Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think people should brace themselves for the possibility that there’s a big round of layoffs and not that much change. https://t.co/Us30jbUp9p — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnArnoldFndtn: In exchange for their funder receiving a tax donation, private foundations are required to put 5% annually to charitab… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MuseZack @jessesingal My argument is it was based on a flawed analogy to Black voters’ behavior where self-described moderates really do vote for Democrats by incredibly lopsided margins because they believe the GOP is too kind to racists. — PolitiTweet.org

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Double-barreled message, Chuck Grassley is extreme on abortion and also extremely old. https://t.co/PaSTcID7rI — PolitiTweet.org

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Would be great to see some warp speed energy https://t.co/mizzjlU7WY — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard to get illegal guns off the street if the sheriffs are going to sell them to criminals. https://t.co/ncghmhH9x3 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ritwik_priya: Zuck taking Tobin's Q above 1 and reversing 4 decades of disgorge-the-cash capitalism singlehandedly and people still hat… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McKenzieAWilson: Every Democrat in the country should be talking about the threats to Social Security right now. It’s top of mind for v… — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats did great with Hispanic voters in 2012, which led progressives to believe that a growing Latino population would make it possible for Dems shift positions leftward without losing support ... a dream that is now dying. https://t.co/qvvSBjo6PF — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheDailyShow: Don't call Rishi Sunak the UK's first Asian PM in front of @ronnychieng https://t.co/IgnzVk8r62 — PolitiTweet.org

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What about this policy is possibly going to improve the quality of either policing or health care services? — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a doomed hope on a million levels, but I wish we could get less coverage of this topic through a culture war lens and more from the lens of America's overall highly commercialized, profit-oriented health care system. https://t.co/FliD2zyDao — PolitiTweet.org

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This is great news and an important study, but I think it's important to understand that the screening/assessment these kids went through is more stringent than what's practiced at some US clinics. https://t.co/1L1pTE2hU9 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelPetrilli Boring question — how reliable is the NAEP data for smallish sub-groups? In a lot of contexts, statistical results get vary noisy when you start slicing this thin. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro The coherent version of this is "we need to enact tighter fiscal policy so we can achieve disinflation through smaller impacts on more sectors." — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the stroller is the worst possible example of this — the point of a good stroller is that it's better for you, the adult human being who needs to push it for the next several years. — PolitiTweet.org

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IMO in general "if you sincerely believed X, the most reasonable course of action would be Y but you're not doing Y therefore you don't genuinely believe X" is an overrated form of argument — people behave unreasonably all the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is some probability that if the GOP sweeps the 2024 elections, the United States will become a fascist dictatorship. But whether you think those odds are 0.000000001% or 65% there'd be no point in undertaking a plainly unconstitutional effort to ban the GOP. — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't think this is true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattreedah I think the antagonism is because I think he's a phony. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinWolfers @jasonfurman I think they objectively took less shit from the media, the public, and politicians for erring on the side of softer labor markets from 2001-2017 than they did for making the reverse error over the past 12 months and that will influence them. — PolitiTweet.org

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The truth is that Republicans talking more between now and Election Day about abortion will almost certainly hurt them — but the impact of messaging choices on election outcomes is modest while the impact on intra-coalition clout can be large. — PolitiTweet.org

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You can see the issue here by the way. Anti-abortion groups want to pass anti-abortion bills, so for them "Republicans did well in the midterms because they wisely ducked the abortion issue" is a bad narrative. They want it to be that the GOP fought and won on abortion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasonfurman I'd say bottom-left is most likely and then it goes clockwise to stagflation as least-likely. But this is really just guessing about how the Fed will react to things. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think this is a sub-set of social media occupying an uncanny valley between "shooting the shit with some friends" and "writing a column for a widely-read newspaper." — PolitiTweet.org

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In terms of policy upshot "there are many cost-effective emissions-reducing levers that we should pull" and "we are ten years from a tipping point into extinction" are more different than some people operating in this space acknowledge. https://t.co/9HiuLwz2XK — PolitiTweet.org

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I like these three points from @dwallacewells: — No climate apocalypse — Every little bit of additional warming is bad — Our choices at the margin matter a lot https://t.co/NCrqc3ru55 https://t.co/Fe85cPew1q — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin Of course there's another way to read that... — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Makes you think. — PolitiTweet.org

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@besttrousers Yes — PolitiTweet.org