We shouldn't have to navigate a minefield of dangerous cyanide to enjoy our country's wild places.
Tell the Bureau of Land Management: No deadly cyanide bombs
BLM Principal Deputy Director Bill Groffy,
M-44 devices, or cyanide bombs, are too dangerous to allow on public lands. In 2017, an Idaho boy and his dog were exploring near their home when they detonated a cyanide bomb. The dog died within minutes, and the child was poisoned and rushed to the hospital.
Cyanide bombs are intended to kill predatory animals — but the fact is that no one can control what, or who, will detonate a cyanide bomb once it’s been deployed. Thousands of animals are killed by these devices annually, including endangered species.
Our public lands should be safe for people, wildlife and pets to explore. We shouldn’t have to navigate a minefield of dangerous cyanide to enjoy our country’s wild places.
I strongly urge you to reinstate a ban on M-44 devices on the 245 million acres of public lands managed by the BLM
Our public lands are a cherished legacy to be passed along to future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder.
Tell your U.S. senators: Public lands belong in public hands
When we see public lands, we see some of America’s most important natural spaces. From the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone, to the national forest down the road where you hike, camp or swim, these are places that are worth protecting.
But some members of Congress don’t see wild places that need to be protected. Instead, they see dollar signs that they can sell off for development.
Tell your U.S. senators: Public lands belong in public hands.
Right now, a foreign mining company wants to roll back protections and build a toxic mine right at the headwaters of two rivers that feed Bristol Bay, an area that currently sustains more than 30 million wild salmon and some of the world’s most spectacular wildlife.
This reckless mining threatens this entire ecosystem and will cause irreversible damage to our environment.
Protecting salmon strongholds means protecting healthy forests, climate action, recreation opportunities, wild protein, and local jobs.
Now is the time to act. Join us and speak up for Bristol Bay and salmon strongholds around the Pacific. Add your name today.
The Arctic Refuge should be protected, not sold off to the highest bidder for oil and gas drilling. Decades of leadership from the Gwich'in people and sustained pressure from people like you have kept oil companies out of the Arctic Refuge, and it's crucial that they stay out.
Tell Big Oil today: Do not bid on Arctic Refuge leases! Not now, not ever.
U.S. factory farms are raising more animals than ever before, affecting the environment and accelerating climate change.
Big Ag’s factory farm model — which treats farms as animal warehouses, farmworkers as expendable, and the environment as a dumping ground — harms us all, and especially those living next to them. This report documents some of the most egregious damages caused by factory farm expansion, including:
Polluted Water: U.S. counties like Washington County, Iowa are overflowing with factory farm manure that threatens clean water. In 2022, Washington County’s factory hog farms produced 4.8 billion pounds of manure — 156 times as much as the county’s human population, and more than all Iowans combined.
Polluted Air: Maryland’s factory chicken farms in 2022 produced enough manure to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool each day, while releasing a slew of toxic air pollutants and odors that plague nearby residents.
Food Supply Disruptions: Factory farms are ripe breeding grounds for pathogens like bird flu, which was blamed for spikes in egg prices in 2022 and 2023. While consumers pay more, corporations can rake in record profits; Cal-Maine (the U.S.’s largest egg producer) enjoyed a five-and-a-half fold increase in net income during fiscal year 2023 compared to the previous one.
Environmental Injustices: While rural communities see their groundwater wells run dry, California’s mega-dairies suck up 152 million gallons of water each day just to water and wash cows and buildings — more than enough water to meet the indoor water needs for the entire San Diego metropolitan area.
Gutted Farm Income: As corporate consolidation has grown, so too have prices for ground beef, which are among the highest ever today, even when adjusting for inflation. However, farmers have seen their shares of retail beef sales fall from a high of 67.8 percent in 1973 to a low of 36.8 percent in 2021.
Urge the EPA to prioritize people's health over plastic.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin:
I am writing to urge the EPA to take immediate action to protect public health and set rigorous drinking water standards for microplastics.
While I applaud the EPA’s recent recognition of microplastics as a drinking water contaminant, this must be followed by concrete regulatory limits. As plastic waste breaks down over decades, it infiltrates our environment and, ultimately, our bodies. Research suggests that these particles may damage our digestive and reproductive systems, as well as our lungs.
As long as the manufacturing and use of plastics continues, microplastics will persist in our water cycle. We need enforceable safety standards to ensure that the water coming out of our taps is safe for people to drink.
I urge the EPA to add microplastics to the contaminants list and establish formal limits on microplastics in our drinking water.
There's no way to drill here without harming wildlife, and it's not worth it for just a little bit of oil.
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth,
We urge you to do your part to protect the irreplaceable Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and not bid in the upcoming BLM oil and gas lease sale for the Coastal Plain.
In the last few decades, caribou populations across the Arctic have declined by 65%. The Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge is an important calving ground for the Porcupine caribou herd. It’s also home to polar bears, muskoxen and other sensitive species. More than 200 migratory bird species from all 50 states travel to the Arctic Refuge to breed and nest.
There’s no way to drill here without harming wildlife, and it’s not worth it for just a little bit of oil. Please skip the Arctic Refuge oil lease sale.
Y'all if you're American please email your politicians and senators against the parents decide act. I'm fucking begging because we're reaching a tipping point.
Quick and easy link to both find your congressmen/women and giving you a quick and easy way to copy / paste the message into it. You want to oppose. It's an act that will demand that all major OS makers integrate a direct forced age verification control into all OS.
I received a comment on this that I figured would be very helpful- it's a template for communicating with your representatives. Be sure to use it for reference
Dear Representative [Name],
I am writing to express my strong opposition to H.R. 8250 (The "Parents Decide Act"). As your constituent and a concerned citizen, I believe this bill introduces unprecedented risks to digital privacy and security.
Specifically, I am alarmed by:
SEC. 2(a)(1)(B): Requiring age verification to even use an operating system creates a mandatory "hardware lockout" that ends anonymous computing and forces users to hand over sensitive identification data to major corporations just to power on their devices.
SEC. 2(a)(3): Mandating that OS providers create a system for all app developers to access verification data is a massive security vulnerability. This effectively creates a centralized API of user identities accessible to thousands of third-party developers, many of whom may lack adequate data protection.
This bill does not protect children; it creates a centralized surveillance infrastructure at the OS level. I urge you to protect the privacy of your constituents and vote NO on H.R. 8250.
This is a hell that us down under in Australia are already living in, and it’s not even effective at what it claims to do in protecting children.
Given that, in the wake of this mandatory identification policy, my country seems to be moving to hand over its citizens biometric data, like fingerprints, Face ID files, and identification documents, over to the USA and to ICE to maintain the visa free travel (ESTA) we have, I strongly urge any US resident to send these emails, or make calls.
But if you can’t do that, the most powerful thing you can do is spread the word. Tell your friends, family, coworkers, anyone who can help.
My reach will likely be small, and so I don’t know if this will mean very much in the grand scheme of things, but I cannot stand to see this tracking happen to another population as it did to mine.
And if you think it won’t affect you, it will. All anonymity goes out the window when your accounts can be linked via your personal ID
I wish you all luck in preventing this act from going through.
Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal sa
BULK METADATA RETENTION
Providers must keep records of who-talked-to-whom for up to a year, on everyone. Uncontested.
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TECHNICAL-CAPABILITY OBLIGATIONS
Providers must build capability to assist state access. Apple, Signal, and Meta say this can't be done without breaking end-to-end encryption. The government denies it. This is the central legal dispute of the bill.
SECRECY / GAG ORDERS
Providers can be forced to comply — and forbidden from telling anyone. Uncontested.
CROSS-BORDER DATA SHARING
Canadian courts can compel foreign providers to hand over Canadian users' data.
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your
I signed Freedom United's petition to end forced child marriage in the United States. Will you join me?
With a growing movement across the United States, momentum is building to abolish child marriage, a step that would help prevent forced child marriage. With no national law banning child marriage, fourteen states have passed laws to eliminate child marriage without exceptions since 2018.1
Banning child marriage by raising the minimum legal age to 18 increases protection and empowers possible victims to resist pressure to be married, makes it clear to those considering coercing children into marriage that they are committing a crime, and ensures that when they do marry they do so with access to the full spectrum of legal rights. Thus, it strengthens resilience against forced child marriage.
Child marriage and modern slavery
Forced child marriage is a pressing issue that disproportionately affects girls, placing them at significant risk of exploitation and forced marriage. Whilst not all child marriages are forced, the inherent vulnerability of children, particularly girls, makes them susceptible to coercion. Forced child marriage is identified by several key indicators: the lack of free and informed consent from the child; the presence of abuse and exploitation akin to “ownership,”; and the child’s inability to escape the marriage.2
American Prairie today condemned the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final decision to revoke grazing permits that have supported the
American Prairie today condemned the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final decision to revoke grazing permits that have supported the organization’s bison herd on public lands in north-central Montana for the past 20 years, calling the move a politically motivated reversal that threatens decades of established public land management practice and jeopardizes bison restoration efforts nationwide.
The decision overturns BLM’s own 2022 authorization allowing American Prairie’s bison to graze on approximately 63,000 acres of public land after a lengthy environmental review and years of agency defense of the permits in administrative proceedings.
“This decision abandons decades of consistent federal policy and extends far beyond American Prairie,” said Alison Fox, CEO of American Prairie. “By reversing decades of precedent, BLM is creating uncertainty for tribal buffalo restoration, conservation partnerships, and public lands grazing management nationwide. The agency’s action is arbitrary, shortsighted, and contrary to its own longstanding interpretation of federal grazing law.”
Fox went on to say, “American Prairie has lawfully grazed bison on BLM lands for more than 20 years, complying with every rule, regulation, and permit requirement. BLM lawfully issued these permits and recognized that bison are qualified to graze on federal lands under longstanding practice and law. Reversing course now under political pressure undermines trust in the agency’s decision-making and threatens the future of bison restoration across the West.”
For more than 40 years, BLM has issued livestock grazing permits for bison, including permits held by tribal nations, conservation organizations, and private livestock producers across multiple western states. American Prairie and its legal representatives argue that the agency’s reversal conflicts with longstanding federal practice and could place dozens of existing bison grazing permits at risk.
The decision has drawn strong opposition from Tribal governments and Indigenous organizations, including the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT), which represents more than 50 Tribal nations. Tribes have warned that excluding bison from federal grazing permits could undermine treaty rights, food sovereignty, cultural revitalization efforts, and the continued restoration of buffalo herds across Indian Country.
“This final decision by the BLM makes it clear that this is an all-out attack on conservation. It is a textbook example of the government moving the goal posts and changing the rules in the middle of the game to reach a predetermined outcome,” said Mary Cochenour, attorney for American Prairie. “There have been no grazing violations, and the administrative record contains objective evidence showing that rangeland conditions have improved over the last two decades with bison on the landscape.”
Cochenour said the agency’s reversal required a novel interpretation of the Taylor Grazing Act and introducing new anti-bison and anti-conservation provisions in order to justify rescinding the permits.
“This decision is not grounded in resource damage, permit violations, or failed stewardship,” Cochenour added. “It reflects a political effort to target bison conservation despite overwhelming evidence that American Prairie has responsibly managed these lands for years.”
American Prairie filed a formal protest to the BLM’s proposed decision in February and is evaluating all legal options in response to the decision.
American Prairie emphasized that its bison herd currently stands at around 940 animals, and the program has operated under rigorous management standards, including fencing, disease testing, and coordination with neighboring landowners and agencies. At the same time, the organization works directly with local cattle producers, leasing the majority of its land, more than 500,000 acres to 25 ranching families who run approximately 8,000 head of cattle.
The organization also noted that bison from its herds have helped support Tribal buffalo restoration and food sovereignty efforts across the country.
“Bison are a vital part of America’s natural and cultural heritage,” Fox said. “This decision sends the wrong message at a time when Tribal nations, conservationists, and communities are working together to restore this iconic species to the landscape.”
Tell ICE to End Obstruction of Legal Access Inside Dilley Immigration Processing Center
The petition to ICE reads:
“We demand the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately stop all obstructive tactics to hinder access to legal aid at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. For families and children in detention, access to legal aid is the only safeguard against the violation of their fundamental rights. We urge ICE to restore full, unimpeded access to legal aid to ensure due process and dignity for every person in detention.”
We have an opportunity to save a huge, intact landscape for people, birds, and other wildlife—now and into the future. The deadline to take
In Manitoba, Canada, the Seal River Watershed encompasses a vast 12-million-acre landscape of pristine forests, wetlands, lakes, streams, and rivers. It provides clean water and healthy lands to local communities, and stores an immense amount of carbon in its forest floors and peatlands. The watershed is a crucial migratory stop-over and nesting habitat for hundreds of species, including birds you may see in your own neighborhood.
An Indigenous collaboration of four First Nations (the Seal River Watershed Alliance), the Manitoba Government, and the Government of Canada have proposed to conserve this watershed through multiple layers of protection and stewardship. Take action and support the proposal to protect the watershed.
After you submit this form, we will send you 3 simple steps that take only 5 minutes to complete. The deadline to submit your comment is June 2.
One day, a young Arizona woman who we'll call MG was going about her normal life. The next, her world was shattered as she discovered AI-gen
The petition to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson reads:
As a group of women, sexual assault survivors, and allies, we call on you to hold accountable, under the Take It Down Act, the insidious network of ‘deepfake academies’ instructing users (primarily men) online on how to scrape women’s images to create sexual deepfakes and sell the content. The websites, platforms, and tools we call on you to investigate include: TaviraLabsAI.com, Telegram, Instagram, Whop.com, CreatorCore, and Skool.com. Each of these platforms is responsible for fueling deepfake abuse at scale and warrants being investigated and held accountable as soon as the Take It Down Act goes into effect on May 19, 2026. Women and girls deserve to participate in online spaces without fear of their image being used to create fake, sexualized content.
Acceding to anti-bison grumbling from cattle ranchers and Republican politicians in Montana, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum proposed canceli
A Kansas State University study found that sustainably managed buffalo are twice as effective as cattle at increasing the diversity of native plants. Bison, which tend to move farther and faster while grazing, do less concentrated trampling of the land and spread seeds more widely, thus increasing the resiliency of grasslands to droughts, which have increased in severity with climate change.
Bison are less stressed by hot weather than cattle and spend less time lingering at ponds and wetlands, decreasing soil erosion and giving other animals access to water. In winter, buffalo slow their metabolism to conserve energy and eat less, while cattle increase their metabolism and eat more. And bison can survive on lower-quality forage than cattle.
Buffalo herds also increase the diversity of birds, amphibians, elk, deer, coyotes, wolves and bears on the prairie.
Take action to oppose the House Farm Bill due to multiple provisions that are dangerous for animals and undermine states’ ability to pass an
Unfortunately, the House-passed legislation contains multiple provisions that endanger animals, undermine states’ rights, and threaten public health, including overturning California’s Proposition 12 and similar state measures enacted to protect animals from extreme confinement. This sweeping preemption could jeopardize years of hard-won state-level protections for farmed animals and undermine protections for other animals as well. If enacted, the bill would also allow federal funds to support mink fur farming.
