One Woman on TikTok. One Law Named After Her. Here's Why.

There is a device sitting in the ground on federal public land right now — land that belongs to you — that is designed to fire a load of sodium cyanide into the face of whatever animal is curious enough to sniff it.

It does not know the difference between a coyote and your dog.

It does not know the difference between a coyote and your child.

It just fires.

The device is called an M-44. The government calls it a “cyanide ejector device.” Wildlife advocates call it a cyanide bomb. Whatever you call it, the federal government has been deploying them on public land for decades under a USDA program called Wildlife Services — and most Americans have never heard of them.

Starseer Kaley has.

Who Is Starseer Kaley?

Starseer Kaley is a content creator and animal welfare advocate on TikTok who has been sounding the alarm about M-44 devices with the kind of clarity and moral urgency that most politicians refuse to bring to the subject. She did not wait for permission. She did not wait for a committee hearing or a policy brief. She got in front of a camera, told the truth, and refused to stop.

You can find her here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pXv1r3/

That is exactly the kind of citizen leadership this country needs more of — and it is exactly the kind of leadership the Cordova 2028 campaign was built to respond to.

What M-44 Devices Actually Do

Here is what happens when an M-44 activates:

A spring mechanism fires a powdered or liquid sodium cyanide charge directly into the mouth and face of the animal that triggered it. Death follows within minutes — convulsions, respiratory failure, cardiac arrest. It is not painless. It is not targeted. And it is not limited to predators.

Since 2000, Wildlife Services has documented thousands of non-target animals killed by M-44s — eagles, foxes, ravens, dogs, bear cubs. A child in Idaho was directly exposed to sodium cyanide after an M-44 activated near him. His dog died. He survived.

That incident made national news for approximately 48 hours. Then nothing changed.

Wildlife Services continued deploying M-44s. The USDA continued funding them. Congress continued looking the other way.

What the Cordova Administration Will Do

The Cordova 2028 campaign has drafted two interlocking documents to end this:

A Presidential Executive Order that takes effect on day one — immediately prohibiting any federal agency, contractor, grantee, or cooperating entity from deploying, transporting, funding, or authorizing cyanide ejector devices on federal lands or pursuant to any federal cooperative agreement, regardless of where that land sits. Existing permits are revoked immediately, with no stay pending review absent a court order.

The Starseer Kaley Cyanide Trap Ban Act— a bill named in direct recognition of Starseer Kaley's advocacy — that enshrines the prohibition in federal statute, establishes a Humane Wildlife Conflict Prevention Grant Program, creates criminal penalties of up to five years imprisonment for violations that result in injury or death, and designates enforcement authority across the Departments of Interior, Agriculture, the EPA, and the Department of Justice.

The bill closes the loophole that has allowed Wildlife Services to deploy M-44s on private and state land through cooperative agreements. It eliminates the fiction that a federal dollar can fund a cyanide bomb as long as the land it sits on technically belongs to someone else.

Why Name a Bill After a TikTok Creator?

Because she earned it.

Legislation in this country is named after lobbyists, donors, and politicians who traded favors for the naming rights. Starseer Kaley asked for nothing. She took a cause that most of official Washington treats as a fringe issue, brought it to hundreds of thousands of people, and made them care.

That is the work of democracy. That is more than most members of Congress have done on this issue in twenty years.

The Cordova administration will not forget who actually fights for the things that matter. When we name a law, we will name it after the people who deserve it.

What You Can Do Right Now

Read the official campaign announcement: Press Release — Executive Order and Federal Legislation to Ban Cyanide Traps

Read and download the full Executive Order and the Starseer Kaley Cyanide Trap Ban Act.

Follow Starseer Kaley: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pXv1r3/

Share this post. Share her content. Tell people what an M-44 is, because the USDA is counting on the fact that you do not know.

And if you want a President who will sign the order on day one and name the law after the person who actually did the work — you know where to find us.