Dr. Samantha Montano

Trump officials move to kill system that protects US from chemical disasters EPA rolls back rules as chemical firms claim provisions in RMP protection system too expensive to implement

This is so fun for us.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

DOJ contradicts FEMA on who approved mass firings "I don't have a great explanation for that," a DOJ lawyer says when asked to clarify in court.

I wish nothing but the worst for Karen Evans.

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Stephanie Hartman is a piece of work.

FDEM building a goddamn concentration camp *and* with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars going to private contractors — some with ties to state politicians — is about as fucking “newsworthy” as it gets, girl!

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Every quote I give to journalists these days is just basically, “this is INSANE??? Hello???!!!”.

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

👏👏 good reporting here! May Kevin Guthrie rot in hell.

If you’re new to this here is more backstory from an emergency management perspective: open.substack.com/pub/disaster...

Do you want to work with me and @samlmontano.bsky.social ???
Well, we are hiring. I would love to work with someone who is cool. It's a good gig. Feel free to reach out.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

I am pleasantly surprised by my co-workers response to all this. Every time the presenter asks a question someone heckles “why don’t you ask AI”.

Just one in four Americans supports US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds One in four Republicans say Trump is too willing to use military force.

7% of Democrats support the war on Iran. And all of them are in Congress.

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<<Taps sign>> Same dude who thought the stealth fighter was literally invisible, said people should ingest bleach, wanted to nuke a hurricane, thought Seoul's population was 38 million because he couldn't read Wikipedia, and wants to take over Greenland because he doesn't get the Mercator projection

Relevant to me and @samlmontano.bsky.social who are trapped in this 'training' at the moment.

We are off to a good start.

Apparently the other day they sent a link to an app or something for us to download for the training and we all deleted it/ reported it as spam.

Proud of our cybersecurity skills and accidental dissent.

meme that reads “Noem not spending the $9 billion just sitting in the DRF”, “noem spending $5 billion of the $9 billion on recovery” in one week… to purposefully drain the DRF during a shutdown.

In summary…

It’s almost like expertise is fucking important.

Thank you!!

Exactly.

To be super clear... what's happening here is that Noem is trying to force the DHS shutdown to end by spending all of FEMA's money with the hope that when the next disaster happens, Congress will have to pass a budget (all while presumably people are harmed in said disaster).

Really fucked up shit.

Sorry this is insane.

FEMA taps billions for disasters, warning Democrats of ‘dire’ shutdown impact The agency sent out more than $5 billion in a single week, considerably shrinking cash for disasters amid the DHS shutdown.

LMAOOOOOO.

Noem's strategy of pretending the Disaster Relief Fund was almost empty didn't work, so she drained it (bad) by paying out $5 billion in recovery projects (good).

This lady is fucking nuts.

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Thank you! I’ll connect yall later over e-mail.

That would be great! Thank you!

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

I have a standout emergency management student who recently graduated (bachelors) and is looking for an EM related job in DC (disaster policy jobs of interest too).

If anyone has any leads or is in DC and would even just be available to network with her as she gets settled, let me know!

OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

The Daily Show reminded us in the montage below how Netanyahu has LIED about the "imminent" threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons since 1995. Netanyahu has for years wanted US to bomb Iran. Netanyahu simply found in Trump a moron willing to sacrifice Americans for his cause:

Wearing a baseball hat while announcing your illegal war should make this doubly illegal. What a fucking loser

Hilarious for me to be trying to write a lecture for my disaster recovery class on federal recovery policy right now.

Anyway, our school is making all the faculty sit through a 2.5-hour workshop on Monday, so if you hear a shrieking sound coming from the Cape, don't worry, it's just me absolutely losing my mind.