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THE TRASH REPORT: Am I a Moon? Because I Want to Rotate Around Your Celestial Body! (And Other News.)

Time to blast off with another edition of the trashiest gossip of the week!

Good morning, Trash Pandas! I’ve missed you. Welcome to The Trash Report, where I will guide you through some things that happened recently in the news, peppering in my own colorful commentary. Will you chuckle? Guffaw? A slight smirk, perhaps? I sure hope so! If I can’t be funny I’ll have to start being pretty, […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Trump’s Cute Shoes, Zendaya’s Shiny Suit, and K. Stew’s Perfect Jock Strap

What’s happening, hot stuffs? Welcome to The Trash Report: President’s Day Edition! Today we’ll be asking the hottest question: WWGWD? Yes, Trash Pandas, that’s What Would George Washington do? Warning: the Founding Fathers were problematic to say the least, so he will be a bad judge. Today is one of those holidays that some employers […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Monday Morning Quarterbacking (Gossip Edition)

Your weekly waste receptacle for the latest smelly gossip.

Hello, everyone! Happy Super Bowl hangover day to whomever celebrates; I don’t, so I’m normal today, just dumb for the same ol’ reasons. Can you believe it’s almost Valentine’s Day? Or maybe it actually is Valentine’s Day, depending on when you read this! Personally, I like that candy has shattered the limitations placed on it […]

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Good Morning, News: Senate Republicans Drop the Border Ball, Killer Whales Escape Ice, and all the Valentine’s News you can Valen-Use

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! GOOD MORNING PORTLAND! Some Mercury staff are out of town this week which means some […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Trump’s Art, Nicki Minaj on Twitter, and How Gen Z Will Always be a Young 30

Let’s dig through this week’s garbage can of trashy gossip!

Hello, and welcome to the Trash Report! I’m Elinor Jones and I will be serving as your guide to some random crap I found online to momentarily distract you from actual news, which is very sad, but also very important—please go back to that after you read this! These few minutes that we have together […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Who Could Fill DeSantis’ Shoes? Plus, Red Carpet Woes and Ice Storm Recovery

Let’s dig into the week’s most gossip-y garbage!

How do you do, fellow Trash Pandas?  I am Elinor Jones, and this is…THE TRASH REPORT. Like many of you, I spent much of the past week iced into my home with my beloved family, anxiously refreshing the weather app on my phone to see when these people whom I love so dearly would get […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Weather, Water, and What Did She Say??

Warm up with this blazing can of flaming, gossip-y trash.

Hello, darling Trash Pandas, and welcome to THE TRASH REPORT! I’m Elinor Jones, coming to you live from as much chapstick and leave-in conditioner as I can get my hands on, because my Oregonian ass cannot handle this cold dryness. The power was out at my house for about six hours on Saturday, serving as […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Airplanes Aren’t Cute but Your Boyfriend Could Be

New year, new trash—let’s dig in to the week’s hottest gossip.

Happy new year, darling baby Trash Pandas! Welcome to the first Trash Report of 2024. The changing of the year is always a great time on social media, when the worst people you’ve ever known profess exactly the wrong goals for the coming year. The meanest and messiest people are planning to rise above toxicity […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: The Best Trash of 2023!

Let’s dig into 2023’s trash can to find the best gossip-y garbage of the year!

To celebrate 2023 being over, let’s revisit some of my favorite bits of trash from this series of months that we have miraculously survived! January M&Ms just released a new package that only has the girl candies on it. This is confusing and enraging to a certain category of people whose beef with it seems […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Royal Fingers, Chalamet’s Charm, and Dakota Johnson vs. Penguins

Toot-Toot! All aboard the gossip train for a tour of this week’s hottest garbage.

Listen up, sluts: it’s me, Elinor Jones, bringing you another Trash Report despite the fact that Al Gore’s internet is full of SALES, SALES, SALES, and all I want to do is SPENDDDDDD MONEYYYYYYY! Every time I fire up my laptop I accidentally do zero work but buy four sweaters; science can’t actually explain it; […]

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