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Dear RBG: Stop scaring the crap out of us, please.
Dear RBG: Stop scaring the crap out of us, please. Robin Marchant / Getty

GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! All your friends think I'm just too young for you. You tell 'em that I can do what guys their age can do. LET'S GO TO PRESS.

On Christmas Eve, another Guatemalan migrant child died while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection—the second in a month—leading the government agency to institute what they should have been doing all along, medical checks for every child.

Currently there's no end in sight for the government shutdown, with Trump stubbornly holding on to his pipe dream of building his racist wall.

The NYT is reporting that the daughters of a New York podiatrist diagnosed Donald Trump with bone spurs so he could avoid the war in Vietnam.

America's economic turmoil continues, with major losses for several of the country's major stock indexes, and what could become Wall Street's worst December since 1931. And to the surprise of absolutely no one, Trump and his administration are not helping matters at all.


Okay everybody, relax again (for the moment): Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been released from the hospital and is recuperating at home following a surgery to remove two cancerous nodules from her left lung. GET WELL SOON (please), RBG!

In a Christmas Eve phone call with a 7-year-old, Trump made fun of her for believing in Santa. Thankfully, the kid quickly realized what the rest of us already know—that the president is full of shit.

IN LOCAL NEWS: A person was stabbed and robbed on a Portland MAX platform on Christmas Day; one of the suspects has been arrested.

A Black man who was a paying guest at Portland's DoubleTree hotel was kicked out by security and had the cops called on him after taking a phone call in the lobby—and the internet is not having it.

Federal agents believe the Saudi government was behind the escape of a suspect who fled the country after being accused of killing a Portland teen in a hit-and-run.

Now let's peek at the WEATHER: A cool, showery day with a high of 43.

And finally, don't miss this loving rap tribute to Will Smith and his grunts.