Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025The numbers don't lie. As a small scale female farmer in a high poverty rural community, I absolutely rely on customers using SNAP/EBT funds to purchase my products at the local farmers market. 130
Reposted by Margaret BruegelBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 31/10/2025More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table. 637201845746
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Ummm.... www.wired.com/story/inside...wired.comInside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky InvasionOn Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts. 000
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025One small thing you can do to help prevent dementia. 030
Reposted by Margaret Bruegel50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22/09/2025There are 340 MILLION OF US. Don’t you dare get despondent. STAND UP. And go GET YOUR COUNTRY BACK. Please. Let us not cower. This is all absolutely ridiculous. Come on now. 31654192172
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Farm closures will continue. I am also seeing the closing of restaurants in the area. 020
Reposted by Margaret BruegelMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid 1730284007063
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025What you eat matters. ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....ehjournal.biomedcentral.comCarcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats - Environmental HealthBackground Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are the world’s most widely used weed control agents. Public health concerns have increased since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) c... 120
Reposted by Margaret Bruegelemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Carvalho notes that Stephen Miller is deploying Homeland Security claiming that elementary schoolers pose a national security threat. 211097467
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Apparently reality doesn't matter any more... www.politico.com/news/2025/06...politico.comTrump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecastAdministration officials blocked publication of written analysis that normally accompanies the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit. 110
Reposted by Margaret BruegelAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington. 433320647814
Reposted by Margaret BruegelVivian 🌊☀️ @vivian1212.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Today we rest, but tomorrow we fight again. Get engaged, energized! Find your group! 💙 indivisible.org/groupsindivisible.orgFind Your Group 1397
Reposted by Margaret BruegelJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2025#HandsOffProtests 437263727556
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Somehow I don't believe this action will make American healthy again... 031
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025This just keeps getting worse. How many children have to die before something changes? 111
Reposted by Margaret Bruegel California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025In the past four weeks, Costco, which has embraced DEI initiatives, GAINED 7 million shoppers… Target, which got rid of DEI, LOST 5 million shoppers! That’s the power we have as consumers. Remember that. 453189895145
Reposted by Margaret BruegelSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 21/03/2025The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All. 1220322279154
Reposted by Margaret BruegelMalcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 19/03/2025WWMND? Mass daily protest until the regime resigns. Financial blackout. Total shutdown of his financial backers & their businesses. Not one dollar to be spent. It’s never been done before? Good. Time to add an asterisk to the Constitution about dealing with corrupt tyrants. 56793220
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Protect yourself. www.wired.com/story/the-wi...wired.comThe WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government SurveillanceDonald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev... 011
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Food banks everywhere still need to feed people. 020
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Because obviously trees are DEI and must go away (sarcasm): apnews.com/article/tree...apnews.com$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's overThe U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees. 231
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 26/02/2025As a DEI farmer, this makes me very, very happy! 130
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The incompetence is stunning... www.reuters.com/world/americ...reuters.comTrump aid freeze disrupts anti-narcotics program at Mexican portsU.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. It’s one of several U.S. counternarcotics efforts in Mexico derailed in recent weeks by the stop-work order. 021
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025This is an effective means of resistance. I've been in a few of the anti-DEI stores recently, and they have reduced their prices significantly to try and bolster sales. Do not get sucked in! 071
Reposted by Margaret BruegelAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight! 7568332625826
Reposted by Margaret BruegelDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Measles can cause immune suppression, brain damage, and even fatal brain inflammation years later for those infected under 2 years if age www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/pe...uchicagomedicine.orgHow dangerous is a measles outbreak? - UChicago MedicineWith measles cases on the rise, we asked pediatric infectious diseases specialist Julia Rosebush, DO, FAAP, what parents should know. 14298197
Reposted by Margaret BruegelNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/02/2025A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT) 5932321980
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Interesting take on what's happening. Bannon called it in 2019. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...youtube.comDon't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein ShowYouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show 100
Reposted by Margaret BruegelAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/02/2025Who could have imagined that dismantling and defunding Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act would cause inflation to rise? 260122852818
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025My brother became a casualty of the new Trump policies. He had a good sized order for one of his products from a Canadian company... that today cancelled the order because they no longer do business with American companies. I'm sure there will be many more caught in this net. 010
Reposted by Margaret BruegelMx. Robbie Bobbie Berta Boeing @captainbobbie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼 873513236312
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Why are we not DEMANDING they hire FAA employees who are COMPETENT? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...dailymail.co.ukHorror as plane smashes into trees near remote New Hampshire airfieldEmergency services raced to the scene at Hampton Airfield in New Hampshire on Tuesday morning after an aircraft shot off the end of a runway and smashed into trees, injuring at least one person. 000
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This is really, really bad... www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-sho...linkedin.comWe should all pay attention to what is happening at the National ArchivesOn Friday night, the president officially fired the Archivist of the United States, as he had promised to do before taking office. So, hi there! 👋 Former National Archives employee here. 010
Margaret Bruegel @margaretbruegel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025"... despite Trump’s claim of massive “corruption and fraud” in the agency, government lawyers had no support for that argument in court." www.politico.com/news/2025/02...politico.comJudge blocks Trump administration from putting 2,200 USAID workers on leaveThe decision from U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, is a swift brushback to the administration's attempt to dismantle the agency. 010
Reposted by Margaret BruegelGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets. 7185051810541