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Daniel Donner
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Contributor @the-downballot.com. Focusing on data, maps, and demographics. Find our data (and the CD hexmap template!) at https://the-db.co/data
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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · Oct 24
Several blocks in downtown Chicago are not part of *any* congressional district map (new or old). How on earth is this possible? The answer involves billions of dollars, brothels, Abraham Lincoln, and a bit of geomorphology. 1/

New IL map: t.co/QzQX9spFUO
Satellite view of downtown Chicago with congressional district map overlay, showing several block are not included in any district.
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joemurph.bsky.social
Pitched and landed this story for @NBCNews.com: 24 members of Congress are 80 or older. More than half are running for re-election. #dataViz www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
This chart shows which of Congress’s oldest 24 members are running for re-election (13 members), which aren’t (six members), and which are uncertain (four members). Each politician’s current age is shown, and for those running, the age they would be at the end of the term they could be re-elected for is shown. The party of each member is also shown. All of these politicians are at least 80 years old, most are younger than 84, and one is in his 90s. The uncertain politicians are, on average, the oldest, though there are three politicians at or near 88 who are running for re-election.
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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windjunky.bsky.social
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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pollsandvotes.bsky.social
While a substantial number of members of the House of Representatives are retiring, don’t expect these retirements to produce many flipped seats or shifts in the ideological makeup of either party.

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January 14, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
DHS invading Minnesota in winter
Charles Minard's 1869 infographic showing the devastating losses of Napoleon's army in the 1812 Russian campaign. A thick tan band shows the army advancing to Moscow, and a thin black band shows the catastrophic losses during the retreat. A graph below plots the plummeting t: Charles Minard's 1869 data visualization of Napoleon's Russian campaign. The image has two main parts. The top part is a flow map on a stylized geographical background. A wide, tan-colored band begins on the left at the Niemen River and moves right towards Moscow, representing the advance of Napoleon's army. The width of the band is proportional to the number of soldiers. As the army advances, the band slightly narrows, and numbers along the path indicate the decreasing army size. From Moscow, a thin black band shows the army's retreat, moving from right to left. This black band narrows dramatically, becoming a tiny sliver by the time it reaches the starting point, visually representing the catastrophic loss of human life. The bottom part is a line graph connected by vertical lines to the retreat path on the map above. This graph plots the temperature against dates during the retreat. The line shows the temperature consistently dropping far below zero, providing a clear visual explanation for th
January 11, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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aman.bh
After weeks of staring at 1890s Survey maps and Victorian railway timetables, I think I've finally mapped how each set of characters moves in the Sherlock Holmes adventure 'The Red-Headed League'. 📊 #maps #booksky

Fancy new blogpost: aman.bh/blog/2026/ma...

Just the map: aman.bh/projects/red...
A website displaying a map of London with red markers plotting key locations for "The Red-Headed League." Sidebars feature the story text and methodology notes. A detailed close-up of the London map focusing on the green expanse of Hyde Park, featuring a red location marker and clearly labeled carriage drives and pathways. A snippet of the 1893 Ordnance Survey map with an orange path tracing a specific character's route, connecting Farringdon Station, Charterhouse Square, and Poppins Court with directional arrows.
January 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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katejackson.bsky.social
I don’t know if this acceleration is the result of larger deployments or a more violent strategy, but either way it’s harrowing
Chart showing increase use and brandishing of weapons by ICE over time
January 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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egojunk.bsky.social
Cool map. bluebookmke.substack.com/p/where-amer...
Where Americans Choose to Move and Where They Leave
Domestic Migration from 2020 to 2024
bluebookmke.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the early pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 145k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
a graph of US blue collar job growth
January 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003.

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January 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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zacklabe.com
Just in - "According to @climatecentral.org, 2025 ranks as the third-highest year (after 2023 and 2024) for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters..."

+ Interactive graphics/data: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
+ Climate Matters article: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Map showing the U.S. 2025 Billion-Dollar Weather & Climate Disasters and highlights wildfires and severe weather through December 2025. Graphic is produced by Climate Central.
January 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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jlray.bsky.social
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 2.2k): No one's buying this Greenland shit. Trump loses virtually everyone on the threat of force. He barely gets *half of Republicans* on "purchasing" Greenland.

today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
January 7, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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ckshowalter.bsky.social
Deploying emergency kitten videos

Sound on
January 7, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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obumbratta.com
New Year, New Colour Tool
for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer

obumbratta.com/colour
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
donnermaps.bsky.social
My primary problems lately have been trying to find information that isn't contaminated by AI slop or consumer goods that aren't bloated with AI hardware/software...
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The Trump administration has said it was improving the SSA. A year in, it looks like the mess that everyone else predicted. Not enough staff, manipulation of numbers and declining performance.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The troubled disability benefits system is also deteriorating after some improvement, with 66 percent of disability appointments scheduled within 28 days as of December — down from nearly 90 percent earlier in the year, data shows.
January 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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profsaunders.bsky.social
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
January 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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beckydale.bsky.social
New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output.

Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two part graphic showing the daily contribution of solar in Great Britain’s electricity. The top half is a single tile chart arranged in 30-minute blocks from midnight on left to 23:59 on right with each row representing one day and ordered top-to-bottom from 1 January to 31 December 2025. Blocks are shaded by strength of generation share. In 2025, more than a dozen blocks are dark orange to show share above 40 percent. Contribution in summer days is longer and generally stronger than in winter. The second part of the graphic repeats the format as a small multiple with one fart for each year from 2013 to 2024. Each year increases in strength over that period but 2025 is the greatest contributor overall.
January 2, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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walkingtaako.bsky.social
Goodnight, sweet prince.
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Aug 14
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
January 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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caitlingilbert.bsky.social
The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.
December 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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caitlingilbert.bsky.social
The briliant @moriartymaps.com built the beautiful graphics in this piece including the extremely data-heavy lookup map. Read the full piece to check out all of his incredible work. Extremely grateful to work with such talented folks at the Post every day!
Map of US where counties are colored by the percent change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since the pandemic--regions that meet 95% rates post-pandemic are highlighted Map of Chicago where individual schools are represented by arrows or dots, where the length and direction of the arrow corresponds with how much the vaccination rate has changed between 2018 and 2024.
December 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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karaman.is
For last week's #TidyTuesday, I created a map of endangered languages around the world. Built entirely in R/ggplot2: transforming spatial coordinates, identifying hotspots and composing multiple charts!

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

Inspiration: www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/co...

#RStats #dataviz
Map and bar chart showing the global distribution of 4 209 endangered languages. The world map displays threatened, shifting, moribund, and nearly extinct languages as colored points, with yellow areas highlighting regions of high language clustering. A notable concentration of approximately 700 endangered languages appears in Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian portion of New Guinea, shown in detail in an inset map (bottom right). The bar chart (bottom left) breaks down the 4 209 languages by endangerment status: 1 629 threatened, 1 835 shifting, 434 moribund, and 311 nearly extinct.
December 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
donnermaps.bsky.social
No way this could end poorly.

www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1...
A Doonesbury cartoon from 1987 about Trump's airline. In the last panel one character says "Wow! Marble tray tables!" and another says "I think I fractured my knee..."
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM