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Merike Blofield @MerikeBlofield

Finnish-Canadian, with 25 yrs in US & South America. Landed in Hamburg, global health, social policy & Lat A. Find me @merikeblofield.bsky.social

Joined October 2015
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Dear all, moving over to blue sky, @merikeblofield.bsky.social. Would love to connect with you there!
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I love this country. I’ve mailed in my ballot. Now, I just send vibes of love, empathy and respect, which I hope to God will win the day and counter all the hate
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Susanna Berkouwer@BerkouwerS
11 Sep 2024
Wharton professor here! Here are the Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates: — Harris’ proposal increases the deficit by $1.2 trillion, with low- and middle income households benefiting disproportionately. — Trump’s proposal increases the deficit by $5.8 trillion. Details below 👇
Penn Wharton Budget Model@BudgetModel
27 Aug 2024
Our latest briefs analyze the policy proposals of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns for their economic, budgetary, and distributional effects over the next 10 and 30 years. budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.ed… budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.ed…
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Opinion | There Are Four Anti-Trump Pathways We Failed to Take. There Is a Fifth. - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/10/24/opini…

Opinion | There Are Four Anti-Trump Pathways We Failed to Take. There Is a Fifth. (Published 2024)

Why have so many of our democracy’s defenses seemingly broken down, and which, if any, remain?

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Meanwhile in Germany the exact opposite, despite the need Germany has for immigrants
Reuters
@Reuters
9 Oct 2024
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced measures to make it easier for immigrants to settle in Spain, championing migration and its economic benefits even as other European governments have tightened their borders against newcomers reut.rs/4dzljRO
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Germans really don’t see themselves as an immigrant country, which is such a missed opportunity. Germans need immigration, and lots of it
Cihan Çelik@Celik_Chn
18 Sep 2024
48% sehen Zuwanderung als größtes Problem in 🇩🇪, nur 6% die Gesundheitsversorgung. Man muss reale Probleme nicht leugnen, um eine Kluft zwischen empfundenen Ängsten und den tatsächlichen Problemen im Leben der Menschen vor Ort festzustellen. Das freut vor allem Populisten.
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Headquarters
@HQNewsNow
5 Sep 2024
Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable? Trump: Well, I would do that and we're sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn't, you know, there's something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it... I want to stay with child care… So we'll take care of it. Thank you
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This not satire 🤣🤣 I’ve never mentioned in a CV any of the jobs I had from 14 years on till finishing college in a post-college job application
Peter J. Hasson
@peterjhasson
29 Aug 2024
NEW: Kamala Harris’s missing “summer job” at McDonald’s job. Her resume and job application a year after graduating college — @FreeBeacon obtained through FOIA — don’t mention it. Neither do either of her books, or either of the biographies on her. @SaysSimonson @ChuckRossDC and @AndrewKerrNC report: freebeacon.com/elections/i-d…
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DW Español
@dw_espanol
23 Aug 2024
España y la UE no reconocen los resultados de las elecciones en #Venezuela Mientras el régimen de Nicolás #Maduro no publique las actas electorales, #Espana no podrá "reconocer el resultado de las #elecciones", dijo el gobierno de Pedro Sánchez. /rr p.dw.com/p/4jqGk

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VB Knives
@Empty_America
13 Aug 2024
Many Americans are baffled by "Right to Roam." It's a very different approach to the bundle of rights associated with landownership. In the green countries you can basically walk around anywhere other than someone's yard. Farms and woods are "owned" but not "private."
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Amber Peterman@a_peterman
20 Feb 2023
👋🏾 Recently I've gotten a bunch of requests - so I put it together for easy sharing: "Opportunities for African and global south grad students & scholars" Mentorship, grad school app guidance, grants etc. ➡️ Please use, download & share around! docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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@spelunky_
7 Aug 2024
never reposted anything so fast
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@HQNewsNow
27 Jul 2024
JD Vance says women should stay in violent marriages “for the sake of their kids”
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How can anyone, let alone Christians, support him?
Anna Bower
@AnnaBower
24 Jul 2024
Replying to @AnnaBower
Fred Trump also describes a phone call he had with Donald about funding to support medical care for his son, William, who is disabled. “I don’t know,” Trump allegedly told his nephew. “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”
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How can anyone, let alone Christians, support him?
Anna Bower
@AnnaBower
24 Jul 2024
In @time, Trump’s nephew recounts a conversation w/ then-president Trump after 2020 White House meeting with disability advocates. “Those people…” Trump said of people w/ complex care needs. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”
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Excellent initiative
Gabriel Zucman
@gabriel_zucman
25 Jun 2024
Thrilled to release this report commissioned by the Brazilian G20 Presidency today Just like we have a minimum tax on multinationals, we need a minimum tax on the world's super-rich—and it has become technically feasible 🧵with the main findings and proposals
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Mariana Llanos millanos@bsky.social@MarianaLlanosHa
7 Jun 2024
Great to see you @Luicy_Pedroza, @rettberg_an and @MerikeBlofield again! Honoured too to have shared the panel with you. Big thanks to the Ibero-America Institute @IAI_Bibliothek in Berlin for hosting us.
Luicy Pedroza@Luicy_Pedroza
7 Jun 2024
An honor to be a part of a panel with admired political scientists Mariana Llanos, Merike Blofield and Angelica Rettberg. Thanks 🙏🏽 ADLAF (German Assoc. for LatAm Research) for the invitation to reflect on contributions from Latin America & Caribbean to concepts and theory.
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A pleasure to participate at this event in Paris!
Institut des Amériques@idameriques
29 May 2024
Replying to @idameriques
📅 Le Colloque #IdA_MEAE_EULAC_AFD 2024 se poursuit avec la 2ème table ronde “Care et Santé publique”.
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richard horton@richardhorton1
5 Apr 2024
Offline: The death of civilian immunity. “The ignominy is on us all.” thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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