Shawn VanDiver ✓

@shawnjvandiver · San Diego, CA | Washington, DC · joined 08 May 2008

“kinetic”, “ aggressive friend”, “not much of a heads up guy”, “seems sharper than necessary” talking #AfghanEvac, vets, natsec, immigration, and foreign policy

38 187Followers

5 982Following

32 605Posts total

167.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Shawn VanDiver ✓@shawnjvandiver22 Sep

John Bradley is an American hero 1.2K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Shawn VanDiver ✓@shawnjvandiver22 Sep

Retired USAF Lt. Gen. John Bradley is the latest guest at The Fighter Pilots' Guide to Living. In his first episode, he talks about the year he spent flying the A-37 doing close air support missions in the Vietnam War, and about the role that the loss of his brother, an F-4 radar

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1.3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Shawn VanDiver ✓@shawnjvandiver22 Sep

I've read a lot of filings. This one still got me. Two courts struck down the visa pause. State's answer was to halt immigrant visa processing worldwide for public charge training. Afghan allies are exempt from public charge. State's own manual says so. They're waiting anyway. 1.2K views · 19 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Shawn VanDiver ✓@shawnjvandiver22 Sep

Two federal courts struck down the visa pause last month. A new filing in Medani v. Trump shows what the State Department did next: it halted immigrant visa processing worldwide until consular officers complete new public charge training. No completion date. Read this 🧵 https

2.4K views · 20 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Shawn VanDiver ✓@shawnjvandiver22 Sep

So much winning! 1.3K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Shawn VanDiver ✓@shawnjvandiver22 Sep

This story is insane. 250 years in and our founding fathers would have a stroke over what these fools have done to the place. 1.2K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Shawn VanDiver ✓@shawnjvandiver9 Jun 2025

Here's a story I told at the @unite4Vets rally this weekend. If you believe we should be the freedom man, welcoming our wartime allies into our nation, please invest in @AfghanEvac's mission today. https://t.co/Y1Qr7b4xXN #AfghanEvac #FreedomMan https://t.co/FY3llwNALZ

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159.2K views · 414 likes · 68 reposts · 131 replies Open on X →

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

Median views1 246this account995median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.26%this account3.92%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.98%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 246	995	1.25×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.26%	3.92%	0.83×
Engagement rate	0.98%	1.54%	0.63×

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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

159.2K9 Jun

1.2K22 Sep

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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

0.39%9 Jun

0.86%22 Sep

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1.12%

1.86%

0.56%

1.10%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes65.3%479 in total

Reposts10.5%77 in total

Replies18.4%135 in total

Quotes2.0%15 in total

Bookmarks3.8%28 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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