Working on disaster justice & the climate crisis. Emergency Management PhD. Author of 📚DISASTEROLOGY 📚 she/her
Oh, literally just realizing this is why I was so unfazed by Emily’s review!
Dr. Sarah ParcakIt's incredible is how little folks understand about academe. Peer review is brutal. Academic Q+A is Troy level slaughter. Bros attacking a lady academic for a fair review would shit themselves on stage after a paper and break down into toddler tears after their first conference paper w a mean Q+A.
Just to be clear, the president of the United States accusing the state of Minnesota of committing cyberattacks against water systems in other states. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to IranMichigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.www.nytimes.com*SCREAMS IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT*
Joseph CoxNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
This is one of my big disaster research pet peeves! An alarming number of people seem to interpret disasters being a social construct to mean they’re not “real”… ???
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòthere are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
See, THIS is the kind of disaster reporting we need right now. Do more of this. PLEASE. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Trump overrode his own agencies to deny 4 Democratic disaster requestsPresident Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.www.politico.comTo be fair, Matt Damon can only play “troubled”.
EMILY WILSON7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).
Here we go again. Sigh. apnews.com/article/fema...
More than 24 states sue Trump administration after it put conditions on receiving disaster fundingMore than two dozen states have sued the Trump administration after it required them to comply with election and immigration conditions to get billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.apnews.comEveryone in emergency management acting like Hamilton is an acceptable choice to lead FEMA must have a fucking head injury. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
Meanwhile Congress is about to confirm a ~completely unqualified~ far right dude to be the FEMA administrator.
Chris HayesSo far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!
I keep seeing Maine politicians saying they want Maine law enforcement to investigate because Mainers trust Maine law enforcement and ??? No ??? Actually we don’t ??? www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...
ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officerAn ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.www.pressherald.com