DailyNews Digest O7/03

DailyNews Digest O7/03

July: The Hottest Month Is Getting Hotter After 250 Years of Climate Change

Video: Wolff Responds: “It’s Not The Fourth Of July In Europe” dated July 1, 2026

Video:Slavery to Mass Incarceration

Video: MLK Talks ‘New Phase’ Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination

Video: Weaponizing Civil Death to Crush Dissidents (w/ Hüseyin Doğru) | The Chris Hedges Report

Video: Scientists Warn “Worse Is Coming” | 2,000 Already Dead, Europe Braces For Another Heatwave

Video: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change That’s what climate experts mean when they say, as they have said for more than a decade, that warming not only changes everything but also requires that so much be changed. To pretend adaptation is simple is to live in denial of the pace and scale of warming. New York Times: We Need to Retrofit the Planet. The Heat Wave Proves It.

Forecasters warn of record-breaking US summer heat amid intense El NiñoMore than 100 million people could be affected in week leading to 4 July, with increased risks of droughts and wildfires

George Monbiot: When the right denies the true danger of heatwaves, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk?The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you can dig for yourself than climate-science denial: heat-stress denial. Across the billionaire press last week, columnists and leader writers minimised the health impacts of the heatwave, particularly in schools. Expect more of this next week, when temperatures are forecast to soar again. An editorial in the Telegraph (which represents the newspaper’s view) titled “Hot weather alarmism treats the public like children” maintained that “unlike in the seventies, when people were largely trusted to look after themselves, officialdom now feels the need to lecture the public about the risks of hot weather at every opportunity”. Extreme heat warnings are issued and weather maps are “painted in an alarming red”. Outrageous! Instead of issuing warnings, the government should just trust people to “take the appropriate precautions”. We should all “learn to live” with it. Quite right too: whatever happened to the bulldog spirit of ignorance and needless death? Cricket, warm beer, excess mortality: these are the markers of national character.

Californians, pay attention: The Colorado River is drying up at its headwatersThe mighty Colorado River — that carved the Grand Canyon and was dammed by the epic Hoover Dam — is in big trouble.The long-overused river, a major water source for millions of people in California and six other states, has shrunk dramatically since 2000 due to a megadrought in the western U.S. that scientists say was probably the most severe in 1,200 years. The conditions are only being intensified by climate change.

To the Residents of New Orleans, Global Warming is not a Hoax!: New Orleans residents on warning to abandon sinking city: ‘Nobody wants to leave home’After a recent study found New Orleans is at a ‘point of no return’ amid the climate crisis, some locals say they will ‘only leave if forced to’. But what would it take to stay?

Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation Abstract: Rice is a staple food for over one billion people in Asia. Understanding rice’s historical thermal limits is critical for predicting its response to future climate shifts. Here, we integrate contemporary records of rice cultivation, archaeological data spanning rice’s long-term history of cultivation, and temperature projections for the past and future to assess how warm temperatures have constrained rice’s distribution and the adaptive strategies used to sustain its production. These thermal limits have remained consistent throughout rice’s domestication history despite its genetic diversification and geographic expansion. Over the past 9000 years, domesticated Asian rice has rarely thrived where mean annual temperature exceeds 28 °C or warm-season maximum temperature exceeds 33 °C. By the end of this century, projections estimate that the land area exceeding these thermal thresholds could expand by ten to thirty times in Asia’s major rice-producing nations. Rice-dependent regions face unprecedented challenges in maintaining this staple crop under projected warming.

Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life

Heatwaves and WildfiresMost residents of the West are aware that summer days are getting warmer, and nights are not cooling as much as in the past. Climate change is real, whether the current administration wants to acknowledge it or not. Warming temperatures have extended and intensified wildfire season in the West, where long-term drought has heightened the risk of wildfires. Scientists estimate that human-caused climate change has already doubled the area of forest burned in recent decades, with the amount of land consumed by wildfires in Western states projected to increase by 2 to 6 times by around 2050.

America 250 and the Imperial NationThe renowned political theorist Danielle Allen once wrote, “The Declaration of Independence matters because it helps us to see that we cannot have freedom without equality.” As the United States commemorates the 250^th anniversary of its independence on July 4, 2026, the Declaration of Independence (1776), the U.S. Constitution (1787) and Northwest Ordinance (1787) link early concepts of imperial power, sovereignty, legitimacy, and interdependence. Combining these three documents is a departure from the historiography that sometimes places American imperialism starting in the nineteenth century and in the context of Westward expansion or U.S. pursuit of places like Alaska (1867) and Hawaii (1898); the latter two in accordance with the “blue water thesis” of imperialism.^[1] I argue that the founding principles of the country were rooted in colonization and imperialism more so than freedom and liberation. In other words, the process of colonization started much earlier than the 1800s. The U.S. started out as both a republic and an empire in the 1700s. As scholar Greg Grandin recently pointed out, “American freedom was built on endless conquest.” This was evident in its territorial expansion and indigenous dispossession that were built into its early stages. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” wrote Thomas Paine in 1776. Paine was a rarity, as the lone progressive Founding Father in that he envisioned domestic liberty and not an empire. His contemporaries, at best, however, saw native people as obstacles and children to be disciplined when they were not steered for diplomatic purposes. At worst, they were to be removed or slaughtered outright. In 1776, the First Report on Canada stated its purpose as a territorial strategy.^[2] Even with the Articles of Confederation (1777) there was acknowledgement of indigenous sovereignty, but at the same time, speculation over the future of “Indian affairs.”^[3]

The Real United States Now is the Attact Against Civil Rights: What is the United States of America now?The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch. The United States of America is a program that has been hacked. The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed, as it approaches its quarter-millennium mark. I say it as though the US was one thing, but it is a thousand things. It is the masked ICE agent shooting Renee Good as she stood up for immigrants, but it is also Good herself and the immigrants, and the streets of Minneapolis and their Dakota and Ojibwe Indigenous past – and present and future. The US before 1865 was slaveowners, but it was also the enslaved and the abolitionists. The US is the KKK and the ACLU and the NAACP, right-to-life terrorists and Planned Parenthood security guards. It is Chevron and Exxon and one of the world’s first environmental organizations, the Sierra Club, founded in San Francisco in 1892, and the thousands of environmental, environmental justice and climate groups right now. It is its contradictions, its conflicts.

Why Violence Against Black Americans Wasn’t Seen as Red Line The injustices they endured are like elevator music Black Americans are no strangers to state-sanctioned violence. Yet some people claim they are shocked that our nation is capable of perpetuating harm against citizens, refugees, and immigrants. Seeing video footage of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shooting a 37-year-old White woman, Renee Nicole Good, struck some like a bolt of lightning. She was a poet and the mother of three, killed while volunteering as a legal observer during federal raids in Minneapolis. Her last words, “that’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you,” are painfully ironic compared with the officer’s words — “fucking bitch.” His use of this slur to demean women, directly after firing shots, demonstrated a callous disregard for her life. A photo showing her open glove compartment filled with stuffed animals highlighted the absurdity of officials claiming she was a “terrorist.” Because of this tragedy, some Americans are waking up to the threat posed by state-sanctioned violence. But the emphasis on her experience as something “new” exposes one of the nation’s oldest problems, selective empathy. Black people can’t help but raise an eyebrow in disbelief at the notion that America has only recently become a nation where law enforcement officials can violate the rights…

For Millions of Impoverished Americans, an Unhappy National BirthdayMany years ago, I worked at a motel as a groundskeeper. A woman—I’ll call her Anna—lived there with her children. One of her friends would sometimes come to look after the kids when she had to work or run errands. They had several cats who spent most of their time living in the family’s car since the owner would not allow the felines to stay in the room. Both the people and the cats lived there for months. Anna was one of thousands of Americans who live in motels. Poor credit histories, high rents, and prohibitively steep upfront costs, such as security deposits, compel many to find alternative long-term lodging that at least has some basic amenities: a kitchenette (or just a microwave) and a shower.

Scientist’s Warnings Against RadiationCindy Folkers and Ian Fairlie have written an essential book. The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation presents the findings of 39 scientists who studied and raised alarms over the health effects of radiation exposure and who consequently suffered severe blowback from universities, government and industry. The scientists proved that radiation risks have “consistently been underestimated” for decades. Their findings angered both nuclear profiteers and research grant authorities.

Sentencing of the Prairieland Defendants Necessitates a Massive Movement against ICE and Repression

US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports

FDA issues most serious recall alert for potato chip brands over salmonella risk… The affected products are: Zapp’s Brand Bayou Blackened Ranch Potato Chips (1.5oz), Zapp’s Brand Bayou Blackened Ranch Potato Chips (2.5oz), Zapp’s Brand Bayou Blackened Ranch Potato Chips (8oz), Dirty Brand Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips (2oz), Zapp’s Brand Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips (1.5oz), Dirty Brand Maui Onion Potato Chip (2oz), Zapp’s Brand Big Cheezy Potato Chip (2.5oz), Zapp’s Brand Big Cheezy Potato Chip (8oz), and Dirty Brand Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips (2oz).

Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but new modelling suggests the weakening of the current could be reversed if CO2 levels come back down