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Dear @washingtonpost.com: Three of the US's aircraft carriers have their home port within 12 miles of the border with #Mexico (in #SanDiego). Entering "waters near #LatinAmerica" is not the story here. Did you mean #SouthAmerica?

#geography #geographyfail #factcheck #Venezuela
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
When @theipaper.com‬ blatantly plagiarized our #Israel/#Palestine control map (they apparently redrew it, but directly copied and pasted the notes and legend from ours).

It's been almost a year without any response from them regarding our complaints. #plagiarism #journalism #graphics #cartography
June 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
In interesting show of restraint, #USA president's order to change "#GulfOfMexico" to "#GulfOfAmerica" on govt maps seems to specify that only the part under US jurisdiction is being renamed. (link in comment)

#toponymy #geography #mapping #hydrology #UNCLOS #maritime #names
January 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
(1/3) When sharing our #Syria control maps with people who follow the war in extreme detail online, we often get criticisms that we used the *wrong* colors - that is, we didn't follow the color scheme that later war geeks converged on in the years after we began our coverage...
December 10, 2024 at 12:38 AM
#Syria: In stunning end to years of frozen conflict, religious hardline rebel group has overrun much of #Aleppo, country's 2nd biggest city. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

2023 map attached, but this is first significant change to rebel control in Syria since 2020.

#geography #middleeast
November 30, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Just a shoutout to AllSanaag.com, local news outlet in the area contested between #Somalia and self-proclaimed #Somaliland, for having the most epic OG web design I've seen in awhile.

#localnews #HornOfAfrica #webdesign #Puntland #Sanaag #journalism #RedSea Afripolsky Menasky IntSec #geography
July 26, 2024 at 3:05 AM