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Followers

2.9K

Account age

3 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.1%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: A bill headed to a California Senate committee next month would · 6 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

52.4 / week

A very active account — posts many times a day.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.5K×

Follows 2 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post A bill headed to a California Senate committee next month would allow survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking to cite that abuse as a legal defense when facing charges for some violent crimes, CalMatters reports. https://calmatters.org/jus… ★ 6

Missouri’s new elections reform bill includes changes beyond voting rights restoration; it also bans political campaigns from collecting automatic donations and disqualifies write-in votes for people who haven’t declared themselves write-i… Next week, we’re following primaries in seven states, including a heated Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan, a ballot measure that would upend how Kansas picks its Supreme Court justices, and school board battles in Tennessee. http… ★ 2 Toby Doeden, an ultraconservative businessman who ran for South Dakota governor on a promise to eliminate all property taxes, lost in yesterday’s primary runoff to Acting Governor Larry Rhoden. It was the state's first-ever primary runoff … ★ 1 As North Carolina lawmakers push for harsher punishment, the state keeps convicting people under its three-strikes law, stretching out prison sentences and adding to the number of people aging behind bars. https://boltsmag.org/north-caroli… ★ 1 📬 In this week's newsletter: -Our guide to 110 elections to watch in August -A North Carolinian sentenced under the state’s three-strikes law is fighting for release -South Dakota’s governor wins the state’s first-ever primary runoff And … ★ 2 Supporters of the reform say it could create a pathway out of prison for many survivors. But as Bolts reported last fall, California lawmakers have killed the same bill, which prosecutors and police groups oppose, in each of the past three… ★ 2 With a new law expanding access to mail voting, Connecticut joins 36 other states, red and blue alike, in allowing anyone to cast a mail ballot, without first providing an excuse. https://boltsmag.org/connecticut-expands-vote-by-mail/ ★ 4 “Solitary 100 percent makes it harder to return to society as productive members. It creates a deep-seeded hate and distrust for the system and all connected to it,” writes Kwaneta Harris, who has experienced the practice in a Texas prison… ★ 4 NEW in Bolts: In August, we're watching ballot measures that may upend election law, high-profile Senate primaries, battles for school boards, legislative showdowns—and a lot more across 17 states. https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballot/… “Somehow there’s this unspoken agreement that if we acknowledge that anyone who is an immigrant has also been impacted by the criminal legal system, somehow we’re ceding ground to the right,” says an immigration attorney in Massachusetts. … To keep up with our coverage of local elections throughout the year, sign up for our weekly newsletter. We share election updates and stories about voting rights and criminal justice, plus behind-the-scenes insights from our team. ⬇️ https… ★ 2

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A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 3 views per post.

📤Posts about 52.4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

49/100

Fair Credibility score

78%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 78% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.