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What Jimothy the Raccoon Reveals About Seattle

A local lawmaker said she wants to "keep my measured distance from him so he can live his good little life." What about humans?

Billy Binion | 7.24.2026 3:11 PM

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A deformed raccoon in Seattle named Jimothy has captured the internet's heart. (Midjourney/Hans Slegers/Dreamstime)

What does it take to reveal a contradiction? In at least one case, it is a deformed raccoon sashaying across Seattle, delightfully unbothered.

If you make your home somewhere deep under a rock, I am referring to Jimothy—who else?—the feral hunchback whose viral sightings have injected a ray of sunshine into the land of perpetual drizzle, and also across the globe. What is it about him? Or her? Or them? There may be multiple Jimothys, after all: other little trash pandas likely afflicted with short spine syndrome, giving her/him/them the rounded back that........

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