Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her)

First Ascent: The Epic Yosemite Rock-Climbing Rivalry of Royal Robbins and Warren Harding The Epic Yosemite Rock-Climbing Rivalry of Royal Robbins and Warren Harding

Illustrator Stevie Lewis and I are celebrating a book birthday!! FIRST ASCENT: THE EPIC YOSEMITE ROCK CLIMBING RIVALRY OF ROYAL ROBBINS & WARREN HARDING is out today from Yosemite Conservancy. Hope you'll pick up a copy for your favorite outdoorsy reader! bookshop.org/p/books/firs...

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

The world we’re in now

the world is better because you are in it

because you have the power to change everything

simply because of who you are

and who you choose to be

Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

This is the way the World is ending, not with a bang but a whimper

Scientists discover blue whales singing less because they are starving

The Global Climate Crisis is killing off their krill & plankton food

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

⚠️ President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency today rolled back tailpipe pollution standards *and* rescinded the landmark scientific finding that planet-heating pollution harms public health and welfare, which is a foundation of federal climate action. ⚠️

More info: biodiv.us/3U5bEv8

E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

I remember when Jill Stein told me there was no difference between the GOP and the Dems on climate change. 🤷🏽‍♂️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

POLITICO Pro: EPA to launch plan Tuesday for undoing climate rule cornerstone EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is planning to announce the move at an Indiana transportation facility.

EPA will move tomorrow to revoke the endangerment finding, the foundation for all US climate regulations, and emissions limits for cars and trucks.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will make the announcement in Indiana.

w/ @chemnick.bsky.social

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Israel begins daily pause in fighting in 3 Gaza areas to allow entry of 'minimal' aid The Israeli military on Sunday began a limited pause in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day, part of measures including airdrops as concerns grow over surging hunger and as Is...

"Minimal aid" is hardly a moral response when children are starving. This should not be political or controversial - we're talking about the most basic of all human rights. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Kid has friends over and they are watching videos for 90s songs on YouTube on our tv. Love listening to their analyses…so funny.

This is the summer of flooding across the US, and scientists know why | CNN Summer has increasingly become a season marked by deadly disasters, underscoring the escalating volatility of our warming world.

"It’s no accident this is the summer of flooding with 100-year to 1,000-year deluges happening nearly simultaneously in multiple states on multiple days."

THIS is a climate crisis.

Now, more than ever, we must fight like hell to protect our planet and hold those destroying it accountable.

Lessons From a Climate Disaster - Inside Climate News Bolivia’s record-setting 2024 wildfire season makes clear that emergency responses to climate disasters are not enough and governments must address the root of the problem, a new report says.

In an era of escalating climate disasters, a new report makes clear: emergency responses are not enough. Governments must address the root of the problem.

Oh this gives the game away. And it’s sick. How truly, unrelenting terrible these people are.

Trump has actually been remarkably successful in implementing his agenda and at the six month mark he's hit a low point in Gallup approval ratings. That's because the agenda is fundamentally unpopular! Something we tried desperately hard to communicate in 2024.

Rant: I’m really tired of finding small mammal roadkill on the walking/biking trails due to fast moving e-bikes.

The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.

House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein Every time I think Donald Trump is putting some distance between himself...

"It’s not too much to say that just as the House has been shut down to avoid more Epstein cover-up votes, the exec branch is now more or less exclusively focused on trying to shut down the Epstein story: MLK documents, a meeting w/Maxwell, a new Hillary/Obama treason probe. It’s all they’re doing."

Photo of Malcolm Jamal-Warner as an adult.

RIP to Malcolm Jamal-Warner, who reportedly has died after drowning in Costa Rica at the age of 54.

For many of us, he was the brother we never had on The Cosby Show. He later appeared on shows like The Resident.

He leaves behind a wife and daughter.

This one hurts.

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes image of a person with long hair in a pond, surrounded by trees and the night sky

Sitting here with an advance copy of this and it is hard to imagine a more timely book!

I think this book from @akpress.org/edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social will save lives, and I encourage you all to preorder and nudge your local library about it. #BookSky

www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

LAST CHANCE! OHIO NORTH BANNER CONTEST See link in bio for details! Submission Due TOMORROW: July 21, 2025 andreazupcsan andreazupcsan https://www.andreazupcsan.com/ Many thanks to our 2023 winner - Andrea Zupcsan! SCBWI Ohio North Regional Conference October 3-4, 2025 where stories take flight SCBWI Ohio North Region SOCIETY of CHILDREN'S BOOK WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS Insta: @scbwi_nohio BlueSky: @scbwi-ohionorth.bsky.social scbwi.org/regions/ohionorth

LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT! The deadline for the Banner Contest is MONDAY, JULY 21st! www.scbwi.org/regions/ohio...

#SCBWIOhioNorth encourages #Ohio #kidlit illustrators to submit an image to be used as our website banner!!!

And the world looks the other way.

Just tried to do interlibrary loan - which I have been planning on using heavily in the research phase of this book - only to be told interlibrary loan at the DCPL no longer exists thanks to Trump’s cuts

The level to which he sucks knows no bounds. He needs to stay the hell away from our Guardians…and our local high school which made a mascot change for the better.

People need to go to prison for these stories.

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.

Bingo!!

YouTube video by Federal Workers Against DOGE EPA employee 'I Do Solemnly Swear' series

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If you’re inspired to hear more of what we in the gvt do for you, check out all the other 📻
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.