A few months ago, @caitlingilbert.bsky.social, @christinezhang.bsky.social and I decided we wanted to make data fun. After some back-and-forth we decided to launch a newsletter. 🧵

very very excited to be launching Wrong Number with my buds @christinezhang.bsky.social and @jdharden.bsky.social! It’s a newsletter dedicated to all of our weird data obsessions: our first posts cover Law & Order, trees, and theme park accidents wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/about-wron...

Foster Care for Mental Health Treatment: Parents Surrender Thousands of Kids Each Year In Search of Help imprintnews.org/top-stories/...

Hello Bluesky! We're the Washington Post data team. We dig through government records, social media, campaign finance reports, weather maps, and any other data we can dig up, download, FOIA or create. Then, we share what we find with you. We've worked on a lot in the past year. A few highlights 🧵

today I learned Austin has... curling teams?! (and 18 Texans in the olympics!!!) killer piece from the best sports data journalist in the biz @emilygiam.bsky.social

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

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:

Climate change is making the Winter Olympics harder to host: Here’s what the future could look like for 93 possible Olympic host locations. wapo.st/4klzLC4

Between the sheets: One of the most unusual — and fun — events in college sports is a high-stakes spreadsheeting competition in Las Vegas. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home wapo.st/4pFh6lw

We also write about how many parts of the country are flying blind in the face of missing records, lack of resources, registry/access issues and all sorts of problems that could impact rates beyond choosing not to vax. there are many caveats to the numbers we’re reporting here!!

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

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands. www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...

Wolves, long feared and reviled, may actually be lifesavers www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Borrowers in Default on Student Loans Could Have Wages Garnished Starting in January

In deadly D.C. plane crash, city lights may have played a role. See how. wapo.st/4p5LiGg

When Trump launched his crime emergency — taking over D.C. police for 30 days and deploying National Guard troops into city streets — he said he wanted to combat “out of control” crime. Here's the lasting impact of Trump’s federal surge on one D.C. neighborhood wapo.st/4s4VMIF

Gift link: TikTok’s mental health rabbit hole’? It’s not in your head. TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. wapo.st/3YsPDs0

Billionaire Nation: Meet the Trump administration’s 12 billionaires. At a net worth of $390 billion, it’s the wealthiest White House in modern history. wapo.st/48OTPra

In L.A., $750 a Month to Live in a Backyard Storage Unit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Your morning read. How billionaires took over American politics: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. wapo.st/48nkqMN

The homicide rate in the US has been dropping in the past three years and is trending toward its lowest level in decades. Reporters visited five cities with major decreases to figure out why. Data analysis by @jdharden.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

The deadliest roads in America: The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles in the United States has surged amid neglect and lack of investment by transportation authorities. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

A reminder of our past nuclear testing: revealnews.org/article/us-v...

The mysterious rise of cancer among young adults in the Corn Belt wapo.st/3Le1yXo

The U.S. women's gymnastics program won just two medals at world championships this week — their fewest since 2001. What happened? Analysis of the state of the U.S. program: wapo.st/3JuJl7s

Your diet’s impact on the planet depends on where you live. Look up your city. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

How the Louvre Jewelry Heist Unfolded www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same wapo.st/43ijIxq

So, @marissajae.bsky.social and I knew D.C. was changing up its canopy, but we wanted to explore what which regions of the country would be most represented in the city’s planting strategy. The data pointed to the midwest and gulf coast. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public wapo.st/3KNYyRq

More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all. Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?

🤳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

How America’s favorite sports bet is fueling sportsbook profits Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

Read your favorite story today: Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in. via the incredible @emilygiam.bsky.social 🔥, @katiperry.bsky.social and @asteckelberg.bsky.social Explore the math and and try your own bets. wapo.st/4o3YxXK

15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. wapo.st/4m81PJf ‪By Reis Thebault, Alice Li and Melina Mara

From 2020 - 2023, youth crime in DC spiked, and we investigated why. We found a series of failures to address the very problem leaders promised to solve, finding the systems put in place to help DC's youth often fell short with dire consequences. Gift links to our series are threaded.

Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

Panelist: people who scrape in R are psychopaths. Me and @ence.bsky.social: #NICAR25

A Washington Post color analysis of D.C. found shades of gray permeate neighborhoods where the White population has increased and the Black population has decreased, by @jdharden.bsky.social and @marissajae.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

“Gray houses have become a symbol of this muteness, this quiet, humble, nothing-is-happening-here,” De La Torre said. “When you paint a house gray, you’re covering up its history, its memory." @marissajae.bsky.social @jdharden.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

cheering, not crying.

Kids brave commutes that can stretch over an hour on a transit system that struggles to deliver reliable service. We modeled over 4,000 unique trips to school, tracked the live location of hundreds of buses for months and spoke to dozens of students. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

A Virginia law to protect pedestrians has almost never been used: That could change this year with a new attempt at stiffer penalties for hitting people in crosswalks. @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/40fQv44

Out-of-control wildfires are raging across greater Los Angeles, killing at least five people, devouring neighborhoods and forcing the evacuation of about 180,000 people as the blazes enter their third day. Here's how you can help. Follow live updates here: wapo.st/4acZ9F5

More to come later this week, but read how we reported all of the stories in this series here: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...