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Dr. Samantha Montano

@samlmontano.bsky.social

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Working on disaster justice & the climate crisis. Emergency Management PhD. Author of 📚DISASTEROLOGY 📚 she/her


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You know this is all I think about the entire time I’m on the train 😂

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Oh, okay. Jim Inhofe was the asshole with the snowball. 🙄

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Today I was delayed getting to New York from Boston to do an interview about climate change because we haven’t adapted our transportation systems to climate change. *chefs kiss*

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WE MUST BUILD GRASSROOTS POWER IN SOLIDARITY ACROSS COALITIONS

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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"Just win every election" is not a viable strategy to defeat fascism. But letting the fascists take even more power isn't an alternate plan!

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Celebrating the 4th of July by making the President a King is wilddd.

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Watched Uptown Girls last night for the first time in years and it really is the perfect movie.

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“This isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve course fucking catastrophe. How about you remain competitive by fixing your shit?”

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At this point you could tell me Boston was going to be hit by a category 5 storm in April and I’d just shrug and drive inland.

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I keep on thinking about how John Roberts messed up nitrogen oxide with nitrous oxide in a ruling on how the courts were better suited to provide expertise than experts.

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Chevron is such a great example of why centering emergency management reform just around climate change cannot be effective. Risk creation is messy and the climate movement keeps wanting to simplify it to “climate disasters”. I wish we only had to deal with climate change!

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Not enough people are watching this movie which fits perfectly between Jaws and Sharknado.

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AI created risk assessments are the latest thing keeping me up at night.

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The Chevron ruling is such a gift to risk creation. 🙃🙃

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I hate it but they gotta tap Newsom in for a Hail Mary.

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CNN really isn’t going to fact check a single thing.

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This is so bleak! Real end of country vibes.

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They’re having a heated discussion about whether they can just stand outside the courtroom until this all goes away.

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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"And as Israel continues its siege on Gaza, preventing aid groups getting enough food into the enclave, parents say they have no choice but to watch their children starve to death."

www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/m...

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Charlotte 🇵🇸 's avatar Charlotte 🇵🇸 @charlottor.bsky.social
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Just making sure you’ve all seen this. Artist Chavis mármol has crushed a Tesla with a giant Olmec head sculpture and I think it is very, very beautiful

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And also, obviously, we should just fund libraries anyway you weirdos.

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This is an emergency management policy issue. Libraries are critical to many city’s response plans — we need to fund them.

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You will not catch me questioning how Missourians pronounce things. That’s not my fight.

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I do feel like people should know that I’m a Taurus before they decide to try to tell me I’m wrong… for their own benefit.

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I’ve gotten a few emails lately that remind me of the time a student came up to me after a lecture on the New Madrid seismic zone and smugly told me it’s pronounced “Madrid”, like the city. And, here’s the thing… it’s fine for you to correct me but you better be right.

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Ecuador was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Wednesday afternoon, the country’s public work minister said, blaming the emergency on a failure of a key transmission line. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/w...

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Oh, no! Mass got the disregard alert too????

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In the midst of a heat wave that will absolutely have acute health repercussions for many people, some requiring an emergency response and now 911 is down across the state. This is horrifying.

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Massachusetts accidentally sent the alert to Maine. I’ve never seen Maine EM get a tweet up so fast. They threw Mass EM under the bus immediately lmao. ☕️

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Something I love about this place is that all the shitposters have graduate degrees

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I criticized Sunrise on twitter so let me just come hang out on here for a minute. 😎

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An update: a petition was started to try and address this issue of FEMA trying to start their own University. Please sign if you, like me, are horrified by the damage this will do to both the discipline and practice.

www.change.org/p/oppose-fem...

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Have completed six weeks of traveling with my students. After I sleep for the next week straight my summer plans will be as follows:

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My teaching philosophy is best summarized as “go get in the car”.

@wesinjapan.bsky.social and I have covered a lot of ground with our EM students this trip! 😅

I have a long held belief that if you can figure out emergency management in southeast Louisiana then you can figure it out anywhere.

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I see people excitedly talking about disaster-related “climate solutions” online and then when I go look at those “solutions” in the communities where they’ve been implemented they don’t seem great at all.

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Y'all click through and read about the wall at the end of the Earth and the man who built it.

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Lemmy from Radiöhead 's avatar Lemmy from Radiöhead @melissanyc.bsky.social
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FEMA's "war college" university initiative is a calculated death blow to civilian emergency management education and a dangerous step towards the militarization of disaster response in the United States.

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