Washington residents will get a complimentary joint of marijuana with their COVID-19 vaccine shot this week. If you are a Washington resident, this might be
ICYMI, Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won: This year Kreidler requested a bill from the Legislature that would stop insurers from engaging in the racist practice of using credit scores to set certain insurance rates, which ends up forcing poor people to pay more for car insurance than middle-class and wealthy people with worse records. Sen. Mark Mullet worked with insurance lobbyists to gut the bill. Kreidler called for it to die. It died. After that, he used his emergency powers to issue a rule banning the practice for three years. The insurance companies sued, claiming he tried to do an end-around the state Legislature. Last Friday, a Thurston County Superior Court approved Kreidler s move. Today the Commissioner issued a May 6 deadline for property and casualty insurers to file their plans to meet the rule requirement, which should help protect those who are the most hurt financially by the pandemic from being forced to pay even higher premiums, he said.
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021 - 08:23 AM
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portland on Monday night in opposition to the police killing of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old who was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. A crowd of about 200 have gathered near the Kelly Penumbra building. Projectiles including bottles, rocks, and large fireworks have been thrown at police. Windows have been broken, Portland Police tweeted.
A crowd of about 200 have gathered near the Kelly Penumbra building. Projectiles including bottles, rocks and large fireworks have been thrown at police. Windows have been broken. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/Jsrl63LeCJ
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Jul 21, 2020 @ 06:00
The Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants, appear to have established a significant presence in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield, one of the most productive oilfields in the nation. “There is a lot of membership in the oil and gas industry up there,” says Matt Marshall, a Three Percenter running for state legislature in Washington. “The fact that you have a lot of Three Percenters working in the oilfields of North Dakota is not surprising.”
The Three Percenters are so named for the dubious historical claim that only three percent of American colonists took up arms in the Revolutionary War. Their adherents have frequently been involved with incidents of armed protests, hate speech, and threatening behavior across the U.S., and the group’s members have shown up prominently at recent protests related to both pandemic response measures and police brutality.
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