Portland Mercury

Coming soon to Portland: Summer of Slushies! ⁠
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For the entire month of July, more than 25 of your favorite watering holes, restaurants, and cafes across the city are serving up their take on piñas, daquiris, frozen negronis, and other boozy, fruity, slushie creations for just $10 each!⁠
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Big, slushy kisses to our buddies at Travel Portland and Jim Beam for helping make Summer of Slushies happen.

Your guide to the best places to watch the World Cup in Portland aka Soccer City!

Writer Zoe Baillargeon has a list of the best bars in town for watching the World Cup, plus local restaurants serving the national cuisines of teams playing in nearby Seattle, including Australia, Egypt, Qatar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium, and Iran. Save this if you're looking for things to do in Portland this weekend, and throughout the entire World Cup, or if you're on the hunt for Portland soccer bars in general.

Activate that brainy-brain, because it's time for another super fun POP QUIZ PDX!

In this week's smarty pants trivia quiz: another women's pro sports league slides into town, sketchy cops (and their sketchy petitions), and which ugly-ass clothing brand is FINALLY leaving Portland? (Spoiler alert: It’s Under Armour, and we hate them.) See how well YOU score! ⬇️

Moviegoers at Portland’s Regal Lloyd Center caught a shocking advertisement on Sunday, before a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. A new 90-second video joined the pre-show slog, repping President Trump’s “Department of War.”

“Our friends will respect us, our enemies will fear us, and the whole world will admire the unrivaled greatness of the United States military,” Trump says in the video. “If you attack the United States of America, we will hunt you down and we will find you.”

This and more of today's top stories ⬇️

Staff at Disability Rights Oregon devote their careers to advocating for the rights of others and providing legal aid to Oregonians with disabilities, but they say they're fighting to make a living wage.

Meanwhile, the nonprofit's CEO has received sizable annual salary increases. Now, unionized workers are calling for the CEO's ouster amid ongoing labor contract negotiations.

UK pop sensation Hannah Diamond is coming to Holocene in Portland this Thursday.

The popular local music venue is treating Diamond's arrival with a slight makeover fit for an artist as fabulous as her. Without giving too much away, expect custom strobe lighting, and of course, lots of pink.

This Friday is Juneteenth, and in the latest edition of THE BLACK BYLINE, author Donovan Scribes lays out the case for reparations for Black Oregonians: why we should do it, the progress that's already been made, and despite all the arguments against it, why it remains very feasible.

Full essay ⬇️

The Oregon Secretary of State has received 28 complaints alleging campaign petitioners are misleading the public about a Portland ballot initiative seeking to use clean energy funds to hire police.⁠
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The petition, known as the Enhanced Community Safety Initiative, sets out to create a new fund for police hiring using an ongoing 25 percent allocation from the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund.⁠
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Several people hired to gather signatures for the initiative told the Mercury FieldWorks trained them to highlight a set of misleading talking points about the petition. ⁠

Full story ⬇️

A man was arrested after he left his dog in a car for hours Saturday, when temps were in the high 80s, Multnomah County confirmed it’s investigating four deaths on June 15 as possibly heat related, and Oregon’s Secretary of State has received a whopping 28 complaints about the Enhanced Community Safety Initiative.

More of today's top stories ⬇️