NEW: President Trump has repeatedly threatened to bring federal agents, or even soldiers, to San Francisco to battle crime. His administration has actually done the opposite, quietly taking federal law enforcement away from the city to do immigration work instead. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

That's my county council member, and she's great. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

When you definitely are doing the job to serve the public.

A fundraising email from Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a GOP candidate for governor of Alabama (and former Auburn coach):

"Reckless" as a word in official congressional e-newsletters has had a really interesting trajectory over the past 15 years.

Read this and substitute "tarot cards" for "AI". You'll know just as much. Reporters need to start asking for specific details on what the uses of AI are in stories like these.

Small multiples FTW!

The latest version of 2025-26 #NCAAWBB roster data is out: github.com/Sports-Roste... Not final, but this has more teams & players than I've ever collected before: 15,876 players from 1,074 teams across all 3 divisions. More cleaning to come, plus international player analysis.

The latest version of 2025-26 #NCAAWBB roster data is out: github.com/Sports-Roste... Not final, but this has more teams & players than I've ever collected before: 15,876 players from 1,074 teams across all 3 divisions. More cleaning to come, plus international player analysis.

Lane Kiffin should keep the Ole Miss job *and* take the LSU one. Franchise coaching structure and it's a short flight between the two schools.

May the force be with my students

Yale won, 43-42. Harvard got whacked, 52-7.

Your periodic Baltimore homicides update: Baltimore continues to be on track for 150 homicides this year. If you look at the graph you can see how amazing this is, although, of course, that's still 150 too many.

We've published official precinct-level results from the 2024 general election in Utah: github.com/openelection... #utpol

Working on updating the 2025-26 #NCAAWBB roster data and it looks like ~20% of Division I players are from outside the U.S. Will be publishing data this weekend, along with some previous seasons.

A fundraising email from the NRSC:

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

Today*, all of our official precinct-level election results data is absolutely free: openelections.net It's also free every other day.

These tools have literally made journalistic tasks involving code not just easier/better but they make some tasks possible that otherwise would not be (or would require more time than I have). We are going to need to think hard about how we teach using them.

NBD, just a Baltimore TV reporter keynoting a state GOP fundraising event:

Among the not just acceptable but ideal uses of LLMs is parsing PDFs to liberate useful data from the Adobe jail. @mattwaite.bsky.social demonstrates:

You love to see it: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

Something I noticed from @terpswbb.bsky.social's win over George Mason on Sunday: Kaylene Smikle gets beaten on a drive in Q3 (6 min mark) and immediately waves to the bench for a sub. Not limping but not going full speed. Comes out at 5:33 and doesn't play again. #NCAAWBB

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

I get SMS messages:

Princeton's 100-93 win over Penn State today is the first #NCAAWBB game this season where the losing team shot >= 58% from the floor (has happened 78 times since 2009-10, according to @herhoopstats.com): herhoopstats.com/stats/ncaa/r...

Lemme just quickly check up on the cricket from Australia …. WTF happened?

But they will 100% use it to raise a bunch of money from donors and waste it.

Now ask yourself, where else is this happening?

What a day!! Get the full summary of a thrilling day 1 of the 2025/26 Ashes from Guerilla debutant Ed Mace, with Messy Jez. #Ashes2025 #AUSvENG Guerilla Roundup Ashes Test 1 Day 1 youtu.be/fc_EgS2sOxY?...

A Bloomberg Law analysis of federal civil rights lawsuits from 2017 to 2024 found at least 54 pregnant women or their families have alleged severe mistreatment or medical neglect in jails. And it keeps happening. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I kind of appreciate the explicit admission that they hope the public doesn't get to know what they are doing. Kind of.

The claim "I cannot fly" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that I can, in fact, fly.

"If, however, there were a Nobel Prize for Fiction, Judge Brown’s opinion would be a prime candidate." - U.S. District Judge Jerry Smith, in his dissent in the TX redistricting case. (There is a Nobel Prize for literature, fwiw.) electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u...

Hello, #RStats folks: needing to use some Claude Code credits, I tried implementing the waffle package using only ggplot. Please tell me if this is a bad idea: github.com/dwillis/waffle

Not the strangest newsroom behavior I've seen, tbh

Hot damn.

Hello, #RStats folks: needing to use some Claude Code credits, I tried implementing the waffle package using only ggplot. Please tell me if this is a bad idea: github.com/dwillis/waffle

I feel like Person of the Year should go to college student journalists

Since March 2024 I've been collecting SMS alerts from The Washington Post (thanks, undocumented public API!). Had Claude Code whip up a simple app to allow you to browse and search them. The Post has stopped using some topics this year but still does multiple alerts a day: thescoop.org/wapo-alerts/

It takes a long time to get detailed precinct-level data for a presidential election. We're now at 99 percent complete. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At the @terpswbb.bsky.social game yesterday I was thinking about the game data I've been collecting and what could be done with it. Had a few ideas and set Claude Code to work. thescoop.org/umdwbb-data/ #ncaawbb

Great reporting on the Rankin County (MS) sheriff's office & jail conditions by @mississippitoday.org & @revealnews.org, with reporting from @merrillcollege.bsky.social grad Steph Quinn! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u... cc @emayfarris.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social

I'm a Pitt alum, and the phrase "of the best teams in the country" is doing a lot of work in the context of the Panthers.

NEW: New Jersey’s township data is (mostly) in, so @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Still at this high school journalism conference & the student-led investigative reporting session is packed with people and good ideas. "Open meetings, guys." Testify

Can't wait til we get similar reports about college athletes.

West By God

I don't know if my AAUP dues didn't pay for this, but I'd be delighted if they helped in any way. We win together, friends.

6 ejections for WVU (5 cuz they came off the bench, as mentioned, auto-ejection), 1 for Duke (Wood, who started it all by yelling in Harrison's face, which I still think was not fully intentional).