Kids back to school today? It's a good time to check on how protected they are from measles. In a massive effort, @caitlingilbert.bsky.social @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @moriartymaps.com collected vaccination data from ~46,000 public + private schools in the US. You can search it here:

some of my promised albeit sleep-deprived thoughts on this vax data work: full vid at www.tiktok.com/@caitlingilb...

As vaccination has become a political hot potato, the already patchwork of counties & schools meeting herd immunity standards has fallen further. Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social wapo.st/49zDc43

Honestly pretty shocking it was just 50% before the pandemic but falling by half in 5 years is horrifying

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Feelin' that Christmas spirit with a dash of harrowing ptsd #LetterboxdFriday

What Christmas is really about: "It’s about a funny football-headed kid with a good heart but no sense of reality whose entire world view is at stake!"

Will there be snow in your hometown this year for Christmas? ...probably not! But! you can get a hot chocolate and browse thru 83 years worth of data to see how many snowy holidays you got to enjoy growing up. Relive those glorious snowy mornings, or find out if those were rarer than you remember!

Holidays just not doing it for you this year? Whether you're merrily jingling bells or dreading the rest of the week, take an escape tonight and join me from 9pm-12am on @gtdradio.bsky.social @wfmu.bsky.social to bathe in some 60s and 70s grooves. Go here: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

For our new visual investigation into how night vision and city lights may have played a part in the DCA crash we flew a drone along the helicopters route, filmed incoming planes through night vision goggles, and analyzed it all within a 3D model of Washington, D.C. Watch here wapo.st/4atdTBI

While in college, during a long weekend hang, myself and buds had the bright idea to improvise a recipe for 'beer pancakes' using Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss. Every time Bari pops in the news I get flashbacks to those, the worst pancakes I've ever eaten.

“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi wrote.

My favorite animated show got canceled in 2020, but the creators still manage to get together to put out a song on Christmas sung by one of the many show's duos. The sales pitch of Venture Bros was realistic Johnny Quest, but the staying power is how much love was poured into it. Go Team Venture!

Today is the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year for most of us living between the Equator and the Arctic Circle. The duration varies by latitude. Those living in the Arctic are experiencing Polar Night, which may have begun weeks ago! Blog antonioantoine.com/2025/12/17/t...

Tule fog, Sutter Buttes, California. Captured by Sentinel-2C on December 14, 2025. 🛰️🖼️

Love the methodology box behind this College Football Happiness Rankings story wapo.st/49iK71p

This will surprise no one, I'm thinking...

Love this @jeremybmerrill.com @fox.computer piece mapping TikTok's brain, especially the tool they made to find a content theme's diametric opposite. People who like the "Fallout" games, for instance, aren't very interested in videos about having hair www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

itsa map ☑️

AJ Goes to the Dog Park has ascended to heaven aka Tubi

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Great first snow of the season for DC - chunky snowflakes, clean blanket dressing the trees. A good morning, one and all.

Dozens of cities across the U.S. adopted Vision Zero programs to reduce the number of pedestrian deaths. But in nearly all, deaths have risen. From @rachelsiegel25.bsky.social, Ian Duncan, @moriartymaps.com & Emmanuel Martinez: www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

NEW: More than 80% of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during Trump’s federal law enforcement surge this year had no criminal convictions or charges, new data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime. w/ Emmanuel Martinez wapo.st/4iC8oCR

While I've lately been promoting the Independent Map Artists group I organize (mapartists.org), I haven't actually indulged in shamelessly promoting my own #map store for a long while. Weird world maps, mountain sketch mugs, river transit maps, and more. somethingaboutmaps.com/Storefront

Folks who've gone from detailed GIS files to Blender... how on earth do you prep an svg so it can actually become a usable polygon and not a mesh of pain

RIP Udo Kier. An actor that always delivers and once you notice him shows up in the darnedest places. Swan Song starring him was among my favorite last year - a "dying legend has one last romp" flick that does it right. Powerhouse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=heN0...

Personally have drawn a line in the sand for myself with AI that I'm never using it for emails, editing, or writing of any sort. Defeats the entire purpose of putting yourself out to the world to render yourself a puppet.

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

This is a nice guide to music discovery sans algorithms, with shoutouts to @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, @afantano.bsky.social, @bandcamp.com, flowstate.fm, and other great sources of human-powered curation. I think the internet works best when it facilitates humans sharing things with each other!

Often joke about how after going to a conference many, many times, you pick up on the genres most talks fall into. This felt wholly new, effectively a 'The Moth' performance. Great stuff.

Tracking the spread of bird flu using genetic markers, satellite imagery, property records, and more reminds me of John Snow’s Cholera investigation/map. Howe’s Hens is the modern day Broad Street Pump. Amazing work from @natlash.bsky.social & @chrisalcantara.com. www.propublica.org/article/meth...

Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond. Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope! Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause! desertbus.org

Today we marched to engineering management's offices to deliver our unanswered questions about a tool the company is evaluating that would stack rank employees, violating status quo & disrespecting our union. We won’t back down when they violate our rights and then ignore our concerns.

The ninth annual Pudding Cup is live! Submit your non-commercial data/visual stories. Winners receive $1,500. pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

"And all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters" Beautiful cover of Fitzgerald by Ross Thorn, recorded this morning on the shores of Lake Superior. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4hq80...

Patriot, and it's sister show Perpetual Grace, LTD are among the best TV shows made in the past decade. It's criminal that Steven Conrad's troupe couldn't catch a break for more seasons of either show. Glad it's still in some folks consciousness!

Californians Approve Measure To Redraw ‘Garfield’ https://theonion.com/californians-approve-measure-to-redraw-garfield/

Has been fascinating on Instagram seeing obvious scam ads along the lines of "Our jewelry business was doing ok but now we've both got cancer so we're closing up shop... 75% off everything!"... and quickly finding a dozen sites in the same format, same merch, same story pitch. Gross, gross stuff.

Sign painting (or at least that aesthetic) rules because it implies a human hand was involved in it. Seeps intention, clever visual hierarchy, and charm.

It's been a long journey (>1 year since I began), but there's finallt a public release of the oblique hachures method. With many thanks to @southarrowmaps.co.nz, who significantly refined the methodology from what I began with. Writeup (w/ a link to the script): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Highs and lows. Iggy Pop should have had a secondary career as a character actor, Jafar Panahi is a powerhouse director, horror movies should take more risks. #letterboxdfriday

Gaah illustrated turn of the century postcards are so wonderful. publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

Merry spooky day 🦇 🌙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1f...

Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…

To any Boston-area map people who might still be with me on this site: head down to our southern neighbor Thursday evening for Maptime! I guarantee this is the closest thing to Maptime Boston you’re going see in the foreseeable future. www.mapcenter.com/maptimeri