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GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! You might think I'm crazy, but I'm serious. It's better you know now, what I thought was happiness was only part-time bliss. LET'S GO TO PRESS.

If our racist president was looking for a campaign slogan, he's found it with his racist tweet at four congresswomen of color: "Send her back." Now his backward, dullard, and proudly racist followers are chanting it at rallies and no amount of dishonest disavowals is going to stop it.

Trump's blatant racism has been emboldening his racist followers. Don't believe me? Check out this story of an Illinois convenience clerk harassing Latinx customers, telling them they need to "go back to their own country."


To replace his former Labor Secretary who once helped accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein get off easy, Trump is nominating Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court justice who once defended Walmart when they were attempting to punish whistle-blowers. Workers are gonna love him, I bet.

Democrats are hoping that Robert Mueller's testimony next Wednesday will light a fire under the asses of Americans who haven't read the Russia report, and move public opinion toward impeachment.

Just released FBI documents prove that Trump's lie about not being involved with pre-election payments to Stormy Daniels was just that: A Big Frickin' LIE.

Trump's EPA has refused to ban a toxic pesticide that science has linked to brain damage in children.

Another two-night long Democratic debate is kicking off on July 30, in which Kamala Harris will face Joe Biden on night one, and Elizabeth Warren will debate Bernie Sanders the following night.

Workers on the Bernie Sanders campaign are complaining about poor working conditions and demanding $15 per hour—the same amount that Sanders himself said should be the federal minimum.

Singer Ricky Martin and Latin trap artist Bad Bunny are joining the massive protest in Puerto Rico to oust their governor.

Truest headline of the day so far: "The Cats trailer is here and it's horrifying the internet." Dude! And our office, too! That's all they could talk about yesterday!

IN LOCAL NEWS: A temp worker for a Foster Farms plant in Corvallis fired a gun in a women's bathroom setting off fears of a mass shooting.

Buzzfeed has a long read about Portland's own Patriot Prayer apologist Andy Ngo, and how he went from a nobody to a national star for the far right after being attacked by a few bad actors in the Antifa movement. (Is the story a fair assessment? Mmmmmmmmmmm... yes and no. While exposing Ngo's untrustworthy opportunistic streak, the author also drinks the GOP and Portland Police's Kool-Aid that all Antifa are masked thugs. Give it a read anyway, it's interesting.)

After reading all this newsy stuff, I suspect you need two things: 1) a lot of $5 alcoholic slushies from the Mercury's Summer of Slushies, and 2) laughing yer guts out at the always hilarious I, Anonymous Show coming at ya on August 7! Drink a bunch of slushies and get your tickets now!

Now let's look skyward at the WEATHER: After the morning clouds disappear, expect a nice day with a high of 78, and an AH-MAY-ZING weekend!

And finally, OH FOR THE FUCKING LOVE OF GOD.