I stumbled upon the concept of digital gardens recently and it inspired me to finally redesign my personal website. This was also a good opportunity to finally dig into Sveltekit aricchokey.com
Since last year, I and Al Shaw & @bxroberts.org have investigated the linkages between Trump appointees and the industries they oversee. Today we published a searchable database containing approximately 3,200 financial disclosure forms of roughly 1500 officials.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Data appears to be from a public facing submission system and "contract" is not implied. Entities may have signed up just because they wanted access to view solicitations. That doesn't mean they "did business with ICE."
I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/
Winters are getting shorter across most U.S. cities
www.axios.com/2026/02/25/s...
How would cuts to SNAP benefits affect your state and county? The @urbaninstitute.bsky.social just published a new tool showing that SNAP benefits will fail to cover the cost of a modestly priced meal in every county in the US.
www.urban.org/data-tools/s...
This is amazing. Harvard has amassed a 16TB collection covering more than 311K datasets and a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov - with ongoing updates. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
Let's talk about some of the reporting on the ICE raids that took place in Denver/Aurora yesterday.
There are clearly some inaccuracies circulating online right now
Let's start with this one
It's categorically not true.
(this aired this morning on @FoxNews)
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Also noteworthy: the president is trying to fire the FEC’s Democratic chair when it is set to rule on dozens of complaints from the 2024 election — including complaints against Trump and Elon Musk (who spent almost $300M to support his campaign) and complaints Trump filed against Harris + the media
Federal data rescue effort underway: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Updates on US Census Data as of February 5:
According to the Census Bureau, all files on the public FTP server have been made publicly unavailable to comply with the President's executive orders.
They say they'll work to restore the files after they are reviewed and approved.
Data update log showing that that a column label was changed from gender to sex on Jan 30, 2025
Data update log showing that that a column label was changed from gender to sex on Jan 30, 2025
The CDC appears to have updated several of their open datasets last night just to relabel gender to sex, including some YRBSS and BRFSS files and even old Census population estimates. Some of these files haven't been otherwise updated in years.
2024 flashback: An RCFP analysis provided an unprecedented look at how federal government agencies invoke the “Glomar” doctrine to deny FOIA requests.
Combined, we found that these bodies issued over 5,000 such denials between FY2017 and FY2021.
American homeowners in places most exposed to climate disasters are increasingly dropping home insurance as premiums rise, leaving them exposed to financial ruin as climate threats intensify, according to sweeping new government data.
🧵 The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,600+ individuals connected to the events of January 6, 2021.
In the coming days, the Capitol Riot Map will be completed updated, and include an new feature: Pardon Watch.
Details on updates and how to support this project below 👇
