Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

More broadly, I think it’s really annoying when people get so consumed by factionalism that they try to pick fights on issues where there is no disagreement — everyone was on the same side about this Kansas referendum, so why start shit? — PolitiTweet.org

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Great example here — PolitiTweet.org

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I think if you look at how the pro-choice side ran and won in Kansas you’ll see they adhered very closely to this formula. https://t.co/cVELNxfTmj https://t.co/dRyhR2ISNn — PolitiTweet.org

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I think it’s telling that Will did not include a link to the post here so that he could better lie about its content — PolitiTweet.org

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Impediments to domestic labor mobility — mostly housing costs, I imagine — are a big deal — PolitiTweet.org

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In contrast to the old market fundamentalism of Bush/Ryan Republicans focused on rolling back the welfare state to keep taxes low on the rich the new crop of Thiel-inspired populists wants to roll back the welfare state and keep taxes on the rich low. — PolitiTweet.org

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To our credit, we don’t just “lecture” about democracy we defeat other countries in wars and then set them up with parliamentary systems. We just don’t take our own advice. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ByERussell: The Silver Line is expected to open sometime "this fall." An around Halloween date has floated around for several weeks. ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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So is the Silver Line extension to Dulles ever going to open? It looks like it’s all been built. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nilocobau The San Jose MSA is fake news — PolitiTweet.org

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And of course we have never raised our nominal prices meaning that in real terms, a Slow Boring subscription is now more affordable than ever. https://t.co/L7tFxvpD9T — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin To be clear, I was not actually there for trivia, it just started up a bit before I left — definitely a young person’s game hence nobody knew the Dream. — PolitiTweet.org

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More good news for Joe Biden — 9.8 percent nominal gross annualized revenue growth at Slow Boring over the past twelve months, making this the first time in 2022 that we are ahead of the inflation curve. — PolitiTweet.org

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The new blue-colored hopium is amazing — PolitiTweet.org

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Got outraged by a bunch of young people at a bar flubbing a trivia question whose answer was Hakeem Olajuwon last night, and then I realized the actual issue here is that I am now old and the mid-90s were a long time ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SpecialPuppy1: Conservative Republicans absolutely love protecting tax cheats — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @keviv71: .@mattyglesias addresses @billmaher’s concerns on traffic jam and one billion Americans in his new substack piece https://t.co… — PolitiTweet.org

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@WillOremus @jbarro Well the entire underlying structure of the American system for permitting infrastructure projects puts a huge thumb on the scale against building anything, so I don’t think it’s a trivial point. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good to see this, though of course executive orders can just be revoked by the next president. Let’s see a congressional vote on this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@felixsalmon @WillOremus @jbarro And indeed what the post says is that if you want traffic to move faster you need pricing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pollution externalities from burning gasoline are undertaxed, but inducing extra demand is the *point* of building transportation infrastructure whether that’s a highway or an airport or a train or a bike lane or anything else. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s really very disturbing that a lot of American conservatives have gotten so invested in this brand of politics that they’ve decided they want the United States to resemble a much poorer, weaker, less impressive but more homogenous country. https://t.co/FLOpn1NaTR — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling There’s a notorious old Yglesias tweet that people like to dunk on about how Hitler had good ideas on monetary policy. — PolitiTweet.org

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At any rate read for yourself. There’s a lot of inaccurate summarizing on the internet but this is really shocking stuff. https://t.co/Ypmzus6WeZ — PolitiTweet.org

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… then he really does just pivot to totally unambiguous racism without even a fig leaf of talk about culture or values. https://t.co/wITKYzYU1k — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s surprisingly hard to Google up the actual text of Orban’s race mixing speech and when you find it he starts by making a bunch of contentious but I think reasonable points about energy. It raises expectation that you’ll find the full context to be exculpatory, but… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marianne_levine: Tim Kaine is not the typical Democratic spokesperson on abortion and he readily acknowledges his bipartisan abortion r… — PolitiTweet.org

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The scale of the beat in Kansas was I think bigger than this model would predict, but it still underscores that “surprising” underperformance is actually typical. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s typical for ballot initiatives to somewhat underperform their polling as some kind of last-minute status quo bias kicks in. — PolitiTweet.org

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My phone thinks this is a picture of me https://t.co/ykuHNtS51v — PolitiTweet.org