Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

My thoughts are with the +300 colleagues who were laid off today. This is not good for the industry www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Population density like Andreas Feininger’s 1944 aerial of Manhattan.

Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95

Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...

Valentine variety

She’s my favorite cartographer.

A fresh batch of Earth bagels for National Bagel Day.

Are 3,000 ICE agents ‘disproportionate’ to Twin Cities police forces? Their presence is bigger than the 10 largest metro police departments combined.

Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten:

There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined.

9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.

A specific worldview.

Some pen-plotted heart globes for you.

Prosperity!

Tim Wallace Limited run art inspired by Earth, putting a modern spin on traditional pen and ink by using code, design software, and a pen plotter. Each piece...

Thanks! These plots are the physical result of a pipeline of custom scripts & manual cartography, an ever-evolving & ephemeral rig that I’ve developed in the spirit of limited run art for www.timwallace.art. No defaults. All deliberate choices, from code to pen and paper.

Then on to the next.

🙏🙌 It’s super fun playing with this.

Two new versions of the New Mexico hierarchical elevation grid. Green and brown pen & yellow and black pen on hot press watercolor paper.

Oh my

Bringing back the bugle mountains with this work in progress.

Headed to the shop. Road network threads being picked up from New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

North and South America terrain as a hierarchical grid.

California through certain lenses.

Thanks! That one is a doozy. Finally got it going today.

Some things headed to the shop sooner or later.

Ooh that was a fun one!

Transit Study I
Nine gel pens on 24x32cm black paper.

New item in the shop! Adding more this weekend.
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Iceland

😏

Ohhhh it's an anti-counterfeit measure.

When my wife and I are visiting a nice town or village for the first time, the question we always ask is, where's the bit? That's what we're looking for: the main bit. The nice bit. The bit you're supposed to go and walk around where the stuff is. The bit that, once seen, gives you the authority to say you've been to the place. Tourists judge a place by its bit, even if locals eschew the bit because they're inured to its beauties and obsessed with the difficulty of parking. Anything from a substantial village to a small city will have one bit. Sorrento in Italy, where we have spent a few holidays, is blessed with two bits, and we'd been going there for several years before we discovered the second one. It's the old port. Metropolises like London and New York can have several bits, and Los Angeles has no real bit at all, but quite large places still have only one. Cambridge and Bath, for example, have relatively sizable bits, but only one each. It isn't really the place, though. It's only a small part of the place. It's just the bit you don't want to miss because it's most characteristic of the place.

Really love this quote from David Mitchell's Unruly.

Gigatonnes!

Trump le cambió el nombre al golfo de México, pero ¿quién lo controla? Estados Unidos, México y Cuba tienen jurisdicción sobre distintas zonas del golfo.

¿Quién controla el golfo de México?

www.nytimes.com/es/interacti...

Though the Trump Administration renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the U.S. only lays claim to 46% of the gulf. Learn more about who controls what and why here: nyti.ms/41czLfw

We’re Sharing the Data Behind Our Detailed 2024 Election Map Our new interactive map features precinct-level results that anyone can download.

"We decided to publish the data behind the map to allow others to use it for things like demographic analysis."