Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@nilocobau The “long and narrow” country shape is really ideal for trains — PolitiTweet.org

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Italy, which whatever its problems is widely considered to be a beautiful country and a pleasant place to visit, has five times the population density of the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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Heading to Italy tomorrow so if you have Val d'Orcia recommendations please let me know. — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen Yeah obviously the Strip is safe, but almost all cities are like this — the shootings in Chicago aren’t happening inside the Loop. Vegas seems to just do a better job of reputation-management. What happens in Vegas… — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen FWIW the murder rate in Las Vegas is much higher than in New York, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, or other major cities. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LizMathis1: Ashley Hinson won’t say where she stands on criminalizing doctors and people who assist women seeking abortions because she… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ernietedeschi: The @WhiteHouseCEA Twitter threads are a labor of nerdy love by a whole team of amazing nerds. Thanks @Phil_Mattingly fo… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ModeledBehavior It’s a low base but he did more than double the number of foreigners. It seems like a big deal to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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But so, yes, if you are looking for a movie that can form the basis of a coherent Wikipedia page explaining how Gods work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or even what a God is — you will not find that here. It’s very funny. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the way to understand "Thor: Love and Thunder" is as a genre satire in the tradition of Spaceballs or Walk Hard, except further elevated by putatively taking place *inside* the fictional universe it is satirizing. — PolitiTweet.org

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If I wanted to call my kid X for short, I would name him Xavier. — PolitiTweet.org

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This seems much weirder than anything to do with the twitter transaction. https://t.co/TpTKDbNbhJ — PolitiTweet.org

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The case for a tactical anti-Elrich vote —> — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sunraysunray: Haven't read it, but I'm for changing zoning laws and making it easier to construct housing. You can still do that while… — PolitiTweet.org

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In February 2020, the country had a huge stock of "office building capital" and another stock of "spare rooms in residential dwellings capital." Remote work devalues the former and increases demand for the latter, and the switch happened inconveniently fast. — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of people underrate the extent to which the surge in housing demand is driven by remote work rather than macroeconomic conditions. https://t.co/28FxNsbTb2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbaugh @NateSilver538 I do. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 I was just struck in my real life by how much parental resistance there was to sending kids back to DCPS once the schools reopened. Not most parents by any means, but a significant bloc. https://t.co/LU29XqUq08 — PolitiTweet.org

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The globalization of culture war politics where you have European politicians talking about Roe v Wade is really something to behold. We already see voters completely ignoring local politics in favor of nationalized media and the next frontier is going to be wild. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 The actual forgotten thing about this is that the predictably bad policy had a large amount of public support for a while. https://t.co/xkTPI7XjRB — PolitiTweet.org

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@BovyMaltz Would be interesting to go through Forbes 400 and see how many (acknowledged) kids the members have. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Timodc IMO a big part of sounding "like a college professor" is prioritizing post-material environmental concerns over cheap gasoline. — PolitiTweet.org

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@5thAveSnoozer @MattZeitlin I can't help the fact that most people have bad taste. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Yeah, what I think all the most popular characters have in common is a kind of gee-whiz "what if a normal person but with cool powers" vibe instead of too much sci-fi weirdness. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin I think Love & Thunder's big weakness, commercially,, is going to be that it's a genuinely clever creative work of art. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanchait Sure but did Fox News make the Pacific Coast more liberal? — PolitiTweet.org

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@lxeagle17 The other interesting thing about 1990s politics is that Clinton’s vote share lagged so far behind his approval numbers — PolitiTweet.org

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@lxeagle17 Yeah. In 1992, Clinton gets 43% nationally and overperforms that in WV, TN, MO, LA, KY, and AR while falling a bit short in Oregon, Connecticut, and New Jersey. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not as directly relevant to the 2000 realignment but 1996 was a different universe on public safety issues, as Bill Clinton pitched gun control as part of a seamless web of pro-cop carceral politics — Dems were the party willing to invest in public services, including prisons. https://t.co/o3WHRyIyUS — PolitiTweet.org

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One idea is that 2000 is the first race in which contrasting attitudes toward fossil fuel extraction are a clear subject of partisan dispute. — PolitiTweet.org