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Pennsylvania News You Can Use

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Sean Kitchen
Sean Kitchen is the Keystone’s political correspondent, based in Harrisburg. Sean is originally from Philadelphia and spent five years working as a writer and researcher for Pennsylvania Spotlight.
May 2025 13

PA lawmakers celebrate passage of cannabis legalization bill

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Sean Kitchen

Democrats in the Pennsylvania House passed a historic recreational cannabis legalization bill this week by a 102-101 party line vote.

However, House Bill 1200 faces long odds in the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate.

HB 1200 legalizes recreational cannabis use for adults over the age of 21 and it allows for the substance to be sold in state-owned stores.

The bill contains some public safety measures by placing a 25% limit on THC concentration sold in flower products, and limits the THC concentration to five milligrams per serving and 25 milligrams per package.

HB 1200 allows residents to grow two up to plants at a time in their homes.
This week’s vote marked the first time the state House has ever passed a cannabis legalization bill.

✏️/📹 Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #LegalizeIt #Cannabis #Philadelphia #Harrisburg #Pittsburgh #WesternPa #CentralPa #NEPA #Scranton #WilkesBarre

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May 2025 13

This chemtrail conspiracy theorist is looking to challenge Josh Shapiro

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Sean Kitchen

When State Sen. Doug Mastriano isn’t posting on social media about potentially running for governor in 2026, there’s a chance he may be posting about chemtrails.

Yes, chemtrails.

If you scroll through his social media pages, you’ll see some vague and not so vague references to chemtrails polluting our skies, and he even went as far as introducing Senate Bill 508, which bans the use of cloud seeding and other weather manipulation tactics.

This conspiracy theory is absolutely false, with zero evidence to back it up, and scientists and researchers state that it would be impossible for the government to cover up a conspiracy of this magnitude.

✏️ /📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #Politics #PAGov #Harrisburg #HarrisburgPa #Philadelphia #Pittsburgh #WesternPa #WesternPennsylvania #JoshShapiro #Democrats

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May 2025 7

Bernie Sanders calls out income inequality during ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour

By | LOCAL VIDEO, COMMUNITY, Sean Kitchen

US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) highlighted growing income inequality between the top 1% and the bottom 93% of Americans while speaking as part of his Fighting Oligarchy Tour in Harrisburg and Bethlehem this past weekend.

Sanders spent the weekend touring Pennsylvania with Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-Allegheny), bringing together thousands of Pennsylvanians at his stops.

Both stops along Sanders’ Fighting Oligarchy Tour are home to two of Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable Republican Congressmen, US Reps. Scott Perry (R-York) and Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh), and Democrats are hoping to flip those seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

✏️ / 📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #Harrisburg #HarrisburgPa #Allentown #LehighValley #BethlehemPa #Politics #FightingOligarcy #FightOligarchy #BernieSanders

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May 2025 7

Listen: Scott Perry Calls for Impeaching and Defunding Federal Judges

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Sean Kitchen

Listen to Congressman Scott Perry talk about impeaching federal district judges and defunding federal courts standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Perry appeared on a right-wing podcast earlier this month and called on Republicans to use reconciliation, a budgetary maneuver that doesn’t require 60 votes in the US Senate, to pass legislation limiting judges from issuing nationwide injunctions.

Perry also called on the US House to use the Holman rule, which dates back to the 1870s, in order to defund district courts blocking Trump’s agenda.

✏️ /📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #Pa10 #Harrisburg #HarrisburgPa #CentralPa #CentralPennsylvania #DonaldTrump #FederalCourts

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May 2025 7

PA Medicaid Recipient Shares Powerful Message for Lawmakers

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Sean Kitchen

Carly Morton shared a powerful message for Congressional lawmakers when she was asked what she would say to President Donald Trump or US House Republicans considering cutting $880 billion from Medicaid, a move that could have direct implications on her life.

Morton, a 31-year-old Beaver County resident, relies on Medicaid. She has 23 medical diagnoses and spends a lot of her time going to medical appointments or treating herself because of her conditions. Because of Medicaid, she’s able to be healthy enough to work part-time.

Morton told The Keystone that she just wants to participate in society, but cuts to Medicaid would force her to choose between receiving her needed medical care or buying food, paying for rent, or other basic needs.

✏️/📷 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #WesternPa #WesternPennsylvania #Medicaid #MedicaidCuts #HandsOff #HandsOffMedicaid #Pittsburgh #Harrisburg #Philadelphia

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May 2025 5

Bernie Sanders talks about oligarchy at anti-Trump rally on May Day in Philadelphia

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Sean Kitchen

US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attacked President Donald Trump and his billionaire cabinet members for turning the US government into an oligarchy while rallying Philadelphia area union members on Thursday.

Over 5,000 Philadelphia area union members and supporters attended a May Day rally as part of a national day of action pushing back on Trump’s attacks against workers across the country.

✏️/🎥: Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #BernieSanders #Philly #Philadelphia #DonaldTrump #Oligarchy #FightingOligarchy Tour

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