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by Mercury EverOut Staff Buddy, you have no idea how happy these Dinosaurs are to see you having a late-summer adventure. Prehistoric Gardens via Facebook Summers in Oregon can be sort of deceptive. You might get all the way into the middle of July before it starts to feel like it’s been any warmer than…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey Has Postmaster DeJoy actually stopped trying to destroy USPS? Scott Olson / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • Last night a small group of protesters broke…

by Blair Stenvick TRIMET Changes to security and police presence on public transit could be in Portland’s future, judging by a survey TriMet is currently asking its riders to complete. Last month, TriMet passed an annual budget that included $1.8 million for rethinking public safety on board the agency’s buses and trains. The move came…

by Alex Zielinski A video still taken of a Multnomah County office ablaze Tuesday night. Catalina Gaitán On the 83rd day of protesting police brutality, demonstrators found a new building to focus their attention: the Multnomah Building. The SE Hawthorne and SE Grand building is home to Multnomah County’s administrative departments, elected officials’ offices, and…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey “I promise to halt all current plans to subvert the election! (But wait until you see my NEW plans!)” Alex Wong / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it…

by Mercury Promotions Have you ever gone snorkeling…naked? On a long-anticipated second date? Hear ALL about it… A woman’s sister is *still* planning her 100 person wedding for this October. Will COVID-19 be over by then? Certainly not. So should the caller go to this deathtrap party, or tell her stupid sister to postpone her…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey It’s official: The world loves HUMP!—America’s sweetest homemade-porn film festival, where entrants make short dirty movies for the chance to win impressive cash prizes! And now, the freaky minds behind HUMP! (and SPLIFF, our cannabis-themed film festival) have a brand-new and terrifyingly fun contest we know you’re going to love: SLAY—a…

by Alex Zielinski Demetria Hester leads a group of Moms United for Black Lives march. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland Two people were physically assaulted last night near a protest against police brutality in downtown Portland, with at least one sent to the hospital for his injuries. These incidents, all caught on video, were perpetrated by a small…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey A national outcry forces Democrats to depose corrupt Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Michael A. McCoy / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • Because shitty people often…

by Blair Stenvick A Portland union leader says USPS is reducing the amount of equipment used to sort mail at a local processing facility. USPS It’s more than just disappearing blue post boxes that have Portland postal workers worried about their leadership undermining the presidential election. Joe Cogan, the head of Portland’s postal union, says…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey Query! Do you want to support the Mercury AND laugh your buttz off in the process? Then the upcoming Wednesday, August 26 I, Anonymous Show (Livestream Edition) is for you! Here’s how it works: We get the funniest local and national comedians to riff and heckle the wildest, jaw droppingly wrong,…

by Suzette Smith Boxcar Pizza opens next Sat Aug 22 in The Zipper. Allegra Noelle Good afternoon and welcome to Portland’s Detroit Pizza Week! There wasn’t an official announcement or anything, but this week sees TWO Detroit pizza parlors falling into Portland’s pizza-loving arms. Since I’m from Detroit, what you people call Detroit-style pizza—with its…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey “Stop kidnapping meeeeeeee!” KaraGrubis / Getty Images Plus Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • The president of Portland’s Postal Union says there are several recent changes that have…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey Protesters returned to Justice Center last night; police returned to firing tear gas. Tojo Andrianarivo Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • On the 77th day of Portland protests,…

by Blair Stenvick Disarm PSU held protests in 2018, following the killing of Jason Washington by PSU armed police officers. Andrew jankowski Portland State University (PSU) will no longer have armed police officers on its campus, starting this fall. The decision is a direct result of recent protests against police brutality and racial injustice, spurred…