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_
- Here is my part in this NYT article, "How One Ivy League University Has Avoided Trump’s Retribution So Far." A wink and a nod can get you pretty far, it seems. And President Beilock still refuses to sign the letter that 624 other colleges and universities have signed.
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- Interesting. That would not surprise me at all.
- The NY Post is mad that Democracy Forward keeps beating Trump in court.
- Thank you for your service!!
- Text of image: "Can girls have 30 dolls if they’re a gift from Qatar"
- Oh, the hypocrisy.
- This is an important response to the “why bother to fight Trump in court if he is just going to ignore the rulings?” naysayers.
- So, I wrote up my "bookmark this response" to the "it doesn't matter" folks. My response: It does matter. Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/defending-...
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- Oh, for sure.
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- Too many “p”s.
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- It started out sweet, but then it took a turn…
- AOC is right.
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- This isn’t nothing at all.
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- They should all boycott.
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- There is usually an insert indicating substitutions of the regular performers.
- The Trump administration is advancing efforts to dismantle mental health services tailored for LGBTQ+ youth, particularly within the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
- “Pro life”
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- And this is the sort of person that schools who are refusing to sign the letter are aligning themselves with. Spineless. Craven. I’m (still) looking at you, Dartmouth.
- Literally robbing the poor to give to the rich.
- Interesting that the Trump administration is just now learning the lesson that … {checks notes} … giving into a bully just increases his demands
- * VANCE: THERE IS A BIG GULF BETWEEN WHERE UKRAINIANS AND RUSSIANS ARE * U.S. VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: WE THINK RUSSIANS ARE ASKING FOR TOO MUCH @reuters.com
- Hmm... where else could that apply?
- Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to Donald Trump’s campaign. But Trump’s memecoin scam allows foreigners to influence U.S. policy by putting money directly in his pocket. This unlawful graft must be stopped.
- Thank you, Senator. I hope the Senate takes action on this.
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- I'm hoping that they help the world remember what a democracy is.
- Musk 4 Musk.
- So it sounds like the tariffs are also being used as a shakedown tool to coerce countries to sign deals with Starlink. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- R.E.M. have a strange relationship with choruses. Some of their greatest songs have: ❎ No Chorus (Losing My Religion) 1️⃣ One word chorus (The One I Love) 2️⃣ Two word chorus (S. Central Rain)
- A nine word chorus that sounds like one word.
- NEW: Donald Trump's ban on transgender service members and restrictions to their medical care may take effect, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The 6-3 decision, with the liberals dissenting, included no explanation. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Allows ban to take effect while litigation proceeds, yes? That is an important clarification
- Yeah, why would we want clean air near our national parks? Let's all go for a hike and breath in the fumes! Let's watch the plants and animals die!
- Time for everyone to call on their Senators! @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov , are you in??
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- Instead of 30 cars, they could just have five cars.
- I think this is very unusual—a letter from Dartmouth's Alumni Council President and President-Elect to Dartmouth College President Sian Beilock, noting that there has been "an unprecedented level of feedback" from alumni, the "overwhelming majority reflect[ing] deep frustration and disappointment."
- Unusually strong statement from @adamgreen321.bsky.social of PCCC on Harris doing a DNC fundraiser tomorrow: (via email)
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View full threadSeriously! Walz in particular never stopped! He took a deep breath, reset himself, and got back to business. Harris has been doing what exactly to prove she's ready for the moment?
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- Exactly. She’s four months too late. These were a critical four months and she was nowhere to be seen. She failed the test of meeting the moment.
- More and more of these posts. The guys falling apart.
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- People are laughing it off.
- I found this to be an uplifting and informative read.
- Is the fever dream finally going to break? A realistic assessment of where we are. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
- Am I wrong for seeing a totalitarian threat? Control of what we watch, a way to limit the outside influences on us? I mean, I see that it isn’t likely to pass constitutional muster, but I find it deeply disturbing.
- The Alcatraz thing is a perfect illustration of Trump’s addiction to controversy and drama. He just constantly needs to invent new things to yell about.
- It’s the kind of thing that would play well, make him look tough and all, to someone who had never seen it. Because anyone who has seen it would know how ridiculous that is.
- From Dan Rather: “To celebrate World Press Freedom Day and raise money and awareness for the embattled Radio Free Europe, R.E.M. decided to make a remix of the hit, along with a new video that highlights the important work of these brave journalists." steady.substack.com/p/happy-worl...
- "even though they once wrote a song about your narrator, which I regretfully agreed to perform with them on late-night television. Live and learn." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love that he has a sense of humor about that!
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- So, in other words, he knows. He chooses not to follow the law -- he chooses to be a dictator. That is what he is telling us in plain words.
- The Trump administration laid off nearly half of the Department of Education division that handles civil rights investigations and halted work on thousands of pending discrimination cases. If you were affected, we want to hear from you. Get in touch:
- The better to root out anti-semitism, clearly.
- Some people struggle with obvious sarcasm.
- Thank you @timothysnyder.bsky.social !!!
- “decide yourself” – Thank you, R.E.M. This support of Radio Free Europe is incredibly touching. ffm.to/remrfe2025?m...
- Thank you, Michael, for your music starting with this great song (the first one I heard anyway), all the songs thereafter and continuing, and your unwavering support for important causes like this.
- Dartmouth alums: You OK with Dartmouth's president cozying up to former Dartmouth Review editor-in-chief Harmeet Dhillon? Does it seem like Dartmouth is on the right track to you? Pls ✍🏼 this petition: chng.it/Xz8rcnKGkH and send comments to Alum Council: dartmouth.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- And let's be clear, Harmeet Dhillon is no stranger to anti-semitism. From her February 27, 2025 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:
- Are we there yet?
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- What happens when they learn about kosher food?
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- Yes, thank you, this is essential advice.
- This! But for @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
- And now Dartmouth alumni & faculty are uniting to tell Dartmouth to stand with the other Ivies! Three stories about our petition efforts: www.wmur.com/article/dart... www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/28/m... www.wcax.com/2025/04/28/d...
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View full threadYes they should. I got a very long blow off form email from ani relations.
- If you are a Stanford alum, get some friends together and start one yourself! That’s what I did. (For Dartmouth, obviously.)
- Does Stanford have an effort like this? They should!
- I was among those who pointed out that an inability to get Abrego Garcia made Trump look weak. Trump can't stand to look weak. Now he's acknowledged he can get Abrego Garcia back. In doing so, he's given the lawyers the ammunition they need to prevail in court. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- I agree with this assessment. He couldn't *not* say that he had the power to bring Abrego Garcia back. And so, he went off-script. Good, I hope it helps to bring him back.
- yes, signed! And sharing again.
- Here's what Dartmouth deserves this year -- your signature and your share! (and apologies if I have shared this with you already -- I'm still trying hard to reach all the D alums I can!) chng.it/Xz8rcnKGkH
- Thank you!!
- Princeton leading the "which college gets my Dartmouth alumni contribution this year (Ivy Edition)" contest. Prize: $25 + goddamn self-respect. standup.princeton.edu
- Here's what Dartmouth deserves this year -- your signature and your share! (and apologies if I have shared this with you already -- I'm still trying hard to reach all the D alums I can!) chng.it/Xz8rcnKGkH
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- Coverage from the student newspaper, The Dartmouth: www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
