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Trump wants a parade, kinda like this.
Trump wants a parade, kinda like this. Dan Kitwood / Getty

GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! No matter what your friends try to tell ya, we were made to fall in love. And we will be together, any kind of weather. It’s like that, it’s like that. LET’S GO TO PRESS.

In a big win for renters rights, Mayor Ted Wheeler has changed his mind and now supports closing a loophole that allowed landlords with a single unit to avoid paying relocation fees if they unfairly evicted a tenant. Our Dirk VanderHart has the story.

According to investigators, Republican Oregon Sen. Jeff Kruse sexually harassed and inappropriately touched many women at the state capitol, including two female senators.

In a story that does not look good for Portland cops, the O‘s Maxine Bernstein writes this: “A Portland police sergeant admitted to investigators that he deliberately misrepresented the law to get a protester to stop videotaping officers during a November 2016 protest and acknowledged that he’s far from alone in the deception.”

New Seasons is rethinking its expansion into California after its CEO steps down from her position.

Oh, and looking for something fun to do tonight? Don’t miss the Mercury‘s hilarious I, Anonymous Show starring Portland’s funniest person, Caitlin Weierhauser!

Trump continues to show his despotic true colors by calling Democrats who don’t applaud him “treasonous,” happily welcoming a government shutdown if he doesn’t get his way, and planning a Soviet-style military parade in his honor.

That being said, Congress is pretty much ignoring Trump’s idiotic bluster and negotiating a major budget deal that would keep the government operating for two years.

And just as a reminder that Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly is a dick too, he was quoted as calling some immigrants “lazy” for not signing up for DACA.

A California judge is siding with homophobic bakers, saying their refusal to make wedding cakes for gay couples is their first amendment right.

CEO and casino/resort magnate Steve Wynn has stepped down following multiple accusations of sexual harassment.

More trouble for director Quentin Tarantino after Jezebel revealed a 2003 interview in which he commented on Roman Polanski’s rape of a 13-year-old, saying, “It was statutory rape . . . he had sex with a minor. That’s not rape.”

Because this world is not crazy enough right now, yesterday bored rich person Elon Musk successfully shot the world’s biggest rocket and one of his Tesla cars into space. SHEEEESH!

Now let’s check up on that WEATHER: Another dry, mild day with a high of 55.

And finally, OKAY WHATEVER, I may not like this Elon Musk person very much, but two rockets simultaneously touching down is pretty freaking FINE.

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)