Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

At the end of the day, I think stuff like Socialist Alternative and Common Dreams hitting Biden for settling a rail labor dispute in a way that got workers a big raise is more pro than con. Like the IRA it’s a sensible measures approach. https://t.co/aUOrFS8s2X — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is why in retrospect, I think Primary Biden (who was constantly in the news for not being radical enough for Brooklyn-based digital media personalities) had certain advantages over General Election Biden. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Did the Trump tax cuts kill cinema? Important topic for a debut episode of Just My Opinion with @SeanFennessey & @ChrisRyan77. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Democrats’ best messages are boring but boring messages don’t go viral and get heard. To an extent it’s a tension to navigate. But also shows advocacy funding might be better spent on different, less edgy stuff. https://t.co/BPQPdD6KJb https://t.co/ong3D7258p — PolitiTweet.org

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@repmattdean This is a boring take but all successful campaigns do a mix of attacks and positive messages and it’s interesting to see which positive messages work best because they are more scalable. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A ton of bad takes about tech, politics, and the media all stem from nobody wanting to recall that it was the mainstreamist of mainstream media — not “fake news” or Facebook or “online misinformation” but network television news and the NYT — that did the country dirty in 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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Whatever you think of the “Clinton Cash” project (and I don’t think much of it!) the reason Schweitzer’s oppo research got so much play in mainstream papers is that they were partners in the enterprise from the beginning. https://t.co/9004Rkh5ZB — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s just true whether with the original laptop or with the meta-story of files about the laptop that if you want major mainstream outlets to cover your stuff, you’re going to need to make the stuff available to them. — PolitiTweet.org

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The success of all this boringness contains some obvious bad news for the left. But also I think some good news — swing state candidates were able to broaden their electoral appeal with rhetorical gestures that concede extremely little on substance. https://t.co/BPQPdD6KJb — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Of course you don't want to spend the whole time on defense talking about the right-coded issue of crime. But Democrats' best messages on the economy are also really bland. https://t.co/BPQPdD6KJb https://t.co/GdFWWSlEcP — PolitiTweet.org

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John Fetterman won by a larger amount against a weaker opponent and also had a message on crime that tests extremely well despite (or because!) it's so blah. https://t.co/BPQPdDoTXj https://t.co/XgXmRo0HMW — PolitiTweet.org

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Catherine Cortez-Masto won against significant headwinds and had to beat a real politician. I was surprised she was able to win without doing much to moderate. But apparently this really banal crime message is highly effective. https://t.co/BPQPdDoTXj https://t.co/20nYjssYlB — PolitiTweet.org

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Something I learned from one of my favorite midterms post-mortem reports — a lot of Democrats' best performing messages are extremely boring. https://t.co/BPQPdD6KJb — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s too bad Twitter ceased to exist several weeks ago when those layoffs happened and everyone shifted to Mastodon; I used to like posting there. — PolitiTweet.org

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How come RER A and B have such nice clean branching patterns and then C (especially) and D are chaos? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DanAlexander21: Scoop: Trump owed hidden debt while in office. https://t.co/XHvBPPZmHG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Birdyword: Ok fair play this is great https://t.co/7u2MTUBOB9 — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Would love to see accessible history books appropriate for lay readers written about a wider range of countries and time periods. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

When I criticize the climate left this is what I’m talking about — too much emphasis on the low-efficacy political dead end of pipeline-blocking. Biden’s more recent emphasis on tech neutral expanded deployment of zero carbon energy is way better. https://t.co/AMNgELsOq3 — PolitiTweet.org

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In other news, permitting reform is good and the inability to see the forest for the trees here is a big problem. https://t.co/wbcTnK7sM1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow, Amazing to see the Heritage Foundation joining the good guys to fight against Manchin’s Dirty Deal 🤔🤔🤔 — PolitiTweet.org

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I really like fancy restaurants and food-themed media but years of knowing my non-foodie wife have helped me see that we are bad people. https://t.co/JoKJmm4G1X — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bernstein I’ve been thinking a lot about this ever since Kanye got in trouble, and I’m coming to see that Hitler was a bad guy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Coverage of this topic badly needs to be normalized and contextualized with our information about how health care works in general. https://t.co/FliD2zQe1W — PolitiTweet.org

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Trying to claim that there is zero risk of overly aggressive treatment in the gender dysphoria space is not just going to be tenable; read about any other area of the American health care system. https://t.co/VLLqpTMkwf — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine a world in which powerful executives like Rupert Murdoch collaborated with government officials to suppress coverage of damaging information about the President of the United States on the most popular and important cable news network. — PolitiTweet.org

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True false dichotomy here — these are both pretty good shows! https://t.co/J7i1iyoTGi — PolitiTweet.org

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Young Hickory, the Napoleon of the Stump! https://t.co/LBfd6dOPJJ — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@awprokop I think a very annoying part of the current discourse has been unwillingness on the part of the “woke” to acknowledge the existence of a distinctive ideology with ideas different from the until-recently-cw among liberals. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is art — PolitiTweet.org