👀 viz from @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t... @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social #txlege

As deaths mount, New Mexico’s border counties and state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it. by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...

Now that the 2025 #txlege is over, are you wondering how your legislators voted on key bills? I got ya covered! I built a nifty little lookup tool to help you do just that for the @texastribune.org Link: www.texastribune.org/2025/06/13/t...

🐟 This is one of the weirder charts in my collection of examples: a set of fish icons to compare funds. I use it when I talk about visual variables. This chart uses SIZE as a visual variable in 15 different ways, to show 15 different aspects of a fund. 1/4

Five years into COVID, the disproportionate impact of the virus has flipped. In 2020, about half of deaths were among Hispanics and 38% were among whites. Last year, 23% were Hispanic and 63% were white. Experts blame differing attitudes about vaccination. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/01/t...

🏅The finalists for the First Amendment Award are Katey Rusch, Casey Smith, @sfchronicle.com, for Right to Remain Secret; and Zach Despart, @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social and @ujohnnyg.bsky.social, @texastribune.org for Texas’ Fragmented, Remote Border Wall. 🏅

...and at almost the same time, we published an interactive tool for looking up the recently published ratings for any public school campus or district in Texas. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/24/t...

2022-23 school year data released this morning shows that school ratings declined after the state changed its rating thresholds.

Texas is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in 30 years. The number of cases reported has risen to 624 cases in 26 counties, as of April 22. You can keep track of Texas' historic measles outbreak here: