Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 ✓

@JessicaBRiedl · Wash DC burbs (orig Wisconsin) · joined 04 Feb 2013

Fellow @BrookingsInst. Past: @ManhattanInst, Sen. Portman chief economist (2011-17), budget policy for 4 prez campaigns. Fiercely independent. Views mine.🏳️‍🌈

56 433Followers

899Following

28 138Posts total

1.5MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 ✓@JessicaBRiedl8 Sep

So what if Republicans are spending like drunken sailors, regulating & nationalizing businesses like socialists, and tariffing like central-planners? What truly matters is the Social Security Admin having fewer workers to answer your phone call. What a libertarian utopia! 🙄 7.2K views · 397 likes · 75 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 ✓@JessicaBRiedl7 Sep

Launching a national investigation to show that non-citizen voting is rigging national elections, and then having the FBI excitedly announce (drumroll please...) *2* non-citizens who may have voted may (unwittingly) be the best possible endorsement of our election security. 75.2K views · 2.1K likes · 389 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 ✓@JessicaBRiedl7 Sep

Setting aside the constant fearmongering & lying (such as Trump claiming schools are performing secret sex change surgeries) ... the Dept. of Education's witch hunts & threats make a mockery of the GOP's "eliminate the Dept. of Ed and stop meddling in local schools" rhetoric. 8.5K views · 163 likes · 27 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 ✓@JessicaBRiedl6 Sep

Because every presidential election is supposedly "the most important election of our lifetime," I used the benefit of hindsight to rank the most consequential of my lifetime. Of course, "consequential" doesn't mean good or bad. It means that it really mattered who won. https:/

113.4K views · 1.4K likes · 58 reposts · 105 replies Open on X →

Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 ✓@JessicaBRiedl27 Jun

I now have a Substack page. One place for current & past studies, op-eds, testimonies, videos, speeches, economic policy links, and anything else I decide to post. Open replies too. Best of all - subscribing is 100% free, all-access. https://t.co/gBYUaIAZsz 37.3K views · 107 likes · 17 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 ✓@JessicaBRiedl11 Nov 2025

Let's say you take out a $400,000 mortgage loan at 6.25% - and choose a 50-year mortgage instead of 30 yrs. In return for saving $283 monthly, you will pay an extra $421,302 in interest over the life of loan. Or if you sell at 15 yrs, will have paid off just $29,000 in equity. 556.7K views · 1.5K likes · 371 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 ✓@JessicaBRiedl11 Nov 2025

INGRAHAM: Is a 50 year mortgage really a good idea? TRUMP: It's not even a big deal. You go from 40 to 50 years. All it means is you pay less per month https://t.co/RLQbdkYRu3

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739.4K views · 1.3K likes · 214 reposts · 710 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views41 846this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %74.15%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.75%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	41 846	924	45.3×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	74.15%	3.62%	20.5×
Engagement rate	2.75%	1.52%	1.81×

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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

739.4K11 Nov

556.7K

37.3K27 Jun

113.4K6 Sep

8.5K7 Sep

75.2K

7.2K8 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.34%11 Nov

0.35%

0.33%27 Jun

1.39%6 Sep

2.23%7 Sep

3.27%

6.60%8 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes67.9%6 885 in total

Reposts11.3%1 151 in total

Replies8.0%815 in total

Quotes4.2%431 in total

Bookmarks8.5%860 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.