Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@salimfurth That’s fine, but the people “confused” by this are introducing lots of factual errors not just saying “I prefer the year-to-year number.” — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s remarkable that conservatives have invented an *entirely fake shoot-out* at Mar-a-Lago in order to become outraged at federal law enforcement. No guns blazed! Nothing happened! They took some documents. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve gotten so soft that I can’t remember the difference between CPI-U and CPI-W — PolitiTweet.org

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Why did Trump endorse Oz? — PolitiTweet.org

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It is not that sweeping! The House is set to pass a prudent bill that makes small useful changes to health care and prescription drug prices while reducing the deficit and taking a balanced approach to domestic energy production. https://t.co/S5nOrWo4Og https://t.co/5eHMPCD9DX — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @eawilloughby: 1/ So, today there has been an outpouring of accusations levied against me, mostly concerning the research that I do as a… — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Another hit off the hopium pipe. https://t.co/ELk6mELKJ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@DudleySaunders Exactly correct. Twitter as a platform needs to contend with the dilemmas of censorship, but individual Twitter users are like party guests who should shun and ignore people who act like jerks. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive If you don't have it, you're on the other side — PolitiTweet.org

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It's genuinely sick, deranged stuff. Their belief is that making you suffer needless hassle and inconvenience will make you marginally more sympathetic to the idea that rich people should get a tax cut, and so they twist the knife and deliberately make your life worse. — PolitiTweet.org

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What's truly unfortunate is that this guy's group, Americans for Tax Reform, has lobbied for years to block automatic tax filing. They've fought hard to make life harder for tens of millions of people in order to generate resentment and help keep taxes low on the richest — PolitiTweet.org

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The best part of all, is that if we fund the tax police that generates more than enough revenue to also fund enhancements in the basic customer service functions of the IRS to make things better and easier for most people. https://t.co/JXSctK9UwC — PolitiTweet.org

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It's also worth saying that while the majority of the criminals the Republican Party is trying to protect are "just" cheating on taxes, rigorous tax enforcement is an important tool for identifying other types of crime that generate income that needs to be laundered. — PolitiTweet.org

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But I definitely *could* work all kinds of angles to characterize personal travel and entertainment expenses as Slow Boring business expenses. The odds of being caught are objectively low. I like the idea of enforcing the rules so ethical people don't feel like suckers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Like I am here in Texas for a long weekend mostly so my kid can visit his grandparents. But right now while he plays with his grandma, I'm working. What I am not doing is concocting schemes to characterize all or part of the trip as a business expense. — PolitiTweet.org

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As a high-income small business owner myself, I do appreciate that there is some upside to the work Republicans have done since 2010 to make it easy for me to get away with cheating on my taxes. That said: As an ethical person, I try to avoid ripping off the public. — PolitiTweet.org

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Joe Biden is going to make it harder for rich business owners to cheat on their taxes and conservatives can't stand it. https://t.co/OBgMnIfdfI — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't think this has any implications for current policy, since either approach suggests rate hikes are appropriate right now. But in the not-too-distant future the lines will cross and the official data will be overstating housing inflation and that will have implications. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you check @ApartmentList's latest data update, this continues — July spot rent growth was still higher than what the BLS shows, but it fell relative to June. https://t.co/hLR6o5D4Qk — PolitiTweet.org

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Something I flagged on June 23 is a double divergence between spot rents and average rents. The spot market shows housing inflation that is higher than the BLS data, but inflation that is already slowing rather than still rising. https://t.co/FegHW0ydjw https://t.co/d1BEPinB6M — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter is constantly tied into knots over now to deal with egregious misconduct because the platform has normalized levels of rudeness that almost nobody practices in IRL settings. Everyone who values the good aspects of this platform should push back against that. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think if more people observed a norm of hair-trigger blocking, they would perform the public service of helping to shift the generally accepted standards of conduct on here. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I almost always unblock people who ask, but my philosophy is that I want my Twitter experience to be pleasant and informative so if you are rude to me or just even a little bit annoying then I will eagerly block you unless we have a history of fruitful interactions. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I know this is idiosyncratic but a good example of my blocking philosophy is that this person — who was not being abusive or threatening or particular egregious or anything — has now been blocked. I think more people should set a similarly low bar for blocking. https://t.co/pQtySZksdQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @nataliesurely @TanaGaneva I just think even that is too high a bar to set — people should block on hair-trigger over mild rudeness and then liberally un-block if the person apologizes and asks to be let back on. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ModeledBehavior @lymanstoneky He’s been a featured speaker at CPAC and Hillsdale recently, has been called by congressional Republicans to testify on Covid issues, etc. — basically one of the right’s top public health authorities. — PolitiTweet.org

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In terms of the signature longtermism cause, I think the idea of “longtermism” is mostly a red herring — AI safety worriers believe we face a very high probability of a relatively short-term catastrophe. https://t.co/TDVnRG9HaN https://t.co/rvgCCW9Fdl — PolitiTweet.org

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Travel sports leagues crowding out more lowkey town- and neighborhood-based teams seems good for the narrow cultivation of athletic excellence but pretty bad for society writ large. https://t.co/TDVnRG9HaN https://t.co/lIlEFwR0Rc — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s like if the mafia had a cable news channel on hand to do witness intimidation for them. — PolitiTweet.org

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“What binds these pleas together is an application of ‘the personal is political’ so expanded in scope that, for a certain kind of person, personal problems, anxieties & dissatisfactions are illegible or illegitimate unless described as political problems” https://t.co/YeRNUeuUcv — PolitiTweet.org