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434
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
22
Avg engagement / post
5.1%
Engagement vs followers
Jan 2023
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: If you're a Texan looking enviously at last night's election res · 43 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.83 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
5.4×
Follows 80 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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“Texas is empowered to take all necessary steps to repel the cartel invasion at our southern border by ‘engag[ing] in War.’” https://www.texasobserver.org/sb-4-immigration-deportations-david-ezra/
Really, Texas' legal argument is breathtaking:
“There is no basis to second-guess Governor Abbott’s determination that a sudden & unprecedented influx into Texas of hostile non-state actors … justify Operation Lone Star’s initiatives, inc…
Today's federal court hearing seemed to bode well for the US government in its case against Texas' state deportations law Senate Bill 4.
"It just slaps the federal immigration law right in the face," said the judge: https://www.texasobser…
NEW: I checked in with Palestinian activists across Texas' major cities about their efforts to get city councils to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
They face resistance even from sympathetic officials who claim the issue is too divisive or…
For the @TexasObserver Jan/Feb print issue, I reviewed a new book about Central America that unearths the U.S. role in the region's crises. It's an empathetic intervention in a toxic political discourse: https://www.texasobserver.org/centr…
In both word and deed, Texas' governor has kicked off the New Year by fomenting hate and courting chaos at the border: https://www.texasobserver.org/greg-abbotts-new-years-resolution-sow-chaos-at-the-border/
As the first lawsuit against Texas' Senate Bill 4 is filed, we've already got you covered with the long legal view of the profound immigration enforcement issues at play: https://www.texasobserver.org/sb-4-texas-state-immigration-law/
New from me: How Texas is challenging 150 years of Supreme Court precedent on immigration...
Come for the great analysis from the lawyers I talked to; stay for the part where I start quoting from a Federalist Paper: https://www.texasobser…
NEW: Texas Legislature Votes to Seize Immigration Authority from Feds
"“The Texas Legislature has tried year after year to co-opt immigration policy with its own outlandish schemes, not caring who they may harm, imprison, or forcibly remov…
I'm on Texas Standard today talking about the reason Texans can’t vote on abortion and weed: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/the-reason-texans-cant-vote-on-abortion-and-weed/
"It’s gonna come down to the people that work for
[Elon Musk] deciding if they want their fair share … or if they want him to fly himself to outer space at their expense.” https://www.texasobserver.org/uaws-historic-strike-win-has-huge-im…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
texasobserver.social
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On Mastodon since
Jan 2023
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 22 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.8× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated80/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~5.1% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Kansas-Texas transplant. Writer+Editor, @TexasObserver. Tips: , or DM for Signal. Stories: https://www.texasobserver.org/author/gus-bova/
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