Know of opportunities in journalism, communications, humanitarianism, or anything interesting in mission-oriented work? Please say hi👋

My website (and contact info) is at patrickdehahn.com.

My DMs are open, or securely message pdeh.99 on Signal.
And my LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/patrickde...

If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org

We are launching a big project today with MIT —

The Electricity Price Hub!

You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020.

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1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter:

I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules.

His name isn't in the document itself, but…

The Upshot is hiring a data graphics/multimedia editor. Come work with us and make weird things that help people understand the world!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

I was laid off from CBS News yesterday.

Now I’m looking for my next role in data visualization, news graphics and interactive storytelling.

If you’re hiring or know of something that could be a fit, I’d love to connect.

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Satellite image shows 20km long oil spill next to Strait of Hormuz, and a zoom on the Iranian drone carrier that was hit by US strike on 6 March.

Massive 20km long oil spill visible in yesterday's Sentinel-2 satellite image following US strike on Iranian drone carrier Shahid Bagheri near Bandar Abbas.

I have a new story with @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social on how Meta and others, seeking power for data centers, are building their own power plants.

These projects have transformed places like New Albany, Ohio, where farmland has given way to industry.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Theoretical capability and observed usage by occupational category" a chart by Anthropic, showing that (in theory I guess) management, biz and finance, computers and math, architecture and engineering life & social sciences, the law, arts and media, sales and office & admin could all be using AI a lot but somehow aren't

I find this chart by Anthropic about theoretical vs. actual AI usage, from @pbump.com's latest newsletter, very funny, and I think it's worth explaining why, and also please push back on any of this if you disagree, as I may write about it in the future.

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'It was a shock': Nevada water regulator speaks on why he was fired - The Nevada Independent Former state engineer Adam Sullivan, who was terminated amid a water rights struggle in an overtapped basin, said he "faced pressure" to change decisions.

Aside: Nevada's state engineer (head water manager, basically) actually managed to win a victory in state court that let him manage groundwater along with surface water in 2024.

He started telling people No because groundwater levels have been falling for decades.

He was fired in January.

Global daily temperatures plotted on a wheel showing increasing red for hot boreal months and decreasing blue for cold ones. It looks like a special edition multicolor vinyl LP.

Climate models are good at projecting things that haven't happened yet.

AI is only good at things that have happened.

So what's the use? A lot!
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congrats to the editor who created a Faustian bargain that stumped the Mormon Church.

The Marshall Project Hires Reem Akkad as Managing Editor Akkad, veteran of The Washington Post, becomes key leader of investigative newsroom.

@reemakkad.bsky.social, formerly a top editor at The Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice system.

If someone wants to hire me full-time for my ICE flight reporting, I’m open, but here are my terms:
1. No faux objectivity, I’m not going back to that
2. No billionaire owner
3. No bans on employees going to protests in their off hours
4. No TERFs or TERF-curious
5. I cuss.

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

A DOGE software engineer is alleged to have taken records on more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... by @merylkornfield.bsky.social et al

Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market New research found that abortion bans resulted in lower rental prices and higher vacancies.

Abortion bans appear to result in lower rents and higher vacancy rates, showing that people are choosing not to live in states w/ restrictive laws

"Policies around abortion matter to some people — to enough people to move the needle significantly," one economist said

19thnews.org/2026/03/abor...

Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social

Data Graphics/Multimedia Editor, The Upshot | The New York Times Company

Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com

Come help us explain the news!

We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations.

Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

📚 I'm happy to release free, online textbooks covering the two courses I taught at the hashtag#NICAR26 data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors last week in Indianapolis.

no-code pipelines and AI agents

analyzing images and video with AI

PDF processing with Natural PDF

Browser automation with Playwright

Here we go #NICAR26, a zillion and one sessions on the docket!

Thurs: No-code AI pipelines with n8n
Fri: Analyzing images/video with AI + Wrangling PDFs with Natural PDF
Sat: Browser automation with Playwright + Ethical AI in Investigations
Sun: Build your own AI Benchmark

satellite imagery and data reveal the breadth of destruction to military and civilian targets from the US-Israeli strikes

read here 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections There are fewer than 380 right whales left in the world, with roughly 70 females capable of bearing young.

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections www.mainepublic.org/environment-...

brilliant! I'll be interested in how this warm spell coming impacts the blooms

curious when D.C.'s cherry trees will be in full bloom this year? i've built a statistical model and tracker page that updates daily: tinius.github.io/blossoms/

now waiting for NPS and @capitalweather.bsky.social predictions to compare

I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth.

Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇

Years ago at the height of pandemic shutdowns I wrote a book about supply chains and why they break.

I'm not going to make any projections about what comes next but, obviously, if this war drags on, it means more inflation.

So, any other news yesterday?
Anything important?

The Rise of the Manhattan Mega-Mansion In the West Village and other historic neighborhoods, buyers are consolidating apartments and combining townhomes, a sign of New York’s allure to the ultra-rich.

We looked at where and how the ultra-rich are buying and combining two – sometimes three – adjacent townhomes to convert them into single-family housing (often featuring an elevator and a flashy central staircase.)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...