If you get health care through your employer, your premiums are going up by an average of 26% no matter what.   Why? Because insurers had to set rates under the assumption Congress won't extend the ACA tax credits, destabilizing the whole market.   All thanks to Republican inaction.

SR 20 is closed between Conrad Road and Cascade River Road in Marblemount (milepost 100-106) due to water over the roadway. There is no ETA for reopening the road. Please use caution in the area.

Last year my rep voted against the NDAA because of the trans healthcare ban...now he voted yes. He voted no last year because of who his constituents are, it was in the news. 🥴

Time for the @wsdot.wa.gov meme

It's funny that it's my fault people get my name wrong at my job when they got it right initially...until summer 24. 🤨

There was a lot of rain quite a few years back with a weak dam and they had to release the water to keep it from bursting...this does not sound great.

No, it does not normally *rain* for days on end here. It usually rains sometimes, but mostly drizzles or mists.

The red is the approved evacuation route (there are road closures).

SR 520: Not *our* bridge.

In case you had doubts about the "it isn't what you do, it's who you are" thing.

17hr shift.

I need the nurse's unions to step up and do their job cause what do you mean being a 6 month cop pays this much? To the SPOG haters: we have to take care of violent people, not kill them, not safely "guard" a patient from outside the room, not sit there and watch while a nurse gets assaulted. 😮‍💨

I'm having a workup done for CIDP and I'm still pro vax...

Can we get these as a last mile solution somehow? Imagine how much more accessible transit could be... (IDK how this would work, the bikes / scooters get left on sidewalks and tossed into ditches if somebody goes past sidewalk territory).

$1000-1500? A year? This is not comparable to the rate increases.

We are also seeing flooding along Green River Road north of the city limits, just past the golf course. This is developing and are working with King County on road closures and detours. Please AVOID the area. Never drive through flooded roads. #wawx #auburnwa

"Clearly people did it for a long time, no problem." "Yes"

ANOTHER bridge is closed.

“This is the group that can’t shoot straight,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert who for decades has been involved with ACIP and its workgroups.

"They voted for this" is bad public health & questionable ethics...but if you must, it's also not true.

Fwiw, the Xtian Nationalists believe that giving your infant the hep B shot encourages them to be gay or do drugs. I'm not endorsing the logic. This is just something parents of kids that I babysat told me years ago.

"“Most people get their affordable housing not through subsidies from the government, but through being forced to make a trade-off between quality and affordability,” says Swanstrom." And there's also the "low income housing landlord can't afford maintenance, must sell building" at least here.

My cat has learned how to turn off my phone screen.

It's a good story. It'll sell. It's why Biden was too old even though 47 was problematic (that one time).

Long Covid is not airborne AIDS. I think a lot of people saying this really have no way of knowing. Which is why it's being said.

The issue isn't the capital gains tax. It's the rest of our tax system which is nonsense. We increased the sales tax to fund low income housing. The sales tax that hurts the poorest the most. Of course we have a deficit cause you can't raise regressive taxes for forever & still get more $.

I just deleted a very long rant about a Seattle Times article about how the latest light rail expansion is for the marginalized. It's not. There are people who want this county to only be for rich people and this will help.

A ventilator is not safer than a cpap or bipap. There are ways to do back up battery power for those devices although the longer lasting methods are not as obvious to set up.

YALL. A TON of women across the nation are applying for my scholarship program. I am SO excited. We always have a lot of applications but NEVER this early as people typically wait til like Valentine’s Day. I’m so grateful for everyone. And the ability to do this. ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

And we're already seeing closures...

"World Aids Day is usually when the state department shares Pepfar data about cumulative and annual progress with Congress. It’s not clear if the department still plans to send it. The state department has not yet replied to a request for comment."

I hadn't known the back story. 🥹

It's not Thursday...🤯

- tired & prepping for work - better-to-stay-horizontal exhausted/sick - not on here because I feel good & am living life! - occassional technical time outs

Apparently well water can become polluted.

"Three years after the release of the first comprehensive roadmap to address difficulties faced by family caregivers of older adults and people with disabilities

“We have become aware that a staff member had been in conversation with ICE without consulting the Tribal Council,” ...“The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the Tribal Council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities.”

This explains some things. I had though OR had a better system than WA and didn't understand why some OR residents thought that their income tax system was so wrong.

🚨This is very serious! Do not use ByHeart infant formula because of risk of botulism. Seek immediate medical care if baby shows: 👉 Poor feeding 👉 loss of head control 👉 difficulty swallowing 👉 decreased facial expressions #medsky #pedsky #momsky🛟

See also my power company who is owned by an out of country pension company and private equity. 😪

There was a queer group that I tried to hang out with and when a trans person said that they were sorry I lived here and not the UK I realized that the group wasn't really operating in an understanding of everyone's reality.

STAT rounded up on what is known about the authors and reviewers. The key point: "many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care, are affiliated with anti-LGBTQ+ groups, and have little-to-no experience providing clinical care for young trans people."

"Liberty PAC’s primary funding source is 3100 Capital LLC, a company founded by Christ Church parish elder Andrew Crapuchettes;... another prominent funder of the PAC is Jeff Mau, a former Seattle police officer and King County sheriff deputy."

New friend

REMEMBER: This work starts TONIGHT (11/19) in Pacific. UPDATED TIME: Northbound SR 167 closes from 10PM Wednesday (11/19) until 5AM Thursday (11/20). A signed detour will be in place. Detour map and more details below.

🤦‍♂️...also, King County usually has high turn out and there were way more dropbox ballots *because the voter's guide said USPS is unreliable*. So the initial turnout numbers were falsely low. There's no fraud here. - someone who thought Dino Rossi won his first governor's race. IYKYK.

Local city restricts what flags can be flown outside of city hall. "McDaniel said none of those flags previously flown at City Hall were inclusive of him and his identity." The point is not that everyone identifies personally with each flag. komonews.com/news/local/f...

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They finalized the ERD. 💔