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Jinpeng Li

@itsjpli.bsky.social
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I play around with datasets and make graphics. Also go by JP. Signal:itsjpli14 www.jinpengli.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.
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Talking Biz News @talkingbiznews.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
@itsjpli.bsky.social hired by @emarketer.bsky.social as senior data visualization editor: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/e...
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EMarketer hires Li as senior data visualization editor - Talking Biz News
EMarketer has hired Jinpeng Li as a senior data visualization editor in New York. Most recently, Li was a data graphics fellow at Business Insider, where he used data visualization and interactive des...
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Awesome work
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2025
also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 18/11/2025
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
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Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
”I always felt a little sad when a letter closed, as it often did, with comments such as ‘Are you listening?’ or ‘I don’t know how my humble words would add much to the general discussion. It is what it is.’“🙁
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
there are reasons some newsrooms struggle to hire good reporters and keep losing advantages…😓
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.” www.transition2025.com/apply
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A New Era for NYC
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.
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Meghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Parlays have become incredibly popular, with many betting apps encouraging these high-stakes multi-leg bets. But as legs are added, the chance of winning drops faster than the growth of the potential payout - which means sportsbooks have the advantage. Explore the math and and try your own bets:
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Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in.
As betting booms, parlays are accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data.
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users. Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social wapo.st/4obueib
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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
everyone needs to go watch HACKS😭
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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America @okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry on.ft.com/4nwVxDk
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How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America
Kalshi is spearheading a legal battle to expand access to online betting, with support from some in Trump’s circle
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
why though

WaPo alert:
We ranked 5,700 holidays. Which one's most popular on your birthday?
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
We analyzed hundreds of hours of his public comments from 2020-2024 to show this and refer to him as an anti-vaccine activist in our reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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RFK Jr. disparaged vaccines dozens of times in recent years and made baseless claims on race
A Post examination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements finds the candidate for the nation’s top health post has repeatedly disparaged vaccines, linking them to autism.
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Check the interactive map here: www.businessinsider.com/chinese-reta...
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Labubu dolls and affordable lattes: Why Chinese brands are betting big on the US
From Labubu to Luckin Coffee, Chinese retail chains are betting big that American consumers can revive the growth they're losing at home.
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
From Labubu to Luckin Coffee, Chinese retail chains are betting big that American consumers can revive the growth they're losing at home. I found that in NYC alone, 20 Chinese retail chains have opened more than 40 stores across the food, beverage, and fashion sectors over the past two years.
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Tesla's biggest Chinese rival BYD built 7 giant ships to send EVs to Europe and Brazil. @businessinsider.com analyzed voyage records showing this costly gambit. Click the 🔗 below to see how BYD overtook Tesla in EV sales by betting on the European and Brazilian markets step by step.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This week, @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s reporting on the floods in Kerr County has been so purposeful and so deeply empathetic. It was personal. This first person account is so, so horrific and so beautifully written. You’ll cry very hard. (CW: Child death.) www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 03/06/2025
okay, headline chat: a bunch of you have asked me who writes them and how they work. I’ll talk about it but the tl;dr is that it’s complicated and can vary a lot depending on the specific writer(s) and editor(s) involved.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/06/2025
The anguish of gay Americans who were called “sexual psychopaths” in Congress and fired from their jobs fueled the first public demonstrations for gay rights in the nation. The fight for dignity continued through the AIDS epidemic and the battle for marriage equality.
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Gay history was made in D.C. At times, it was dispiriting — but also uplifting.
D.C. is the place for monuments to the thinkers, warriors and leaders who shook and shaped the country. Memorials of LGBTQ history may be less well known, but are key to understanding the place of g...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 29/05/2025
New project: From stereotypes to breakthroughs, Hollywood's history with Asian and Asian American characters is complicated. This AAPI Heritage Month, dive into the data that reveals whether that's changed: pudding.cool/2025/05/aapi...
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Jonas Oesch @jonasoesch.ch · 14/05/2025
Better world maps for mobile! Despite years of mobile-first design, there’s been little experimentation in this area. So we designed our own at NZZ – and validated it in a large user study. Summary of the paper: jonasoesch.ch/articles/the... 1/3
Two smartphones displaying alternative thematic world maps.
The left screen shows a split-continent map with countries grouped and resized by region (e.g., Europe, Africa, Asia) using color to indicate data levels (legend: Hoch, Mittel, Tief, Sehr tief). Smaller countries like Rwanda and Panama are clearly labeled and more visible due to the rearranged layout.
The right screen displays a bubble map, where countries are represented by circles scaled to population size and shaded by data intensity. Larger countries like China and the U.S. have prominent bubbles, while smaller countries remain visible. Labels indicate population figures for Switzerland and China.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“Young Chinese women have small hands”
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/05/2025
New: I wrote about Emily, who has streamed her life 24/7 for three years. No sick days, no vacations, no sex - and thousands of strangers who see her as a friend. “They don’t get a break from the constant surveillance … Is it any wonder these people burn out?” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’
A lonely young woman in Texas has streamed every second of her life for three years and counting. Is this life, or a performance of one?
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
After all this POTUS-engineered market volatility, it will be very, very interesting to see who made and lost money over these past few days.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/04/2025
NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Today was my first day as a Data Graphics Fellow at @businessinsider.com, where I’ll be creating data/interactive stories in collaboration with reporters across the newsroom. Very lucky to get to work with and learn from all the incredible people here! In the meantime, I’m at jli@insider.com now!
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
AND THE COUNTRY THAT HAS INSPIRED THE MOST U.S. PLACE NAMES — and it's not particularly close — is ... Turkey. No, @moriartymaps.com and @andrewvandam.bsky.social argue, really www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Column | It’s not just the Gulf of Mexico. Why is so much of America named after foreign countries?
Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of inspiration. You’ll never guess which one.
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Meghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In the race to master technologies of the future, green energy is one arena where China has pulled ahead of the U.S. in almost every key area, from electric vehicles to solar panels. From data team intern @itsjpli.bsky.social and @cdcshepherd.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
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How China came to dominate the world in renewable energy
China now eclipses every other country in the world — including the United States — in the green technologies of the future. Here’s how it achieved this lead.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Donald Trump and his allies, such as Elon Musk, are openly dismantling the U.S. government and threatening the global order. And yet, most major media outlets are largely suck in the same journalistic rhythms as before. My latest in @status.news: www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...
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Trumpocalypse Now
It’s not that news outlets are not covering Trump's second term — it’s that they are not presenting the extreme actions coming out of Washington as an urgent crisis.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Before it was taken offline entirely, the total number of items available to download on data.cdc.gov had decreased from 1418 to 1361. How many datasets will there be when it returns?
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 29/01/2025
This is my Watergate wapo.st/4aBla0g
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Does Elon Musk cheat at video games? An investigation.
The world’s richest man has paid to boost his online warriors into global leaderboards, raising questions about his prowess — and his need for digital praise.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.
Trump announces 500B in AI funding. Five days ago. Deepseek r1 release. 8 days ago.
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Funny how some “elites,” who wouldn’t know a line of code or a mathematical equation if it hit them in the face, love to constantly use “Tiananmen Square test” to attack DeepSeek. Maybe spend less time rewriting the same tired stories and more time learning how the world actually works?
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You can't miss this!
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Ladies and gentlemen: we did it
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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 15/01/2025
We gathered data from over 60 top colleges and analyzed shifts in their racial makeup after affirmative action was banned. Here's what we learned: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What Happened to Enrollment at Top Colleges After Affirmative Action Ended
Three findings from the first class to enter college without race-conscious admissions.
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Jinpeng Li @itsjpli.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
So deserved!! Congrats Ence!💫
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
After a @Bellingcat workshop years ago, a participant built a geolocation tool to find locations that all had i.e. a library and a cafe in a 20m radius. Now, there's a supercharged version of that tool! Thanks @sanjanamv.bsky.social for flagging it. www.findthatspot.io
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SPOT - the easy way to verify locations
Spot is a tool for finding combinations of objects in the public space world-wide.
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