Sunrise over a sea with a city in the distance and a yellow line and net of a ferry deck in the foreground

Happy #EarthDay beloveds 🌍
#ForTheBeautyOfTheEarth

Reminder that LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER.

When ICE comes to your district to buy a warehouse to turn into a concentration camp, commissioners and city council members can make it difficult. Refusal to allow utilities, zoning rules, etc.

Vote on behalf of every human in danger of being detained.

“At the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide.” -John Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

​Multi-Faith Letter Opposing Fossil Fuel Immunity To Members of the United States Congress, We write as people of faith to state a principle so fundamental it requires no interpretation: If you cause harm, you are accountable for it. No exceptions....

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: ​Multi-Faith Letter Opposing Fossil Fuel Immunity. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/mu...

#EarthDay every day
#ClimateJustice

The World is Not Waiting to Be Saved: Our Power is With People – UUSC Explore the latest climate justice work that UUSC has remained active with from the ICJAO campaign to Women Deliver 2026

8 defenders imprisoned. UUSC partner Juan López assassinated — still unresolved. Now Lenir Pérez faces charges but walks free on bail with no travel ban. The April 23 hearing is coming. The world must watch. 👇 #JusticeForJuanLopez
https://bit.ly/4tk2gnp

A dark blue background with a young chick resting in a nest on a tree, with little green buds peeking out around it. The UUMFE logo is in the top left corner. White and yellow text reads, "Sentience Surrounds Us. AN EARTH DAY WORSHIP RITUAL. APRIL 22. 8:00 PM EDT, 7:00 pm CDT, 6:00 pm MDT, 5:00 pm PDT."

Join our partners, @uumfe.bsky.social for an Earth Day worship ritual on April 22 that celebrates the sentience (and sapience) that surrounds us.

Sentience Surrounds Us. AN EARTH DAY WORSHIP RITUAL. APRIL 22.
8:00 PM EDT, 7:00 pm CDT, 6:00 pm MDT, 5:00 pm PDT

🔗 www.uumfe.org/earth-day-20...

April "The symbols of the season are all in place: The sacred sift of morning light through red-bud branches, the drift of rain-clouds sailing along the dark north sky serving as a robe for a feast day, the minarets of yellow tulips ringing the call to prayer, the young bees chanting their sunrise communion service as they sip nectar from the chalice of the narcissus flower, the newly packaged seeds and burrs reciting their Passover maggid of strange travels and quick escapes on the wind. Once again the tapestry of family dinners and the peculiar loneliness of holidays. Once again the jarring of murky world events set against the soft pastel butterflies of spring. Oh Love, the time is tender and sweet here on the earth, but the orbit of its passage is tough and jagged, filled with sorrows that silence themselves. Therefore come, Silence deeper than our speechlessness, rock us close in your silent arms for a while." Mark Belletini Sonata for Voice and Silence

April

The symbols of the season
are all in place . . .
the minarets of yellow tulips
ringing the call to prayer,
the young bees chanting their sunrise communion
service as they sip nectar
from the chalice of the narcissus flower,

Mark Belletini
Sonata for Voice and Silence

#ShutDownDilley
#ShutDownAllDetentionCenters
#FreeFamilies
#AbolishICE
#NoKidsInCages
#NoConcentrationCamps

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

Pope Leo:

Square graphic with a light gray background. At the top is the UUA flaming chalice logo in black, followed by the text “Unitarian Universalist Association.” Below, a dark red banner reads: “UUA Letter to Trump on Iran War” and, on a second line, “Sign on at bit.ly/iran-signon.” Centered on the image is a large quote in dark gray text inside a thin rectangular border. A red quotation mark icon appears at the top left of the quote box. The quote reads: “On behalf of the tens of thousands of UUs, their families, and their congregations, we call on you to end this war and end military interventions based on a radical religious ideology that most Americans do not share.” A wide dark red horizontal bar runs behind the quote box across the middle of the image.

Today, the UUA calls for an end to the war in Iran. UU leaders named their theological objections in a letter to federal leaders and are inviting UUs to sign on in public opposition.

Read the letter at UU World: www.uuworld.org/articles/ira...

Add your name: www.uua.org/pressroom/in...

Pink and white tulips with green foliage

#BloomScrolling joy

April 15th a HUGE day in Black history if you'd like to immerse yourself in something today.

1. It's Jackie Robinson Day
2. A. Phillip Randolph's birthday
3. Bessie Smith's birthday
4. Harold Washington's birthday.
5. Walter Edward Washington's birthday.
6. The day SNCC was born

@murray.senate.gov - no more bombs for Israel! No more funding for devastation and desecration of the earth, cultures, human beings and all beings.

Smell of feces, vomit fills crowded ICE facility, detainee's wife says Conditions at the ICE facility in central Phoenix mirror the conditions at a Mesa facility, where people were being treated worse than "animals," lawmakers said.

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

Calendar of events for April with UU Ministry for the Earth www.uumfe.org

Tune into UU Earth Month programs organized by @uumfe.bsky.social throughout April #uuSky #UnitarianUniversalist

Stickers on ferry offering abortion access information

“Abortion access is a community responsibility.”
#Ferry wisdom
#WA #Resources
#StickerJoy

We Are The Movement, Songs in the Key Of Resistance YouTube video by Kairos Center

That’s why we #sing ♥️

youtu.be/gMLTzyIoXvw?...

#Liberation moving
#PeacePoets
#movement #music

Transgender Visibility Day March 31st marks International Transgender day of visibility. Today, we take a moment to acknowledge the existence of transgender people inside U.S. prisons, and recognize that they are not getting th...

the federal prison system released a new policy stating that they would stop providing any gender affirming medical or social care,while using deeply offensive & #transphobic language..This policy marks a turn for the worse in the area of humane prison policy
www.bookstoprisoners.net/post/transge...

Chris Housman - Blueneck (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Chris Housman

#YallMeansAll
#RedState #Blueneck
Thank you #ChrisHousman

youtu.be/YjbewH7i6Hk?...

"Robin Hood didn’t like greed, and he didn’t like excessive wealth, and he didn’t like hypocrisy or abuse of power. He also didn’t like poverty.

So he did something about it, from where he was with the tools he had.

And here we see what they believed a good leader is."

uuma.org/berry-street...

Give the lonely heart a reason to be hopeful. Give the weary traveler a place to rest. Give the solo singer a chorus. Give the troubled spirit room to breathe. Give old poets a reason to keep writing. Give young ones the same.

Long Covid Predicted to Cost OECD Economies $135 Billion a Year The pandemic might be over, but new research indicates long Covid is likely to reverberate across OECD economies, costing up to $135 billion a year over the next decade.

A new study predicts that Long Covid will cost OECD economies $135 billion a year, due to people leaving the workforce, lower productivity, and healthcare costs. COVID is not over.

#DemocracySummer for #HighSchool and #College #students
across #TurtleIsland

The priority deadline to submit applications is Wednesday, April 15, 2026.

democracy-summer.breezy.hr

#ExperientialEd
#PoliticalEducation
#SummerSchool for #Leadership #skills
#Youth & #YA

In Praise of Lichens - photos by Connie Barlow, music by Sydney Jill Lehman YouTube video by ghostsofevolution

In Praise of #Lichens !!!
photos by Connie Barlow, music by Sydney Jill Lehman
youtu.be/PpU8s3sopFo?...

#TurtleIsland
#EarthDay every day
#GhostsOfEvolution
#beauty

Everyone has the right to work! The US Government is trying to make it impossible for asylum-seekers to live. Join the campaign to save their right to work! Learn More and Make an Impact: Submit your comment → https://www.uusc.org/action/let-asylumseekers-work/ UU Solidarity Initiative and UUSJ #LetAsylumSeekersWork

The deadline to protect asylum-seekers' right to work is April 24, and we're almost there!

Submit your comment → www.uusc.org/action/let-a...
Then share this post and help us finish strong.

#LetAsylumSeekersWork

Join Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth in the spirit of #reverence and #renewal
April 22nd 5PM Pacific/8PMEastern
honoring that “Sentience Surrounds Us”
#EarthDay
More info and register here:
www.uumfe.org/earth-day-20...
#UUMFE

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18.

Ask yourself why they won’t”
Josh H.

An American Company Drilled for Oil in Kenya — and Left Behind Soaring Cancer Rates Amoco, now part of BP, never cleaned up after its failed oil prospecting mission. Rural Kenyans are suing for a right to a clean environment.

"In court records and interviews with the #community, dozens said they were never officially informed of the project’s end. And no one came to clean it up." - Georgia Gee & Nelly Madegwa. @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2026/04/06/a...

#ClimateJusticeIsHealthJustice
#NoMoreSacrificeZones

They work through image, sound, and movement: things that make people #feel rather than understand.

Their #art, in many ways, is an act of rebellion—especially in the affluent and exclusive art world @prismreports.org

#PonciliCreación

“I want to treat #poverty as a design feature of #empire and not a moral failing.” - #JackieSummers