30am in Jerusalem. It's Shabbat. Quiet except for the missile alert siren at 5am this morning. Been exactly a week since war with Iran began. @janethuckabee & I & our 2 little dogs have been living in the Command Center, sleeping on cots to be able to deal with the moment by moment situation. Janet and the dogs are adjusting but they don't like the painfully loud sirens warning of incoming missiles, rockets & drones. It's a 24 hr a day schedule. When sirens aren't forcing everyone to shelter to dodge incoming ballistic missiles, the phone rings day and through the night w/ updates on everything from military activities to managing the embassy duties while our team is sheltering in place and working from home. Some in our mission, especially those with small children have evacuated on "authorized departure" which allows gov't staff to return to the US during a war or crisis. We are working around the clock to help evacuate American citizens trying to get back home. In the first days of the war, it was both difficult & dangerous to move people with all airspace closed & overland routes to Egypt or Jordan more risky than "sheltering in place." Totally fake news stories said "nothing was being done" to help Americans. Total lie. In the early hours and first days of war, the safest decision & what we urged our own Embassy personnel to do was stay close to shelter. Slowly, as the "battle rhythm" developed, we started physical evacuation first via buses to Egypt. There has been constant coordination with State Dept in DC to evacuate Americans SAFELY & promptly. 2 days ago, very limited flights started coming IN to Israel to bring Israelis home. We worked with El Al Airlines, the Israeli gov't & w/ State Dept Task Force in DC to get as many people on outbound planes as possible on the limited number of flights. It has been a 24 hr a day operation. Seeing utterly false news stories that US wasn't "doing anything" was a shock to embassy staff who have been busting their backsides, functioning with little or no sleep & themselves having to rush to bomb shelters repeatedly during the day and night & only having 90 seconds to take cover. We have now successfully evacuated thousands of people using every means possible, but focusing on helping people get home SAFELY. I'm proud of our team here. If you are an American citizen & taxpayer, you should be as well. I was amused to read comments online that I had returned to the US. Hardly. The Ambassador is the last one to leave. It's how it works. First duty is to America citizens. They are our real bosses. All of us here at the mission work for them. We know that & we work with that in mind. My other duty is to care for our team here. To insure the well-being of their families & to encourage our staff to take care of their physical and mental health as ballastic missiles the size of 18 wheel trucks come hurling toward us. I tried to get my wife to evacuate, but not surprisingly she would have none of it. She has weathered it with me even though there is no paycheck for her to sleep on a cot & endure days of making meals from PBJ sandwiches & things we had in the freezer at the residence we brought with us. No complaints though. It's a privilege to serve our country and its people & we are proud to serve @POTUS who courageous decision to stop the Iranian Regime's determined 47 year campaign to kill Americans & build a nuclear weapon to attack the US is something that should have happened long before. This war probably seems so far from those of you who live 6000 miles or more away from it, but rest assured the President wants to keep it that far away & end the threat completely. Had the fanatical religious zealots obtained a nuclear warhead and finalized long-range ballistic capability (and they were getting close to both) they would have used it on America. This is not a "war for Israel" as some of the very uninformed media voices and podcasters crow about. They are "often wrong, but never in doubt." I'm amazed at how lacking in facts some of them are but filled with an arrogant confidence that what they say is true. But they are far removed from the eyewitness intel & the front row seat I have. While they enjoy hefty paychecks from the "clicks" by being provocative, just know that halfway around the globe you have dedicated men & women who work for you for paychecks far less than they should be. They are on duty in war conditions & will continue at the task of serving Americans caught in the middle of a war. God Bless America, our courageous men & women in our military, & God Bless the men & women of YOUR Embassy in Israel!

This is one of the most incredible animations I’ve seen on X that tells the story of the Islamic ambition and mission to build their global caliphate. It is so so brilliantly done. Whoever made this is a genius

Good Morning Vietnam!!! Nearly 16K have already signed in Con Help us hit 100K to oppose SEIU sock puppet Bob Ferguson’s Income tax WA House Democrats scheduled the Income Tax (SB 6346) for a public hearing next Tuesday, February 24th at 8:00am in the House Finance Committee. Sign-in CON on SB 6346: ow.ly/SCEy50YhV23 Sign in and share. I will keep you updated on the count.

Completely Unconnected Income Tax Dots Pt. 1 Even the photo is unrelated Warning TLDR 2020-2024 -Microsoft and Brad Smith were completely silent on the unconstitutional passing of the Capital Gains tax in 2021 -Unrelated, a tax break on Data Centers was extended in 2020 right before the capital gains tax was passed -Also unrelated, this Data Center tax cut is estimated to have saved Microsoft over $300 million in taxes 2024 Capital Gains repeal effort -436,474 voters signed initiative 2109 to repeal the capital gains tax -Completely unrelated is Microsoft and Brad’s silence which was definitely not connected to any side tax deal for the Data Centers, the Capital gains tax repeal died at the ballot box -Brad Smith later admits he kept silent on repealing the capital gains tax because, Jay Inslee asked him and Microsoft to sit this one out- but as far as you know, it was unrelated 2024 Income Tax Ban -448,158 voters signed initiative I-2111 banning an income tax in WA state which then went to the legislature -Senate vote: 38-11 (in favor of passing I-2111) -House vote: 76-21 (in favor of passing I-2111) -An income tax becomes illegal in WA state -As a parting gift to Brad, Jay Inslee proposed a wealth tax on his way out the door -This was a betrayal to the promises made to Brad -On a phone call with Inslee he complained “What are you doing to us?” -Unrelated, the Wealth tax soon died in committee -Instead the legislature raised the death tax to an eye-watering 35% -Completely unrelated, wealth began moving or re-domiciling out of the state 2025 -Democrats begin socializing the idea that they will impose an unconstitutional income tax in 2026 session -Nov 2025 Brad publicly sends a warning to the legislature, “If the state’s tax burden becomes prohibitive, then every company will reconsider where they put jobs.” “It’s more like air leaking out of a balloon than the balloon popping.” “You don’t have to look far to find Vancouver.” 2026 -Democrats propose an unconstitutional Income tax anyway -Feb 5 Brad says “We can’t afford as a state to be like leading the way in every high tax category.” -Feb 6 Smith cautioned the legislature again on the 9.9% income tax proposal, arguing lawmakers should focus less on whether a tax rises and more on “how it’s constructed,” including whether other taxes fall. (Warning about the cumulative impact of taxes like capital gains at 9.9% and estate tax up to 35%.) -Also Feb 6 and completely unrelated a sudden inclusion of a hearing on a SB-6347 to roll back the death tax from 35% to 20% is heard right after the hearing on the income tax -unrelated to any of this, rumors swirl that Brad Smith cut a deal -Likewise, completely unrelated is a oblique small provision in the Income tax bill that eliminates one year earlier than current law, a B&O surcharge on super large corporations with over $250 million in rev.— estimated to be worth close to $500 million to these small handful of giant corporations -Feb 9, SB 6347 rolling back the death tax moves out of committee - Feb 16, Senate passes SB 6346 the unconstitutional income tax with its unrelated B&O tax savings for microsoft -unrelated to either of the last two bullet points, Brad Smith is suddenly once again silent on the income tax bill It is all just a Koinkidink- any connections are only in your head…