In January 2024 @ethanpsinger applied for the Upshot fellowship and included this pitch about pickleball as an example of the kind of work he wanted to do. It helped get him the job. And now, a mere, uh, 20 months later, it's now live! Good job ethan.

This also means that one of the best jobs in American journalism — editor of @UpshotNYT — is now open. It's impossible to overstate how talented this team is, with specialists in politics, policy, data visualization and more. Here's the job posting:.

2-part tweet!. After 17 very happy years at the NYT, it's my privilege to join @TheAthletic as their Editorial Director of Visuals and Data. I'm excited to join and grow a stellar team. My first day is [checks notes] today! . Here's the announcement —.

“It seems ‘determined to repel viewers as some sort of litmus test,’ The Seattle Times wrote in a rare review of Season 1, adding that the show contains ‘a fair amount’ of ‘puking.’”.

RT @sangerkatz: Since some drama about the "current policy baseline" is clearly headed our way this week, may I recommend this piece decodi….

Maybe the best 1200x675 pixels the Upshot has published in a while .

"But once two pandas are in a room, it's no longer a joke to suggest they might breed.".

RT @emilymbadger: Big tax cut bills typically don't leave the poor worse off. Bills cutting the safety net don't normally include benefits….

RT @nymetrowx: Go outside.

RT @sangerkatz: The use of these taxes to help boost the federal share of Medicaid dollars started in the late '80s, but has since become w….

RT @emilymbadger: The government knows an enormous amount about you in the data systems DOGE has sought to access. Just for starters: http….

RT @sangerkatz: Lots of important decisions in Washington get hidden behind wonky-sounding words. That's why we asked dozens of budget vete….

RT if you've been radicalized about nickels .

RT @sangerkatz: The new DOGE "wall of receipts" said the government had saved $8 billion by cancelling one contract. It was $8 million.

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen government websites have been taken down since Friday.

A team effort by the Upshot staff — a very, very long list, of 2600+ federal programs under scrutiny

And the 2024 precinct map just dropped! .

Extensive + helpful reporting today from a team of reporters in Upshot

These and other surprises, often in glorious Base R, in our year end roundup, out today.

In today's Upshot, a series of striking charts showing drug deaths in a way I hadn't seen before. Part of a partnership with the Baltimore Banner and NYT Local Investigations teams —.