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Followers
52.2K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$292 – $475 / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
85
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
May 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: Aramark is the largest provider of prison food in the country. A · 276 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.92 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
51×
Follows 1K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Immigrants detained in Delaney Hall have been on hunger and labor strikes since May 22, overcoming retaliation by ICE and GEO Group staff. They've been joined by protesters outside the facility who have faced weeks of police repression.
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An 18-year-old college student lost an eye after a federal agent shot him with a “less-lethal” projectile while he was filming a protest.
Weapons like tear gas, pepper balls, and rubber bullets can blind, maim, and kill. Officers continue…
A growing national movement for menstrual equity is calling on prisons to ensure menstrual products are freely available for people who menstruate behind bars. theappeal.org/prison-menst...
Executives at ICE’s biggest contractors donated more than $1.7 million to 168 members of Congress over the 3 most recent election cycles. Find out if your representatives are among them with our new searchable database built in partnership…
Pennsylvania has one of the largest populations of people serving life without parole sentences in the country—in part due to its onerous process for clemency seekers, which requires unanimous approval from a five-member board. theappeal.o…
GEO Group CEO George Zoley suggested that selling private facilities directly to ICE could allow the federal government to dodge lawsuits filed by state and local governments seeking to block detention center operations, elizabethweill.bsk…
In 1996, Maria Montalvo was sentenced to 100 years in prison after a jury convicted her of burning her children to death. Today, her attorneys say the conviction was based on junk science. theappeal.org/maria-montal...
Pennsylvania has the nation’s highest per capita rate of people serving life without parole. More than a decade of abolitionist organizing helped pave the way for a state supreme court ruling that could shift the momentum. theappeal.org/pe…
California's Gov. Gavin Newsom has touted the "California Model" as a more humane approach to incarceration. Viewed from the ground at San Quentin, it looks more like an expensive rebranding effort to make California prisons appear less in…
Under the felony murder doctrine, a person can be convicted of murder even if they didn't kill anyone. In Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court ruled that automatic life sentences were unconstitutional; punishments must consider culpabilit…
For Trans Day of Visibility, Gabriel Arkles spoke to trans people behind bars to learn how they've navigated anti-trans violence in an increasingly hostile environment. theappeal.org/trans-visibi...
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@theappeal.org
The handle is the domain theappeal.org. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real theappeal.org account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
May 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 85 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.9× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
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