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Prof Christina Pagel

@chrischirp.bsky.social

66K followers 1.3K following 2.3K posts

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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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 6h

Having a great first day as the new Downing Street Chief of Staff. Have just got my emails sorted and completed the health and safety training.

Now before I begin work, it's time to take a big swig of water, and check the latest news.

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 9h

Starmer's director of communications Tim Allan quits

Starmer's director of communications Tim Allan quits

Tim Allan is the fourth communications chief to leave Downing Street in less than a year.

Reposted by Nicola J. Cooper, Christopher Wright, Christina Pagel

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 23h

I'm no political strategist but has anyone in Labour considered *not* alienating any huge chunk of their base? I just feel like they tried alienating the left and the centre left and the public sector workers and the academics, and none of those things worked great, so maybe give my idea a whirl?

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 23h

According to a lawsuit, a toddler detained by US immigration authorities ended up in hospital with a life-threatening illness, but was returned to custody and denied medication

TAT: [Nationalism]

Toddler held by ICE 'nearly died' in detention and was denied medication, lawsuit claims

A lawsuit claims that when the child was finally taken to hospital, she and her mother remained under guard by ICE agents.

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 23h

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a probe into ABC’s “The View” after the program held an interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. The FCC began an investigation on whether “The View” broke rules for ...

TAT: [Controlling Information | Suppressing Dissent]

FCC opens probe into ABC’s ‘The View’ after James Talarico interview: Reports

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a probe into ABC’s “The View” after the program held an interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, according to multiple o…

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 23h

As the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota continues, legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists.

TAT: [Nationalism | Undermining Democracy]

Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota

Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists in Minnesota.

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 23h

The State Department is removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before President Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025. The posts will be internally archived but will no longer be on public view, the...

TAT: [Controlling Information | Undermining Democracy]

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

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globalhlthtwit.bsky.social @globalhlthtwit.bsky.social · 1d

Morgan McSweeney resigns.

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

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle,after she was fatally shot by immigration agents in January, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U...

TAT: [Nationalism | Undermining Democracy]

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

www.nytimes.com

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

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

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

£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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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