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Shane Kidwell
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
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bitgeek.x@bitgeek·
@Firelightfi Is there a support contact? Please check your X DM from me
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Firelight@Firelightfi·
There is only one official Firelight account on X (@Firelightfi) and one official Firelight Discord (discord.gg/m9APzp5KrJ). Any other accounts or servers claiming to represent Firelight are not affiliated with Firelight Protocol.
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🇺🇸STOP SEATTLE DEMs 2026🇺🇸
🔥 Washington State is literally on fire with waste. $25 Billion – $42 Billion+ in taxpayer money torched over the last decade. From unemployment fraud to homeless black holes to massive transit overruns — the results speak for themselves. #WashingtonWaste #WADemsDidThat #TaxpayerTheft #COVIDFraud #HomelessIndustrialComplex #SoundTransitFail #DCYFScandal #SeattleBudgetFail #InsleeLegacy #BobFerguson #WATaxpayers #GovernmentCorruption #WhereDidTheMoneyGo #WashingtonFraud
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Chamath Palihapitiya
As you go to work today and settle into the week, please study the form below. You will soon need to fill this out EVERY year and tell the government what you own and then allow them to tell you how much its worth. That is the framework that is enabled by the Trojan Horse "Billionaire Tax" that is trying to get passed. Give them credit: they cleverly use Billionaires as the hook, but build in the language and the framework that will allow the Legislature to simply extend the tax to everyone and make it yearly. And this is where the form below comes in... In this case, ask yourself, will it be you or the Billionaires that will be able to fill this out properly and avoid penalties. As much as Billionaires can be pushed to do more for society, we all know that they have the infrastructure to manage these kinds of disclosures...middle class Californians do not and they will be the ones that get penalized in the end.
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath·
On page twenty-six of “The Billionaire Tax” proposal in California, it explains how the state legislature can convert from a Billionaire Tax to an Everyone Tax without voter approval. They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval. Intelligence test for you: if this was meant to just target Billionaires, why did they write this in?
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath

The Billionaire Tax is actually an Everyone Tax. The Billionaire Tax is a new tax proposal written by four professors who don't believe in the American dream. Some of them aren’t even American…go figure. Despite its name, it applies to every California resident who currently has assets or ever will. The creators named it the Billionaire Tax so you would get into a froth andwouldn't look closely at what it actually does to you. On page twenty-six, it explains how the government can convert to an Everyone Tax without voter approval. They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval. Here's how the tax would work: As a voter, you're being asked to approve a tax that would require you to: 1. list all your assets and the value of each, then submit them to the California Franchise Tax Board. 2. authorize the tax board to appraise your assets and confirm the value of each. 3. pay a penalty of up to forty percent of your tax bill if the board determines your reported value was too low in their opinion. 4. allow the tax board to subpoena your financial records from every one of your financial institutions for auditing. This Everyone Tax runs 34 pages of shifty language describing how the government plans to take your assets. Read the fine print and decide for yourself. If this were truly a billionaire tax, it would be 3 pages. It’s 34 pages so that it can create the mechanisms to steal from all of you.

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Michael Baumgartner for WA-5
Michael Baumgartner for WA-5@VoteBaumgartner·
Take a bow, Bob. Gov Ferguson and Olympia Democrats have turned Washington state into the worst fiscally managed state in the country. Reckless spending, job killing taxes and regulation and now a likely drop in Bond ratings. What’s the plan? seattletimes.com/opinion/editor…
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bitgeek.x@bitgeek·
@Seahawks Need to let Dylan raise the 12 flag !!
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Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks@Seahawks·
Jadarian Price is a SEAHAWK. 📺: NFLN/ESPN/ABC
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bitgeek.x@bitgeek·
If your having a bad day, there is a fan-created phone service (not officially from Hall & Oates) at 719-26-OATES (719-266-2837) thats been operational since 2011. When you call, a robotic voice greets you and lets you select songs like "One on One," "Rich Girl," "Maneater," or "Private Eyes." to listen to.
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Elan
Elan@engele·
Washington’s “millionaire tax” was designed from the start to end up before the Supreme Court. Documents prove it. 🧵
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Carleen Johnson
Carleen Johnson@CarleenJohn1970·
So @GovBobFerguson yesterday announced $57 million in new grant payouts of taxpayer money to dozens of 'daycare' operations in WA. Recipients are listed as "family home facility" with only city where located as identifier. So $57 million of OUR money going to who? Commerce document for awards says:The names and locations of in-home care providers (Family Home Facility*) that are not operating under a commercial license have been simplified to protect sensitive personal information. So they're getting millions of our dollars, but we don't get to know who they are? @TCSWashington @future42org @WAGOP
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Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon
WA's AG billed 34,000+ hours suing Trump since November. That's $3.3M in taxpayer-funded lawyer time. 58 lawsuits. Meanwhile, back in this Washington: • $646M in pandemic unemployment fraud — paid to foreign fraud rings. Prosecutions: nearly zero. • Medicaid fraud — estimated $1B/year in improper payments. Unrecovered. • Fentanyl — overdose deaths in King, Pierce, and Spokane counties have quadrupled. The DEA is doing the work. • State auditor just found millions in improper Medicaid charges, ineligible benefit payments, contractors with zero oversight. But prosecuting fraud in Olympia doesn't generate national headlines. His attention seems to be on the other Washington — 2,800 miles away — where the national press coverage can better help his career prospects. His predecessor Bob Ferguson spent a decade suing Trump, collected the headlines, and rode them straight to the governor's mansion. Nick Brown has already filed 58 federal lawsuits. The playbook isn't a secret. 📰 The Center Square: thecentersquare.com/washington/art…
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Coultin
Coultin@coultin·
Lamelo getting a chain handed to him on Television that loops video highlights?? TOUGH!!!! It’s almost like we’ve been saying this type of stuff would be coming, haven’t we @roham? Hey @NBAonPrime can we introduce you to @NBATopShot?
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
This is great. At least those judges who release violent criminals who go on to hurt more people will be publicly shamed!
JohnnyFSE@JohnnyFSE

I built CourtWatch.us — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities. You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free. I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded. It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇 Numbers don't lie, but criminals do. courtwatch.us @bennyjohnson @jockowillink @GrantCardone @LauraLoomer @nickshirleyy @j_fishback

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Let's Go Washington
Let's Go Washington@letsgowa·
We're not giving up on Washington State. If you're willing to stay and fight, preregister for signature sheets to repeal the income tax. We need you! letsgowa.com/request_sig_sh…
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Brandi Kruse
Brandi Kruse@BrandiKruse·
🚨BREAKING: A lawsuit against Washington state's new income tax was filed this morning. Plaintiffs include small businesses and farmers. A bipartisan legal team has formed to lead the case, including former AG Rob McKenna (R) and former State Supreme Court Justice Phil Talmage (D). Led by @CADFWashington.
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S.A. Dupres
S.A. Dupres@Susan_Dupres·
Washington State MALFEASANCE April 7, 2026 Action Steps For Citizen REMOVAL of WA State Governor-Select Bob Ferguson 1. Download and print lawful NOTICE. 2. Sign Notice with two witnesses (age 18 and over) 3. Mail Notice via certified/return receipt. Case No. 18-2-04658-34 FISHERIES ENGINEERS INC vs STATE OF WASHINGTON Article: cairncross.com/blog/ch-news/e… @JDVance Post by C. Fletch + link:
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C.fletch@CraigFl1968

@dospueblos @NWCowboy777 @GovBobFerguson @Wa_PDC EWAFA pursued Malfeasance before he got elected 👆👆 This was a different Malfeasance case our organization EWAFA pursued before he was elected, but got no traction. We had hundreds citizens take action on this. eastwafreedom.com/fuelthefight

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Viet Q Nguyen
Viet Q Nguyen@VietQNguyen·
If you're sick of the Washington State legislature abusing the emergency clause to take away your right of voter referendum, I made a tracker so you can see every bill they abused. picsterola.github.io/wa-ec-tracker/…
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