Tidbits- Aug. 7 -Readers Comments: Not Just Texas-Voting Rights, Democracy Under Assault; ICE; GOP Cover-Up-Ultra Rich Power Grab and Child Sex Trafficking; Gaza Is Time To Remember Hiroshima – War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things;

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Readers Comments: Not Just Texas, It's Voting Rights and Democracy Under Assault; ICE Block; GOP Cover-Up: Ultra Rich Power Grab and Child Sex Trafficking; Gaza is Time to Remember Hiroshima - War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things;

Lawmakers Left Gap in Flood Warning System

Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton The Lever
Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring rivers for signs of flash floods.

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

The Crypto Racket

Candice Bernd The American Prospect
Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution.

Why the Texas Measles Outbreak Was ‘Inevitable’

Joseph Choi The Hill
Critics of Kennedy accused him of fostering anti-vaccine sentiment in Samoa, months before an outbreak ultimately resulted in 83 measles-related deaths and more than 5,600 infections.

Unions Get Bigger in Texas

Emily Markwiese The Progressive
Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.
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