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Good morning, Portland! Put down your coffee, grab an adult slushy for just five bucks, and settle in.

Here are the headlines.

Access: The Portland City Council passed a unanimous resolution yesterday to help defend abortion rights across the country—but could they go even further by contributing to a local abortion access fund, like New York City did recently?

Pay to Drive: Cars: yikes! The City Council also took the first step toward "equitable mobility" yesterday—that is, charging drivers and Lyft/Uber riders for the privilege of taking up so much damn space on the road.

Dangerous Streets: Earlier this week, a self-proclaimed "white skinhead" threatened to stab peaceful anti-ICE protesters in downtown Portland. Police arrested the man—read more about it in Willamette Week.

Speaking of ICE: The Trump administration is planning to arrest thousand of undocumented immigrant families soon. According to the New York Times, "[ICE] agents have expressed apprehensions about arresting babies and young children." Someone, please, get them a medal.

Indefensible: Labor Secretary Alex Acosta has been taking heat this week for the sweetheart plea deal he gave billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2008, when Acosta was Florida's US attorney. Now, Acosta's trying to rewrite the narrative in his favor, arguing that some kind of guilty plea is better than no guilty plea.

Jeez, Aziz: Aziz Ansari, he of the Babe Dot Net scandal, is back on Netflix with a new standup special. Consider our own Bob Ham unimpressed with how Ansari addressed the elephant in the room: "At any point during his opening mea culpa, Ansari could have used the platform of a Netflix special to publicly apologize to the young woman who recounted her skin-crawling date, but what he does instead is let himself off the hook without extending the same courtesy to the rest of his audience."

Sentence of the Day: "At the smallest scales of atoms and particles, true randomness is at play – meaning our world is unpredictable at the most fundamental level."

Thursday Challenge: Whatever you're doing today, do it with the unapologetic energy of Megan Rapinoe at the US Women's World Cup-winning soccer team's ticker tape parade in NYC.