Second campus shooting of the day. USA! USA! http://t.co/orxvi38pn8 @fakedansavage — Bill Savage (@RogersParkMan) October 9, 2015 ABC13 News: One person is dead after a shooting at Texas Southern University. The southeast Houston campus remains on lockdown. Houston police say a possible suspect is in custody. USA. USA. USA.
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The Next President—If He or She Is a Republican—Must Promise to Let Americans Carry Their Guns Into the White House
Tweet something calm, measured, and thoughtful about gun control—like the tweet I wrote on October 1 after hearing about the 142nd school shooting and 986th mass shooting since Sandy Hook—and your feed fills up with furious tweets from outraged gun humpers. Fuck you fucking liberals, fucking die of AIDS you fucking faggot, get the fuck […]
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Trump Finally Tells Us How to Get Rid of Him
Donald Trump treats onlookers to a little song. a katz / Shutterstock.com Oh thank God: an end is in sight to TV’s most depressing reality show, the Donald Trump presidential campaign. “If I was dropping in the polls where I saw that I wasn’t going to win, why would I continue?” he told NBC. “If […]
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Hillary Clinton Does a Pretty Good Donald Trump
Along with guest host Miley Cyrus, the leading Democratic hope Hillary Clinton made a guest appearance on SNL this week, starring in this fun sketch with the show’s leading Hillary impersonator, Kate McKinnon. There are some good natured barbs in here as well as a dead on Donald Trump impression from Hillary, who is much […]
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Portland Joins Nationwide Show of Support for Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon Advocates outside Dig a Pony. Tonight, Portland joined other cities across the nation in rallying support for Planned Parenthood, with “Pink Out Portland,” a rally hosted by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon (PPAO) at Dig a Pony. It couldn’t have come at a better time. The health care organization has […]
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Guess What: Trump’s Tax Plan Is Going to Cost Trillions
The rictus smile of a man who’s gaming the political system, in part, to save himself money on taxes. Albert H. Teich / Shutterstock.com You may have been surprised that Trump’s grandfather was a barber—that’s right, a barber—who managed restaurants that shared spaces with brothels, but there’s no way you’re surprised that a Republican candidate’s […]
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Watch the President of Planned Parenthood Hand an Anti-Choice Congressman His Ass
Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, testified before a House Oversight Committee this morning. NYT: In testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the president, Cecile Richards, faced off against conservative lawmakers who are seeking to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood after videos released by anti-abortion activists purported to show officials […]
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Seattle City Council Discusses Rent Control
Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata defended rent control at a Town Hall debate in July. Today, they did the same before their fellow council members. City of Seattle More than three months after Seattle Council Members Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata introduced a resolution asking the state to lift its ban on rent control, the […]
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Are You Showing the GOP Debates at Your Business Establishment on Wednesday?
Dear Portland-area Bizness MGMT: Do you run a bar, tavern, taproom, public house, or any other sort of drinking hut with a television inside it? If so, are you planning to show the second GOP debate? The kids’ table debate is set to air this Wednesday on CNN at 2 p.m. PST. The slightly more […]
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Who’s the Real Winner of the Kim Davis Debacle? Ugh, Mike Huckabee
I won this week’s challenge, which means I get immunity. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com Now that L’Affaire Du Kim Davis is receding into the past, let’s try to figure out who, if anyone, came out on top. I suppose you could say that the gay couples won, though the stress of being repeatedly shunned before […]
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Ted Wheeler’s Already Flashing A Bunch of Campaign Cash
In announcing plans to run for Portland mayor yesterday, State Treasurer Ted Wheeler called those intentions the “most poorly kept secret in Oregon politics.” Evidence of that leaky secret is pretty clear in his first round of campaign finance reporting. Though he’s not required to report contributions until October, Wheeler began releasing details about financial […]
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Watch Sarah Palin Sprinkle Words Blown From Without Her Ass
She appears to be reading. So she wrote this stuff down. These aren’t extemporaneous remarks. They’re premeditated. She actually meant to say, “Only in an Orwellian Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust blown from atop a unicorn as he’s peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety of […]