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Michael Linden

@MichaelSLinden · Washington, DC · joined 24 Sep 2010

Thinks we shouldn't give more tax breaks to billionaires. Formerly @ombpress @Groundwork @RooseveltInst @amprog @senatebudget @HELPCmteDems. Personal account.

24 537Followers
756Following
20 987Posts total
485KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

I understand this sentiment but “payroll tax fiscal space” is not a real thing. The bigger question is: could we have a tax code that finances current SS benefits as well as better UI and paid leave? And the answer to that is: yes, we sure could! 773 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Guy who opposes raising payroll taxes to cover social security's shortfall because any available payroll tax fiscal space should be used to finance unemployment insurance and paid family and medical leave for working age households. 7.3K views · 46 likes · 5 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
BTW, these wise words are from @Sarah__Pray. Give her a follow! 882 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Extremely wise words: "Americans haven’t stopped believing in democracy. They’re wondering whether our democracy is strong enough to stand up to wealth and power." https://t.co/cNS37lnENh 1.8K views · 20 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
tariffs are a tax on inputs. corporate taxes are a tax on profits (revenue minus expenses) The incidence is very very different. 1.4K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
We're sorry. We tripped and accidentally enacted huge tax cuts for corporations and rich people, while cutting Medicaid and food stamps. The lights were off and we accidentally started another war. Give us a mulligan on the 27,000 stock trades the President has made. 376.5K views · 3K likes · 453 reposts · 25 replies Open on X →
@MichaelSLinden It is not. Labor share drops in periods of high capital expansion. 124 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
This is bad. 3K views · 18 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947." https://t
93.3K views · 582 likes · 272 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 792this account995median for 10K–100K
Reach, %7.30%this account3.92%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.91%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post1 7929951.80×
Reach (views ÷ followers)7.30%3.92%1.86×
Engagement rate0.91%1.54%0.59×

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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

93.3K3 Sep
3K
124
376.5K16 Sep
1.4K17 Sep
1.8K
882
7.3K18 Sep
773

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.99%3 Sep
0.91%
0.00%
0.93%16 Sep
1.73%17 Sep
1.62%
0.45%
0.79%18 Sep
0.78%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes75.3%3 720 in total
Reposts15.1%747 in total
Replies1.0%49 in total
Quotes1.2%59 in total
Bookmarks7.4%368 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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