Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @lionel_trolling: https://t.co/En7KXE5iah — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If you were hoping anything had changed for the better regarding America’s inflexible public health institutions, @ddiamond’s reporting suggests it has not. https://t.co/Sz1hvFFrN8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Is Ken Paxton a pro-abortion activist? https://t.co/StAF8Plspi — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not really a baseball guy, but I don't understand why a team in a large and rich metro area acts in such a penny-pinching way — there's tremendous revenue on the table when the team is good. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarcGoldwein: Higher taxes reduce inflation and reduce recession risk. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ultimately the Fed is “the decider” when it comes to inflation. But if we can cool demand at least partially with measures that at target the wealthy, that’s a better outcome than doing it all through the interest rate channel. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes — Manchin’s inflation-related objections to the House-passed BBB legislation were correct and not enough people have acknowledged that. But he is wrong about the more recent legislation he just tanked. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pizza! https://t.co/QfbTz5TvqZ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LPDonovan: Missed this @jonathanchait piece yesterday but hard to find much to argue with https://t.co/g0moVDQuHE — PolitiTweet.org

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Italian sausage sandwich https://t.co/SF5h7Y41vp — PolitiTweet.org

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Good duomo https://t.co/j85xHyL23H — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JustinRood: “They want to cover their own ass in the name of justice.” https://t.co/hCkXvyppjN — PolitiTweet.org

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Average Italian wall https://t.co/RUN2GJ1u7O — PolitiTweet.org

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My max Italy troll — the case for chicken parm https://t.co/ApXeCWSYzt https://t.co/TO2HlCVkd0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Two views of Siena https://t.co/RgEnLLbx2O — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattGrossmann: Education polarization & reduced non-white support for Democrats seem to be continuing into 2022 https://t.co/CLc6IKG88n — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bfurnas: “Better science is one of the biggest “free lunches” standing before us.” https://t.co/6A7ciB7md8 — PolitiTweet.org

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I tend to side with solar power over historic preservationists or neo-pastoralists who don’t like the aesthetics of tossing up PV panels everywhere. But Italy has 5 times our population density, and a *much* stronger case that historic preservation is doing something important! — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course if a heat pump lets you cool in the summer and use electricity instead of gas for winter heat, that’s progress in many ways — but you need a *lot* more electricity. Case for nuclear over here is even stronger than in the US because the land use issues are more severe. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you don’t have AC and it’s sometimes 80 degrees that’s fine. But if it’s sometimes 100 so you buy an air conditioner, then you’re going to use it even on the days when it’s only 80 — it’s like how once you buy a car lots of trips become car trips even if you don’t “need it.” — PolitiTweet.org

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I don’t understand enough about the relative energy intensity of heating vs cooling to know how much this is balanced out by warmer winters but the point is it’s not just people using AC more (like in the US) it’s going from no AC to having it. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m sure this is not an original point but one consequence of climate change is going to be to greatly increase electricity demand in Europe as people decide they want air conditioners after all. — PolitiTweet.org

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European Twitter! What's the best source of information on unsubsidized housing costs in different geographies over here? (countries, cities, NUTS-2 regions, whatever you've got) — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith @AliceFromQueens @razibkhan I don't think it's *just* legacies, though — the non-legacy rich kids and access to an appropriately ~diverse~ set of friends are all independently valuable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AliceFromQueens @razibkhan For sure — it’s just telling that even though everyone acknowledges those are very very very good schools “the best” are the places that are deliberately less meritocratic. — PolitiTweet.org

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@razibkhan I think that was a widespread sentiment among Asian students when I was undergrad — *they* liked that it didn’t have the demographics of an exam school like Stuyvesant; it meant (or at least so they thought) you could gain valuable social capital there. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AJentleson: YIMBYs on the march! 💪 A new poll shows the race for Montgomery County Exec is tied, with Marc Elrich losing ground as his… — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/GDgeVdTcy9 https://t.co/4Zo0iHfgFW — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @binarybits: Has anybody written a good defense of joe manchin’s position in these tax and spending negotiations? I thought he got too l… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kareem_carr: this is a tough one https://t.co/VnPmjJAxBY — PolitiTweet.org