Kelly Davis

“A Republican is somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew someone else was hungry.”

~Mary Karr

Seattle's 'paddle rave' new summer hit on Lake Union

It’s become a viral sensation this summer: a paddleboard enthusiast with a marketing background has transformed a lakeside party into one of the fastest-growing events in Seattle, "paddle rave."

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Seattle, I’m so proud.

He’s going to give Alaska to Russia isn’t he?

“I can’t afford my oxygen”: The human toll of health insurance profits A veteran physician explains how our system inflates costs and leaves Americans sicker and poorer.

“We’re living in a country where we have people who literally can’t afford to breathe.”

Peaceful Thursday night on the Salish Sea. #pnw

Asking UCLA for $1 billion, for its part in killing the PAC-12.

You can like pry “like” from my cold, dead, west coast hands.

Anyone check with Ukraine on this?

“Several sources are reporting that a local idiot allegedly drove and walked straight past no less than three million free ripe blackberries growing literally everywhere in Seattle today and instead bought some at the store.”

A week or so? Can’t remember exactly, but it was an old truck and parts of the highway weren’t paved at the time so it was slow going. Haven’t done the drive since I was 5. I hear it’s paved now. Probably much quicker these days. The trick is to take the ferry back.

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We had family in Alaska when I was younger and we would drive up there to see them in the summer. You used to have to go up through Tok to get back down to Anchorage on the ALCAN.

Furthest I’ve been from home:
N: Tok, Alaska 🇺🇸
E: Fethiye, Türkiye 🇹🇷
S: Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦
W: Honolulu, Hawaii 🇺🇸

The WSDOT paint maps person must be a Coug, right?

Remember when Vice President Harris bought a few quality cooking items at a French cookery store with her own money and legacy media melted down?

J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.

#NFFC 🌳🔴⚪🔴

OUTSTANDING ❤️ STUNNING

This is an absolute betrayal to people who faithfully served their country. There is not a single Republican on earth who gets to utter the lie that they “care about our troops” now

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I feel like Forest could learn from the Sounders with their kit reveal game. It’s not enough to show us a jersey that looks like a table cloth. You have to tell the story. Show everyone who isn’t from Notts why the lace print is important/relevant. You sell more kits that way.

The Washington State Platinum Football Box:

This box features a design honoring their 1988 Aloha Bowl victory.

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Just what rich kids need, another leg up…

Police State Alert:

The FBI has agreed to hunt down Democratic state lawmakers who legally decided to leave Texas to block a gerrymandering vote, Senator John Cornyn tells the NYT.

No freedom in the Land of the Free.

Matthew Lillard is a Seahawks fan? Be still my heart.

‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration

New report reveals human rights abuses in US detention camps, including:

-a 10-year-old US citizen child recovering from brain surgery denied follow-up medical care

-a 4-year-old child suffering from metastatic cancer deported w/o ability to consult a doctor

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Katie increased her lead to 47.97% compared to Incumbent Bruce Harrell’s 43.49%

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Wildfire In Wet Washington State Is Changing Under Climate Change The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. All the state can do is prepare.

Washington State, which is famously rainy, is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. But as global warming changes fire patterns in the state, all it can do is prepare.

In Anti-Incumbent Rout, Progressive Candidates Lead In All Local Races - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett and Andrew Engelson Call it the “Fuck Trump” effect. That, at least, was the most common…

In Anti-Incumbent Rout, Progressive Candidates Lead In All Local Races

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