Facebook employees take a break from profiting off of transphobia to celebrate San Francisco Pride vkaggarwal / Getty Images You will be absolutely SHOCKED to hear that Facebook is making money off of transphobic and homophobic ads on their platform, a thing that has never happened before and surely will never occur ever again. While […]
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This Week’s Comics: Jim Henson & Trickster Myths, Men Turned Into Monsters, and a Centaur Ghost from Mars
The best episodes of the 1990s Disney show Gargoyles stem from the Avalon storyline, in which a handful of the characters drift away on a boat into a mysterious fog, wandering from one world myth to another over the course of multiple episodes. The whole thing is a super-bizarre change in the show’s focus — […]
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This Week’s Comics: America’s Most Haunted Road, Therapy for the Dead, and Antifa Supersoldiers
When I was a film student back in the late 1990s, easily three-quarters of my class decided that they were all Quentin Tarantinos, and an ongoing “joke” developed that every student film would feature at least one trench-coated man pointing a gun sideways at the camera, and one dead girl lying in a bathtub. That’s […]
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Good Morning, News: Oregon Floats $17 Minimum Wage, Deadly Texas, and Everybody Relax—Dolly Has Been Vaccinated!
We need your help. The economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis is threatening our ability to keep producing the quality reporting you’ve come to love. If you’re able, please consider making a monthly contribution to the Mercury. Not only was Dolly vaccinated—she wrote a song about it! SQUEEEEEE!! Jason Kempin / Getty News GOOD MORNING, […]
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The Video Games to Play This Month: Get Tiny with Maquette, It Takes Two, and More!
Maquette Courtesy Annapurna Interactive / Graceful Decay I don’t particularly want to feel small right now, or maybe it’s more accurate to say that I don’t want to feel powerless. The world has been buffeting us all an awful lot lately, and it’s hard not to feel like little insects or toys, blasted into a […]
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Sen. Susan Collins Isn’t Sure Queer People Should Be Allowed to Keep Their Jobs and Homes
Once again, it’s time for Sen. Susan Collins to take a hard look in the mirror. POOL / GETTY IMAGES Sen. Susan Collins is preparing to torpedo the Equality Act, the latest infuriating move from a senator about whom it seems like there is only ever bad news. The Equality Act would update civil rights […]
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This Week’s New Comics: Forever Home, My Life in Transition, Strange Academy, and More!
Though it’s technically correct to say that I “watched” the Doctor Strange movie, it’s probably more accurate to describe the process more as a light dozing. I think it’s one of the greatest bummers of the whole Marvel-movie series that they turned a scenery-chewing wizard into a dour asshole, as though audiences are longing for […]
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Queer Organizers Converge on Washington Lawmakers to Push Police Overhauls
Something queer is afoot. ChrisBoswell / Getty Images [The following story comes to us from our sister publication the Stranger.—eds] Last week, Equal Rights Washington held their annual lobbying day—modified a bit, since many lawmakers aren’t in Olympia this year—and while in previous years the organization focused on bills that address LGBTQ+ issues, this year’s […]
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Comic Book Round-Up: So a Witch and a Werewolf Walk Into a Bar…
Love and death make strange bedfellows, but their union is central to some of the best comics released this week. Maybe that’s because both leave us awkwardly vulnerable; we are exposed as foolish, helpless fleshy vessels buffeted by the whims of hormones and steady inevitable decay. As the saying goes, from cradle to tomb it […]
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Pete Buttigieg Confirmed as Transportation Secretary—Now What?
TFW you see Pete Buttigieg building a new set of railroad tracks on his day off Courtney Hale / Getty Images Here’s what’s going to change: Your commute, your groceries, the street you walk on every time you leave the house, what it’s like to fly, where you go on vacation, the air that you […]
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High on Gaming: Tony Hawk Put Me in a Weed Trance
The constant bouncing motion, the side-to-side sway of each level, and the clack-clack-grind of the board induce a sort of weed trance… Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater [The following article is from our “High-Brr-Nation Cannabis Guide” which is packed with fun, interesting stories about surviving the winter with weed. Check ’em out here!—eds.] “Don’t you want […]
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High on Gaming: Tony Hawk Put Me in a Weed Trance
The constant bouncing motion, the side-to-side sway of each level, and the clack-clack-grind of the board induce a sort of weed trance… Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater “Don’t you want to experience alternate realities?” my college roommate asked, incredulously, when I declined to smoke weed with him. I don’t know what varieties he had at his […]