Reminder: We keep us safe!
🛑 If you see ICE in LA, don’t stay silent. Report it to the LA Rapid Response Network. 📲
#ImmigrantsBelong #NoDeportations #SomosCHIRLA
Reminder: We keep us safe!
🛑 If you see ICE in LA, don’t stay silent. Report it to the LA Rapid Response Network. 📲
#ImmigrantsBelong #NoDeportations #SomosCHIRLA
We are delighted to announce the publication of volume 1, issue 2 of the Journal of Disaster Studies, published by @pennpress.bsky.social! This issue includes a wide array of articles and other scholarly content (see the TOC in the thread below), all in open access: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54211
10.02.2025 23:30 — 👍 38 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 4
The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.
Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
01.04.2025 02:32 — 👍 1349 🔁 522 💬 50 📌 104
What we are seeing in Los Angeles right now with #NoKings is after several hours of a massive protest that was 100%, law enforcement—abruptly and without provocation—began firing tear gas, flash bangs and pepper balls at protesters.
It was broadcast live on air. “Unrest” is on them.
San Francisco #nokings
15.06.2025 00:07 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Guard is walking behind cops. Cops are trying to push back at least a thousand people.
08.06.2025 22:00 — 👍 155 🔁 38 💬 1 📌 1
The people of Los Angeles will rally on Monday, 6/9 to demand the release of everyone unjustly detained by ICE, like SEIU leader David Huerta, and an end to militaristic escalation on our communities.
Join us and @aclusocal.bsky.social at 11 AM in LA to call for an end to these human rights abuses.
Solidarity protests with Los Angeles for tomorrow (Mon, Jun 9th):
• Chicago: 9:00am
• Los Angeles: 11:00am
• Seattle: 11am
• Boston: 1:30pm
• Raleigh: 2:00pm
• Atlanta: 2:00pm
• Charlotte: 2:00 PM
• Sacramento: 4:00 PM
• Asheville: 6:00pm
Check link for updates and locations
Yes, US Housing Corporation was federal housing production well *before* New Deal & 1937 Housing Act. But, it was killed by Congress soon after it began, by Red Scare anti-bolshevism panic, with help from real estate industry lobbyists. Opponents claimed it was "too luxurious" etc. Sounds familiar.
28.05.2025 19:17 — 👍 47 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
The U.S. Secretary of Transportation doesn't believe in....wait for it....transportation.
Studies confirm that riding public transportation makes people happier (social interaction, less stress of driving), healthier (reduces air pollution/congestion, adds walking), and wealthier (reduces costs).
"These $25,000 grants are for activities to address immediate needs following grant cancellations, including completing a wave of data collection, analyzing already collected data or writing, thoughtful project closure with community partners, or preparing grant proposals to continue the research."
02.05.2025 21:45 — 👍 134 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 3Both Rubio's tweet, and the response, are remarkable artifacts. You have a Secretary of State tweeting right wing talking points to defend Neo Nazis, and the country where Nazis originated telling him to sod off.
02.05.2025 20:59 — 👍 3807 🔁 987 💬 92 📌 26
The UCLA-helmed Blue Ribbon Commission on fire recovery has its first round of draft recommendations out now and I love to see some *real* solutions in here like "large-scale land banking" 😍
Read more: labrcommission.org/blue-ribbon-commission-on-climate-action-and-fire-safe-recovery
An informative new tool to make risks from natural hazards visible and accessible - not just for scientists, but also for planners, emergency managers, and other professionals across disciplines.
Tool: experience.arcgis.com/experience/1...
Background story: news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/04/22/a...
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the BP Disaster. I am going to re-do & edit a thread I wrote on Twitter for the 10th anniversary because it feels even more relevant today as fascism overtakes the country, and the very existence of our government's ability to respond to disasters is under threat.
19.04.2025 13:43 — 👍 392 🔁 95 💬 9 📌 10
This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump
16.04.2025 22:34 — 👍 973 🔁 271 💬 16 📌 29
This is a pretty extraordinary thing -- not sure I've seen or heard of anything like this before.
It's tomorrow/Tuesday morning -- noon eastern, 9am pacific:
speakupforjustice.law
Useful Tool: ipk.bsky.social's Rebuild By Design is out with a new mapping tool that “maps federal major disaster declarations and federal post-disaster assistance obligations for every county in the US” with a congressional district overlay.
06.04.2025 21:11 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Map showing handsoff2025.com protest locations for 4/5/2025
1/ The number of protests planned for tomorrow is enormous. Given what Trump has done to the economy, and everyone's collective ability to pay for household expenses/retirement I'd expect them to be huge. Find out more at handsoff2025.com
04.04.2025 19:05 — 👍 2569 🔁 922 💬 53 📌 83
NEW: The Trump Admin has been "covertly" withholding FEMA funds from Democratic states, seemingly as retaliation for sanctuary laws, a judge ruled.
Hawaii is missing $6 million for widlfire aid. Oregon is waiting on $129 million for disaster prevention.
The thing about targeting activists is they’re a group that specifically sees what others fear and run towards it. So proud of Yunseo, of Momodou, each putting their lives on the line to better a country that will not even include them as its members. We owe them a debt.
24.03.2025 22:38 — 👍 3523 🔁 719 💬 24 📌 13Calling this "anti-DEI" is so misleading as if it's just going after some office or some narrow program, and the media keep falling for it. This is about destroying the nation's affordable housing infrastructure, in large part because it's the stuff liberals do.
12.03.2025 19:24 — 👍 44 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
READ THIS!!
It’s fantastic. 🔥
You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.
02.03.2025 04:24 — 👍 37091 🔁 6519 💬 489 📌 230
85% of HUD disaster recovery staff.
This will make recovery exponentially more difficult.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/c...
I’m exhausted, angry, feeling hopeless and scared, watching actions based on seemingly limitless greed and cruelty by the commander in thief and sidekick (puppet master?) twitler the muskrat…what helps? Coffee, walking the dog in the sunshine, setting up an auto monthly donation to the @aclu.
18.02.2025 23:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Monday, thousands of protesters across the country hit the streets to tell Donald Trump and Elon Musk “No kings on Presidents’ Day” in response to the barrage of alarming actions—from legally questionable executive orders to mass firings—taken by the administration since the inauguration.
18.02.2025 18:46 — 👍 1037 🔁 215 💬 24 📌 14Zuck/Meta/Instagram are suppressing . . . American civil servants who work in humanitarian aid? Who are engaged in ordinary communication with the general public about labor rights? Huh?
18.02.2025 16:44 — 👍 78 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 0