Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@SpecialPuppy1 We love a good state fixed effects map — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

“You expect me to believe you can’t remember the plot of the highest grossing movie of all time?” https://t.co/ukpKXF4FMm — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

🐐 Sigourney Weaver learned to free dive so should could do underwater performance-capture scenes (never been done before!) while portraying a different character than in the first Avatar. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am a Way of Water believer — PolitiTweet.org

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Nationals Park doesn’t conform with the existing zoning and absent some intervention it will become illegal to host baseball games there on September 30 (perhaps a sign that there are some flaws in this system) https://t.co/P6CoOD3vld — PolitiTweet.org

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There are other possibilities — advanced geothermal, some new kind of battery, direct air capture or CCS good enough to let us keep burning gas — but it needs to be something and the problem is big enough that I think we should try to advance on all fronts. — PolitiTweet.org

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But if you want to get to net zero then you either need to have a ton of hydro power available (Norway, Switzerland, Canada) or else you’re relying on some additional technology. I think Nuclear is a very plausible candidate here. https://t.co/wH2VEIulHb — PolitiTweet.org

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One takeaway from this is that at the current margin, natural gas is pretty green. When Russia adopted a “keep it in the ground” approach to their gas, EU emissions went up not down and there are valuable lessons here. https://t.co/wbcTnK6UWt — PolitiTweet.org

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Solar and wind are very cheap at the margin with natural gas (or hydro) backup, which makes them extremely potent decarbonization tools in a world where electrification of transportation and home heat are raising electricity demand. https://t.co/KHNEpDki5p — PolitiTweet.org

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Send the Venezuelan asylum seekers to Burlington so they can moderate Vermont politics with a healthy dose of skepticism about socialism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Marginalism running amok — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JigarShahDC: This is a bad take. We have to be able to build as much #solar/#wind as possible AND we will still need to do #nuclear, #… — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/FQIr3Sqx21 — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want to stop this guy you need to start running articles that show him standing next to some normal-sized politicians. — PolitiTweet.org

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At the end of the day, Ron DeSantis is much too short to be president and that’s all there is to it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeGrunwald That’s amazing — PolitiTweet.org

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@DiscardedPostIt He was both before and after me — PolitiTweet.org

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Hate to be this on demo but it still slaps https://t.co/JPi41cetWg — PolitiTweet.org

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@firasd Yeah *in retrospect* I can see that a big part of the issue is we are accustomed to a lot of imprecision in images compared to other areas. But it definitely didn't occur to me until I saw it. — PolitiTweet.org

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AI getting more impressive at generating images than text is not something I would have predicted. — PolitiTweet.org

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If I've been influential in any aspect of discourse over the years it's been in pushing the extremely boring opinion that rules that make it hard to build houses succeed in creating scarcity of housing. https://t.co/lxDZI5a54q — PolitiTweet.org

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I know the idea that the UK doesn't build enough housing has been repeatedly debunked, and yet: (1) UK houses are unusually expensive (2) UK houses are unusually small (3) The UK planning regime is unusually strict So it kinda seems like they don't build enough housing — PolitiTweet.org

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Like I think if you were to pitch an op-ed with the thesis "abortion politics reflects a lot of sincere disagreement about hard-to-resolve theological issues" that editors wouldn't find it very interesting. But it's clearly true! — PolitiTweet.org

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@razibkhan We're more religious/traditionalistic than Italy. https://t.co/A8HEfBwz8X — PolitiTweet.org

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In general, I think there's a bad bias toward discussing novel or interesting explanations of things rather than just repeating boring ones. It's why trolling can be a valuable skill — the world needs people who can attract attention to boring ideas. — PolitiTweet.org

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"American public opinion is more conservative than public opinion in Europe" is so boring that it's very underrated as an explanation for things. But we're clearly much more religious and individualistic. — PolitiTweet.org

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"In fact, as of 2018 (i.e., before the death rate in America started surging), rich Americans died at roughly the rate of poor Europeans." https://t.co/92djCTYsaQ — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m afraid Florida stunts are actually distracting attention from what’s legitimately a serious problem in Texas. https://t.co/NsWvsM1mQV https://t.co/1N10qISSV1 — PolitiTweet.org

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The royal family already has a bunch of nice houses, it's everyone else who's facing a problem. https://t.co/s0hrIUCLSp — PolitiTweet.org

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@JimDMiller @jessesingal Do you think a law saying left-handed people aren't allowed to get jobs would make right-handed people better-off or worse off? — PolitiTweet.org