Lee in Iowa ✓

@Lee_in_Iowa · Des Moines · joined 20 May 2010

Gardener. Writer. Teacher. TeamPelosi. Now a ‘Yellow Dog Democrat’. Winner, Browne Award for my book Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age.

85 141Followers

76 920Following

543 023Posts total

20.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views885this account964median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.04%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.81%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	885	964	0.92×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.04%	3.25%	0.32×
Engagement rate	3.81%	2.01%	1.89×

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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

11.1K4 Sep

5.4K

691

473

665

8855 Sep

941

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

27.37%4 Sep

3.54%

3.91%

3.81%

4.51%

2.03%5 Sep

2.55%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes59.7%1 993 in total

Reposts35.3%1 180 in total

Replies3.6%121 in total

Quotes1.4%46 in total

Bookmarks0.0%1 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

Little Mikey’s response to proposed laws he knows will pass but Trump tells him to block? He can’t persuade anyone of anything, so he cuts and runs. Every. Single. Time. 941 views · 16 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Jeez. Now we have to add a “right to retire in time to enjoy it” clause to union contracts and state and federal law. 885 views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

This is who the Republicans have running for the governor’s office in #Iowa?! 665 views · 17 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

And this country already has THE WORST maternal and infant mortality of any civilized nation. Now RFK Jr and HHS plan to make that worse for American women. https://t.co/GeFuRhjIZt 473 views · 9 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Carpet-bagging Republican from KANSAS, @ZachLahn , wants to be Iowa’s governor. But his financial decision-making is epically bad— They claimed in July that all his running mate Wulf’s debts were paid off, right? If Zach’s school owes him $4.5M, and Derek lost his house, why 691 views · 18 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Picked up a copy of the Register to read this one, it's a doozy -- unpaid debts, multiple lawsuits, an open criminal investigation the Lahn campaign says it was unaware of when they picked Wulf as the running mate. Good stuff! https://t.co/XDfAlrLuN1 5.4K views · 150 likes · 32 reposts · 9 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

1/ Mike Johnson is a lying, corrupt ass & pedophile protector. Last October he kept the House closed for weeks to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act & is now doing the same thing canceling the last 2 weeks of September. Why are we paying their $174,000 s 11.1K views · 1.8K likes · 1.1K reposts · 104 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →