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Good morning, Portland. Here are some high quality links to get your morning started right.

ICYMI, the Portland City Council voted unanimously yesterday to restrict city travel to North Carolina after its state legislature passed an insane law prohibiting transgender people from using the public restroom that correspond with their gender.

“If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If not, it was never meant to be.” KPTV has the story of Portland’s Jade Koide reuniting with a custom bike stolen from her five years ago.

Who knew some bankers are shady? Read the Oregonian‘s latest on the Bank of Oswego scandal, and how its leader “had paid a struggling borrower’s loan installment, allowing the bank to maintain its illusion of a pristine portfolio.”

In sports news, five of the biggest stars of the U.S. Women’s National team filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Commission accusing the national soccer federation of wage discrimination. The men — who have been far less successful on the field compared to the World Cup-winning counterparts — get paid significantly more, and that’s not fair, argue Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe, and Becky Sauerbrunn. Good for them.

This is an odd story out of Los Angeles. Lakers rookie point guard D’Angelo Russell surreptitiously recorded a video of his teammate Nick Young, a.k.a Swaggy P, admitting to cheating on his fiancée, rapper Iggy Azalea. Somehow, that recording was leaked and posted online, obviously leading to a rift in the Lakers locker room and a remorseful Russull doing damage control in the media. “I am sick,” Russell told The Vertical.

In less serious sports news: Hey, look at this dog just hanging out at a basketball game…

Read “How New York Allowed Gentrification for $16 Million” in The New York Times:

Mr. de Blasio said he was blindsided and angered by the developments. But a review of city records, correspondence and lobbying reports suggests that the city mismanaged the situation, accepting more than $16 million to pave the way for precisely the type of luxury housing it has sought to limit.

Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan writes about how “the fabled ‘gig economy,’ which supporters (who are usually people who are already wealthy, rather than active participants in the gig economy) envision as a society in which most people are free agents, freelancers, free to work for many different places, all enabled by technology, is becoming a reality.”

The Washington Post has a horrifying story of the hell Michigan cops put medical marijuana dispensary owners through.

Rolling Stone likes to rank things. Here’s how they rank drummers:

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