Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾
Professor Emerit at UC Davis. Researches in the history & philosophy of biology and environmental ethics. rlm.net
New open-access book w/ U Chicago Press: _The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Ciji Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman died after she was unable to access standard care in a state that has significantly restricted abortion. Read her story: propub.li/4r4VQr4
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Trump now says he didn’t personally post the racist video and that it was done by a staffer. That raises serious questions. If a staffer handled this post, it’s fair to ask which other public statements or posts are actually coming directly from him versus someone on his team.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Exactly.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾A majority of Americans disapprove of the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as recent enhanced enforcement operations spread to new cities across the country, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll found. to.pbs.org/4aeohM2
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾As anti-immigration enforcement protests across the U.S. have grown in size and visibility, a majority of Americans view the demonstrations as mostly legitimate and lawful, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll found. to.pbs.org/4aeohM2
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾This—the collapse of Trump support from independent voters—is shaping up to be the big story for the midterms.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Republicans in Congress are shutting down negotiations to rein in ICE's terror. The American people have had enough. We demand that our policymakers come to actual solutions. Congress must come to an agreement that puts an end to ICE's violence and abuse of power.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾If the Epstein files feel incomplete, it’s because they are. We still don’t have full transparency ... and absolutely no one deserves protection but the victims.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾No child should have to go to school fearing whether their parent will still be there to pick them up at the end of the day. But ICE's out-of-control actions are wreaking havoc on schools, endangering families, and threatening the rule of law. So we will see them in court.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾"Fascism feeds off exceptions to equal personhood, adopting practices honed on those considered lesser-than to apply to the regime’s political opponents," notes Jason Stanley. "The response to fascism must include the dismantling of the pre-existing structures that enabled and justified its rise."
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾"those are a lot of boos for him"
- "America’s foundations give away billions of dollars every year to a variety of causes...There is nothing more worthy than maintaining a strong independent press... How about creation of a nonprofit trust to buy or create a great daily newspaper in the nation’s capital."
- What's the model for daily news now that rich benefactors have manifestly not safeguarded journalism? Bob Kuttner looks to The Guardian nonprofit trust as a path forward. prospect.org/2026/02/06/p...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾What's the model for daily news now that rich benefactors have manifestly not safeguarded journalism? Bob Kuttner looks to The Guardian nonprofit trust as a path forward. prospect.org/2026/02/06/p...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Donald Trump is withholding billions of dollars in New York infrastructure unless he gets Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him. This is not only brazenly corrupt. It is sick, twisted and egomaniacal. The time is long overdue for sane Republicans to stand up to Trump.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾We just interviewed Epstein survivor Anouska de Georgiou. This is one of the most powerful and important interviews we have ever posted on the channel. Everyone needs to hear Anouska's story and what she has to say about Epstein, Maxwell, Trump, the DOJ, and more.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾“You get all the liars in the same room, and you start hearing different stories.” -@skyeperryman.bsky.social reacts to President Trump, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s obvious attempt to cover up the admin's accelerating attacks on our elections.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾It was only a matter of time before the mom from last week's SNL skit called in to CSPAN
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾JUST IN: Trump DELETES racist post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, blames a "White House staffer." Karoline Leavitt previously defended the post and criticized the public outcry as "fake outrage."
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾They redacted every use of the word “Don”…and left the false positives, like this misspelling, in place.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾In wake of Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to ‘take over’ voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the ‘ultimate response’
- Where are the Epstein files?
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾It is going to be lawyers and the courts. That is what it was in 2020. It was in 2022 after the first wave. It will be again in 2026.
- Wtf? Plaintiffs are not "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies." Instead, "they are a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, a software engineer at a national bank, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, a college economics major, and a full-time registered nurse." TY Judge
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾🚨NEW: Republicans are moving quickly to pass a massive voter suppression bill requiring voters to present a passport or original birth certificate both to register and vote at the polls. Experts warn it could keep millions of already-registered Americans from casting ballots in the 2026 midterms.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾DEVELOPING: A judge is pressing AG Pam Bondi to explain what she meant when she said last February that Jeffrey Epstein's client list was "on my desk right now." Judge Randy Moss (Obama) is handling a #FOIA suit for those docs. More here, scroll down.... www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Trump's regime knew the pandemonium it'd cause by releasing over 3 million pages of the Epstein files at once. And there's still millions more being withheld.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾challenges both the call for the session and the subsequent decision to shift candidate filing deadlines for the 2026 elections. The lawsuit contends that these moves overstep constitutional boundaries and disrupt the balance of powers set out in Florida’s constitution.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾We just wanted to say thank you to the people of Florida for standing up. Two Florida voters have taken legal action against the governor after he issued a proclamation to convene a special legislative session on congressional redistricting this April. Their filing with the state’s highest court
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Fulton County demanded that the federal government return all of the 2020 election files seized by the FBI during an unprecedented raid on its central election hub. The county's commission chair said he "would use every resource at [their] disposal" to fight for Georgia voters.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾🚨BREAKING: Virginia Democrats just dropped a new congressional map — and it could flip FOUR more House seats blue in 2026. If courts greenlight it, Virginia voters will decide whether the new map takes effect.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾The original goal of civil service rules was to ensure federal employees are loyal to the Constitution and the public interest, not to any individual leader.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾The Trump administration has finalized a rule that reclassifies tens of thousands of federal positions in a way that removes long-standing job protections and makes it easier to fire or discipline those workers.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Hillary Clinton addressed the committee chair, Republican Rep. James Comer, on social media, saying, "You love to talk about transparency. There's nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on." to.pbs.org/4qiehqM
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Keep asking. He’s unraveling over it.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Faculty women work so hard to be paid, on a good day, the same as male counterparts. They strive to get appointments that mediocre male colleagues receive as if by natural born right. Undergirding the system of inequity is crap like this.
- Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.
- Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾I am still calling on Target’s CEO Micheal Fiddelke to say ICE out. Avoiding this issue is not leadership. Our members and shareholders are watching. fortune.com/2026/02/03/t...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Jen Rubin left the Washington Post to found The Contrarian 13 months ago, to stand up to Jeff Bezos and and his refusal to value the ownership of The Post TO ALL WAPOST journalists: We value your work, and would love for you to join us in independent journalism Contact us: info@contrariannews.org
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾The Supreme Court’s one-line decision in the California Prop 50 gerrymandering case went the right way, but it hides a larger truth. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾BREAKING: A federal judge blocks immigration agents from arresting people in Oregon without warrants unless there's a risk of escape.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Our friends at @workdaymagazine.bsky.social profiled Target workers who went out on strike on January 23 to protest their non-union employer's collaboration with ICE. One worker said: "For me, it was about speaking out for those who really can’t." prospect.org/2026/02/04/t...
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Vijay Prashad said he was ‘disgusted’ by linguist’s friendship with Epstein as new files shed light on their relationship
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾@donlemonofficial.bsky.social: I’ve spoken to multiple people who say they’re Trump-voting conservative but are in my corner on this. Most sensible people realize we need an independent and free press.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾When it comes to masks, "state law enforcement, local folks don't do it," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat on the Committee for Homeland Security. "I mean, what's so special about an ICE law enforcement agency that they have to wear a mask?" to.pbs.org/3ZikkRh
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Rip to the newspaper that ensured the Pentagon Papers were published after Nixon got an injunction against the Times. 🫡 Had a good run, but as with so many cases, a billionaire bought something he didn’t care about and broke it. A tale as old as time.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾You may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾Independent media has never been more important.
- Y'all heard that California's redistricting that favors Democrats over Republicans was upheld by SCOTUS, yes? Lesson: Don't assume we know how SCOTUS will rule. It won't always be in Trump's favor, even if too many are. Keep fighting! 💙✊🏼
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾To any of the talented journalists and creatives that were laid off by @washingtonpost.com today — come join our independent, pro-democracy news outlet powered by readers, not corporate billionaires. We want to work with those who value protecting democracy and voting rights: bit.ly/45Qaw4K
- Reposted by Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀🎶🥾This entire thread, and also this: don't do Bannon's work for him
