Prof Christina Pagel

@chrischirp.bsky.social

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

@robfordmancs.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

Another on the list of "things that are obvious from the evidence yet ignored" is "current immigration policy will deliver a great big hole in future budgets". The OBR currently assumes net migration bottoms out at 200k then rises. That isn't going to happen

@trumpactiontracker.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

The Department of Justice is investigating ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News over a brief collective withdrawal from White House pool coverage, arguing that coordinated action by commercial competitors could violate antitrust law. The investigat...

TAT: [Controlling information | Suppressing dissent]

@trumpactiontracker.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

President Donald Trump’s diesel deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is facing bipartisan blowback in the US as lawmakers warn that the Trump administration is defying a federal law meant to crackdown on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. A bipartisan group of ...

TAT: [Undermining democracy]

@josefoshea.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

@trumpactiontracker.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

Trump attacked both Norway and the 2026 Peace Nobel Prize winner in a speech in Syracuse, disparaging the winner Navi Pillay and describing the decision as an “indelible stain” on Norway. He later also posted on Truth Social that he “should have...

TAT: [Attacking science | Controlling information]

@trumpactiontracker.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) announced an initiative that will focus government resources on vaccine injuries, despite a large body of evidence that vaccines are safe and their benefits outweight the risks. RFK Jr and the Trump administration's mo...

TAT: [Weakening civil rights]

@trumpactiontracker.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

Trump has asked the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to repoen his previously dismissed lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is reviving accusations that Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, the Democratic National Commit...

TAT: [Controlling information | Undermining democracy]

@trumpactiontracker.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge [link]

TAT: [Attacking education | Attacking science]

@trumpactiontracker.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

A federal judge ruled that ICE had illegally arrested and detained Angel Jesus Almonte after agents wrongly identified him as an immigration target, despite substantial differences in their appearances. The judge found that ICE subsequently produced a warrant contai... [link]

TAT: [Hollowing state]

@drnwillburger.bsky.socialReposted by @chrischirp.bsky.social

A very stylish #Roman woman's shoe with a decorative pattern punched into the leather.
Found in 1907 in a well in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating first half of the 2nd century AD.

Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg

The picture shows a single leather shoe with a decorative pattern of holes of different sizes and shapes (e.g circles, triangles).
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