Vital, devastating reporting from @megkelly.bsky.social @joyceshlee.bsky.social & co. on the human consequences of President Trump's suspension of foreign aid wapo.st/46GSwcv

Sure. Cool. Wait, your job is what—you’re the acting head of FEMA?? wapo.st/46BGTDU Crazy exclusive from WaPo about the guy Lewandowski installed to run FEMA, who was reportedly unreachable during the deadly Texas flood in July (gift link)

Presidents’ names are getting shorter. Why? incredible investigation by @andrewvandam.bsky.social and @alyssafowers.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I just appealed for special dispensation on your behalf, and I'm delighted (??) to announce the R is back! Gift link: wapo.st/4oLF7Is

WashPost on Trump plan to massively increase U.S. prison capacity: The government will be "opening or expanding 125 facilities this year. By January, ICE will have the capacity to hold more than 107,000 people, internal agency documents show."

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner after a weak jobs report drew condemnation from economists across the political spectrum who were worried about the politicization of government data. His choice of replacement has only added to those concerns. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/b...

A much higher share of childless Republican men - who are desperately trying to get back to “traditional gender norms” where women do most of the childrearing - want to have a child compared to Republican women, Democrat men, or Democrat women. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Goldman: “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will publish a preliminary estimate of the benchmark revision to March 2025 nonfarm payrolls on September 9th. We estimate a downward revision on the order of 550-950k”

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Latest in a string of stories you can read only/first from the @washingtonpost: The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work right now, under the Trump admin's resignation program w/ @merylkornfield.bsky.social @laurameckler.bsky.social wapo.st/3IRXIlK

Congrats again to Jeffrey Mervis (@aaas.org) and @andrewvandam.bsky.social (@washingtonpost.com) for being recognized with the @amstatnews.bsky.social Excellence in Stat Reporting Award. Delighted to chat with Jeff (1:09 min) and Andrew (26:50 min) on this special double feature #podcast episode. 🧪

Opinions is its own thing, also nothing against saying climate change there either (just a quick search of something recent) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

also means zero british people are allowed to eat bananas which seems unfair

You know what I kinda like? That clouds in my coffee song You know what I kinda hate? That you're so vain song

Trump’s vow to shrink the federal government appears to rely, at least in part, on top officials doing multiple -- sometimes completely unrelated -- jobs simultaneously. By @azipaybarah.bsky.social @kevinschaul.bsky.social and @alvarovalino.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Love seeing America’s best airports in print! 📰 www.washingtonpost.com/travel/inter... @andrewvandam.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com

Atlanta Hartsfield may churn through 20% more humans daily than its closest US rivals but that doesn't mean it's the busiest airport all day. Thanks to the power of airline hubs it passes the baton between Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles and even BWI across the hours. @andrewvandam.bsky.social

What if Trump’s gains with minorities weren’t about Trump at all? @andrewvandam.bsky.social and I took a look at recent election results in NYC, Toronto and London and tried to figure out why we're seeing similar trends in all three cities www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Excited to have the last word in the latest @washingtonpost.com Department of Data column by @andrewvandam.bsky.social and @lennybronner.com -- and thanks to Anne Wilson for the shout out! I'm a big fan of this column, so it's a genuine honor. Full post here: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Air quality data on the 4th is always striking. Took a mini dive into the annual smokefest: wapo.st/3Gi3b4p

Reader comments, Yelp reviews, and that “cool” factor — what went into ranking the 50 best airports in America from @andrewvandam.bsky.social.

It's two decades after _What's The Matter With Kansas_, and the GOP is more reliant than it ever was on voters who use the economic programs it is seeking to cut www.wsj.com/politics/the...

NEW: I just observed two interesting data deletions from the CDC's website. Both having to do with vaccine surveillance in children. There's nothing about these datasets that would have tripped any "gender" flags. You can still download them from our site: www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

When it comes to food, "airports are the great equalizer. The high performers fall and the low performers rise until most outlets muddle along in the middle of the star scale... Airport restaurants really are more homogeneous than their counterparts in the outside world." @andrewvandam.bsky.social

What are America's best airports? "We learned travelers adore airports that are easy to get to (and through) above all else. People love light-filled spaces with soaring ceilings. Recent renovations help, too." See if your airport made the list in the @washingtonpost.com

The top ten airports in the U.S., according to data analyzed by @andrewvandam.bsky.social

The Post* ranked all U.S. airports and, would you believe it, I put together an interactive for you to find out where airports around you stack up! *The Post here meaning @andrewvandam.bsky.social. Design direction from Katty Huertas, words w/ the good folks at BTW. wapo.st/443512f

In which Republican support for bombing Iran jumped 30 points in a week www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

shoutout to the dude on metro whose new-text-message ping sounds uncannily like the first note of "sloop john b." gave me a legitimate a jump scare, i instinctively grabbed for all of my corn.

👀 Remember these ~distributions~ on Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”? Then, boy, do I have news for you. Taking the bill and tariffs together, the bottom **80%** of households are worse off, @budgetlab.bsky.social found.

This is so goofy!! He's right, but only if you're a sociopath who considers cities individually, and counts suburbs as separate small towns If you look at metro areas, most Americans (52.6 percent!) live in metros at least as big as okc, according to my back of the envelope 2023 acs math

adding this to LinkedIn as my single professional skill

The sun has officially set on the British Empire.

apparently you can just, like, attract flying squirrels to your yard?! beautiful piece. here's a gift link! wapo.st/3S9npzy

Such a great piece of reporting from @byheatherlong.bsky.social. The big takeaway: Even the tariff winners aren’t convinced they are the answer. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"We hope the Federal Data Forum will empower public data users by providing a safe and centralized space for them to share information about the latest threats to federal data, what to do when data are no longer available, and how organizations and individuals can collaborate to protect public data"

Last week @andrewvandam.bsky.social from the Department of Data of the Washington Post visited my team in the DC office, and spoke to my boss about Data 360, the revamped data portal of the World Bank data.worldbank.org www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... Nice one, Andrew, many thanks!

a small Texas county found a way to make money off migrants: arrest them for trespassing, make them post bail to get out of jail, turn them over to ICE, collect forfeited bail money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

A review of S&P 500 companies’ 10-K reports reveals that references to diversity, equity and inclusion have fallen sharply since 2020. DEI was four times in 2024, The Post’s analysis found. That’s well off the nine mentions, on average, recorded in 2020, and the peak of 12.5 in 2022.

Incredible and haunting reporting by @catebrown.bsky.social, @osviz-jarrett.bsky.social, Catherine Belton, Anastacia Galouchka & others: “She took risks not for the sake of bravery or being recognized, but because she believed it was her duty" www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

And the second, with Abha Bhattarai and @sfcpoll.bsky.social

"When Americans are asked to describe in their own words which of the Trump administration’s actions they like most so far, the most frequent response overall – and by far the top response among Democrats – is 'nothing.'" www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Without $595M in automotive regulatory credits, which other manufacturers buy off Tesla to comply with emissions requirements, Tesla would have posted a loss this quarter.

🚨 Update: The same Treasury official sent a **nearly identical** email to IRS asking to review an audit of a group run by Kansas state Sen. Rick Kloos. So now two emails that we know of reflecting Treasury intervening in tax investigations of Trump's "high profile friends."

The Trump Administration was more than twice as likely to fire Black and Hispanic or female scientists than it was to fire white or male scientists www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

huge scoop from my incredible colleagues

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.