From this episode - links:

DDAR program funding (https://ocpsc.ca.gov/disability-disaster-access-and-resources-ddar-program/)

Press release from the NGO who had their DDAR funding cut: https://cfilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-29-DDAR-SCE-Contract-Termination-Press-Release-Final.docx

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- No Enemies for Emergency Managers, co-authored by Daniel Scott, over at the Emergency Management Network’s Substack. https://emnetwork.substack.com/p/no-enemies-for-emergency-managers

- An introductory piece on the PSPS concern I mentioned in this episode, for Matt Green’s State of Disaster Substack called Impacts of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) on People with Disabilities https://open.substack.com/pub/stateofdisaster/p/impacts-of-public-safety-power-shutoffs?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

- Big Events in 2026: Security Classifications, for the Domestic Preparedness Journal. https://domesticpreparedness.com/articles/big-events-in-2026-security-classifications/

At Medium,

- Atmospheric Rivers - #EMINT from the book “Emergency Management Threats and Hazards: Water”

- FEMA in Chaos – Why does this matter to you?

- For FEMA, it’s the End of the World as They Know It (And Trump feels fine.)

January 2026 edition of The LIPER  - https://medium.com/the-liper/january-1-2026-updates-01cf6c5e77a0   

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Please check out Eric Holderman’s Disaster Zone Podcast, hosted by the readiness lab. You can find it on the major podcast outlets like Apple and Spotify. Mike told me to plug his episode recorded on October 15th, 2025 entitled “Emergency Management’s Role in Civil Defense with Michael Prasad”, which looks at one proposal to have the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) take over all aspects of what we might call “civil defense” to have those functions taken out of FEMA and aligned more directly within other elements of DHS.

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Find Dr. Jeannette Sutton at:

www.thewarnroom.com

And her new podcast "The Alerting Authority": 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-alerting-authority/id1853479217

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnT0jq00HDGyo5Wp-UlNi6g

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