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Posts by Merike Blofield

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Gaps in government recognition of the service needs of women who experience intimate partner violence: a comparative case study analysis of policies and implementation across eight countries Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a substantial health and human rights concern. Governmental policies to address IPV are well-documented, but most available evidence on implementation focuses on spe...

On violence against women, a large gap between laws & their implementation exists. Yet we have few tools to measure it. Our @lancetgh.bsky.social article draws on admin & survey data on IPV survivors to assess the “recognition gap” across countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @giga-hamburg.de

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Done; your work is a public service to people around the world!

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) in Latin American Politics The GIGA seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) in Latin American Politics Applications are invited for a full-time position, with an initial contract of three years and the possibili...

Colleagues! We are recruiting a scholar of Latin American politics, doing excellent & policy relevan research. If this soudns like you & you are interested in pursuing a career in Europe, this 3+3 post-doc might be the perfect opportunity.

www.giga-hamburg.de/en/career/po...?

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Please share. 💔

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Couple Says ICE Agents Gassed Them as They Drove With 6 Children

My god, I did not expect from the headline (which was bad enough on its face) just *how* bad this situation actually was. You have to read the article to realize it.

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Global Implications of US Intervention in Venezuela The consequences of the US administration’s military intervention in Venezuela to capture former president Nicolás Maduro, and Trump’s pledge to “run” the country indefinitely via interim president De...

Dear Hamburg based friends and colleagues,
Come join us for an incisive roundtable event Thursday at noon, where our regional experts discuss the global political and strategic Implications of US Intervention in Venezuela. Details below @giga-hamburg.de
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co...

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I guess having nothing is the best way to irritate Finns? 🤣

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I guess just having nothing for Finland is the best way to irritate Finns

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Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.

Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or face denial.

The words include "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" and "women."

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Fantastic news

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From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

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Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.

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Nailed. It.
This is the kind of man you want leading your country.

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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.

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🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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😍

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Paterson NJ is ~65% Hispanic,
~20% Black, ~10% white.

I’m sure that’s not at all a coincidence.

Democracy literally dies in bomb threats.

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So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

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Thank you, Chicago.

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When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.

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Prêmio @alacipcp.bsky.social Melhor tese de doutorado em Ciência Politica.

Vamos divulgar???

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In what universe is this ok?

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I am excited for this challenge @GIGA, where our goal is to produce policy-relevant social scientific research for the benefit of society. This mission is esp. important now & I look forward to working w//colleagues in & outside GIGA @redpolitologas.bsky.social
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/mer...

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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

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Family of French woman killed by ex-partner to go to court to find out why she was not protected Family submitted a case last year accusing police, social services and courts of ‘serious failings’ but had no response

So many failures here www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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When I worked in the Michigan Senate Repubs would let us know they had a family member w a particular medical problem, bc they would vote w their caucus on nearly everything but the rare times they voted w Dems it was on amendments about a particular medical problem

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

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And every year they crown the "Tax King" and the "Tax Queen", i.e. the man and woman that paid the most taxes in Iceland that year.

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Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect.

According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.

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