DAGR Weekly Reader W1-AUG
The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
- Trans people are 1% of the population.
- Muslims are 1% of the population.
- Undocumented people are 1% of the population.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
~ TX state representative James Talarico
Massive Ocean Regime Shift, Alarming
Severe ocean overheating may be causing a fundamental climate shift. Ocean heatwaves over the past couple of years have been massive and extensive and intensive on a scale never seen before at times covering 96% of the world’s oceans, which should be impossible.
Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, Aug 1,2025
It’s Flooding Down in Texas
Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far different from the safe one we recently vacated. This report on last month’s Texas floods is nearly book length, a major read, interspersed with technical graphs and photos. The writer is a climate scientist and engineer of some stature.
Bruce Melton, Climate Science, The Rag Blog, Jul 31, 2025
What It Will Take to Get U.S. Citizens to Work the Farm
Dolores Huerta, longtime farm labor activist, gets candid about the fallout from Trump’s deportation efforts. Farm laborers are proud of their work, care about plant health and more. If the work had decent pay and benefits, Americans would fill these jobs.
Samuel Benson, Politico Magazine, Aug 2, 2025
What Happens To The Women ICE Detains?
The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets. It is uniquely cruel.
Alanna Vagianos, Huffington Post, Jul 31, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.
The tariffs are a substantial new source of revenue for the federal government. The budget may start to depend on it. Even before the latest tariffs set in, revenue from taxes collected on imported goods grew drastically this year.
Andrew Duehren, The New York Times, Aug 3, 2025
When Ships Slow Down, Everybody Wins, Including Endangered Whales
An incentive-based program protecting whales from ship strikes also reduces air pollution.
Suzanne Bohan, Sierra Club, Aug 5, 2025