“I don’t think the president’s personal militia recruited from white supremacist gangs can be reformed” shouldn’t be a controversial statement, or taken as anything but an obvious statement of fact, and yet here we are.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

Heads up to gov employees: Anonymity on Reddit is compromised. With nothing more than a mere please & thank you from DHS, Reddit turned over user data on a yet unknown number of accounts. That data is being used punitively at this time. Please be aware & make your necessary choices.

Not an entirely inaccurate summary of 1984 lmao *cries*

Austin Pets Alive brought in two bunches of intakes from shelters around Texas and AAS this week. We have a LOT of new dogs, stressed dogs, puppies. Come get some dogs (or cats!).

Medical Examiner is ruling this a homicide.

“Should ICE funding be a red line issue for Democrats?” @maxwellfrost.bsky.social : “110%.”

Thousands of people protested in Nuuk, Greenland against Trump's threats to take over their country. Just over 55,000 people live in Greenland, which means that this was a significant portion of the country's population. Details: abc7ny.com/post/thousan...

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

The review of refuges and fisheries is intended to divest or erode protections. It is dangerous.

Trump canceled free admission to national parks on MLK Day. Because he's a racist sociopath who is enabled by Republicans. National Parks in California will offer free admission on MLK Day, Monday.

Several of the 13 “worst of the worst” criminals that the Department of Homeland Security said were arrested in Minnesota through its immigration enforcement operation were actually handed over to ICE by state prisons before Operation Metro Surge began.

BREAKING: A measles outbreak is growing at rapid speed in South Carolina, with cases doubling over the last week and spreading to at least three other states.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Nominative fair use of the day

This book is a {gt} treasure trove! rich-iannone.github.io/gt-effective... Written by @richmeister.bsky.social, and shoutout to @libbyheeren.bsky.social for telling me about it. #RStats

The last one is my favorite: “French.”

The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025. https://bit.ly/4sEbdYv

My book review of Desirée Abbott's Everyday Data Visualization is live in Nightingale! 📊 Even experienced practitioners will find unexpected depth here—don't miss the color theory chapter! nightingaledvs.com/review-everyday-data-visualization/

📊 In her latest review, Nicole Mark (@nicoledesignsdata.com) explores how Desiree Abbott's "Everyday Data Visualization" offers seasoned practitioners a refreshing return to the scientific rigor behind color theory, accessibility, and project management. nightingaledvs.com/review-every...

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!

#dataviz educators, what are some things you could use from the R/Python ecosystem of packages but in the browser for no-code teaching? Last year I made Pivotteer to provide a GUI for dplyr's pivot functions (unparalleled API), what else would be nice to have? pivotteer.netlify.app

NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

UCLA alum and Angeleno here, this takes 5 minutes of your time and is worth making your voice heard.

Every puppy bought from a breeder means one less home for a dog in a shelter. #AdoptDontShop

"JD Vance is the Cybertruck of politicians." 🤣 Right on, @karaswisher.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

If you’re going to kidnap a dictator why wouldn’t you start with Putin? Make sense?

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

They removed ICE Block, so I think it's a fair ask.

“Media conglomerates, law firms, universities, banks, CEOs—too many powerful institutions and individuals have failed to meet the moment.” Time to revisit/accelerate this and use our money, hearts and intellect for good.

Let's build a better internet! On Search Engine this week, PJ, @kevinroose.com and I go nuts and set up a Fediverse server www.searchengine.show/the-fedivers...

Renee Good’s murder was not just a homicide, it’s a hate crime against women, called femicide. Good told ICE, "That's fine, I'm not mad at you" and was shot 3 times in the head point blank, Ross yelled the misogynist slur, "fucking bitch" after killing her. #3E #endimpunity

some of us know it comes before a fist lands.

The jobs report is in. What a disaster.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Good. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

BREAKING: U.S. federal agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, police said, adding that they were taken to hospital and their conditions were not known reut.rs/4ssRkDX

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky

🎉 We’ve received 310 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...

🆕 New release of my Hyper Files Inspector! 🚀 Web-based tool for inspecting & exporting #Tableau .hyper files. Now with auto-inspection on upload, streamlined exports (JSON/CSV), and save-to-disk option. #dataviz #dataengineering GitHub: github.com/nicolelily/hyper-files-inspector