Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Free People Read Freely
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Library mode. All day. Every day. Occasionally craft mode. Always resistance mode. 💪🏻🇺🇦🧶 🪡
Here are 10 recently released or soon-to-be released YA books from Indigenous authors! You can discover more on the Indigenous Reads Rising website, where we provide online resources for teachers, librarians, and readers to learn more about Indigenous books 📖🧡 📚 indigenousreadsrisin...
How is this serious?? More than $460M of taxpayer money isn’t enough—they also want us to be anti-union? Do they even know what city they’re in? 👎🏻🖕🏻
OPB@opb.org · 6d agoPortland Trail Blazers officials told city councilors the city needs to do more than just help fund a renovation of the Moda Center if it wants to assure the Blazers’ long-term presence in Oregon.
Ukrainian parents today know that unaddressed trauma comes at a cost, having grown up with the legacy of decades of Soviet oppression that silenced discussion of Ukrainians’ suffering. They do not want to repeat that pattern and “want better understanding and good mental health for their children.”💔
‘Why Isn’t Dad at Home?’: The Books Helping Ukrainian Children Process the War (Gift Article)
A surge of books in Ukraine since the war began has aimed to help children and their parents cope with trauma.
nytimes.com
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
notus.org
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
A rainbow of kids singing about love = all halftime shows from now on, plz.👍🏻
Was Madonna the crowd distraction so they could set up for the Electric Mayhem? 🤣 I approve.
NEW: A federal book banning bill has been introduced in the Senate. It's time to make our voices heard. Tell your Senators to REJECT pro-censorship legislation like S. 4925 that would limit the freedom to read! We need every advocate to speak out against censorship: action.ala.org/campaign/S4925
The right to vote was never freely given. It was hard won over generations, by people who marched, organized, and faced violence in order to secure it. The President’s speech tonight has again made clear: this work is unfinished.
We need to keep calling Trump’s election claims out for what they are: baseless conspiracies and dangerous disinformation.
while we talk about the RFK's Diarrhea 2026 stuff, don't overlook the fact that there's a dog food recall going on too. unfortunately we don't have a good spokesvehicle for the FDA anymore, so Good Housekeeping will have to do.
FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of Popular Dog Food
Check your dog’s food for safety.
goodhousekeeping.com
If you want to reduce crime rates, don’t invest in policing. Invest in libraries.
Fantastic news for literacy in Oregon! Gotta love Dolly. ❤️📚#imaginationlibrary
Tina Kotek@tinakotek.bsky.social · 3w agoAll children in Oregon under age 5 can now receive a free book in the mail every month. Expanding access to books at an early age is a wonderful investment in our kids and our state's future.
Please, I'm pretty much begging, include links to information that is being screenshotted/copied and pasted. We really are in an information era where anything appearing on social can be, and increasingly is, completely fake. A link to the place where information is coming from is very important.
Another day of me respectfully asking you to use ALT text when you post images. Please be inclusive.
Netherlands confirms it will host Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia kyivindependent.com/netherlands-...
Netherlands confirms it will host Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia
"The decision will make it possible to hold Russia's senior political and military leadership to account specifically for the crime of aggression, not merely for its consequences," Zelensky said.
kyivindependent.com
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world…and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation,
Natural dye artist Elan Hagens' feelings for the stars and stripes are complicated. "But one thing I’ve always wanted to make is a true American flag... Because we do love our country and I love what my ancestors have stewarded and worked so hard for.”
‘This is mine as well’: Portland artist crafts ‘true American flag’ with Oregon-grown dyes
Portland natural dye artist Elan Hagens made an American flag with materials grown in the U.S.
opb.org
Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.
I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.
A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.
Adrienne LaFrance@adriennelaf.bsky.social · last mo.GREAT SCOOP from @michaelscherer.bsky.social: National Park Service projects are now being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
