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Don’t forget about Daniel @sadbumblebee.buzz himself, who is a brilliant and compassionate writer, climate reporter, and developer — among many other talents.

Some of my faves of his work:
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The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know.

Save this one and reshare it please! 📊

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

The college football happiness rankings Should your team make you giddy or despondent? We crunched the numbers.

The Washington Post (dream team of @emilygiam.bsky.social, @katiperry.bsky.social & @arturgalocha.bsky.social) has created a metric to calculate precisely how happy — or miserable — fans of each major college football program should be based on their team’s résumé. See how your school fared:

The college football happiness rankings Should your team make you giddy or despondent? We crunched the numbers.

How happy (or miserable) should you be about your favorite college football team?

We came up with a foolproof formula (of course you'll all agree with it).

Georgia fans should be ecstatic.

Stanford fans? Well, you went to an excellent academic school.

I adore, adore, adore this from @emilygiam.bsky.social, @katiperry.bsky.social + @arturgalocha.bsky.social
Just so fun and creative, from Emily's data to the presentation and interactive graphics.

Are you a fan of a P4 football team?

Are you happy?

Sad?

Check out our happiness rankings below 👇

Whoops fixing my tag for @eatyourbooks.bsky.social!

Ready for a food fight? Take our quiz on divisive recipe ingredients. Should there be beans in Texas chili? Cottage cheese in lasagna? This quiz tackles some heated recipe ingredient debates.

I've wanted to work on a story using cookbook data for years. finally it happened! @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social and I published a quiz this morning on all the weird stuff people put in your favorite recipes using data from Cookshelf/@eatyourbooks.bsky.social

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Line chart showing how the share of em dash uses in ChatGPT responses has increased from single-digit percentages in 2024 to almost 80% in July 2025. The chart cleverly used a dashed line resembling em dashes

Bar chart showing the most frequently used emojis in ChatGPT messages in 2025. The emojis are shown sitting on top of each bar. The winners are the brain emoji (26%) and the checkmark emoji (>30%)

I think this is pure charting gold from WaPo (credits to Szu Yu Chen, @emmakumer.bsky.social and @jeremybmerrill.com) www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Callers to Social Security wait for hours to get help. Hear their ordeals. Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security’s 1-800 number every month. What they experience is often maddening.

Hours-long wait times. Endless looping music. Useless robot messages.

Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security every month. What they experience is often maddening.

How indigenous practices can help protect forests The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.

🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

This story was the brainchild of sports data reporter @emilygiam.bsky.social, who collaborated with @katiperry.bsky.social and @asteckelberg.bsky.social to allow you to try parlay betting yourself. It's often not pretty

We simulated what your bank account would look like if you kept betting parlays. Here we consider a five-leg parlay with -110 odds per leg. And we assume you're no better than random chance. (You probably aren't.)

You might get lucky every so often, but breaking even in the long run is very hard.

The sportsbooks’ advantage is obvious in the data: Operators bring in far more revenue for every dollar wagered on these bets than they do straight bets. Parlays account for about one-third of the total amount wagered, but they generate roughly two-thirds of the sportsbooks’ revenue.

Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in. As betting booms, parlays are accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data.

But parlays *heavily* favor the operators — not because of the low win rate but because of the math going on behind the scenes.

As legs are added to the bet, the chance of winning drops faster than the growth of the potential payout.

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Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in. As betting booms, parlays are accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data.

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.

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Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related? “Margaux Blanchard” appears to be one dubious element of a broader scheme to peddle bogus articles to a number of publications.

Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. A @washingtonpost.com probe into these mass retractions found key links between the bogus writer “Margaux Blanchard” and another individual, suggesting a broader scheme. Here’s what I found: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bystanders watch and some record as officers detain someone suspected of robbery. Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post.

Friends hang out on U Street NW on Friday. Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post.

Activists engage in some “good trouble” during a noisy but joyous protest against the influx of federal law enforcement in D.C. Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post.

Harry Wright, the general manager of Service Bar, keeps a watchful eye on U Street NW near his establishment. Photo Craig Hudson for The Washington Post.

Washington Post reporters spent Friday night along a stretch of U Street, one of D.C.’s nightlife hubs.

As federal police roam, crowds are smaller, bartenders worry and clubgoers try to enjoy themselves.

Here’s what we saw: wapo.st/4oCReaC

Who’ll be in Trump’s hero garden? There are a few surprises. Trump’s 2021 executive order named 244 people to include in a garden of American heroes, and $40 million was allotted this month to build it.

244 statues is a lot of statues!! Maybe DC gets this instead of a football stadium? @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @hannahdormido.bsky.social @katiperry.bsky.social

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.

Another weekly '5 visual things from the Post':

1. Several visual teams at the Post build this story about the journalist who tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead
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It was. Although the Government has refused to provide the particular details, all evidence suggests that during the short window that the Court was adjourned, two removal flights took off from Harlingen — one around 5:25 p.m. and the other at about 5:45 p.m. See ECF No. 21 (Resp. to Mar. 16 Notice) at 3–4 (relying on flight-tracking data for GlobalX Flights 6143, 6145, and 6122); see also Marianne LeVine et al., White House Official Says 137 Immigrants Deported Under Alien Enemies Act, Wash. Post (Mar. 16, 2025), https://perma.cc/U3NY-V3AS (comparing flight-tracking data with planes visible in three-minute video posted online by President of El Salvador and reposted by President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio); Joyce Sohyun Lee & Kevin Schaul, Deportation Flights Landed After Judge Said Planes Should Turn Around, Wash. Post (Mar. 16, 2025), https://perma.cc/QT6J-3SEQ (same); Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele), X (Mar. 16, 2025, 8:13 a.m. EDT), https://perma.cc/XLE4-DDRW.

Judge Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt of court (!) in flight deportations case, citing in part a Washington Post graphic I made outlining the timing of flights and his orders. Very cool to see this impact. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Elon Musk gets government policy ideas from X. Here’s how. A look at which accounts — big and small — have Musk’s ear and how some appear to have sparked action from Musk and the Trump administration.

The 564 accounts Elon Musk interacts with most on X — and how they spark action from the government

Stellar analysis and visuals from @ence.bsky.social @erxclau.me @azipaybarah.bsky.social and Talia Trackim

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Do you think tariffs will help or hurt your job and career, or will they have no impact? 22% will help, 21% will have no impact, 57% will hurt

U.S. manufacturing workers: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

I work on the Post's Graphics team. Exactly zero of the innovative visual stories we produce could be done without these folks.

Transfers rule March Madness. See how your team’s roster compares. The Post analyzed the careers of 10,000 college basketball players to see how transfers are increasingly shaping the sport.

Over half the players in this year's men's #NCAA bracket started their college careers at other schools. At Kentucky, not one of the top 8 players played a minute for the Wildcats before this year. The Portal Effect, from @emilygiam.bsky.social, @jessedougherty.bsky.social & @katiperry.bsky.social:

This story was such a fun collaboration!

@katiperry.bsky.social did all the amazing graphics work, and @jessedougherty.bsky.social knows this topic so well to be able to ask the right questions and write the words!

We all know transfers rule college basketball … but to what extent? And how different is today vs. the past?

We quantified it by analyzing the careers of rotation players on every men’s & women’s NCAA tournament team since 2010. That’s 10,000 players!

Check it out (gift link): wapo.st/41By62h

🔬🧪🧬 @sadbumblebee.buzz and I are collecting stories from scientists whose research funding has been halted by the Trump admin. Feel free to share this form with anyone who has been impacted and as always you can reach me on signal at caitlingilbert.24

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