Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @DanaGoldstein: Another tweet in support of @ehanford's new series on the problems with balanced literacy. There is something really per… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Scott_Wiener: Does 6’7” count? — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad to see some scrutiny coming to the RCCA proposal from my councilmember — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aifunhouse: 🧵Categorizing complaints to Elon with AI 1. It's a tumultuous time here in tweet town. For the good of the community, we… — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I assume donors don’t love him because he’s promised to eliminate mask mandates that are already gone — they think he will reverse Trump’s softness on Medicare and Social Security and bring back Ryanism. But he’s avoided that as a public stance. He’s smart, albeit too short. — PolitiTweet.org

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The danger for Republicans is that if they don’t renominate Trump they might end up in a policy bidding war where candidates vie to stake out right-wing positions on abortion and welfare state rollback — DeSantis has so far pleased donors in private while staying quiet in public. — PolitiTweet.org

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What is the “Covid issue” in 2022? Basically nothing. What will it be in 2024? Absolutely nothing. But he leveraged it at a time it did matter to win a Conservative Hero brand without taking hard-right public stances on traditional policy issues. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the extent to which he’s understand (perhaps wrongly!) as a moderate in the style of Larry Hogan who mostly upholds the status quo is pretty underrated. It’s a potent political lane that is normally hard to sell the base on, but he achieved that with Fauci-bashing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Selling shovels in a gold rush is good business and that’s true even if the miners have actually just found a bunch of fool’s gold. The problem is that when your clients are suckers it’s tempting to make even more money by selling fake shovels… — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s what @matt_levine says about how takeaway from the (in)famous interview in which SBF seemed to admit that crypto was a pointless scam — it was reassuring to know the guy wasn’t a true believer and was just in the business of providing people with tools they wanted. https://t.co/ScfOCILkBV — PolitiTweet.org

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There is a “true crypto has never been tried” narrative brewing. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Wave” originally referred not just to the idea of who won, but to a uniform national swing — something that became more and more common as media and politics were increasingly nationalized. This time we got a highly non-uniform swing but Dems improved in the key states. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great overview — in some ways a reversion to an older pattern when not every election was a “wave” and specific situations played out differently in different states. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricNewcomer NASDAQ fell 78% in the dot-com bust so I think we still have a ways to fall before equaling that. — PolitiTweet.org

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FTX’s many many many corporate entities are filing for bankruptcy — PolitiTweet.org

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@daveweigel Republicans’ belief that politics should be ~exciting~ seems like something they might want to revisit after getting thrashed by Joe Biden, Gary Peters, etc — PolitiTweet.org

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@misguidedsoul7 That sounds about right. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lastpositivist This Thomas Flight video about Dune has a good explanation of the challenge of good lighting in CGI-heavy movies, how Dune got it right, and why Marvel basically cheaps out and doesn't bother. https://t.co/7Bzs2oltCb — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @akhilcacharya: @mattyglesias Fetterman said mask mandates in 2022 were silly and that Title 42 shouldn't be ended, that's "middle of th… — PolitiTweet.org

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There are some excellent substantive ideas in progressive politics — I would like to see a more robust welfare state, a more egalitarian distribution of income, and many other progressive things — but we're not going to get there by listening to hucksters. — PolitiTweet.org

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Laura Kelly won an election in Kansas by running ads about how she's in the middle of the road. https://t.co/rzwZibLQtQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Fetterman did great. But he also ran 9 points behind Josh Shapiro. Maybe that's because Shapiro was seen as more moderate than Fetterman or maybe it's because Mastriano was seen as more extreme than Oz. But either way, Pennsylvania confirms the power of the middle of the road — PolitiTweet.org

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Peter Thiel missed the train to Mars https://t.co/bsWrMg5SVn — PolitiTweet.org

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“Astronauts are losers” was a weird message. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the winning strategy for Trump in an intra-party battle is to do less racism and instead accuse GOP establishment — McConnell, McCarthy, DeSantis, etc — of selling out the unborn by being unwilling to push federal restrictions or things beyond Florida’s 15-week rule. — PolitiTweet.org

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I will concede that the first time I heard the name I thought the GOP had a Korean American rising star from Annandale or something. — PolitiTweet.org

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Read @rmc031 on the winning strategy that @ashleyafterall, @rachaelbedard, and @EthanBWinter deployed on abortion rights ballot initiatives — the key was playing to win not playing to maximize self-expression value. https://t.co/8W34O2RJnD — PolitiTweet.org

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Recall that a pretty large share of white non-college voters under 29 are actual college students. The BA/no-BA split doesn’t convey a lot of information when you’re talking about the youngest cohort. — PolitiTweet.org

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Happy Veterans’ Day! Joe Biden should lead a national campaign of both legislation and moral suasion to make this more of a real holiday that more people get off. Holidays are good. The troops are good. Plutocracy is bad. https://t.co/mwmlBj2XCh https://t.co/JzHO6xfyRr — PolitiTweet.org

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:nods: — PolitiTweet.org