Oregon protest leader Ammon Bundy and others arrested; 1 killed, FBI and state police say https://t.co/rZLzoUMcEk pic.twitter.com/l2cr68fiJA— CNN (@CNN) January 27, 2016 UPDATE, 7 pm: Just before 4:30 this afternoon, FBI agents and Oregon State Police arrested Ammon Bundy, ringleader of the weeks-long standoff at a Harney County wildlife refuge, along with his brother and […]
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Someone Shot Out a Trucker’s Tire on I-205 Last Night
ODOT Near the scene of the crime Hopefully this isn’t a new thing. Portland police are reporting a gunman in a “newer black SUV with tinted windows” pulled up alongside a semi truck on southbound I-205 near Division early this morning, and shot one of its tires out. That’s it, really. Cops have no idea […]
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The I, Anonymous Blog Quote o’ the Day: Your Dumb Hat
This just in: DUMB HATS ARE DUMB. You wore your giant-brimmed hat to the Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats concert because it was cold outside and your precious noggin was chilly. That’s cool—I totally love wearing hats when it’s cold outside. But inside the venue, when 2,000 other concertgoers are smashed together in a […]
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The I, Anonymous Blog Quote o’ the Day
Maybe you’re not in need of the following advice… but on the other hand, I don’t know you. So here goes: LSD AND STAR WARS DON’T MIX. From the I, Anonymous Blog: I was trying to enjoy the new Star Wars at Imax. You were sitting right behind me and started whimper-crying in the most […]
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The I, Anonymous Blog Quote o’ the Day: Tip Your Porn Clerk
Tipping is once again in the news (as well it should be)—but this I, Anonymous Blog writer wants to remind you of another group of employees who deserve tips as well…. Please, tip your porn clerks. Yup, we deserve it just as much as your waiters. In fact, we deserve it ten times more than […]
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The Three Biggest Patriots Watching That Terrible Donald Trump Dance
PSA: There are exactly three people worth watching in the refreshingly cringeworthy video of Donald Trump’s theme song that’s been making the rounds this afternoon. Ignore the horror show up front. The USA Freedom Kids are cheap hucksters. The real money’s in the audience. •First, the stoic gentlemean in the Trump shirt directly behind the […]
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The Militant Takeover in Harney County Is Just Oregon’s Latest Symptom of Anger Over Federal Ownership
Timeline: Radical antigovernment right and federal land-use disputes https://t.co/6ZPhjn7DG3 #OregonStandoff pic.twitter.com/5XiHxWLytX — SPLC (@splcenter) January 4, 2016 There’s still no telling what will come of the armed, self-styled “militiamen” who’ve taken over a few buildings in a remote Eastern Oregon wildlife refuge. The FBI is heading up the response, but so far authorities are being […]
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That Armed Standoff Brewing in Eastern Oregon Isn’t In Any Hurry to Begin
Ammon Bundy addresses reporters earlier today. Story up soon. #OregonStandoff #OregonUnderAttack #OregonOccupation pic.twitter.com/iyRzWfP9X6— Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) January 3, 2016 On Saturday, what began as a peaceful protest of the impending imprisonment of two Eastern Oregon ranchers transformed into… something else. Self-described militiamen affiliated with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy (his son Ammon is leading the charge) […]
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Oh God… It’s the Return of Francine Colman-Gutierrez and “You’re Wrong About That!” (The Holiday Edition)
HI. I’m Francine Colman-Gutierrez. You are wrong about the following things: Eggnog: You’re wrong. It’s gross.Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is the best holiday song: Wrong. It’s “Jingle Bell Rock” as sung by the cast of Mean Girls. Hipster Santa: I’ll allow it. (Why should Santa have to conform to your […]
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The BEST of the WORST of I, Anonymous!
Kalah Allen EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s a scientific fact—people have opinions. And they have feelings! But they don’t want other people to know they have opinions and feelings. And that’s why the Mercury’s I, Anonymous column and blog remain insanely popular year after year. For newbies, the I, Anonymous Blog is a place where anyone can […]
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Portland Is a Feces-Flecked Yellowstone This Morning
It’s one of Portland’s odd contradictions that we get rain almost constantly for nine months of the year, but don’t have stout enough infrastructure to handle much more than a stern drizzle. In any serious rains, our MAX trains flood when undercautious operators push through standing water, our hillside roads are prone to landslides, and […]
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Here Are Some of the #BlackLivesMatter Tweets That the DOJ Thought Merited Investigation
Wikimedia Commons Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum Less than a week after it came to light that the Oregon Department of Justice began collecting information on Oregonians who used the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, we still don’t know how wide the effort stretched, or whom the DOJ kept tabs on. That will presumably all come out of an […]