Rachel Lavin

Data journalist at Bloomberg Formerly @thetimes @businessposthq @TheSundayIndo @WIPLive
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[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

Hello,

I am posting more on BlueSky these days

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[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

This is the altar at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street in London which honors journalists and media workers killed in action.

In the past 18 months it has added a bench to accommodate lists of the names of all those killed reporting in Gaza.

[Fares Akram @faresakram]

In this explainer, @GalitAltstein and I dive into the hunger crisis in Gaza—its roots, causes, and what’s driving it today. @RachelLavin spent invaluable time augmenting the piece with charts and visualizations to make the data simpler.
https://t.co/vyTi5ZQyaJ

[Krishna Karra @k3blu3]

we mapped more than 350 trash sites across Gaza using satellite imagery and machine learning. more than half of them are in close proximity to displaced people in tents.

read our report documenting the environmental catastrophe

🎁: https://t.co/cflAjbGMjW

[Bloomberg @business]

The bombardment of Gaza has left contaminated soil, blackened water and mounds of garbage spreading disease and pollution. It's a toxic legacy that will last generations, and extend beyond its borders. Read more: https://t.co/IQclTbVbSI

📷: Omar Ashtawy/APAImages/Shutterstock

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

"Rather than yielding a quick win, the strikes have complicated the task of tracking uranium and ensuring Iran doesn’t build a weapon..."

For more from Bloomberg's nuclear reporter Jonathan Tirone @virtualnomad read 👇
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https://t.co/Wg5wI8r9u0

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

🧐For Bloomberg: Satellite images question Trump’s claim Iran’s atomic sites were destroyed

We looked at the damage to Iran's most heavily protected nuclear site👇📡🗺️

Here we can see new craters, possible collapsed tunnel entrances and holes on top of a mountain ridge...

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[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

IAEA inspectors, meanwhile, haven’t been able to verify the location of Iran's stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium for more than a week.

That uranium inventory is enough to make 10 nuclear warheads and could fit in as few as 16 small containers

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[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

One reason why:

"Without newcomers, the Spanish population is projected to shrink by 1/3

A low birthrate means labor shortages, which leads to less tax revenue to pay for a growing number of pensions and health care & ultimately, economic stagnation."

https://t.co/e0QR3J3W30

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

Spain is bucking European trends by embracing migration 🇪🇸

Foreign-born residents are projected to more than double in the next 50 years 📈

Spain already saw one of the fastest demographic shifts in developed nations this century

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[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

So far, Spaniards are feeling positive about it

Over half of the population said that they feel immigration makes their country a better place to live

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https://t.co/e0QR3J3W30

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

Musk "told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder."

"He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills..."

https://t.co/WEKm0e9NtB

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

Smotrich said: "This time, the operational method is completely different: not raids, but rather occupation, cleansing and holding the territory until Hamas is destroyed.

Along the way, we are destroying everything that is left of the Gaza Strip" 👇
https://t.co/pM3PmHVOWL

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

According to the Integrated Food Security Classification, one in five of Gaza’s population are now experiencing the most extreme level of starvation - famine 👇

https://t.co/pM3PmHVOWL

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[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

On Monday, Netanyahu said that, alongside the increased attacks, Israel would start allowing aid into Gaza again.

Smotrich, who had in the past opposed restarting the aid, said there was no choice, “otherwise, the world will force us to stop the war.”

https://t.co/pM3PmHVOWL

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

"The sovereign grant that supports King Charles III and his family in carrying out their official duties increased by 53% in the last financial year

...£132 million - more than quadruple the £31 million of the initial grant introduced in 2012"

https://t.co/XKwIJ9J8WP

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

This comes as Israel threatens to occupy the entire enclave if there is no breakthrough in mediated hostage talks

But it has also signaled it will hold off until after Trump’s visit to the region next week

Full story here 👇https://t.co/2RnZhEyNrB

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

Israel has blocked all international aid into Gaza for more than nine weeks now.

The UN says Gaza is experiencing “probably the worst humanitarian situation ever seen throughout the war."

📉👇for @business
https://t.co/2RnZhEyNrB

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

Israel is now proposing that aid centers will be established in the army-controlled buffer zone:

"Heads of Palestinian families will be admited to distribution points to receive food packages, but anyone deemed to be a Hamas member will be excluded"

🗺️👇https://t.co/2RnZhEyNrB

[Rachel Lavin @RachelLavin]

How AI is changing the battlefield:

"Instead of dozens or even hundreds of soldiers supporting one $100 million system, one soldier using AI software could command dozens of cheap, autonomous weapons..."

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https://t.co/c8RFxDRxoB