A mapping tool that went live Monday does something most political arguments never do: it lets a reader zoom to a city, click a pin, and read the words the site itself published.
A Public Archive Turned Into a Map
DataRepublican — the handle of Utah software engineer Jennica Pounds — launched an interactive explorer of the old NoBlogs.org network on datarepublican.com, billed on the homepage as “TrumpBlogs, formerly known as NoBlogs.” The project is a multimodal map, dashboard, and network graph of roughly 7,600 anarchist and antifascist blogs: city-level pins, summaries, overlapping reading lists, institutions cited as authority, and classifications that include the blunt tag “operational.” Pounds says every claim is a receipt — verified quotes from the posts, not her paraphrase. The map spans cities across the United States, Europe and Australia. The site's own live counter, checked directly, puts the total at 7,673 of 7,673 blogs matching. A disclaimer banner atop the map cautions that “classifications, ownership labels, and associations are automated analytical interpretations, not statements of fact, and nothing here alleges unlawful conduct by any named person or organization,” and that doxxing-flagged blogs “carry no outbound links,” with third-party contact information swept from what's shown.
The Platform Behind It: Autistici/Inventati
She did not invent the underlying platform. NoBlogs was the public blogging layer of Autistici/Inventati, an Italy-based tech collective that for years offered encrypted mail, hosting, chat, video, and anonymity tools to projects it screened for political affinity. On August 26, the State Department, working with Treasury, designated A/I a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
The official fact sheet is not vague. It says the collective built infrastructure “specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks,” claims roughly 10,000 blogs plus thousands of mailboxes and mailing lists, and alleges uses that go well past commentary: communiqués after rail sabotage in France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands; claims after an attack on the Transalpine Pipeline; German energy and rail sabotage including a January 2026 Berlin grid attack; material from Rose City Antifa — which State says targeted ICE — hosted on the platform; Atlanta “Cop City” campaign posts; communiqués State attributes to Jane's Revenge, which is not itself a designated terrorist organization; and publication channels State says also carried material tied to already-designated groups like Hamas and Hizballah. None of that is independently verified here — it is State's characterization of what the platform carried, not a finding by WECU News.
That designation is why a scrape of a long-public blog farm suddenly had an audience beyond the usual grant-flow crowd that already follows Pounds. Two days after State's announcement she posted that NoBlogs was now “TrumpBlogs.” Monday she dropped the explorer and said she scraped the network on her own time, with no grant and no client, because the militant far left had been “hiding in plain sight.” The tool is data-heavy and built for a desktop. Search a city. Open a card. Read the quote.
Who Is DataRepublican
Pounds is not a new account. The X profile that Elon Musk once called “worth following” exploded in 2025 when she started wiring IRS 990s, federal awards, and nonprofit officer data into public tools at datarepublican.com. The New York Post later identified her as a deaf software engineer and mother of two in the Salt Lake City area. She has since shipped a DSA Explorer — an ideology-and-funding map of Democratic Socialists of America and related solidarity networks — and is promoting Unelected, a book with Joshua Lisec due October 13 from Passage Press. She was also publicly confirmed Aug. 24 to be a Pentagon special government employee since July, after a tangled dispute over Cuba documents Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers had given her that she initially believed were a set-up. Those facts belong in the story because the NoBlogs map is the same method applied to a different stack: public text, classified and geolocated, then handed to anyone with a browser — from a mapmaker now working inside the same administration that designated the platform's Italian host a terrorist network.
Praise, and a Real Warning
The praise arrived fast, and it is not hard to see why. Journalists and researchers can type a hometown into the search box and see whether a local blog is tagged prisoner solidarity, ecology, antifascist watch-listing, or something State would call operational. The graph view is built to show who cites whom. Supporters treat that as overdue sunlight on a network that published in public and still relied on foreign hosting to stay one step from U.S. process servers.