Ah! Thank you @samlmontano.bsky.social ! I left social media and am just now seeing this. Appreciate the interest @andrewrumbach.bsky.social
Ah! Thank you @samlmontano.bsky.social ! I left social media and am just now seeing this. Appreciate the interest @andrewrumbach.bsky.social
This week! Emergency Management Summit
May 7β8.
Keynote Speakers
Lori Peek Director of the Natural Hazards Center and CONVERGE at UC Boulder
Traci Ballard Silas, Ballard & Silas
Steve Recca Executive Director of the Center for Human Security
Tanya Corbin & Jessica Jensen RAND Corporation
Thank you for sharing! :)
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain.... My dear colleague and friend co authored this op-ed. Important read.
π¨SOS!!π¨ a whistleblower who works in the federal govt just got this info to me. You guys they are dismantling Social Security. Itβs happening right now. Like, NOW. With an interruption in services in 2-3 months. I canβt say who this person is but theyβre in a position to know. SPREAD THE WORD! π§΅
I donβt know how many different ways to say that agency personnel donβt work for Elon. They donβt have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.
85% of HUD disaster recovery staff.
This will make recovery exponentially more difficult.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/c...
FEMA has taken down its websites related to the Community Disaster Resilience Zones, which are mandated by Congress and part of the decision-making process for major federal grants like the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program:
TONIGHT! 7pm eastern time. Join an open forum on Disaster Research & Emergency Management hosted by DRJ.
www.disasterresearchersforjustice.com
It's a chance to talk about shared concerns among disaster researchers+emergency managers. Meeting link available upon request. @samlmontano.bsky.social
This morning, President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally seized $80M in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts.
Trump and Elon stole tens of millions of dollars straight from our bank accounts--this is highway robbery, and NY cannot take this lying down.
Please join:
Open Forum on Emergency Management in America.
Thursday evening at 7pm eastern time--hosted by Disaster Researchers for Justice. Respond to this post and I will send meeting details. Hope to see many people there.
@samlmontano.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social
π¨Weβll be having a Disaster Researchers for Justice meeting Thursday to discuss *gestures around*.
Practitioners, journalists, students, and others who do disaster work are also welcome to join.
Message Scott for info. #GreySky
Iβll fill you in tomorrow!
Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."
Hello new people!
I pretty exclusively post about The Horrors. If you're new to being interested in emergency management you should check out my book about it: Disasterology (www.disaster-ology.com) and you should also check out this emergency management starter pack.
go.bsky.app/DsHYNgg
In the last three weeks our national risk of just about everything has been vaulted into the stratosphere. Every mitigative force, every protective measure is being dismantled.
Plane crashes?
Yβall havenβt seen nothing yet.
Donald Trumpβs βgreat federal-grant freeze of 2025 is over, but donβt expect it to be gone for good,β writes @dgraham.bsky.social. βItβs part of a carefully thought-out program of grabbing power for the executive branch.β theatln.tc/em4GSBdW
I cannot begin to explain the confusion, uncertainty, fear, and frankly despair this is causing among those of us who work with NSF in one way or another. In a meeting today, people far senior to me (and I'm no newbie, by a long shot) were saying how this is unlike anything they've ever seen.
So happy to see this amazing friend and colleague and her fab students and colleagues π!
SO happy to see you and your amazing students and colleagues π
βIn the past 72 hours America has become much more precarious in terms of the risk we are facing. Promising to worsen the climate crisis, paired with dismantling Fema, is setting us up for catastrophe.β
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Want to know more about the ways that a poorly-funded emergency management bureaucracy leaves people to suffer? Outstanding new research in the @jds-disasters.bsky.social by Erin R. Eldridge and Amanda J. Reinke. @samlmontano.bsky.social @danielaldrich.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Iβm going with The Daily Show for now. I need to hear these horrors in this format for my mental health.
@simbit.bsky.social thank you so much!
Thank you!!
Thank you! Is it an online exercise? The course will be online asynchronous.
EM and disaster peeps-Iβm developing a grad level response course. Do you have favorite readings/texts to recommend? Iβm looking for an online simulation/tabletop exercise too. Thank you! @samlmontano.bsky.social #Greysky #emergencymanagement #disasterrespsonse
All of LA county just got an accidental evacuation notice on their phones. This is not good.