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...
Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists
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Population density like Andreas Feininger’s 1944 aerial of Manhattan.
Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...
Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95
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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.
Are 3,000 ICE agents ‘disproportionate’ to Twin Cities police forces?
Their presence is bigger than the 10 largest metro police departments combined.
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Two new versions of the New Mexico hierarchical elevation grid. Green and brown pen & yellow and black pen on hot press watercolor paper.
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.
Transit Study I Nine gel pens on 24x32cm black paper. New item in the shop! Adding more this weekend. www.timwallace.art/product/tran...
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 decided to publish the data behind the map to allow others to use it for things like demographic analysis."
We’re Sharing the Data Behind Our Detailed 2024 Election Map
Our new interactive map features precinct-level results that anyone can download.
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Scribbled States of America. Splines drawn connecting populated places in each state. Fineliner on heavyweight smooth white paper.
Tariffs will be in the news for a bit here. Bonus points to the first outlet that makes a map like this old gem from the Illustrated London News (1926).
Are "computer maps" interesting over here? archive.org/details/NASA... archive.org/details/NASA... archive.org/details/geog... archive.org/details/indu...
