Incomprehensible You
by Anonymous You took a sharp object and scratched my car from stern to stem — WHY??? It's not an SUV, a BMW, a Jaguar, Prius or anything fancy. It's not new. It was legally parked, not hanging over a...
View ArticleThings to Do Monday!
5 things to do for August 14 by Mercury Staff Steve Earle & The Dukes, The Mastersons Earle’s mistakes, excesses, and fuckups shaped the three-time Grammy winner into one of the most respected...
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Things to Do This Week: Aug 14-17
by Mercury Staff This is the last week before the sun goes out one way or the other. Hopefully it's the celestial event version, as opposed to the version caused by our tweet-happy, mentally-deficient...
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Good Morning, News: Trump Supports White Supremacists... Anybody Want to...
by Wm.â„¢ Steven Humphrey Drew Angerer / GettyGOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! So can I get a little closer, so I can get to know you? And exchange names and thangs, before the night is over? LET'S GO TO...
View ArticlePortland Natives STFU
by Anonymous I was born, raised, procreated and now retiring right here in my slice of the beautiful PNW. Yes, it is a radical time to be alive, try and embrace the positive, consider the questionable...
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Win Tickets to See Army of Darkness at Top Down: Rooftop Cinema!
by Erik Henriksen Every summer, the NW Film Center's Top Down: Rooftop Cinema screenings are some of the most fun events in town, with films screening outdoors, on the roof of downtown's Hotel deLuxe...
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Is Facebook Silencing Black Activists With Racist Bots?
Let's take a tour through Facebook's banning process! by Rich Smith If you've received one of these recently, you might be an activist. Screenshot from Facebook On Thursday morning, Facebook removed a...
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The City Could Extend Renter Protection Law's Life By Six Months
by Dirk VanderHart Activists demonstrate against no-cause evictions outside of Multnomah County headquarters in April 2016.Dirk VanderHartAs local landlords mount a renewed legal challenge to the...
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Game of Thrones Recap! Dropping the Hammer in "Eastwatch"
by Ned Lannamann "I can't tell the difference between this charred battlefield and a steak ordered by Donald Trump!"Macall B. Polay/courtesy of HBOLast night’s Game of Thrones was talky and...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Fucking Nazis
by Dan Savage I'm a woman in her early 30s having sex with a guy in his early 20s. The sex is more than casual as we really care about each other but ultimately have no interest in pursuing a serious...
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Good Morning, News: CEOs Bail on Trump, Confederate Statue Doomsday, and the...
by Dirk VanderHart (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)So Donald Trump finally denounced the Charlottesville racists yesterday, two days after one of them (allegedly) plowed his dodge into a crowd...
View ArticleThings to Do Tuesday!
7 things to do for August 15 by Mercury Staff Bryan Ferry The swoon-worthy voice of crooner Bryan Ferry is elegance personified, and tonight he’ll seduce every last row of the Schnitz with his...
View ArticleVideo: Protesters in Durham, NC, Topple a Confederate Statue
by Christopher Frizzelle #BREAKING Protesters in #Durham topple confederate monument downtown pic.twitter.com/a3BNIavyxC— Derrick Lewis (@DerrickQLewis) August 14, 2017According to Durham's local news...
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The Conundrum of the Left and the Antifa
by Eli Sanders Antifascist demonstrators (one apparently wearing a "Fly Emirates" shirt) waiting outside Emancipation Park in Charlottesville on Saturday.Getty ImagesIt's true that Ann Coulter tweeted...
View ArticleMaddow on White Supremacist Violence: "A Persistent Infection in White...
by Dan Savage Rachel Maddow opened last night with a timely reminder: white supremacist and neo-Nazi violence is nothing new. Demonstrations, robberies, assassinations, hostage-takings, and efforts by...
View ArticleNotified
by Anonymous Let's say I get 10 emails. 9 out of 10, if not all of them are spam. Some are automatic emails from something I signed up for, ads, chain mails, etc. Just useless information that I...
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Cutest Pet Photo Contest: Bun Bun vs. Johnny; Louie vs. Chauncey
by Mercury Staff We received a huge volume of cute entries in our Cutest Pet Photo contest, and a select sweet 16 made the final cut. To be clear: Every pet that entered is a winner in our eyes, but...
View ArticleNot Surprising, Still Astounding Incompetance
by Anonymous Note: 3 out of 4 employees at 3 out of 4 locations. Then I envision the amount of ineptitude in this whole world and how much employees just DO NOT pay attention. No wonder Americans must...
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Donald Trump Decides Charlottesville Killing Was the "Alt-Left's" Fault After...
What just happened?? by Katie Herzog Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesIn a stunning reversal, used car salesman and U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at a Trump Tower press conference Tuesday...
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A Nazi Will Greet Aliens When They Open the Spaceship Voyager
Maybe aliens will spot the probe, capture it, open it, and hear a white supremacist introduce the whole human race. by Charles Mudede Nazi in space....NASANow that we are talking about neo-Nazis, I...
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