Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@klobustan No, that’s why they often do things that aren’t helpful to Democrats’ campaigns. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@tobinjstone No https://t.co/aH92LfVRX8 — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@JamesBondarchuk I think the instincts are similar but to succeed in academia it helps to be someone whose work improves a lot if you spend a lot of time on a project, while in digital media it helps to be able to do “good enough” work at a very rapid pace. — PolitiTweet.org

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@danwaterfield Why? I think a very large majority of the population has made their peace with not being well-suited to a career as a college professor. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I like to overthink internet jokes and spoil the fun https://t.co/JcUghRkV6C — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

They want to ban abortion at 0 weeks even for rape victims, they want to roll back marriage equality, and they want to undo decades of change in sexual freedom and women’s rights — they know the public won’t stand for it, so they want a system where the voters can’t stop them. — PolitiTweet.org

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In general, the whole discourse on the Trumpian threat to democracy needs a bit more emphasis on the “so what?” part. They want to overturn elections and end the rule of We The People for reasons — to do bad things that benefit the few rather than the many. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I’m not very good on television but that’s the most basic media training they give you — go on the show and just work whatever you want to talk about into the answer. It seems like something professional politicians should be capable of pulling off. — PolitiTweet.org

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These guys are crooks who only care about themselves. They smear hard-working career FBI agents for partisan gain. They side with Big Oil over our efforts to get more and cheaper energy. Trump is selfish and greedy and they love him for it, that’s their values. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rich guys like Trump think the rules don’t apply to them, but we’re leveling the playing field. We’re going to let the FBI do its job and finally let Medicare bargain with pharmaceutical companies to get a square deal. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fundamentally, I just don’t accept that it’s really so hard to engage with the scandal content and also drive the points you want to make. They’re covering for Trump because they hate the rule of law, same reason they voted en masse to protect tax cheats. — PolitiTweet.org

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The problem, as @brianbeutler has been saying, is this doesn’t focus the media on what Democrats want to talk about (abortion rights and prescription drug prices) it keeps the focus on the raid but fills the airwaves with unrebutted GOP propaganda. — PolitiTweet.org

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Democratic elected officials I’ve spoken to believe, I think rightly, that media focus on Trump scandals is not actually very helpful to them which makes them reluctant to engage in debates over things like the Mar-a-Lago raid. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinTLogan The complaint is that he answered the question he was asked? — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Would you rather have reliable service and clean air or be centered? https://t.co/rKJQayPTP1 — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I mean there was a month of zero inflation, that’s why people said it. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A rare movie that I think would work better as a TV show that just kind of let’s you knock around an interesting setting. https://t.co/Gk0iESrUEq — PolitiTweet.org

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@benjicardoso38 Was really surprised the two Jewish hosts didn’t catch that — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@js_thrill This is the problem with non-consequentialist ethics — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@bo_austin_ Well, I have a successful career in journalism so it seems like it worked out fine for everyone involved. — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of really sick, deranged stuff being cheered on by congressional republicans — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think this is the margin at which I drop my least-valued streaming service — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It would be like a European coming to the states and concluding that it’s a big problem that we don’t have many places to hang wet clothing. — PolitiTweet.org

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The fact that these processes are not used in countries that have much better outcomes is good evidence that the processes are bad and we should try to learn from countries that achieve better results. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann @EricLevitz Given that the activism was useless, I don’t see how creating more activists was useful. If we replaced 10,000 climate activists with like two people inspired to do engineering work on batteries, that would be a win. — PolitiTweet.org

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This whole piece is basically a reductio of the equity analysis fad, concluding that American transit is better than Dutch because even though the outcomes are worse on every dimension we do more equity analysis and community consultation. https://t.co/VnTFIAcCYA — PolitiTweet.org

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Liz Truss poised to become prime minister with no charisma or achievements shows how far ahead of us the UK is in terms of feminism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@willystaley @MattZeitlin I always mix him up with JJ Abrams (both are bad) — PolitiTweet.org

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Tough for those of us Polk-pilled by TMBG — PolitiTweet.org

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@marcscribner @ramav_matsci But, like, you couldn’t just put a driverless freight truck on the road or run ads about how you can take a nap in your new Tesla while commuting right? — PolitiTweet.org