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“It’s kind of delusional, this misguided notion that if prominent people stay politically silent, they will encourage unity rather than division,” Roxane Gay writes on Ed Sheeran. https://t.co/E4Xmp2agKm
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Trump’s efforts to ban news organizations from the White House is alarming for two reasons, the editorial board writes: “It continues both Mr. Trump’s attempt to prevent the free flow of information in American society and his utter disregard of the law.” https://t.co/np4W3ujJmx
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“This is what it means to be the country’s paper of record: a great and imperfect newspaper steadfastly chronicling a great and imperfect nation,” A.G. Sulzberger writes on The New York Times’s 175th anniversary.
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It’s back-to-school season 📝
Worried about A.I. in schools? Or that the humanities are going away?
Leave your questions for @nytopinion writer Jessica Grose below. She'll be answering them live on TikTok today at 11 a.m. ET. https://t.co/VZWPjT1xmp
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Times Opinion asked six polling and politics experts for their thoughts on the 2026 midterm elections. Several had rosy predictions for Democrats. https://t.co/bMoF1hgZf6
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It’s back to school season 📝
Have questions? Our writer Jessica Grose will be answering them live on TikTok at 8 p.m. ET.
Follow here: https://t.co/HgX6iGC8qY
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“Nothing against such pleasures, but if they concentrate your vision of ultimate happiness, that’s something you may need to reconsider,” Mark Edmundson writes.
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“We have arrived in a new age of disorder,” Margaret MacMillan writes. “We must prepare ourselves, which begins with being honest about the seriousness of the moment we’re in, and accepting that our fragile system is faltering.” https://t.co/M8yO6FIJf4
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@nytopinion Very eye-grabbing but misleading title. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was no less dangerous & powerful than the East India Company. Its war against the nutmeg-rich Banda Islands had resulted in the extermination of nearly their entire population -a story unmatche
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@nytopinion @nytopinioncopy, do you want to teach your Twitter intern how to write
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In the 18th century the East India Company was the most powerful and dangerous corporation the world had ever seen — that is, until the A.I. giants turned up, William Dalrymple writes.
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Dolly Parton “didn’t see herself as a saint,” our columnist, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writes. “She identified as something we needed even more: a writer.” https://t.co/e5HTqdvIr2
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Dolly Parton “used humor and charm to control every interview,” writes Jad Abumrad, creator of the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America.” “She was always two steps ahead of you. She never allowed herself to be a part of a story of which she was not the author.” https://t.co/XJ2LPpcGIw
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@nytopinion The New York Times loves to present itself as the moral voice of America, yet its opinion pages read like a catalogue of war slogans: “Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal,” “Bombing Iraq Isn’t Enough,” “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran.”
When the paper of record keeps g
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@nytopinion @nytimes What’s wrong with right here?
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@nytopinion You just wish this guy was still around. https://t.co/05bDCRc0nD
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Against accounts of the same size
14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.
Median views7 736this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %1.03%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.41%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 7 736 | 5 983 | 1.29× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.03% | 1.49% | 0.69× |
| Engagement rate | 0.41% | 0.93% | 0.45× |
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
8K26 Aug
7.7K27 Aug
19.7K28 Aug
212
351
8829 Aug
9.5K1 Sep
7.8K7 Sep
5.6K14 Sep
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5.8K16 Sep
13.7K18 Sep
13.6K21 Sep
38.7K
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
0.50%26 Aug
0.29%27 Aug
1.19%28 Aug
1.42%
0.85%
1.14%29 Aug
0.68%1 Sep
0.13%7 Sep
0.13%14 Sep
0.06%
0.12%16 Sep
0.33%18 Sep
2.90%21 Sep
0.10%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes43.3%681 in total
Reposts25.6%403 in total
Replies20.6%324 in total
Quotes1.7%26 in total
Bookmarks8.8%138 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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