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I just want to extend my deepest and most heartfelt thanks to the entire community around the Portland Mercury—staff, leadership, readers, and commenters all alike. The dedication, resilience, and tireless effort you’ve shown through so much stress and difficulty is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Your steadfast stewardship of this incredible publication is a gift to […]

I’m reaching out to this community with a heavy heart, searching for understanding and guidance. How does one rebuild hope and trust after enduring layers of betrayal and harm? When someone has been abused, assaulted, stolen from, lied to, kidnapped, drugged, and ultimately abandoned by the very community they believed would offer support, how do […]

He’s a carpenter and he’s on the apps and he’s got a kid and he must think he’s really something great! But a 40-something year old man ghosting people for dates in PDX? He’s not hot enough for this kind of fuckery by a FEW MILES. But worst of all – worst of all – […]

It isn’t anything actually about his actions or his personality. It’s this: He’s 𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜. Finally, somebody out there my age; who actually looks like they are my age and has been slugging it out through the shit day after day, month after month, and year after year. Unlike like all these other celebs mostly but […]

This is not a trigger warning. This is an acknowledgement that somethings you are about to hear may be disturbing and upsetting on multiple levels. There are a lot of complexities and nuances to all of this. The general recommendation is that you don’t try to process this alone, that you find others, near or […]

Multnomah County and Oregon state election results show that the count of those voting for Harris was less than the number voting for Biden in 2020—41 thousand fewer votes at county (367,249 in ’20 and 325,927 this year), with 99,783(!) less at state level. The New York Times has reported that the Democratic vote also […]

I am finding it incredibly difficult to believe that more than seventy-million adult Americans identified with and voted for Donald Trump in the last election. I will readily admit that Democrats have done precious little to help financially struggling American families, the bottom third or more of American households. But how could those same families […]

If you people would simmer down, relax for a sec, and engage in real human conversation; we could show y’all some pretty cool stuff and teach ya a few things. But y’all have to chill, stop freaking out, take some steps to repair things, and at least try to reach out to people and engage […]

Fuck this shit. Stupid fucking children with badges. No lights on when it’s raining. I got passed on a side street by some gremlin, no cops to be seen. Took over an hour for a home break in call. Complaining about protesters while abiding fascists. And today, out giving PARKING tickets in a neighborhood that […]

Fascism thrives not only through violence and control but also through neglect, indifference, and the celebration of suffering. When we ignore someone’s cry for help—whether from suicidal thoughts, addiction, or hunger—we inadvertently participate in this cycle. But we can change that. Recognizing when we turn away from another’s pain is the first step toward making […]

Ms. Cyrus does her best rendition of one of her standards at the 2018 D.C. “March for Our Lives”, striding around in her sweats, holding a “Never Again” placard: “Always going to be an uphill battle/ …The struggles I’m facing may knock me down/ …It’s ain‘t about how fast I get there/ —It’s the Climb!” […]

I know, we’re all reading the news on our phones and feel like we need to speak out against the world or whatever. But for real, nobody cares what you think excpet for like 9 people that you see every day, and none of those people are affected by Trump or Israel or Syria or […]