It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

@itsjpli.bsky.social hired by @emarketer.bsky.social as senior data visualization editor: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/e...

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Awesome work

also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...

My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

”I always felt a little sad when a letter closed, as it often did, with comments such as ‘Are you listening?’ or ‘I don’t know how my humble words would add much to the general discussion. It is what it is.’“🙁

there are reasons some newsrooms struggle to hire good reporters and keep losing advantages…😓

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.” www.transition2025.com/apply

Parlays have become incredibly popular, with many betting apps encouraging these high-stakes multi-leg bets. But as legs are added, the chance of winning drops faster than the growth of the potential payout - which means sportsbooks have the advantage. Explore the math and and try your own bets:

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users. Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social wapo.st/4obueib

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

everyone needs to go watch HACKS😭

NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America @okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry on.ft.com/4nwVxDk

why though

We analyzed hundreds of hours of his public comments from 2020-2024 to show this and refer to him as an anti-vaccine activist in our reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Check the interactive map here: www.businessinsider.com/chinese-reta...

From Labubu to Luckin Coffee, Chinese retail chains are betting big that American consumers can revive the growth they're losing at home. I found that in NYC alone, 20 Chinese retail chains have opened more than 40 stores across the food, beverage, and fashion sectors over the past two years.

Tesla's biggest Chinese rival BYD built 7 giant ships to send EVs to Europe and Brazil. @businessinsider.com analyzed voyage records showing this costly gambit. Click the 🔗 below to see how BYD overtook Tesla in EV sales by betting on the European and Brazilian markets step by step.

This week, @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s reporting on the floods in Kerr County has been so purposeful and so deeply empathetic. It was personal. This first person account is so, so horrific and so beautifully written. You’ll cry very hard. (CW: Child death.) www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

okay, headline chat: a bunch of you have asked me who writes them and how they work. I’ll talk about it but the tl;dr is that it’s complicated and can vary a lot depending on the specific writer(s) and editor(s) involved.

The anguish of gay Americans who were called “sexual psychopaths” in Congress and fired from their jobs fueled the first public demonstrations for gay rights in the nation. The fight for dignity continued through the AIDS epidemic and the battle for marriage equality.

New project: From stereotypes to breakthroughs, Hollywood's history with Asian and Asian American characters is complicated. This AAPI Heritage Month, dive into the data that reveals whether that's changed: pudding.cool/2025/05/aapi...

Better world maps for mobile! Despite years of mobile-first design, there’s been little experimentation in this area. So we designed our own at NZZ – and validated it in a large user study. Summary of the paper: jonasoesch.ch/articles/the... 1/3

“Young Chinese women have small hands”

New: I wrote about Emily, who has streamed her life 24/7 for three years. No sick days, no vacations, no sex - and thousands of strangers who see her as a friend. “They don’t get a break from the constant surveillance … Is it any wonder these people burn out?” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

After all this POTUS-engineered market volatility, it will be very, very interesting to see who made and lost money over these past few days.

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

Today was my first day as a Data Graphics Fellow at @businessinsider.com, where I’ll be creating data/interactive stories in collaboration with reporters across the newsroom. Very lucky to get to work with and learn from all the incredible people here! In the meantime, I’m at [email protected] now!

AND THE COUNTRY THAT HAS INSPIRED THE MOST U.S. PLACE NAMES — and it's not particularly close — is ... Turkey. No, @moriartymaps.com and @andrewvandam.bsky.social argue, really www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

In the race to master technologies of the future, green energy is one arena where China has pulled ahead of the U.S. in almost every key area, from electric vehicles to solar panels. From data team intern @itsjpli.bsky.social and @cdcshepherd.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Donald Trump and his allies, such as Elon Musk, are openly dismantling the U.S. government and threatening the global order. And yet, most major media outlets are largely suck in the same journalistic rhythms as before. My latest in @status.news: www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...

Before it was taken offline entirely, the total number of items available to download on data.cdc.gov had decreased from 1418 to 1361. How many datasets will there be when it returns?

This is my Watergate wapo.st/4aBla0g

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.

Funny how some “elites,” who wouldn’t know a line of code or a mathematical equation if it hit them in the face, love to constantly use “Tiananmen Square test” to attack DeepSeek. Maybe spend less time rewriting the same tired stories and more time learning how the world actually works?

You can't miss this!

Ladies and gentlemen: we did it

We gathered data from over 60 top colleges and analyzed shifts in their racial makeup after affirmative action was banned. Here's what we learned: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So deserved!! Congrats Ence!💫

After a @Bellingcat workshop years ago, a participant built a geolocation tool to find locations that all had i.e. a library and a cafe in a 20m radius. Now, there's a supercharged version of that tool! Thanks @sanjanamv.bsky.social for flagging it. www.findthatspot.io