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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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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · Oct 18

We can pin posts now! Here's mine—please check out my new book, _The Land Is Our Community
Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_, available for purchase or free #OpenAccess download from UChicago Press.

🌱🐋 🌎 #EnvHist #EnvHums

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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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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15h

The RIFs began months ago. This is just recycled DOGE, just as unpopular and just as illegal.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 16h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 14h

What Trump and his ilk claim versus what they can support with actual evidence are always leagues apart.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 14h

Here's what's at stake right now.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 14h

Thune is lying here. Trump and Vought didn’t “hold off for as long as they could” because shutdowns don’t force people to be fired. No one was ever fired in any of the previous shutdowns in history. They fired a bunch of people because they wanted to — like they’re been planning since February.

Claudia Grisales @cgrisales.bsky.social · 16h

Senate Majority Leader John Thune responds to OMB head Russ Vought’s post “the RIFs have begun,” telling @jordainc.bsky.social and I:

“Well… I think they held off for as long as they could.”

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 13h

Well that’s not a good development…

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13h

- Millions of federal employees aren’t getting paid
- 15 million people about to lose their health care
- 24 million Americans could see their insurance premiums DOUBLE

Now Speaker Johnson gives House Republicans another week off work. 4 straight weeks out of DC. Unbelievable.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 12h

This is an important first pushback from a Republican governor, who is also head of the National Governors Association.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10h

I think we have enough info to piece it together:
1-Trump threatened mass firings
2-The lawyers told him he can't
3-He risked looking weak
4-He decided to do the firings anyway

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

Yes… so now the (woman) president of Dartmouth needs to follow suit. www.DartmouthCourage.org

Dartmouth Courage

www.DartmouthCourage.org

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

Yes… so now the (woman) president of Dartmouth needs to follow suit. www.DartmouthCourage.org

Dartmouth Courage

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 8h

This ruling flew under many radars given the big rulings on whether deployment itself was legal under Title 10. But it’s very impactful.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 17h

Will @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social be the second school to reject the compact? If you are an alum of Dartmouth or one of the other targeted schools, and you want your school to follow MIT's lead, please sign this petition:

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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...

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 11h

Good thing I didn't get defensive. Apparently my mistake was engaging with you.

Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 11h

Oh well. I’m not going to change what I eat to run for office.

Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 11h

In other words, Republicans are saying that they will keep (illegally) firing workers until Democrats let them cut American's health insurance.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 11h

Almost every great government program is from the Democrats…

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 12h

Onion bagel, either fresh out of the oven or toasted, regular cream cheese.

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Globe New Hampshire @globenh.bsky.social · 16h

More than 500 Dartmouth faculty members signed a petition urging the college to reject a compact proposed by the Trump administration that would give preferential treatment for federal funding to colleges that agree to uphold President Trump’s priorities.

More than 500 Dartmouth faculty urge college to reject Trump’s compact - The Boston Globe

Professors delivered a petition to the university’s president on Thursday, calling the compact an “unprecedented attack on higher education."

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18h

Tom Homan won't say if he took $50,000 cash in a bag from the FBI.

Pam Bondi also wouldn't answer.

If he didn't take the money, why not just release the tape?

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17h

Trump has less than 40% approval and Republicans have convinced themselves you need to pay people to protest his policies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17h

Qatar gave Trump the luxury 747 that he wanted and now we are LETTING THEM BUILD A MILITARY BASE ON US SOIL

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans keep insisting that they’re pushing a “clean CR” while promising to unilaterally cut spending below agreed-to levels however they want with zero Democratic input.

Eleanor Mueller @Eleanor_Mueller
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00 On this press call with the House Freedom Caucus, Johnson tells reporters: "We worked on rescissions, and there'll be more of that, we expect, in the days ahead."
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