Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Transportation technology has changed a lot — everything from ride hailing apps to scooters and e-bikes and even just having ubiquitous maps on your phones. But we can’t take full advantage of new technology if zoning keeps cities frozen. https://t.co/55qhPW3E9a — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Correctly identifying criminals and exonerating innocent people both seem like pretty good uses of technology to me. https://t.co/QAAUlHA3Fv — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I'm not a very observant Jew but whenever a famous person dies I get creeper out by Christians leaving their corpses hanging around above ground for so long. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Let Biden be Biden! Every president needs aides but he has better political judgment than the average Dem staffer and his “gaffes” are usually good. https://t.co/edmXthQhFb — PolitiTweet.org

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@razibkhan Oh yeah, I’d do a whole season on Jon trying to stockpile bacon like they explain in the books. — PolitiTweet.org

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They should do a spin-off series about these orange and cinnamon traders Ser Criston is talking about — what’s the going rate for cinnamon these days? — PolitiTweet.org

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You never see anything normal in Westeros like a farm or a guy who’s in charge of stockpiling pickles for winter. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ARossP: The central conceit of fusionism—the strategy of conjoining conservatism and libertarianism—is that liberty needs virtue, and c… — PolitiTweet.org

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The reason you are seeing more efforts at diverse casting and storytelling is that Hollywood has clearly been behind the curve in terms of audience demand. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JosephPolitano: It's not just rent though—services prices excluding shelter are actually growing faster than rent on a year-over-year b… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mcalistp I think I am making a calm, measured critique — PolitiTweet.org

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@nbeaudrot I don’t remember second grade *at all* I just think philosophically they should be throwing a few reach problems onto each worksheet. — PolitiTweet.org

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Gotta go for total muscle failure or else you’re not accomplishing anything. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I feel like they make the second graders’ math problems too easy so everyone can feel like they’re doing well — should be crushing their spirits with harder questions sooner. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

These demented liars have no interest in solving problems and they don’t have your interests at heart. https://t.co/G6WQsE4fqw — PolitiTweet.org

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I support the current thing (my kid’s second grade soccer team). — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Here’s why the power outages in Puerto Rico show I’m right about this other basically unrelated dispute that just happens to involve electricity. (1/27) — PolitiTweet.org

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@PatrickIber @delong I was actually just thinking that Brad’s book is a lot less Whiggish than some of the others I’ve read in this genre. — PolitiTweet.org

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@epkaufm Well exactly — more skilled immigrants would boost productivity and growth and make even more people want to come here. The most reliable strategy to stop immigration would be to deliberately wreck the economy (bad idea though imo). — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LizaBReed: Great piece by @SashaMackler! "Electric transmission lines are a core backbone of a clean energy economy and the poster chi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow. Mask off. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Last1OfTheBest @EdAsante77 No! Yglesias thinks we should try to prevent border crossings. https://t.co/z3FpRoH7uu — PolitiTweet.org

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Good book and I think a lot of broad parallels with urban housing politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, Trump took a hammer to skilled immigration. https://t.co/Dmfojl6ZW3 https://t.co/FHJXeTgrxt — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree with this, but it's also hard not to see that 90% of the fighting in the United States is about "the border" and asylum claims not about the allocation of visas. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's no perfect system, but to extent that we think about reform we need to think in terms of matching our institutions to the realities of a highly nationalized media. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of my hottest takes is that the Reagan growth spurt was basically just second-wave feminism. https://t.co/aZJIcBmH1l https://t.co/232ebEmHrB — PolitiTweet.org

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You would not infer from looking at this chart that Ronald Reagan broke the back of the postwar economic consensus and inaugurated a new era of small government ideological hegemony. https://t.co/rZSlLAa6bs — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnHCochrane @drfarls It might well be the case that a system that selected for good teachers would end up hiring excellent researchers, but it’s still odd that the selection system places ~zero explicit weight on teaching — PolitiTweet.org

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@StefanFSchubert Still seems pretty high — PolitiTweet.org