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Threats and Resignations Show Political Violence Now Spans Both Parties in Congress

Rep. Pramila Jayapal faced an armed intruder at her Seattle home in 2022 who shouted racist threats, while Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene endured hundreds of death threats that intensified and turned against her family after she broke publicly with Donald Trump. Greene announced her resignation from Congress in November 2025, citing the danger to her family as too great a burden to bear.

wired.com · 2026-09-22

Nature study shows satellite imagery can complement news-based conflict data

A new Nature paper by Sticher et al. argues that combining satellite imagery with traditional news-coded reports could reveal aspects of armed conflict that text-based monitoring misses. For over 20 years, conflict researchers have relied on coders converting news reports into structured event data, a method with inherent blind spots where reporting is scarce or biased.

nature.com · 2026-09-09