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Prof Christina Pagel

@chrischirp.bsky.social

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Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/

Christina Pagel FMedSci HonFFPH is a German-British mathematician and professor of operational research at University College London (UCL) within UCL's Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU), which applies operational research, data analysis and mathematical modelling to topics in healthcare. She was Director of UCL CORU from 2017 to 2022 and is currently Vice President of the UK Operational Research Society. She also co-leads, alongside Rebecca Shipley, UCL's CHIMERA research hub which analyses data from critically ill hospital patients. .. more

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 8h

Ties between the crypto exchange Binance and Trump’s bitcoin company World Liberty Financial have strengthened since the president pardoned Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao.

TAT: [Corruption]

Binance Gives Trump Family’s Crypto Firm a Leg Up

Ties between the exchange and the president’s company, World Liberty Financial, have only strengthened since the president pardoned Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao.

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Christina Pagel

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11h

It's interesting to me that the praxis of the political strategist class is very different from the praxis of the pollster and political scientist class (the latter two groups aren't always right, of course, but a lot of political strategy at the moment seems to be seriously wrongheaded).

Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 12h

The current fashion for leading a party or being talked about leading a party while vocally backing policies that are anathema to your voter base is truly bizarre.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 12h

NEW: We know the administration will try to interfere with the 2026 elections by any means necessary. We cover the 3-pronged plan the admin is aiming at the midterms and our power to defeat it. Read our latest briefing here: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/trumps-elections-chimera

Trump’s elections Chimera

The plan to subvert 2026 is already underway

www.ifyoucankeepit.org

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 13h

US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said the Pentagon is ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs with Harvard University

TAT: [Attacking Education | Suppressing Dissent]

Pentagon to cut ties with Harvard over ‘wokesters’, ending training, programs and fellowships

Move by Pete Hegseth marks latest escalation by Trump administration against the Ivy League school

www.theguardian.com

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 13h

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked

TAT: [Nationalism]

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked

A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 14h

Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media. The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president’s increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and show...

TAT: [Controlling Information | Suppressing Dissent]

Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media

Only a smattering of Republicans spoke out about clip in which Obamas’ faces were superimposed on bodies of apes

www.theguardian.com

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 14h

According to state Rep. Kim Hicks a man taken into custody in Rochester (MN) by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a kidney transplant recipient who may not have access to his lifesaving medication once he’s flown to T...

TAT: [Nationalism]

DHS: Kidney recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester now has access to needed medications

DFL State Rep. Kim Hicks said she’s been concerned the man would not have access to his medication and might die without it. A Homeland Security spokesperson said later in the afternoon that ICE is working with the family to ensure he gets all of his needed medications.

www.mprnews.org

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 14h

A directive from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to rescind over $600 million in funding from four Democratic-led states (Colorado, Illinois, California and Minnesota). In addition, the ...

TAT: [Suppressing Dissent]

Trump administration orders CDC to claw back $602M from blue states

Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon}View Online Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump administration orders CDC to claw back $602M from blue states A directive fro…

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19h

Can't over Mandelson doing comeback interviews even up to last week when he must have known what was still to come out. Pathological levels of chutzpah or denial. Or both.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19h

The apparent tactic of No 10 of kicking the Mandelson disclosure process into the longer grass, with grave warnings about 100,000s of documents and asking for a Met police investigation, are short-term expedients they may come to regret.

Ironically, like waiting for Sue Gray all over again.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h

£99987 and counting: graduates trapped by student loans.

Govt froze repayment threshold. By 2030, be at minimum wage.

At the margin grads pay 20% inc tax + 8%NIC +9% repayment. Insane.

Loan increases, if not repaid.

Grads can't buy home, start family/business.

Abolish Uni fees. Write-off debt.

£99,987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning student loans

As their debts rise, graduates reveal how loans are reshaping careers, finances and faith in the system

www.theguardian.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

A growing number of U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) doctors, nurses, and officers are resigning rather than accepting deployments to the Trump administration’s expanded immigration detention operations at Guantánamo Bay. This story was published in partnership with @kffhealthnews.org.

Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo

Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to comment about the lad obviously being drafted in at least the minute to read the Olympic oath, but now distracted by what the ever loving is going on with dancing heads. What was in the wine I just drunk?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Who doesn't love a talented pianist full on enjoying themselves hammering out a belter?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is going to be losing what little is left of his tiny mind if someone explains to him how badly he has been slammed during the Winter Olympic opening.

Reposted by Mark Rice, Christina Pagel

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 1d

Health Secretary Kennedy (RFK Jr) makes unfounded claim that Keto diet can ‘cure’ Schizophrenia

TAT: [Attacking Science | Controlling Information]

Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia

The claim vastly overstates preliminary research into whether the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet might help people with the disorder, experts said.

www.nytimes.com

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 1d

US President Donald Trump reposted - and later removed - an election conspiracy social media video which included a racist AI clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The White House initially defended the clip as an "internet meme vi...

TAT: [Controlling Information | Suppressing Dissent]

Trump removes video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes

The White House defended the post at first, calling to "stop the fake outrage", as members of both parties condemned the video.

Reposted by Leigh Sparks, Peter Holmes, Christina Pagel

Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.

He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein

We have published it in full.

www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full

LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…

www.thenational.scot

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump said that Attorney General Pam Bondi wanted Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, to oversee the FBI seizure and search of voter rolls in Georgia — the fourth time this week the administration has shifted its ...

TAT: [Controlling Information | Undermining Democracy]

White House Offers Shifting Story on Gabbard’s Presence at Georgia Raid

President Trump said Thursday that Attorney General Pam Bondi had directed Tulsi Gabbard to be present for an operation at an election center. It was the administration’s fourth explanation for her presence.

www.nytimes.com

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 1d

A U.S. military strike blew up a boat suspected of moving drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing two people, the U.S. Southern Command said. It was the 37th strike announced by the Trump administration in the campaign, which began in September. The strikes ...

TAT: [Foreign Policy]

Latest U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific

The operation was authorized by the Marine general who took command of military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean earlier in the day.

www.nytimes.com

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. President Donald Trump offered last month to drop his hold on funding for a key $16 billion New York Hudson River tunnel project in exchange for Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer supporting the renaming of Washington Dulles Airport and Ne...

TAT: [Weakening Civil Rights | Undermining Democracy]

Trump offered to unfreeze funding for NYC tunnel if Dulles airport, train station renamed for him, source says

U.S. President Donald Trump offered last month to drop his hold on funding for a key $16 billion New York Hudson River tunnel project in exchange for Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer supporting the renaming of Washington Dulles Airport and New York Penn Station after Trump, a source told Reuters Thu

www.reuters.com

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 1d

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday refused to rule out the possibility of a criminal investigation of Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Federal Reserve chair, if Warsh ends up refusing to cut interest rates.

TAT: [Suppressing Dissent | Undermining Democracy]

Trump would decide whether to investigate Fed pick Warsh over refusal to cut rates: Bessent

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent left the door open to suing Kevin Warsh as Fed chair in testimony to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

6 things about ICE that went under the radar last week

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6 things about ICE that have flown under the radar

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Rosemary A. Joyce, Jonathan M. Gilligan , and 8 more Michael E. Mann, Rosemary A. Joyce, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Sanford F. Schram, Alan Richardson, W. Andy Knight, Vaughan S. Roberts, Christina Pagel, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Búi K. Petersen

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Reposted by Jussi T. Eronen, Paul Nightingale, Christina Pagel

John Morgan @johnmorgan3.bsky.social · 2d

UK is pulling its funding for Cern's Large Hadron Collider upgrade, STFC leader Michele Dougherty confirms, after news first revealed by @francesjones.bsky.social @resprofnews.bsky.social

"We simply don’t have the money to do everything."

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

‘Difficult’ two years ahead for physics, warns STFC boss - Research Professional News

Michele Dougherty confirms withdrawal from LHC upgrade and indicates scant money for new projects

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d

‘Difficult’ two years ahead for physics, warns STFC boss.

Michele Dougherty confirms withdrawal from LHC upgrade and indicates scant money for new projects.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

‘Difficult’ two years ahead for physics, warns STFC boss - Research Professional News

Michele Dougherty confirms withdrawal from LHC upgrade and indicates scant money for new projects

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 2d

Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist and rightwing podcast host, said he wants to see immigration agents at the polls in November, a proposal that election officials have feared. Bannon has no formal power, but is an influential figure on the far right and...

TAT: [Undermining Democracy]

Steve Bannon calls for immigration agents at polling sites during midterms

Ex-Trump adviser adds to elections officials’ concern about potential interference from Trump administration in voting

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Leigh Sparks, Christina Pagel

Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 2d

Trump says the Federal Reserve is 'in theory' an 'independent body', but that he wouldn't have tapped Kevin Warsh to be the next Fed chair if he didn't support cutting interest rates. Trump suggested the Federal Reserve should follow his lead because he...

TAT: [Corruption | Undermining Democracy]

Trump says the Federal Reserve is 'in theory' an 'independent body'

The president told NBC News in an exclusive interview that he wouldn't have tapped Kevin Warsh to be the next Fed chair if he didn't support cutting interest rates.

www.nbcnews.com

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 2d

President Trump attacked the CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins in the Oval Office on Tuesday, calling her “the worst reporter” and scolding her for not smiling as she tried to ask about the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Trump has often singled...

TAT: [Suppressing Dissent]

Trump Scolds CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for ‘Not Smiling’

Testy remarks from a president who has frequently singled out female journalists for criticism and personal attacks.

www.nytimes.com