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Rick Steves, famous travel writer and a Washington resident, recently weighed in on the income tax. Unfortunately, he missed the point. youtube.com/watch?v=IzBh6M…

A new report from the @BEA_News ranks Washington as the 5th most expensive state in the nation. The data are from 2024 – before legislative Democrats enacted the largest tax increases in state history.

New: @GovBobFerguson is facing a possible recall for failing to fill 2 seats on the 5-member WA Public Disclosure Commission in a timeline prescribed in law. A recall petition calls it misfeasance, violation of his oath. #waleg #waelex @Wa_PDC washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/04/07/fer…

Here are the increases that @GovBobFerguson has enacted in just his first two years - four of the top 11 tax increases in state history. He has signed four tax increases larger than the state's CO2 tax. And the next budget is projected to have a shortfall of $7 billion #waleg

Farmer explains why electric vehicles aren't yet practical for farming.

@cabinsmountain As an active farmer (granddaughter of a tree fruit grower), scrolling through & seeing this, I was surprised. Farming is never as simple as a single duality. Until that is fully understood, we're all stuck with a mishmash of whatever people can do best on their land.

Orchards used to have sheep. No chemicals. No problem. We swapped ecosystems for efficiency. Now we're paying for it. Nature had the system figured out. We just forgot. Should we bring the animals back?

Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed SB 5974, allowing an unelected state board to effectively remove your sheriff from office.

1) Bob Ferguson line item veto’d the emergency clause in a CCA reform bill today because - get this it doesn’t go into effect until January so he reasoned that it was not an emergency 2) Bob did not veto a similar clause in the income tax, however, even though the income tax does not go into effect until 2029! He knows very well that the legislature abused its authority and he is signaling clearly to all voters he does not give a flying ferguson about the constitution when it doesn’t suit him 3) The SOS Steve Hobbs, today, rejected our referendum challenging the illegal use and interpretation of the emergency clause on the Income tax bill. This is not entirely surprising in a state where 40 years of one party rule has lead to a complete disregard for the words, meaning of words, rules, and laws outlined in our constitution. 4) We will challenge this in court. 5) As a referendum only has until June 10 to collect 200K signatures, We will ask the supreme court to treat our petition as an actual emergency and act quickly on this issue and to follow the actual wording of the constitution rather than the wishful thinking of the legislature 6) Should they refuse to take this up or ignore the actual wording in the constitution, it should be a reminder to every citizen in November when 5 justices will be on the ballot that we need a supreme court that will follow the law

Thanks to Governor Ferguson’s signature, Washington State now has an income tax. Instead of reducing spending, the state legislature took the unprecedented move of passing an income tax that violates our state’s constitution. I support a legal challenge to this law in order to reverse Governor Ferguson’s tax hike. krem.com/article/news/l…

New data from @USDA_ERS shows the farmer's share of the food dollar has fallen to just 11.8 cents. #waleg

🇺🇸USA has issued a temporary waiver to expand sales of gasoline blends with 15% ethanol (E15) to combat surging gas prices. E10 is already widely available year-round. The waiver begins May 1 and goes for 20 days, and it can be extended if necessary.

AMERICAN MADE. Under the updated rule, “Product of USA” now means exactly what it should mean—the animal was born, raised, harvested, and processed in America 🇺🇸 This simple three-step process is how producers can display the #ProductofUSA label ⬇️

@WakeUpPatriott AFBF negotiated an MOU for Right to Repair with U.S. tractor manufacturers in 2023. This isn't "breaking" news. The problem that remains is a lack of "coverage" for parts/equipment manufactured outside the U.S.

🚨BREAKING: Trump just said that the RIGHT TO REPAIR is coming to our farmers! John Deere has been BENDING OVER our farmers and giving them the raw end of the deal for DECADES. This is PHENOMENALLY HUGE! Do you support this? YES or NO?

Near Uniontown in the Palouse, farmer Allen Druffel is experimenting with new ways to build healthier soil on his family farm. With support from the Palouse Conservation District, programs like FLOURISH help farmers test practices such as cover crops and integrating cattle to improve soil health and reduce risk. By sharing results and learning from one another, local producers are finding new approaches to keep Palouse farmland productive for generations to come.

Washington state has the third-highest gas taxes in the nation but some of the worst highways. A new report ranks us 48th in the nation in "Overall Cost-Effectiveness and Condition." 1/2 #waleg

"50% of the world's cropland is used to feed livestock." Right. Let's have a look at that. Because this figure gets deployed like a weapon in every vegan argument about animal agriculture, usually immediately after someone points out that monocrops destroy topsoil, obliterate biodiversity, and require industrial pesticide regimes that would make a chemical weapons inspector uncomfortable. So. The claim. Yes, roughly half of global cropland by area is involved in producing livestock feed. That number is technically defensible. It is also an extraordinary piece of misdirection. Here's what it doesn't tell you. The single largest component of that "livestock feed" figure is soybean. Global soy production is approximately 370 million tonnes per year. About 80% of that gets processed into soybean oil: for human consumption, biodiesel, and industrial use. The remaining meal, after the oil is extracted, goes to animal feed. The animals are eating the industrial byproduct. The waste. The thing left over after humans have already taken what they wanted. You are not growing soy FOR the cow. You are growing soy for oil and food processing, and the cow is eating the bit you couldn't sell. Next: alfalfa. One of the most common livestock feed crops globally. It is also grown predominantly on alkaline soils, saline soils, semi-arid land, and high-altitude terrain that would fail to support human food crops. It fixes nitrogen. It stabilises degraded land. It is not competing with wheat. It is growing on land that wheat has already looked at and decided against. Then you have distillers' grains: the spent grain from ethanol and alcohol production. Corn silage: the stalks and husks after human food is removed. Cottonseed meal: the byproduct of the cotton industry. Citrus pulp. Sugar beet pulp. Oilseed residues. Livestock are, in enormous measure, running on the off-cuts of industries that exist for other purposes entirely. The "50% of cropland" figure doesn't tell you that a significant portion of that land couldn't grow human food. It doesn't tell you that much of the feed is a byproduct that would otherwise be landfilled. It doesn't tell you that the animals are often doing the most efficient possible thing with material that has nowhere else to go. It tells you a large number, in a confident voice, with no context. Which is, in fairness, the full methodology of most vegan nutrition claims.

Damn you Global Warming, why do you hate WA state so much? And why do your evil gas price raising effects seem to stop right at the Idaho border?

"A state income tax sabotages our families and threatens Washington’s economic future.” —Rep. Travis Couture

It is 2026 and the most recent CO2 data @EcologyWA released is from 2021. They have repeatedly failed to comply with the law requiring them to provide that data. Now, Ecology is using that failure as a legal defense, saying we should have complained years ago. #waleg