Barbara M. Brunner

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

When I was Wayne County’s Health Director, we kicked off our program to deliver over tens of thousands of pairs of free glasses to Michigan kids who needed them—just like I did in Detroit nearly a decade ago. Because that’s what public service is about.

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Stop Marineland from Killing 30 Belugas! Marineland is threatening to kill 30 beluga whales unless the government gives in to its demands. Urge Ontario to act now.

#Marineland is threatening to kill 30 beluga whales unless the government gives in to its demands. Urge Ontario to act now! #CdnPoli
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Screenshot of a post by the guardian, showing a photograph of a NASA-like control room, with caption: The beef industry has developed a “Digital Command Centre” that tracks media outlets $ social media for more than 200 #beef related topics. Hosted in Denver in a space that looks like a military operation, it’s staffed 24 hours a day 7 days a week, w personnel redundancies built in to make sure someone’s always watching.

🥩 #BigBeef #beef
[the Digital Command Centre is
staffed 24/7, w personnel redundancies built in to make sure someone’s always watching]

…and people worry about vegan propaganda 😑 (aka, animal rights activists exposing the truth of the violent, environmental disaster that is the livestock industry)

Please, for the love of life, stop supporting this "industry." And if you have it in you, stand up against it.

President Biden's Contradictions On Qatar Why has the Biden Administration, the same administration that touts democracy as paramount to its foreign policy, decided to establish closer ties to Qatar — a country that is so clearly at odds with...

Biden also sought out Qatar but when he did, the Cato Institute had something to say about it. Will they do the same with Trump?

Morality matters.

Both men are responsible for handing the women and children of Afghanistan over to the Taliban as if they were property.

www.cato.org/blog/preside...

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WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

Children naturally love animals. It's society/ adults that steal that love and teach them that it's ok to exploit animals. Teach children that animals are with us not for us.

#Vegan #CuteAnimalsOfBluesky

The great injustice and ungodly suffering that comes of it when the powerful exploit the powerless is what I have known in every cell of my body since childhood, most cruelly with human over nonhuman.

Our species has long been in moral crisis. With the world on fire, we may be ready to address it.

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾

#NoKings MORE Queens 👑

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

I know you’re afraid and angry about what’s happening. It’s natural to feel that way when our democracy is under threat and you’re facing it with open eyes.

But fear and anger can be fuel to stand up and defend freedom against fascism. Channel your emotion into action. That’s how we win.🇺🇸

Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Night Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

On Why the Stock Market Doesn’t Matter They love to stand in front of the stock market like it is the holy altar of prosperity.

Well worth the watch, and share.

On Why the Stock Market Doesn’t Matter
substack.com/@defiance13/...

We lost a *vegan queen.

bsky.app/profile/just...

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

Photo of me and text.

I haven't known how to introduce myself on Bluesky but thought I'd share this as a possibility, one that could prove to be mutually beneficial.

After 15+ years of caring for my elderly parents, who have both now passed, my once big world became very small.

It's time to come out of the woodwork.

Pathless Pilgrim - Latest The Hidden Truth About Jane Goodall Was she really vegan, or is it all just propaganda? Published on Medium · 4 October 2025 · 4 min read Jane Goodall’s passing sparked global tributes, but few mentioned her veganism. Was she even vegan? This dispatch investigates the truth behind her ethical

Jane Goodall changed how we see animals. But was she really vegan - or is that just propaganda?

I dug into the facts. Here's what I found...

🔗 www.pathlesspilgrim....

#vegan #veganism #JaneGoodall

If you consider yourself a compassionate person and still build your life and lifestyle on the suffering of others, human and nonhuman, such selectiveness indicates that you have gaping holes in your humanity.

Often, it is our childhood conditioning that slices and dices it.

It is on us to heal.

Antifa membership perks for 2025 are available now! ✊️

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland, ruling he overstepped his authority and violated state sovereignty. The court said Trump’s move lacked any “colorable basis” and was not justified by conditions on the ground.

BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.

#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon

Strongmen do not aspire to free the light of the people into the world. They conspire to extinguish it. It is the only way that they can gain and maintain power.

Trump celebrates darkness and he's taken those weak in their morality with him into it.

Plainly, we face a moral crisis.

A Refusal of Connection We're Not Failing to Imagine Each Other's Lives. We're Refusing To.

We don't fail to imagine each other,we actively refuse to connect.Trump's genius was weaponizing that refusal,
turning our fear of vulnerability into political identity.He made isolation feel like strength, disconnection like patriotism. And we all bought it, left and right, just in different forms

The Psychology Behind Anti-Veganism Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi

The media primes people to hate vegans before they’ve even met one.

Highlights Household food insecurity is grow-ing in Canada and effective evidence-informed responses to this problem are badly needed. Accountability in policy making is essential to ensure that scarce pub-lic funds are not allocated to initia-tives that lack evidence of impact. Many policy interventions that increase the incomes of low-income households have been shown to reduce household food insecurity; there is no such evidence base for food-based interventions. To increase accountability and incen-tivize effective, evidence-informed income interventions that address food insecurity, we propose that the federal government commit to reducing food insecurity by 50% and eliminating severe food inse-curity by 2030.

Implications for future policy responses This is a time for reckoning. There is little to no evidence of food-based interven-tions having an impact on household food insecurity. Yet the fund-raising communi-cations of charitable and alternative food providers explicitly claim that they are addressing or preventing food insecurity (see, for example 18-20). Scholars have also commented on underlying corporatization as justifying food-based interventions. 21,22 Interdisciplinary research could reveal more about these dynamics, but surely the first step is to call out the incongruity of food-based interventions as a strategy for food insecurity reduction now that the absence of evidence has been revealed. We believe that the related lack of accountability for the impact of recent investments in food charity (e.g. pan-demic-related federal programs23 and the ongoing Local Food Infrastructure Fund¹7) is part of the explanation for the persis-tently high prevalence of food insecurity in Canada. No government has seriously tried to reduce food insecurity.

Conclusion As the problem of household food insecu-rity continues to grow, effective evidence-informed responses are badly needed. The systematic reviews of evidence compiled by PHAC provide an important foundation for such action. But the results of these evidence reviews also lay bare the need for accountability, so that no more public funds are wasted on initiatives with no evidence of impact under the guise of addressing food insecurity. We need tar-gets for food insecurity reduction and some accountability for policy interven-tions that come with significant public investments. Household food insecurity rates and the related adverse conse-quences are only going to get worse unless we address the inadequate and insecure incomes that are the primary driver of this population health problem.

is the effectiveness of federal and provin-cial policy interventions that modestly increase the incomes of Canadians living at low income, for example, Old Age Security pensions, the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) and social assistance. Idzerda et al. concluded with moderate to high certainty that income supplementation reduces food insecurity, but they found no evi-dence that the assessed housing assis-tance programs and food retail subsidy programs had any impact.5 Their findings suggest that inadequate and insecure incomes are the primary driver of house-hold food insecurity and that income sup-port policies are key to reducing this population health problem.5

NEW systematic review of the evidence shows that raising incomes is how to reduce food insecurity. The evidence does not support food-based interventions as reducing food insecurity. Food retail subsidy programs and housing assistance programs don't ⬇️ food insecurity.

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