The Trump Admin is attempting to roll back rules requiring companies to disclose climate risk information to investors. We’re urging the SEC to keep these crucial requirements. Amid an affordability crisis, Americans deserve complete info to protect their investments—including retirement savings.

Attorney General Bonta Urges SEC to Keep Climate Disclosure Regulations, Ensure Investments, Americans' Retirement Accounts Are Protected

Rescinding the rules would not eliminate climate risk; it would only leave investors in the dark OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta this week joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in...

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Reminder: The Yurok Tribe's 62nd Annual Salmon Festival Parade is open for applications! The parade date is Saturday, August 15, 2026. All divisions will have 1st Place winner in each category. The deadline to apply is Monday 8/10. Apply today: www.yuroktribe.org/_files/ugd/4...

Happy #NationalNightOut! 🤝 Tonight, communities across #CA are coming together with local law enforcement and community groups to foster connection and enhance neighborhood safety. Attending an #NNO event near you? Tell us how your community is celebrating! ⤵️ #CASenateDems

What is Prop. 1? California voters are being asked to authorize an $11.25 billion bond to support affordable housing, expand homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income Californians and veterans, and invest in long-term solutions to homelessness. calbudgetcenter.org/resources/pr...

Proposition 1: California’s Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond

Learn what California Proposition 1 would fund, who it would help, how the housing bond would be repaid, and key tradeoffs for voters.

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This is a Summer Girl kerosene stove that was also used to heat sad irons. The sad iron was a heavier version of the flat iron. I’m really into appliance history. The tech house wives is as interesting as auto history.

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As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions

Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause

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Teen Hikers Rescued 12 Hours Into Google Maps Hike (Gift Article)

The three teenage boys estimated their hike time would be over five hours on a rugged trail in British Columbia, Canada. A helicopter crew had to retrieve them.

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Wildland firefighting is difficult, strenuous work. But with every camp, there is a large staff working long hours making sure firefighters have what they need both on the fire line and away from it.

‘It takes a lot out of you’: Fire camps ensure crews are fed and equipped as wildfires ravage Oregon

In two-week stints, firefighters and their support staff live in large camps containing everything they need to do the job.

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Fern savannahs spread rapidly following the collapse of the forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction, setting the conditions for widespread wildfires, according to an analysis reported in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/4wmgIg5 🌎🧪

There were three fires in the Spokane area, the Old Trails Fire, the Fairview Fire and the Meadowview Fire, and the state issued air quality warnings.

Eastern Washington fires have burned 600 structures and forced the evacuation of 5,000 homes

The fires burned more than 8.2 square miles around Spokane, the second largest city in Washington.

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@wildland-zko.bsky.social is going live with the Spokane #OldTrailsFire pyrogeography. www.youtube.com/live/UzoCc9Q...

Winds Rake Pacific Northwest - 8/1/2026

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The Jumping Spiders of TikTok (Gift Article)

Jumping spiders are tiny, social, fuzzy creatures. In a sea of sameness online, they are now social media stars.

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If you love road kill RFK JR now has a cooking show. 🙀 www.hhs.gov/real-food-sh...

Air Quality and Smoke Mapping 7/31/26 7 AM Smoke from numerous wildfires burning across the region are impacting air quality levels downwind of them. The first graphic shows the HRRR smoke modeling of upper level smoke by this afternoon. The second graphic is the latest air quality.

State audits keep finding the same thing: noncitizen voting is vanishingly rare. Elaine Kamarck breaks down the data—and what added documentation requirements under the SAVE Act could mean for eligible voters.

Why do so few noncitizens try to vote? | Brookings

State audits show noncitizen voting is rare, while the SAVE Act could add new hurdles for eligible voters.

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@beyer.house.gov and I made it clear they need to address this, and fast. As wildfire seasons grow longer and more destructive, we can't afford unnecessary delays that put our communities and public lands at risk.

Meet the blunt-headed burrowing frog! Also known as the balloon frog, it spends much of its time underground. During the breeding season, it comes to the surface and takes advantage of seasonal rain pools to release up to 300 eggs. Photo: Noah Kirkland, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

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Ma Rainey, Mother of More Than Just Blues, Comes Alive on New Release (Gift Article)

Working from archives and private collections, engineers restored notes and uncovered previously unheard details for a compilation that displays Rainey’s wide-ranging impact.

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Not Just Climate Change.

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A LiDAR survey of the Amazon just revealed a civilization ten times larger than expected: 24,000+ earthworks, up to 3 million people, and a forest reshaped by human hands for 1,500 years. #Archaeology #Amazon www.anthropology.net/p/a-civiliza...

A Civilization for Three Million People Left Almost No Trace Above Ground

New LiDAR surveys reveal that the Aquiry, a network of societies in southwestern Amazonia, built tens of thousands of monumental earthworks and shaped the rainforest for fifteen centuries

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Walmart was the most-listed employer on Oregonians’ Medicaid paperwork. Safeway and parent company Albertsons were close behind. Online retail giant Amazon and its affiliates, including Whole Foods, came in fourth, followed by Fred Meyer and its parent company Kroger.

In Oregon, big grocery, retail companies have highest number of employees on Medicaid

Multi-billion-dollar grocers and retailers such as Walmart and Amazon were among the most listed employers on Oregonians’ applications for publicly-funded health insurance last year, according to a Capital Chronicle analysis of Oregon Health Authority data.

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Google Maps has decided there’s a boat ramp in front of the Catholic Church. The reservoir is eight mi south of here. Maybe it’s a loaves and fishes thing?

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PNW Fires Grow Together - 7/26/2026 - The Lookout

It’s crazytown in the Pacific Northwest, today. The Rowe Creek Complex and Hay Creek Complex are basically connected now, and the Brewer and Box Springs have grown into the Rowe Creek Complex. The Bea...

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Man Convicted of Shoving Flaming Car Into Gully, Igniting Giant Wildfire (Gift Article)

The 2024 fire in Northern California was one of the state’s largest wildfires ever. The man faces a prison sentence of 25 years to life.

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The Rangeland Fire Protection Association, or RFPA, functions like volunteer fire departments but does not respond to structure fires and is specifically trained to fight wildfires. There are 29 RFPAs covering 18 million acres across Oregon.

‘We’re facing this together’: Oregon ranchers and private land owners band together to fight wildfires

As wildfires continue to burn across Oregon, volunteer ranchers and landowners with Rangeland Fire Protection Associations are on the front lines, often arriving before state and federal crews. OPB spoke with two RFPA members about what it takes to fight fire alongside your neighbors.

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We will see another day of gusty winds tomorrow. Here is the latest fire weather risk map from the NWS in Medford. Make sure you continue to be remain fire aware and report any new fire starts.

A MITEY shot! There is literally a might on the head of this Hoverfly in flight Canon R5 and Sigma 150mm macro SS1/2000 F6.3 ISO2500 #macro #insects #nature #insect #macrophotography #entomology

A new study of 72,000 Han Taiwanese genomes caught natural selection acting in real time, including two opposite selection signals inside the cancer gene BRCA1 itself. Evolution isn’t finished with us. #HumanEvolution #Genomics #NaturalSelection www.anthropology.net/p/a-cancer-g...

A Cancer Gene That Is Still Fighting Its Own Past

A version of a haplotype under active elimination, sitting next to a version of the same gene under active promotion

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