Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Two lessons I’ve learned from studying history: — People are always complaining about how things are getting worse regardless of whether or not this it’s true — People who over-index on the past ~200 years ignore the genuine existence of long stretches of real decline — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion https://t.co/Zdtxbc2ybL — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin @willystaley Noma is very good though. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro Yeah I think that’s the main thing — competing head to head with Kitchenaid is doomed and even competing on price is dicey, any even vaguely plausible gimmick is worth trying. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @brianschatz: There is a secret three page addendum to the House Rules that secured the support of the wackiest members of the House and… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @arvindpawan1: 🚨Mark your calendars for tomorrow at 10 CT! I will be announcing a new initiative at UT Austin focused on carbon account… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EricTopol: The bivalent booster in people age 65+ compared with those who did not receive it, among >622,000 participants 81% reduction… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JPFreire @MarcGoldwein Should there be any auditing of tax returns at all? What’s the limiting principle on the idea that tax enforcement is bad? — PolitiTweet.org

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750,000 Washingtonians — PolitiTweet.org

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But personally, I do not cheat on my taxes or claim abusive deductions because [drumroll] I am not a criminal. A properly resourced IRS that catches and deters cheats would not only reduce the deficit but also avoid making suckers out of people who pay what they owe. — PolitiTweet.org

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The vast majority of people just work a regular job, have taxes withheld, take the standard deduction, and pay what they owe. But then there are people like me — high income business owners with lots and lots and lots of deductible expenses. For us, it’s easy to cheat. — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone should be so lucky as to find a partner who loves them as much as the Republican Party loves people who cheat on their taxes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@psychosort But that is exactly how you own the libs! It's the reason Milloy went with "wind powered the slave trade." Just saying something right-wing has no lib-owning power at all, — PolitiTweet.org

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I guess the closest you can come to a guideline is "look for some vaguely Irish branding." — PolitiTweet.org

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The sad underlying story here is that Ezra wrote a lib-owning column, but a professional lib-owner misread it as a lib column and decided to own Ezra for his trouble. https://t.co/BfulJsPSCG — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a certain kind of bar that's good for meeting up with an undetermined number of people who may be coming and going at different times — the "normal bar" — but it's surprisingly hard to search for this kind of place on the internet in an unfamiliar city. — PolitiTweet.org

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Then Democrats went on a years-long journey of ideological self-discovery rather than making the sensible RETVRN TO TRADITION of nominating "outsiders" with normie ideology. Matt Santos would've won! https://t.co/yeSKtRqnrl https://t.co/j7XuJkjADC — PolitiTweet.org

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We then got eighty million words over the next two years blaming Facebook and the GRU as an alternative to a handful of editors and producers saying "in retrospect, we probably gave more play to that emails story than it objectively warranted compared to other issues at stake." — PolitiTweet.org

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The most influential pro-Trump disinformation campaign of the 2016 cycle was run by The New York Times and broadcast television news, both of which told people that there was a high stakes choice about candidates' fastidiousness with regard to handling classified information. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asking why American cities don't have the built environment of much denser countries whose cities' core areas were built before cars were invented is sort of pointless, but asking why Greater Toronto has triple the transit ridership of Greater DC is important and relevant. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's natural for American urbanists to want to draw contrasts with picturesque European cities, but Canada is a much more relevant comparison and does make the point that our urban planning and transit are underperforming. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamgurri I'm glad my specific points were correct, that's why I made them :) — PolitiTweet.org

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One of my New Year’s resolutions is to spend less time being mad — the fact that some internet companies find it profitable to get us locked into spirals of annoyance isn’t a good reason to convince yourself this behavior is high-minded and important. https://t.co/Uokp9ys0cd — PolitiTweet.org

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I sometimes feel bad that the average rating I give out on Letterboxed is so high but then I step back and remember that I’m not watching a random sample of movies — I’m deliberately seeking out films I have reason to believe will be good. — PolitiTweet.org

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People seem to spend a lot of time reading articles from sources they regard as unreliable and then getting mad at the articles … doesn’t seem like a great use of one’s finite time. — PolitiTweet.org

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Normal people are often frustrated by the level of gridlock and partisanship in Washington, which is genuinely frustrating, but a lot of them comes from the sincerity — a bunch of cigar-chomping cynics would find it easier to cut deals. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the thing The West Wing conveys better than any other fictional account of politics — there’s a strain of Washington that is really earnest and sincere that tends not to be dramatized because it’s not as obviously fun as more sinister depictions. https://t.co/yeSKtRpPBN https://t.co/FC33fZ7sPw — PolitiTweet.org

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There is opportunism and grifting and clowns and so much more in politics but you really cannot make sense of the major events in national affairs if you don’t appreciate the role of the large number of earnest people who sincerely believe in what they are doing. — PolitiTweet.org