Uploading a newspaper to the web is a long and tiresome process, but news is happening now. Here’s a special preview of this week’s Hall Monitor column. TED WHEELER wants to make one thing clear: It’s not about Mayor Charlie Hales. Wheeler, the Oregon state treasurer and former Multnomah County chair says it’s just that […]
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Q&A With the Person Behind the Brilliant @KimDavis917 Account on Twitter
I was one of many people who fell for the Twitter account @KimDavis917. @KimDavis917 was supposedly Kim Davis’s own Twitter account. The account, according to its bio, was being manned by Davis’s fourth husband because Kim, as you may have heard, is sitting in prison for contempt of court. The account had been up for […]
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Federal Judge Orders Kim Davis Jailed for Refusing to Issue Marriage Licenses to Same-Sex Couples
Associated Press From the New York Times: A federal judge here on Thursday ordered a Kentucky clerk jailed for contempt of court because of her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The clerk, Kim Davis of Rowan County, was ordered incarcerated after a hearing here before Judge David L. Bunning of Federal District […]
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And Now I Have to Say Something About Kim Davis
I’ve pretty much ignored Kim Davis—save the odd tweet or RT—since she first made the news for refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. Davis is the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, an elected position, and everyone from the governor to the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered Davis to comply with the […]
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Breaking with the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton Says She’s Opposed to Arctic Drilling
Clinton’s stance against Arctic drilling doesn’t exactly jive with this gas-guzzler’s show of support. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com In response to today’s federal approval of drilling for oil in the Arctic, Hillary Clinton posted a Tweet that announced her admiration for the Arctic and positioned herself against the Obama administration’s decision: The Arctic is a […]
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Today in “Let’s Make Fun of Donald Trump”
Believe it or don’t, somehow… MIRACULOUSLY… the walking joke that is Donald Trump is the clear leader among Republicans for their presidential nominee. HAHAHAHAAAAAA!! WOW. (By the way if you’re thinking this reflects terribly on the average Republican—you’re right. Because here’s one reason why the average Republican is supporting Trump via the I, Anonymous Blog.) […]
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Best of Enemies and the Art of Throwing Shade
BEST OF ENEMIES Ah! The glory days of American political discourse! Sometimes you’ll be watching a terrible garbage TV show, like maybe the entire show is just a monkey barfing into a diaper, and the person sitting next to you will say something like, “There used to be eloquent discourse on television.” And you’ll be […]
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Bernie Sanders Met with Don’t Shoot PDX Activists After Sunday’s Rally
Dan Cronin 19,000 Portlanders feeling the Bern Dont Shoot PDX activist Marcus Cooper is reporting on Facebook that he and five others were invited to sit down with Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday, following a gigantic rally at the Moda Center. According to Cooper’s Facebook post, Sanders sat down with the activists—including Teressa Raiford, who […]
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Remember: There’s a Mammoth Bernie Sanders Rally At The Moda Center
After activists interprupted his earlier event, @BernieSanders spoke to 12,000 people at @UW http://t.co/JzD0792hB3 pic.twitter.com/iaXxryWwZh — The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) August 9, 2015 After a triptych of events in Seattle yesterday (one of them a small fund-raiser, the other thrown akimbo by Black Lives Matter protesters), Bernie Sanders makes his way down I-5 today. Portland’s […]
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Bernie Sanders Called the Mercury: NBD. This Weekend’s Rally has Moved!
Vermont senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders spent about a half hour today on a conference call with several regional reporters (including me!) in preparation for his upcoming Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles rallies. He answered questions about how he differs from his most prominent competitor, how he’d fix broken US political system, and whether […]
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Katha Pollitt Weighs in on Wackadoodle Smear Campaign Against Planned Parenthood
Charlotte Cooper via Wikimedia Commons It’s that time again: When hard-line anti-choicers call for defunding Planned Parenthood, aka the organization that probably almost every lady you know has gone to for health care at some point in time. Luckily, yesterday’s Senate vote to defund the women’s health-care organization failed, but the GOP’s impetus for trying—the […]
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There Are a Boatload of House Parties Happening Tonight for Bernie Sanders, With Beer!
Bernie! You guys! Why is Bernie smiling? Why, you ask? This is why: TONIGHT, all across this great nation of ours, (Socialist? Democratic?) presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is hosting 1,000s of house parties… and some have free beer! I’m gonna make this post quick, because I spent the morning live tweeting the #ShellNO protest and […]