Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

And it’s spectacular. — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of people are trying to make the Bernie Guy to Trumper transition on the basis of general disagreeableness but (as Bernie keeps saying!) the gap between the parties on basic economic issues continues to be extremely large and important. — PolitiTweet.org

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The difference is that Democrats, whatever their flaws, did in fact pass legislation cracking down on rich tax cheats, reducing prescription drug prices, and making huge investment in zero-carbon energy. Republicans cut rich people’s taxes. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cool people go to St Anselm — PolitiTweet.org

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Walked by this sign in a hotel on my way to a different conference and struck once again by the contrast between contemporary DEI work and the thinking of the civil rights movement. https://t.co/BcqXPKW4Hu https://t.co/0hwqq4qyMV — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarshaw I agree! But we’re not trying to describe the internal dynamics of how political science research is done, how the departments work, etc — PolitiTweet.org

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My top voting issues for 2024: 1. Inflation/cost of living 2. Jobs/economy 3. Relitigating social media companies’ handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 4. Abortion rights 5. Crime/gun violence/public safety — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone I’ve ever spoken to says the media’s coverage of their particular area of expertise is extremely bad, which I always believe because civilians’ assertions about how the media works are always wildly inaccurate — it’s really hard to understand things. — PolitiTweet.org

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This all seems about right — PolitiTweet.org

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Dune put on HBO Max without a theatrical exclusivity window was a national emergency — Spider-Man crushing at the box office proved it was over. — PolitiTweet.org

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@zackbeauchamp I think there’s been some forgetting of exactly how underestimated he was — I’m remembering that we assigned the intern to cover Trump in 2015. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dbernstein: The Gateway Pundit agenda. Imagine this being what you spend your leverage on. BTW invariably the woeful cases of J6 ‘poli… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ECaliberSeven: Tfw relative Philly turnout drops 11.4%, to a point where Biden would've lost in 2020, and yet Fetterman still wins by 5… — PolitiTweet.org

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Maximum Canada is beating One Billion Americans and I'm sad. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcGoldwein You need to peg emergency status to an objective measurement, like whether or not Disney is altering the release schedule of MCU movies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling @philoshua I would genuinely appreciate a step back examination of what you take the stakes in the Fascism Debate to be, since I feel a little turned around on it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling Posters have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. — PolitiTweet.org

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No one can escape the maw of premature predicting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling This I think is why Donald Trump was always against crypto — he recognized the traditional role of money-laundering as a source of capital for actual real estate projects. — PolitiTweet.org

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As @matt_levine said, I found it kind of appealing that SBF himself didn't seem especially big on crypto. They say selling shovels in a gold rush is a good way to make money, and the logic applies even if it's fool's gold. (but we were wrong) https://t.co/bKy86n52Pt https://t.co/eYjfFBKA16 — PolitiTweet.org

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It can be easy to miss this but there are two parallel discourses — one that's like "of course FTX was a scam, all crypto is a scam" and the other is like "of course FTX was a scam, FTX was working with regulators and abandoning the true faith of DeFi and Bitcoin maximalism." — PolitiTweet.org

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This from @CarlaZoeC has aged very well. https://t.co/LKOLjmjQ6u — PolitiTweet.org

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FTX situation is worse than Enron, according to the guy who was in charge of the Enron resolution and has now been installed at FTX. https://t.co/6yJu12yTYu — PolitiTweet.org

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Fellas, this is why you need to read @milansingh03's deadweight loss explainer before you go out on dates. https://t.co/PzHTXqCwR2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @blfraga: 🚨2022 GA Turnout by race/ethnicity🚨 (as share of citizen voting-age pop) Total: 51.2% (2018: 52.7%)⬇️ White: 58.4% (2018: 58.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @StefanFSchubert: @mattyglesias @EricLevitz @MattZeitlin Direct link to the Zeitlin article https://t.co/7u0Xzzhywd — PolitiTweet.org

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But only the Slow Boring take has mocktails. https://t.co/bKy86n52Pt — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course my SBF/EA take is the best one but I do also recommend these two from @EricLevitz (https://t.co/1xQjCQbZLw) and @mattzeitlin (https://t.co/f7W9NzbKEJ) which cover some different angles. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidmanheim I mean I’m quoting 80,000 Hours here not SBF — the EA org dedicated to giving people advice on their careers gave this a thumbs up. — PolitiTweet.org

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Tough on crime, unless the crime is trying to overthrow the government — PolitiTweet.org