Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A great job so far of avoiding significant backlash to Biden's policy initiatives, economic conditions now in the drivers seat... — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I will do this in column form, but as a critique of narrative journalism (which is bad in the same way) so it doesn't trigger historians. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I will do this in post form, but as a critique of journalism (which is bad in the same way) so it doesn't trigger people. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Like, no, you are not understanding correctly. https://t.co/hBRXZX66FN — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I felt like this was a pretty clearly stated disagreement about a relatively narrow point, but certain historians' reactions to it are making me wonder about their reading comprehension. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pathetic stuff — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The Blake Masters campaign https://t.co/47UFW3d5Tg — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Until it turns out the FBI has recovered the pee tape from the Mar-a-Lago raid. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JakeAnbinder I want the record to reflect that my bad tweet said the lack of explicitness is confusing to outsiders, and now we're around to the counterargument that what outsiders don't understand is it just isn't explicit. So we agree — it's not explicit, and that's confusing. https://t.co/pwEYPN4Pia — PolitiTweet.org

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I guess with the income threshold in place this is probably mostly going to benefit teachers, which is a sympathetic group. But we really need to take a harder look at the actual value of these M.Ed. programs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@IDoTheThinking Or, like, tax fraud. Not all crimes are committed by poor people in need of more social services! — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans want to eliminate, privatize, or cut Social Security while Dark Brandon is prepping the largest cost-of-living increase in a generation. — PolitiTweet.org

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Still think it's wild that they didn't limit it to undergrad debt... — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 @DemocraticLuntz @ding3rs Voters were frustrated that he didn’t deliver on student debt — PolitiTweet.org

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Gell-Mann Amnesia where you suddenly notice that journalism isn’t very accurate when the article is about your field is very real. At the same time, every fictional depiction of a newsroom is wildly off-base as are all normies’ accounts of why the media is is how it is. — PolitiTweet.org

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Colleges should be teaching students practical career skills like how to do search-demand posts, how to seem like a team player during a pivot to video, and how to maximize frequent flier miles when a third party is paying for your airfare. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s real psycho shit to spend time voluntarily following my extremely high volume Twitter account and then complain that you find the tweets annoying — nobody is making do this!!! — PolitiTweet.org

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Just 👏 don’t 👏 follow 👏 me 👏 https://t.co/LufrErSsok — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RegionalPlan: "The legislature must focus on reforms that will generate more homes rather than threatening one of the few mechanisms fo… — PolitiTweet.org

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@awprokop But what does Tarantino think about Phase 4? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Noahpinion: Flying the U.S. flag upside down doesn't exactly seem like "patriotism" to me...you're not supposed to do that — PolitiTweet.org

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@mkazin I mean this is America so if you can get some courts to agree with you and overturn the legislature that also works. — PolitiTweet.org

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The lesbian dance theory thing is dumb, but what’s true both about college and about K-12 curriculum is that to the extent you want education to be publicly funded it’s going to need to comport with elected officials’ ideas about what’s worthwhile. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/ztRj4l1ozv — PolitiTweet.org

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@gcaw @bnalyanya @nfergus Good class — PolitiTweet.org

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Good questions: — Should we build a temple to Osiris or to Ra? — Should we build temples or should we build pyramids? — Would you prefer more temple-building or lower taxes? But if you ask a one-sided question, everyone says yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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Should we build a temple to Osiris? (65/30) Should be build a temple to Osiris? Proponents say it will attract the favor of the gods and bring strong harvests but critics say it will increase the price of gasoline. (42/45) — PolitiTweet.org

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It's worth recalling that almost any policy proposal polls as popular if you ask the question without providing a counterargument or an alternative. — PolitiTweet.org

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Three things I think most people don't know about the past ten years in higher education: — The number of college-age youth has fallen — Net tuition has fallen — Enrollment rates leveled off Compared to a decade ago, many fewer students and they are paying less. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jneeley78 @pegobry Oh! Because the US Department of Justice is the moral and political equivalent of the Russian one? Got it. — PolitiTweet.org