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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 25m

We’re over 7000 now!! But we can get still more signatures. Who can share this post to help out? #AcademicSky?

Higher ed needs you!

Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Alums of:

University of Arizona
Brown University
Dartmouth College
MIT
U Penn
University of Southern California
University of Texas
Vanderbilt University
University of Virginia

Are you telling me we can’t get this petition up over 7000 signers?? Please sign ✍️ and SHARE 👐🏼 if you have not already!!

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks!

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 8h

MIT was the first to reject the compact — who will be the second? If you are an alum of 9 targeted schools, and you want your school to follow MIT's lead, please sign this petition:

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 8h

MIT was the first to reject the compact — who will be the second? If you are an alum of 9 targeted schools, and you want your school to follow MIT's lead, please sign this petition:

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 8h

MIT was the first to reject the compact — who will be the second? If you are an alum of 9 targeted schools, and you want your school to follow MIT's lead, please sign this petition:

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 8h

MIT was the first to reject the compact — who will be the second? If you are an alum of 9 targeted schools, and you want your school to follow MIT's lead, please sign this petition:

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 8h

MIT was the first to reject the compact — who will be the second? If you are an alum of 9 targeted schools, and you want your school to follow MIT's lead, please sign this petition:

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 8h

MIT was the first to reject the compact — who will be the second? If you are an alum of 9 targeted schools, and you want your school to follow MIT's lead, please sign this petition:

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10h

Later on in the video, Vance lies and says they have to do mass firings to preserve resources to use in other parts of the govt.

This is not how it works. The people fired didn’t have any funding, so firing them doesn’t free up any money.

They fired people because they want to and lied about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 10h

And who knows more about defeating the Empire than this guy? ⤵️

gavinnewsom.win/50-volunteer

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 11h

The government has been shut down for nearly half a month.

Insurance costs are doubling for millions of families.

And you’re still trying to rewrite history on the first bipartisan vote to impeach a U.S. president?

Put down your phone and focus on ending the Trump shutdown.

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 13h

Fantastic! Where can I find the complete version of this?

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14h

It was not an "error." I don't know why the Times caves to administration's framing that it was an oopsy daisy, or why it has to give an official anonymity to press this claim.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Among the workers whose firings were revoked were members of the elite corps of “disease detectives” who are typically deployed to the sites of outbreaks. The team that puts together the M.M.W.R., which communicates the agency’s recommendations and research, has also been brought back.

The employees “were sent incorrect notifications, which was fixed last night and this morning with a technical correction,” a senior administration official said. “Any correction has already been remedied.”

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Alums of:

University of Arizona
Brown University
Dartmouth College
MIT
U Penn
University of Southern California
University of Texas
Vanderbilt University
University of Virginia

Are you telling me we can’t get this petition up over 7000 signers?? Please sign ✍️ and SHARE 👐🏼 if you have not already!!

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org

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Dr. Kiki @drkiki.bsky.social · 1d

Every time they post about Biden's FBI, Biden's this or that in 2020 or even January 6th, 2021... ask very clearly:

"Who was President then?"

Fight the narrative.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 1d

And to encourage that to happen, alumni of each of the nine schools should sign this petition:

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Alums of:

University of Arizona
Brown University
Dartmouth College
MIT
U Penn
University of Southern California
University of Texas
Vanderbilt University
University of Virginia

Are you telling me we can’t get this petition up over 7000 signers?? Please sign ✍️ and SHARE 👐🏼 if you have not already!!

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

It’s becoming better understood that food systems are a major driver of the climate crisis.

The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

www.theguardian.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Fighting for the independence of the judiciary matters. We know this is true, because Trump is trying to take it away. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

When they Bukele the Courts

When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was first deported to El Salvador and his lawyers went to court, arguing an immigration judge had previously prohibited it, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff,...

open.substack.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

@repstansbury.bsky.social: "This is gangster activity. The president is trying to shield pedophiles by calling and threatening members of Congress. We need more members of Congress, whether it's the Epstein files, the shutdown, health care, democracy, the rule of law, to just fucking do their jobs."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

For me but not for thee

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump crash could be on the horizon

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI - www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...
Amazon, Nvidia and Tesla shares each dropped around 5% on Friday, as tech’s megacaps lost $770 billion in market cap, following President Donald Trump’s threats for increased tariffs on Chinese goods... via @cnbc.com by Ari Levy & Jordan Novet

Tech megacaps lose $770 billion in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April

Nvidia dropped almost 5%, pacing a steep decline in tech stocks, after President Trump threatened more tariffs on China.

www.cnbc.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Most Americans Who Rely on Obamacare Live in Republican Areas
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas (Gift Article)

Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

www.nytimes.com

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