Lebanon’s medics and hospitals are coming under fire as Israel accelerates its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Doctors say the attacks on Lebanon's health system remind them of similar tactics used in Gaza.
spike map of Rome's population density
choropleth map of Rome's population density
Playing with census data, I built this interactive map of population density for Rome (my city 🫶). Data is v granular, you can zoom down to specific blocks 🤯. Rome is the EU's largest city by area, ~ the size of London, but with less than a third of its population teretalo.github.io/rome-pop-map...
"We are the first to study hubris."
-NBER working paper, probably
“Israel has not prosecuted its citizens for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank since the start of this decade, a Guardian analysis of legal data and public records show, creating impunity for a campaign of violence”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
a "special military operation" you might say
Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year.
Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants.
They are good for society and the economy.
✊For International Women's Day, I built an interactive map tracking attitudes like "a man earns, a woman stays home." The east-west divide is stark. And as an Italian… yeah, Italy is not doing great 🙁 Built with Claude Code 🤯 → gender-attitudes.netlify.app
#IWD2026 #GenderEquality #DataViz
graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
Bellingcat's Discord community is still digging through the Epstein files and making sure they're all safely backed up. You can join the thread here:
discord.com/channels/709...
Some really weird stuff in there. New users can use this link to join the server:
discord.com/invite/belli...
Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.
The US will be the only country in the world not part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Rogue state that should be treated as such.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The foreign-born fraction of the US population was 15% in 1890, and in 1910. America thrived.
That fraction is 16% now.
The difference is that in 1890/1910, >96% of immigrants were from Europe or Canada. Today that's less than 10%.
It's best to be honest about one one is actually afraid of.
🇺🇸💔🇪🇺
Trump’s 2025 UN speech was the longest U.S. address on record and the most negative toward Europe.
This is the focus of my first Medium article, where I track how Europe appears in U.S. UNGA speeches from 1946–2025 and visualize the results.
📖 Read on Medium:
medium.com/@alfredo-hs/...
💯 this, "PhD level intelligence" is such a cringy expression
clauswilke.substack.com/p/phd-level-...
Massacre after massacre, day after day - the deliberate annihilation of an entire civilian population.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Following Israel’s ‘pre-emptive strike’ on Iran earlier this month, which happened just as more people started speaking up about the genocide, attention has been averted from Gaza. But Israel’s assault on Gaza (and the West Bank), is continuing apace.'
So is the rest of the planet just supposed to shut its mouth and treat these everyday massacres of civilians as normal now because Netenyahu and Trump now run the world?
Meeting in emergency session today, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
The United States & Israel were among the 12 voting against.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Line graph titled "Public opinion on the 'Most Important Problem,' 1950 to 1979." The y-axis shows the percentage of respondents citing a given issue as the most important problem, ranging from 0% to over 60%. The x-axis spans years 1950 to 1980, with vertical dashed lines marking presidential elections from 1960 to 1972. Four colored lines represent different issue categories: Foreign Affairs (f): Dark blue line, dominant until mid-1960s, peaks around 1965, then declines steadily. Economy (e): Yellow-green line, declines from 30% in 1950s to below 20% in 1960s, then spikes dramatically around 1974 to over 60%. Civil Rights (c): Purple line, nearly flat at low levels until a sharp peak around 1963–1965, then falls sharply. Social Control (s): Teal line, low and flat until a sharp rise in late 1960s, peaking around 1970–1972. Two red arrows highlight peaks: one for "civil rights" around 1963–1965, and one for "social control" around 1970–1972. Scatterplot points with letters ("f", "e", "c", "s") show individual data points used to estimate trend lines. Source: Omar Wasow (@owasow), with URL to research: http://j.mp/agenda-seeding
In 1963, Bernard Cohen wrote the press may not tell people what to think, but it does tell them what to think *about*.
Similarly, in 1960s protests and media made civil rights salient.
All to say, politicians may struggle to shape mass opinion, but they can influence which issues are salient.
Externalising asylum is the hottest trend in EU migration policy; but just 10 years ago the European Commission opposed it on humanitarian and legal grounds.
Here's what you need to know.
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
Perhaps we're getting closer to that day. Can't help but think of those who said it was "too complicated", who cast doubt on the death tolls, who claimed the images from Gaza couldn't be trusted.
truly jarring watching Israel nearly winning Eurovision Song Contest, immediately followed by BBC news coverage of Israels new ground offensive in Gaza
To the dad wearing the “taxation is theft” shirt while playing with his kids at the *public park*:
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
A PlanetScope image from Planet Labs showing southern Gaza's city of Rafah on April 29. A large amount of destruction is visible, with much of the city having been demolished by the IDF. Rafah's municipal stadium is visible with a UAE Field Hospital and the newly created "Moraj Corridor" road is visible.
A PlanetScope image from Planet Labs showing southern Gaza's city of Rafah on April 29. A large amount of destruction is visible, with much of the city having been demolished by the IDF. Rafah's municipal stadium is visible with a UAE Field Hospital and the newly created "Moraj Corridor" road is visible.
Alarming amount of destruction in Rafah visible in recent @planet.com imagery.
The city, already heavily damaged by the IDF previously, is now almost entirely gone with previously intact neighborhoods like Al Jneineh or Khirbet Al 'Adas now being further demolished.
Comparison of April 29 & May 7.
“Illegal immigration, in particular, is poisoning our politics and trust in institutions.”
Dangerous and reckless language in a deeply nativist @financialtimes.com column today.
The normalization of far-right ideas in the name of fighting far-right actors is morally and strategically wrong!
📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in @pnas.org
We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage
🔗https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409418122
This is a tragedy and a historic shame.
The public has a very strong interest in the intelligent, deep, and yes, highly balanced & non-partisan reporting that these institutions have given us my entire life.
Endorsing InfoWars/Newsmax spittle while attacking PBS is perverse and contemptible.
