GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Gimme all your numbers so I could phone ya. Your girl actin' stank, then call me over. LET'S GO TO PRESS.
Malheur Refuge hillbilly traitor Ryan Bundy is in the soup again, this time for "scuffling" with sheriff's deputies.
Here's your EARTHQUAKE PORN™ of the day, and as usual the news isn't great, and is in fact, slightly worse than previously thought.
Expect Portland City Council to butt heads today on a huge warehouse that will act as temporary shelter for the homeless. Commish Dan Saltzman is for it, while Commish Nick Fish has his doubts.
TriMet is asking for $11 million to replace track on the Steel Bridge, which hopefully will allow the trains to run much faster.
Here's your OLYMPICS headline of the day, courtesy of the Guardian: "USA's Katie Ledecky fights off exhaustion and vomit for second gold."
Also in OLYMPIC news: Swimmer Michael Phelps racks up his 21st gold medal last night in Rio; 42-year-old American cyclist Kristin Armstrongtakes the gold in the women's time trial; the US Women's Soccer team holds on with a 2-2 draw against Columbia; and US #BlackGirlMagic takes home the gold in women's gymnastics.
As I write this, the Justice Department is releasing a blistering ruling against the Baltimore police department whose racial bias is shocking even the activists who've been watching them for years.
Justice Dept. report says Baltimore PD routinely violated civil rights of residents, used excessive force https://t.co/SuAs5tm8wl
— AJ+ (@ajplus) August 10, 2016
More undisclosed emails from Hillary Clinton's private collection have been released—but this time it was the State Department doing the leaking.
In case you somehow missed it, Donald Trump used his WAFFLE TALK™ brand of speech (which he uses regularly to outright LIE to the voters) to insinuate that the "2nd Amendment people" should, you know, assassinate Hillary Clinton, or whatever. Today he's furiously backtracking on that statement. Nice try, WAFFLE TALKER™!
And more Republicans keep lining up to say they will not vote for Trump in the general election.
In Ferguson, Missouri, on the second anniversary of Michael Brown's death, shots were fired at a demonstration after a protester was struck by a hit and run driver, according to witnesses.
Now let's look at the WEATHER report: Decreasing cloudiness with a high of 79—and then here comes the HOT.
And finally, this WGN sports anchor is SO FED UP with NBC's bullshit regulations about showing Olympic footage, he decides to lip synch R. Kelly's "Bump and Grind" instead. I approve of this decision.