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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

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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...

press.uchicago.edu

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1h

oh, ok so you're admitting he's acting like a king

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1h

A high-speed chase involving Border Patrol agents led to the pursued person’s arrest Tuesday in a residential street on Chicago’s South Side, authorities said.

Footage from the scene shows protesters gathering before agents deployed tear gas to disperse them. https://to.pbs.org/43cRN1O

Protesters on Chicago’s South Side are teargassed after high-speed Border Patrol chase ends in arrest

As agents arrested the person, a crowd began to form and “crowd control methods were used,” DHS officials said.

to.pbs.org

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 12h

Donald Trump has been firing people who protect your health, safety and pocketbook, and who keep our country safe.

The shutdown is just his latest excuse for these purges.

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ILLEGAL. THE WORD YOU ARE MISSING IS “ILLEGAL.”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15h

The State Department said that it has revoked the visas of foreign nationals who had spoken out against Charlie Kirk. Senior officials within the department said they would move to deny or rescind visas for individuals who had criticized Kirk, this is a direct violations of the First Amendment.

US revokes visas for six foreigners over comments made about Charlie Kirk's death

The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had revoked the visas of six foreigners over social media comments made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

www.reuters.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h

Los Angeles County officials voted Tuesday to declare a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

Los Angeles County officials approve emergency declaration over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials have declared a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13h

Three senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR has language that would begin to address this, but Trump and Vought are completely opposed.

"If you're a Democrat - even just like a mainstream Democrat - your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism," said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. "Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?"

"I don't think the Democrats want to shut down either," Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. "Their concern right now, and it's a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we're not going to spend them there?"

Julie Tsirkin @news_jul •1h
MURKOWSKI blames Russ Vought for making it harder to negotiate shutdown end:
"The appropriations process is being run over, and that, to me, is absolutely unacceptable."
She understands why Democrats don't trust them given Vought's rescissions and layoffs.
"Why would you?"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h

Tomorrow is a critical day for democracy in court. Compare how the Washington Post framed it vs Democracy Docket.

Right now, fearless, pro-democracy media is more important than legacy media platitudes. Sign up now to say informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d

569 Dartmouth faculty members have signed a petition urging College President Sian Leah Beilock not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact”

More than half of Dartmouth faculty members sign petition against Trump compact

The petition states that signing the compact would “undermine” the College’s “academic freedom.”

www.thedartmouth.com

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 23h

ICE is planning to hire contractors to run an around-the-clock social media surveillance program to track our every move.

If you think this will just be used for deportations - think again.

This is a violation of every single American’s privacy.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23h

Your daily reminder that Republicans in Congress have gone on vacation while they force thousands of Americans to go without a paycheck this week.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

For context, Democracy Docket first launched a paid membership 18 months ago and already has more than 50,000 paid members (and nearly 500,000 free subscribers).

Yes, the 100k number is only WaPo's print subscribers, but it is still a shocking decline given the interest in democracy and elections.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 21h

We have a free press for a reason.

This kind of Orwellian censorship is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Pete Hegseth does not get to decide what is reported to the public.

You would think a former news host would know that?

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 20h

Good for Sky Harbor! Let’s see more airports follow suit. That’s six now I know of including others in Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte and New York’s Westchester County.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 20h

The White House budget office said it is preparing to "ride out" the shutdown.

Instead of negotiating a budget that protects peoples' health care, the White House will continue to fire federal employees and wait.

They don't want to end this, they just want to posture while Americans pay the price.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20h

It's day 13 of the shutdown. What's Trump doing?

Negotiating a budget deal? No.

Preventing premiums from doubling? No.

Stopping 15 million Americans from losing health care? No.

He's meeting the Pres. of Argentina to reward him with a $20 billion bailout.

America first?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20h

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 20h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 22h

I'm very much looking forward to my visit to ASU next week! Note that there is a livestreaming option if any non-Arizonans else want to join in—see the RSVP info.

I'll be drawing on ideas/themes from my book but from a different lens: stewardship (which is not something I talk about in the book).

Environmental
Stewardship
Join us for Humanities Week!
The Lincoln Center and ASU Farm welcome
author and professor Roberta L. Millstein, who will
discuss her book, “The Land Is Our Community.”
Inspired by Aldo Leopold's land ethic, Roberta L.
Millstein reexamines this philosophy in light of
contemporary ecology.
Her book provides new interpretations
of interdependence, land health, and the
“biotic community,” offering a fresh take
on how these ideas can guide modern
conservation and restoration policy.
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If you’re an alum of one of the nine schools targeted by Trump’s “compact” and you don’t want this to happen to your alma mater, then please sign this petition: alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

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Doonesbury comic showing a university where the only students of color are those that play basketball and football, except “at least one token scholar of color“. The last panel shows a voice from the White House saying “Token! Such a beautiful, old-fashioned word! I love the token, from the standpoint of race!”

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

Uncertainty over the economy and tariffs is forcing retailers to pull back or delay plans to hire seasonal workers who pack orders at distribution centers, serve shoppers at stores and build holiday displays during the most important selling season of the year.
https://to.pbs.org/48uzsRo

Uncertainty over the economy and tariffs forces many retailers to be cautious on holiday hiring

A job placement firm forecasts that hiring for the last three months of the year will likely fall to its lowest level since the 2009 recession, or fewer than 500,000 positions.

www.pbs.org

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

Between her personal and DOJ accounts, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon tweets over 100 times a day — a behavior that can safely be categorized as chronically online. But could her social media presence be killing her cases? https://bit.ly/4okeA47

Trump's Terminally Online DOJ Could Be Killing Its Cases Just to Own the Libs