Emily Knight

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It’s sad we’re so uncommitted as a nation (not just individual states) to taking care of each other in our greatest need, leading to people losing any trust when it never had to be this way. 😔

How FEMA Is Forcing Disaster-Struck Towns to Fend for Themselves

We learned nothing from Katrina. When the inevitable happens and way too many people die and are left abandoned... we must connect it back to these decisions and somehow (I don't know how) relearn why we're not 50 individual nations in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

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🦑 I'm so excited to host this event - join us! It's not often my professional life and creative writing life come together!

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

💯 CO-SIGN 👇🏽

This is something that gets so lost - the National Guard has a REAL purpose and job… which they’re not doing when deployed to cities to “solve” fake problems.

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.

With @theassemblync.bsky.social

🦑 Our September newsletter is out and announcing our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio, a poetry virtual event, and more: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

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🦑 Our approach: Listen. Support. Engage. We will mobilize community voices in regions of the U.S., issue open funding opportunities to generate solutions, and conduct strategic outreach to build momentum behind their use. We will develop use cases to share across regions.

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

I'm so excited to do this - join us if you can, we all need a little poetry right now.

Child dies from complications of measles years after infection – SSPE explained Why falling vaccination rates put vulnerable children at risk.

A child in Los Angeles has died from SSPE, a rare but fatal brain disorder that can appear years after measles infection.

The case underscores the deadly risks of falling vaccination rates.

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#vaccineswork

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

With all the insanity we miss the real stories… this is horrendous. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

🦑 These events will be so informative. We've learned a ton from these projects about how you can adapt MPAs to climate change. Join for both if you can!

🦑 This is one of my personal favorites because my grandparents inhabit its spirit. And in a time where immigrants are being vilified and traumatized by the U.S. government. Many of us descend from immigrants - they brought us to this moment.

String Lights - The Nature of Our Times I remember Bethany Beach, Delaware, me, a child, digging up sand crabs the afternoon long, as the cranky surf churned up the overflowing bottom, so full of food for conks, crabs, gulls, more… incredul...

🦑 Working through new poems today and going back to others for inspiration. I had my poem String Lights in the online gallery for The Nature of Our Times.
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/string-lights/

Dude just fell out of his bed.

My mom used to make every Christmas!

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells

There are people fighting. It's just not the national level establishment. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

🦑 So excited to be part of this anthology, it's out now: natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

🦑 Climate change touches everything - energy, environment, economy, national security - it will be great for so many sectors to come together. We often live in our siloes... if you're coming to #ClimateWeekNYC, connect with my boss, @charlotteghudson.bsky.social!

Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria Lawyers for the pro-Palestinian activist said they plan to appeal the immigration judge’s order, which was revealed in court documents filed Wednesday.

In the wake of Jimmy Kimmel, this is getting missed... this is also a free speech travesty and incredibly cruel at that. I don't care if you don't like his opinions, he's a legal resident and a husband and father of US citizens: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Free Palestine.

So if Jimmy Kimmel had just suggested killing homeless people by involuntary lethal injection, like Brian Kilmeade did on Fox, he’d still have a job?

If you’re scared of what comedians have to say about you…

You’re weak.