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19.8K
Account age
1 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$111 – $180 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
23
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2024
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: Breaking: A federal court dealt a blow to the Trump administrati · 43 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
43.1 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 3 text · 9 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
115×
Follows 172 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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A California university is cutting ties with the Border Patrol after student outcry
Students and faculty rallied against campus police after a CalMatters investigation revealed the decade-long partnership.
Fierce floods or wild waves? How San Diego is preparing for a winter of extreme weather under El Niño.
As a “super El Niño” season gains steam, San Diego County contends with aging stormwater systems and century-old dams.
Opinion | Prop. 45 benefits the state’s wealthiest and most powerful interests without offering any proof — or requiring any guarantees — that Californians won’t shoulder the costs. cal.news/4fLmgtp
📝 Mabel Tsang
📸 Loren Elliott
Opinion | Our state doesn’t have to choose between protecting the environment and building the homes and essential infrastructure our communities need. Prop. 45 enables us to do both. cal.news/4bSPNjC
📝 Jenna Abbott
📸 Larry Valenzuela
As a dairyman, David Valadao has endeared himself to the agricultural communities, even building cross-party support among Democrats. But with costs soaring and Trump so unpopular, voters might not be as willing to look beyond the “R” besi…
Homeowners who saw their neighborhoods burn in the Eaton and Palisades fires last year will soon be able to build up to four units on their properties now that the two fire-scarred cities have settled a lawsuit brought by pro-development a…
A California public university cut ties with a federal program that paid for campus police to aid Border Patrol, within weeks of CalMatters revealing the decade-long partnership. cal.news/3S8yBzY
📸 Adriana Heldiz
Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed a new chief to lead the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, two years after the position opened and months after a CalMatters investigation exposed how the agency has failed to curb abuse in the industry. cal.n…
Proposition 38 is written in a way that very likely excludes all but one institute in the entire state: the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, whose prominent donor and co-founder is the chief backer of the proposition.…
Lawmaker told court her mom had dementia in family property battle. Not so, said doctors
Records show Assemblymember Anamarie Ávila Farías also faced a temporary restraining order for elder abuse.
CalMatters/The Markup seeks someone experienced in transcription who believes in the power of journalism and civic engagement to strengthen democracy and wants to use their skills to make a real difference in people’s lives.
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🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@calmatters.org
The handle is the domain calmatters.org. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real calmatters.org account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Nov 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 23 views per post.
📤Posts about 43.1× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated53/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% 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.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization. We write stories about California, for Californians.
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