ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN F. JOHNSON Sam Rice was always certain of one thing: Police officers were out to kill him. “I would say, ‘Sam, stop talking like that, you know that’s not going to happen,’” says Susan Adame, a behavioral support specialist with SL Start, an organization that helps people who have developmental disabilities to […]
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Thought Police
What’s Keeping Portland Cops from Helping People In Mental Health Crises?
Sam Rice was always certain of one thing: Police officers were out to kill him. “I would say, ‘Sam, stop talking like that, you know that’s not going to happen,’” says Susan Adame, a behavioral support specialist with SL Start, an organization that helps people who have developmental disabilities to live independently. Adame worked closely […]
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Not Invited Back in 2019
Oh hello, I didn’t see you come in. I was just sitting by this fake fireplace petting a corgi that is not my corgi and drinking a hot chocolate spiked with more chocolate, just like I do every January as I agonize over my definitive list of things that are disinvited from the Earth in […]
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Remembering 2018: A Ride-Along with an Exorcist
Natalie Behring [Wow. The Mercury wrote A LOT of stuff in 2018, and here’s a feature story that we think is worth remembering from February 21, 2018.—eds] On an unseasonably warm Saturday morning, Archbishop James Cloud and I meet at a Starbucks in Bethany, a small suburb north of Beaverton. Bishop Cloud wears a clerical […]
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Portland’s Crows Are Back. So Are the Laser-Guided Hawks That Scare Them Off.
Portland’s crows are back. So are the laser-guided hawks that scare them off.
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Keep Resisting. It’s Working.
How We Got Through the Last Two Years, and How We’ll Get Through the Next Two
How we got through the last two years, and how we’ll get through the next two.
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Navigating Politics at the Dinner Table
Is it worth trying to change your right-wing relatives’ minds?
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Resisting Patriot Prayer, Part One: How to Talk About Alt-Right Groups
Fighting right-wing extremism begins at home.
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Resisting Patriot Prayer, Part Two: How to Creatively Humiliate the Joey Gibsons of the World
Let’s start with the obvious: The leader of Patriot Prayer is a dork.
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Examining Resistance: A Glossary of New Terms
What are all these new words? We define some terms to explain what’s happening in resistance right now.
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Updating Your Self-Care Regimen
Self-care is more important than ever. Here are some things that work, and some that don’t.