📊 New from me and Hans Nichols @axios.com: What could the House map look like if Democrats surpassed Harris in the midterms? Play around with an interactive map:
www.axios.com/2026/02/06/c...
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
ICE arrests of people without criminal charges or convictions surged in June, newly obtained data shows
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
🔗 www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
Love me some hand-drawn dataviz!
Visual journalist @erindataviz.bsky.social shows just how much a $400m Qatari jet stacks up against other gifts received by modern presidents.
See the thread to see the #dataviz unfold 👇
Endlessly fascinated by @ewsanderson.bsky.social's now-expanded Welikia Project map.
Plug in your NYC address and learn about the ecological history of the place:
www.welikia.org/map-explorer...
I can't recommend this class enough, it's delightful! Everything as advertised, and more! 📊🦜
An excellent list for people who make games, or really anything interactive
I've been using Kagi for a couple months now and really enjoy it! Would be difficult to go back now
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
taking care of people:
✅feels good
✅is the most efficient solution
✅is human nature, actually
Very nice summarization of the executive actions and proclamations/memos from the current administration by Axios and graphics by @kavyabeheraj.com
www.axios.com/2025/02/11/t...
Oh hey, I made this! Thanks @justsecurity.org for maintaining such a valuable source of knowledge 💪 Glad you found the chart useful!
📊 Excellent story from Alex that drives home what's at stake when we lose access to open data – truly, it's the things we take for granted.
"Everything from how we allocate Congressional seats to the weather app on your phone relies at least in part on accurate government data."
For context, the poster was hanging outside of a lovely stationery store called Mr. Boddington's Studio, and invited anyone to take a pencil and name a color. mrboddington.com
A hanging poster of nearly 400 small painted circles in different colors. Many are labeled with handwritten color names.
A close-up of a poster showing about colored circles and hand-written names. The names include "Galinda", "Elphaba", "I'm crying because I'm laughing" , "nosebleed", and "forest floor".
A close-up of a poster showing about colored circles and hand-written names. The names include "pretty princess", "juicy fruit", "still-life fake pear", "tasty mold", "Cholula", "galixy color", "sonic blue", "Aegean sea", and "sesame latte".
A close-up of a poster showing about colored circles and hand-written names. A green circle in the middle is labeled "Shrek".
Collaborative color! 🎨 📊
This trio of charts sums up what makes data visualization so powerful a storytelling tool and so challenging an art form. To quote John Green, the truth resists simplicity
36th St in Sunset Park, two mosaics by Owen Smith.
An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders
Close-up of a gray and tan cat sleeping with her mouth slightly open and a little pink tongue peeking out.
someone had a good sunday
🧵Okay let's do some BTS for Axios' elections #dataviz.
1/5: We used <canvas> for our big maps, which means we had to do some tricks with color hashes to get interactivity.
What the reader sees vs. what the computer sees.
Details on how it works:
observablehq.com/@camargo/can...
Exclusive merch, my greatest weakness 😭 But fr I am so excited to attend #AGDQ2025 in person for the first time!
A black and white photograph from the Power Broker showing Robert Moses sitting in a car handing toll money to an operator. A caption reads: "Moses, who never learned to drive and who never paid tolls, poses for a photographer."
I'm getting the same energy as this gem
Yum!! Also a fan of the network graph at the bottom of your page, very nice ✨
A bowl of ground pork ramen with a lot of bok choy greens and turnip.
Made ramen from scratch today and hoo boy it was good 🍜 Going to go food coma brb
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
That's a great point!
A bar chart showing U.S. presidential election popular vote totals. Donald Trump won about 72m votes in 2024, 74m in 2020, and 63m in 2016. The Democratic party won 67m votes with Kamala Harris in 2024, 81m with Joe Biden in 2020, and 66m in 2016 with Clinton.
On this day where we're all trying to get by, a stat I found interesting. Fewer people voted for Trump in 2024 compared to 2020. But even FEWER people voted for Democrats
📊 Check out the full chart by @jacqueschrag.com: www.axios.com/2024/11/06/t...
