Leo Shane III

@LeoShane · Washington, DC · joined 01 Oct 2008

Defense reporter for Politico, former Military Times and Stars & Stripes scribe. Philly sports fan trapped in DC. Don't judge me by past or future haircuts.

25 403Followers

472Following

48 152Posts total

6.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 041this account1 756median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.10%this account5.38%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.72%this account1.75%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 041	1 756	0.59×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.10%	5.38%	0.76×
Engagement rate	0.72%	1.75%	0.41×

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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

2.1K2 Sep

1.4K

1.6K

253 Sep

5224 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.47%2 Sep

0.73%

1.54%

4.00%3 Sep

0.00%

0.19%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.75%.

What the audience does

Likes57.1%40 in total

Reposts27.1%19 in total

Replies2.9%2 in total

Quotes1.4%1 in total

Bookmarks11.4%8 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.

Latest posts

BLS unemployment data for August: 3.4% for all vets (4.2% in July), 3.5% for OIF/OEF era vets (4.7% in July), 4.1% for the nation (4.1% in July). 522 views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @LeoShane @HouseVetAffairs @OracleHealth is one of the biggest health-IT companies on the planet. "We didn't anticipate the complexity" isn't an excuse, it's an admission they mis-scoped work they were expert enough to scope right. Veterans have waited since 2018. Show us the wor 11 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @LeoShane @HouseVetAffairs Sweet. Nothing will happen, again. 25 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Full story on the surprising @HouseVetAffairs move today to subpoena Oracle's Larry Ellison over problems with the @DeptVetAffairs electronic health records overhaul. https://t.co/htPgNJdzR0 1K views · 10 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Now official -- @HouseVetAffairs just voted subpoena Oracle's Larry Ellison and Mike Sicilia to appear before Congress and answer questions on cost overruns with the VA's electronic health record project. 1.6K views · 15 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 The @HouseVetAffairs committee has been recessed for about 15 minutes trying to determine how to handle this vote. There were a lot of GOP members irritated by Oracle's absence today. 1.4K views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 .@RepDexterOR just made a motion to subpoena Oracle's Larry Ellison and Mike Sicilia to answer questions for the House Vet Affairs Committee on cost overruns with the electronic health record. Committee will vote on the issue at the end of this hearing. 2.1K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026