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Bleeding Heartland

@LauraRBelin · Windsor Heights, Iowa · joined 30 Jan 2009

Reporter, commentator covering Iowa politics for the progressive website Bleeding Heartland. Co-host of "KHOI's Capitol Week," available on podcast platforms.

27 153Followers
3 350Following
151 949Posts total
43.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

On this week's "Iowa Down Ballot" podcast: where we were on 9/11, the midterm RNC convention in Dallas, Cy-Hawk politics, and more. https://t.co/Zja2x90sQz 644 views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
New post by Randy Evans: Des Moines school officials met the law—but missed the point "There is an important distinction between making information technically available and making it meaningfully accessible." https://t.co/yQQ6t99kZZ 1.2K views · 17 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
I've covered Iowa politics for nearly 20 years and have never heard any Democratic candidate call for banning football. Many Democrats are attending today's Cy-Hawk game in Iowa City. 13.1K views · 184 likes · 13 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →
New post, by Jay Brown: The enemy of authoritarianism is community. Our country needs more community. Now there’s a simple way to resurrect childhood friendships in the battle against President Donald Trump and his efforts to ruin our beloved country. https://t.co/MFQqdJy0Vn 872 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@LauraRBelin Notice how this hack has never talked about Rob Sand’s running mate being fined by the DNR multiple times for poisoning Iowa water. This goyslop is hilarious https://t.co/CS1rpVnDLK
314 views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@LauraRBelin @KCCINews @WHO13news why aren’t you guys being fair and balanced and reporting on this stuff? 433 views · 13 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@LauraRBelin Oh my gosh! Thank you, Laura, for reporting on this and asking important questions. I haven’t seen any other news outlets raise the issue of Wulf’s debt. 626 views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
New post: Who is helping Derek Wulf pay his debts? (what I've learned so far from researching the legal and financial entanglements of the GOP nominee for Iowa lieutenant governor) #IAGov https://t.co/18VHESqoPr 26.7K views · 128 likes · 44 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views758this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %2.79%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.87%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post7589240.82×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.79%3.62%0.77×
Engagement rate1.87%1.52%1.23×

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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

26.7K20 Jul
626
433
314
87212 Sep
13.1K13 Sep
1.2K
644

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.71%20 Jul
2.08%
3.93%
6.69%
0.92%12 Sep
1.67%13 Sep
2.09%
1.09%

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

What the audience does

Likes74.0%382 in total
Reposts13.8%71 in total
Replies9.1%47 in total
Bookmarks3.1%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.

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