The Upshot is hiring a data graphics/multimedia editor. Come work with us and make weird things that help people understand the world! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

I was laid off from CBS News yesterday. Now I’m looking for my next role in data visualization, news graphics and interactive storytelling. If you’re hiring or know of something that could be a fit, I’d love to connect. taylorfayjohnston.com

Massive 20km long oil spill visible in yesterday's Sentinel-2 satellite image following US strike on Iranian drone carrier Shahid Bagheri near Bandar Abbas.

I have a new story with @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social on how Meta and others, seeking power for data centers, are building their own power plants. These projects have transformed places like New Albany, Ohio, where farmland has given way to industry. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I find this chart by Anthropic about theoretical vs. actual AI usage, from @pbump.com's latest newsletter, very funny, and I think it's worth explaining why, and also please push back on any of this if you disagree, as I may write about it in the future. 🧵

Aside: Nevada's state engineer (head water manager, basically) actually managed to win a victory in state court that let him manage groundwater along with surface water in 2024. He started telling people No because groundwater levels have been falling for decades. He was fired in January.

Climate models are good at projecting things that haven't happened yet. AI is only good at things that have happened. So what's the use? A lot! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congrats to the editor who created a Faustian bargain that stumped the Mormon Church.

@reemakkad.bsky.social, formerly a top editor at The Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice system.

If someone wants to hire me full-time for my ICE flight reporting, I’m open, but here are my terms: 1. No faux objectivity, I’m not going back to that 2. No billionaire owner 3. No bans on employees going to protests in their off hours 4. No TERFs or TERF-curious 5. I cuss.

A DOGE software engineer is alleged to have taken records on more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... by @merylkornfield.bsky.social et al

Abortion bans appear to result in lower rents and higher vacancy rates, showing that people are choosing not to live in states w/ restrictive laws "Policies around abortion matter to some people — to enough people to move the needle significantly," one economist said 19thnews.org/2026/03/abor...

Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social

Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com Come help us explain the news! We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations. Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

📚 I'm happy to release free, online textbooks covering the two courses I taught at the hashtag#NICAR26 data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors last week in Indianapolis.

Here we go #NICAR26, a zillion and one sessions on the docket! Thurs: No-code AI pipelines with n8n Fri: Analyzing images/video with AI + Wrangling PDFs with Natural PDF Sat: Browser automation with Playwright + Ethical AI in Investigations Sun: Build your own AI Benchmark

satellite imagery and data reveal the breadth of destruction to military and civilian targets from the US-Israeli strikes read here 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections www.mainepublic.org/environment-...

curious when D.C.'s cherry trees will be in full bloom this year? i've built a statistical model and tracker page that updates daily: tinius.github.io/blossoms/ now waiting for NPS and @capitalweather.bsky.social predictions to compare

I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth. Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇

Years ago at the height of pandemic shutdowns I wrote a book about supply chains and why they break. I'm not going to make any projections about what comes next but, obviously, if this war drags on, it means more inflation.

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

We looked at where and how the ultra-rich are buying and combining two – sometimes three – adjacent townhomes to convert them into single-family housing (often featuring an elevator and a flashy central staircase.) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Incredible front-page story from Ukraine by a reporter and photojournalist that the Post just laid off wapo.st/4rKFape

Using data on half a million wildfire starts, researchers are working to predict them (by @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social) www.kjzz.org/science/2026...

'Twas a great blizzard for the books. Hope everyone is safe and warm.

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

Unchecked Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trap Heat, Destabilizing Global Weather Patterns And Putting Millions Of Lives At Risk vs. No They Don’t

“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

SCOOP: The NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump last spring. Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you are a Washington Post reader eager to send a signal with your wallet right now, please donate to two fundraisers for our hundreds of dismissed, exceptional journalists (one for domestic and one for international staff): www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... and www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo....

The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊

News: I was cut yesterday in a newsroom-wide layoff affecting 300+ staff at The Washington Post. I spent the last decade leading and building the award-winning Graphics team. I'll miss them. I'm now exploring senior graphics, cartography, or leadership roles. Intros welcome. timmeko.com

7 days after cancer surgery. I will stand with @postguild.bsky.social til my lungs collapse. also reunited with @karenattiah.bsky.social

Today I was one of the many laid off from the Post. It is a dark day for news. For now I am going to take some time with my family before figuring out where I go from here. In the meantime, please consider supporting my colleagues. Any contribution helps: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

The @postguild.bsky.social has organized a layoff fund for employees impacted by layoffs at The Washington Post: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

📚 I'm pleased to release my syllabus and course materials for "Coding the News," the class I'm leading this semester for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

A lovely woman I know told me the other day that since Avelo stopped flying for ICE, "We did it! We ended ICE Air!" Had to tell her Avelo was only about 15% of it. Still going: Global X, Eastern Air, Journey, Key Lime/Denver Air, and Omni Air International ⤵️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest: “This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested." More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

i am recovering from a successful lobectomy, yet here i am, tubes sticking out of me like i’m weapon x and stressed about all this. i need the insurance. i need my medical team here. please please let us all be ok.

For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.

Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Bonito Lake, New Mexico, got 31 inches of snow this weekend, the most in the country. Daily snow records dating back to 1990 were potentially broken in over 30 locations in the U.S. See if a record broke near you here: https://wapo.st/4bGi7qr

Grew up reading @postsports.bsky.social section every morning with my cereal. It inspired me to go into journalism. It was a dream to start my career there and to learn by working around the very best. I still read it every day and it continues to produce incredible work. #SaveThePost