Kierán Suckling
kieransuckling.bsky.social
Kierán Suckling
@kieransuckling.bsky.social
Executive Director, Center for Biological Diversity. Philosopher, biocentrist, feminist, anti-racist. #SavingLifeOnEarth.

We stopped most of Trump's first term agenda and will fight like hell to stop it this term, too.
Donald Trump is extremely mad at @biologicaldiversity.org today for winning a last-minute TRO saving sacred Apache land at Oak Flat from being given to a foreign mining company to destroy.

He can choke on his own sickening allcaps bile for all I care. We'll never give up the fight for Oak Flat.
August 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Is the FBI going to investigate Chilkoot Charlie's for threatening to assassinate this poor fellow's mother?

Who knew Anchorage's most iconic bar keeps a kill list!
May 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
April 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Sometimes autocorrect is perfect.
April 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
BREAKING: Trump today issued his most unhinged, illegal Executive Order yet. It orders federal agencies to "sunset" nearly all U.S. enviromental regulations implementing everything from the Endangered Species Act to the Safe Drinking Water Act.

@biologicaldiversity.org will sue the second he tries.
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Here in the U.S. we drag massive chains across public lands destroying the pinyon and juniper trees in a vain attempt to produce more cattle feed.
April 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The dire wolf has NOT been brought back from extinction

Colossal Biosciences just edited a few genes in a gray wolf to make it superficially look like a dire wolf

It has repeatedly made fraudulent deextinction claims about other species to raise investor money and the media falls for it EVERY TIME
April 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Viva Macho G.

Raul Grijalva (1948-2025)
March 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Congressman Raul Grijalva has died. There's never been a truer, stronger, more visionary, more dedicated environmentalist in Congress.

We called him Macho G after Arizona's most famous jaguar, Macho B. He loved it.

Here's the last text I sent him. From @biologicaldiversity.org's staff retreat.
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Had this enforcement-refusal been in place during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon, BP would not have been forced to pay the $100 million in fines that it did to clean up the Gulf of Mexico and save birds.
March 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
BREAKING: @biologicaldiversity.org has intervened in lawsuit by State of Texas on behalf of oil & gas industry to strip #EndangeredSpeciesAct protection from the dunes sagebrush lizard, endemic to oil drilling country on the TX/NM border.

Trump's DOJ won't fight the suit against USFWS, so we will.
March 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
March 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's a date. 9th Circuit in four years. Till then...
March 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Dear Elon,

Here's a list of @biologicaldiversity.org's accomplishments this week. We sued DOGE for hiding documents from the public and @realDonaldTrump thrice to save endangered species. Last week we sued Trump 7 times for destroying oceans, wetlands and wildlife.

Efficient enough for you?
March 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Lost words, lost worlds.

"Bärenschliffe" means "bear polishes". It's the word for cave rocks smoothed to marble by bears rubbing on or past them over thousands of years.

This one from Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, Southwest France, has a bear drawn on it.
February 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
To hide his criminal plundering of our government,
@elonmusk wants to fire reporters for revealing the names of DOGE employees, i.e. government employees.
February 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Trump and Musk's shuttering of the DOJ's Office of Environmental Justice proves the goal isn't cost cutting or efficiency. The tiny OEP brings in tens of millions of $ from illegal polluters. Without that, tax payers have to foot the clean up bill

From OEJ's deleted-today annual enforcement report:
February 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Continuing its long downward spiral, REI has endorsed Burgum to be Trump's Secretary of the Interior, bizarrely claiming he is a protector of public lands and water.

It's joined by famous enviros RV Industry Assoc, National Marine Manufacturers Assoc, Motorcycle Industry Council, & CHM Gov Services
February 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In other news...
January 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Handy guide to help prevent your awkward hand gesture from going awry.

(I don't have the original cite for this unfortunately)
January 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
One of these things is not like the other.

(Wired, The Guardian and New York Times on Musk's obvious Nazi salute to Trump)
January 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Buckle up, it's going to be a raucous four years of blocking Trump's illegal actions.
January 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
So it begins...

@centerforbiodiv.bsky.social sued Trump today minutes after he was sworn. We're demanding the hidden records of Musk's DOGE Committee which will reveal his illegal, right-wing maneuvering to trash America's air, water and wildlife.

biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
January 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Please re-tweet so I can quit X. I've got 45k followers there, just 500 here. When I get to 5k I can dump Musk forever

I'm the director of @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social. Follow me for real-time, insider takes on endangered species, climate, public lands, oceans, toxics. We sue Trump alot. Very alot.
December 13, 2024 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING. in response to @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social petitions and lawsuits, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service today proposed to protect 3,974 river miles as "critical habitat" in 17 midwest and eastern states to save the endangered rayed bean, sheepnose, snuffbox and spectaclecase mussels.
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM