April Berends
@fatherslaypril.bsky.social
Person. Parent. Priest. Lover of soil, mycelia, native plants, Appalachian mountains, and the Great Lakes. Working to make space for flourishing.
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Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
These lakes have sustained me, and so much other life, in so many ways.
www.propublica.org/article/noaa...
www.propublica.org/article/noaa...
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
These lakes have sustained me, and so much other life, in so many ways.
www.propublica.org/article/noaa...
www.propublica.org/article/noaa...
Standing with faith leaders in Chattanooga in opposition to Tennessee HB793/SB836. People in Tennessee call ourselves Volunteers. We do not volunteer to be known as a people who would strip children of their constitutional rights.This bill is cruel and heartless. We do not volunteer for this.
March 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Standing with faith leaders in Chattanooga in opposition to Tennessee HB793/SB836. People in Tennessee call ourselves Volunteers. We do not volunteer to be known as a people who would strip children of their constitutional rights.This bill is cruel and heartless. We do not volunteer for this.
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“If NIH doesn’t study the health impacts of climate, we are not going to be able to prevent some of those health impacts, and we aren’t going to be able to find ways to deal with them.”
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
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March 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“If NIH doesn’t study the health impacts of climate, we are not going to be able to prevent some of those health impacts, and we aren’t going to be able to find ways to deal with them.”
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Today’s joy: my neighbor’s foster puppy squeaked through the fence *twice* to say hello this morning, so I got to share some puppy snuggles.
March 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Today’s joy: my neighbor’s foster puppy squeaked through the fence *twice* to say hello this morning, so I got to share some puppy snuggles.
As I left church last night.
March 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
As I left church last night.
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
“Don’t mistreat or oppress an immigrant, because you were once immigrants in the land of Egypt.”
A bill making it a crime to harbor or hide individuals without lawful immigration status cleared a Tennessee House subcommittee Wednesday, with opponents criticizing it as a dangerous precedent that could criminalize family members in mixed immigration households.
Tennessee bill to criminalize ‘harboring or hiding” immigrants without legal status advances • Tennessee Lookout
A bill making it a crime to harbor or hide individuals without lawful immigration status cleared a Tennessee House subcommittee Wednesday.
tennesseelookout.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“Don’t mistreat or oppress an immigrant, because you were once immigrants in the land of Egypt.”
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When you removed populations from the category of human rights, are you removing them from the category of human?
The annual State Department human rights report “will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous people and corruption in government.”
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...
Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report - LGBTQ Nation
He also removed sections on women, people with disabilities, and government corruption.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
When you removed populations from the category of human rights, are you removing them from the category of human?
The tiniest things are rising up.
March 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The tiniest things are rising up.
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If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
Everything about God’s good creation tells us that diverse ways of being and the connections between us are the only ways for this beloved creation to thrive.
March 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Everything about God’s good creation tells us that diverse ways of being and the connections between us are the only ways for this beloved creation to thrive.
Possibilities of peaches.
February 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Possibilities of peaches.
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OUR FIGHTS FOR BODILY AUTONOMY ARE INTERTWINED
Sepsis in the 2nd trimester is up 50% in TX
is intertwined w/trans healthcare access being cut off & passports seized
is intertwined with rollbacks putting more lead in drinking water
is intertwined with stripping disability rights
#SOLIDARITY
Sepsis in the 2nd trimester is up 50% in TX
is intertwined w/trans healthcare access being cut off & passports seized
is intertwined with rollbacks putting more lead in drinking water
is intertwined with stripping disability rights
#SOLIDARITY
February 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
OUR FIGHTS FOR BODILY AUTONOMY ARE INTERTWINED
Sepsis in the 2nd trimester is up 50% in TX
is intertwined w/trans healthcare access being cut off & passports seized
is intertwined with rollbacks putting more lead in drinking water
is intertwined with stripping disability rights
#SOLIDARITY
Sepsis in the 2nd trimester is up 50% in TX
is intertwined w/trans healthcare access being cut off & passports seized
is intertwined with rollbacks putting more lead in drinking water
is intertwined with stripping disability rights
#SOLIDARITY