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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. 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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
It is clear that Democrats are set to sweep control of Congress in free and fair elections. It is also clear that Trump and the GOP are working to make sure the elections are not free and fair. I founded Democracy Docket to help you stay informed to fight back. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Katherine Dawes (KD-eval) @kd-eval.bsky.social · 9h
And the students would be right to do so. I've been uniquely frustrated by the leadership of my Alma Mater's attitude toward academic AI use this year. Showing a serious lack of judgment about student development generally, and in this case specifically, a lack of integrity.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28/09/2026
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven students after being plied with alcohol and drugs. to.pbs.org/3VFF4nr
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Prosecutor reopens probe into Cornell gang rape allegations after accuser files lawsuit
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted in 2024 ...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When legacy media compare Orban's treatment of the press to Trump's, do they realize they're telling on themselves? Big corporate media folded. Independent media stood up there and is standing up here. Support Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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❌ Rosie The Boomer❌💪🐏⚖️☮️🍷🧶✊🪧🌹 @judyhartmant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
substack.com/@seniorstaki...
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Seniors Taking Action (@seniorstakingaction)
Please urge your elected officials to stop spending time and money on this non-issue.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Weather West post out this evening! I discuss the hyperactive East and Central Pacific hurricane season, as well as the upcoming heatwave across CA--and also why even a dry & warm autumn tells us essentially nothing about the El Niño winter to come.
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A parade of East Pacific hurricanes will miss CA (but soak the interior Southwest) before major, long-duration autumn heatwave builds - Weather West
September 27, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A hyperactive tropical East Pacific slings hurricanes toward Hawaii and Baja California, with indirect effects (modest moisture & potentially damaging ocean waves) in SoCal It has already been a remarkable, and arguably historic, East Pacific hurricane season. Three hurricanes (Lala, Lowell, Nolo) have now directly impacted the Hawaiian Islands (though none made formal landfall), with #
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My letter to the editor, published in the Davis Enterprise: the case for voting for Mike Thompson over Eric Jones in CA's District 4 congressional race, in less than 350 words. It's an easy choice. Vote for Mike Thompson. ✅ www.davisenterprise.com/forum/letter...
Would you vote for a congressional candidate who had endorsed a variety of Republican positions while at the same time touting his progressive credentials and connections to candidates like Ro Khanna? Someone who:  advocated for “immigration reform” for a “secure border”, said he was “ashamed” of Prop 50, called for “sunsetting” federal programs, donated to Republican politicians including a member of the Bush family?

What if you learned that he had, in a very short amount of time, flip-flopped his views on important issues such as data centers and Medicare for All?  What if you found out that he had distributed two versions of the same flyer on the same block of the same street, one for Republicans and one for Democrats?

What if you further learned that he had no political track record to back up his ever-changing political promises?  That he been a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm for 8 years (12 in total), allowing him to dump $5 million of his own money into his campaign?  And that on top of that, former colleagues and associates from the same firm continue to dump millions more into his congressional campaign, including a Super PAC, a legal but shady way to skirt campaign donation limits?  (If you’ve been deluged with mailers, flyers, and intrusive texts, now you know why). 

Citizens of Congressional District 4, the candidate described above is Eric Jones, recently resigned from Dragoneer Investment Group.  He would represent the interests of out-of-district tech oligarchs — resisting needed protective regulations at every turn — rather than the interests of ordinary citizens, whether Republican or Democratic.

What if you were to further learn that there was another candidate, Mike Thompson, who has seniority and thus power to wield in the House, who has a proven and known political track record, who has deep roots in our district along with military service, who has legislative accomplishments in areas as diverse as affordability, climate c…
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
While Trump rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping at the White House, China was doing something VERY different at the United Nations...
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World Leaders Challenge Trump as China Gains Global Influence
Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · September 27 · 30m
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Susan is starting to twist and misrepresent the truth to escape this story. But ProPublica isn’t letting her. Video: buff.ly/1Bmcol4
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Total spent attacking Mike Thompson and supporting Eric Jones in CA-04 race is now closer to *** $4 million *** But yeah, Jones is against corporate PACs and special interests. 😏. Meanwhile, New Leadership Now is out-of-district Silicon Valley 💰. Hmmm... 🤔
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A book that changed the world and led the way for the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. 📗
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow Trump's voter suppression database to move forward. It then ruled 9-0 to reject the GOP's gerrymander scheme in Missouri. I created Democracy Docket for times like this. Help support it by subscribing now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just checked—the total ad buys from the New Leadership Now Super PAC, including both the primary and the general election, is now $3,931,533 Almost FOUR MILLION DOLLARS. ON A CONGRESSIONAL RACE. Yeah, I'm sure that's the largesse of tech bros wanting wants best for their neighbors to the north.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A brave woman who captured the truth of Alex Pretti’s murder and spoke publicly about it. Hero. Video: buff.ly/Y81RLRm
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👀Super PAC pours in over $1.3MM in first 3 weeks of Sept to attack Mike Thompson & prop up Eric Jones.💰💰 Those Silicon Valley oligarch donors —Jones' buddies from his time as partner of the venture capitalist Dragoneer Investment Group—must really want their guy in Congress fighting high tech regs.
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Eric Jones hates Corporate PACs, but loves him those Super PACs
Super PAC New Leadership Now pours in over $1.3MM in first three weeks of September to attack Mike Thompson, prop up Eric Jones
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rosario2024.bsky.social @rosario2024.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
youtu.be/7Etzq0owP5c?...
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MUST-SEE: Mike Thompson EXPOSES Trump's Trade LIES At Hearing With The Numbers
YouTube video by Daniel Reed
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Cameron Kuss @ckuss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.thewaryone.com/p/eric-jones...
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Eric Jones is on a one-man crusade to keep the U.S. Postal Service in business
Challenging Mike Thompson is a steep mountain to climb
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Merci Merci Me @mercime.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
davisite.org/2026/04/19/w... Where does he get his donations?
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Who is Eric Jones, the candidate seeking to unseat Mike Thompson in Congress?
And who is funding his campaign? Four mailers and a canvasser handout…. so far. By Roberta Millstein With the increasingly regular appearance of glossy mailers from Eric Jones’s campaign seek…
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just the latest ad buy from the Dragoneer-associated venture capitalist/bigtech-funded Super PAC that has spent over $3.5 million on Eric Jones's congressional campaign, inundating citizens of district 4 with attack ads against Mike Thompson and deceptive ads about Jones's record.
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To share: Links to articles about Eric Jones
By request, here are links to Davisite articles about Eric Jones’s bid to unseat Mike Thompson in the House, plus his recent donation #s (as best as I can determine them), for easy sharing wi…
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the record: The University of California has never asked me for anything like this. But I am seeing this line of questioning arising in a rapidly growing number of American contexts. It has been asked of me, personally, elsewhere. And that is very, very alarming.
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@schiff.senate.gov , here is another constituent urging a YES vote on the War Powers Act! 💪🏼💙
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
After @gillianbrockell.com reported that ICE was violating a court order to stop third-country removals, a lawsuit cited her reporting and a judge, agreeing with the case, demanded that ICE not move a detainee to send them to a third country. We get results. prospect.org/2026/09/24/j...
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Judges Reject ICE’s Underhanded Attempt to Maintain Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
An appeals court made clear deportation flights to third countries must stop immediately, but flight data showed ICE may be violating the order.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Truly incredible how Trump has destroyed every single Republican talking point just in time for the midterms
Screenshot of an X post from the verified “Senate Republicans” account, @SenateGOP. The post reads: “Democrat socialists love to promise free stuff. But they never mention who pays for it.” Beneath the post is an X Community Note labeled “Readers added context.” The note states: “President Donald Trump has proposed several direct cash payouts and rebates funded by tariffs or budget cuts. None were provided.” It lists links from WBAL-TV, ABC7 Chicago, YouTube, and The New York Times as sources. At the bottom of the screenshot, the post is timestamped 4:06 PM on September 23, 2026, and shows 352,000 views.
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Has Eric Jones been transparent with voters in CD4? Or has he been paying progressive social media influencers without requiring them to make state mandated disclosures? The deception in Eric Jones's congressional campaign is starting to seem like a bottomless well. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Pay to Play: Eric Jones and Progressive Influencers
Jones’ campaign has links to influencers caught up in investigations for failing to comply with state disclosure requirements.
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Is it Harmeet Dhillon’s time to go yet ?
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 22/09/2026
"Corporate avarice under Trump has become so blatant and corporate America’s contempt for the needs of average Americans so flagrant that most Americans are now catching on," writes @rbreich.bsky.social.
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AI is generating a new wave of US populism. It could be a tipping point | Robert Reich
It’s becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chin
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: Republicans are encouraging voters to request mail ballots, despite filing lawsuits to restrict mail-voting deadlines, overseas voting and permanent absentee laws over the past six years. Experts say the push shows the party's duplicitous faith in mail voting security.
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‘Hypocritical’: RNC pushes mail voting for its supporters while attacking it in court
The RNC has sued across the country to restrict mail voting. But it also paid for emails and a website telling voters to “request your mail-in ballot now,” a Democracy Docket analysis found.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026
Trump held a White House event Monday without the usual television pool, leaving his remarks inaudible after major networks suspended pooled coverage in response to his ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
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Trump Rants Into the Void as Press Ban Backfires Spectacularly
Trump held a White House event Monday without the usual television pool, leaving his remarks inaudible after major networks suspended pooled coverage in response to his ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico...
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Not Eric Jones, running as a Democrat against another Democrat (Mike Thompson) in CA's District 4. Jones was against it, then briefly for it, now against again, as described in the report from one of his town halls. davisite.org/2026/09/16/e...
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Eric Jones, a moving target, Part 1: The Davis town hall
By John Smolenski      I went to the town hall Eric Jones held on August 26 at Watermelon Music. I came away from the town hall without a clear sense of why Jones is running for…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are still 380 subscribers short of our weekend goal. If you want to help Democracy Docket grow its influence and scale, sign-up now (free or paid). demdock.com/4w6emld
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😳 Congressional district CA-04: If you care about topics like immigration, women's reproductive rights, housing, the federal budget, & taxes, head on over to this thorough analysis of Eric Jones's ever-changing website—there are some real shockers there, v different from what he has said in person.
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Eric Jones, a moving target, Part II: The website(s)
By John Smolenski          I wrote previously about my disappointing experience at the townhall Eric Jones held in Davis on August 26. I had previously looke…
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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm trying to organize a session at the 2027 @ishpssb.bsky.social meeting in Buenos Aires on philosophical, historical, or social science issues related to random drift. Mike Dietrich has expressed interest. Please contact me if you think you might be interested or have questions.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fox News is now defending CNN, which is obviously the smart thing to do. Even they realize the tides always turn. They said, “Don’t ban them. Or one day, they’ll ban us.” The MAGA movement is really falling apart.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: California enacts new safeguards aimed at blocking potential election interference by Trump in the midterms. The laws make illegal ballot seizures and certain efforts to disrupt mail voting felonies.
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California enacts new election safeguards against potential Trump interference in midterms
It’s the latest move by the Golden State to prevent law enforcement or federal officials from disrupting the counting of votes ahead of the midterms.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am setting a very ambitious goal this weekend of 1000 new Democracy Docket subscribers. No spam, or unwanted emails. Just information and analysis about what is happening to voting and elections. Link: demdock.com/4w6emld
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, including renting out a private island. National security experts say it raises an urgent question: What motivated Kremlev to spend a fortune cultivating the connection?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
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Massie, Khanna Say They Have Secured 218 Signatures for New Epstein Files Vote
The announcement comes hours after MeidasTouch reported the discharge petition was just two signatures short of the threshold needed to force a House vote.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/09/2026
Trump's DOJ suffered yet another bruising defeat in its crusade to collect states' private voter data, this time in Vermont. “Indeed, the United States has provided no factual basis for its demand,” U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Lanthier wrote: demdock.com/4AqSy6D
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Or in at least one case, someone pretending to be a Democrat… although his mask is slipping. Eric Jones, CA-04. davisite.org/2026/09/15/t...
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To share: Links to articles about Eric Jones
*** This is a pinned post — scroll down if you’re looking for new Davisite articles on other topics By request, here is a set of links to Davisite articles about Eric Jones’s bid to uns…
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
By request, I made a post summarizing Davisite articles about Eric Jones's bid to unseat Mike Thompson in CA Congressional District 04. TLDR: he is a Silicon Valley-backed candidate with an ever-shifting platform, the millions of big tech/AI 💰 being the only constant. But check out the 📝 for deets.
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To share: Links to articles about Eric Jones
*** This is a pinned post — scroll down if you’re looking for new Davisite articles on other topics By request, here is a set of links to Davisite articles about Eric Jones’s bid to uns…
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's an article that gives an account of Eric Jones's Aug 26 townhall in Davis. Seems like he was dodging a lot of questions, e.g., about connections to his venture capitalist Dragoneer Investment Group, and more generally saying things that were vague or problematic. davisite.org/2026/09/16/e...
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Eric Jones, a moving target, Part 1: The Davis town hall
By John Smolenski      I went to the town hall Eric Jones held on August 26 at Watermelon Music. I came away from the town hall without a clear sense of why Jones is running for Congress in Distric…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court REJECTS Department of Justice effort to restore U.S. Postal Service mail-in voting rule. A huge victory for voting rights and free and fair elections. A defeat for Trump and his scheme to rig the elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
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🚨 State of California et al v. United States Postal Service et al
Learn more here.
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