Jeremia Kimelman
@jeremiak.com
Data journalist at CalMatters. Union dude. Sacramento by way of SF and NYC. Where are we eating bagels next?
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Jeremia Kimelman
@jeremiak.com
· Dec 2
Happy first day of a new #CAleg session to those who celebrate!
I made a Starter Pack that I plan to maintain w/ all of the current session legislators: go.bsky.app/52JpVv6
If you see any that I missed (I used Digital Democracy from @calmatters.org to just search for each name) please let me know
I made a Starter Pack that I plan to maintain w/ all of the current session legislators: go.bsky.app/52JpVv6
If you see any that I missed (I used Digital Democracy from @calmatters.org to just search for each name) please let me know
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December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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If you find the work we do valuable, support us so we can keep covering California in 2026.
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Tellingly, the people with power to do something about the rising death toll don't want to talk to reporters about it. From today's piece:
"Gov. Gavin Newsom declined an interview request." and DMV chief "Steve Gordon... declined or ignored CalMatters requests for an interview."
"Gov. Gavin Newsom declined an interview request." and DMV chief "Steve Gordon... declined or ignored CalMatters requests for an interview."
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Tellingly, the people with power to do something about the rising death toll don't want to talk to reporters about it. From today's piece:
"Gov. Gavin Newsom declined an interview request." and DMV chief "Steve Gordon... declined or ignored CalMatters requests for an interview."
"Gov. Gavin Newsom declined an interview request." and DMV chief "Steve Gordon... declined or ignored CalMatters requests for an interview."
Part 3 was published at the end of October and documents how California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country even as deaths spike.
Robert and Lauren write: "California’s DUI enforcement system is broken. The toll can be counted in bodies."
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Robert and Lauren write: "California’s DUI enforcement system is broken. The toll can be counted in bodies."
calmatters.org/investigatio...
15 DUIs, still driving: California's failure to take repeat drunk drivers off the road
As alcohol-related roadway deaths spike across the state, a CalMatters investigation finds California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country.
calmatters.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Part 3 was published at the end of October and documents how California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country even as deaths spike.
Robert and Lauren write: "California’s DUI enforcement system is broken. The toll can be counted in bodies."
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Robert and Lauren write: "California’s DUI enforcement system is broken. The toll can be counted in bodies."
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Part 2 from June focuses on the failure of the state courts to report vehicular manslaughter convictions to the DMV, allowing roadway killers to improperly keep their driver's licenses.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
calmatters.org/investigatio...
They were convicted of killing with their cars. No one told the California DMV.
A CalMatters investigation found that courts didn’t report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions to the DMV, prompting officials to belatedly take many drivers’ licenses.
calmatters.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Part 2 from June focuses on the failure of the state courts to report vehicular manslaughter convictions to the DMV, allowing roadway killers to improperly keep their driver's licenses.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
calmatters.org/investigatio...
The whole series is very much worth your while so I'm going to thread the other three pieces.
Here's the first one by Robert in April about how the DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers to keep driving, even after they kill. Sometimes more than once.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Here's the first one by Robert in April about how the DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers to keep driving, even after they kill. Sometimes more than once.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Why California’s dangerous drivers get to keep their licenses
The California DMV routinely allows deadly drivers to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found.
calmatters.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The whole series is very much worth your while so I'm going to thread the other three pieces.
Here's the first one by Robert in April about how the DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers to keep driving, even after they kill. Sometimes more than once.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Here's the first one by Robert in April about how the DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers to keep driving, even after they kill. Sometimes more than once.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
My @calmatters.org colleagues Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler published the fourth piece in their 🔥 investigative series about how state leaders, elected and appointed, have done little to address the mounting death toll from drunk drivers on California roads.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
calmatters.org/investigatio...
40,000 people died on California roads. State leaders looked away
As driving deaths have skyrocketed across the state, the governor, legislators, the courts and the DMV have failed to act.
calmatters.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My @calmatters.org colleagues Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler published the fourth piece in their 🔥 investigative series about how state leaders, elected and appointed, have done little to address the mounting death toll from drunk drivers on California roads.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Reposted by Jeremia Kimelman
As election day approaches, nonprofits, political parties and a billionaire have spent nearly $26 million on ads and other communications in an effort to convince voters to support or oppose Prop. 50 – the most of any ballot measure in recent state history. bit.ly/47l7aI4
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October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
As election day approaches, nonprofits, political parties and a billionaire have spent nearly $26 million on ads and other communications in an effort to convince voters to support or oppose Prop. 50 – the most of any ballot measure in recent state history. bit.ly/47l7aI4
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Reposted by Jeremia Kimelman
Our members handed out flyers and buttons at the @IRE.org gala tonight! Our message is clear: We deserve a fair contract now! Support us by signing our petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
September 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Our members handed out flyers and buttons at the @IRE.org gala tonight! Our message is clear: We deserve a fair contract now! Support us by signing our petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Looks like Charles Munger Jr. is in for another $10 million, bringing his total contributions to California's Prop 50 opposition $30 million. So it's basically him and $5 million from a Republican SuperPAC
cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfge...
cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfge...
September 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Looks like Charles Munger Jr. is in for another $10 million, bringing his total contributions to California's Prop 50 opposition $30 million. So it's basically him and $5 million from a Republican SuperPAC
cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfge...
cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfge...
Good luck! Yall got this ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
August 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good luck! Yall got this ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
Dicey indeed!
@levisu.bsky.social has been _on_ this! The Insurance Commissioner and State Farm have been negotiating about insurance for months now. Here's some of her recent, previous reporting:
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
More on calmatters.org too!
@levisu.bsky.social has been _on_ this! The Insurance Commissioner and State Farm have been negotiating about insurance for months now. Here's some of her recent, previous reporting:
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
More on calmatters.org too!
How State Farm's emergency rate hike approval in California will affect you
State Farm can raise homeowner and other rates starting next month, becoming the first insurance company to win approval to do so on an emergency interim basis in California.
calmatters.org
July 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Dicey indeed!
@levisu.bsky.social has been _on_ this! The Insurance Commissioner and State Farm have been negotiating about insurance for months now. Here's some of her recent, previous reporting:
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
More on calmatters.org too!
@levisu.bsky.social has been _on_ this! The Insurance Commissioner and State Farm have been negotiating about insurance for months now. Here's some of her recent, previous reporting:
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
More on calmatters.org too!
An excerpt from "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper":
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
poets.org/poem/student...
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
poets.org/poem/student...
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of…
poets.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
An excerpt from "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper":
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
poets.org/poem/student...
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
poets.org/poem/student...
And then like anything else in the attention/cable news economy, Trump is in a league of his own.
July 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
And then like anything else in the attention/cable news economy, Trump is in a league of his own.
Used the Internet Archive's news chyron data to get a sense for how much MSNBC, CNN, Fox and the BBC were talking about different topics.
Increase for Epstein, lots of discussion of Zohran after his primary win, Musk flits in and out, not nearly as much as I expected to see for "Intifada"
Increase for Epstein, lots of discussion of Zohran after his primary win, Musk flits in and out, not nearly as much as I expected to see for "Intifada"
July 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Used the Internet Archive's news chyron data to get a sense for how much MSNBC, CNN, Fox and the BBC were talking about different topics.
Increase for Epstein, lots of discussion of Zohran after his primary win, Musk flits in and out, not nearly as much as I expected to see for "Intifada"
Increase for Epstein, lots of discussion of Zohran after his primary win, Musk flits in and out, not nearly as much as I expected to see for "Intifada"
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A woman whose house burned down in the Eaton Fire earlier this year couldn't cash a ~$900k check from State Farm because, as somebody in the check-hold department of her bank said, the insurer's account had a negative balance.
The largest property insurer in the state. A negative balance.
The largest property insurer in the state. A negative balance.
Scoop: A check from California’s largest property insurer, which says it has paid billions of dollars in claims from the LA-area fires, has taken more than a week to clear so far.
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July 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A woman whose house burned down in the Eaton Fire earlier this year couldn't cash a ~$900k check from State Farm because, as somebody in the check-hold department of her bank said, the insurer's account had a negative balance.
The largest property insurer in the state. A negative balance.
The largest property insurer in the state. A negative balance.
Posted and deleted this like three times because I got the mention wrong and then forgot (??) to put in the URL. Geez, I'm even worse at social media today than normal
July 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Posted and deleted this like three times because I got the mention wrong and then forgot (??) to put in the URL. Geez, I'm even worse at social media today than normal
Was Gov. Newsom's return to office mandate a ploy for contract negotiations? @mayacmiller.bsky.social looks into it for her first story @calmatters.org
calmatters.org/politics/202...
calmatters.org/politics/202...
Gavin Newsom ordered state workers back to the office. Why he backtracked
Newsom argued state employees needed to boost productivity and rebuild public trust by working in-office nearly full-time. Why delay? Politics, critics say.
calmatters.org
July 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Was Gov. Newsom's return to office mandate a ploy for contract negotiations? @mayacmiller.bsky.social looks into it for her first story @calmatters.org
calmatters.org/politics/202...
calmatters.org/politics/202...
Which, you know, might be a good reason for high ranking government officials to not conduct business on commercial platforms like Signal? Maybe?
Among other things (record retention laws, adding journalists into the chat, etc)
Among other things (record retention laws, adding journalists into the chat, etc)
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence.
Impostor uses AI to impersonate Rubio and contact foreign and U.S. officials
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence.
n.pr
July 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Which, you know, might be a good reason for high ranking government officials to not conduct business on commercial platforms like Signal? Maybe?
Among other things (record retention laws, adding journalists into the chat, etc)
Among other things (record retention laws, adding journalists into the chat, etc)
Turns out it’s not always bad news! Hope you get some good results too
July 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Turns out it’s not always bad news! Hope you get some good results too
I know I’m old because one of the best emails I got today was from my doctor letting me know my cholesterol is way down. Hell ya
July 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I know I’m old because one of the best emails I got today was from my doctor letting me know my cholesterol is way down. Hell ya
Reposted by Jeremia Kimelman
New 3-minute documentary from @calmatters.org @sergioolmos.bsky.social @bellingcat.com @evidentmedia.org show comprehensively how widespread the immigration raids in the Los Angeles area have been.
Doc geotagged/verified 100+ videos of raids
These occurred at:
-15+ Home Depots
-Private farmland
Doc geotagged/verified 100+ videos of raids
These occurred at:
-15+ Home Depots
-Private farmland
Masked, Armed, Forceful: Finding Patterns in California Immigration Raids
YouTube video by Evident Media
www.youtube.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
New 3-minute documentary from @calmatters.org @sergioolmos.bsky.social @bellingcat.com @evidentmedia.org show comprehensively how widespread the immigration raids in the Los Angeles area have been.
Doc geotagged/verified 100+ videos of raids
These occurred at:
-15+ Home Depots
-Private farmland
Doc geotagged/verified 100+ videos of raids
These occurred at:
-15+ Home Depots
-Private farmland
And as somebody who lives near the American River, this is _terrifying_:
“The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes”
More than 6 inches a minute…
www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...
“The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes”
More than 6 inches a minute…
www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...
Here's a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.
www.npr.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
And as somebody who lives near the American River, this is _terrifying_:
“The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes”
More than 6 inches a minute…
www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...
“The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes”
More than 6 inches a minute…
www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...
The disaster in Texas is so sad for the families and communities who lost somebody or are still searching for them.
May their memories forever be blessings 🙏
May their memories forever be blessings 🙏
July 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The disaster in Texas is so sad for the families and communities who lost somebody or are still searching for them.
May their memories forever be blessings 🙏
May their memories forever be blessings 🙏
A (super) negative downstream effect of election map-based coverage and descriptions like “deep red state”
Gross idea even before you consider that kids died and kids can’t vote in the US
Gross idea even before you consider that kids died and kids can’t vote in the US
I'm not just mad about this shit because I'm tired of seeing it (tho I am)
It is scary to me that people legitimately don't seem to understand enough to know that 20% of the population of Texas voted for Trump. That is it. Out of every 5 people in Texas, 4 did not vote for this.
It is scary to me that people legitimately don't seem to understand enough to know that 20% of the population of Texas voted for Trump. That is it. Out of every 5 people in Texas, 4 did not vote for this.
July 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A (super) negative downstream effect of election map-based coverage and descriptions like “deep red state”
Gross idea even before you consider that kids died and kids can’t vote in the US
Gross idea even before you consider that kids died and kids can’t vote in the US