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 7–8.

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! :)

US peace initiative can help bring Ukraine’s abducted children home Securing the return of the thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia since 2022 must play a part in the peace efforts recently initiated by US President Donald Trump, write Kristina Hook and ...

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain.... My dear colleague and friend co authored this op-ed. Important read.

🚨SOS!!🚨 a whistleblower who works in the federal govt just got this info to me. You guys they are dismantling Social Security. It’s happening right now. Like, NOW. With an interruption in services in 2-3 months. I can’t say who this person is but they’re in a position to know. SPREAD THE WORD! 🧵

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

Trump Team Plans Cuts at HUD Office That Funds Disaster Recovery (Gift Article) Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent.

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

Trump admin claws back $80M given to NYC to house migrants — but comptroller calls it ‘highway robbery’ Millions in FEMA funds sent to New York City last week to help with the migrant crisis were clawed back Wednesday, officials said.

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.

DHS fires four FEMA officials over payments to NYC to house migrants | CNN Politics The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it fired four Federal Emergency Management Agency officials over payments provided to New York City to house migrants, arguing without eviden...

Today’s FEMA news.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/p...

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

🚨We’ll 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

I’ll 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?

Y’all haven’t seen nothing yet.

Donald Trump’s “great federal-grant freeze of 2025 is over, but don’t expect it to be gone for good,” writes @dgraham.bsky.social. “It’s part of a carefully thought-out program of grabbing power for the executive branch.” 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 💜!

SO happy to see you and your amazing students and colleagues 💕

‘Setting us up for catastrophe’: alarm at Trump attack on federal disaster agency The president is now setting his sights on Fema, the agency responsible for helping Americans after major disasters

“In 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.”

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...

I’m 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-I’m developing a grad level response course. Do you have favorite readings/texts to recommend? I’m 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.