Laure
@laureanne
Digital platforms & life-long grassroots pol expert. Support research & journalism providing insights. ID as lesbian; my progressive (not far-left) feminist godmothers taught me principles & tolerance over ideology & dogma. Dislike prolific meme posters.
Found this George Washington portrait at the Portland Art Museum. Who knew there were such strong ties? I was there to view Jordan Schnitzer's Hockney collection (also saw it in Palm Springs a couple of years ago). It's unparalleled, open until late July. #portland #art #DavidHockney #250th #July4
⬇️ I'm from a family very familiar with the markets. the 70s was an outlier and yes it was brutal. but prices have gone up so much financing is more difficult and the supply is down.
I took a break from the dangerous idiocy of this moment to capture a still from the live camera here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rwf... The crew is using a free-return trajectory, utilizing the Moon and Earth's gravity to guide them home having passed over 250,000 miles from Earth...
I used to think people on the far left were alright even if they only rep like 1-3%. But I realized the far left oft won't criticize Putin etc for his bloody imperialism, legalizing beating women, gays etc. being a corrupt oil oligarch. Progress in the US is due to broad center left not far left.
every single platform is swimming in a flood of bs accounts. what's actually scary though, is people are still so entirely digitally illiterate that they don't know this is the case. don't know that on most platforms, algorithms push these bs accounts into trends, prevailing sentiment etc.
what @chatterton.bsky.social does not realize, on Bluesky a) algorithms don't surface content (like these awful posts) here as other rigged platforms do, so not a lot of people saw this b) #x #twitter is rigged to MAGA and a bubble to keep you "feeling" heard (addicted), with actual bogus reach
I wouldn't mind seeing graphs of Trump's wealth increasing since 2024 all over the place, with a photo like ⬇️ Trump basically had to use the presidency to get himself and fam into the billionaires club, to play elite godfather. #kleptocracy inc #autocracy inc
The Trump admin's blitzkrieg media network hopes to distract with racial and anti-immigrant hate, bombings, troops on the streets... Meanwhile our economy is more fragile than ever. from @crampell.bsky.social #jobs #markets #economy #economics #CostOfLiving #wages #prices #tariffs