So, how was “Liberation Day” for you? I myself found that my IRA had been liberated from just under $90,000 of its value.

It seems pretty apparent, even now, that President Trump’s tariffs are going to cause substantial pain for many Americans — and, as The Atlantic’s Jonathan Chait explains here, they’re already doomed.

On another Trump front, a Thursday order from the U.S. Department of Education is threatening public schools with the loss of federal funding if any of their diversity, equity or inclusion programs “advantage one race over another.” That’s potentially a big deal for Oregon, which has a number of initiatives aimed at improving the academic performance of students who historically have been poorly served by public schools. In all, as Julia Silverman of The Oregonian/OregonLive reports, Oregon could have as much as $2.1 billion in federal funding at risk. The state has 10 days to decide how to respond.

Meanwhile, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield has made it an even dozen: That’s the number of lawsuits he’s filed against the Trump administration since taking office. The latest lawsuit, filed Friday with the state of Washington, challenges the administration’s executive order on elections. Among other things, the order requires voters to prove citizenship (now, they only have to attest that they’re eligible to vote, with the understanding that voting illegally could lead to prison time). The order also would bar states from counting ballots that were postmarked by Election Day but arrived later. Rayfield said about 13,500 Oregon voters in the last election would have had their ballots rejected under that provision. Julia Shumway of the Oregon Capital Chronicle had the story.

There was other news this week regarding Oregon elections: An outcry against a bill from Sen. David Brock Smith to potentially junk Oregon’s vote-by-mail system swamped the Legislature’s website on Monday. Smith’s Senate Bill 210 would ask voters to decide if they want to scrap vote-by-mail and return to in-person voting by 2028. The bill was the subject of a Monday hearing, which attracted more than 11,000 pieces of written testimony, temporarily crashing the Legislature’s website. About 85% of those comments were against the bill, although — as Shumway reports in this story — testimony during the hearing itself was more balanced. The bill has virtually no chance of passing the Legislature, and that’s as it should be: The fact is that Oregon’s vote-by-mail system is a smashing success,

The Weekend Reader has urged its readers to try to stay focused on the bigger picture that lurks behind the administration’s daily or weekly outrages, Here’s this week’s reminder: It’s a piece by The Atlantic’s Peter Wehner in which he focuses on the administration’s ceaseless flow of misinformation. (He aptly cites the 1944 movie “Gaslight.”) Wehner admits he doesn’t have all the answers for how to stay above a sea of lies, but he has useful suggestions.

But to do that, you’ll need to keep your wits about you, so you may find this story from The New York Times useful: It’s about 10 relatively simple things neurologists say you can do to help prevent cognitive decline.

Writing for the Poynter Institute’s website, Pete Croatto revisits the decision 30 years ago by the San Jose Mercury News to put all of its news on the internet for free, a key decision in fueling the expectation that information on the web should be free. You can see how the decision might have made sense at the time, but it’s had enormous implications for journalism in the years since.

Is geothermal the next big thing in renewable energy? It’s a possibility, even as the Trump administration pushes fossil fuels. Alexander C. Kaufman examines the state of the technology in this story from The Atlantic.

Are you. young parent, searching for state-of-the-art parenting advice? Gail Cornwall, writing in The Atlantic, says you could do a lot worse than studying the centuries-old principals of Quakerism. The religion’s precepts, she writes, line up surprisingly well with today’s best child-rearing research.

I looked all over this weekend to find a cheerful story to close on an upbeat note, and this is the best I could find:

Do you remember those mismatched 3-point-shot lines on the court during last year’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament games played in Portland? The 3-point line on one side of the court was 9 inches short of regulation at its apex. That court has been acquired by a Portland sports bar, The Sports Bra, where it has been installed as a new bar top. The founder of the sports bar — billed as the world’s first sports bar dedicated to women’s sports — says that the incident helped bring more attention to the women’s game — and that, she says, is a good thing. Anne Peterson, a longtime Northwest sportswriter for The Associated Press, has the story.

That’s it for this weekend. We’ll gather back here next week and I’ll try to be more cheerful.