Auroras at great falls @capitalweather.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Kaine’s answering machines have business hours, but the contact form on his website works if you’re a constituent and have feelings about his statement. www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/shar...

I had hoped to have this finished by Halloween, but I’m very pleased with how this turned out!

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Nearly 2 in 3 Latinos say it's a bad time to be Latino in the U.S. — a spike in pessimism since just last year and a total reversal from three years ago — according to a new @axios.com @ipsosgroup.bsky.social Latino Poll in partnership with @noticiastelemundo.com www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...

And now it's AP official. All eyes on the AG race and state delegates now.

JUST IN: Abigail Spanberger will be Virginia's first woman governor, AP projects.

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

Live in a place that has elections today? Go vote. Gubernatorial and mayoral races are important, but so are the ones for your state attorney general, state delegate, city council, school board, propositions, etc. This is your opportunity to weigh in on the group project. Don’t miss it!

@daniellealberti.bsky.social they made a voting sticker just for you!

Looking for an overview of different #RStats packages for visualising spatial data? 📊 Here's a previous blog post of mine: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/r-packa... This blog post is almost three years old now, but all of the code still works! #DataViz #RSpatial #30DayMapChallenge

Alice Walker said, “When it is all too much, when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer… Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality… People gathering, people working to change the intolerable.”

Some lovely examples of #dataviz representing personal data collection! Love this style of visual for personal visuals.

I’m not usually a words/phrases cross stitch person, but I may make an exception for this.

Love this so much. As a dog owner, can confirm my dog is also basically a cat.

I don’t know who asked for this, but I have questions and concerns.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

#hugops to AWS right now

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The only king America needs.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. ChatGPT provided the data.

I’m in the “ooh this could be a fun design” stage of rethinking my personal site when I really need to be in “update the content” stage.

My initial reaction when I saw this on Instagram was it’s like if Pixar made a #dataviz. So much whimsy! And the music reminds me of classic Disney movies.

Hey data journalists (including students!), the National Press Club Journalism Institute is launching a new award for Excellence in Visual Storytelling and applications are now open until Oct. 24. 📊

For those of you interested in accessing U.S. Census Bureau data from data.census.gov during the government shutdown, the Census APIs are still working. Here is an example of how to access the Census API using both #Rstats and #Python coreysparks.quarto.pub/accessing-th...

These “agents” like doing this. They want to do this because it’s a legal way to feed their worst compulsions. And they’ve been given full authority to do it - verbatim - by Stephen Miller and President Trump.

TIL it’s National Black Dog Day, which means I have an excuse to share the cutest snoot. Don’t be fooled though, Landra is currently losing her mind because she hears the ice cream truck 😂

I know I care about data more than the average person, but we should all be really damn mad that the Trump administration is using the shutdown to restrict access to taxpayer-funded government data. My colleague @alexjamesfitz.com sums up the consequences of losing access to that data.

Thread: I love puzzling on how to visualize layered info, the design of coding categories/time/connections, but when I don't literally 'see' a picture of the outcome in my head it becomes an uneasy feeling. My gut-feeling is often the biggest lead on how a design will land/end up, #dataviz📊 #design

SCOOP/UPDATE — The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed *all* federal agencies to send out the shutdown email with NO modifications permitted, a federal source confirmed. Leadership received these orders via email at 1:30pm ET and then reinforced on a 3pm intra-agency call.

You donut want to miss this incredibly fun #dataviz

While I’m at it: You guys know what to do!! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

How Trump's Social Security shakeup is hurting the disabled and the poor. www.axios.com/2025/09/22/t...

The CDC has stopped making telework accommodations, even as many employees don't feel safe at work in the wake of the shooting last month. Read my story with @maya-goldman.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/09/17/c... Or just read this passage:

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Both of these upcoming cohorts are sitting at about 1/3 full with a week to go. I'm really puzzled as to why registration has been so slow. Somewhat in desperation, there's now the code SIXTY you can use for 60% off registration.

JUST IN: Tim Walz to run for a third term as Minnesota governor in 2026

Senate Democrats target GOP over vaccine rollbacks. www.axios.com/2025/09/15/r...

Just look at this incredible use of parallel coordinates to show bust, waist, and hip ratio. Or the fact that they 3D printed mini mannequins to physically show the differences!!! Just brilliant work all the way through. 📊

I'm not sure if the authors are on Bluesky, but saw this incredible data journalism piece shared on LinkedIn and needed to cross post. Anyone who has ever purchased women's clothing will be able to relate to the frustrating experience. #dataviz

📈 Chartle for 13 Sep 2025 Guessed in 1 try ✅⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Nailed this one!

In this new episode, I chatted with @annalombardi.bsky.social about how she applies her extensive data journalism talent and experiences from working at The Times to climate reporting. There are tons of lovely details in this conversation, more info: visualisingdata.com/2025/09/expl...

New World clone just dropped 👀 But this one is for the #dataviz nerds

One of President Trump's major campaign promises was to lower grocery prices. By and large, they're higher than they were last month and last year, some categories by double digits. My latest with @kellytyko.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

Golden #dataviz, no notes.

A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.