iStock/Andy Katz This morning, the New York Times ran an editorial by Nicholas Kristof, titled “Gritting our Teeth and Giving President Trump a Chance,” the premise of which is one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever seen in that publication. Firstly, giving Trump anything is a ridiculous notion. He’s just been given the White […]
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After a Week Like This, You Should See Arrival This Weekend
Hahahahahaaaa! Hell of a week, am I right? Ha! JESUS SHITTING CHRIST. There are things we can do to make this better. These things will come in time: Marching. Volunteering what time and money we can to progressive organizations and causes. Speaking out—and, more importantly, listening. Engaging with politics not once every four years on […]
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Oregone? Two Portlanders Are Pushing for State Secession After Trump’s Victory
The United States and Cascadian flags reside side-by-side in the Mercury news cave. Dirk VanderHart It took less than 24 hours for Donald Trump’s victory to inspire a formal proposal that Oregon secede from the United States. (What’s the Oregon version of Brexit? ORExit?) Two Portlanders—writer Chris Trejbal and attorney Jennifer Rollins—floated a ballot measure […]
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Why Protesting Trump Now Is So Important
Demonstrators in Portland, Oregon; November 9, 2016. Doug Brown Last night thousands took to Portland’s streets, in addition to the thousands more across the country, to protest our electoral system’s selection of Donald Trump as president-elect. All of the frustration and disgust is an instinctual, reflexive response for those who didn’t vote for him; the […]
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Stop Telling People of Color to Calm Down
Here’s what people of color are already dealing with: Day 1 In Trump’s America
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It’s Not “the Economy, Stupid”
Doug Brown “It’s the economy, stupid.” That’s the reasoning coming from Trump supporters across the country for voting for the most clearly inexperienced president in history. Not because he denigrates Mexicans, has admitted to sexually assaulting women, disrespects the Black Lives Matter movement, and has lied (and has been caught lying) to a baffling degree. […]
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Cops Helped A Massive Anti-Trump Protest Shut Down I-5 on Wednesday
Doug Brown For the second time in the very short period Donald Trump has been president-elect, protestors headed to Interstate 5 this evening. And in an exceedingly rare instance befitting this batshit crazy week, the cops even helped. While as many as two thousand protestors marched from Pioneer Courthouse Square this evening, stopped in front […]
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America Has Been Marinating in White Supremacy for Hundreds of Years
If you marinate something in white supremacy, it will probably taste like white supremacy. iStock.com/Aunt_Spray Trump won, and it really fucking sucks. You’re probably pretty upset right now, and you should be—his plan for his first 100 days in office provides a sneak peek at some of the concrete actions he’ll take to make his […]
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We Can’t Go On. We’ll Go On.
The Stranger Since yesterday, I’ve been unable to eat or sleep, and I’ve been fielding angry, shocked texts from my friends across the country and my female relatives. I’m in Beckett mode here, as I’m sure many of us are: I can’t go on. I’ll go on. Yesterday’s presidential election sucked for a lot of […]
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The Disgust. The Grief. The Shock. And What to Do About It.
I took this photo last night and I still can’t believe the words I see there on the screen. Soon, we’ll be past shock. We’ll be onto anger. I can’t wait for anger. I wish I could fast-forward to anger right now, fast-forward to fire in the belly, better protests, new art, coming together in […]
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Good Morning, America. Welcome To Your White Supremacy
The White Supremacist House. ESB Professional/shutterstock.com To get this delivered to your inbox, subscribe to The Stranger’s newsletter: Just yesterday, I was saying that we should be looking at the post-reconstruction South in order to understand what has been happening with Trump voters. But when I wrote those words yesterday morning, I was writing them […]
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A Lot Went Wrong on Election Night
But Here’s What Happened In Local Races
But here’s what happened in local races.