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Federico Ortino
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Professor of International Economic Law, King's College London

🇮🇹 in Hackney, London

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/federico-ortino

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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 14d
The battle of Cable street, London 4th October 1936.

History is full of lessons for today's struggles.

youtu.be/NE_xclpTAew?...
Hidden London: The Real Battle of Cable Street
YouTube video by worldwrite
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Reposted by Federico Ortino, Matthias Schmelzer, Kimberly A. Clausing

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 5h
If the WSJ is noticing it must be true

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Reposted by Peter Holmes, Federico Ortino

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d
The tax law passed by Congress last year let Amazon pay just $2.8B in federal income taxes—down from more than $7B in each of the prior two years.

All while its profits jumped 44.5% to $89.5B.

This is the same company that announced 16k layoffs last month.
Amazon Saved Billions Under Trump’s New Tax Law
Breaks for investment and research lowered the company’s payments to the U.S. government.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Richard E. Lenski, Bryan D. Jones , and 7 more

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 4d
Every American needs to watch this:

Reposted by Federico Ortino, Mark Priestley

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 4d
"Starmer didn't pick Mandelson in spite of his Epstein connections… He picked him because of them."

Would he have made the same choice if Kamala Harris had won?

"Absolutely not", says @lewisgoodall.com.

Reposted by Federico Ortino

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Hart Publishing @hartpublishing.bsky.social · 5d
📢 Save the date! Submissions for the SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law open on 1st May 2026.

Find out more 🔗 https://bit.ly/45OhNSz

#InternationalEconomicLaw @sielnet.bsky.social @federico-ortino.bsky.social @gregorycshaffer.bsky.social
Banner for the SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law, featuring the book covers of three previous prizewinners, and an announcement that submissions will open on 1st May 2026.

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Mona Paulsen @monapaulsen.bsky.social · 14d
I completely disagree with the framing of coercion as pragmatism.

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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 15d
"a pathological liar"

The worst is the machine around him has become like him. And the harm to people's trust in the US administration will take time to repair.

From www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

Reposted by Federico Ortino

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 15d
The @financialtimes.com tells it like it is.
A screen grab of a news story showing the FT wrote: ‘video footage contradicted authorities’ claims’

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Archon Fung, Federico Ortino

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15d
The fundamental tenet of Robert Peel, who founded the first municipal police force in London, is that the police are the people and the people are the police. Once this connection is destroyed, you are simply an occupying force. This is why ICE should be withdrawn from Minneapolis, today.

Reposted by John McLaren, Bryan D. Jones, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 19 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16d
Please share. 💔

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Jan W. Mueller , and 21 more

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 18d
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

Reposted by Federico Ortino

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Harlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social · 22d
Point though is that purchasing Greenland is not somehow more reasonable or legal than conquering it, and other states, Denmark included, are unlikely to see it as such.

Reposted by Robert Wolfe, Federico Ortino

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 22d
“since power and success are far harder to pin down than vanity metrics like list-growth and fundraising, there is a danger to legacy organizations struggling to embrace analytics that they will let the data lead them astray by optimizing for what’s easy instead of what’s important.”
Digital Death Spiral: How Analytics Hastened the Republican Party’s Descent into Trumpism
Abstract. This chapter discusses the role of analytics-based digital listening has played among surrogate organizations in the contemporary Republican Part
academic.oup.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 23d
ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
www.mprnews.org

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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 25d
Why is she still using X?

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 27d
My god, her face. That is now the face of America.

Reposted by David H. Kaye, Jonathan H. Adler, Julian Webb , and 3 more

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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · Jan 8
"Breaking down the moment an ICE agent fatally shot a Minnesota woman" from CBS News:
youtu.be/mazLvZmcyDI?...

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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · Jan 8
This is horrific.
marina-purkiss.bsky.social Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · Jan 8
No sleep last night…

Can’t get that video out of my head

Can believe the lies being told to betray her even in death

Can’t believe the mindless lemmings that swallow them up

America is lost.

Reposted by Federico Ortino

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Jan 8
Trump started it.

Reform and Tories are at it too.

And Labour already heading in that direction.

All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.
Conservative party pledges £1.6bn ice style removals force. Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows.

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, Federico Ortino

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · Jan 8
No sleep last night…

Can’t get that video out of my head

Can believe the lies being told to betray her even in death

Can’t believe the mindless lemmings that swallow them up

America is lost.

Reposted by Federico Ortino

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Dec 29
This is where Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as Mayor of New York: the old City Hall subway station

It looks like the secret lair of a Batman-like super hero 👀

Reposted by Federico Ortino, Jeroen Van Bouwel

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · Dec 18
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate and weather research institutions. @hayleysmith.bsky.social @susrust.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Trump administration moves to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
Experts say a closure of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., would leave millions vulnerable to worsening climate hazards.
www.latimes.com

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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · Dec 17
BBC News - Erasmus scheme to return for UK students, BBC understands
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Erasmus scheme to return for UK students, BBC understands
The UK ended its participation in the scheme in 2020 after agreeing a Brexit deal with the EU.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Dec 14
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org

Reposted by Federico Ortino, Simon Lester

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Dec 9
US-Indonesia trade deal at risk of collapse on.ft.com/4pYJNKU
US-Indonesia trade deal at risk of collapse
Washington believes Jakarta is reneging on terms of agreement signed in July
on.ft.com

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IMPEACH @thetd.bsky.social · Dec 9
If you subtract immigration out of America, this nation is nothing. We are immigrants.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Nov 29
This is what Vovchansk looks like on the 565th day of non-stop shelling.

It is completely destroyed. For 565 days russians have been pounding it with fire. The factory lies in ruins, the schools are gone, the church no longer exists, and no homes are left standing.

📹: 57th SM Infantry Brigade