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64.5K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
254
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Jul 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: On the campaign trail ahead of Election Day 2024, Trump said Ame · 984 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
27.5 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
396×
Follows 163 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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As Todd Blanche’s nomination languishes, and Trump threatens a withdrawal, one thing seems obvious:
The White House could simply do the right thing on the slush fund and IRS audit immunity, satisfying Republicans like Cornyn and Tillis, b…
I don’t blame Trump for hating Dulles Airport.
I do blame him for caring more about redesigning the airport than actual governing, as polls show 73% of Americans believe he simply has the wrong priorities.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Trump’s three most recent DNI nominees — Jay Clayton, Tulsi Gabbard, and John Ratcliffe — fell objectively short of the statutory qualifications for the position.
In all three instances, Senate Republicans, many of whom helped write the s…
Trump denies disaster aid requests, but only for blue states.
He scraps energy grants, but only for blue states.
He freezes funding for social services programs, but only blue states were affected.
He launches a supposed crackdown on “f…
As the midterms approach, Trump is still trying to pretend that he has a health care “plan.”
He’s picking the wrong fight at wrong time — in part because his “plan” is a pitiful joke, and in part because new polls show it’s his party’s wo…
The DOJ just agreed to a seven-figure settlement with an anti-abortion activist who was convicted in 2024 of violating the FACE Act.
Larger arc: The DOJ sure has been quite generous lately, agreeing to lucrative, taxpayer-financed settlem…
It’s a problem that the war with Iran has depleted U.S. munitions stockpiles.
The fact that Trump and his team can’t keep their story straight about this, and keep pushing a series of contradictory statements, makes the problem noticeably…
Why is Trump’s Consumer Product Safety Commission seeking detailed, personally identifiable medical information on emergency room patients?
The closer one looks at this, the tougher it is to defend.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Trump launched an offensive against Venezuela and seized its resources, but he doesn’t want to say what he’s doing with the profits.
The White House might not like the word “colonization,” but I’m hard-pressed to imagine a more appropriat…
Members of Trump’s own team have acknowledged Russia’s role in aiding Iran during the ongoing war.
Trump could believe them, but he wants to double check with the suspected Russian war criminal and former KGB agent whose word he trusts im…
The Qatari-gifted Air Force One controversy in a nutshell: Trump created a national security problem because he was overeager to play with his new toy.
It's trite to say this would be an enormous scandal in a normal presidency, but this r…
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@stevebenen.com
The handle is the domain stevebenen.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real stevebenen.com account, not an impersonator.
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 254 views per post.
📤Posts about 27.5× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K 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 (~0.4% 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
Rachel Maddow Show producer, MaddowBlog author, MS NOW contributor, and author of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
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