Thank you for being a white male, aged 18 to 35
by Anonymous As I casually dusted and raked leaves from the patio of the restaurant where I work, a man I can only describe as "average white male" decided to shout something lewd about how he wanted...
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by Mercury Staff Ms. Lauryn Hill The career of hip-hop icon Ms. Lauryn Hill is full of stops and starts: She’s released just one studio album, 1998’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and is known for...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Her Husband Voted For Trump (She Thinks) And...
by Dan Savage I think that my husband voted for Trump, and I do actually want to leave him. In two years, when our youngest is two.I am just done with all the misogyny. I have been wanting to leave...
View ArticleGlowering Bigot Donald Trump Meets with Class Act President Obama in the...
by Christopher Frizzelle Please chop me into firewood and feed me into that fireplace.This is painful to watch. He sits there glowering like a racist who can't believe he was to wait for Obama to...
View ArticleNo, I Will Not Give Trump a Chance.
by Bobby Roberts iStock/Andy KatzThis morning, the New York Times ran an editorial by Nicholas Kristof, titled “Gritting our Teeth and Giving President Trump a Chance,” the premise of which is one of...
View ArticleLosers Walk
by Anonymous You were on TV frowning at the election night party you inanely went to before the votes were counted. To be among other self-consciously liberal, yet old white guy hating voters. Now...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Extends Olive Branch and Raised Fist to Trump
by Rich Smith Obstructionist-in-chief? Juli Hansen / Shutterstock.comDemocratic leadership is proceeding with caution, which makes all the sense in the world. In 2018 the party will have to defend 25...
View ArticleWondering What You Can Do? A Lot. Start Here.
by Megan Burbank Subscribe to a fucking newspaper. Get a fucking IUD. Show the fuck up for racial justice.Savushkin / istockAmid all of the messages of sadness and anger and disbelief I've received in...
View ArticlePortland Protesters Commit Widespread Property Damage as Anti-Trump Rally Sours
by Dirk VanderHart Doug BrownAn otherwise peaceful protested descended into chaos Thursday, as a small group of anarchists split off from a massive anti-Trump demonstration and began widespread...
View ArticleIn Search of Brain Cells
by Anonymous I think back on the Bush years and what a debacle they were. 9/11, Iraq/Afghanistan War, economy crash, Katrina, tax cuts for the wealthy, housing market bust and The Bush Great...
View ArticleDonald Ducky Trump - Not My President
by Anonymous Donald Trump’s victory was not fueled by people who are economically dispossessed and struggling. Here’s what the exit polls actually showed:Voters with incomes under $50,000 went for...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Destructive “Anarchists” At Another Donald Trump Protest,...
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. Click the links please. An anti-Donald Trump protester on November 10Doug BrownLocal protests against President-elect Donald Trump continued last night. Like the...
View ArticleThings to Do This Weekend
Things to do for Nov 11-13 by Mercury Staff Okay, so, we've made it to Friday. The first weekend in a post-President-Elect Trump world. That's a thing now. It's the sort of thing that will cause some...
View ArticleHit Trump Where It Hurts
by Anonymous Its time to show the conservatives and republicans the same hatred and contempt they visited upon President Obama the last Eight years. Keep protesting till it hurts after all Hillary won...
View ArticleRussia Admits They Had Contact with Traitorous Trump During His Campaign
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey VLADIMIR PUTIN: "Oh, me and Trump? We're tight like this."iStockYesterday was crazy, with tons of headlines like this, this, this, and this. SO YEAH, IT WAS ALL A BIT MUCH....
View ArticleNot My Nominee
by Anonymous Know when a good time to protest would've been? When the election was lost. That was July, when the DNC gave the nomination to a corporatist chicken-hawk, any criticism of whom was...
View ArticleHarry Reid Gives ’Em Hell
by Ned Lannamann This morning Nevada Senator Harry Reid posted a press release on his site. The Senate minority leader did not hold back on his feelings about Donald Trump's ascendency to the...
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Last Week of Hump. HURRY! SHOWS ARE SELLING OUT! by Dan Savage [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticlePortland Activists Have Raised More than $10,000 $32,000 to Pay For Thursday...
by Dirk VanderHart Doug BrownPortland's peaceful protesters want to make good. In the wake of a "riot"on the part of a minority of Anti-Trump activists last night—which saw widespread property damage...
View ArticleDon't Forget, Violence and Vandalism Provides Support to Trump
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey The thousands of people who have been marching in Portland—and other major cities—have one thing in common: Coming together to show their support for the people that Donald...
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