Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My narrative: As Election Day draws nearer, Biden’s approval is converging toward baseline partisanship (i.e., improving) but vote choice is converging toward Biden approval (i.e. tilting Republican) so it adds up to a modest GOP advantage as seen in most midterms. — PolitiTweet.org

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Who can say for sure but this to me does not seem like the actions of a regime that is eager to make a peace deal in exchange for some guarantees about NATO membership. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brian_Riedl I don’t think that’s a smear, it’s a sincerely held view of conservative economic policy people that regressive tax policy has large growth benefits and I think a lot of non-conservatives don’t understand that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Is the vacuum repair place in Hyattsville a front for a criminal mastermind who can make you disappear? How many people are getting vacuums repaired these days? — PolitiTweet.org

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I really like this philosophy of not just saying “ah, diffuse costs and concentrated benefits — public choice! — what can be done?” When the gains are large there should be a way through. https://t.co/eUEZcdfOqo https://t.co/vCnePQcBzO — PolitiTweet.org

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@emilythorson I wish I could achieve that level of enlightenment rather than “stay up late and do some unwise snacking” — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKThomp @conorsen Now let’s be clear: I learned to fence when I was a kid and there is nothing stupid about it! Not nearly good enough for it to help on my college application, but very useful when playing swordfight with my kid. — PolitiTweet.org

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Venmo needs to add a “secret abortion” emoji for this kind of situation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen The way I read this is as catering to resentment not anxiety; “the system is rigged against you because your parents didn’t buy you these fencing lessons.” — PolitiTweet.org

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My answer to every problem is zoning reform + moderately more generous cash transfers. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Recall that if you scratch a culture war-focused conservative think tank, you invariably find a rich vein of “regressive tax cuts are the key to long-term prosperity” lurking just beneath the surface. https://t.co/uyURNagA2n — PolitiTweet.org

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This paper claims to find that remote work induced a rise in fertility for native-born American women, but the identification strategy fails to account for the possibility that the release of ONE BILLION AMERICANS was the real cause. https://t.co/dXBWtEySzz — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ArnabDatta321: 1/ New from @vebaccount @IrvingSwisher and me: How the DOE can structure SPR acquisition to maximize domestic oil produc… — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 I agree I agree — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 To be fair this is written by a critical theorist with no public health background. https://t.co/Oj55OwFlHH — PolitiTweet.org

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What we ought to do is significantly increase our research efforts on pandemic prevention! https://t.co/8NGDNvsrHn — PolitiTweet.org

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I think “Joe Biden, like most people, does not see Covid as offering a viable reason to completely transform the global social and economic system” is a restrained and accurate claim — and of course Biden is right! — PolitiTweet.org

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Here we start with a *very* striking claim about Biden’s Covid policies (he doesn’t care if you die) but then midway through the article that turns out to mean he was not willing or able to effectuate a total transformation of society and the economy. https://t.co/elJT81YRgF https://t.co/g0nwvLx0DS — PolitiTweet.org

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@lastpositivist @olivertraldi I do think one underrated dynamic here is that something dumb can be published in Australia and then fly around the whole global discourse *precisely because it is dumb* which then leads to an exaggerated sense of how much dumb stuff is being said. — PolitiTweet.org

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That said “convert to a food hall” seems like a plausible play for some of the unneeded office space we have these days. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not to be too much of a cranky old guy but how come everything these days is a “food hall”? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emilythorson: I have a new piece in @apsrjournal with @LAbdelaaty. It previews a big idea from my book, arguing that misperceptions abo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dannybarefoot: “A year after D.C. launched a pilot program to clear homeless encampments, approximately 72% of those in the pilot have… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JStein_WaPo: One of the major substantive stakes of the 2022 midterms — Republicans are preparing to use control of the House and/or Se… — PolitiTweet.org

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It's clearly true that returning to the pre-war status quo ante with everyone promising "no new wars after this" would be better for everyone — but that's really hard to make stick. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think VC Twitter may be too accustomed to the well-functioning judicial system in the United States and doesn't understand the existence of credibility problems when trying to reach diplomatic arrangements. https://t.co/sTLpaNN6t4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheZvi The EA branding is too good! Like are you going to say "I want to do good things but be ineffective about it?" or "actually the goal of my project is to do lots of harm?" — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine a world where half the safe seat members are tweeting every day about the need for a national ban and frontline members are terrified that any hint of moderation will lead to a collapse of donations — Democrats would be in much better shape *so Republicans don't do that* — PolitiTweet.org

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You and I both know that Republicans are committed to very extreme positions on abortion policy — it's in their platform and everything — but they know this is an electoral loser and are trying to keep it out of the news, *and anti-abortion activists are cooperating* — PolitiTweet.org

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This seems correct, but also note that anti-abortion activists have done the thing that people tell me is impossible and *exercised tactical discipline* instead of staging sit-ins in McConnell's office to demand a floor vote on a national abortion ban. — PolitiTweet.org