data visualization is my passion.

trump getting involved with world cup stuff is why i initially had the ick about paying attention to the whole thing. i ended up a bit swept up in it anyway and it's been fun to have a unifying event in the states, but then we get smacked in the face with a reminder that he ruins everything.

We cannot know what the Black woman on the train was thinking or feeling at this moment. But we recognize the image as an indictment. It should make all of us pause to consider what it is that we are celebrating as America turns 250. The latest from @errinhaines.bsky.social:

Climber and Estes Park restaurateur Melissa Strong says her house saved her life. A breaker tripped as a tool -- live with 2,000 volts-- electrocuted her. Her hands had to be reconstructed. Strong's new book is "Climbing Through." We met in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

I would love for a reporter to ask him to explain the offside rule

Over the holiday weekend I put the finishing touches on a new version of Timeline, @knightlab.northwestern.edu 's best known tool. I'm most excited that it saves your timelines to your atmosphere PDS and supports easy media uploads, a much desired feature with the OG. timeline.knightlab.com/ng/

A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.

love that @caitlynkim.bsky.social went to the fair and lets us know what the #copolitics booth is like!

Large swaths of Colorado are blanketed in smoke tonight. …. Parts of Fremont County evacuated as Aspen Acres fire surges to 89,000 acres coloradosun.com/2026/07/05/c...

The MAGA right,with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site’s nonprofit status. AI is raiding the encyclopedia’s resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies.

Such a weird thing to do given, like, humanity.

You can tell that this game will destroy at least one nation's psyche and that's what sports are all about baby

Remind me which boy band is Harry Kane’s side gig

Pretty good tournament where every day the best game anyone has ever seen happens.

I am from LA and my grandma was Mexican so of course I am rooting for Mexico but going solely by the real-time reactions online I am also sort of rooting for the game to continue to be as chaotic and unhinged as possible

Yow. Ouch.

Red

36 days. Still marching. Albanians are done watching their coastline get sold off to Kushner money and their government answer with silence. Tirana's streets glow with flares, flamingo balloons, and one demand on repeat: Rama, resign. 🇦🇱🦩

We who live at altitude know better.

Okay its past my bed time! PLEASE STOP FIREWORKS NOW THANK YOU!!! FOR YOUR ATTENTION INTO THIS MATTER.

I love America because it is a place where a young couple paid a penny to cross the US-Mexico border, worked in sugar factories and the fields of California. And then, thanks to hard work, Pell Grants and community college, their great grandson could work covering politics at the White House.

good #copolitics piece here.... tho i'd also argue that we elect people to represent all of the people, not just those who voted for them. many forget that aspect.

I interviewed a former prosecutor yesterday who said this one thing that I cannot stop thinking about : “I think the most radical thing I learned from becoming a prosecutor is how much violence women face in this country and how little people care.”

Nearly 1 million people who bought Trump’s memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion through the end of June. Trump, meanwhile, made $636 million from the coin last year, because he collected returns whenever anyone traded it, as he repeatedly pushed his followers to do, the @nytimes.com reports.

democracy sounds great, let's make it real www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

Happy 60th birthday to the #FOIA, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on this day in 1966! Subscribe to FOIA Files! It's FREE! bloomberg.com/foiafiles

A reminder.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

lol Threads banned the new Infowars. Silenced for TRUTH. Everybody go yell at them.

glad to see one of my faves on this list in the fiction category, a futuristic warning. Silver Fox of the Rockies is a great history... and other good #copolitics reads...

We found a 1980 police report labeled “NO PRESS.” A former city detective testified this designation was not unusual. It meant Syracuse University had “put their foot down and said no press for any kind of rape, robbery, burglary” near the school.

OK but why is the power failure mode of a sewage plant "dump everything into the river"? That's a design choice, and one that should not be permitted (literally).

nothing more american than wasting money to set off low-grade explosives in quiet neighborhoods to celebrate the freedom of not giving a shit about anyone else

As much as FIFA or political situations or the haters or bad TV coverage tries to make us dislike the World Cup... The soccer itself, the stories that organically spring up over the weeks, the games... That's why we watch.

Travis Kelce Wins Coin Flip To Kick Off Vows

one of the top results upon googling Department of Energy and 78 degrees...

Wire service lensman with a telephoto for the absolute win — www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

they refer to Extra Time as “ET” because this is how the players look by the end of it

Anonymous neo-Nazi propagandist "Big Serge" has been identified. Good work. www.investigatewest.org/idaho-labor-...

decided to crunch a few turnout numbers based on the #copolitics SOS release as of midnight July 1. Democratic Party turnout as a percentage of active voters is higher than that of Rs or unaffiliateds.

Letter to the editor: Governor unveiled Abe Lincoln statue in The Villages, but "Lincoln was our tallest president at 6 feet 4 inches, and this statue makes him appear to be no more than 5 feet 7 inches—almost a foot shorter than he was in real life." www.villages-news.com/2026/07/01/g...

Honestly we could all use a hydration break.

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

gotta be some kind of metaphor that they’re canceling many 250th anniversary of america parades because of extreme heat caused by climate change

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Got to join Purplish with @bentebirkeland.bsky.social & @jesseapaul.bsky.social to break down the results of the CO primaries and what it might mean for November. Listen here: www.cpr.org/podcast-epis... or wherever you get your podcasts. #copolitics

Guy who taped his mouth shut to show how he had been silenced after getting pushback for his decisions fires officials who disagreed with him.

a somewhat different take on the D v. R #copolitics situation denverite.com/2026/07/02/c...

🤔💡Related note: I assume many CO Dem operatives are very relieved that Marx was barely able to pull it off against state Senator Kirkmeyer because if she'd gotten the nom (even if she would've had to do a runoff to get it) then they'd *only* have her secessionist past to work with.🥴😜🙃 (1/5)