Cicero Institute ✓
@InstituteCicero · Austin, TX · joined 29 Jan 2019
America's best days are ahead. We’re fighting for transparency and accountability in government where innovative ideas win. Founded by @JTLonsdale.
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People are done being told that leaving someone psychotic and dying on a sidewalk is compassion.
Treatment first, not managed decline. Funding tied to outcomes. Give families their parks, libraries, and sidewalks back. https://t.co/pHnzqZ0l6v
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$800 BILLION — that's what U.S. states spent on education in 2023.
Teachers received about 30% of it.
Roughly 70% went to administration and operations.
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$4.8 BILLION — that's how much MORE federal money advocates say homelessness needs, to raise the pay of a workforce they call "woefully underpaid."
Compensation at homeless NGOs grew $7.7 billion since 2013.
The problem isn't underpaid salaries.
Our report analyzed the IRS
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If somebody commits violent crimes, there is clearly something wrong with them, which is sad. Prisons should do what they can for everyone.
But “Not guilty by reason of insanity” - letting murderers get mental health treatment, then run free - is itself a totally insane policy.
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Veterans were waiting 141 days for benefits decisions. The paperwork was drowning the VA.
Then the VA put AI to work alongside its claims staff. Per its testimony to Congress:
✅ Processing time: 141 days → 81
✅ Backlog: over 200,000 → under 75,000
✅ Record 3 MILLION claims
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About a billion ECGs are performed worldwide every year.
Patients can wait months for the scan showing whether they're in heart failure.
A new AI tool answers in under 2 seconds, flagging the highest-risk patients so they're scanned first. https://t.co/5d1JsppgbT
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"It's a moral question. There are a lot of individuals who are not comfortable with structured involuntary intervention for individuals. They just don't see that as something that the state should be able to do. I do see that as something the state should be able to do in extreme
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A California nonprofit wants a required finance course in every American classroom by 2030 — with its socialist curriculum ready to fill them.
Inside: equal treatment is unfair, outcomes must be engineered, America's system is racist.
A generation's view of free enterprise is
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About 60% of US workers today are in jobs that DID NOT EXIST in 1940.
Share of jobs new since 1940:
✅ Health services: 82%
✅ Technicians: 76%
✅ Professionals: 75%
New technology came. The work multiplied.
80 years of evidence says new technology creates work.
States https://
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Pay for results, not expenses or inputs. Exactly right — and exactly what our research has advocated.
Every city should follow San Francisco's lead here.
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America's homelessness crisis traces back to the 1999 Supreme Court case Olmstead.
Two women with mental illness had cycled through Georgia's state hospital for years — one diagnosed with schizophrenia, the other institutionalized on more than 36 separate occasions. They https:/
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@InstituteCicero Outstanding work! Incredible that they got away with it for so long.
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@InstituteCicero The computer systems must be so ancient not to catch this massive corruption. Or an insider track. NGO scams, etc.,
And nobody goes to jail...
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@InstituteCicero GAO's annual estimates for FY2020–25 sum to a calculated $1.318T. The FY2025 figure of $185.8B breaks into $153.1B overpayments, $10.0B underpayments, $14.3B unknown payments and $8.4B technically improper. GAO also says some susceptible programs are omitted and
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$1.3 TRILLION in improper payments has been reported by federal agencies from 2020 to 2025, per GAO.
Under federal law, an "improper payment" includes:
•Payments that should not have been made
•Payments in the wrong amount
•Payments to ineligible recipients
•Duplicate https://t
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@InstituteCicero The only way to fix this is a public ledger
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@InstituteCicero Open source it. Let the public track every dollar.
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@InstituteCicero The fraud isn't a bug, it's a 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦.
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$2.7 TRILLION in improper payments has been reported by executive agencies since 2003 — per GAO, payments made in error, in the wrong amount, or without proper documentation.
If 'improper payments' were a country, it would be the 8th largest economy in the world — larger than
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Against accounts of the same size
20 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views707this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %5.42%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.01%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 707 | 924 | 0.77× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 5.42% | 3.62% | 1.50× |
| Engagement rate | 3.01% | 1.52% | 1.98× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
1112 Sep
123
5.2K
965
6203 Sep
417
467
382
4154 Sep
124.9K12 Sep
778
330
63613 Sep
1.7K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.80%2 Sep
2.44%
4.24%
2.28%
3.23%3 Sep
3.12%
2.57%
3.14%
3.13%4 Sep
2.89%12 Sep
3.73%
2.42%
4.25%13 Sep
6.15%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes81.0%4 844 in total
Reposts11.0%656 in total
Replies3.2%194 in total
Quotes1.3%80 in total
Bookmarks3.5%208 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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How many followers does @InstituteCicero have?
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