Richard Yeselson

@yeselson · joined 13 Mar 2012

Editorial Board @dissentmag. Think I started trend of labeling modern US Right as “revanchist.” Charming in person, but we’re not there. Also NBA/Warriors.

15 098Followers

4 405Following

209 809Posts total

142.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views847this account1 948median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.61%this account5.91%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.56%this account1.63%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	847	1 948	0.43×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.61%	5.91%	0.95×
Engagement rate	0.56%	1.63%	0.34×

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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

8K14 Apr

90K

22.9K15 Apr

9811 Sep

8472 Sep

575

7.8K3 Sep

5.3K

365

466

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.21%14 Apr

0.13%

0.36%

5.60%15 Apr

0.51%1 Sep

0.12%2 Sep

1.04%

0.56%3 Sep

3.04%

0.55%

2.15%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes85.5%1 477 in total

Reposts6.4%111 in total

Replies2.9%50 in total

Quotes1.4%24 in total

Bookmarks3.8%65 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

3 Sep

Daily snapshots since 03 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Less than 15% of the Dem caucus—what would the percentage have been even five years ago? 466 views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 The Corrections might be one of the last oxymoronic high culture literary artifacts of a disaggregating mass culture. 365 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 These 33 Democrats just voted for HR 4795, which denies federal funding to any university that boycotts Israel, including companies in illegal settlements: Auchincloss Castor Cisneros Costa Courtney Cuellar Davis Frankel Gillen Golden Gonzalez Landsman Latimer Lee (NV) (1/2) 5.3K views · 110 likes · 37 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 AO Scott on The Corrections at 25 years old. https://t.co/6pmswQDHcI 7.8K views · 32 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 Trump continued McCarthy’s reliance on Roy Cohn, but the life lesson he didn’t take from the lying demagogue was to drink himself to death. So he’s already outlived Joe by 32 years. 575 views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Nope, not quite it, at least for white men (non white people and women scramble these categories): https://t.co/5sFHLV19Cc 847 views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Yup. Voice of logic anyway. 981 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 @yeselson the decision to boycott NYT was not done lightly and had a very specific logic: which is the NYT would elevate a token Palestinian once every 6 mo's to provide cover for the 100 other articles of incitement and racist dreck. There is no terrain to "contest" it's a rigge 22.9K views · 1.2K likes · 55 reposts · 1 replies 15 Apr 2026 @ezraklein To be clear, I’m noting that the boycotters did so not as readers ( irrelevant), but as prospective writers/interviewees for the Times—relevant, but only in a way damaging to the left, not to the Time or liberal elitism tout court. 5K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies 14 Apr 2026 I remain sorry that so many writers/thinkers I admire chose to boycott the NY Times over its Gaza coverage, rather than see the paper as critical, contested terrain of cultural/ideological reproduction. It was a self-cancelling move—many other leftists continue to appear in the 90K views · 65 likes · 5 reposts · 30 replies 14 Apr 2026 Times, so there is zero leverage being applied to it. In the meantime, people can hear this via @ezraklein, but I’m sure he’d also interview many other critics of Israel. Affect must be tied to sound strategy—quiet quitting that boycott is a good idea. https://t.co/4xZA12ZP7g 8K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 14 Apr 2026