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Tidbits- July 10-Readers Comments: Big Death Bill; DOGE Cuts Warnings, Texas Approves Camp Mystic Disaster Plan Two Days Before Flood, DHS Now Cancels Extreme Warning Grants – More Disasters To Come; Zohran Mamdani; New Gaza Flotilla Handala Launches

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Readers Comments: Big Death Bill; DOGE Cuts Warnings, Texas Approves Camp Mystic disaster plan two days before flood, DHS Now Cancels Extreme Warning Grants - More Disasters to Come; Zohran Mamdani; New Gaza Flotilla Handala Launches next week; more

As the World Floods and Burns, It’s Time To Hold Wall Street To Account

Alec Connon and Arielle Swernoff Common Dreams
Flooding in Pakistan is the latest in a long line of climate disasters. Now the 150,000 residents of Jackson, Mississippi were ordered to evacuate as flooding hit the city. This weekend, temperatures in California are projected to hit 115°F.

Water Is Life. Can We Protect It?

Robin Broad, John Cavanagh OtherWords.org
If ordinary people can overcome powerful companies to protect their water in a poor country like El Salvador, imagine what their counterparts can do here.

Is Texas’ Disaster a Harbinger of America’s Future?

Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone
Texas brought this crisis on themselves by insisting on operating their own power grid that doesn’t connect with others; by failing to do anything to make the grid more resilient; by creating a political system that is controlled by power and money.

California’s Apocalyptic ‘Second Nature’

Mike Davis Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Lake Fire in California Fire in the Anthropocene has become the physical equivalent of endless nuclear war. A new, profoundly sinister nature is rapidly emerging from our fire rubble at the expense of landscapes we once considered sacred.
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