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Daniel G Cappa

@danicappa.bsky.social
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Journalist ✍🏻 — Passion for visual storytelling 📈 — Everything about maps 🗺️ — Personal account — 🇻🇪🇬🇧 My blog: www.gcappa.com

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is not good.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired
Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
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CNN @cnn.com · 14/05/2025
A Venezuelan toddler who had been kept in US government custody after her parents were deported has been returned to Venezuela.
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Toddler held in US after parents’ deportation has been returned to Venezuela | CNN
Venezuela has been demanding that the United States return two-year-old Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal for weeks, accusing US officials of kidnapping her.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/04/2025
Denied, detained, deported: the people targeted in Trump’s immigration crackdown
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Denied, detained, deported: the people targeted in Trump’s immigration crackdown
These are some of the people ensnared by the administration’s unprecedented measures to target people it believes oppose its agenda
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 27/04/2025
From our friends in NYT Graphics: "We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Your Home Without China
We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” No text has hit me so hard in the last weeks. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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No, you’re not fine just the way you are: time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world
Most working people can be put into one of three categories, from idealistic yet unambitious to greedy and immoral. But there is another option …
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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“I only wanted the work­—real imagery from real Baltimore, from the ground up—to get out into the world and it did,” Allen says of his now iconic 'Time' cover and subsequent photography.
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Ten Years Ago, Devin Allen’s Baltimore Uprising Photo Made the Cover of ‘Time,’ Launching His Singular Career
He was only the third amateur photographer to ever land the front page, but Allen didn’t care about the acclaim. What mattered was that his pictures had not been reframed to fit some pre-existing repu...
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10/04/2025
Economic uncertainty update: The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Exploring tree coverage and loss with Google Earth Engine thanks to the folks of @journocoders.bsky.social
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
As the White House confirms 104% tariffs on all Chinese goods imports - some analysis from me on what it means for the rest of us. ✍️👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What would a US-China trade war do to the world economy?
The US president says he will hit Beijing with further tariffs, as global markets continue to fall.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I updated the chart to include March #Dataviz #d3js #svelte #migration
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/04/2025
Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A quick glance at the tariffs: who is affected the most?
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
With the level of confusion Gen AI is now causing in relation to news events, it might be time for a comprehensive thread with a step-by-step guide on spotting and verifying AI-generated content, including AI audio, images and videos. It'll take some time, but is worth the effort, so stay tuned.
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 01/04/2025
"I sat and drew him for a couple of hours and he told me his story... explaining the scars, the chipped teeth and the limp he carried." George Butler has made a career of illustrating the stories of people touched by conflict. @alexoco.bsky.social for @telegraphnews.bsky.social. bit.ly/4jiH1wN
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The Artist Sketching the Messy Aftermath of War
George Butler travels the world drawing places and people touched by conflict. He shares his return to Syria in the weeks after Assad fell We talk of old souls, but the illustrator George Butler is...
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
✈️👀 A traditional ICE Air flight from PHX- El Paso- Brownsville TX - Miami to Guantanamo is scheduled. The plane is now in Miami. Unclear if transferring in, or, or both.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Absolutely brilliant!
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hay una forma de resumir todo esto: Hay algo que se llama "el método científico". ¿Necesitas/quieres refutar una teoría? Aplica el método científico.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Made a chart of deportation flights from the US with the data collected by @tomcartwright.bsky.social, which includes military flights. I used R and d3.js
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2025
President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.
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Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term
President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Recently, I have significantly improved my skills in D3.js and Svelte. I created a chart that compares NATO countries in Europe’s defence spending in 2024 against their spending in 2014.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Good reading!
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Great scoop from ⁦@peter.andringa⁩.me The Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador and dumped in prison thought they were going to Venezuela. They had signed paperwork to go home. via @FT www.ft.com/content/dbfa...
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Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador had signed paperwork to go home
[FREE TO READ] Families and activists say deportees signed documents to return to Venezuela but were sent to Salvadoran jail instead
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Support for the Far Right is highest in countries with the least immigration. (Via The Economist)
Chart show hard right vote share decreasing when more of the population was born abroad
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Kate Gaynor @kategaynor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Putin’s secret weapon: The threat to the UK lurking on our sea beds Damage to critical undersea cables raises alarms in the Baltic. Take a look at our latest piece, investigating the rising threat of hybrid warfare and what it means for global security. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/02/2025
Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised
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Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised
In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature
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Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The New York Times will keep using “Gulf Of Mexico” on its maps.
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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“It is almost impossible to know exactly what is happening at Guantánamo at this moment. I’m not sure the Trump administration really understands what is happening.” @clavelrangel.bsky.social
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‘A human rights disaster’: immigrants sent into Guantánamo black hole despite no proof of crime
Homeland security chief Kristi Noem claims the US is shipping ‘criminal alien murderers’ to the Cuba naval base – but the immigrants’ true stories remain enigmatic
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/02/2025
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
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Musk, who was appointed and not elected, described federal workers as an "unelected, fourth, unconstitutional branch of government" that he said has "more power than any elected representative". www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Musk denies 'hostile takeover' of government in White House debut
The world's richest man took questions for the first time since he was appointed to lead a sweeping government cost-cutting effort.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Statement from AP Executive Editor Julie Pace on a reporter being blocked from a White House event due to our editorial standards on place names: www.ap.org/the-definiti...
Statement from Julie Pace: "As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual, nonpartisan journalism.

Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.

It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment."
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Alvin Chang @alv9n.com · 11/02/2025
Simple and powerful www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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Daniele Grasso @danielegrasso.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
En los últimos días he vuelto a leer dos afirmaciones de Trump y de su ex-estratega jefe muy útiles para entender por qué estamos hablando solo de ellos, todo el rato, sacando un asunto nuevo cuando el anterior todavía no ha acabado. No es caos, es estrategia del caos. 👇
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Nikos Papanikolaou @npanick.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Those who are not locals are worried about whether they will be able to go to Santorini for a vacation this summer. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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As earthquakes hit Santorini, tourists flee but locals remain resilient
Many started evacuating the island as it was hit by tremors - but some have decided to stay.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
US Customs and Border Protection says 23,721 people were apprehended last fiscal year crossing its northern border, up from the 2,238 caught two years prior. But border agents made 1.5 million apprehensions at the border with Mexico last year. Significant figures.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/02/2025
Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social
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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I’ve just launched a new page on Code Like a Journalist with a curated list of inspiring people and content, focusing on computational journalism and data visualization. It’s far from exhaustive and entirely subjective. Help me make it better—send me your favorites! Link below! 👇
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
extremely jealous of this story, very smart reporting. Wild shit. SEO baby www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We @propublica.org are tracking who is working with Elon Musk and what they are doing. We have 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported. Help us investigate and send us tips 🔎: www.propublica.org/tips/federal... projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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Benedict Garman @benedictgarman.com · 06/02/2025
The records just keep coming www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@eliothiggins.bsky.social: "News consumers should be encouraged to take a sceptical (but not cynical) approach to information sources and empowered to critique and verify for themselves through the acquisition of open source investigation skills." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...
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How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills
“If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 04/02/2025
Sheltering in schools or hospitals won’t be possible for many of those returning to Northern Gaza amid the ceasefire, Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social found that more than 80% of former shelters have been damaged or destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
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Satellite Imagery Shows Schools and Hospitals Destroyed in Northern Gaza - bellingcat
Thousands of people have begun returning to their abandoned homes in northern Gaza after Israeli forces opened the Netzarim corridor, which separates the northern and southern parts of the territory, ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/02/2025
Your phone buzzes with a BBC news alert. But what if AI wrote it – and it’s not true? | Archie Bland
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Your phone buzzes with a BBC news alert. But what if AI wrote it – and it’s not true? | Archie Bland
The BBC said Apple Intelligence’s weirdly wrong output sullied its reputation. Apple eventually paused the tool – but its reaction was deeply worrying My first mistake at the Guardian came, agonisingly enough, in my first article as a member of staff,…
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Héctor Estepa @hectorestepa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
What a time to be a journalist. La Administración Trump justifica el retiro del estatuto de protección a los migrantes venezolanos asegurando que en el Venezuela "hay mejoras notables en varias áreas como la economía, la salud pública y la delincuencia".
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this new piece reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...
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How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills
“If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.
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Daniel G Cappa @danicappa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
In 2023, @graphics.reuters.com published an investigation about how the trade of fentanyl works along the southern border between the US and Mexico and how it replaced other drugs. www.reuters.com/graphics/MEX...
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 02/02/2025
Half of the vegetables imported by the U.S. comes from Mexico. Half of the grain from Canada. Around 60% of the bakery products and 40% of more of liquors, beer, fruits, met products, oils... come from one of those two. Add that to the current price of eggs. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Here’s what could get more expensive with Trump’s new tariffs
Tomatoes, T-shirts and cars are among the vast array of goods that could become pricier with new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
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