Jake Jaramillo
jakejaramillo.bsky.social
Jake Jaramillo
@jakejaramillo.bsky.social
Searches on the EPA website Feb. 27 for fossil fuel pollution-related terms.
February 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Our Seattle Public Library, Fremont Branch. It’s one of more than 2,500 libraries Andrew Carnegie built. Today’s richest man, Elon Musk, is trying to take food and medicine away from millions of people and cripple oversight of his companies - not coincidentally enriching and aggrandizing himself.
February 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Trump hails his “Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture,” with him as the Chairman of the Board of Kennedy Center. Shown: Paul Klee’s “The Angler” (1921), exhibited in Hitler’s Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937.
February 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Slash-and-burn Sunday! The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has put billions of dollars back into people’s pocketbooks, maybe yours.
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver
February 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Reposted by Jake Jaramillo
Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“New America” just wouldn’t feel the same.
January 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
President Trump has assigned military planes to deport migrants, saying this is just the start. I was curious about what an expanded deportation program would require over the next 4 years. I came up with 90 flights/day, costing $48.8 trillion/year - 1.7 times the size of the annual U.S. economy.
Up to $852,000: How much Trump ends up paying for each deportation flight
President Trumps administration has initiated deportation flights using U.S. military planes, significantly increasing costs compared to DHS-chartered flights. A C-17 flight reportedly costs $252,000,...
m.economictimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Time to hoard coffee?
January 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Intermission at The Brutalist. Cathy, learning the medium sugarwater here is $9.37.
January 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
From a car on top of the viaduct, you’d have amazing water, mountain and city views. From anywhere else it was an ugly, noisy, sooty 2-mile-long barrier. No more! (Seattle Times photos)
January 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM