Jeremia Kimelman

@jeremiak.com

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Data journalist at CalMatters. Union dude. Sacramento by way of SF and NYC. Where are we eating bagels next?

A bar chart with the title "Meta spent more to lobby in California in 2025 than any previous year. By a lot" that shows the company's in-state lobbying expenses by year going from less than $1 million to lobby in 2024 to more than $4.6 million in 2025.
A campaign finance report showing a $10,000,000 contribution from Charles Munger, Jr. to the No on Prop 50 campaign committee
Chart of the number of minutes various terms were displayed on cable news chyrons. The terms visualized are "antisemitism", "Epstein", "Intifada", "Mamdani" (which also includes "Zohran") and "Musk" (which also includes "Elon"). Mamdani was far and away the most displayed chyron of the bunch.
A screenshot of "News Spectrum," a website that collections screenshots of news sources with different political biases, that shows the Combs verdict is the top headline on: The Huffington Post, NBC News, The Drudge Report, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, Fox News, NPR and the New York Post
The rest of the Jews, those in the king's provinces, likewise mustered and fought for their lives. They disposed of their enemies, killing seventy-five thousand of their foes; but they did not lay hands on the spoil. That was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar; and they rested on the fourteenth day and made it a day of feasting and merrymaking. But the Jews in Shushan mustered on both the thirteenth and fourteenth days, and so rested on the fifteenth
A screenshot of doge.gov that says: Meet the US government Trace your tax dollars through the bureaucracy. This is a joke of a .gov site
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Line chart showing the percent of each month's hearings where parole was granted, starting at 20 percent in December 2019, trending between 10 and 20 percent and has been hovering around a low of 12% in October and November 2024.
A pile of semi burnt wood, some that has turned to ash and some that I hope as become charcoal
A LinkedIn post from Howard Chan made yesterday, January 14, with text that says "I'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position as Special Advisor to the City Manager at City of Sacramento!"
A map of the NYC area with the Palisades Fire shape imposed on top in light blue. In this case the fire stretches from west of Hoboken to the past Williamsburg in the east, south to Jersey City and north all the way to the Bronx
A map of Sacramento with the Palisades Fire shape imposed on top in light blue. In this case the fire stretches from west of West Sacramento to the American River near Rosemont, south to Land Park and north all the way to Hagginwood.
A map of a suburban neighborhood with significant damage from the Eaton Fire. Each house is classified by the damage level, ranging from "No Damage" to "Destroyed" which means that the home suffered at least 50% damage. Many of the homes in this screenshot are marked as destroyed while others have been assessed as having "No Damage." Sometimes there's a destroyed house between two homes with no damage.
Foreground: three people, one with their head in their hands Background: a lone chimney that remains after the house it was part of burned down, with an active flame nearby and smoke hanging heavy in the air
A photo of the initial Y Combinator class with Aaron Swartz circled in orange, standing right next to Sam Altman circled in green
An interactive map that shows California ZIP codes and how many residential FAIR plans are in each. The headline is "Are more people in your neighborhood on the FAIR plan this year compared to last?" and the description text is " In Pacific Palisdes, which has been ravaged by fire over the last few days, there are 1,430 residential policies with the FAIR plan, the state's insurer of last resort. That's nearly double the number of plans in 2023. The change in the number of plans per ZIP code varies wildly across the state. The number of plans in the Colusa County ZIP code of 95912 went down by 67% while the number of plans in the 91915 ZIP code in San Diego went up by more than 700%." The initial state of the map is focused on Pacific Palisades and says "As of Sept. 30, there are 1,430 residential plans in the Pacific Palisades ZIP code (90272). That's a 85% increase from the year prior."
Screenshot of city council livestream that shows a very small feed of the speaker
An interactive map that has the following headline and lede: Where do nearly 200,000 people live in your neighborhood or city? According to the federal housing agency, there are at least 187,084 people without homes in California which is greater than the population of Oceanside in San Diego County. 👆 Move the map and tap on where you live or enter your ZIP code to get a better sense of what that many people looks like in terms of a place you know well. The map highlights enough Census tracts surrounding a particular zip code to represent the same number of people, about 187,000.
Screenshot of the smoke from the Palisades Fire surrounding a residential community in Southern California
A West facing photo of three railroad tracks at sunset with a blue sky and an orange horizon
The cover of the Sacramento Observer for January 3, 2025. The tagline of the paper is "Serving Sacramento's Black community with excellence since 1962." The feature is titled "'Mother Rose', a matriach remembered, literacy champion Georgia West, Mother of Sacramento's first Black Mayor, passes"
A photo of a light brown tabby cat with green eyes sitting on a burnt orange comforter.
A line chart with time on the X axis (starting in December 2019 and going through the present) and the percent of hearings granted parole on the Y axis and a yellow line representing the monthly grant rate, which topped out at just over 20% in early 2024 but has fallen and hovered around 12% for the last few months
Chart title is "Diesel exhaust raises cancer risk in the LA basin" Description is "In some areas of the LA basin, especially around freeways, diesel exhaust poses a risk of causing 300 cancer cases per million people exposed. The exhaust, which contains many toxic gases and fine particles, is known to cause lung cancer." The graphic is a map of Los Angeles with dark pink showing elevated cancer cases along freeway routes.
A screenshot of the state controller's website that lists all pay of public employees: https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx?year=2023&rpt=1
A screenshot of coinbase.com with a pop-up message that reads: "Email your senators, fight against an anti-crypto SEC Commissioner"
A screenshot of a map of downtown Sacramento with a part highlighted in orange that stretches from the confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers east past the Capitol City Freeway and south to Highway 50. Above the map it says that "40,987 people live in the highlighted area"
A screenshot of a map of downtown Sacramento with non-contiguous but relatively large pink shapes on top of it. The pink is the boundaries of Areas A & B in the West Bank translated on top of Sacramento. The placement and rotation are purely for my visual comparison.
A screenshot of a map of northern California with non-contiguous but relatively large pink shapes on top of it stretching along the I-80 corridor from the Bay Area nearly to Lake Tahoe. The pink is the boundaries of Areas A & B in the West Bank translated on top of Sacramento. The placement and rotation are purely for my visual comparison.
Screenshot of Mascot's Moyel frames in gold. They're a small round gold glasses frame
A line chart titled "California turnout in recent elections" with two lines, with an X axis of years from 2010 through 2024 and a Y axis of 0% at the bottom to 100% at the top. The two lines were "Turnout of registered" and "Turnout of eligible". Year Turnout of registered Turnout of eligible 2010 59.59% 43.74% 2012 72.36% 55.47% 2014 42.20% 30.94% 2016 75.27% 58.74% 2018 64.54% 50.45% 2020 80.67% 70.88% 2022 50.80% 41.47% 2024 71.43% 59.97%
An arrow plot that shows the change in vote share for the 10 counties that Trump won in 2024 that he lost in 2020. The counties and vote share change are (positive means Trump's vote share increased) San Joaquin +5.99 Imperial +11.55 Lake +2.44 Riverside +3.35 San Bernardino +5.15 Butte +0.76 Inyo −0.02 Fresno +4.89 Merced +6.33 Stanislaus +4.6
A screenshot from California Secretary of State election results that abbreviates Robert F Kennedy Jr's party as "AI" which stands for "American Independent"
A screenshot of election results for Mayor of Sacramento that shows Kevin McCarty with 96,433 votes (50%) and Flojuane Cofer with 94,495 votes (49%) with a total of 190,928 votes counted.
Screenshot of election results for Sacramento mayor showing Kevin McCarty has a lead over Flojaune Cofer. He has 96,432 votes (50%) compared to Cofer's 94,491 votes (49%). There are a total of 190,923 votes counted
Table with election results for Sacramento mayor's races with the year, the winner, and their margin 2024 | McCarty** | 1.4 2020 | Steinberg | 63.6 2016 | Steinberg | 32.79 2012 | Johnson | 34.93 2008 | Johnson | 15.5 2004 | Fargo | 38.9 2000 | Fargo | 8.2 2000 (Primary) | Fargo | 1.6 ** Not yet certified
Screenshot from https://sacramento-campaign-cash.netlify.app of total campaign finance raised in the Sacramento Mayor's race. Kevin McCarty raised a total of $1,216,335.14 from 704 contributors. Flojuane Cofer raised $679,479.92 from 1,507 contributors
Mayor of Sacramento election race results. Kevin McCarty has 50% of the vote with 95,310 votes and Flo Cofer has 49% of the vote with 92,678 votes. 187,988 votes have been counted in this race
Screenshot of Sacramento County's election page for the mayor of Sacramento race. Kevin McCarty has 94,330 votes and Flo Cofer has 91,267
A table of lobbying firms and the total amount they've been paid in 2024 so far as reported to the California Secretary of State.
A scatter plot titled "Home sale prices in Kentfield, CA" with the Y axis representing the closing price and the X axis showing the closing date of the sale transaction. Newsom's is one of the most expensive, nominally. The chart description says "The Newsom family's $9.1 million house was the fifth most expensive purchase in town since 1999." The chart looks like a lot of yellow dots with a green dot in the upper right corner representing Newsom's house.
A screenshot of the election results for Sacramento Mayor as of 11/19. Kevin McCarty has 93,526 votes or 50% and Flo Cofer has 90,367 votes or 49%. It is estimated that there are fewer than 26,050 ballots left to process.
A tabby cat sleeping and wrapped in a white blanket on a green couch
A screenshot of Sacramento County election results that show the Mayoral race between Kevin McCarty and Flo Cofer is close, 4kish votes out of an estimated 60,000 left to count though it’s not clear if those are all in the mayoral contest
A tabby cat sitting on a chair in the sun with its eyes closed and its nose raised
A bar chart that shows a huge spike in Google’s California lobbying in the third quarter of 2024. The headline is “Google spent more on lobbying in 2024 than the last 20 years combined"
A screen capture of what the News Spectrum site looks like, which is rows of screenshots of the mobile home pages of news sites that are on the left, right and center. In order from left to right on the first row is the Huffington Post, NBC News, The Drudge Report.