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Erik Schneider

@erikschneider.bsky.social
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Professional mammal. Working in conservation policy, focused on birds. Based in Washington state on the South Sound prairie and the lands of the Nisqually. erikschneiderphoto.com

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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good write-up from NRDC on the permitting bill about the central tradeoffs. It's likely to facilitate renewable energy, but at the expense of more oil and gas development and other environmentally harmful projects, and it will accelerate the loss of nature. To me, it's a tragic situation.
nrdc.org
Hard Questions About the Permitting Bill
Before celebrating the benefits of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026, we need an honest accounting of its tradeoffs, especially how much additional fossil fuel development the...
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s a great day to be anti-environmentalist. You guys are really owning life on earth today.
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The premise that we have to sacrifice environmental justice and healthy land, water, and wildlife for climate progress is wrong. But that's the direction that benefits corporate profits the most.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When you're having a great week at the environmental protection factory
"Frankly, the sweet release of death does have some appeal." -the first sentence in a work email I just received
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/09/2026
One thing to bear in mind about a federal permitting bill is that its mistakes would be essentially permanent - Dems could only reverse mistakes with a filibuster-proof 60-vote supermajority in the Senate. Repubs, on the other hand, could use captured courts to shave off bits their donors dislike.
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is this a news article or opinion? The idea that the country can't build things anymore is just wrong. It's propaganda spread by corporations and conservative activists in order to get environmental deregulation.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Either deregulatory permitting reform or we never build clean energy at scale is such a false choice.
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Grand Canyon Trust @grandcanyontrust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As of yesterday, 23 new mining claims had been filed on lands illegally cut from Bears Ears National Monument.
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The need for more oil and gas profit is undeniable — pass “permitting reform” now.
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"He caught spelling errors in a project description written by a vendor charging hundreds of millions of dollars, which he saw as proof of a systemic malaise. The contract, he writes, 'stopped me cold.'" Thank you for your heroic work.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A really great piece by Rivka Galchen — shorebirds really are so amazing, but in need of our help! Such an honor to be able to Rivka see godwits up close in Alaska this summer.
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Andy McGlashen @amcglashen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Michigan's Great Lakes coasts once featured 160,000 acres of lakeplain prairie, a unique tallgrass system. Today less than .5% remains. Now conservation groups have until December 11 to raise enough money to save Sibley Prairie, the largest piece left. www.audubon.org/magazine/jus...
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Just Outside of Detroit, Time Is Running Out to Save a Globally Rare Prairie
To secure and protect Sibley Prairie, a unique, biodiverse ecosystem only 15 miles from the Motor City, environmental organizations must raise $6 million by the end of 2026.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Endangered Species Act is now endangered:
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Discover the State of the World’s Birds!🐦 This sixth edition by BirdLife International focuses on migratory birds and their flyways, and what they reveal about the state of nature, the drivers of biodiversity loss, and the solutions needed to reverse declines.🗺️ Find it here👉 sowb.birdlife.org
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Defang the Endangered Species Act
What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Documenting every insect that I come across.
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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.shop · 09/09/2026
The Whip-poor-will preorder is now open!!
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Attorney General Nick Brown @atg.wa.gov · 09/09/2026
We are co-leading a coalition of 21 AGs suing to maintain protections for endangered and threatened species imperiled by the federal administration.
Orca whale swimming near rocky shoreline illustrating Washington's fight to protect endangered species under federal law.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/09/2026
President Trump ordered the Interior Department to begin the process of removing endangered-species protections for gray wolves, intervening in a fight between conservationists and ranchers.
washingtonpost.com
Trump moves to allow ranchers and hunters to kill gray wolves
The president ordered his administration to lift Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves, again wading into a fraught debate between ranchers and conservationists.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Ranchers are visibly uncomfortable as Trump tells them they’re now empowered to kill wolves even though it’s illegal
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Op-ed: Do you care about the #Florida environment? Then you should vote NO on Gov. DeSastrous' boneheaded Amendment 3. www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2... via @audubon.org
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Care about Florida’s environment? Vote no on Amendment 3 | Column
The head of Audubon Florida makes a case against the proposed tax cuts on the November ballot.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Agree with this at a personal level, but unfortunately because liberal donors and policymakers read these guys, they do need monitoring and pushback. Probably more true for say the abundance pushers than someone trying to troll liberals from the right like Douthat.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
OMB's proposal to remake federal grantmaking was flooded with comments Now, they are withdrawing some from the public record — including some that point out Russell Vought's connection to the federally funded research that led to Trikafta www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...
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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lawmakers should make it easier to prosecute in that case. There's no way this should be legal.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One of the clear cut points for me, in understanding who did & did not take the far right authoritarian threat to the Republic seriously, was the Abundance guys granting the premise of birth tourism & going on Hanania’s podcast to promote their book: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 13/08/2026
« a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. it is wrong when it tends otherwise. » Aldo Leopold
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NRDC @nrdc.org · 12/08/2026
Listen up, California: Our coasts are at risk. Submit a comment today to protect our coast and ocean: on.nrdc.org/4g8Smzt
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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 12/08/2026
They’re going to have to do better than that.
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They're going to have to do better than that.
YouTube video by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 05/08/2026
On Wednesday, McSpadden said he saw a western yellow-billed cuckoo, a threatened species, in the cottonwood they are trying to save.
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Sierra Magazine @sierramagazine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Since returning to power, the Trump administration has stripped away land conservation rules, rolled back environmental protections, and reduced the size of monuments. Now, the administration is trying to leverage public lands to buildout AI infrastructure and massive data centers.
sierraclub.org
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The latest was supposed to be a solar project. Now, in a “bait and switch,” it’s set to power AI
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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Urgent: A botulism outbreak at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge is already killing hundreds of birds, and without immediate action, tens of thousands more could die. TAKE ACTION: birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/...
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Urgent: Water Needed at Klamath to Avoid Deaths of Thousands of Birds
Urgent: A botulism outbreak at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge is already killing hundreds of birds, and without immediate action, tens of thousands more could die. Please urge the Bureau of Reclam...
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John DeCock @jdecock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'd like to know what Congressional Candidates #ScottWeiner and #ConnieChan think of this. Weiner is pro-developer and anti "red tape," which is code for enviro protections . Solano Co.: Homebuilders Petition State To Drop Endangered Species Protection For Hawk share.google/bD5MqEvf0EYp...
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Solano Co.: Homebuilders Petition State To Drop Endangered Species Protection For Hawk
A homebuilders association is seeking to roll back protections for a hawk under California's Endangered Species Act -- the first delisting in 17 years, according to the state's Fish and Game...
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Restore the Prairie
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Buttigieg's consistently soft handling of Tesla and SpaceX -- and thus, of Elon Musk -- is a big old flashing vulnerability if any one of his political rivals want to land an nasty and entirely justified hit on him going forward
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 29/07/2026
I cannot emphasize enough how fucked up SpaceX's Texas site is and the Biden administration (specifically the FAA under Pete Buttigieg) gaslit everyone who pointed out this was de facto eminent domain (w no compensation) of protected wildlife habitat
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 27/07/2026
There's one more day to preorder the newly updated version of my first comics collection, Birding Is My Favorite Video Game, and get a PDF download of one of my most popular comics that you can't buy as a print. site.andrewsmcmeel.com/birding-is-m...
The cover of a book called Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Updated edition, cartoons about the natural world from bird and moon, by Rosemary Mosco, New York Times bestselling author. It shows various birds flying against a bright blue sky with a fluffy cloud background, assigned points values. Ivory-billed woodpecker is 5000 points, painted bunting is 60, cerulean warbler is 55, chipping sparrow is 5, and a wayward balloon is 0.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Some excellent news about the America Oystercatcher! Conservation efforts can make a big difference in saving the birds #birds 🌿 🥕
A large brown and white shorebird with a long red beak stands on the beach in front of the greenish blue ocean. Its beak is down as it pokes at a black mussel on the sand.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/07/2026
A shorebird known for its sharp, orange bill and beady eyes is making a comeback in North America thanks to a yearslong conservation effort.
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Oystercatchers, known for sharp bills and beady eyes, are making a comeback thanks to conservation
A shorebird known for its sharp, orange bill and beady eyes is making a comeback in North America thanks to a yearslong conservation effort.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 17/07/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration just announced an issuance of two rules that substantially weaken protections for imperiled species. It shouldn't be up to corporations to decide where imperiled species safely live.
Underwater picture of a manatee. There's a break news graphic above the manatee and text that reads: The Trump administration just gutted more protections for threatened wildlife nad critical habitat.
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 14/07/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is illegally changing the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by reversing a 50-year understanding that the law protects wildlife from habitat destruction.​
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/07/2026
President Trump signed orders to shrink two national monuments in Utah by more than a million acres each, potentially opening up vast wilderness and sacred tribal lands to exploration for minerals, oil and gas.
washingtonpost.com
Trump again shrinks two national monuments in Utah
The president’s orders trim Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments to a small fraction of their current size.
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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP “Build Baby Build”
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 13/07/2026
turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control
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