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Good morning, Portland! Friendly reminder: It's almost Thanksgiving, which means it's time to find some fun events to keep your relatives occupied.

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Supreme Court Update, Part 1: The Supreme Court will today hear oral arguments and consider whether 700,000 DACA recipients—undocumented young people who were granted temporary protections during the Obama years for being students or joining the military, often called DREAMers—will continue to be protected from deportation.

Part 2: The parents of children who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting are suing Remington Arms, the company that manufactured the rifle used to murder their children, arguing that the company should be held liable. The Supreme Court will allow the case to proceed, despite Remington's attempt to block it.

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Proud Gals: At a Proud Boy rally over the weekend (here I feel obligated to remind you what a stupid fucking name Proud Boys is, so as not to allow it to be normalized), two women got into a physical altercation, but no arrests were made. The brawl was between a right-wing MMA fighter and a presumably left-wing counter-protester—hey CBS, can we get an odd couple sitcom green-lit for this concept stat?

Like a Bullet to Vancouver: Last week, Washington state voters decided to reduce the cost of car registration fees, meaning there will be less funding for important transportation projects that might, I don't know, reduce carbon emissions and help save the planet. But advocates for a high-speed rail project—i.e., a bullet train—from Portland to Vancouver, Canada, are keeping the hope for that project alive.

What Would Jesus Do? A Bellingham, Washington woman recently almost died because a Catholic hospital refused to give her a life-saving abortion. Unfortunately, this type of thing happens all the time—and most Catholic hospitals are tax-exempt.

Campaign Finance Reform Now, Please: California Governor Gavin Newsom has been vocally critical of Pacific Gas & Electric lately, blaming the utility company for not updating its electrical grid to help prevent the now-annual massive, deadly wildfires in the state. But here's the thing: Newsom and his wife have received at least $700,000 from PG&E over the years. That doesn't negate Newsom's valid criticism, but it does take the bite out of it.

What's Too Political For Facebook? Helping save LGBTQ+ lives, apparently. The company has rejected ads for PrEP, the HIV-prevention drug, for being too "political."

Sentence of the Day: "If your local media has no place for people who voice contempt for your city’s police chief, say, or your state’s attorney general, or the publisher of your city’s largest newspaper, all of those people will feel more comfortable in abusing their power." Anyway, read the Mercury!