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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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 👇
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.
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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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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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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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👋🏾 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!
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JD Vance says women should stay in violent marriages “for the sake of their kids”
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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.
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Offline: The death of civilian immunity. “The ignominy is on us all.” thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Good timing to call all @LASACONGRESS members to vote!
@MaxwellACameron is an excellent option to preside the organization this upcoming year. Here is his message: – at Vancouver, British Columbia
I have been nominated to serve as Vice President / President-Elect of the Latin American Studies Association. You can hear my statement here. If you are a LASA member, I hope you will support me.
youtube.com/watch?v=AYYx7zZF…
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In case you missed it! Last week our @TheLancet commission on #gbv & maltreatment of young people partnered up on #InternationalWomensDay2024 with UNESCO to launch the first in a series of policy dialogues to #endvaw #endvac.
youtube.com/watch?v=FJeO7dEY…
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BBC Dad content
Today is the 7th anniversary of the BBC Dad blooper.
So here it is again, with some recent family pictures in the thread below.
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Лёша, спасибо тебе за 26 лет абсолютного счастья. Да, даже за три последних года счастья. За любовь, за то, что всегда поддерживал, за то, что смешил даже из тюрьмы, за то что ты обо мне всегда думал.
Я не знаю, как жить без тебя, но я постараюсь так, чтобы ты там, наверху, радовался за меня и гордился мной. Я не знаю, справлюсь или нет, но я буду стараться.
Мы обязательно встретимся однажды. У меня столько для тебя нерассказанных историй, и у меня столько для тебя сохраненных в телефоне песен, глупых и смешных, вообще, честно говоря, ужасных песен, но они про нас, и я так хотела дать тебе их послушать. И так хотела смотреть, как ты их слушаешь, смеешься, а потом обнимаешь меня.
Люблю тебя вечно. Покойся с миром.
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A photo of Navalny has been taped to a tree at Sandarmokh, the site in northwest Russia where thousands of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were buried in mass graves.
Photo via t.me/Govorit_NeMoskva
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Just huge: Brazil passes long-awaited tax reform, making more simple the labyrinthine tax rules that businesses have for years said were costly to fulfill, full of legal uncertainty and an impediment to investing. ft.com/content/b707b4a7-9871… via @ft
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Amigos, yo sé que el 🌎 está al revés y nadie alcanza a digerir tanto, pero PILAS con lo que está pasando en #Guatemala, donde están haciendo todo lo posible para que Arévalo no se posesione en enero. Hay que tener los 👀 abiertos para que sientan la presión de la región.
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As an actual "golpe blando" unfolds in a Latin American democracy - against the center-left, no less - where all the region's leaders who so often claim they are or could be victims of similar moves?
Barely a public statement from AMLO, Petro, Lula and others on Guatemala.
Las acciones del MP contra miembros del Movimiento Semilla son espurias e inaceptables.
Exigimos respeto a la seguridad e integridad de @marce__blanco y cualquier otro integrante del partido sometido a estos abusos. Estaremos tomando las medidas necesarias para protegerles y apoyarles.
