Michelle García

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Followers

132

Account age

3 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.8%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: In the early aughts I set out to answer an unusual question for · 2 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.19 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

2.5×

Follows 52 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post In the early aughts I set out to answer an unusual question for the time: how did blue collar white men feel that only immigrants wanted to do their jobs/how did it affect their attitude toward immigration? My piece ran, after several editors saying they didn't understand the pr… ★ 2

My latest essay is for NYT opinion.A pronunciamento drawn from witnessing the violent and absurd. If the coming election is about defending the nation’s democracy, as Democrats claim, then the party must decide if the vision it is selling … ★ 1 Just returned from NM/El Paso/Jrz where I met a Syrian Muslim family targeted for a potential home invasion. (they failed to enter). Where I observed Trump era Wall & military deployment still intact. To find POTUS saying w/out explanation… Excellent essay @adamshatz that provides a long view while seated in colonization analysis. It would be a disservice to quote potentially excitable passages, when it encourages us to sit and think. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n21… One day after regulators approve LNG site fiercely opposed by Native Americans & working class Latino/x locals, Biden announces Office of Enviro Justice "to address the unequal burden that people of color carry from environmental hazards.… Now that state/ federal helicopters hovering outside is a daily event, it's forced some reflection. An idea I keep returning to is: people, incl liberals, have come to expect the spectacle, pain, blanket of police. In some ways, the "#bor… ★ 1 The Texas Observer board announced, in a leak to another publication, that its magazine was going either dissolving or on hiatus and the entire staff is laid off effective Friday. The news, aftermath and the predictable eulogies from admi… ★ 1 There's a peculiar hunger for the self-shame essay, once I was backward but now I'm one of you. Often, not always, the writer is Latino/a & grew up in eco. marginalized areas.This installment of shame focuses on fast food in S. TX, somethi… " I was not a Zionist. But I strongly defended the idea that each individual, particularly if he is being hunted and his life is in danger, should enjoy the right to move freely, to cross borders, to choose the destination of his exile.’"-… An agent with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just informed me that the financial services companies close out the complaints lodged against them. Maybe I knew that, maybe I read that somewhere and it didn't register. But it's yet… *I specify when my piece ran because the prevailing coverage, in response to anti-immigrant local referendums and legislation, was to explain who the immigrants were and why were they here, an approach that centered an unstated POV. Bookforum announces it will cease production after the current issue. This is a genuine loss and truly embarrassing.

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

journa.host

A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 1 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100

Good Credibility score

89%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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About

Journalist | Nonfiction book about borders @vikingbooks | @fundfij project | Advisor IDAR/E @womensmediacntr | I write about borders and many other topics relating to power.