Elie Mystal ✓

@ElieNYC · NY · joined 15 May 2009

Justice Correspondent: @thenation. Alfred Knobler Fellow: @typemediacenter Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort and Bad Law.

464 199Followers

4 695Following

65 950Posts total

574.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views16 252this account4 224median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.50%this account1.77%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %3.96%this account1.48%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	16 252	4 224	3.85×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.50%	1.77%	1.98×
Engagement rate	3.96%	1.48%	2.67×

Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →

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

69.4K1 Apr

199.4K

19K

28.6K

6182 Apr

15.6K1 Jul

16.9K2 Jul

84.1K

25.8K4 Jul

109.1K14 Jul

2.5K

2.1K

1.5K

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.12%1 Apr

1.45%

2.45%

2.42%

8.09%2 Apr

0.38%1 Jul

2.29%2 Jul

2.40%

4.56%4 Jul

6.02%14 Jul

5.31%

4.13%

3.80%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.48%.

What the audience does

Likes69.6%11 218 in total

Reposts15.8%2 540 in total

Replies9.3%1 492 in total

Quotes0.7%110 in total

Bookmarks4.8%766 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

@ElieNYC @cardon_brian @thenation Not sure if this was the same situation. I just recall him sneering and snarling on several occasions. Maybe this was from SC Justice Jackson’s nomination that he opposed. https://t.co/4oQxbVpihG 1.5K views · 53 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 14 Jul 2026 @ElieNYC @thenation Exactly His sissy fit cut off the Kavanaugh hearing at Exactly the point at which his calendar was exposing his lies & validating everything Christine Ford testified too. Then the FBI covered up the investigation, Flakes flaked, & Bart "beer" got voted 2.1K views · 68 likes · 15 reposts · 4 replies 14 Jul 2026 @ElieNYC @thenation Thank you. This is the face of Lindsey Graham I will always remember. 2.5K views · 124 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 14 Jul 2026 Here's my Lindsey Graham obit. While most people are focused on his late career villian arc, I will never get over his sneering, hysterical defense of an alleged attempted rapist. My latest in @thenation https://t.co/XwTsFpqygc 109.1K views · 5.2K likes · 1.2K reposts · 170 replies 14 Jul 2026 So, @michaelharriot asked me how I might think about rewriting the Constitution and... of course I had some thoughts. Happy White Man's Independence Day https://t.co/N8qSElbhky 25.8K views · 933 likes · 223 reposts · 22 replies 04 Jul 2026 I wrote about the Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I'm putting the post on this hellsite, because it's important that the trans community knows they are seen. However, I would encourage that community to NOT read the comments that are sure to follow. This bigots are 84.1K views · 1.2K likes · 344 reposts · 412 replies 02 Jul 2026 All right, let's do this. 16.9K views · 341 likes · 37 reposts · 10 replies 02 Jul 2026 THURS | The Nation Magazine's @ElieNYC discusses key decisions from the Supreme Court's 2025-26 term. Watch LIVE at 9:15 a.m. ET! https://t.co/bp5rQJmFzx 15.6K views · 23 likes · 10 reposts · 25 replies 01 Jul 2026 @ElieNYC I’m older than you and have experience racism first hand but I don’t hate America. I also was not the beneficiary of an Ivy League education and I don’t despise the country of my birth. I’m not on national TV selling a book and denigrating the nation. You should be more 618 views · 45 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 02 Apr 2025 And here's two minutes of me talking about it on The View https://t.co/vcLfKY5MvV 28.6K views · 470 likes · 103 reposts · 111 replies 01 Apr 2025 Here's the Audible link, in case you'd like to have me scream it at you. :) https://t.co/sFEN1g0fYT 19K views · 363 likes · 73 reposts · 30 replies 01 Apr 2025 ANYWAY, my new book, Bad Law: 10 Popular Laws Ruining America, is available now. I talked about it today on The View and it seems to have pissed off the white wing so, as usual, I'm doing something right. https://t.co/0ubQ0lwzD2 199.4K views · 1.9K likes · 410 reposts · 565 replies 01 Apr 2025 "We should eliminate all voter registration laws." Best-selling author @ElieNYC, author of 'Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America,' makes his case for why America should rid itself of voter registration laws. https://t.co/AYjagsnL7i 69.4K views · 508 likes · 113 reposts · 137 replies 01 Apr 2025