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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾
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Professor Emerit at UC Davis. Researches in the history & philosophy of biology and environmental ethics. https://www.RLM.net/

New open-access book w/ U Chicago Press: _The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_
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Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_, available for purchase or free #OpenAccess download from UChicago Press.

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The Land Is Our Community
A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservati...
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Yes, Pam, why don’t you get back to doing what the law requires, and not what your boss demands.
January 27, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Some labor activists are talking about more strikes, including an ambitious nationwide general strike, in response to the killing of union member Alex Pretti. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has this report.
prospect.org/2026/01/27/i...
Organized Labor Escalates Against ICE Summary Executions - The American Prospect
Unions in Minnesota and across the country have spent the days after an immigration officer murdered Alex Pretti discussing how to escalate, including toward a national general strike.
prospect.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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"A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece event," writes @anabnos.com.
Removing US as World Cup host would be eminently sad – and entirely justified | Alexander Abnos
A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece event
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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I've been through so many cycles of "softens tone" I can't even believe how gullible news outlets still are for it
Trump is not doing this and the media is lying to you because they want to take him to the dance and kiss
January 27, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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In Trump’s reality-TV addled brain, his underlings are merely a rotating cast of expendable characters. He’s not invested in them or in a particular plot or in anything. He just moves on to the next spectacle or provocation that gives him a frisson of power.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Bovino Is Out As Trump Recasts Lead Goon Role
Morning Memo Live! Details and tickets here for the Thursday evening event...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This is just a start. @schiff.senate.gov, you need to demand that the ICE/CBP funding be RESCINDED, perhaps to be redirected to health care for Americans, as other senators are supporting.

The amount of money being given to ICE/CBP in the BBB is already excessive.

You too, @padilla.senate.gov
January 27, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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You could see it as a 1:1 relationship. Republicans clawed back 25% of the IRS funding in the the first showdown after Inflation Reduction Act passage. That could be the baseline: 25% of the ICE surge funding from OBBBA.
Congressional Republicans gave Trump a slush fund for ICE and CBP in the "Big Beautiful Bill." Tens of billions of dollars that is still usable even during a shutdown.

Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.
January 27, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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ICE and CBP must not receive another cent while people are being killed, beaten, and kidnapped in the streets.

www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-s...
‘I'm Not Giving ICE Another Dime’: Schiff Says Republicans Who Vote To Give ICE More Funding Will ‘See More Americans Die’
Sen. Adam Schiff also argued the money funded to DHS has been “wasted hand over fist."
www.huffpost.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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They want all protestors nice and quiet in their own little designated protest spaces.
January 27, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Just a quick note about Bovino being moved and the other aesthetic politicoplasty the Trump administration is undertaking:

Don't be fooled. Don't get all Susan Collins-y about it. Trump hasn't learned his lesson. He never will.
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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“Our demand is clear: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem... and Deputy WH Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them" AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement.

www.rawstory.com/trump-immigr...
Massive union overseeing Border Patrol demands ouster of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller
A massive union that represents some of President Donald Trump's immigration agents called on two of the administration's top officials to resign following the killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis o...
www.rawstory.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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Many TikTok users recently reported problems uploading videos, sudden drops to zero views, or posts getting stuck “under review.” Almost all of those complaints involved videos criticizing ICE or discussing the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
January 27, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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Patel is already screwing up the case.
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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As we await Senate action on the remaining spending bills, remember that Susan Collins could make a difference by stripping out DHS from the rest of the government funding bills. But she won't because she is just as MAGA as the rest of them.
January 26, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US
Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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@briantylercohen.bsky.social: Is ICE salvageable?

@robertgarcia.bsky.social: No. We have to abolish ICE. No question.
January 27, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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@briantylercohen.bsky.social: Should ICE continue to exist in any form?

@rokhanna.bsky.social: No. And that should be the answer across the Democratic Party.

It is a rogue agency killing American citizens. Tear it down.
January 27, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Hours after holding a hearing about DOJ letter threatening Minnesota, Federal judge in Oregon DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to access state voter rolls.

Another win for our clients and voters. Another loss for Trump and Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/oregon...
🚨 United States of America v. Oregon
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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It’s time to investigate.

I am launching a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content.
January 27, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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A Republican-led Utah audit of over 2 million voter registrations found only one noncitizen, who never voted.

The results undercut the right-wing narrative of widespread noncitizen voting, especially as Republicans renew their push for a proof-of-citizenship requirement in voter registration.
Utah reviewed its voter rolls for noncitizens. It found one. Who never voted
The results sharply undercut the narrative of widespread noncitizen voting Republicans are using to promote new nationwide restrictions on voting.
www.democracydocket.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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What’s unfolding in Minnesota didn’t come out of nowhere.

It’s tied to decades of allowing police violence against black and brown people to go unchecked.
Trump’s Comply-Or-Die Policing Isn’t New
What’s shocking is who’s getting shot
contrarian.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Southern state becoming ground zero in fight against rapid growth of facilities using huge amounts of energy and water
Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America’s AI boom
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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BREAKING: Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino and some agents are expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow, an AP source says.
Border Patrol commander Bovino and some agents expected to leave Minneapolis
A federal judge is considering Minnesota’s challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
bit.ly
January 26, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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🚨 SCOOP: Rep. Ro Khanna is headed to Minneapolis to thank protesters for their courage and to rally support for his new 10-point House agenda to unify Democrats: no new ICE funding, prosecute criminal agents, and dismantle ICE as Trump’s private military force.
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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ICE will not receive one more dime of taxpayer money from Senate Democrats.

Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov lays out how Senate Democrats are protesting the proposed DHS funding bill
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/not-a-dime-for-ice-lawlessness
Not a Dime for ICE Lawlessness
Sen. Van Hollen and the Senate Democrats Reject More DHS Funding.
contrarian.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:04 PM