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Hannah Mudge

@boudledidge.bsky.social
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Splendidly niche. Geriatric millennial. Ex-blogger and opinion-haver. Mum of boys. Digital things @ Church of England.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In Feb. 2025 when a USAID worker asked if their “lifesaving care” for “two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths” would be considered a number one priority for programs to save, a Trump official responded “I’d say that’s more of a number two.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
Following another long silence, Joel summarized what we needed to do next. My description of our lifesaving work had been helpful, and we would need to develop “a very simple way to describe it to the secretary,” he told us. “To be clear, we’re not looking for a laundry list of everything you want to do, you’re going to have to cut things, it’s going to have to be draconian. You’re only going to get things that are priority number one, that is all we’re going to be able to do, so don’t even send up the things that are priorities number two, three, or four.”
At that point, Nida jumped in. Out of the corner of my eye, I had noticed her picking nervously at her hands for most of the meeting, and I knew it was just a matter of time before my oft-impatient colleague spoke up.
“Can I just clarify one thing?” she asked, not waiting for a response. “This group seems very focused on what GH does to respond to infectious diseases, but we haven’t spoken much about our other lifesaving work. Just as one example, we support lifesaving care to mothers for emergency inter- ventions like postpartum hemorrhaging and eclampsia, two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths. You would also consider that kind of work to fit into our ‘priority number one,’ right?”
Another brief silence followed as Joel watched the clock, and it was Paul Seong who broke it. “I’d say that’s more of a number two,” he said dismissively, looking to Joel and Ken for affirmation.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
“Some of the studies are testing new treatment regimens for drug- resistant tuberculosis,” I explained, hoping I could convey the very real danger in terms that would register with this audience. “Thousands of enrolled patients are at risk now that their lifesaving treatment is stopped. But that’s not the only danger. We only have limited options to treat drug- resistant TB. We’re using our antibiotics of last resort in these trials. Interrupting treatment midstream risks the development of new, even more drug-resistant strains that could be untreatable. For an airborne infectious disease, that is a serious national security risk.”

Adam thought for a moment and then responded, noting that the political appointees at USAID were “not health people.” It would be hard, he surmised, for nonexperts to understand this issue. And so he suggested that we draft a simple, “Barney-style” set of slides to help the political leadership grasp the dangers, referring to the purple dinosaur of children’s television. He recommended that we use the term “Super TB” instead of “drug- resistant TB” to describe the mutations that can develop when treatment is interrupted, because it might be more likely to “catch their attention.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
thehandbasket.co
Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
That's great to hear. It was a busy thriving church in the 90s but it's a long time since I was there!
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Ha it's such a small world! I'm from March and grew up attending St Peter's.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12/03/2026
The right wing's comfort with casual misogyny, and the women who—after having put up with it for years—have finally had enough. nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Women Leaving the New Right
Defectors say the movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and is now openly “cruel and fickle.”
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It puts you off bothering doesn't it?
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
True! My one lifeline is that near the office there are a few shops including M&S and Zara but Oxford Street on my lunch break is a bit of a mission.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
And yes I am still grumpy about our John Lewis closing down five years ago 😂
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Yep. I actually gave up bothering with Clarks for shoes when the boys were little as you'd go in and get measured only for them to tell you they only had one suitable pair of shoes in the size you needed.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Locally there is constant moaning when 'another café or restaurant' opens in the city centre. People claim they want independent stores but whenever they pop up, they're generally selling a load of rubbish.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Very familiar! In recent years I can think of numerous occasions like this. Most recently, school trousers. None in age 9 in the city centre or at the retail park. I don't have time to keep going back to see when things will be in stock!
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Adult clothing...basically no point even bothering in my local city centre any more. You need to travel to the affluent town up the road, or for bigger things, Cambridge.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Problem is, with all the shop closures and the growth of online, there have been so many times I've gone into the city centre or even local retail park to get something and simply cannot get it. Nothing in stock. Children's shoes and clothing seem to be a particular issue.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It's tiiiimmmmee 😍
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I'm currently recruiting for a role in our fab Digital Labs team - 12 month FTC helping local churches build confidence in using digital platforms. Looking for a confident communicator who can write blogs and present webinars! Closing 4 January - www.cofepathways.org/members/modu...
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Church Of England - Digital Labs Officer
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The Church of England @churchofengland.org · 12/12/2025
Jesus Christ is always at the centre of Christmas. And everyone's invited to experience it with us. Come and celebrate Christmas at a church near you. Find services and events in your local community at AChurchNearYou.com/christmas.
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Please hear me when I say that 1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements 2) they pre-date the age of social media 3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The funniest thing about the theobros sharing this approvingly over at the other place is that they spend most of their time cancelling people and having tantrums...
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them. 🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The same pattern we see so often
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Cody⁺ @cebmplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"In an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter and stronger shaped by prayer and lit from within by the glory of Christ. That is what gives me hope." – The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Most people in Britain don't know who Kirk was. This is who he was
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kirk’s murder is horrible and political violence is unacceptable. But he was not a “conservative” talking “common sense”. TPUS is not best known for getting the vote out. We can condemn the killing without sanitising his views and actions.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Every single Democrat should instantly condemn him for this and demand a retraction and apology. Blow it up. He's supporting domestic violence! It's nightmarish!
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Never made them, but maintained folders of them organised by theme and spent hours choosing exactly which ones to use once I got the ability to have the maximum number of them on a paid account 🤣
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/08/2025
Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement
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Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement
The movement towards simple, Christian living can be a yearning for order in a chaotic age. It’s also alarmingly retrograde
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Antifeminist women’s summit: ‘The kitchen is where the real revolution starts’ << each new paragraph brings more 🤮 www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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TPUSA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit vision for women
The pitch: Trade feminism for femininity, ditch your career aspirations, and focus on finding your husband and becoming a stay-at-home mom.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Everything about this is horrifying. Strangulation now thought to be second leading cause of strokes in women under-40. As one expert says - if this is supposed to be about sensuality, why is it mostly men strangling women? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex
Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage. How...
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Other dubious things Peterborough is famous for (thanks to the camp, also the world's largest collection of prisoner crafts) 😅
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Our lovely childminder wrapped up her job in 2022 after having our boys for nine years - funding played a huge part in this. We chose a childminder because it offered a smaller group/more homely setting than a nursery and it's a shame that fewer children can access that now.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I know funding is causing crisis in the sector, but did not realise that the number of childminders has halved in the last decade. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
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Why childminders across the UK are giving it up
They teach children essential skills and help to prepare them for school, but their ranks have shrunk by more than half, threatening the future of the system
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10/06/2025
Taking ten months shared parental leave was one of the best things I've ever done. Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say
A report says dads should be paid 80% of earnings and allowed six weeks off work when they have a child.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Obviously I have not read the book, just the review, but it strikes me how a lot of the feminist re-appraising of the 00s misses the fact that feminists were making these arguments in the 00s. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?
“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yep I remember it well!
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I notice she talks about Female Chauvinist Pigs! My copy of that has so many pages turned down and highlighted sections.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As opposed to just a few years earlier when talking about being a feminist was considered cringey and desperately uncool.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
And what I don't think a lot of people realised was that big 00s/10s divide of how mainstream feminism was and how feminists were perceived.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yep 💯. I was involved in a discussion about this on Substack the other week. There was a post by a slightly younger woman about 2010s feminism and how it was all girlboss social media posturing and let's just say quite a few of us were doing some educating in the comments.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I am 'feeling the need to make a Gazza/fishing rod/chicken joke' years old
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Her memoir, In Our Time, had a huge influence on me. A really long time ago I wrote about it: www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...
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Hannah Mudge on Susan Brownmiller: The backlash against the Second Wave
We're all empowered now... or are we?
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Let's be clear: Republicans don't want more 'parents' at home. They want more *women* at home. If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
For Mother’s Day I talked to moms who are being put through hell because of the new administration’s policies. “I am aware of Project 2025 and their goals of getting women out of the workforce, and this really feels like part of it.” Read here:
thehandbasket.co
Being a mom in the federal government wasn’t easy. Trump made it “impossible.”
The Handbasket spoke to several moms about the series of painful choices they've had to make since January.
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Really looking forward to reading this
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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is excellent news, I'd love to see more data about how they did this!
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
You are definitely not the only one! I'm having flashbacks to so many situations. What did you think about 'How to Be a Woman'? Did you watch 'Girls'? Did you go to see 'Suffragette'? 'Did you once say something was a universal experience for women when in fact, a woman disagreed with you?
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
And who can forget the blowup this one caused: www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars
Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good for the movement? And whose movement is it?
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I genuinely still think about this post from time to time and it was written in 2011, before things even got really bad. tigerbeatdown.com/2011/10/17/c...
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Tiger Beatdown › Come one, come all! Feminist and Social Justice blogging as performance and bloodshed
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Hannah Mudge @boudledidge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is it.
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