I want to overlay GIS data with 2023 satellite imagery, and have been struggling to do this. I've tried USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data to no avail. Is NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) my best bet? I'm to turn around results quickly & worry about the learning curve.

A bright ray cutting through depression today: getting a NASA API key (the screenshot comprises just a few of those available)! api.nasa.gov

After José's arrest sparked outrage in August, DHS attacked him in a press release, calling him a "criminal illegal alien, not a firefighter." DHS has cited a 12-year-old drug delivery charge while failing to acknowledge the charge was dismissed. Full @us.theguardian.com interview and story here:

Low stakes gripe, but on top what’s been pointed out about this post, I’ve never met a single fan of either The Iliad or The Odyssey who’s said Rieu’s is their favorite translation, and I know many: Homer is mandatory reading at my alma mater (albeit Lattimore’s translations, when I was there)!

For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.

You can read the Bureau of Justice Statistics report cited in the visualization below here: bjs.ojp.gov/library/publ...

Fellow arthropod fans: This is even more amazing than the headline describes! The researchers say it’s “the first evidence of colonial behavior in two common spider species.”

I read a fascinating @askhistorians.bsky.social answer tonight re: historical voter turnout in NYC, especially of interest since I learned that Tuesday saw a turnout of >2 million, the highest turnout since *1969* (great data on 2025 election here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/h...).

I want to note a statistic I often find quoted online, and what I believe to be the source: “Prior non-fatal strangulation was associated with […] over seven-fold odds (OR 7.48, 95% CI 4.53–12.35) of becoming a completed homicide.” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

DHS stopped automatically archiving officials’ text messages. Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta… -take a screenshot. -send it to their work computer -run the file through a program there -repeat www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

A perimeter of parents and what appeared to be a priest and other faith leaders were out all around the neighborhood surrounding Chavez as students were recently dismissed.

Our union - which you can follow on here if you like our journalism, storytelling, music programming, public media in general, and good vibes - has been sharing some personal stories from our members. Here is one from Meg from KMHD Jazz Radio:

"Having somebody who is hungry and worried about feeding their own children is an enormous amount of stress that will impact anybody’s ability to do their job well." I spoke with @aijenpoo.bsky.social about the issues domestic workers face at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I need accounts like this to actually link to the story they’re citing. If I have the right link, this strikes me as an overstatement. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Under Trump 2.0, three CFPB probes into Andreessen-backed companies have been halted, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)

This is, as ever, an excellent piece by Julianne—I braced myself for anguish at learning what’s being lost, but I also learned about a lot of great community violence intervention (CVI) programs, and I appreciate the note she ends on.

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

*pain blanc

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

Important pedantry. This is interesting in part because he explains it well enough that I think most laypeople will understand why the pedantry matters. Journalists should take notice!

I post this as a Wikipedia editor, not linking because I don't want to put anyone on blast: These were posted as derisive evidence (the scare quotes in Wikipedia). The text was real, but imo wrong. That use is explicitly discouraged in the manual of style: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped....

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up. I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.

Cuomo says Mamdani isn’t “in sync” with New Yorkers and Bartiromo segues into “next year is the 25th anniversary of 9/11” with all the subtlety of a Tim Robinson character

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

Cannot express enough appreciation for the teams *flying through a hurricane* while not being paid.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country. 🔗 www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

how did i not know about this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_p...

SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza. theintercept.com/2025/10/24/a...

This is fascinating. The story links to the full (41-page) complaint, which is definitely going to be weekend reading for me.

"But buried amid the A.I. division layoffs was a different set of cuts. The company laid off more than 100 people in its risk review organization, according to three people familiar with the move and internal memos viewed by The Times."

A post has gone viral today that uses the Unicode block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, making text look italic (e.g. 𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐), so I want to share the accessibility tip that special characters like these cannot be read by (most, perhaps all*) screen readers. [1/4]

Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately. DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

I get food assistance in minnesota and got this text tonight. MFIP is our TANF

ICE’s own policies say the agency should not detain pregnant, postpartum or nursing individuals. It’s doing so anyway. Immigrants’ health is suffering. Congress has abandoned a requirement that ICE make public how many such immigrants have been detained. 19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...

sic semper tyrannosaurus

I'll be editing videos coming in from our reporters on the ground. Let me know if you see anything interesting!

Let’s put it another way. When a huge tech company pushes your school district to adopt $100 million AI learning system throughout K-12, do you want vibes, or a powerful scientific evidence base illustrating the harm?

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

I’m sad to hear about Baek Se-Hee; I was grateful for her memoir, and now this, from The Korea Herald: “According to the Korea Organ Donation Agency, Baek saved five lives through organ donation. The agency said on Thursday that she donated her heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.” 고인의 명복을 빕니다.

One week ago: "I guess I'll finally try reading Lord of the Rings again, for the first time in my adult life" Today: "I cannot abide my ebook's shoddy inline jpegs for rendering cirths when free and open source typefaces of the various Certhas exist"