City Journal ✓

@CityJournal · New York, NY · joined 12 Dec 2008

Incisive commentary on urban policy, politics, and culture. Published by @ManhattanInst and edited by @BrianACity.

76 700Followers

1 575Following

114 830Posts total

27.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 521this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.59%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.43%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 521	2 751	1.28×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.59%	9.00%	0.51×
Engagement rate	0.43%	1.65%	0.26×

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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

3K31 Aug

3.5K1 Sep

13.9K2 Sep

792

6.5K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.41%31 Aug

0.43%1 Sep

1.42%2 Sep

0.25%

1.25%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes69.8%226 in total

Reposts19.8%64 in total

Replies3.4%11 in total

Quotes2.2%7 in total

Bookmarks4.9%16 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.

Latest posts

Curtis Kurkova has billed California Medicaid $40 million, and there is no evidence that his company even exists. Curtis and his husband have flaunted their wealth all over social media. Taxpayers deserve answers as to where their $40 million went. @USAttyEssayli @WHFraudTF 6.5K views · 58 likes · 16 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 “Over the past 20 years, state government contributions to pension funds have blasted from about $35 billion annually to $185 billion—a relentless yearly average rise of nearly 8 percent,” Steven Malanga writes. https://t.co/D4scXkuKDJ https://t.co/SOdfnuuY4n 792 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 After billing California Medicaid $40 million, Curtis Kurkova uploaded photos of his $28 million mansion to Instagram with the caption "Checkmate." Curtis’s husband, Christian, posted a picture on Instagram of the couple kissing on a private jet. A since-deleted video showed ht 13.9K views · 152 likes · 41 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 Over 6,500 individuals are currently detained in the Rikers complex. That includes over 3,600 charged with murder, a sex offense, or another violent felony, @CharlesFLehman writes. If Rikers did close in a year, where would all these people go? https://t.co/yI8zVl1aEd https://t.c 3.5K views · 8 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 https://t.co/MUisfprd8u 3K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026