Click the picture for the Facebook event page Portland’s Resistance Mayor Charlie Hales axed his planned “March of Hope” event scheduled this afternoon after the recently-formed group leading the local anti-Donald Trump protests, Portland’s Resistance, announced plans for a counter protest. Portland police officers arrested Portland Resistance members Gregory McKelvey, Micah Rhodes, and Kathryn Stevens […]
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Strong, Smart, Loud: Hillary Clinton Is Everything We Have Been Taught Women Should Not Be
Who would you rather have running the country? The most qualified presidential candidate ever to run for office who happens to be a woman… or (check all that apply): __ a racist. __ a bigot. __ a misogynist. __ a tax dodger. __ a billionaire who’s declared bankruptcy multiple times. __ a man who has […]
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Trump Will Never Settle! (This Just In… He Settled.)
Here’s what Donald Trump said back in March in regards to the multiple lawsuits against his shady real estate school, Trump University: The phony lawsuit against Trump U could have been easily settled by me but I want to go to court. 98% approval rating by students. Easy win— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, […]
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Instead of Tweeting, Donald Trump Should Be Reading These Kids’ Letters When He’s Up at 4 a.m.
Rather than sending out nonsensical tweets at 4 a.m., the Racist-in-Chief should try perusing this Facebook group instead. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Molly Spence Sahebjami, who lives in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, started up the Facebook group “Dear President Trump: Letters from Kids About Kindness” the day after the devastating election. “Sahebjami decided on the Facebook […]
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Resist Trump: The American City Is a Machine That Kills Fascism
Jen Graves Most likely you are reading this from inside a city. Most likely you have been feeling despair and doubt and fear. Most likely you have wondered if this can still be your country, too. Yes, it can. Look out the window of your micro-apartment or new town house or aging wood-shingled home. Look […]
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Yes, There is a Legislative Route to Eliminating the Electoral College. It Doesn’t Involve Faithless Electors.
The Electoral College is a vestige of slavery that gives a loophole to the presidency to popular-vote losers like Donald Trump and George W. Bush. doublediamondphoto / iStock Over the past week, I’ve been hearing a lot of misinformation about the likelihood of the Electoral College surprise-voting in Hillary Clinton as our next president when […]
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When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Artwork To Inspire the Revolution
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A Local Man Is Asking Portlanders to Give to Cops, Following Protests
Police wall off demonstrators from an Interstate 5 on ramp on Thursday, November 10. When self-identified anarchists began taking bats and clubs to Pearl District windows on Thursday night, local activists had no problem corralling cash to help pay for at least some of the damage. Portland’s Resistance, the group that began the march that […]
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“Awash in False Conspiracy Theories and Petulant Immaturity, Liberals Put Trump in the White House”
Bernie supporters in July 2016, at the height of conspiracy theories about the DNC. If you still believe those conspiracy theories, you have some reading to do. Gregory Reed/Shutterstock One of the surprising turns in the election was Newsweek as a source of serious, important journalism, and when I say “serious, important journalism” I’m thinking […]
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PHOTOS, VIDEO: Portland Students Leave School to Protest Donald Trump
Student protesters marching against President-elect Donald Trump on November 14 Doug Brown “If Trump does what he said he’s gonna do during his campaign, we’ll be set back 50 years for civil rights,” said “Eric,” an eight grader from Hosford Middle School, who said he ducked out of his otherwise locked-down school through a “secret […]
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Here’s What’s Going to Happen to Your Healthcare
Repealing Obamacare is going to take a while. Still, getting an IUD is never a BAD idea. Zimmerman Creative / iStock Panicked about losing your healthcare coverage or affordable birth control under the incoming Douchebag in Chief? Aren’t we all? It’s terrifying that the incoming president is actually treating “take away healthcare, the thing that […]
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Trump Discusses Overturning Roe v. Wade, Deporting Undocumented Immigrants, and More Scary Stuff with 60 Minutes
Lesley Stahl begins by calling the 2016 presidential campaign “interminable”—to which I say: if only it lasted for ever, I had hope during the campaign!—and then she says that “a divided country found all kinds of ways to describe Donald Trump: visionary businessman, vulgar self-promoter, political neophyte.” I have to say, I didn’t hear anyone […]