Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @bananalise: sick over this department of sanitation tiktok https://t.co/ftYSu0ZTLA — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Here’s why the New York Times sometimes running op-eds I disagree with is a threat to democracy. (1/27) — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Three billion dollars https://t.co/kAPlyhPcq9 — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanlscott Also it’s amazing how good this show is after so much blah Trek content in recent years! — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanlscott It’s sad that given the prequel nature of the show we know it can’t work out — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @larabazelon: After a string of horrifically botched executions, Oklahoma is preparing to put 25 people to death over the next two years… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin This is triggering to those of us who are 41 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SandyDarity: One of the key problems with the claim that student debt cancellation will close the racial wealth gap is the broader impl… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jmillerlewis Since I’m an American and not some kind of English freak, I don’t draw a distinction between “liberals” and other kinds of progressives — Bernie Sanders, one of the most liberal members of the senate, has exactly the right view of this kind of thing. https://t.co/Waecg3B4kg — PolitiTweet.org

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@IrvingSwisher @JHWeissmann On behalf of zoning twitter, I want to acknowledge that this is true — the stock of old houses is much larger than the flow of new ones so while supply matters over time short-term rents are much more sensitive to demand. — PolitiTweet.org

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Gotta say, I don't think it's a great idea for progressives to shun this guy. Talk to his audience. Maybe convince them of some stuff. Maybe convince him of some stuff. Worst case scenario he'll bully you into losing weight. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChuckCBPP I'm not really talking about tax policy (where, as you say, there are carry-forward options to address volatility) so much as this kind of headline which pretends the volatility doesn't exist. https://t.co/lDHljrEhwP — PolitiTweet.org

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@moskov @GiveWell We are all doing our part. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve enjoyed John Boehner’s post-retirement persona as much as the next guy, but his cowardice on this point blocked a very sane bipartisan solution and contributed significantly to breaking the country. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you went back to 2013 with mass-scale interior removals are impractical, a giant physical barrier won’t really work, but a huge surge of irregular migration would be undesirable you’d have been comfortably within the Gang of 8 bipartisan consensus (which was right all along). — PolitiTweet.org

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Somewhat relatedly, Trump used to talk a lot about how building a wall would dramatically improve border security but now that Joe Biden is president it’s supposedly Democrats’ fault that this isn’t true and it didn’t accomplish much. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump ended up increasing interior removals from their late-Obama pace but to a level that was way below the early-Obama levels. https://t.co/qpCYulX6mE https://t.co/vqJXjLi38v — PolitiTweet.org

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The immigration debate in 2016-2017 was largely about interior enforcement (Trump’s “deportation force” vs “abolish ICE”) and path to citizenship, but it’s shifted to be all about asylum claimants with the old debate vanishing from view. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss You don't find a lot of indicators where New York goes with South Carolina and Alabama — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justinbaragona: A lot of people who definitely should have known better amplified this false claim from the LOTT account. In reality,… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @crampell: After two incidents in 2019—one where Crimo tried to kill himself, another where he threatened to “kill everyone"—police remo… — PolitiTweet.org

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@crampell Society if we'd said yes to Dubai Ports World back in the Bush days. https://t.co/ZAAzDL2cxt — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, calling people by their preferred names is the easiest thing in the world — be kind and decent. — PolitiTweet.org

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Last year, @GiveWell said they had more money than cost-effective giving opportunities. This year they found more opportunities! Great discussion at the link, but tl;dr is they could use more money. https://t.co/ozJwoeNR63 — PolitiTweet.org

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Right now I'm pretty worried that DeSantis is going to win the presidency and 61 GOP senators after a campaign that focuses on the idea that he called college professors mean names and then turn around and eviscerate the welfare state to eliminate capital gains taxes. — PolitiTweet.org

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An important part of baseball is knowing which pitches not to swing at — you should try to set a reasonably high outrage bar for "state policy in a state I don't live in." — PolitiTweet.org

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DeSantis' go-to move is inspiring twitter progressives to massively overreact to relatively small culture war provocations, helping him build up a big reputation on the right without really committing to all that much. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hamandcheese: 😬 Great fresh thinking from ... [checks notes] ... George W. Bush's failed second term. Is it too late for Trump to take… — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s a bunch of better-identified studies on Medicaid and crime — they show directionally the same thing (Medicaid reduces crime largely via increased access to substance abuse treatment) but smaller effects. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am interested in Medicaid/crime research and tweeted this out in the spirit of “this paper is interesting” but I have some qualms about the methodology so I’m deleting because I don’t want people to take it too seriously. https://t.co/cYRNbhvU6v — PolitiTweet.org