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The “President” Will Announce His Promised Roe v. Wade Overturner on TV Tonight. Join Me in Not Watching!
A preview of tonight’s announcement. istock / brasovianu Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes, has shown time and again during his first week in office that he loves nothing more than offering jobs to people who can’t do them and don’t want them. (Seriously, Betsy DeVos, you can just say you […]
Recordings Prove Republicans are Freaking Out About Repealing Obamacare
Sydney Brownstone Republican senators and house members met this week in closed door sessions in Philadelphia to discuss their responses to Trump’s insistence the ACA (or as it’s more popularly known, Obamacare) gets repealed in a hurried fashionโeven though it’s abundantly clear that the administration has no real plan for replacing it. And according to […]
Savage Love: ITMFA!
Joe Newton Listening to pundits discuss the president on the radio, I was inspired by your brilliant acronym (DTMFA) to yell, “Impeach the motherfucker already!” I’d love to see a line of bumper stickers and T-shirts bearing that sensible message: ITMFA! We need a shorthand for the obviousโthink of the boost to productivity we’d get […]
Local Leaders Respond to Trump’s Bullshit Attack on Sanctuary Cities
Still not. Doug Brown Today, Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes, is gearing up to attack sanctuary cities like Portland via a bullshit executive order that would pull federal funding from cities that have vowed not to use their local law enforcement resources to enact the “president’s” terrible anti-immigrant policies. Today, […]
The Inauguration Diaries
Four days in the nation’s capital dodging tear gas, rabid misogyny, and casual racism.
Trump Brought Personal Cheerleading Squad to CIA Meeting
“Okay, I’m going to lie and say I like you, and then my people are going to clap. Everybody got it? Good, let’s do this.” Courtesy NBC Something I neglected to mention in Good Morning, News (but in my defense, the Trump lies do stack up), is that Illegitimate President Trump was met with great […]
The Women’s March on Portland is Massive, Jubilant, and Lit
It’s hard to think some record isn’t being broken today, as tens of thousands of people have converged in a crush of wet, jubilant, Trump-hating humanity in McCall Waterfront Park for the Women’s March on Portland. As we write this, the massive demonstration is still singing, chanting, and cursing its way through the streets of […]
Women’s March Organizer Margaret Jacobsen: “Marching Isn’t Comfortable. It’s So Much More Than That.”
Doug Brown Portland writer and photographer Margaret Jacobsen is one of the organizers of tomorrow’s Women’s March on Portland, the local sister march to the national Women’s March on Washington. Jacobsen spoke with me this week about the intersectional mission of the march, final logistics for a march of this size (it’ll likely be one […]
Kanye Wasn’t Asked to Perform at Trump’s Inauguration Because It Will Be a “Typically and Traditionally American” Affair
It’s no secret that Trump’s team has been struggling to find musical guests willing to perform at his inauguration, and holding down the few they do manage to convince. So far they’ve been turned down by the likes of Charlotte Church, Elton John, and Moby, and earlier this week Bruce Springsteen tribute act the B […]
Fight Back Against the Misogynist-in-Chief with Birth Control Preparedness
Your birth control has a simple job: It should prevent pregnancy, treat any of the conditions that birth control is prescribed for, AND IT SHOULD BE RIGHT FOR YOU. Fiona Avocado Related: Portland’s Resistance & Solidarity Calendar From the late-night Senate vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act to attorney general nominee Jeff Sessionsโ demonstrated […]
