grok's commands out here sounding like the horrific necktie from disco elysium

It’s my first day on the @wsj.com data team! Excited to get started (◕ ˬ ◕✿)

Got into the weeds on SNAP for @usnews.com. Long story short: these cuts would result in millions of people getting less help with groceries, or no help at all.

Come ask me about ranking the states!

Our senior data editor, @jjw.bsky.social is taking all of your questions about our 2025 Best States Rankings. Ask her about Utah. Ask her about crime. Heck, ask her about Les Miz! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

me the fifth time you repeat what you said but the room is too loud

Trackin chaos in the groupchat with @oknox.bsky.social for @usnews.com! www.usnews.com/news/u-s-new...

ykw i'll take it

I'll be on SiriusXM #124 at 4:45 ET to talk about our new inflation tracker!

AW HELL YEAH

Quite possibly Long Island's most architecturally significant (and my personal favorite) structure

Eggs 🥚 are averaging close to $6 per carton across the U.S., according to the latest government data.

Dusted off the old linguistics degree for this fun little @usnews.com text analysis of Trump's join address to congress earlier this week! www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

Well that's.....not good. Interesting viz for @usnews.com economy whisperer Tim Smart's roundup of recession omens to look out for: www.usnews.com/news/economy...

My "The government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams’s assistance on immigration enforcement" footnote has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my footnote www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

Update (3pm ET on February 5th): the Census FTP site, including the ACS flat files and TIGER/Line shapefiles, is back up! This means that your #rstats / #Python Census geodata packages are now working as normal. Get your data now!

For the record, a big chunk of this data is still accessible via the API and/or data.census.gov! @kylewalker.bsky.social's got the latest straight from the source: bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Truly such an eerie feeling to be noodling around on Census.gov for my silly little non-news data analysis purposes and find 403 errors left and right 🙃

Aiming to be as confident today as the chicken on my planner

Webpages full of federal resources for LGBTQ+ Americans are going offline under the new administration, @mathurashton.bsky.social and I report for @therealusnews.bsky.social: www.usnews.com/news/educati...

is @datawrapper.de down for anyone else T_T

BREAKING: A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, the first such fatality in the United States, state health officials report. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...

SNOW MAP SNOW MAP SNOW MAP <my latest viz for @therealusnews.bsky.social> More here: www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

Chilly temps ahead for the southeastern US, @eldavisjr.bsky.social reports for @therealusnews.bsky.social www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

no one is doing it quite like @amyokruk.bsky.social...these are so good!

A little seasonal fun for @therealusnews.bsky.social: See which state your Christmas tree probably came from. shorturl.at/WEYCo

Great job alert! ProPublica is hiring a climate reporter. Come join us. Remote OK. Salary range: $95K-$170K. Apply here: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

i am SEATED

School shootings have killed 18 people and injured 59 this year, according to @edweek.bsky.social's tracker. Last week's shooting in WI brought this year's total to 39 shootings -- more than one per week of the school year. That's about the same number as last year, but still more than pre-COVID.

The U.S. ranks well below other wealthy countries in terms of life expectancy. It also has the largest gap of any nation between lifespan and *healthy* lifespan: over 12 years, according to WHO data. That means sicker lives for Americans. More from @srjreports.bsky.social and me: shorturl.at/8mPB5

How often do health insurance companies deny claims? It's hard to know, mostly because insurers and industry groups refuse to tell us. We used survey data to get at the question another way. 1/5 privately insured respondents told @kff.org they'd had claims denied in the last year. shorturl.at/hKgJA

This is a masterpiece of both investigative reporting and narrative storytelling. Please take the time to read this haunting piece and to marvel at what @davidmcswane.bsky.social has uncovered. I'll be thinking about this story for a long, long time: www.propublica.org/article/thom...

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...

From the group chat: United Healthcare CEO murder suspect worked on Civilization 6, according to LinkedIn

FINALLY news media is asking the real questions.......

More maps!

Yesterday's earthquake and subsequent tsunami scare got us wondering...is this another thing we need to worry about? So I mapped it for @therealusnews.bsky.social: www.usnews.com/news/healthi... The main takeaway -- most of the country is safe, but the west coast is slightly more at risk.

We have a @therealusnews.bsky.social starter pack! :,) go.bsky.app/7RKdKjw

Friday after TG mewd

My experience with the new job so far

Happy Wednesday have some ferrets

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

as u will see on my résumé, my skills include worrying myself sick about things out of my control, creating problems out of nothing, and proficiency in microsoft excel

Guys how is Moo Deng doing??? Do we know????

evergreen

Im so wickedpilled rn

Can someone explain to me why this man has been catastrophically injured every single year since one of his cars exploded in his face in 2022

Friday mood

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