it's not the loss for me that's surprising (given all the polling and such), it's the concession (and a quick one!) that has me all turned around

when Maduro lost the last Venezuelan election, the electoral authority just never released detailed results and declared him the winner. can someone explain to me how Hungary differes in this regard with Orbán?

woah

78 percent turnout in the hungarian election is wild (through the lens of u.s. elections, at least)

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

i got to genius but i'm still mad about it

i still love seeing my work in print. it just hits different than on the website.

on Sunday's @nytimes.com A1. go pick up a copy.

and to think george lucas was laughed at for the opening scroll of the phantom menace. well who’s laughing now?

pls lemme actually have a day off today

i strongly disagree

hello to the influx of new followers. all you need to know about me is that i love data. ok see you around.

reupping as it's pertinent sooner than we realized it'd be

at least i got panda gourmet for dinner (if you live in dc and don't know about them, you're really missing out)

so much for my weekend off

i'm generally not involved in breaking news. it's kind of an odd feeling.

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

i don't usually get to do this but,,,,,, stand by for news.

🎶everybody’s working on the weekend🎶 *puts finger to ear* it’s “for” not “on”? *puts finger back to ear* well fuck.

i think this is the first time i’ve seen top 1 percent. heck yeah.

duolingo, meanwhile, is clearly sending me a different message

oh fuck yeah

a big o7 to those astronauts. you love to see it.

i always wanted to be an astronaut growing up. even originally went to college for aerospace engineering (but changed majors when i found out that’s how you become a nerd on the ground not a nerd in space). i still want to be an astronaut. always will.

i’d be pretty happy if the last thing i saw before a blackout was this

i’ve tried to put my money where my mouth is and subscribe to great local news outlets. i don’t want them to simply exist. i want them to thrive. i’m going to add more to my pile soon and i really hope others will, too.

the @sfchronicle.com has, especially in recent years, produced a large number of really fucking good investigations and it’s quite impressive to watch them churn them out with such frequency

the greatest four lines lyrically in any song ever is hands down you're the best girl that I ever did see the great larry bird, jersey 33 when you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet billy shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets

i’m really proud of the work i’ve been doing lately. it’s been fun to do and i just really love the breadth and depth of the work. but also, i’d love to get a little sleep.

what's your go-to listening in the background while you're working? these days for me it's folks streaming themselves playing super mario world rom hacks.

i contributed some data work to this great piece on the rise of threats to state judges, who aren't nearly as protected as federal judges

very few feelings as bad as when you know one letter somewhere in your crossword puzzle is wrong and you have no clue which one

every now and again i remember things from my childhood i hadn’t thought about in years. today: the brave little toaster.

chicago style pizza is not actually pizza but it is better than most pizza

staring at a spreadsheet that has cells in various fields filled with various colors that do not appear to correspond to any actual data field but instead mean something only to the author of the spreadsheet and i cannot figure out who that author is. amazing. love it.

someday i would like to write a book. on what? idk yet. i just know i want to write something interesting. and there’s no damn way it’ll be ai-assisted.

The Trump administration has systematically pressured immigration judges, threatening them if they do not deport more people and firing those seen as insufficiently supportive of the president’s aggressive enforcement agenda, a New York Times investigation has found. nyti.ms/3Q3IZaU

i hope this email never finds you tbh

the president putting his name at the end of his social media posts reads very much like your parents signing their texts to you. like, i know who this is, your number is in my phone.

you all keep enjoying my posts about reading so tell me what i should be putting in my queue. all genres welcome but i have a soft spot for magical realism, fantasy and journalistic nonfiction. can be recent pub or old one. i just wanna read good books.

our gas price map (by county) is still updating daily and since we first pubbed eight days ago prices have risen 13 cents a gallon on average (3.4 percent).

my wife isn't on here so she'll never see this but i need y'all to know i married up. like way up. like if she ever figures out how far up she'll probably change her mind.

i would pay a little extra to get an ebook copy of the book i purchase the physical copy of. i strongly prefer reading the physical version but it's difficult to lug several around when i travel and i want to keep reading. somebody do this pls.

i cannot tell you how much joy i derive from analyzing complex data sets. part of the delight is in learning it inside and out and part of it is knowing that if i find something interesting, i'll have the opportunity to share what i learned with so many people.

i spent months alongside some really dope, smart colleagues working on this and i hope you'll give it a read. we go in depth talking to tons of judges and analyzing data from the immigration courts to understand how the current administration has reshaped the system to align to their agenda.

ok gmail is just fully writing responses to emails for me (not sending them, at least) when i go to reply and in the latest it agreed to a meeting at a time it should already know i have a meeting, because it's in my google calendar. i do not like these "technological advancements."

i have no inside knowledge of anything, to be clear, but when i see something line this i always assume that someone has a story forthcoming

i really love the term "slopaganda" for generative ai stuff made by governments especially

this graphic shows what the Trump administration's pressure campaign on immigration courts has done to how judges rule on asylum applications www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

The Trump administration has fired more than 100 immigration judges and hired more than 100 new judges to replace those them. I analyzed court data and found that while fired judges granted asylum 46 percent of the time under this administration, their replacements are granting asylum in 6 percent.