Here's what was in this week's (always free and unpaywalled) newsletter. www.howtoreadthisch.art/americas-myr... 1. A look at how education, politics, income and race overlap with measles vaccination rates.

I'd missed that an interview I did with the great @walthickey.bsky.social came out a while ago. Here's some behind-the-scenes about the newsletter and where The Post drew red lines on what I could put in it. www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

I made a chart.

Wow. Really good story about how to look critically at visual media. Worth your time. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In the newsletter this week: how to level up your skills in finding the information buried in publicly available data — like eyewitness videos and photos. www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-th...

The newsletter this week looks at how often police cited vehicles as threats in firearm deaths of citizens: 444 times from 2015 to 2024. www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-th...

How Bellingcat is training people to take a critical eye to photos and videos, finding information buried beneath the surface. This week's newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-th...

Be like Chris Hayes.

The newsletter this week was chock-full of good stuff. A brief thread of what was included. www.howtoreadthisch.art/post-holiday... 1. The news America searched for and heard about — and how it differed by party.

From this week's newsletter: A timeline of the people and events mentioned in "We Didn't Start the Fire" — the boomeriest song of all time. www.howtoreadthisch.art/post-holiday...

Donald Trump, who disparaged Obama’s golf-playing and who said he’d be too busy to play himself, has surpassed Obama’s eight-year total in less than five years and is on pace to play twice as often — once every five days on average. www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...

This week’s newsletter: A thread. 1. Stephen Miller’s effort to use partisanship to disparage immigrants and the left is as inaccurate as it is gross. Well, actually, it’s far more gross, but it’s also very inaccurate. www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...

The newsletter is out! Immigration, holidays, the UN and more! www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...

A thread of what was in this week's newsletter. The theme: ❄️ SNOW ❄️ www.howtoreadthisch.art/theres-no-vi... 1/6. When snow has first arrived in the U.S., over the decades.

The newsletter is out! This week: SNOW. www.howtoreadthisch.art/theres-no-vi...

This week's newsletter came out on Saturday morning. Here's what you can find within it, all for free! 1. What happens if you roll two 20-sided dice 10,000 times? 1/6 www.howtoreadthisch.art/thanks-visua...

The newsletter is out! Planes, trains and automobiles, except the trains and automobiles. www.howtoreadthisch.art/thanks-visua...

A quick thread on everything covered in this week's newsletter. First, a look at how Tracklib illustrates the use of samples in pop music. 1/5 www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

Not only are generations fake, they’re also something we basically invented a few decades ago. Compare when generations occurred (shaded areas) with when we settled on their names. From this week’s newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

The change in ICE detentions over the past year. From the newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/f48ddd93?m...

The newsletter is out! This week, we talked to the genius at Tracklib who makes videos showing how music samples are identified and remixed in songs. He shared a draft version of their video for "One More Time" by Daft Punk. www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

In this week’s newsletter, spoke with Yale University’s William Rankin about his new book on rethinking how we draw maps. www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy? 1/8 www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

The newsletter is out. This week: - Reconsidering how we use maps to visualize data - How a mapmaker makes maps - What maps can tell us about borders and culture - Using maps to visualize inequality So, it's about 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬 in other words. www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

Here's how the Senate shutdown vote broke down by state vote in 2024 and senator ideology. The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.

This week, in the free-to-read newsletter: 1. The history of red and blue in TV campaign coverage. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...

In this week’s newsletter: How red and blue came to represent Republicans and Democrats. And more! www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...

Doing some math with the White House.

Here's how every county in Virginia has voted in gubernatorial and presidential elections since 2012. www.pbump.net/o/what-chang...

The government has been shutdown for more than 4 percent of the days Donald Trump has been president. The runner-up is Clinton, who saw the government shutdown for less than 1 percent.

There is a correlation between how much support Trump got in 2024 in each NY county and the growth in Tesla ownership in those counties. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-web-that...

In the newsletter this week! www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/46bb4a69?m... 1. The web of connections revealed in subpoenas issued after Jan. 6.

This is how the organizations and people included in Jack Smith's 2020 subpoenas connect. See more (and close-ups) in this week's newsletter! www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-web-that...

People who sponsor the newsletter will get an email with pictures of my dog in their inboxes tomorrow. It's a perk you can't get anywhere else — until my wife starts her own newsletter, I guess. Anyway, still time to be part of the fun: howtoreadthisch.art

The last time the House cast any votes was the Friday before Adelita Grijalva won her race. www.pbump.net/o/remember-t...

This week’s newsletter, a visual thread! 1. Religion in America! www.howtoreadthisch.art/devotion-at-...

Going into today, Ohio State had only the second-best point differential in college football. Or the Big Ten. Or the Midwest. www.howtoreadthisch.art/devotion-at-...

A look at the geographic boundaries of four major American religions. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/444882ff?m...

When presidents have (and haven't) invoked the Insurrection Act. www.pbump.net/o/trump-want...

Through Oct. 19, 2017, Trump had spent all or part of 93 days at Trump Org properties and likely played golf on 57. As of Oct. 19, 2025, he's spent all or part of 102 days at his private properties and likely played golf on 71 days. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

The newsletter features more than one link from the always great @kottke.org and this post from Pew’s Conrad Hackett. You can probably guess why.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 (a four-part thread): How the U.S. population has evolved. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/e0489c52?m...

The newsletter is out. This week: Some Kings. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-ebbs-and...

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

One of my favorite state fair creative activities objects this year: a quilted infographic documenting climate change.

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

They were meant to be lasting reference sources. The hand lettering here is crazy.

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

Will repost some of the charts included in the newsletter this week.

Trump is less favorably viewed than any sports league except WWE and UFC. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...