Jeff Stein ✓

@jstein_sun

The Washington Sun. Writing a Bernie Sanders biography. ex-chief economics correspondent @washingtonpost. 2026 Pulitzer Prize. Founder @ithacavoice. 9178872891

164 985Followers

2 730Following

30 520Posts total

1.9MViews on collected posts

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Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun10 Sep

@jstein_sun Real journalists with real reporting is something our country desperately needs. Too many sources controlled by billionaires filtering it all out 1.6K views · 66 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun10 Sep

@jstein_sun Jeff, you're the goat!! 4.5K views · 125 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun10 Sep

@jstein_sun Congrats on the launch! 3.1K views · 97 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun9 Sep

Our (free!) newsletters have gotten rave reviews; great way to support us is by signing up: DC news: https://t.co/zxl8PtNXRy National: https://t.co/TxkkNONGXV 4.9K views · 28 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun9 Sep

@jstein_sun There is a clear conflict of interest in capital weather working for the sun. 1.1K views · 35 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun9 Sep

Nearly every day toward the end of my tenure at The Washington Post, someone would complain to me about Jeff Bezos' changes. His decimation of the local news team. His abandonment of DC sports coverage. The shriveled Bezos opinion page, with the ideological diversity of a 350.1K views · 7.1K likes · 1.5K reposts · 137 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun9 Sep

🌞🌞🌞Big news: The Washington Sun is launching w/: — Huge investment in DMV coverage: Biggest & best local sports & DC — DC legend Tom Sietsema — Capital Weather (formerly Capital Weather Gang) — Newsroom of +100 w/ star reporters on Congress, WH, foreign policy & more 244.9K views · 3.2K likes · 419 reposts · 43 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun29 Oct 2024

@ddiamond .@TonyRomm has looked deep into the role of the crypto lobby in influencing the political system with a flood of cash Another must read https://t.co/ui3NowhlKq 5.7K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun29 Oct 2024

.@ddiamond wrote the best profile I've seen in ages on Bernie Sanders, after following Sanders over many months “I don’t understand where he gets the energy,” a former aide told Dan. “I think it’s because he’s always angry.” Absolutely worth reading -> https://t.co/TXYkkRPbPj 21.3K views · 51 likes · 9 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun29 Oct 2024

While some of you are here plz read @CAKitchener's story today: "She said she had a miscarriage — then got arrested under an abortion law" https://t.co/PUBbH3a3At 17.9K views · 70 likes · 20 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun29 Oct 2024

@JStein_WaPo It's not accurate to suggest you can't do original reporting on Substack. I appreciate your work but there is no reason to denigrate others who are not able to work for Bezos or do not want to. 16K views · 297 likes · 8 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun29 Oct 2024

Great additional thoughts from @ddiamond https://t.co/itHssQ4yMq 57K views · 96 likes · 13 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@jstein_sun29 Oct 2024

I know many of you will roll your eyes at this, but that's OK; I wouldn't be in this field if I was afraid of being dunked on every now and then. When I first came to The Washington Post in 2017, I was extremely wary it would be too establishment for me. Too corporate. Too 1.1M views · 3.5K likes · 516 reposts · 444 replies Open on X →

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7 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 100K–1M abonnés. diffusé bien au-delà de son propre public, et ce public réagit.

Vues médianes4 526ce compte6 369médiane pour 100K–1M

Portée, %2.74%ce compte1.92%médiane pour 100K–1M

Engagement, %2.83%ce compte1.15%médiane pour 100K–1M

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 100K–1M	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	4 526	6 369	0.71×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	2.74%	1.92%	1.43×
Taux d'engagement	2.83%	1.15%	2.47×

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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

1.1M29 Oct

57K

16K

17.9K

21.3K

5.7K

244.9K9 Sep

350.1K

1.1K

4.9K

3.1K10 Sep

4.5K

1.6K

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.39%29 Oct

0.22%

1.93%

0.55%

0.30%

0.31%

1.50%9 Sep

2.49%

3.16%

0.72%

3.30%10 Sep

2.83%

4.32%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.15%.

What the audience does

Likes77.7%14 635 in total

Reposts13.1%2 469 in total

Replies3.5%657 in total

Bookmarks5.7%1 075 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

13 Sep

Daily snapshots since 13 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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