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Good Morning, Portland! This weekend has EVerYthInG. Reasonable 74-degree Friday, warmish 82-degree Saturday, and rainy Sunday. If you were thinking that it might be the last we’ll see of summer weather, think again! Next weekend looks nice too! It all comes around again. Time is a flat circle; let’s hit the news!
IN LOCAL NEWS:
In 2002, when the city of Portland initially granted Zenith Energy permission to continue operating its fuel transport and storage facility in Northwest Portland, it did so with a number of conditions—in an attempt to limit further potential for local pollution. Environmental advocates who disagreed with the permit subsequently sued, and now a city attorney has admitted that the city does not believe it can enforce those compromise conditions at all. For the Mercury, Abe Asher has more.
How did we end up back in 2021?
Though state policy now forbids pharmacists from giving out the vaccine to anyone without a prescription, doctors have been hesitant to issue one.
— Anthony Macuk (@anthonymacuk.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
• Don’t sleep on the week’s pop quiz!
Yippee! It’s time for another super fun edition of POP QUIZ PDX. In this week’s brainy trivia quiz: a Powell’s Books controversy, the spider that’s watching you as you sleep, and what chores should we give the invading National Guard? 🤔 See how well YOU score!
— Portland Mercury (@portlandmercury.com) September 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
• From the Fall Arts Guide: Leni Zumas’ new novel is a nice (and quietly subversive) story about a multigenerational, intentional community. The author of Red Clocks (2018) discusses her new work at Powell’s on Tuesday.
• For the first-ever installment of the Fresh Cuts, Mercury music editor Nolan Parker went big, scoring weird pop star Rico Nasty for an intimate performance. The idea: a mashup of florwer arranging class and smol show is pricey: with two tiers, topping out at $178. But that ticket includes both the show and the class—where Rico Nasty is the inspiration for a bouquet attendees get to take home.
• If the unique intersection of flower arranging and tiny sets doesn’t thrill you, perhaps throw a wider net with EverOut’s lastest round-up of concert tickets on sale this morning!
IN NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
• Law enforcement in Utah announced this morning that they believe they’ve arrested the person who killed conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. President Trump traced the details lightly on the morning show Fox and Friends—continuing a practice of allowing the President to break news about this particular political assassination. The President announced Kirk’s death via his social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday. It’s good TV, folks. It’s crocodile tears all the way down.
• Charlie Kirk was wrong about a great many things. It is unfortunate that shrieking dark clouds of his frenemy conservative pundits have descended to feast at the site of his violent murder, falling over themselves for attention. The President of the United States literally took two news exclusives. This is all for attention, and it’s sad.
• Authorities say they believe that Kirk’s shooter is 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. At a press conference Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said bullet casings recovered by police were engraved with messages like “if you read this you are gay LMAO,” and “hey fascist. catch.” Cox said that Robinson was turned in by someone close to him. Since there have been at least two widely-doxxed suspects at this point who turned out to be innocent, we should all reserve judgement for the foreseeable future.
• Sometimes I imagine the people who now have to explain to their loved ones that they were at that Charlie Kirk rally, from which they are now traumatized. This involves explaining who Kirk was—since he was actually not very known or liked on any widespread level. And then presumably this leads to a family investigation of one’s Youtube-watching history 😬.
• MSNBC announced Thursday that political commentator Matthew Dowd was no longer working with their network, following a comment Dowd made about Kirk’s “hateful words” leading to “hateful actions.” Dowd, a former strategist under President George W. Bush had been a political analyst for the network for over two decades.
• Actual American icons beloved eagle couple Jackie and Shadow face interlopers to their unsmirched wilderness, according to activists who watch the bird’s California nesting grounds. San Bernardino County supervisors voted to approve the development of a a gated 50-home community with a marina on the north shore of Big Bear Lake, LA Times reports. This is actually the same development that conservation non-profit Friends of Big Bear Valley was created to resist 25 years ago, they sued to stop it in the past and it appears they’re suiting up for another round.
• Ladies and gentlemen, they got him Brazilian Justices sentenced Jair Bolsonaro to over 27 years for plotting a military coup in 2022. It was Bolsonaro’s attempt to forcibly cling to power after losing the election.
Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) September 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
• Sending you into the weekend like the people reading about this unrecognizable performance:
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