“Right-wing terror attacks plunged in 2025, while left-wing attacks ticked up: study From 2011 through 2024, an average of 20 right-wing terror incidents took place each year, compared to an average of nearly three left-wing incidents annually.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

RVs are becoming the housing of last resort for a growing number of Americans. Nearly 500,000 Americans are living full time in an RV, around double the number four years ago. I spent time with a few of them. Here are their stories. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"About 486,000 people live full-time in an RV, which appears to be more than twice as many as in 2021," industry figures show — U.S. Census Bureau data also show a smaller, but substantial surge in this type of housing. @spettypi.bsky.social for @NBCNews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We have a new intern on the @NBCNews.com Data / Graphics team, and Melinda earned her first byline today with this story and quiz on the changes to the U.S. citizenship test. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New from @EvanBush.bsky.social for @NBCNews.com: Senate Democrats want to revive a NOAA database that tracked billion-dollar natural disasters www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

A huge, monthslong data investigation from @NBCNews.com into childhood vaccination rates finds immunizations declining significantly. I was part of the dozens of journalists working on this story, which will be part of tonight’s NBC Nightly News broadcast. www.nbcnews.com/specials/vac...

Just introduced the nine-year-old to the band Oneida via their epic track Sheets of Easter (lyrics below), she made it through eight minutes of the song before bailing.

We’re looking for a developer-journalist to join @propublica.org’s News Applications team. You would write code, analyze data, build interactives — all in the service of public interest journalism. Check it out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

New: The @NBCNews.com Home Buyer Index is up to date with the latest, and it shines a light on what's been going on with the housing market the past few months / years. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

The shooting in Minneapolis is the fifth school shooting of 2025, according to @NBCNews.com’s school shooting tracker. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Every so often I look at observablehq.com/trending to see what’s new or interesting over on ObservableHQ ( @observablehq.com ), it rarely disappoints.

Got to contribute a chart and some analysis to this fun @allansmith.bsky.social and @aterkel.bsky.social story about just how many guys named Josh there are. There's even a Josh-only gubernatorial group chat for (the three) governors named Josh. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

“Agencies cannot get away from responding to FOIA requests by intentionally degrading their capabilities to conduct searches for records…This is like a fire department saying, ‘We don’t have a hose, so we’re not going to put out the fires anymore,’” @laurenleharper.bsky.social told @nytimes.com

Gotta say, it's a bummer that @TheCity.nyc is nowhere to be seen at the top of the page on searches for the potato chip bribery story. C'mon Google.

The median cost of putting one child through daycare for 5 years in the U.S. is $43,000. That masks much higher costs in many large cities. It’s nearly $150,000 (almost $30,000 for one year) in Arlington, VA. This is for one kid www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

A new @PewResearch.org analysis of government data shows there are fewer immigrants in the U.S. for the first time in more than 50 years, declining from 53.3 million in January to 51.9 million in June. Suzanne Gamboa, for @NBCNews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Read @NBCNews.com's report on the decline in Democratic voter registration... published last June... www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

Contributed some hurricane data analysis and a chart to this story from @NBCNews.com's Denise Chow: Climate change is increasing the risk of rapidly intensifying storms. Hurricane Erin is the latest example. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

If you're on lichess and up for a game of correspondence chess, this is my profile there: lichess.org/@/freejoe76

Ran the numbers on homelessness in D.C. for @NBCNews.com — D.C. is one of the few jurisdictions in the U.S. where homelessness has actually declined since 2019 (Maryland, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mississippi and Wyoming are the others) www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

There’s a guy on the subway who looks like he’s going to work and wearing sneakers, black slacks, an untucked Hawaiian shirt and a motherfucking TOP HAT.

I collated the data and contributed a couple charts to this @spettypi.bsky.social look at unemployment among young men and women, and how that compares to the country: www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Numbers run by @haidee.bsky.social & @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reflect remarkable contrast between ICE in LA (immigration raid spectacles on the streets) and NY (arrests at court or office check-ins). Sparing NYC's mayor a mess as he runs for reelection.

🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs. Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates. I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.

I love making new connections on LinkedIn

SCOOP: A key office in the US Dept of Education has a backlog of 27,000 complaints about student loans, up from 16,000 in March Nearly two-thirds of the staff in the office were terminated this spring as part of widespread layoffs in the department www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

This is the microwave in the place we’re renting this month, this is the actual button label on the machine, love it, never seen anything like it.

just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.

Some beautiful maps and design in here www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

I've seen a surprising number of New York Yankees ballcaps out in public here in Oxford and while in London. Multiple hats every day. Zero Mets hats. Zero hats from any other teams, actually – up until yesterday, when a punter was out on the canal with an A’s cap.

Enjoyed the V&A museum’s exhibit on Design and Disability, really covered a lot of ground. #accessibility www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

988's LGBTQ youth service is officially down. From me and @brookesopelsa.bsky.social for @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Django, a framework for building with the web ( @djangoproject.com ), turned 20 years old this week. I’ve been using it since 2006 to publish projects at news sites across the country, it’s a wonderful endeavor and I’m happy it’s continuing so strong after all these years.

New @NBCNews.com analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that ever since the pandemic, U.S. men are doing more work around the house than ever... though, still, not nearly as much as women. #dataViz www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

NEW: Almost as soon as the Supreme Court released its ruling limiting the ability of judges to block President Donald Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship, challengers brought new legal claims seeking the same result by a different means. More details: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

NEW: Check out Laura Jarrett and I talking about the crazy day at the Supreme Court on the new @nbcnews.com podcast, Here's The Scoop: www.nbcnews.com/heres-the-sc...

I pitched and helped edit this story for @NBCNews.com, which looked at more than two decades of voter registration data: Independent and third-party voter registration is growing across the country, largely at the expense of Democrats www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

There's a new evening news podcast that @nbcnews.com launched, it’s called Here’s the Scoop, and you can follow it on Spotify here open.spotify.com/show/2gXjYWG... or Apple Podcasts here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Two days of the lightest drizzle imaginable, followed by two days of not even drizzle, just mist, not sure you could even call it rain — NYC, this weather was absolute magic, divine, and I wholeheartedly blame my sister @manniemurphy.bsky.social for bringing the Portland on her visit. #rainchat

They assaulted officers with a flagpole, a stun gun and more. One pepper-sprayed an officer who later died. On his 1st day in office, Trump pardoned them all. “Trump is OK with violence, as long as it’s done in his name," cap police officer tells us. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

This article is a textbook case on how to start with a press release and turn it into an bigger, better story. More than 6,000 dog attacks on mail carriers were recorded in 2024 — the most in the previous seven years — and attacks were highest in the Midwest. #dataViz www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

I talked with the Washington Post about our new report describing big changes in the global religious landscape www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The @NBCNews.com Data / Graphics team is looking for a 2025-2026 school-year intern! Application deadline is Friday June 13, details here: gist.github.com/freejoe76/56...

We pushed @datawrapper.de’s significant digit-display functionality to the absolute freaking limit on the chart in this story about the literal 1-in-10-million odds of multiple Indiana Pacers playoff victories. Here’s @rohannadkarni.bsky.social for @NBCNews.com: www.nbcnews.com/sports/nba/p...

From 2004 to 2024, there have been dramatic shifts in the nation’s politics along geographic, racial, educational and economic lines. Here's a look at where the vote has shifted most in that time and the story the change tells:

Reported out this exclusive for @NBCNews.com: X’s Community Notes submissions (and published notes) are half what they were just five months ago. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

NEW: Use of X's Community Notes has plummeted in 2025, with half as many notes being created in May than during peak periods in January. This is as X says Community Notes has expanded globally and is being deployed across other platforms like TikTok and Facebook www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...