@krisboyles.bsky.social
Seattle-based attorney and advocate with Earthjustice. Environment, soccer, family, Mars rovers, Oxford comma—not necessarily in that order. Posts/opinions my own.
These proposed regulations follow a series of other attacks on the ESA and wildlife by the second Trump administration.
“Most people are not going to allow the sacrifice of our natural world to a bunch of billionaires and corporate interests,” said Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles.
The Clean Water Act is a bedrock environmental law. Weakened by the Supreme Court. But indeed: Still vital.
With some good, hard work, we can revitalize this law for the enduring benefit of our country’s waters and *all* living things.
Every. Single. One. Of. Us.
'Portland Frog' by artist Nikkolas Smith. Unidentified person in a frog suit standing up to armed federal agents in Portland Oregon.
Author and illustrator, Nikkolas Smith, draws 'Portland Frog'
12.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 270 🔁 35 💬 8 📌 5Geno Suarez hits a Grand Slam to put the Mariners up 6-2 and seal Game 5 of the ALCS!
"The City is Shaking!"
#SeizeTheMoment
(Humpy’s also known as a pink salmon)
11.10.2025 05:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yup, always need more salmon!
11.10.2025 05:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We always want more salmon!!
11.10.2025 05:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BREAKING: Jorge Polanco hit a game-ending single in the 15th inning, and the Seattle Mariners advanced to the AL Championship Series by outlasting the Detroit Tigers for a 3-2 victory in the longest winner-take-all postseason game in baseball history.
11.10.2025 05:24 — 👍 339 🔁 66 💬 10 📌 17America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
We’re hiring at Earthjustice in Seattle! If you are a litigation professional looking to match your skills with your passions — check us out! jobs.jobvite.com/careers/eart...
27.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any
other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only
if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival.
Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." -- Sotomayor dissent
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
27.06.2025 02:09 — 👍 15633 🔁 3032 💬 65 📌 338This is death by procedure, requiring each individual plaintiff over whom Trump attempts remove in accordance with this EO to file their own case & get their own injunction against the govt or file a class action lawsuit. And the Court hates class actions and regularly strikes them down.
27.06.2025 14:26 — 👍 418 🔁 121 💬 10 📌 4Super-quick take while reading the ruling:
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
If the law allows some people to act unjustly/immorally towards others with impunity—as it always has—it isn’t serving justice. Decades of slow progress to change that have caused many to conflate “the law” with “justice.” But we should be awake now to the fact that the law itself is not justice.
22.06.2025 15:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
22.06.2025 02:03 — 👍 71500 🔁 16342 💬 334 📌 1325Two of these non-renewable wood pellet plants are proposed in Washington, and local communities are fighting back!
21.06.2025 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Matt Yglesias Twitter post stating that Mike Lee's plan to sell western federal land is pretty reasonable.
2025 State of the Rockies poll providing that less than a quarter of voters in AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY think selling national public lands for housing development is the best approach. From: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/stateoftherockies/conservationinthewest/2025.html
Who thinks that selling off federal public lands--a heritage shared by present and future generations of Americans--is a really good idea despite that idea being wildly unpopular in the U.S. West?
@mattyglesias.bsky.social, that's who.
Read this!
18.06.2025 21:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Big news for clean air!
@earthjustice.org taps @lasmogguy.bsky.social to lead the Right To Zero Campaign, guiding our electrifying work in California, New York, and the DMV 🎉
earthjustice.org/press/2025/e...
BREAKING: Elon Musk’s xAI facility is polluting South Memphis, we’re taking action.
Get the latest: www.selc.org/news/resista...
Beavers are awesome! Go Oregon!
17.06.2025 03:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Seattle on the march today!!
14.06.2025 22:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
08.06.2025 21:54 — 👍 47182 🔁 14612 💬 2982 📌 1381
@degette.house.gov, thank you for voting against the Fix Our Forests Act. You hold the line for CO’s wildfire fighters, risking their lives to protect people from greed-fueled catastrophic fires. Thanks for taking a stand & defending the roadless rule. Bosques maduros protegen futuros!
05.06.2025 14:06 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0People get it—we can’t protect endangered fish and wildlife and destroy their homes, their habitat at the same time.
20.05.2025 15:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
Today is #EndangeredSpeciesDay. The best thing you can do today? Help save the Endangered Species Act — which has a remarkable success rate of save 99% of species it protects from extinction.
If you haven't already, submit your public comment by May 19th: biodiv.us/3YOLBe6
Calling all scientists! There's less than one week left to boost support to protect endangered species' habitat safeguards in the Endangered Species Act.
Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: biodiv.us/4mojih5
