INTERACTIVE: New from @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com, a gas price cost calculator that lets you figure out how much more you've paid for gas since the start of the Iran war. #dataViz www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

This year, at least 33 states and D.C. will recognize Juneteenth with a paid day off for most state government workers. Is #Juneteenth a day off in your state? Let us know and comment what state you’re in.

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

The art of the deal

When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon

I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.

Solar just produced more electricity than coal in the US for the first month ever and it won't be the last... Over the last two decades, the role of coal and solar in the US mix has changed drastically May 2006: 🪨 48%, ☀️ 0% May 2016: 🪨 26%, ☀️ 2% May 2026: 🪨 12%, ☀️ 13%

The impact of the USAID shutdown on Africa, as seen from space and on the ground. M. Nicolini and I study the effects of the aid cuts by linking GODAD data on USAID projects to satellite-based measures of economic activity and IPC food insecurity indicators. 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/11

This is something I have never seen before on satellite. Clouds perfectly outlining roads. Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning. Massive shoutout to Ethan Mok who discovered it (on Twitter).

how's this year compares to past years when it comes to stories about gas prices, easily beating out 2022

“.. we have not seen the market this concentrated around a single theme in 150 years.” - Bianco, on B of A’s May 22 chart:

NEW poll: Americans blame Trump for the cost-of-living crisis. 64% of all adults say he is doing worse than they expected — including 30% of Republicans. Voters support redistributive policies that fund social spending via taxes on the wealthy and corporations www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-27...

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

It's been a long while since we had news of a project change because of elf-dwellings and it's high time, I say. Article heading: Hot-water pipeline rerouted to avoid offending elves.

"And Rep. Terri Sewell, an Alabama Democrat, was blunt: “I’ll take 52 seats from California, I sure would. And 17 seats from Illinois.”" www.latimes.com/politics/sto... A map with 52 Harris +10 seats is entirely possible:

How popular is Donald Trump in Europe (7-23 April) 🇩🇰 -90 (+1 from Mar) 🇩🇪 -79 (-3) 🇮🇹 -79 (-11) 🇬🇧 -75 (-8) 🇪🇸 -74 (-6) 🇫🇷 -67 (-3) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

As @mcopelov.bsky.social reminds me, I'm going to have to update my voting rights timeline...

The Roberts Court majority may be pretending they don't know the Voting Rights Act is what ended Jim Crow and their decision to gut it is license to take us back ("again") to stealing power from Black voters, but Americans do:

NEW: Now that the Supreme Court has rendered the last remaining pillar of the VRA toothless, Republicans in eight states are free to gerrymander more than a dozen congressional districts that had been designed to remedy discrimination against Black and Latino voters. We catalog them all here -->

The Supreme Court's Republicans just gutted the Voting Rights Act, severely weakening democracy. By 2028, Republicans could erase many VRA congressional seats and entrench state legislative supermajorities across the South—and oust Black, Latino, & Native officials from local governments nationwide

In this chart, the distribution of the new plan's Biden margins is compared to the current plan. The proposed map counts on Dems doing slightly worse than Biden to fully succeed. However, if I'm an R incumbent, I'm casting a *very* nervous eye at recent results in the FL-01 and FL-06 specials...

I've been waiting for a map like this and would love to see it for more places: These are EV charging price by US state translated into gasoline prices so you get a like for like comparison of driving costs. Source: buff.ly/jxJqu6R

Holy cow, then the Trump Media stock price is down an insane 770% from its peak!!!

on the cutting room floor of our Virginia precincts analysis: a *map* of the referendum results & 2024 prez results along proposed district lines we contextualize these results in the article 🎁 link: nyti.ms/4sLUktJ

This could be super useful for journalists and local civics nerds — in one place, neighborhood-level shapefiles and 2020 demographic data for 206 US cities that have "city-defined neighborhoods" paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Excellent map, which as always refutes the ridiculous notion that empty land votes (in fact, people vote, and the most densely populated parts of Virginia voted heavily YES) bluevirginia.us/2026/04/poli...

Three cabinet secretaries gone, all women. It's too on the nose to even point out but I'll be updating this chart, today! meredithconroy.substack.com/p/the-number...

NEW | Record exports of solar, batteries and EVs last month 📈 China’s exports for the ‘new three’ industries reached a record high of $21.9bn in March 2026, up 70% year-on-year, in the wake of the US-Israel war with Iran and changing export rebates for solar and batteries.

Anyway, have a go at @fransham.bsky.social's fantastic build-a-voter interactive www.economist.com/interactive/...

<screams in Speer>

One ultimatum after another. After another. After another. After another. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Something interesting is happening here. This is *just Republicans* souring on the economy. civiqs.com/results/econ...

While at 538, we charted Cabinet roles held by men/women, since Carter. I updated that for my substack, Gender Gap! And wrote about the precarity of GOP women in politics, even (maybe especially?) for the women who meet their party's terms. meredithconroy.substack.com/p/the-number...

1-year Anniversary of Liberation Day: -US foreign direct investment is lower -US factories employ 89,000 fewer people -US goods trade deficit is UP 2% -Treasury collected billions but must return it -Inflation elevated. -Every court + SCOTUS found them unconstitutional www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

From its angled view, GOES-18 also captured the historic launch of Artemis II.

Every year, humpback whales make long treks btwn where they breed & where they feed. Maternally-inherited mtDNA from >1,800 humpback whales suggest that animals annually return to where they were born to breed themselves & where they fed w/their moms early in life #2026MMM doi.org/10.3354/meps10508

Cool map from #$JPM showing dated oil flows from the Strait of Hormuz will stop arriving. Keep in mind that (excluding Saudi flows through Yanbu and Iranian flows) the gap in flows then continues forward by 4 weeks and counting + some further time to stabilize tanker networks.

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

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The astonishing rate of March snowmelt in Colorado River Basin continues, and is now well into record-low territory (even, it appears, relative to pre-SNOTEL era). And the extreme regional heatwave is only slowly fading, with unprecedented March melt continuing in meantime.

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

How do the 2026 AI investments compare with the cost for aiding Ukraine, ending world hunger, or even a country’s GDP? This week, our head of communications Lisa sets billions of USD in perspective: www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-inve...

This bill adds significant obstacles to voting for those who change their family name upon marrying. Pew shows 90% of conservative R women changed their family name, while only 66% of liberal D women did so. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

These were mayoral 🇫🇷 elections, so any national extrapolation is of course hazardous. But if you go by voting in towns with > 100,000 population, one cautious conclusion from last night’s voting is this : the broad non-populist centre can hold

This is a *very* sizable change. We've entered the new numbers on our Big Board, and the GOP overperformance is now just 4%, and likely to droop further once provisionals are added. Also, it's a tiny Dem *overperformance* compared to Biden in 2024.