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Daniel Donner
@donnermaps.bsky.social
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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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
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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...
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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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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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.

open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...
January 14, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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DHS invading Minnesota in winter
January 11, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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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...
January 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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I don’t know if this acceleration is the result of larger deployments or a more violent strategy, but either way it’s harrowing
January 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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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
January 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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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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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...
January 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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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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Deploying emergency kitten videos

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

obumbratta.com/colour
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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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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...
January 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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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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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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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...
January 2, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Goodnight, sweet prince.
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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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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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!
December 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
December 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
No way this could end poorly.

www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1...
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM