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Mareen Buschmann

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Coffee-junkie, feminist, intl. development and women’s rights at CARE International UK. Love nature, music, books. Passionate about justice and ending poverty. Views my own.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This is a fascinating conversation between one man who is an incredibly intelligent writer/political thinker and one man who is Ezra Klein.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This is really concerning In doctors’ offices, the consequences of Trump’s comments on Tylenol and vaccines are immediately clear www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/h...
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In doctors’ offices, the consequences of Trump’s comments on Tylenol and vaccines are immediately clear | CNN
In an instant, the president inserted himself into doctor-patient relationships all over the country, Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez writes. She knew that Trump’s words would have consequences, but she was ...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunia, 1925 #WomensArt
Painting featuring a single purple blossom in a white vase on a white silky background
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 11/09/2025
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
15th August 2025 06.33
Bright sun breaking through laden sky
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
'Lucinda' by Sofia Bonati, a self-taught artist from Argentina, known for her portraits of women against a patterned backdrop #WomensArt
Artwork with head and shoulders of a young woman facing left looking outwards against a pink background with leaf shapes
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 23/07/2025
Huge news from the International Court of Justice in the Hague – the start of a new era of climate accountability The court confirms that states are obliged to act on the climate crisis, and that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is fundamental for all other human rights
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World’s highest court delivers historic protections for climate-impacted communities - Greenpeace International
The world’s highest court has just delivered a landmark Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in the face of the climate emergency.[1] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision deliver...
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
27th June 2025 05.48
Early sun breaking through mottled clouds over flat sea.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🧵 Quick legal thoughts on Trump's attack on Iran. It was patently illegal. And a further egregious assault on the rule of law in the US. 1/n
Trump post Iran
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What a difference 6 months makes. In honour of the summer #solstice (8:42 pm tonight in Saskatoon), here’s a comparison of Dec 20 (sunrise 9:12am, set 4:56pm) and June 20 (sunrise 4:45am, set 9:31pm). Both pics at 8:30am. Happy #Solstice! #GoodMorningFromSaskatoon
Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond. It is dark and snowy. Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond. It is sunny and green.
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CARE International UK @careintuk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Today we join with over 60 charities to demand that the UK government reverse the shameful funding cuts that will deliver the worst aid budget for women & girls on record. 🔗 Click to read @theindependent.bsky.social piece: careint.uk/4dwrgR1 🔗 JOIN US & write to your MP: careint.uk/4knTD6i
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
No aid has reached the starving people of Palestine. Israeli forces continue to block access despite the imminent risk of literally mass mass death of babies & children. Today we MUST make our voices heard - come if you can at 6PM to Parliament square & #fastforgaza #r4today
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Appalling response from Starmer. Had to watch it twice to believe it. And Angela Rayner staring into a void like she’s being held hostage. It’s just sad.
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Naomi Fowler @naomifowler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's just so gobsmackingly, in-your-face, contemptuous. If these bonuses are to hold on to their 'best employees' as they claim, I say let them leave and go off to ruin other firms who seem to think bonuses = responsible and professional staff
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Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Blue Morning Glories, 1935 by Georgia O'Keeffe #Womensart
Painting of two blue flowers with yellow and white centers, looking down into one in the foreground while the other behind is shown from the side
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"The UK is very good – much better than most European countries – at integrating migrants, because most Britons, and most migrants, want integration... The rhetoric and policy we saw yesterday will take us backward to a much uglier, and more dangerous, place." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s one slight issue with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes
The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Not that it is a surprise given the direction, but the only German party leader that I could find giving a statement on yesterday's immigration annoucements by Keir Starmer was Alice Weidel and the AfD celebrating the turn in migration policy.
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CARE International UK @careintuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today, the UK Government has sent a clear message: it is choosing not to stand with women & girls. To avoid being remembered as one of the worst for women and girls, it must immediately reverse these cuts and protect their rights. Full statement: careint.uk/3GOebGr
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Any politician who wants to ban migration for care homes should be forced to wait 9 hours for the toilet. I imagine pandering to anti-immigration groups would then feel as painful and illogical as it does to disabled and older people left without care workers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
3rd May 2025 05.35
Sunlight prising through heavy cloud
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I don’t know who needs to see this but
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is high art
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Trump’s whopping great tariffs on the tiny African nation of Lesotho sum up the full madness of the scheme. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
US imposed a 50% tariff on Lesotho,
whose average citizen earns less than $5 a
day.


Why?


Because the formula for supposedly
"reciprocal" tariff rates has nothing to do
with tariffs. The Trump team have
calculated each penalty by dividing the
U.S. trade deficit with a given country by
how much the U.S. imports from it and
then doing a rough adjustment. Because
Lesothơ's ppl are too poor to afford most
U.S. exports, while the U.S. imports $237
million in diamonds and other goods from
the nation, they have reserved the highest-
possible tariff rate for one of the world's
poorest places. The idea that taxing
Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the
U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is absurd
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Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 03/04/2025
🚨NEW: Anneliese Dodds says govt must ‘reassess’ fiscal rules and taxation pledges in first speech since resignation “We must be prepared to reassess shibboleths, whether they be the fiscal rules, as Germany has done, or on taxation.” Thread of clips from this thoughtful speech 👇
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Anneliese Dodds says government must 'reassess' fiscal rules in first speech since resignation - Politics.co.uk
Anneliese Dodds has urged the government to “reassess” its fiscal rules and pledges on taxation in her first commons speech since her resignation. Dodds, the former international development minister,...
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 25/03/2025
A White House official dubbed it "the farthest reaching executive action" ever taken.
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Trump Signs Executive Order To Overhaul Federal Elections And Voter Registration
A White House official dubbed it "the farthest reaching executive action" ever taken.
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
State capture is not enough. Now the Trump administration turns on the judiciary, universities and the media. Hard to see how there will be ever an election again in the US.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Dear Chancellor Of course we can cut our budget by 10%. It will involve you being accused of taking food from children but I'm sure that won't be a problem. All best wishes etc etc
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
So tax breaks for tech bosses and welfare cuts for the disabled
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 23/03/2025
#SeaSkySunday
sea and sky blending together on a calm overcast day
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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
"I need a little word with you." Intimidating stare here from 'flying teaspoon' of the Sussex hedgerow, the Long-tailed Tit. © Adam Wood
A black-and-white stripy Long-tailed Tit perched on a reed stem looking directly at the photographer. By Adam Wood
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
You’ll hear “the disability benefits bill is soaring” a lot today but remember. Public spending on pensioner entitlements has risen from 5.3% of GDP to 6% over the last 20 years, whilst the working-age benefits bill has remained static. Consider why one of these is controversial.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A Tufted Titmouse watches over the nature trail. There's a second Tuftie on the same branch, with this Tuftie looking abstract due to the shallow depth of focus.
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.
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West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs
Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”
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WHO @who.int · 14/03/2025
If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death.

Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Sunrise, 1916 by Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart
Stylised painting of a half sun rising over a pink landscape and arced by red pink and white rays in a red sky
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
11th March 2025 07.17
11th March 2025  07.17
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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A great photo taken at our Flatropers Reserve by David Bentley - 'looking up'.
white and blue sky as seen through the tops of trees
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Without PIP, a further 700,000 more disabled households could be pushed into poverty 📢 We've joined Scope to urge the Chancellor to reconsider potential cuts to disability benefits. Read our open letter: www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op....
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The cost of cuts to disability benefits: Our open letter to the Chancellor | Disability charity Scope UK
Right now, the government is considering changes to disability benefits. But for millions of disabled people, these benefits are a lifeline. They are the difference between surviving and being pushed deeper into poverty. Scope, alongside a coalition of charities, has written to the Chancellor, urging the Government to think again. Our full letter is below.
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Centenary Action @centenaryaction.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"Women's rights are always the hardest won and the first to be cut...' we joined with @careintuk.bsky.social & @thecirclengo.bsky.social last night to make the case to #SupportWomenLeaders #IWD2025 @helenpankhurst.bsky.social @sarahchampionmp.bsky.social
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CARE International UK @careintuk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Last night, we joined with @centenaryaction.bsky.social & @thecirclengo.bsky.social to mark #IWD in Parliament. We brought together MPs, women’s rights organisations, activists, advocates & charities at a time when solidarity & support is essential. #SupportWomenLeaders #StopTheCuts
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ONE Campaign @onecampaign.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The UK cut its international aid budget by 40%. This is our response. #aid #stopthecuts #activism
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