Reposted by Eli HolderProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵 108093515047
Reposted by Eli HolderJen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 06/07/2026In late June, Springer Nature sold Scientific American to LabX Media. I have since decided to step out of my role as a senior graphics editor for the magazine :: #sciart 📊 🧪 :: 🧵 [1/7] 510731
Reposted by Eli HolderBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner. 945222875
Reposted by Eli HolderSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Technically, they’re Remains now. 414208573861
Reposted by Eli HolderDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done. 262783744
Reposted by Eli HolderJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/06/2026There was only a decade between Dred Scott and the ratification of the 14th Amendment, which completely changed the country's entire institutional structure. People radicalize when they're threatened, and today's rise in White Supremacy is no exception. 10/x 218226
Reposted by Eli HolderGreg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America 220155293930
Reposted by Eli HolderElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Absolutely devastating article on one little, beautiful, remarkable piece of what we lost to DOGE 27729
Reposted by Eli HolderJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. 168183476900
Reposted by Eli HolderC. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE 113656
Reposted by Eli HolderVoilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 26/03/2026A reminder that if you’re looking for dataviz content on Bluesky, there’s a lot here 👇📊 13820
Reposted by Eli HolderEvan Peck @peck.phd · 18/03/2026I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz... 1430996
Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026“Why can’t we have nice things?” A few highlights from my talk for Dartmouth’s “Data in Action” symposium, exploring civic dataviz and democracy. What makes collective action so difficult in the United States? How could that possibly depend on charts 📊?! What can we do? 230
Reposted by Eli HolderAmerica Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Our government keeps telling us America can't afford universal health care or expanding Medicare for ALL. There's a reason for that.🗽 301055493
Reposted by Eli HolderValentine Barker @valentinebarker.com · 16/02/2026I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year. 442513949
Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I hate every row and every column and every cell in every spreadsheet in the whole world. 050
Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026"'Anti-woke' is a convenient label because it obscures what the movement is actually against: accountability." 030
Reposted by Eli HolderCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/02/2026Update on the government taking down the temperature 611225
Reposted by Eli HolderQueer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Imagine being a kid, making this, going with your parents to a family event, and then getting fucking tear gassed for it. You do not hate the modern Gestapo enough because they sure as fuck hate every decent person in this country. 023372
Reposted by Eli HolderRoy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Happy Black History Month, North Carolina! Let’s celebrate the past and continuing contributions Black men and women make across our state and our country. 0527
Reposted by Eli HolderAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/01/2026The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization 8239106
Reposted by Eli HolderRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 31/01/2026The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are part of the autocratic war to control the narrative. The more lawless governments become, the more they seek to silence inconvenient facts and people and invent the reality they need. 24916361
Reposted by Eli HolderJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 25/01/2026it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant 10380831163
Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026From reddit, 144° difference in perceived temperature. 🥵🥶 120
Reposted by Eli HolderDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now 626235017712
Reposted by Eli HolderClaire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 24/01/2026To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this 6359005903
Reposted by Eli Holders. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/01/2026Some nice news especially in light of changes in federal policy regarding:medical debt and credit reports: In North Carolina, the state worked out a deal forgiving medical debt for 2.5m people, with more to come.npr.orgHow North Carolina erased medical debt for 2.5 million peopleThe state partnered with a nonprofit to wipe out the debts. It also has a plan in place to prevent medical debt for people in specific income brackets. 113449
Reposted by Eli HolderSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 15/01/2026Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day 5662141794
Reposted by Eli Holderkottke.org @kottke.org · 15/01/2026London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business. [kottke.org]kottke.orgBread InfographicLondon bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business: From their post: This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead 1389
Reposted by Eli HolderArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/01/2026Anyway, I hope this post brings you some 1193
Reposted by Eli HolderDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies 411115161164
Reposted by Eli Holderjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo. 230128903648
Reposted by Eli HolderData Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🎉 We’ve received 310 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b... 1138
Reposted by Eli HolderSiembra NC @siembranc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025If you are in Raleigh or other parts of the state, and you see something you suspect to be an immigration enforcement action, call our hotline at (336) 543-0353 Contact Carolina Migrant Network to report sightings and to get connected with legal support in Charlotte. 23737
Reposted by Eli Holderwisevis @wisevis.eu · 04/11/2025Every time a bar chart is replaced by a dot plot an angel gets their wings. #datavis 1102
Reposted by Eli HolderIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Excellent article by @hofrench.bsky.social www.wsj.com/economy/slav...wsj.comThe Complex Role of Slavery in Building America’s WealthIt was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff well beyond what’s commonly assumed. 23818
Reposted by Eli HolderKaren Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 18/10/2025My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today: 5873911172
Reposted by Eli HolderRoy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025A trip to the doctor after an accident shouldn’t cost so much that you can’t pay your rent. We expanded Medicaid so working people can have peace of mind, knowing an illness or injury won’t put them in debt. DC Republicans including my opponent clearly disagree. 07015
Reposted by Eli HolderElizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025eh, It wasn't that high up... and 4-year-olds can take it. 😜 But if you're looking for other good moments in the paper... I also recommend reading the acknowledgments closely. 28420
Reposted by Eli HolderElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2025Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4) 8466210
Reposted by Eli HolderTill Eckert @tilleckert.com · 26/09/20251/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇 72474273848
Reposted by Eli HolderData Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2025📊 The new book Dashboards That Deliver releases today. For authors Andy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler, this is the culmination of countless hard work. @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social sat down with the authors to hear about their process. nightingaledvs.com/behind-the-s...nightingaledvs.comBehind the Scenes: Dashboards That Deliver, NightingaleAndy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler have a new book coming out on September 23, 2025—Dashboards That Deliver: How to... 082
Reposted by Eli HolderHooper @hooperhooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Last year I wrote about the NCGOP leaderships multi-decade obsession with erasing LGBT people from UNC’s campus life for @triangleblogblog.bsky.social. Might need to update soon unfortunately. triangleblogblog.com/2024/05/05/t...triangleblogblog.comThe long and eventful history of Tim Moore and Peter Hans’ animosity towards marginalized people - Triangle Blog BlogA group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. 1145
Reposted by Eli HolderAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 18/09/2025Disney learned nothing from Andor. 20696461732