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Kierán Suckling

@kieransuckling.bsky.social
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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.

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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just because.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
True Words don't have to be ancient or distant from science. Funga was also coined by scientists in 2000 It will become ancient though, maybe in 500 years, because it's a beneficial parasite, symbiotically nourishing itself on "flora" & "fauna". It's being drawn into their their symbolic ecosystem.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Scientists coined "mycobiota" about 2000. Never caught on. Clear, but ugly. A term, not a word. Flora and fauna are Words. They have charm, mytho-mycorrhizal tendrils reaching back to Pan, Roman goddesses of flowers, blooming, fertility and Earth, the half-human forest spirits we call fauns. Fawns.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Loving the new word "funga". Flora and fauna name the plants and animals of a place or time: flora of Maine, Pleistocene fauna. They are lovely, evocative because rooted in poetry & myth. Fungi had no such word, perhaps because they're hidden, mysterious, somehow deeply earthy and other-wordly.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
El Tecolote isn't happy with ICE. At the Luchadores in Tucson
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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
BREAKING: the Trump admin is green-lighting Utah's attempt to assert control over 8 million acres of public land without a vote, notice or public input. After failing to seize public lands outright, Utah is chipping away at at public land ownership at large. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
4. Descartes' claim that animals feel no pain, have no psychologicalvexperience was rejected by his 16th century audience. We've learned vastly more since then. More every day. We have to act on this knowledge that every normal person possesses. Treat animals humanely. jemastl.com/2017-8-31-th...
jemastl.com
Is Your Pet Thinking: I Think Therefore I Am? - JEMA
JEMA is a planning, architecture, and design firm located in St. Louis. Our strength is collaboration. Our mission is to transform and inspire.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
3. Humans are also a domesticated species: most of us live in densely populated, highly controlled, Nature-limited environments. Of course, we also suffer high levels of anxiety, depression, fear, perceived lack of meaningful agency We also need to be rewilded. Aims of urban planning need to change
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
2. The big psychological improvement of rewilded lab rats, while surprising to the researches, is not unique: we've long known spending time in Nature is good for human well-being. Nature-based therapy has been used for 100s of years. We are as much mammal as human, as much animal as mammal.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
1. Human psych drugs are tested on lab rats for negative effects. But the rats are not healthy: they're anxious, afraid, depressed. It's like using the response of prisoners to measure health. The authors speculate this may be why 90% of drugs "successfully" tested on lab rats don't work on humans.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Rewilding erased the fear & anxiety rats developed while living in highly controlled labs environments. They need the harmonious diversity, simultaneous stimulation of body & mind, agency, competency (and beauty?) that Nature provides to thrive 4 implications 4 humans: defector.com/what-a-week-...
defector.com
What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse | Defector
Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mou...
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is great.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I read it! One of your footnotes to an article chronicling the multiple closures of the Beara mine helped me pin down the year my grandfather emigrated.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
UT Congressman Mike Lee's war on #PublicLands continues. This time it's a rider to sell off National Parks. The future of public lands isn't privatization, it's W³: Water, Wildlife and Wonder for people. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Sen. Lee Declares War on National Parks With Land-Sale Amendment
Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Sen. Mike Lee has introduced an amendment to the Interior appropriations bill that would remove language preventing the sale of America’s national parks an...
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
@irishrainforest.bsky.social doing God's work on the Beara Peninsula. My grandfather and 1000s more emigrated from Beara to the Butte, MT mines in early 1900s. He took up bootlegging instead. Took $ back & moved the family north to easier farming in County Meath www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The result was amazing’: one man’s mission to reforest a barren Irish hillside
Eoghan Daltun has spent 14 years rewilding part of Beara peninsula into a showcase of diversity
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It’s scientifically and ethically wrong to say, “It’s too late to stop climate change.” At Project Drawdown, we will never give up.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This headline. And followed by "“the country doesn’t want to see his “bloated, fragile, attention-seeking” headshot.” Ouch! www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/de...
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Environmentalists sue to erase Trump’s ‘bloated’ face from appearing on national parks pass
An environmental group filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a judge to stop the government from putting President Trump’s face on a new national parks and monuments pass, saying the country doesn’t want t...
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“Blotting out the majesty of America’s national parks with a close-up of his own face is Trump’s crassest, most ego-driven action yet,” said Kierán Suckling, the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/c...
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Lawsuit Challenges Park Service Passes Featuring Trump
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Here's the contest-winning photo legally required to be on the National Parks Annual Pass next to the pass Trump is forcing everyone to use instead. You tell me, which best invokes the majesty and beauty of America's national parks?
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Lawsuit filed! “Blotting out the majesty of America’s national parks with a closeup of his own face is Trump’s crassest, most ego-driven action yet. The national parks are not a personal branding opportunity. They’re the pride and joy of the American people" biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Lawsuit Filed to Strike Trump’s Face From National Parks Pass
Center for Biological Diversity: 'National Parks Are Not a Personal Branding Opportunity. They're the Pride and Joy of the American People.'
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
2666 is one of my favorites, though in places, a slog.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass. By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it. Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Here as the majestic National Parks and #PublicLands featured on the last 14 America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands passes:
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The 2014-2022 National Park passes. Not a bloated ego in sight. Every president but Trump, regardless of political party, agreed that National Parks are America's great treasure, above partisan politics & personal ego. That's why the law mandates the image reflect timeless Nature, not politicians
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Which of the 2023-2026 National Park passes do u think meet the legal standard of being "used as a means to educate the American people about Federal recreational lands and waters"? Which pass screams: "Look at me! I'm not a failure. I'm not cringy sensitive to flattery. I'm extremely powerful"?
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass. By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it. Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal
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Susanbeth5781 @susanpatrick1.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Watch this video from @kieransuckling.bsky.social and @biologicaldiversity.org I have been a member for many years.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We Are Eating the Earth is a must read. There's no viable future on Earth without deep agricultural reform. It's our largest and least talked about planetary impact, especially meat production. @mikegrunwald.bsky.social cuts thru the feel good "regenerative ranching" promos show it doesn't scale.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A must read.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“Trump has turned government websites into campaign billboards. This isn’t public service, it’s Trump fan fiction.” @biologicaldiversity.org files Hatch Act complaints against US Forest Service and Dept of Health and Human Services. thehill.com/policy/energ...
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Unbelievable! Seaker Johnson is refusing to swear Adelita Grijalva into the House of Representatives, though her election was a landslide. She's the tipping vote that will force the release of the Epstein files against his campaign to suppress them. www.newsweek.com/johnson-accu...
newsweek.com
Johnson accused of delaying Democrat's swearing in to avoid Epstein vote
Democrats are accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of delaying swearing in a new representative over Epstein files.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
More on the TRO here. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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Appeals court blocks Oak Flat land swap, giving copper mine opponents a late reprieve
Hours before a disputed land swap was to take effect, an appeals court halted the process, giving copper mine opponents more time.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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!
Number sticker saying "MY MOM IS ON TH "86" LIST AT CHILKOOT CHARLIE'S"
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Why is there something instead of nothing? And how is the asking built into the hunting?
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“It’s a total success for Trump if all the actions get struck down by the courts, but he has bullied and intimidated the funders to stop donating to environmental causes,” Suckling said. “If you’re not fighting, you’re allowing our nation to veer into a facism." www.philanthropy.com/article/trum...?
philanthropy.com
Trump Threats to Tax-Exempt Status: Can the Rhetoric Become Reality?
Nonprofits are bracing for what may represent the administration’s most direct action against them to date. Experts caution groups not to panic.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thank you so much!
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“It’s a total success for Trump if all the actions get struck down by the courts, but he has bullied and intimidated the funders to stop donating to environmental causes,” Suckling said. “If you’re not fighting, you’re allowing our nation to veer into a facism." www.philanthropy.com/article/trum...?
philanthropy.com
Trump Threats to Tax-Exempt Status: Can the Rhetoric Become Reality?
Nonprofits are bracing for what may represent the administration’s most direct action against them to date. Experts caution groups not to panic.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“Trump is marshaling all the power of government to punish his perceived enemies," Suckling said. "We’ve got a crack legal team and will have him in court within 24 hours. We’re ready and waiting for him to come at us.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Law firms, universities and now civil society groups are in Trump's sights for punitive action
First, the nation’s top law firms
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Sometimes autocorrect is perfect.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Sometimes autocorrect is perfect.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Please do send.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“Trump is marshaling all the power of government to punish his perceived enemies," Suckling said. "We’ve got a crack legal team and will have him in court within 24 hours. We’re ready and waiting for him to come at us.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Law firms, universities and now civil society groups are in Trump's sights for punitive action
First, the nation’s top law firms
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Trump twice today, in front of the media, said he wants to deport "home-grown" American citizens to prisons in El Salvador.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 14/04/2025
Vengeance of the AI era: Palo Alto crosswalks were hacked into this weekend to play various recordings of Zuck & Musk saying some sad & naughty things. 😅 #goodtrouble #Teslatakedown
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
See you in court orange man.
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