The Bias is On The Other Side
by Anonymous To all the Republicans out there attempting to distance Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric from this man's anti-Muslim actions: When these bigoted WHITE men kill people, whether it's with a...
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Tonight at the EcoFilm Festival, Promised Land Examines How the Government...
by Emilly Prado COURTESY OF TALL FIRS CINEMA, 2017For two native tribes dwelling on opposite ends of Puget Sound, a struggle for recognition from the US government hinders their ability to be...
View ArticleUPDATED: The Names of the Heroic Victims of Last Night's Hate Crime Have Been...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Portland Police have released the names of the victims from last night's hate crime attack on the Hollywood MAX line. From the PPB:The two victims who were killed in Friday...
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Note: Time Change for Tonight's Hate Crime Victim Vigil
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey For those attending tonight's candlelight vigil to support and pay tribute to the heroes who gave their lives to stop a racist killer who was harassing two Muslim women, THE...
View ArticleRicky's and Taliesin's blood is on your hands
by Anonymous Stop pretending that Portland isn't racist. I am confronted by a Confederate flag when I leave my Gresham home and denied medical care and housing because of my race and gender. No one in...
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Scenes From The Hollywood Transit Memorial
by Suzette Smith Suzette SmithAt 6:15 PM on a 90-degree Saturday afternoon the Hollywood Transit Center already felt full to the brim. The square lawn of grass, facing NE Halsey, overflowed with...
View ArticleOpen Relationship Experience #1
by Anonymous So me and my ex broke up last year and it was a dramatic one, U-haul locked and loaded he was helping me move that day, until we got into a fight about the guy I was also now seeing. A...
View ArticleLiteral Appeal to Get Along
by Anonymous Are any of us actually making a good point? Do our opinions matter? Doesn't it seem odd that we're saying the exact same thing we heard on the radio, or read in the facebook feed, or saw...
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Early Goal Sinks Timbers in Seattle
by Abe Asher Portland TimbersAfter all the buildup to the opening salvo of North American's greatest soccer rivalry in 2017, it took just four minutes for the Portland Timbers to concede to the...
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Here's Where to Donate to Help the Survivors and Victims' Families of...
by Jagger Blaec Courtesy YouCaringTo help the witnesses and the families heal from Friday's traumatic hate crime attack on the Hollywood MAX line train, members of the community have begun...
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The Last Shaman Makes Eat Pray Love Look Like A Moveable Feast
by Megan Burbank If you hated Eat Pray Love but you love The Last Shaman, you’re a hypocrite, because it’s the same goddamn story, only worse. Here’s where I out myself as someone who enjoyed Eat Pray...
View ArticleAnother Bus Stop Hero
by Anonymous Thank you so much to the man who saw me being screamed at by my drunk ex-boyfriend at a St. Johns bus stop and came over to see if I needed help. I said no, cuz i didnt really, but what i...
View ArticlePainful Truth
by Anonymous The recent vile, hate crime on the MAX train was both heartbreaking and yet another sober reminder of Trump's AmeriKKKA. To be fair, however, the current POTUS didn't create this...
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Things to Do This Week: May 29-June 1
by Mercury Staff Looks like there's a stray bit of weekend stuck to the beginning of this week. It's not a particularly busy Memorial Day (you're probably just gonna binge some Netflix while burning...
View ArticleWhen at a concert, Portland, shut the fuck up
by Anonymous Living songwriting legend, Rodriguez, performed at The Schnitzer last night. At 75 years old, he was escorted out by his daughters because he is slow moving and he cannot see very well....
View ArticleSomething to Consider...
by Anonymous Jeremy Christian: Police surrounded suspected MURDERER Jeremy Christian. Christian, knife in hand, began shouting at police: "Shoot me! Go ahead and shoot me in the back, you piece of...
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Brad Pitt Goes to Afghanistan in Netflix's War Machine
by Ned Lannamann War is hell, except when it’s purgatory.General Glen McMahon (Brad Pitt) is good at war. At the start of David Michôd’s War Machine, McMahon’s just been assigned to fix the one in...
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Mayor Ted Wheeler Says Feds Should Pull Permit For an Upcoming Alt-Right Rally
by Dirk VanderHart This guy showed up to the last "free speech rally" organized by Vancouver video blogger Joey Gibson.Doug BrownAs a pair of alt-right rallies in coming weeks threaten to exacerbate...
View ArticleFreeway Jumper Hero
by Anonymous Walking across the freeway overpass, I saw you dangling precariously from the bridge just south of PSU campus. From one hand, you gripped the arm of a woman who had desperately given up,...
View ArticleTime For Granny To Step Up
by Anonymous Dear Everyone,I am a 45-year-old mother of 3, gandmother of 1, and lifelong Portland resident. I have always counted myself among the Left, have often engaged in protest against...
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