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Architect, developer, builder, placemaker, cyclist, Urbanist, planning commissioner seeking to build civilization...the neighborhood is the amenity. LGBTQIA+ & Black Lives Matter ally, keeping it real in Bothell, WA.

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WASHINGTON: Despite republicans’ best efforts, including a 24 hour filibuster-style debate — “the state house approved a levy on incomes over $1 million… pays for free breakfast & lunch for k-12 students…”

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12.03.2026 02:07 👍 3179 🔁 833 💬 90 📌 92
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12.03.2026 06:39 👍 13488 🔁 3639 💬 468 📌 150
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How Trump turmoil is driving more people to the therapist’s office: ‘This is all upside down’ As ‘political depression’ enters public discourse, therapists are encouraging people to engage with their communities

This captures well what I've increasingly felt for months. It's nice to name this frustration and type of forced depression just to understand it better.
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11.03.2026 21:06 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1

Always

11.03.2026 03:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agreed, friend. I said similar last week...
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10.03.2026 22:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Every elected and appointed Republican in all levels of government belongs in prison for the rest of their lives. The GOP must be abolished and banned from existing anymore as a political party. They are a terrorist group.

09.03.2026 19:07 👍 341 🔁 72 💬 19 📌 6

This right here. Just, wow. We are indeed the Baddies and I think it's going to get worse.

09.03.2026 22:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us.

It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

09.03.2026 18:40 👍 5413 🔁 1094 💬 104 📌 39
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If you’re pushing housing in lowrise n’hoods, eliminating useless sideyards is the unlock for the urban design everybody says they want.
In exchange for sideyards that no one uses, you get better units, lush interior courtyards, space for trees and play, higher density and lower energy use.

09.03.2026 05:25 👍 160 🔁 39 💬 6 📌 7

i've been saying

09.03.2026 05:34 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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09.03.2026 14:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cartoon: Victory posters As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...

are you doing your part for VICTORY

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09.03.2026 13:36 👍 496 🔁 120 💬 12 📌 0

If we had a functional Congress it would be done, but that ship has sailed. My state of WA already approved it, but it requires a vote from Congress apparently? Crazy BS.

08.03.2026 18:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

08.03.2026 14:53 👍 4399 🔁 1047 💬 64 📌 39

1,000% agree. Preach.

08.03.2026 16:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🎯💯🤘

08.03.2026 16:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Coffee, straight out of my nose.

06.03.2026 19:28 👍 11180 🔁 2063 💬 304 📌 197
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anyway, please fix the Eyman-Gregoire 1% cap while you're at it.

06.03.2026 21:18 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 30340 🔁 7524 💬 224 📌 238

Pretty much where we're at.

06.03.2026 19:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If Russia had planted a sleeper agent in the US with the goal of winning the presidency and driving the US into ruin they could not have done a better job than what Donald Trump is doing

06.03.2026 18:52 👍 2931 🔁 649 💬 189 📌 55

Yes, yes, yes, yes. The world is being literally destroyed by our rogue, criminal government, and I'm just expected to go to work everyday and produce as usual. Nothing feels normal.

06.03.2026 17:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We could have universal health care, fast trains, free school lunch, housing, affordable college, subsidized daycare, USAID, and a robust social safety net. Instead we’re taking a blowtorch to the entire fucking globe and every living thing on it. The cruelty and depravity are off the charts.

06.03.2026 06:03 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

06.03.2026 04:42 👍 21032 🔁 4108 💬 1324 📌 367

I realize this is what fascism does. It numbs and desensitizes. I won’t let that happen, but I have to be measured with m intake and be ready to continue the fight when I’m needed.

06.03.2026 05:37 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve always kept up with politics and the daily crimes of this regime, but I’m honestly checking out more since they started the Iran war. It’s just evil overload. I’m glitching. I can hardly stand it anymore. And it was already at 11 😳🤯

06.03.2026 05:31 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
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This is how you write a goddamn headline.

05.03.2026 06:53 👍 16203 🔁 2943 💬 436 📌 137

A handful of Republicans could end all of this. And there are quite a few who hate this war, masked terrorists in our cities, flouting of Congress, corruption, etc.

But unless they prove otherwise they’re all cowards.

04.03.2026 13:01 👍 1617 🔁 433 💬 96 📌 20
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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

04.03.2026 14:40 👍 20037 🔁 8492 💬 353 📌 330

I mean I’ve never expected it! But hoping a handful might not be total authoritarian sociopaths isn’t out of the question. And yet….

05.03.2026 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0