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Jamie Bollenbach
@jamiebollenbach.bsky.social
Professional artist & teacher in Seattle. MFA UW 2002. Pro-democracy family since 1775.

Anchorage kid. All Authorship: Self/ Machineless
This protest sign brought me dozens of stories of elders in WWII 🇺🇸 who sought the Four Freedoms, from D-Day to the skies and seas and the hunt for Nazis at home. We know the history and we know their sacrifice. We reject fascism, and we embrace democracy, for the moral principles that they did.
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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honestly the Democrats should just bring a goose to Capitol Hill and have it chase him around
October 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A lack of weather balloon data may have factored in the the typhoon disaster in western Alaska this year. Fed cuts to save Musk & crew taxes.

My forecaster dad worried, in the 60s, new satellites grabbed funding from weather balloons: crucial, benchmark weather data.
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In 1943, my uncle Duane took a pretty dim view of fascism and went in a B-17 and dropped at least 25,000 pounds of high explosives on fascists until they shot him.
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Like Ohio or W. Virginia, Alaska's Gov. Dunleavy could send Alaskan National troops on a made-up Trumpist excuse to occupy Seattle.

Alaskans press, press hard, hard: you're dependent on the normal trade and good will with of the people of Washington. This is a test of friendship against a bully.
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Any Alaska cop, trooper, or MP that arrests Putin on sight would be serving the intent of the International Criminal Court and its outstanding warrant for his arrest, for war crimes. This cop would be a hero to the world.
August 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sadness is natural, but despair is a powerful tool of the enemies of justice.

Do not spend a second convincing people working for good things that their work is hopeless. That's not cutesy nihilism, that is enforcing despair.

Do not volunteer to do the fascists' work.
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Krome Miami is run by NANA / Akima the Alaska Native Corporation. Each report is worse than the last.

Why aren’t we seeing shareholders protesting these abuses?
July 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
One might argue that this is a cheese burger.
June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
June 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Sneak peak at all of America tomorrow for “No Kings Day” 🍊🦅🇺🇸
June 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Sens. #Murkowski & #DanSullivan should know that the political organization they support, like any fascist party, will target their own supporters who dissent or digress. The potato starch-flavored concern they'll express on a Senator's arrest will not protect them.
June 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My dad, Burt Bollenbach, at Weather Bureau at the then Hill Building in Anchorage, early 1960s. At the time, the temperature and pressure maps had to be drawn by hand.
June 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"no officer, that flag represents the Alaska Steamship company"
June 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Every protest I’ve attended in SC has been peaceful. Cops were kind and removed disrupters. This rhetoric out of DC is meant to instill fear and keep people away. Show up. Know your rights. Save democracy.

#MomSky
June 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Start every day with this reality:

EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable

ballotpedia.org/United_State...
United States Congress elections, 2026
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
ballotpedia.org
May 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Tom Begich's ADN column says nephew has now surrendered to a path of darkness and authoritarianism that will injure Alaskans and degrade the United States. Rep. Nick Begich III wants fascism, as long as he's in on it; he's now spit on his grandfather's celebrated legacy of public service.
May 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Alaska medical research pros, don't hold back. Get all your people together and go after Nicky the House Elf.
Superb and important article, pointing out that politically the best way to save biomedical research is to get communities around different diseases informed of the problem, and set them loose on their congresspeople. Right now they just don't know what's going on. How to make this happen?
May 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
As wide jeans return, remember that aging gracefully precludes wearing JNCO pants.
May 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
So by the ancient rules, Congressman "Dobby" Begich will not be free of Trump until someone gives him clothes.
May 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Rep. Nick Begich III of Alaska was fluffed by Trump. Then Nick kissed his ass.

These are fascists, Nick, straight up: racist, evil, ugly in the soul con men. You just failed, utterly, a major test of your honor and family name.
May 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Substituting halibut in fish n' chips is uncodly
May 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Pontificating potential popes,
Pontiff-picking patriarchs
Project papal pomp;
Pope posted
Presently.
May 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM