Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@PhilWMagness @ATabarrok One of the similarities here is that workers get vacation days? — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexbward @MattZeitlin Here’s a dangerously escalatory idea: Full debt forgiveness for people who volunteer to fight in Ukraine — PolitiTweet.org

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YMMV but I think a nation with equal rights under law for all citizens is a good idea. https://t.co/WpXE5ggt7y — PolitiTweet.org

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The man does his part to rebalance demand and reduce inflation by spending a small part of his vast fortune on a luxury yacht vacation in Italy and the liberal media goes after him for it. Sad stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now that we are out of the FAIT holding pattern we should probably go back to assuming the Fed neutralizes everything and say that fiscal policy measures change interest rates rather than being inflationary or disinflationary. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bendreyfuss: Hats off to the NYT union on this very well put together and compelling report https://t.co/msMfX6j5Qd — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyways, as a city/state fiscal hybrid DC has an unusual revenue mix! — PolitiTweet.org

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I appreciate the DC government’s commitment to worst practices in graphic design https://t.co/ci9UTW82kj — PolitiTweet.org

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Just as trying to repeal the ACA hurt Trump more than any scandal, privatizing Social Security was Bush’s real Katrina. Republicans just can’t quit safety net rollback. — PolitiTweet.org

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This ep makes me feel young again — remember when the “net roots” mobilized to beat Bush’s Social Security privatization plan? — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a joint DOL/ED initiative to promote apprenticeships to create a non-college path to match young workers with in-demand skills. That sounds interesting! https://t.co/WZNNkM5WaW — PolitiTweet.org

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What's true is that nothing you can do on this front (forgive all debt, forgive no debt, forgive some debt) constitutes actual forward-looking higher education policy. I'm looking forward to being able to talk about that instead of endlessly debating one-off debt relief! — PolitiTweet.org

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Nothing's official until it's official, but the debt forgiveness plan that's been leaked strikes me a reasonably prudent reconciling of Biden's campaign commitments with the needs of the current economic situation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichardHanania I can't speak to women's experiences, but a cognate phenomenon that I see very clearly is I'm viewed as less threatening when I have my kid with me. The relevant stereotyping has a factual basis, but I still don't enjoy being treated as presumptively dangerous when I'm not. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichardHanania I'm not sure what I actually wrote that you disagree with — my suggestion would be that if you think everything I said was correct, you could give me one of those little twitter hearts or say "I'm pretty right-wing, but everything in this thread is correct." — PolitiTweet.org

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One last tweet on this! U Street was majority-Black when I first moved there (it's become whiter since) so I found myself being the only white person in the room in various day-to-day situations and I'm struck by how rarely the typical white American has that experience. — PolitiTweet.org

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As I threaded yesterday, I do think the "white privilege" discourse sometimes embeds toxic and unproductive class politics. But if you're just a bit reflective about it, it's definitely real and significant. https://t.co/Q4pHrRH9I0 — PolitiTweet.org

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I dress up when appropriate, but also walk around the neighborhood looking like a slob sometimes. My friends with different skin coloring worry a lot about how they'll be perceived if they are dressing too casually — and about the consequences of that misperception. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I can't prove that happened because of how I look, but I think someone with different pigmentation would be viewed much more skeptically in this kind of situation. Recommend @ElijaAnderson's book "Black in White Space" for great discussion of this. https://t.co/YHTOf65i56 — PolitiTweet.org

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... when I got to the men's room, it turned out you needed a room key to open it. I didn't have one because I'm not a guest there. But a passing staff member glanced at the situation, thought I looked like someone he should help out, and swiped me in. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the obvious race-based privileges that white guys enjoy have to do with how you are "read" by total strangers in random situations. For example, I was recently in Manhattan and needed to pee so I went into a hotel lobby and started heading to a restroom... — PolitiTweet.org

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@DanteAtkins @brianbeutler The best you can do is try to lean into conservative value-framings. https://t.co/UW0QD183k6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler All of the answers are here. https://t.co/SV0CDjj7qs — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann @conorsen @NathanTankus Wait wait wait let's just back up. It is absolutely not the case that left-wing critics of YIMBYism have been saying YIMBYism wouldn't lead to new construction. People oppose zoning reform because they think it *will* lead to new construction and that's bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is bad timing for my newsletter schedule this week and I think they should wait until Thursday. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a bit of a discourse/reality mismatch here, the Obama administration put some fairly weak accountability measures in place for universities and what Trump did was repeal them rather than make them stronger or broader. — PolitiTweet.org

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Is Yglesias unaware that IRS funding is the bill's political weak point, or is that actually in the text of the article? Only one way to find out... https://t.co/iTL1KfgXbU https://t.co/5dVBz5iQ9x — PolitiTweet.org

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I wish Ruffini had included a link to the piece both because that would have been helpful to marketing and also because the tension he's pointing to is actually the lede of the article! https://t.co/iTL1KfgXbU — PolitiTweet.org

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@PatrickRuffini This is literaly the subject of the article. https://t.co/iTL1KfgXbU https://t.co/IIfvvxePEC — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm at a coffee shop in Foxhall right now where a townhouse that's not very large sells for over a million bucks. I think even under tough financing conditions people would build midrise apartments here if it was allowed. https://t.co/yCuuX9VLk7 — PolitiTweet.org