Richard Stengel ✓

@stengel · New York, NY · joined 09 Dec 2016

Former Under Secretary of State in Obama admin & Editor @TIME. Political analyst @MSNOW. Book: "Information Wars." + @rickstengel.bsky.social

84 735Followers

1 169Following

14 402Posts total

23.7KViews on collected posts

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Richard Stengel ✓@stengel4 Sep

You know who else reads the polls? Putin. With a Democratic Congress in 2026 and a Democratic president in 2028, resistance will build to Russian aggression. Look for him to test Article 5 before the Democrats re-take the House. https://t.co/I45Q21GHsr 1K views · 14 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel1 Sep

@stengel The court put a temporary pause on a federal mandate and did not outlaw USPS services. Any competent security review validates the USPS solution. We need one common, simple, secure approach and not 50 state experiments. This temporary order puts a hold on the Federal 124 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel1 Sep

@stengel It looks like we need another Congressional PSA about the violation of federal law if you screw with the mail. 59 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel1 Sep

@stengel 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️This is just an announcement you've been asleep for 10 years!! RACISM is the entire BASIS of MAGA! And this tweet is PROOF YOU and the entire MEDIA REFUSED to read #Project2025 and report on it NONSTOP from Dec 2023 until Nov 2024 as the FIVE ALARM FIRE it w 90 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel1 Sep

@stengel Nobody trusts the New York Times anymore Stengel. That’s your legacy as chief propagandist for Obama 57 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel1 Sep

A whistleblower has revealed the "risky and haphazard" effort of the Postal Service to implement Trump's effort to federalize control over mail voting, saying it could lead to "catastrophic failure" in the midterms. That, of course, is the real goal, not a safer voting system, 14.1K views · 363 likes · 142 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel31 Aug

@stengel Gonna need some serious disinfection in the “after time” if we can get there. November’s coming. 161 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel31 Aug

We have a serious problem when the civil rights division of the Justice Department is using its enforcement authority against the very people whose rights the division was created to protect. https://t.co/m0fOqiuFSn 6.3K views · 125 likes · 50 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel30 Aug

Their goal is not to eliminate fraud or make elections safer, it is to make them more chaotic and raise doubt about them, so they can nullify or change the results. https://t.co/KHLyojl1Kb 1.8K views · 40 likes · 26 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Richard Stengel ✓@stengel21 Apr 2022

I always told my journalists, there aren’t two sides to a lie. Yes, you should be non-partisan, but not neutral. Journalists must be biased in favor of the truth and facts. Biased in favor of democracy itself. We protect the press so the press can protect democracy. Let’s do that 0 views · 51.6K likes · 13.8K reposts · 2.1K replies Open on X →

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9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views161this account1 072median for 10K–100K

Reach, %0.19%this account3.86%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.23%this account1.70%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	161	1 072	0.15×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.19%	3.86%	0.05×
Engagement rate	3.23%	1.70%	1.90×

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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

1.8K30 Aug

6.3K31 Aug

161

14.1K1 Sep

124

1K4 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.75%30 Aug

2.83%31 Aug

3.11%

3.71%1 Sep

8.77%

2.22%

5.08%

3.23%

1.65%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.70%.

What the audience does

Likes67.7%558 in total

Reposts26.9%222 in total

Replies3.2%26 in total

Bookmarks2.2%18 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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