Cary Westerbeck
@caryw.bsky.social
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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I have often said of right wing extremists "I can't make a country with these people." MS Kohut explains just what I mean in this insightful piece. Not much has changed since 1860.
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I have often said of right wing extremists "I can't make a country with these people." MS Kohut explains just what I mean in this insightful piece. Not much has changed since 1860.
Absolute facts, and I’m waiting for over half of America to wake up to this new reality so we can restore the rule of law.
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Absolute facts, and I’m waiting for over half of America to wake up to this new reality so we can restore the rule of law.
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It’s kinda wild the President is openly corrupt, Nazi sympathizing, and very likely a pedophile—and most Republicans in Congress are still willing to ignore the Constitution whenever he asks.
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s kinda wild the President is openly corrupt, Nazi sympathizing, and very likely a pedophile—and most Republicans in Congress are still willing to ignore the Constitution whenever he asks.
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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” --Frank Wilhoit
November 29, 2024 at 4:55 PM
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” --Frank Wilhoit
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I'm really getting tired of living through ten major historical events in a row.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm really getting tired of living through ten major historical events in a row.
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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The American political class is so disconnected from voters that they don’t realize that regular folks are totally down with a giant pan partisan jail cell holding everyone involved with Epstein’s crimes.
#uspoli
#uspoli
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The American political class is so disconnected from voters that they don’t realize that regular folks are totally down with a giant pan partisan jail cell holding everyone involved with Epstein’s crimes.
#uspoli
#uspoli
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you masked morons think this is a good look? I assure you it is not a good look.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
you masked morons think this is a good look? I assure you it is not a good look.
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The reactionary centrists are not ready for what's coming at them with Katie Wilson. They have no natural defenses against a socialist bus-riding mom who's laser-focused on providing direct material gains for the working poor. Probably the most pragmatic left-politician I've ever met
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The reactionary centrists are not ready for what's coming at them with Katie Wilson. They have no natural defenses against a socialist bus-riding mom who's laser-focused on providing direct material gains for the working poor. Probably the most pragmatic left-politician I've ever met
Dammit I love libraries. What an unbeatable institution and idea.
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Dammit I love libraries. What an unbeatable institution and idea.
Preach, Tina!
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Preach, Tina!
Good piece from Issaquah CM, Kelly Jiang on the ridiculousness of city design guidelines.
cascadianabundance.substack.com/p/when-city-...
cascadianabundance.substack.com/p/when-city-...
When City Governments Act Like HOAs
Death to "bright, vibrant, vivid hues of color"!
cascadianabundance.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Good piece from Issaquah CM, Kelly Jiang on the ridiculousness of city design guidelines.
cascadianabundance.substack.com/p/when-city-...
cascadianabundance.substack.com/p/when-city-...
The U.S. should immediately bring back 1950s tax rates and tax the shit out of the billionaires then institute single payer healthcare, free childcare, free school lunch, and very low cost higher education (to begin... bc there would be more woke policy to follow).
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The U.S. should immediately bring back 1950s tax rates and tax the shit out of the billionaires then institute single payer healthcare, free childcare, free school lunch, and very low cost higher education (to begin... bc there would be more woke policy to follow).
So rad!
Wow! Seattle Mountain Rescue has an emergency e-bike team to quickly find and assist people in need of help far from roads. They posted this great story:
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
So rad!
We’re just a lawless country now. Nothing matters. If the powerful want to do bad things they’ll justify it. There are no guardrails.
The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
We’re just a lawless country now. Nothing matters. If the powerful want to do bad things they’ll justify it. There are no guardrails.
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
Totally logical. I've been discussing college abroad with my daughters since we took them to Europe years ago when little. There are now more reasons than ever to leave the U.S. as a woman. Great idea, can't blame them. This place is rapidly becoming a hell hole.
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Totally logical. I've been discussing college abroad with my daughters since we took them to Europe years ago when little. There are now more reasons than ever to leave the U.S. as a woman. Great idea, can't blame them. This place is rapidly becoming a hell hole.
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
The U.S. is a nuclear level dumpster fire, but at least for a few minutes life was better while @djjohnrichards.bsky.social played "Tugboat" by Galaxie 500.
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The U.S. is a nuclear level dumpster fire, but at least for a few minutes life was better while @djjohnrichards.bsky.social played "Tugboat" by Galaxie 500.
Yay, good job Seattle!! Mayor Wilson 2026!
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Yay, good job Seattle!! Mayor Wilson 2026!
SAME
Very much in a ‘burn down the Democratic Party and replace it with a progressive party’ mood. Annoyingly there’s no way to practically do that in our system without conceding the nation to fascism, so we need to stage a total takeover from within somehow.
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
SAME
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
Absolutely this. I’m in water the tree camp.
So like, is the divide in the Democratic Party now between the “can we please just pretend things are normal ASAP” faction and the “we will not rest until we refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of the tyrants” faction
And Dem leadership is in the first while the electorate is in the second
And Dem leadership is in the first while the electorate is in the second
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Absolutely this. I’m in water the tree camp.