I’m reading the Uvalde report on the school shooting, prepared by the Texas House of Representatives, Investigative Cmte. static.texastribune.org/media/files/d0…
On paragraph 3 and I’m already livid. They start by blaming the teachers. And then they blame the maintenance staff. Police are already heroes. “We warned you…”

This report on the humanitarian response in Ukraine is stunning. I'll tweet a few highlights. I'm not sure whether to laugh or just shake with rage. #Haiti folks will recognize these problems.

https://twitter.com/JakeKurtzer/status/1536726333161721859

First off, these two figures. Locals are the ones on the ground but they only got 0.003% of the money. It's shocking, honestly. And I've been doing this story for a decade. We're talking about a billion dollars here.

As a disaster reporter, one of my major obsessions is data. Generation of useless data is one of the top ways that aid groups and governments fail people in need. 🧵 Following international disasters, there's always a lot of graphics and spreadsheets and "dashboards." This gives the impression of SO MUCH information. But it's generally not usable.

Very happy to share my thoughts with Haitians via Le Nouvelliste | Aide : sur chaque million annoncé, dix mille dollars iront aux organisations locales lenouvelliste.com/article/231407… Les clients des organisations d'aide internationale ne sont pas les bénéficiaires de l'aide, leurs clients sont les donateurs. Même si les bénéficiaires de l'aide n'aiment pas l'aide, ils peuvent continuer à la donner tant que les donateurs continuent de leur donner de l'argent.

The EU has released satellite imagery of the damage in Haiti. First impression is that it's very dispersed. That will be a challenge. The red blocks are autogenerated to show destroyed buildings. Not 100% accurate, a snapshot This analysis done by NASA using Copernicus data is more detailed but you can see by all the red in the ocean, prone to false positives maps.disasters.nasa.gov/arcgis/home/it…

Folks are asking: What went wrong with the aid in Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 and is it going to happen again? I spent two years there after the quake, then reported on a bunch of other disasters. 🧵 tl;dr yes First off: nothing that went wrong in Haiti was because of Haiti. The same/similar problems with disaster response happen everywhere. 1/n

Part of the delay in allowing Afghans is how the Global North adjudicates “claims” for “asylum.” A practice that barely exists in the Global South, where refugees just move in. The north’s insistence on “vetting” is a colonial performance entirely driven by fear and racism.

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1427375809359138823

Insisting that more paperwork makes us safer is ludicrous. The 9/11 guys had their paperwork perfect. The paperwork has increased over the decades, as nationalism and fear of immigrants took hold in rich countries. Asylum is a RIGHT but it’s treated now as a privilege