Claudia Blume
@claubablu.bsky.social
Serial migrant. Lover of people, words, and ideas.
Opinions expressed here are my own.
Opinions expressed here are my own.
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"Canada has chosen not to lead, but to follow in the footsteps of other countries whose cuts to global health have already had deadly consequences. Such cuts will fuel the reversal of progress against HIV, TB & malaria,” says @healthlawadamh.bsky.social
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Canada cuts back spending on fighting infectious diseases at G20 in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney has made Canada's first-ever cut to funding for a major program for fighting infectious diseases in the world's poorest countries — a move that
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November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Canada has chosen not to lead, but to follow in the footsteps of other countries whose cuts to global health have already had deadly consequences. Such cuts will fuel the reversal of progress against HIV, TB & malaria,” says @healthlawadamh.bsky.social
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With the Eight #GlobalFund Replenishment Summit approaching fast, re-upping this comment from @msf.ca:
"Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity"
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"Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity"
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Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF warns global health funding cuts risk reversing progress against HIV, TB and malaria. Critical action is needed to sustain critical programs worldwide.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
With the Eight #GlobalFund Replenishment Summit approaching fast, re-upping this comment from @msf.ca:
"Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity"
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/replenishing...
"Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity"
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/replenishing...
MSF raises the alarm about extreme levels of malnutrition in El Fasher and other places in #Sudan
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People face extreme malnutrition in Sudan crisis | MSF
Our teams in Sudan are seeing high rates of malnutrition, including among people who have fled atrocities in El Fasher.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
MSF raises the alarm about extreme levels of malnutrition in El Fasher and other places in #Sudan
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Cool art action in #Ottawa this Saturday: @msf.ca will stage a human chain gallery on Parliament Hill to call for a stop to the #genocide in #Gaza
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September 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Cool art action in #Ottawa this Saturday: @msf.ca will stage a human chain gallery on Parliament Hill to call for a stop to the #genocide in #Gaza
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1/ On 2 September, an MSF team reached Nangarhar and Laghman provinces to carry out an assessment following the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan. According to local authorities, more than 1,400 people have been killed and more than 3,000 injured.
September 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
1/ On 2 September, an MSF team reached Nangarhar and Laghman provinces to carry out an assessment following the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan. According to local authorities, more than 1,400 people have been killed and more than 3,000 injured.
@msf.ca MSF teams in Afghanistan are currently in touch with the local authorities and international health organisations to assess how we may be able to provide medical support. We continue monitoring the situation and our thoughts are with the victims and their families in these difficult moments.
BREAKING: At least 250 people killed in a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
A strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills at least 250 people
A strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border has killed at least 250 people and injured at least 500 others.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
@msf.ca MSF teams in Afghanistan are currently in touch with the local authorities and international health organisations to assess how we may be able to provide medical support. We continue monitoring the situation and our thoughts are with the victims and their families in these difficult moments.
Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts
Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts
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July 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Endlich!
Der Verfassungsschutz stuft die AfD als rechtsextrem ein. Kanzler Scholz begrüßt das Urteil, mahnt aber zur Besonnenheit. Die AfD zeigt sich empört. Innenminister Faeser wehrt sich gegen Vorwürfe. Die Reaktionen im Überblick.
Verfassungsschutz zur AfD: Olaf Scholz mahnt zur Vorsicht bei Verbotsverfahren
Der Verfassungsschutz stuft die AfD als rechtsextrem ein. Kanzler Scholz begrüßt das Urteil, mahnt aber zur Besonnenheit. Die AfD zeigt sich empört. Innenminister Faeser wehrt sich gegen Vorwürfe. Die Reaktionen im Überblick.
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May 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Endlich!
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Through the newly launched website, gazainsidethewar.com, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) extensively documents the total war waged by Israeli forces since October 2023, which has destroyed the very conditions of life in Gaza.
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Gaza: New MSF website shows Israel's all-out war against Palestinians
MSF documents attacks on Gaza's health system and humanitarian workers
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May 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Through the newly launched website, gazainsidethewar.com, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) extensively documents the total war waged by Israeli forces since October 2023, which has destroyed the very conditions of life in Gaza.
msf.org.uk/article/gaza...
msf.org.uk/article/gaza...
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Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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April 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
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After the April 11 attack on Zamzam camp in #Sudan, about 24,000 people have fled to Tawila in search of safety.
Our teams are in Tawila, supporting people arriving exhausted and traumatized ⬇️
Our teams are in Tawila, supporting people arriving exhausted and traumatized ⬇️
April 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
After the April 11 attack on Zamzam camp in #Sudan, about 24,000 people have fled to Tawila in search of safety.
Our teams are in Tawila, supporting people arriving exhausted and traumatized ⬇️
Our teams are in Tawila, supporting people arriving exhausted and traumatized ⬇️
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US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
OTTAWA - Following months of declining Canadian travel to the USA, Americans have launched a tourism campaign inviting Canadians to visit locations like New York, Austin, and possibly even take an all...
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April 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
Please sign if you believe that our national public broadcaster is integral to Canada's identity and vital to a healthy democracy. friends.ca/takeaction/s...
Save the CBC Petition - Friends of Canadian Media
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April 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Please sign if you believe that our national public broadcaster is integral to Canada's identity and vital to a healthy democracy. friends.ca/takeaction/s...
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To mark the new season of #TheLastOfUs, time to shamelessly re-up this piece for @msf.ca on the importance of ensuring existing #EssentialMedicines💊, in this case antifungals, are still available when needed (for dystopian fungal pandemics🍄🧟or otherwise).
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The Last of Drugs: Making sure important medicines are still there when they’re needed | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
By Adam Houston, Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer for MSF Canada One clear lesson from the popular post-apocalyptic television drama The Last of Us is that it is far more enjoyable to vicariously w...
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April 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
To mark the new season of #TheLastOfUs, time to shamelessly re-up this piece for @msf.ca on the importance of ensuring existing #EssentialMedicines💊, in this case antifungals, are still available when needed (for dystopian fungal pandemics🍄🧟or otherwise).
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www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/the-last-of-...
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People packed the streets across the U.S. on Saturday to protest against President Trump, his administration's cutbacks, financial turmoil and more. nyti.ms/43GRvS7
April 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
People packed the streets across the U.S. on Saturday to protest against President Trump, his administration's cutbacks, financial turmoil and more. nyti.ms/43GRvS7
Another colleague killed by an Israeli airstrike.
#Gaza: we are appalled and saddened by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an airstrike.
His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack.
This is the second killing of an MSF colleague in just two weeks.
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His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack.
This is the second killing of an MSF colleague in just two weeks.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-msf-mou...
Gaza: MSF mourns the killing of eleventh colleague | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appalled and saddened by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an airstrike on the morning of April 1 in southwest of Deir al Balah...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Another colleague killed by an Israeli airstrike.
What an inspiring evening at the @theglobeandmail.com Center in Toronto to celebrate the investigative journalists who won the 2025 Canadian @sidneyhillman.bsky.social Prize!
Congratulations, and thank you for your important work in these often dark times.
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Congratulations, and thank you for your important work in these often dark times.
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April 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What an inspiring evening at the @theglobeandmail.com Center in Toronto to celebrate the investigative journalists who won the 2025 Canadian @sidneyhillman.bsky.social Prize!
Congratulations, and thank you for your important work in these often dark times.
www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hil...
Congratulations, and thank you for your important work in these often dark times.
www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hil...
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In Berlin sollen Ärzt*innen bald kulturelle Aktivitäten verschreiben. Doch: Warum muss man erst krank werden, um Zugang zu Kunst zu haben? https://taz.de/Kunst-auf-Rezept/!6076354/
April 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In Berlin sollen Ärzt*innen bald kulturelle Aktivitäten verschreiben. Doch: Warum muss man erst krank werden, um Zugang zu Kunst zu haben? https://taz.de/Kunst-auf-Rezept/!6076354/
Sadly, no matter how many aid workers, journalists, and children get killed, the world does nothing to stop this genocide
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Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says
Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage
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April 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Sadly, no matter how many aid workers, journalists, and children get killed, the world does nothing to stop this genocide
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Major Layoffs Begin at U.S. Health Agencies That Track Disease and Regulate Food. Cuts are part of plan to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u... via @nytimes.com
Trump Administration Begins Layoffs at CDC, FDA and Other Health Agencies
The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kenn...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Major Layoffs Begin at U.S. Health Agencies That Track Disease and Regulate Food. Cuts are part of plan to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u... via @nytimes.com
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MSF sends its deepest condolences to the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the United Nations for the killing of eight medics and one UN staff in Rafah, southern Gaza. Our thoughts are with their family members and colleagues. 1/2
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Red Cross federation ‘outraged’ at deaths of Red Crescent medics in Gaza
Secretary general says he is ‘heartbroken’ by the news, after Israeli military says it fired on ‘suspicious vehicles’ that were later found to include ambulances
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March 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
MSF sends its deepest condolences to the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the United Nations for the killing of eight medics and one UN staff in Rafah, southern Gaza. Our thoughts are with their family members and colleagues. 1/2
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Unlike in the US, it appears that the French judicial system is still working
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and handed an immediate five-year ban from public office, a sentence that will bar her from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand reut.rs/4laaGKf
France's Le Pen barred from running for office for five years after graft conviction
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday and handed an immediate five-year ban from public office, a sentence that will bar her from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.
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March 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Unlike in the US, it appears that the French judicial system is still working
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“I have to fight despair every day. For me, hope is not some abstract concept. It is a prerequisite for my survival. And so I don’t have room for hopelessness in my life. I’ve got to fight it. Because my life kind of depends on it.” @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
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John Green’s brand is optimism. On book tour, he’s fighting despair.
Some people get tennis elbow; John Green has bestseller shoulder. His doctor said – no joke – that Green, 47, was developing arthritis from signing so many books: more than 700,000, he estimates, over...
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March 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“I have to fight despair every day. For me, hope is not some abstract concept. It is a prerequisite for my survival. And so I don’t have room for hopelessness in my life. I’ve got to fight it. Because my life kind of depends on it.” @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.