A new union representing Portland City Council aides and operations staff filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) complaint ...

I am a 45-year-old femme-presenting genderqueer AFAB person. When I have romantic relationships with cis het men, I’ve ...

As Portland city councilors engaged in a tense discussion about entrenched racism and changing power dynamics, an influential ...

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Eventually these dipshits will lose and they’ll all try to go back to pretending to be model citizens or some gross shit, but it’s just fucking this was everywhere right now. We learned about nazis.

This whole "talk about politics on the internet" as if it makes a difference thing? We're still doing this? We think the things we say on the internet matter to literally anyone? We think if we craft ...

Last Tuesday, one of the 10 richest people in the world said he's "perfectly fine" with a proposed 5% wealth tax in California. Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, said he has not "not even thought about ...

The news is bleak, the nights are long. Yet somehow... the calendar is still stacked. January is when culture gets weird in ...

Hi babies! Welcome to the first new Trash Report for 2026. As always, I am your best friend, Elinor Jones. I don't know about ...

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While Portland’s police chief has encouraged residents to exercise their First Amendment rights in response to recent ...

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