April Berends

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.

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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...

These lakes have sustained me, and so much other life, in so many ways.

www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

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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.

30.03.2025 22:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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 ...

“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

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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.

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As I left church last night.

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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.

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%.

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“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?

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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.

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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.

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Possibilities of peaches.

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So did we.

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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

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