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Mayor to Force Some Homeless Portlanders from...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/07

Jeremiah Hayden by Jeremiah Hayden Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is planning to exit some homeless residents from the city’s alternative shelters, instead referring them to emergency overnight shelters and day centers. In an email Wilson sent to city councilors Tuesday, Wilson said nearly 100 homeless Portlanders who are living in alternative shelters are expected to reach their 120-day stay limits, and the city

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Mercury Music Picks: The Passion of Lori Goldston,...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/06

Nolan Parker by Nolan Parker Happy new you! Welcome to 2026, you absolute smoke shows! Did we all get home safe after our NYE functions? I barely made it out alive, not because of intoxication, but because the Forty Feet Tall boys and the Nonbinary Girlfriend theys tore it the fuck up at Trouble Bar so deeply it was hard to walk after. And then three days later, Dustbunny almost sold out Mississippi Studios for

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SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies!

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/06

Trauma turn-ons, sweet chastity, a life without kink, and lots more quickie Qs! by Dan Savage 1. What if I’m turned on by my own trauma? What do I do with this? You do therapy with it. And then after you’ve worked through your trauma with the help of your therapist (which includes unpacking your feelings about being turned on by your trauma), you can — taking the tiniest of baby steps — explore these turn-ons to

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Good Morning, News: TriMet To Make More Service Cuts,...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/06

by Taylor Griggs The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good morning, Portland! And a very happy new year to you all. It’s going to be chilly and wet today. Snow levels are set to dip later this week,

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First World Problem

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/06

by Anonymous If you have a weird shaped business card, I hate you

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Amazon Driver Double Parked On Natio

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/06

by Anonymous Monday around 5pm. Way to double park and just leave your stupid ass Amazon vehicle there to block our bus from getting through, backing up traffic for God knows how far (and for like ten full minutes, if not longer). Think about how many people you made late that didn't have to be, if you had just pulled up a hundred feet to one of the open parking spaces. That's why you follow the rules of the road.

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Hundreds of Portlanders Protest US Attack on Venezuela

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/05

Protesters took to the streets as part of an "emergency" national day of action against Trump’s unauthorized strikes and abduction of Venezuela’s leader. by Kevin Foster At least 500 Portland residents joined "emergency" nationwide protests on Saturday against the Trump administration’s airstrikes on Venezuela and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Early Saturday morning, January 3,

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Good Morning, News: Oregon's New ID Scanning Law, JD...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/05

by Wm. Steven Humphrey If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there

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V'Room doesn't equal Bedroom

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/04

by AnonymousHey, noisy car guy, let me help you. I’ve had a wife, daughters, a mother, a sister, hundreds of female coworkers, a couple of girlfriends, a couple of hot neighbors. Not one of them has ever said, “You know, a noisy car really turns me on.” Not one of them has ever said “I’d do anything for you if you had a noisy car.” Need attention? Need to be heard? So raise your voice at the ballgame. Raise your voice at the protest

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Protect your ID

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/03

by Anonymous In response to "Kroger Crime Family" and Oregon's new ID swipe law. Giving your ID to private companies to ab/used can be entirely avoided by carrying a Passport Card. Passport Cards display less personal information than a Driver License and contain no barcode that can be scanned. On the back is a unique number that points to your information in some federal database somewhere. The card itself does not hold this

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Kroger Crime Family

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/03

by Anonymous The Fred Meyer clerk who grabbed my ID in November and scanned it before I could say anything could see the white in my hair and said he knew I was well over 21, but it was Kroger store policy. I told him it violated Oregon law, and he said, "I don't think so." I did a little Googling and found that Kroger has indeed been sued for breaking this law and has successfully lobbied to change it. That law went into effect January

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You Come Find Me

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/03

by Anonymous I lost all my contacts. My number has changed, multiple times. I am being encouraged to build upon a false narrative. A false past. A clean slate, a story that is “permissible” to move forward. With those who are less than trustworthy or truthful. No questions are allowed. I did not willingly sign up for this. My current strategy is to survive. If there are disagreements about the tools I have utilized in the past, that is

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Album Review: Dissolving the Binary with Dustbunny

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/03

Nolan Parker by Nolan Parker If waking up on Friday, January 2—the first music release day of 2026—to a new album from one of Portland’s best bands isn’t a potent foreshadowing of another incredible music year for this city, I don’t know what is. The band in question? Dustbunny. A Portland-based quintet of punks standing firmly at many of the intersections making Rip City just that, a ripper city to live and

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Oregon’s New ID Scanning Law: What Changed on January 1

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/02

Retailers can now swipe everyone’s license for age-restricted purchases. Here’s what that means for your privacy. by Alana Parker Oregon stores can now swipe your driver’s license or ID every time you buy alcohol or cannabis, even if you’re 65 years old and clearly not a teenager trying to score beer. The change took effect January 1. It emerged after convenience stores faced lawsuits over universal

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POP QUIZ PDX: The Best Trivia Questions of 2025—Part...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/02

See how much YOU remember about the weirdest and wildest happenings of 2025! by Wm. Steven Humphrey HAPPY NEW YEAR, BRAINY BRITCHES! It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we'll be testing your knowledge on EVERYTHING that happened in the year 2025 in the thrilling "Part Two" of our trivia recap of

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Bi Gan’s Resurrection Revives 100 Years of...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/01

Dream logic takes over in the Chinese writer-director’s latest technical marvel. by Dom Sinacola Chinese writer-director Bi Gan believes that filmmaking can capture his wildest dreams. Resurrection is his attempt to convince you that it can capture yours too. It’s ambitious to make a movie about how making movies is like harvesting dreams, projecting viewers’ inner lives back at them, often to visceral,

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Mercury 2025 Recap: Housing and Homelessness

Portland Mercury ·

2025/12/31

by Jeremiah Hayden In 2025, new elected leadership in Portland presented a change of course in the city’s approach to housing and homelessness. At times, the mayor’s vision clashed with that of city councilors, with the mayor focused on expanding shelters and the Council focused on reshaping housing policy. Portland’s City Council adopted new policies aimed at combating predatory rental pricing, while encouraging new housing development

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The Mercury's Best Photos of 2025

Portland Mercury ·

2025/12/31

Portland protests, swims in the river, and dons costumes across all concievable occasions. by Suzette Smith Portlanders showed up this year, and they showed up in costume. Mercury reporters, photographers, and contributors were there in person to capture moments and bring readers the story—be it a show you should not miss, an event tens of thousands attended, or an action that illustrated violent attacks on

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All my other tenants are happy!

Portland Mercury ·

2025/12/31

by Anonymous Sorry lady but nobody likes their landlord. In fact, several massive civil conflicts ("revolutions" one might say) have been waged around the world about this matter, regarding which tenants are pretty universally united: rent sucks. If you want people to be happy with your work, maybe you should get a job that helps people rather than exploits them for nothing.

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Crows at Night

Portland Mercury ·

2025/12/31

by Anonymous Crows are supposed to fall asleep after sundown. By tradition, they gather to squawk the daily news before roosting when daylight dips. Humans, pre-historically, have been similar. Of course, we have fingers, which let us hold a needle for sewing, hold flint and pyrite for lighting fire, or hold gauze and set a splint. Crows have two feet and with good balance they can use one a little like a hand, and a beak that's

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