If propaganda works by handing you ready-made opinions, how many of yours did you actually reason your way to?
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@PalmettoStateWatch
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508subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001687703981 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @PalmettoStateWatch |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/PalmettoStateWatch |
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 96% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
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| 31 Aug 2026, 05:12 | 508 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 23:54 | 509 | -2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 16:22 | 511 | +3 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 04:15 | 508 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 18:26 | 508 | first reading |
19 posts held, back to 12 July 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 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 19 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
121 reactions across 17 posts, in 13 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 28.9% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🤬 | 35 | 28.9% | |
| 😡 | 20 | 16.5% | |
| 👍 | 17 | 14.0% | |
| ❤ | 10 | 8.26% | |
| 😱 | 10 | 8.26% | |
| 🔥 | 8 | 6.61% | |
| 🙏 | 7 | 5.79% | |
| 👎 | 5 | 4.13% | |
| 💯 | 3 | 2.48% | |
| 😢 | 2 | 1.65% | |
| 🤯 | 2 | 1.65% | |
| 🤷♂ | 1 | 0.826% | |
| 🥴 | 1 | 0.826% |
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 18 of the 19 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 121 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 19 most recent posts we hold, published 12 July 2026 to 5 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.
If propaganda works by handing you ready-made opinions, how many of yours did you actually reason your way to?
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Would a paycheck change the way you vote?💰 Ask Richland County Councilman Derrek Pugh. He voted yes on Scout Motors 8 times across 2023 and 2024. Now he works there, and he never left his seat on council. In this deep dive, we take a close look at the councilman who helped pave the way for Scout Motors and has a tendency to give county government money to him and his wife’s personal pet projects. According to reco…
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BREAKING: Two days after our post questioning if Scout Motors is receiving federal money and how Richland County Council Vice Chair Derrek Pugh was tied in, Pugh announces (today) that he is taking a job with Scout Motors. Deep dive coming soon, stay tuned.
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Need help finding out what that company is!
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Scout Motors may be indirectly receiving more government benefits, now from the federal government. City of Columbia is seeking $11.4 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration for the “Scout Water Storage Tank and Transmission Main Project.” Richland County Council voted 10-0 on July 14 to send a letter of support to Department of Commerce Secretary Lutnick, with Vice Chair Derrek Pugh abstaining from…
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A state agency told a Darlington County Council candidate it would cost $2.4 million to see public records about forever chemical pollution at an elementary school. The state agency said they would need $605,000 just to begin. Then reporters started asking questions and the price tag disappeared. We hear about these stories all the time and have experienced unusually high quotes for FOIAs ourselves, but this one take…
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“The Divine Rights of the Common Man.” A powerful way President Dwight D. Eisenhower described the promise at the heart of the American founding. Do you think that ideal still defines America today? 🇺🇸
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South Congaree Town Council is tired of listening to their constituents and proposed an ordinance on July 14 to limit public participation at town council meetings. This comes a month after constituents packed the room for the final vote on the town’s budget. The proposed ordinance states a person wishing to speak before council must “notify the Town Clerk of the topic to be discussed no later than 5:00 p.m. on the …
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💸 To summarize SC house reps’ requests for local earmarks: SC State House Reps requested tens of millions in earmarks, i.e. pet projects, for their favored districts for the 2026-2027 state budget: Largest totals: Smith, Murrell — $22,898,492 Bannister — $20,600,000 Herbkersman — $20,375,000 Guest — $14,000,000 Crawford — $12,000,000 Most distinct earmarks: Herbkersman — 16 Gagnon — 13 Hayes — 11 McDaniel — 10 (ti…
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We’re trained to fear the individual criminal. So why does the one with a badge, a budget, and a title get a pass?
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Four people now face criminal charges in the Pawleys Island Community Church case. Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver announced conspiracy and obstruction charges Monday against a former pastor, his wife, and the academy director, along with convicted sex offender Warren Perry. Investigators say church leaders knew Perry's record and put him around children anyway. https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/george…
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"No record"? Darline Graham ran a state agency for seven years. Budgets nearly doubled. Her salary climbed. And her own agency report credits her with promoting a "culture of diversity and inclusion." Check out this exclusive deep dive into Darline Graham’s political career: https://palmettostatewatch.com/darline-graham-record/
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Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @PalmettoStateWatch. 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.
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“Palmetto State Watch” (@PalmettoStateWatch), 508 subscribers as measured 31 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/PalmettoStateWatch.
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