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Global health isn't just a worldwide issue—it's a matter of national security, as recent outbreaks show how interconnected our health systems truly are.

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Officials: global disease trends are national security concerns; flu and measles examples underscore linkage
Commissioner Manisha Jutani and Dr. Craig Spencer said international outbreaks and travel affect domestic health and security, citing a recent flu outbreak at a U.S. Air Force base with about 160 cases and Connecticut's 2026 imported measles case as examples.
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October 31, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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#Sweden’s #psychologicaldefenceagency strengthens #publicpreparedness against #foreignmanipulation through #awarenesscampaigns, #training and #prebunking. Andy Burnham’s National Centre for Information Defence could adopt this approach, prioritising an informed public as the core defence.…
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#Sweden’s #psychologicaldefenceagency strengthens #publicpreparedness against #foreignmanipulation through #awarenesscampaigns, #training and #prebunking. Andy Burnham’s National Centre for Information Defence could adopt this approach, prioritising an informed public as the core defence. https://theconversation.com/what-andy-burnham-can-learn-from-sweden-about-defending-against-russian-disinformation-293609
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October 16, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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🚨 Sacramento, CA - IF YOU ARE OUT PROTESTING TONIGHT, YOU ARE SAFE WITH US. COME GET SOME WATER. 20th & L 10pm-2am

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October 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Florida is bracing for the strongest El Niño in history this winter, and experts are urging homeowners to prepare now!

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Board warns of record El Niño, urges homeowners to prepare
Board member Frank Trinkle told the Natural Resources Board that multiple models forecast an unusually strong El Niño this winter and urged the board to accelerate homeowner education and preparedness materials for distribution during upcoming events.
https://citizenportal.ai/articles/10655808/Sebastian/Indian-River-County/Florida/Board-warns-of-record-El-Niño-urges-homeowners-to-prepare?source=bluesky&loc=FL
October 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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September 19, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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Iceland delays public emergency preparedness booklet until autumn #civilprotection #Iceland #publicpreparedness
Iceland delays public emergency preparedness booklet until autumn
Iceland has postponed the publication of a booklet on how the public should prepare for and respond to conflicts and disasters, Morgunblaðið reports. The booklet was originally expected by late February or early March, but authorities now aim to publish it in the autumn. Runólfur Þórhallsson, a c…
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August 27, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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As wildfire danger escalates to "high," the wildfire chief urges residents to prepare by signing up for SC Alert and assembling essential evacuation kits—are you ready?

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Chief urges residents to sign up for alert system, use chipper program as fire danger rises
With fire danger increasing to "high," the wildfire chief told council crews and equipment are prepositioned, federal hand crews have been staged nearby, and residents should sign up for the town's SC Alert, prepare an evacuation kit and leave early if ordered.
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June 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Jan 22
Affected communities and people with health conditions deserve accurate information. It is good and necessary to correct one another about these things:
edgecrusherntb.bsky.social Edgecrusher @edgecrusherntb.bsky.social · Jan 21
My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade.

Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents.

#PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis
January 22, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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July 3, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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My medic group in Minneapolis is looking to send some people to New Jersey to help them establish logistics and train their own medics. We're asking for help with travel expenses.

#PublicPreparedness #MutualAid #Minneapolis #NewJersey
Image of five volunteer medics looking away from the camera, toward the Minnesota Capitol building. Venmo @MNtravelmedics
June 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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A small, minimal-commitment way that folks can help: if you’re grocery shopping, and you see that something you want is Buy One, Get One Free, but you don't really want the extra one, take it anyway and give it to the food bank.

#PublicPreparedness
kpsinging.bsky.social Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · May 28
What’s so impossibly stupid about this is they took it off the taxpayers plate then added it back to the taxpayers plate who now need to donate to food banks
May 28, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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I see it's time to share the riot-control agents info-doc again: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hello, I'm an emergency management worker trained to respond to HAZMAT incidents, and I was a street medic in Minneapolis during Metro Surge. Please don't put milk in your eyes! #PublicPreparedness
Riot-Control Agents Image Source: Wikimedia Commons What They Are, How To Protect Yourself, and Addressing Common Misconceptions Written for Minnesota 50501 Street Medics, 01-22-2026 What Is A Riot-Control Agent? Riot-control agents are chemical compounds that cause irritation, most noticeably to the eyes, nose, and throat, intended to temporarily incapacitate a person or group of people without causing lasting harm. They are also known as “lachrimators” - from the Latin word for tears - or “tear gas.” A person exposed to a riot-control agent will experience intense, burning pain, especially in their eyes, nose, and throat, watery eyes, runny nose, and violent coughing fits. The pain and helplessness often causes people to panic. For a healthy adult who is able to remove themself from the source of the riot-control agent, these effects are temporary. They will subside about 15 minutes to two hours after decontamination, depending on the specific agent used, amount of exposure, and the individual’s sensitivity. If an infant or child, or a person with a respiratory condition, is exposed, or if a person is unable to remove themself from the source and suffers prolonged exposure, lasting injuries and/or respiratory failure may result. When tending to someone who was exposed to a riot-control agent, priorities are to get them to clean air, and flush their eyes with copious amounts of clean water. Do NOT use milk, baking soda, maalox, vinegar, lemon juice, or any other fad remedy. The thinking behind most of these rumor remedies was that riot-control agents are either an acid or a base, and could be neutralized by applying a compound on the opposite side of the pH scale. However, pH is not the mechanism by which these agents cause irritation. The agents bind to pain receptors (OC binds to receptor TRPV1; CS binds to receptor TRPA1) and cause the body’s pain-signaling circuits to get stuck in the “on” position. The best way to help is to flush the irritating agent away– the less of it is present to bind to pain receptors, the faster the irritation will subside. Other remedies have been shown to be no more effective than flushing with wat… OC – Oleoresin Capsicum Oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray, is an oil composed of a concentrated form of the same chemical compounds that give hot peppers their spiciness (capsaicinoids). This is what we are seeing used against protesters in the Twin Cities most often, with the chemical agent being dispensed from a handheld spraying apparatus. Image Source: Encyclopedia of Toxicology (4th Edition) on ScienceDirect Because the compound is an oil, decontamination can be tedious and feel frustrating. Anyone who has touched cooking oil in the kitchen, then tried to give their hand a quick rinse, is familiar with the problem: oil doesn’t dissolve in water. It will take 20+ minutes of continuous flushing with water to rinse the oil off the body. Adding a drop of baby shampoo to the water may help decontaminate the skin, by breaking up the oil faster than water alone can rinse it off. Baby shampoo should NOT be used in the eyes– only clean water! Though it may aid the process of removing the oil from the skin, there is no clinical evidence that baby shampoo eases the pain and irritation from OC any faster than flushing with water. It simply takes time for the effects of OC exposure to subside– capsaicinoids that have already bound to pain receptors need to degrade. One might be thinking: “When it comes to eating spicy peppers, we’re told to drink milk; drinking water only spreads the capsaicin around, while milk relieves the burning. Isn’t this the same compound?” The difference is where the fluid is going. When one washes hot peppers down with milk, they are not decontaminating. The fluid is going down their throat, rather than away from their body. Furthermore, the milk is entering the stomach to be digested– not the eyes, where it may provide fuel to harmful bacteria. If one wanted to decontaminate, rather than ingest the spicy food, they would swish water in their mouth and spit it out several times. CS – 2-Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile 2-chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile, usually known as CS, is a powder contained in tear gas grenades. The grenade works by rapidly heating a liquid solvent to form vapor, which disperses the powder into the air. Image sourced from a Minneapolis volunteer. Like OC, the only reliable remedy for CS exposure is to flush with copious amounts of water. After decontamination, the pain and irritation from CS on the eyes and skin typically subsides faster than that caused by OC. The powder is also more easily flushed away than OC oil. However, the grenades themselves present additional hazards that handheld spray mechanisms do not. They reach extremely high temperatures to convert liquid to vapor, which presents fire and burn hazards. They are meant for use outdoors, and if a CS grenade ends up in an enclosed space with people present, lethal exposure levels may result. People should NOT attempt to pick up the hot canisters when they are deployed, even with protective gloves. Materials that are prone to melting, like rubber and polyester, will melt to the skin, requiring extensive surgery. Commercially-available welding gloves are intended to protect the hands from sparks, not from grabbing a chunk of red-hot metal. Activists have occasionally managed to hurl hot canisters of tear gas, making for compelling photojournalism. Please be aware that their lack of injury is a combination of preparedness and luck. It is not preparedness alone. The incendiary (heat/fire-producing) compounds in the canisters are usually self-oxidizing, and cannot be extinguished by smothering. They extinguish once the chemical reaction is no longer releasing oxygen to burn.
May 26, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Gasoline has chemical components that react with the ambient air and degrade, and chemical components that evaporate over time. DO NOT store gasoline in your emergency generator! #PublicPreparedness
edgecrusherntb.bsky.social Edgecrusher @edgecrusherntb.bsky.social · May 23
I wish this were more common knowledge. People die during disasters because they store fuel in their emergency generator, thinking they're being prepared, and then when they need it, the old fuel destroys the generator. TV shows like The Last Of Us need to stop portraying old fuel being usable.
May 24, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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During Metro Surge, I taught Minneapolis street medics how to run logistics. This is one of the practices I taught them. #PublicPreparedness
Strategies and Tactics for Digital-Age Security Location Logistics This is a process for tracking locations, and sharing them with trusted people, while allowing minimal opportunities for information to enter the public domain and/or surveillance apparatuses. Utilize a paper map of the area in which you are running logistics. A trusted logistics person should be responsible for holding onto the physical map. Ideally, this person (and therefore the map) would be in a rural location, as less surveillance infrastructure is installed in rural locations than urban locations. Mark locations on the map using color-coded sticky dots/tabs. Take photos of the map using an analog camera, such as a Polaroid. Turn off your personal cell phone. Take the physical photos of your map, in a nondescript envelope, to a public location such as a gas station, fast food vendor, or park. Use a burner phone to take digital photos of the analog photos, and share them with trusted people via a messaging program that does not retain data once deleted (read the software's EULA to determine this). Ideally, the messaging program would also have end-to-end encryption. Note: For the purpose of avoiding surveillance, you should never have your burner phone on while you're in your own neighborhood. That defeats the point of having a burner phone: it can be tracked to your location! Personal phone off when you leave your house. Get to public location. Burner phone on. When you're leaving the public location to head home, burner phone off. Don't have both phones on, and in the same location, at the same time.
May 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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IFixIt! www.ifixit.com

They work on both the legal side (organizing activism for Right to Repair laws) and the practical side (procuring parts and organizing volunteer-made instruction manuals for users to repair their own products).

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April 18, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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No, ICE did not "EMP gun" a car. It was -40° that night. The car stopped working because its battery got too cold.

How can I be certain? If a car is actually disabled by an EMP, its airbags would go off. Airbags are deployed by an electrical discharge from a capacitor.

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April 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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A tip for preppers who need to hear it: Focus on making a fire evacuation plan for your family and preparing for disasters that are likely in your region (based on geography and infrastructure) before you start planning for a zombie apocalypse or Mad Max scenario.

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March 23, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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Your mutual aid group needs a logistician.

Got a trusted community member who owns a portable generator? Another who's disabled and depends on electrical devices to live? Great! In a crisis, somebody needs to remember that and match those two up.

#PublicPreparedness
March 19, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Relevant info for any emergency management/disaster relief worker or person affected by flooding in the South, as we get into flood season. (3/3)
boghuma.bsky.social BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Mar 8
This bacterial infection spreads through water contaminated with animal urine, and flooding increases exposure risk. Symptoms can start with fever, headache, muscle aches, and sometimes jaundice or kidney problems.
March 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Relevant info for any emergency management/disaster relief worker or person affected by flooding in the South, as we get into flood season. (2/3)
boghuma.bsky.social BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Mar 8
These are still relatively uncommon overall, but they do appear periodically in southern states. That said, if someone becomes ill after working around floodwater, the first infection many clinicians think about isn’t mosquito-borne at all it’s leptospirosis.
March 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Relevant info for any emergency management/disaster relief worker or person affected by flooding in the South, as we get into flood season. (1/3)
boghuma.bsky.social BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Mar 8
Mosquito-borne illnesses are important to keep in mind in the southern U.S., especially after flooding when mosquito populations surge. The main ones clinicians think about are West Nile virus (by far the most common), dengue, and occasionally eastern equine encephalitis (EEE).
March 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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If you're in a situation where you need to be concerned about being tracked by credit/debit card purchases, and you can't pay cash for something, get a prepaid Visa gift card and use that. Many gas stations and grocery stores sell them. #PublicPreparedness
ruralanarchy.bsky.social Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social · Mar 5
Proton is honest in their user agreement and FAQ that they have to comply with Swiss government legal requests.

The Swiss Government DOES cooperate with the FBI in limited ways.

If you use your personal debit card to pay for Proton, they have to save that info. And can provide it if ordered.
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · Mar 5
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
March 5, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Riot-control agents are NOT nerve agents.

Please don't spread rumors about nerve agents during civil unrest (or ever!) Misinformation, even if well-intentioned, only makes it harder for people to protect themselves from real dangers.

#PublicPreparedness
February 28, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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If your fitness goal is to be ready to keep others safe through civil unrest, end your workouts by practicing tasks that require a lot of dexterity while your heart rate is up and your muscles are shaky. #PublicPreparedness
February 25, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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If you have pets and you're in a situation where you might be exposed to riot-control agents, make a plan for that.

I text my roommate on the way home and ask him to shut the cats in the bedroom. That way, they can't get into my stuff while I'm decontaminating everything.

#PublicPreparedness
February 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM