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squirrelgonewild.bsky.social
Disaster researcher and professor of Disaster Resilience and Emergency Management at NDSU. Transplanted Sooner. Ruled by 2 Australian Shepherds and 3 roombas. Victim of hope. Sports nut. Responds well to Cajun food and tequila. Opinions are my own.
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We are now living in a time when the weather reporter is the best journalist on the evening news, here explaining how Trump's cuts to science are jeopardizing lives in hurricane season:

If you're a federal employee with knowledge the rest of the world needs to know, NPR's Climate Desk would like to hear from you. My email is [email protected] and you can reach me via encrypted message at jeffbradynews.31 on Signal.

Air Force One will now be referred to as Panda Express bc it carries Orange Chicken.

Wow. Avelo airlines has covered up their logo to hide the fact that they're helping with mass deportation. Avelo's customer service number is (346) 616-9500. Feel free to give them a call and tell them how you feel about them.

SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket. These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery." Full story here:

Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org

Take a few minutes for this one—because you might need FEMA in the near future, and you need to know what’s currently going on. Or not going on. Thank you, @repjasmine.bsky.social for telling it straight, sounding the alarm, and sharing how we can help.

This is an entirely valid concern. I have been eyeing all of my repositories and thinking about where the servers are physically located and where the organizations operating them are. I'm looking into some contingencies.

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Disinformation straight from the White House.

UPDATE: Powerful storms and tornadoes tore through several Midwestern and Southern states overnight Friday, leaving carnage and flattened buildings in their wake.

We cannot force a corpse to donate organs, but we can force a dead woman to be an incubator against her family’s wishes. The precedent this is setting is terrifying.

21 deaths from severe storms in KY and MO. Trump just appointed another head of FEMA (the last one was fired last week for telling Congress FEMA is needed). The new guy has no experience, and the agency has no plan in place to address hurricane season.

9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting. Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Right now, Republicans are in committee voting on a bill that could take healthcare away from more than 13 million Americans! MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD!

Preach

No need to reinvent the wheel--jump on the bandwagon!

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin' We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drummin' Four dead in Ohio." Neil Young Remembering: Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Schroeder, 19 4 May 1970

Not all heroes wear capes.

I don’t even care if it’s not true.

Funny news. Because you just gotta keep laughing.

1/🧵 Climate Trace is a new, powerful tool for tracking emissions. It brings together 100+ universities, scientists & AI experts. And it's nonprofit. @climatetrace.org

Please make this go VIRAL so that those in the back can hear louder!

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

Here comes the arrests of journalists now.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

The Trump administration is planning to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the nation's disaster preparedness and response agency. Urge Congress to defend FEMA's life-saving work.

Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.

GOOD NEWS - "Thank you to everyone who expressed their strong support for the Regional Climate Center program. Our funding has been restored by NOAA and the Department of Commerce." www.ncei.noaa.gov/regional/reg...

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

It could be anyone who speaks against him. It could be any one of us.

Also… when you start firing the ~volunteers~ surely you can drop the pretense that this is about efficiency. 🙄

The GOP apparently has forgotten their history.

“Sickening and heartbreaking” Someone who was at the Marge Greene town hall where folks who dissented were arrested/targeted/tased by police — who has voted for both parties — writes about what she saw 👇🏽

So Van Hollen managed to meet with El Salvador's Vice President, and his honest answer to the question "why are you holding this man if neither your nor my government has evidence that he is MS-13" was "because America is paying us to hold him there?" Do I have that right?

Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States. Spread the word to drive attention and support!

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

The Vice President of El Salvador has told US Senator Van Hollen that the reason they are still holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia is due to the Trump regime paying them to do so. Trump needs to be arrested and brought up on human trafficking charges. #3E