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Followers
19.8K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$111 – $180 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
11
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: “To ban #books simply because they have a hardcover or they’re u · 31 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
42.9 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
13×
Follows 1.5K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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New today: The Harris County DA's Office is investigating whether #ICE agents committed any crimes, including murder, manslaughter, and tampering with evidence, when they fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Forcing ICE to answer questions…
“In some ways, I don’t think it can be worse.”
Our top story: The collapse of a nonprofit designed to help young sex trafficking victims makes a disturbing illustration of the failures of #Texas' faltering foster care system. https://www.…
New from Mezabahnur Masum: There's much we don't know about the data center boom and its costs: #water, electricity, and more. Solving that problem is harder than it looks, and the confusion might be by design. https://www.texasobserver.or…
New from Michelle Pitcher: Local officials' attempts to investigate the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo have been stonewalled at every turn. They've even consulted with Minneapolis for tips on forcing #ICE to face justice.
https://www.texa…
Michelle Wright Rhame was a believer in the work of Hope Rising, helping foster young victims of sex trafficking. But things changed rapidly after one of her foster kids was served alcohol at a fundraiser for the organization. https://www.…
In our magazine: "From very early on, the Black women around me drew the maps that guide my life’s trajectory. I have had the privilege of growing up under their watchful eyes." https://www.texasobserver.org/love-letter-black-woodswomen-de…
When citizens vote, serve on juries, attend public meetings, contact elected officials, and engage in civic life, they help shape the future of their communities. When participation declines, democracy itself becomes weaker. https://www.te…
Texas foster care in disarray: Three #nonprofit programs set up to assist trafficking victims closed after failing to meet minimum standards, experiencing management issues, or losing funding. At least 50 child placement agencies have shut…
The sun is low over Nuevo Laredo as David Patricio and three friends start unloading gravel and mountain bikes for their evening ride along the Rio Grande, but this is no ordinary group outing along the #border ... https://www.texasobserve…
New in our magazine: Willow Higgins investigates how the collapse of Hope Rising, a nonprofit for former sex trafficking victims, highlights the flaws in #Texas' reliance on religious foster care orgs. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-fal…
Congressional candidate Bobby Pulido on Trump's #border wall set to tear through the Santa Ana wildlife refuge in the district he's running for:
“I haven’t said anything about it, but I obviously oppose it.” https://www.texasobserver.org/…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
texasobserver.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 11 views per post.
📤Posts about 42.9× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
49/100
Fair
Credibility score
78%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 78% 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.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Founded in 1954, the Texas Observer is a #progressive #nonprofit news outlet and print #magazine covering the Lone Star State.
Follow Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova
McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow @josephinelee
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