Jake M. Grumbach

@JakeMGrumbach · joined 24 Apr 2018

policy, political economy, elections // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof. formerly: UW, Princeton CSDP

28 595Followers

3 902Following

35 018Posts total

717.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views91 982this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %321.67%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.70%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	91 982	2 751	33.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.2× audience	9.00%	35.7×
Engagement rate	0.70%	1.65%	0.43×

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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

230.1K25 Feb

3K10 Jan

20.9K15 Aug

279.3K16 Aug

59.6K

124.4K17 Aug

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.53%25 Feb

1.59%10 Jan

0.80%15 Aug

0.61%16 Aug

1.44%

0.18%17 Aug

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

What the audience does

Likes67.8%3 233 in total

Reposts15.4%733 in total

Replies2.8%133 in total

Quotes2.6%126 in total

Bookmarks11.4%544 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

New working paper with @HannaFolsz US firms that kept DEI in place after the 2025 anti-DEI executive order performed just as well as firms that ended DEI. One potential mechanism is that corporate DEI remains very popular among consumers and employees at large firms Link below 124.4K views · 175 likes · 25 reposts · 23 replies 17 Aug 2026 Bonica also answers the question of how much Democrats now spend to raise a single dollar: over 50 cents. This is up from just 8 cents per dollar in 2008. For some Dem spam PACs, it's up to 75%. A huge, extractive drain on the Dem Party. https://t.co/fZHGQHDB9X 59.6K views · 704 likes · 136 reposts · 11 replies 16 Aug 2026 Super important reporting from Adam Bonica. It shows that political campaigns are preying on vulnerable seniors in their efforts to out fundraise each other. "An 85-year-old retiree in Oxford, Ohio made more than 7,800 donations totaling over $648,000 to Democratic causes, htt 279.3K views · 1.2K likes · 367 reposts · 43 replies 16 Aug 2026 I found @Vinncent's piece compelling. I have a new working paper that builds a model of the argument about common ownership: A standalone media owner maximizes profit. A common owner like Musk or Ellison can run the media firm at a loss to increase the $ of his total portfolio h 20.9K views · 135 likes · 22 reposts · 7 replies 15 Aug 2026 The behavioral explanation is that they have unresolved childhood and adolescent trauma about women. The political economy explanation is that people whose politics are based in unresolved childhood and adolescent trauma about women obtained guns and power 3K views · 40 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 10 Jan 2026 No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid way more than other countries' police The critical question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little police work? From my paper w/ Mickey & Zib 230.1K views · 965 likes · 178 reposts · 47 replies 25 Feb 2025