Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

“Just do fake polls that assume it’s an R+2 national political environment” seems like you’d outperform a decent share of the existing public polling. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @VirusesImmunity: I could not agree more with @EricTopol 👇🏽 While we are gaining more insights into the disease pathogenesis of #longCO… — PolitiTweet.org

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The Wendy’s on 14th between 5th & University had a “help wanted” sign continuously for years in the late-90s not because it was literally always under-staffed but because they took for granted that their staff would parlay their work experience into better-paid jobs and move on. — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s a lot of money https://t.co/YDzPFvl0P3 — PolitiTweet.org

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At a minimum we shouldn’t let people take mortgage interest deduction on multiple houses — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottMcMac It hasn’t arrived yet — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This week is our first-time ever dropping the kid off at a school/camp/daycare that’s not walking distance from our house — I’m finally a real American doing a car dropoff. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asquith, Mast, & Reed (2019) Mast (2019) Pennington (2021) Li (2019) Mense (2020) Damiano & Frenier (2020) All find this — PolitiTweet.org

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In the whole course of human history it has never been less-boring to be home alone sitting on your couch doing nothing in particular, and I'm not sure that's good for us on balance. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd — PolitiTweet.org

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There are some optimistic interpretations one could offer here and also some dark ones... — PolitiTweet.org

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@hassankhan Yes but we can also add up the net effects. If all hammers disappeared tomorrow the impact on homicide would be trivial (hammer murders are rare, good hammer-substitutes are available) while the impact on construction would be profound. The technology matters. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheStalwart This is my understanding of the situation https://t.co/CrDRVaoi73 — PolitiTweet.org

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@marcscribner Well, and in DC things like e-bikes offer that. But a car is still going to be better if the parking is cheap and convenient at the destination. Which it often will be (great!) but we have too many rules *mandating* that it be oversupplied. — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, I don't know, I think we all could stand to try to cultivate a little more genuine humility, grace, and gratitude for the good fortunes we may have enjoyed — but I don't think that's what's going on there. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you make $30k per year then you are enjoying over double the global median income and are in some sense enjoying a lot of "US citizen privilege" regardless of your class position or ethnicity, but absolutely everyone understands that's a terrible way to engage people. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I look at it in a detached way and see that there really are important ways in which even a low-income white person enjoys certain advantages on the basis of race. But you should also be able to see why he'd find this kind of performative privilege-checking alienating. — PolitiTweet.org

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To be serious about this, it is a lot easier to see and acknowledge your privilege as a straight white man when you're also affluent and professionally successful. I don't find it surprising that objectively downscale people don't like to be lectured on their privilege. — PolitiTweet.org

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@marcscribner I think the whole concept is pretty much backwards — cars are usually the best option, but absent regulatory constraints you will sometimes get built environments where the space cost of cars isn't worth it so people will consider other options. — PolitiTweet.org

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Federal credit problems are an excellent way of doing things https://t.co/hhC0Nr1b5G — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My favorite one like this is that “black” derives from a word for “white” and is cognate with “blanco,” “blanc,” etc — PolitiTweet.org

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I grew up in what’s now NY-10 and current residents should know that they have the opportunity to send a housing champion to congress in @CarlinaRivera — NY YIMBYs are getting ready to spend for her. https://t.co/37npqMfiBP — PolitiTweet.org

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tl;dr it has never been a better time to sit at home, alone, on your couch, watching television or other video content. That’s an impressive technical achievement but it’s leaving many of us isolated and miserable. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd — PolitiTweet.org

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You look at any one of those trends and it’s fine — plenty of people are happy without kids, there is more to life than work, there’s nothing wrong with being an introvert — but less work AND fewer kids AND fewer friends actually sound pretty bleak. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd — PolitiTweet.org

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The upshot is that people aren’t only having fewer kids they are doing less of everything — church attendance is down, sports participation is down, labor force participation is down, and people have fewer friends. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd https://t.co/EVOhRF40wE — PolitiTweet.org

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Last week, @CharlesFLehman complained that single childless adults are too bored — but I think the reality is that thanks to greatly improved home entertainments they are less bored than ever. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd https://t.co/YgIbyhPhVk — PolitiTweet.org

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The tech itself is really good. Our present-day home entertainment reality is much much much better than what Edward Bellamy described when he tried to imagine a utopian future. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd https://t.co/SeE2N4wlqC — PolitiTweet.org

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And as I get to be more of a grumpy old person, I wonder more and more whether the bounty of streaming home entertainment options we currently enjoy is uncomfortably close to the development of better fentanyl. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd — PolitiTweet.org

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Technological progress is mostly very good, but it’s not uniformly good — we’ve had huge productivity increases in manufacturing methamphetamine and fentanyl and the consequences seem pretty bad. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd https://t.co/ZmOYI2ygcg — PolitiTweet.org

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An awful lot of presentism to this debate on criminal justice reform. — PolitiTweet.org

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Time for a 27-tweet thread on Valyrian genetics… — PolitiTweet.org