Dana Milbank ✓

@Milbank

Political writer. Author. Country Mouse. Columnist with the @washingtonsun. Formerly with @washingtonpost.

105 751Followers

1 113Following

6 113Posts total

830.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Dana Milbank ✓@Milbank11h

@Milbank @washingtonsun Fantastic, good luck! 2 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dana Milbank ✓@Milbank11h

@Milbank @ZaxxonGalaxian @washingtonsun Tried to subscribe but servers are apparently overworked. Will check back ❤️ 3.8K views · 128 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Dana Milbank ✓@Milbank12h

@Milbank @washingtonsun Congratulations! Will the Sun, unlike the WP and NYT, actually cover Trump's daily displays of dementia? Even a running feature, "Today in Presidential Madness," would make the Sun a must read. 3.2K views · 146 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dana Milbank ✓@Milbank12h

@Milbank @charles_gaba @washingtonsun We just want journalism not beholden to access, popularity, and billionaires. Bring back true journalism that spoke truth to power 7.1K views · 285 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Dana Milbank ✓@Milbank12h

@Milbank @washingtonsun Good luck! 36 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dana Milbank ✓@Milbank12h

@Milbank @washingtonsun will it return to the inverted pyramid or fight for clicks with bait and attention with opening paragraphs of exposition? 48 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dana Milbank ✓@Milbank13h

I’m one of at least 28 former Washington Post journalists who have joined the @washingtonsun, which launched this morning. Paul Kane, Jeff Stein, Tom Sietsema and many other names will be familiar to Post readers —and we’ve got the Capital Weather Gang. Join us! 805.5K views · 10.2K likes · 2.4K reposts · 249 replies Open on X →

Dana Milbank ✓@Milbank15h

The Washington Sun rises today. I hope you’ll join our orbit. In today’s @washingtonsun column, I reflected on my 36 years in the legacy media, which has sustained losses comparable to the steel industry in the 70s and 80s. The Sun aims to do nothing less than reinvent the 11.1K views · 129 likes · 39 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views3 475this account4 827median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.29%this account1.74%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.58%this account1.27%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 475	4 827	0.72×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.29%	1.74%	1.89×
Engagement rate	1.58%	1.27%	1.24×

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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

11.1K9 Sep

805.5K

7.1K

3.2K

3.8K

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

1.56%9 Sep

1.59%

0.00%

4.20%

4.83%

3.53%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.27%.

What the audience does

Likes76.6%10 867 in total

Reposts17.1%2 427 in total

Replies1.8%257 in total

Quotes0.0%2 in total

Bookmarks4.5%636 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

9 Sep

Daily snapshots since 09 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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