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141.8K

Account age

3 yrs

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Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this

1.1K views Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this

📊 Post engagement

469

Avg engagement / post

0.3%

Engagement vs followers

Jul 2023

On Bluesky since

🔥 Top post: Many stories have conveyed how crass and insulting Trump's "spee · 1.8K likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

15.5 / week

Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

98×

Follows 1.4K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Many stories have conveyed how crass and insulting Trump's "speech" last night was. Few have conveyed how literally insane he sounded. Long, LONG disquisition on The Ballroom, complete with "Sir" stories. Claim that 450k people came to hear him on July 4. Iran has no remaining … ★ 1.8K

Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-d… ★ 1.1K This is not true. (In case you were wondering.) ★ 271 Ask anybody in DC-land: The *last* thing you want to connect your personal brand to is Dulles airport, IAD. ★ 102 Harvard is doing the right thing here. ★ 166 Whenever this person talks about something you actually know about yourself.... (I'm writing on this topic now.) "By the way": Trump's insistence on changing the code for Palm Beach from PBI to DJT has caused huge expense and disruption t… ★ 653 Have spent decades in print, but also some experience w documentaries, an HBO film, to-camera segments, etc. TV is much, *much* harder for print people than it seems. ★ 153 J Andres deserves world acclaim he receives. I've seen his work during emergencies first-hand. Z Beddows of Economist is type of journalist "serious" people always say we need. Deeply and broadly informed, never cowed into both-sides-ing.… ★ 369 I've been around since kindergarten classmates were in "iron lungs" from pre-vaccine polio, since "duck and cover" grade-school nuclear-attack drills, through all of the intervening chaos, earthquakes and floods and all, up through Covid a… ★ 229 -Bezos WaPo stewardship rivals DOGE-era Musk in destruction. Editorial page seems run by high-school Ayn Rand-ers. (Check out their podcasts.) Much of paper is straight AP clips. -But still, still it has strong reporting. Like this powerf… ★ 219 @kairyssdal.bsky.social, naval aviation veteran, is right. -Excellent reporting by @nytimes.com team, @gregjaffe.bsky.social and Kate Kelly. -Appalling portrait of Hegseth era military. ★ 180 It is a win for Trump that this is getting minimal coverage. ★ 368

🦋 Handle & authenticity

Bluesky handle

@jfallows.bsky.social

A default .bsky.social handle — genuine, but not domain-verified. Confirm identity before a high-value deal.

On Bluesky since

Jul 2023

An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 469 views per post.

📤Posts about 15.5× per week.

🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🛡️ Audience credibility

81/100

Excellent Credibility score

97%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

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

About

Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.

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