It’s Time The Coast Guard Finally Got Its Own Secretary We just marked the 236th birthday of the United States Coast Guard. On August 4, 1790, Alexander Hamilton’s vision became law when Congress authorized those first ten revenue cutters. From that modest beginning, the service has grown into one of America’s five armed forces — guardians of our ports, interceptors of drug traffickers and human… https://admin.ijr.…

Channel
Independent Journal Review
@theijr
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
9,263subscribers
-34 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001505531663 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @theijr |
| Description | Founded in 2012, Independent Journal Review (IJR) is a news site that provides readers with reliable information and organizing an online community to elevate trusted voices on all sides so you can be fully informed. https://ijr.com/ |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 31 January 2023— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/theijr |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 14:46 | 9,263 | -18 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 05:52 | 9,281 | -13 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 11:50 | 9,294 | -3 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 08:18 | 9,297 | first reading |
Engagement
80 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 14 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 4.48%
- avg views ÷ 9,263 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 415
- 80 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 1.76%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 80
- of 80 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 78 of 80 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 80 (4 August 2026 – 12 August 2026) |
| Views total | 33,229 |
| Reactions total | 580 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 15:21 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- ≈21,800
- Links
- ≈36,800
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Reaction mix
525 reactions across 66 posts, in 22 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 21.1% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 111 | 21.1% | |
| 👏 | 90 | 17.1% | |
| 🖕 | 63 | 12.0% | |
| 👎 | 56 | 10.7% | |
| 🤬 | 37 | 7.05% | |
| 🤔 | 36 | 6.86% | |
| ❤ | 34 | 6.48% | |
| 💯 | 21 | 4.00% | |
| 🤣 | 15 | 2.86% | |
| 😈 | 14 | 2.67% | |
| 😁 | 12 | 2.29% | |
| 🤡 | 12 | 2.29% | |
| 😡 | 11 | 2.10% | |
| 🌭 | 2 | 0.381% | |
| 💩 | 2 | 0.381% | |
| 🔥 | 2 | 0.381% | |
| 🤮 | 2 | 0.381% | |
| 👌 | 1 | 0.19% | |
| 🙏 | 1 | 0.19% | |
| 🤯 | 1 | 0.19% | |
| 2 further kinds | 2 | 0.381% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 78 of the 80 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 580reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 80 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 12 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Darline Graham Advances To Runoff In Race For Late Brother’s Senate Seat Republican South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham and Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman advanced Tuesday to an August 25 runoff election to replace Graham’s late brother on the GOP ticket. Graham, who was appointed to serve out the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s term, ledNorman by nine percentage points at the time of this writing…
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Drama Unfolds As Front-Runner Emerges To Replace Nancy Pelosi When former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she would retire after nearly four decades in Congress, one name immediately seemed to have the inside track to replace her: California state Sen. Scott Wiener. That assumption is now looking far less certain. Pelosi and the political network she spent years building in San Francisco have… https://a…
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New Evidence Emerges Regarding Vaccine Link To Miscarriage Newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued cellphone are raising fresh questions about how he discussed possible COVID-19 vaccine risks in private compared with what he said publicly during the early months of the vaccine rollout. Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky released a collection of Fauci’…
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Video: Caitlin Clark Technical Overturned The league has spent much of the past two seasons attracting attention for everything under the sun, and this weekend brought another controversy involving Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever star who remains the biggest name in women’s basketball. During Saturday’s game against the Chicago Sky, Clark was called for a technical foul after making contact… https://admin.ijr.com…
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The Average American Family Is Feeling Something No Economic Expert Can Put Into Words “We are going to need a bigger boat.” That’s the line everyone remembers from Jaws: the moment of realizing the problem is much larger than expected. It perfectly captures a growing concern about American household finances today. The U.S. economy continues to grow. Unemployment remains low. Inflation has cooled. Yet many househ…
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This Just May Be The Craziest House Race. Barely Anyone Is Talking About It. The wide open Aug. 18 GOP primary for a deep red Florida House seat features two scandal-plagued former members of Congress — and half of its ten candidates previously ran for Congress in other states. One of these candidates, entrepreneur and former Commerce Department official Catalina Lauf, 33, ran in a crowded 2020 Illinois House… htt…
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Last-Ditch Effort To Kill Trump Fossil Fuel EOs Goes Down In Flames A federal court shot down youth climate activists’ bid to revive a lawsuit targeting the Trump administration’s fossil fuel push. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday refused to rehear the lawsuit brought by twenty-two young climate activists, which initially challenged President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel agenda, leaving intact a panel dec…
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Over One-Third Of US Counties Are ‘Maternity Care Deserts,’ New Report Finds More than one-third of U.S. counties have significant maternity care access gaps, according to a March of Dimes report released Tuesday. The report found that 34.6% of U.S. counties are currently “maternity care deserts,” home to 2.4 million women of reproductive age and where 149,000 infants are born each year. Women who live in such… ht…
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Trump’s Political Team Reportedly Fought To Keep Max Miller On Ballot President Donald Trump’s political team urged Ohio Republicans not to pressure Republican Ohio Rep. Max Miller to drop out after the congressman maintained he would remain in the race, Politico reported Monday. Administration officials reportedly warned party leaders that Miller would not drop out and that pressuring him to do so would complicate…
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Change Comes To The Fed. More Is Needed. Newly installed Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is experiencing a bout of policy reality. If you preserve the status quo, you’ll be attacked. If you challenge the status quo, you’ll be attacked even more. Warsh knew this going in. He is upending the status quo. The headline grabber is the five task forces he’s established… https://admin.ijr.com/change-comes-to-the-fed-mo…
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Official Media Outlet Of The Muslim Brotherhood Praises El-Sayed Win Abdul El-Sayed appears to be collecting plenty of attention after winning Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary this week. Some of that attention, though, probably will not be showing up in campaign advertisements anytime soon. One notable example came from Ikhwan Online, a media outlet associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Midwesterner,…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 80 posts we hold for @theijr. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 175,106 of 1,160,990entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 2 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Independent Journal Review” (@theijr), 9,263 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/theijr.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.