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Laure

@laureanne.bsky.social
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Digital platforms & life-long grassroots pol expert. Supports insightful art, research and journalism. ID as lesbian; my progressive (not far-left) feminist godmothers taught me principles & tolerance over ideology & dogma. - Dislike prolific meme posters.

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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you to @orsierraclub.bsky.social for your endorsement. While the Trump administration rolls back climate action and environmental protections, I’ll keep fighting for Oregon’s water, air, forests, and wildlife.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 15h
➡️ Putin failed to expand #Russia from an #oil #gas corrupt oligarchy state so he turned to barbaric imperialism. So, for 4+ years, Russia terrorizes communities across #Ukraine. Hundreds of towns reduced to rubble, millions of refugees, injured and killed, 1.5 million Russian casualties.
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 20h
I was on the telly.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 20h
True!
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 20h
congratulations for fighting against another truly unjust #ice #immigration policy under Stephen Miller.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12/10/2026
Chris is absolutely right — we should come together to help our people, not cut programs like SNAP. Here in Illinois, we’re stepping up where the Trump Administration is stepping aside.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the Trump admin does not care. they are just in it for themselves.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
yes, the Trump admin is an agitprop propaganda admin. all across the board. all the time. sine 2015. If we called it out it would undermine it eventually. bsky.app/profile/alka...
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
oh no, he has zero shame. tech oligarch in his unchecked bubble of brutality. he knows he can get away with it.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's corruption. Tired of not being heard? Dems need to hammer Maga economics, corruption... Start podcasts. Have edu convos with each other (ind posts do 0). Maga pushes lies via interconnected, mass propaganda channels. Dems don't network or hammer messages, so are not heard beyond the base.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'll give it a listen but prefer on Apple or Amazon for listening management.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
boom
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russians just struck the CHP-5 power station in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Energy truce already over. Putin couldn't even wait until past dinner.
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Christine Drazan voted against expanding a tax credit for low-income Oregonians. She voted against the POWER Act, which is lowering utility rates for Oregon families while making data centers pay their fair share.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My latest @npr.org story: If you have to use the U.S. Postal Service to return a mail-in ballot, USPS recommends mailing it at least a week before your state's deadline. And if you're mailing close to Election Day, stop by a post office to ask for a postmark to make sure it gets one on the same day
npr.org
Why mailing a ballot close to Election Day may get it rejected for a late postmark
If you're using the U.S. Postal Service to return a ballot close to Election Day, officials recommend getting it postmarked at a post office to avoid getting caught up in mail processing changes.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@wyden.senate.gov act on privacy and freedom too. bsky.app/profile/amer...
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
act on privacy and freedom too. bsky.app/profile/amer...
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tired of not being heard? Dems need to hammer Maga economics, corruption etc. Start podcasts. Have edu convos with each other (ind posts do nothing. nothing). Maga pushed lies via interconnected, mass propaganda channels. Dems don't network or hammer messages, so are not heard beyond the base.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
it would have been nice for her if the DNC had mounted a robust rebuttal to Trump/MAGA re corruption, prices, hate etc. But you are a comms luddite. the DNC has done 0 to undermine them and project alternatives. just fire yourself or build msg networks & coalitions to edu people re issues. #clueless
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
the #OregonDucks turned to the back up QB too late. the backup QB would have saved the game if he was called in sooner
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Since December 2024, the average American household is paying: $222 more for electricity. $758 more for gas. $211 more for groceries. $929 more for health care. $256 more on rent. $852 more for child care. $4,330 more for their mortgage. Trump's economy.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tired of not being heard? Dems need to hammer Maga economics, corruption etc. Start podcasts. Have edu convos with each other (ind posts do nothing. nothing). Maga pushed lies via interconnected, mass propaganda channels. Dems don't network or hammer messages, so are not heard beyond the base.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Drazan is staying super quiet and hoping people do not link her to Trump and MAGA, despite the fact she is totally aligned with and getting support from the maga far-right. Kotek is exponentially more trustworthy in comparison. #oregon #portland #orleg
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The real issue, she says, is that 64 percent of people who join extremist groups on Facebook do so directly due to algorithmic prodding by the platform. They are recommended membership in QAnon, militias, and other degenerate groups by Facebook itself. #meta #facebook
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Travis Nelson @travisnelson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In 2025, Christine Drazan told the Capitol Chronicle that she supported Donald Trump’s decision to send troops to Oregon. We cannot trust Drazan to defend Oregon against Trump! oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/27/o...
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Christine Drazan is NO champion for consumers." Vote Kotek #oregon #orleg #portland #medford #eugene
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Via @olcv.org: "Christine Drazan has opposed virtually every major climate victory in #Oregon ...against 100% Clean Energy for All, the Clean Energy Jobs bill, the POWER Act, the Oregon EPA...she...said she would dismantle Oregon’s #Climate Protection Program... #portland #orleg #orpol Vote Kotek.
olcvscorecard.org
OLCV Environmental Scorecard: Christine Drazan
The OLCV Environmental Scorecard shares how each member of the Legislature voted on the most critical conservation bills, helping Oregonians understand whether legislators listened to their constituen...
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Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A 45-day ICE sweep across California, timed right up to the midterms, targeting people with no criminal history. Donald Trump is trying to rig the November election by intimidating voters and suppressing the vote. California won't be intimidated by his threats and thugs.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
what a tragedy
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
as if there is any sort of both sides here... yes Dems can be corrupted but the Trump admin is in a legion of its own. no one wants flimsy bs analyses.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
too many talented poc applying?
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
correct
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu mass corruption www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
nytimes.com
Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the entire Trump admin from mfg crisis (border) after mfg culture war, to the entire reality show cabinet is built for propaganda. owning the news cycles by juicing algorithms through all sorts of means including bribing the ceos of social, to launching tv, radio and websites that are maga...
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
thank goodness for these AGs. meanwhile the DNC did nothing to educate Americans, in terms of a mass coalition message campaign, about the issue... you act like it's pre 2008, certainly pre 2015 in terms of your comms. It's just so abysmal. clueless. like a dusty comms radio on the shelf.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
there is nothing as awful as watching an Elk herd cross a road with terror in their eyes.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump admin is trying to knock out whole categories of info in the 2030 census and make residence rules that shift population numbers to the south. This Q&A w/ @zephoria.bsky.social is very revealing about the urgency of mobilizing in 2026 to stop it www.porchpartynews.com/p/why-the-us...
porchpartynews.com
Why the US Census is on the brink
Researcher danah boyd watched heroic civil servants pull off the 2020 census amid a global pandemic. But the 2030 count is in peril—and she says the time to save it is now.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you need to create message networks through coalitions with other orgs. Individual groups cannot amplify on their own. You need coalitions.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
fyi only... predictions markets can be opaquely & easily rigged and don't always reflect the market... People spending to influence perceptions of races in news and more... www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
wbur.org
Prediction markets on elections are surging and could influence outcomes
Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are growing, and wagers on politics and the midterms are surging on these platforms.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can believe how clueless an organizer you are. Why are Dems so brain dead? Why can't Dems organize a real oppo party? Dems' comms do not reach people online. Build msg networks & coalitions to edu people re issues (talk to each other, don't just post) and compete with the maga media engine.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
flipped seats nothing to do with the Democrats' (lack of) messaging. They're due to extreme frustration with Trump and maga. Dems' comms do not reach people online. Build msg networks & coalitions to edu people re issues (talk to each other, don't just post) and compete with the maga media engine.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
because apparently people in Sherwood are deeply ignorant about politics. as if Drazan is anything but a Trumper in disguise. #oregon
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
idk, the US gets cases regularly in the Southwest. I see signs a lot when I am hiking telling people it's in the area.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"“The 4-year-olds don’t know where they are and what’s going on. They may understand that they’re talking to a judge, and the judge asked them their name, but that’s the extent of their understanding,”
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope you realize that 50+% of these reactions are from some sort of opaquely inauthentic account. That is social media.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think that was the GOP pre-2015...
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
YES. And until people teach the maga-ts base how this is bad. And, until we mount actual large coalitions and networks, for an actual organized opposition to their very organized revolution, we just watch it (since 2015).
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you're just amplifying it in the algos. screen grab it and use your words to describe how it's a bribe for the cost of living crisis due to his crap policies. Him dominating the news helps him.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Selling out Ukraine for #oil #gas? Enriching his family is all Trump cares about. And his path for that is through dinosaur #energy and crypto.
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Laure @laureanne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RFK is all scam, all the time, and these "efforts" are just a front for scamming.
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