Beth Daranciang

When I asked my 46th District legislators about the lawsuit from the former female prisoner forced to share a cell with a 6’4” male who sexually assaulted her, their response was … interesting. What do you think?

@mkhammer @maryricehasson What a beautiful testimony. Thank you for sharing.

I took this picture on April 5, 2015, the last time my birthday fell on Easter. It was not a great day for me. I fought back tears at church, and not in the overwhelmed-by God's-great-mercy way. Little did I know at the time, my year was going to take much worse turns. But I was newly pregnant with my second child, and though very sick and feeling pretty sorry for myself that Easter morning, I knew I was blessed with this new life and a Savior who loves me. I took this photo because it was a reminder of new life and bread of life, and the light of the world. Later that year, I would lose my husband while 7 months pregnant. He died in September. My daughter was born in November. A lot of people wonder, and have asked me, how does one keep her faith through those dark days. I always wondered, how could I have made it through without it? I was angry and scared and so, so thankful I had met Jesus before that moment. I met Him while reading one of those 90s teen study bibles with neon graphics, in my childhood bedroom. In my sad, grey adult bedroom, I woke up panicking in the night, but He was always with me. I prayed Jeremiah 29:11 to calm myself down: "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.'" I prayed it even though I didn't really believe it at the time. It's not that Jesus solved all my problems in this fallen world or fixed my immediate pain right up. But I was in it with Him and with His promises. And he put the kind of brother in my life who would move in with me to help raise the kids for six months. He put parents in my life who showed up every weekend. He put a neighbor in my life who mowed my lawn every week and another who was a SEAL wife and understood grief like few do, and a best friend who could work out my paperwork (death is so much paperwork) when I couldn't. "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts to us in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world," C.S. Lewis writes in "The Problem of Pain." I learned a lot while I was being shouted at. I think about Jeremiah 29:11 and 11 years ago today. I think about how my little girl who was not yet born then baked my birthday cake today. I think about how she has three siblings now and the most amazing dad— I remarried in 2020 and he adopted the girls. He took all four of our kids to the store to pick out something for my birthday and then let them each choose a walkout song on the karaoke machine as he gave them a Bruce Buffer announcement call when they came down the stairs to present them to me. I think about how they've gained grandparents and cousins and love and faith. (Our first holiday with Steve's family was Easter, and I took it as a good sign.) I pray they've watched our lives and gained trust in their Lord. I think about how my patience was tested by them several times today, as the patience of a parent always is, and how infinite my Father in heaven's patience for me must be. I think about how much I love each of them, and how much my heart grew when each was born just to fit it all in, and how much greater still is my Father's love for me. I think about how much I have to learn and how my faith is still not as mature as it should be at this point (occasionally illustrated on this app). Today in the car, my kids requested "No Fear" by @jonreddick , "Your Way's Better," by @forestfrank , and "Jesus Is Alive, It's a Happy Day" — that one came with sign language by the 3- and 4-year-old, which I recommend for making your heart soar on a Sunday. They listen to secular music, too, but those are their favorites. One time, reading the Christmas story with my kids, I read "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people," and my eldest (about 5 at the time) said, "Mom, the angel always says that!" She's right, the angel always says that! It is so hard not to be afraid, but we have a Good Shepherd. Our lives were touched by death, but He has conquered it. My kids like new worship songs, but I love the classics, and today as on every Easter, I sang "Blessed Assurance," because Jesus is mine. And in the darkest times, He is new life and bread of life, and the light of the world. I am remembering to rejoice in that every day.

@Matt_Pinner @Jude90293402 NO!

To the women who are on this app, be honest Are you OKAY with a man claiming to be a woman using the ladies room if you're in there? 🤷🤔

@data_republican He is risen indeed. Hallelujah! Happy Easter!

HE IS RISEN! (you finish it) Happy Easter to everyone, even the leftists!

This is one of the better written arguments against @GovBobFerguson income tax. Bravo @VietQNguyen "I understand the argument that Washington’s tax system is regressive, but the path to tax reform runs through the Constitution — not around it. Washington voters have been asked at least 10 times whether they want an income tax. They’ve said no every time. The response should not be to pass one anyway and block a public vote." seattletimes.com/opinion/im-not…

If you’re a West Coast liberal and have spent more time protesting “Kings” than demanding your elected leaders deal with the human suffering on your own streets, then you are most certainly the problem.

Reason #1,057 I’m so glad Kamala Harris is not the president: as CA Attorney General she severely persecuted David Daleiden and his team because they had exposed Planned Parenthood’s horrible practices of selling baby body parts.

David Daleiden exposed Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts -- and Kamala Harris launched an 11-year political persecution against him for it. Now his final charge has been DISMISSED! You are a hero, @daviddaleiden. Thank you for your courage standing up for the unborn and justice through YEARS of lawfare.

@TCSWashington It's not "transgenders" in girls' sports that they object to - it's males. If females consider themselves transgender they can still perform in female sports, unless they have taken disqualifying drugs.

“We’re not going to back down.” Two Washington students say they won’t stop speaking out about transgenders in girls' sports. They say their fight isn’t just personal it’s about what they believe is right. Watch ⬇️

Planned Parenthood admitted what David exposed. Baby parts were harvested. Baby parts were sold. All for personal profit. But under direction of California AG Kamala Harris, the state spent 9 years viciously prosecuting this man for revealing truth. Gross abuse. Glad he won.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

THROWBACK to a video from nearly three decades ago that the left wishes they could BURY! WATCH Democrat Senator Harry Reid in 1993... when he introduced legislation to end Birthright Citizenship for children of illegal aliens: "No sane country would do that — No sane country would give illegals citizenship." “If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. Citizenship and a guarantee to have full access to all public and social services this society provides.” REPOST this for widespread exposure! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

Read this. They hunted this man for 10 years because he made this public. It all started with Kamala Harris.

These young ladies are so calm and composed. They had just left a high stakes meeting with a statewide official that has publicly attacked them and their legitimate concerns. And they just relay the facts without animus or hysterics. Amazing.

Two Washington students are raising concerns about how their situation was handled and calling for greater accountability after meeting with Superintendent Chris Reykdal to discuss the state’s girls’ sports debate.

Sooooo which is it? Are men taking spots from women or not? (spoiler: yes they are)

@letsgowa The male on the top left won the girls 400 meter championship in Washington TWICE (Division II).

Did you hear about the overdose at the Mercer Island station a couple days after it opened? Did you hear about the attempted murder last week at my closest station - Northgate? (A mentally ill man released after stabbing his sister tried to push a random man onto the tracks in front of the train.)

@Cascadia_AI Took the link across the lake to work today. That was pretty cool. Transit investments in general have been great. Crime is down. I know multiple people who have benefitted from the state medical leave program. Lots of positives!

Legitimately can't understand the type of person that would uproot their lives like this over a tax once you're over some minimum bar of not really having to worry about money. There are just so many reasons why I want to live in a place that are more important than my tax rate.

Just imagine being a teenager, and walking into a meeting with the statewide "king" of our school system, who you know opposes your sincerely held belief to compete in fair sports and not share your locker room with members of the opposite sex. He's publicly attacked your beliefs and you personally. And he comes armed with a hatchet person "chief of staff" and his LAWYER. You come in protected by your family and the truth. Tremendous courage and character. These girls and their families continue to AMAZE me.

@ErinFriday75490 Did she get enough donations?

For those who don’t want to be connected with Act Blue donate $1 her using the link below. Let’s watch Scott Wiener answer for what he is doing to women. Just 75 more individual donors needed. Let’s get fiery Marie talking about males invading female spaces. efundraisingconnections.com/c/MarieHurabie…

This is the “woman” in question at 15.