Margaret Bruegel
@margaretbruegel.bsky.social
Former corporate cubicle dweller, now a lady farmer of chickens, turkeys, goats & pigs. Healthy food advocate. Always a Michigander at heart.
If you are a friend from another social media platform posting as an alias here, I might not recognize you.
If you are a friend from another social media platform posting as an alias here, I might not recognize you.
The 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.
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The 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.
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More 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.
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
More 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.
One small thing you can do to help prevent dementia.
Alcohol is bad. 41% increased risk for heavy drinkers at 51% for alcoholics. ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...
Alcohol use and risk of dementia in diverse populations: evidence from cohort, case–control and Mendelian randomisation approaches
Objectives To investigate the relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia.
Design Prospective cohort and case–control analyses combined with linear and non-linear Mendelian randomisation.
...
ebm.bmj.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
One small thing you can do to help prevent dementia.
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There 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.
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.
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There 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.
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.
Farm closures will continue. I am also seeing the closing of restaurants in the area.
Mass Deportations Are Starting to Hurt Agriculture, Analysis Says
“The mass deportation agenda is not just bad immigration policy, it’s economic sabotage that hurts all working families,” said @vcardenas.bsky.social.
via @civileats.com
“The mass deportation agenda is not just bad immigration policy, it’s economic sabotage that hurts all working families,” said @vcardenas.bsky.social.
via @civileats.com
Mass Deportations Are Starting to Hurt Agriculture, Analysis Says
Labor statistics and food prices now show early signs of negative economic impact, according to a new report.
civileats.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Farm closures will continue. I am also seeing the closing of restaurants in the area.
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The 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
June 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The 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
Reposted by Margaret Bruegel
Reposted by Margaret Bruegel
Carvalho notes that Stephen Miller is deploying Homeland Security claiming that elementary schoolers pose a national security threat.
Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
June 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Carvalho notes that Stephen Miller is deploying Homeland Security claiming that elementary schoolers pose a national security threat.
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Booker: 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.
April 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Booker: 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.
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Reposted by Margaret Bruegel
Today we rest, but tomorrow we fight again.
Get engaged, energized!
Find your group! 💙
indivisible.org/groups
Get engaged, energized!
Find your group! 💙
indivisible.org/groups
Find Your Group
indivisible.org
April 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Today we rest, but tomorrow we fight again.
Get engaged, energized!
Find your group! 💙
indivisible.org/groups
Get engaged, energized!
Find your group! 💙
indivisible.org/groups
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Somehow I don't believe this action will make American healthy again...
10,000 Health and Human Services employees are being laid off.
These are the people who track diseases, conduct research, make sure our food and medicine is safe, and administer health insurance for nearly half the country.
Tell me how this will "make America healthy again."
These are the people who track diseases, conduct research, make sure our food and medicine is safe, and administer health insurance for nearly half the country.
Tell me how this will "make America healthy again."
Mass layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies
Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.
apnews.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Somehow I don't believe this action will make American healthy again...
This just keeps getting worse. How many children have to die before something changes?
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
propub.li
March 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This just keeps getting worse. How many children have to die before something changes?
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Reposted by Margaret Bruegel
In 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.
Target, which got rid of DEI, LOST 5 million shoppers!
That’s the power we have as consumers.
Remember that.
March 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In 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.
Target, which got rid of DEI, LOST 5 million shoppers!
That’s the power we have as consumers.
Remember that.
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The 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.
The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy.
We must end that international embarrassment.
Yes. We need Medicare for All.
March 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The 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.
The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy.
We must end that international embarrassment.
Yes. We need Medicare for All.
Reposted by Margaret Bruegel
Reposted by Margaret Bruegel
WWMND? 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.
Good.
Time to add an asterisk to the Constitution about dealing with corrupt tyrants.
March 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
WWMND? 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.
Good.
Time to add an asterisk to the Constitution about dealing with corrupt tyrants.
Holy shit is right!
Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.
“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”
“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”
Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article)
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Holy shit is right!
Food banks everywhere still need to feed people.
Does Elon Musk and DOGE believe that providing food is fraud and waste?
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks...
https://www.wunc.org/news/2025-03-14/usda-cancels-federal-funding-north-carolina-food-banks
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks...
https://www.wunc.org/news/2025-03-14/usda-cancels-federal-funding-north-carolina-food-banks
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the programs NC food banks participate in.
www.wunc.org
March 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Food banks everywhere still need to feed people.