Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The greatness of America is that alongside the genius @ClaudeKelly, we have people from England and Sweden with songwriting credits on our best patriotic anthem. — PolitiTweet.org

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@arindube @KiraboJackson The pilot thing is also about a regulatory change made at a period of weaker labor markets and much lower demand for flying. https://t.co/xEv2SGBQ61 https://t.co/idjhtUdbPm — PolitiTweet.org

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Let’s be real: The Founding Fathers *never* would have accepted mandatory parking minimums as part of their vision for the country. — PolitiTweet.org

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George cancelling Bette Middler https://t.co/CoqbVcRKn5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Plausible — PolitiTweet.org

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“We should have price controls and rationing during a wartime emergency” is a plausible view and certainly something many countries have done during national security crisis. But you’d have to, like, actually put a plan in place to do that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Howard continues to have a lot of upside potential in terms of developing its surface parking lots on what’s now very valuable land. https://t.co/64lrUqVzu0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@jdcmedlock Well that's why I tried to avoid using any of those places in my text — PolitiTweet.org

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Fundamentally, though, America could have dramatically higher living standards in terms of both income and weather if we reformed land use in California. — PolitiTweet.org

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@stanveuger Yes, but they don't have the same internal migration dynamic we do (language barriers, etc, many reasons). — PolitiTweet.org

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And Norway has more and richer billionaires than Minnesota, I suppose because super-rich Americans don't want to live someplace so cold. (I've only been in Minneapolis in the summer and it was lovely both times) https://t.co/NBF0flhdlK — PolitiTweet.org

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Messed this up before! You could enjoy Norwegian levels of material prosperity if you moved to Minneapolis, but it's even colder in the winter than Oslo (warmer in the summer). https://t.co/TSyhWrUNKh — PolitiTweet.org

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@CustMichael This is PPP-adjusted! — PolitiTweet.org

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An interesting thing about trying to do living standard comparisons is that the richest places in the United States are relatively cold, and the revealed preference is to move to warm states instead. https://t.co/BsAiKheoUq — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 @simon_bazelon But Massachusetts > Finland. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Imagine being this ghoulish. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nilocobau Wonder if DOD has any fun zoning exemptions…. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nilocobau Geneva Convention should prohibit this land use. The 11th Wing could go back to Andrews AFB. White House Communications Agency should go downtown now that there’s less demand. The rest should move to the parking lots. https://t.co/957WmzF6bQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@hamandcheese Norman Angell sad trombone — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve been thinking an inflationary climate is time to bring back basic economics, but Nikki Haley can’t even do routine math. https://t.co/SgzU6FXNnF — PolitiTweet.org

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@hamandcheese I feel like Russians, Ukrainians, Americans, Germans, and basically everyone except the Saudis would be a lot better off if Russia hadn’t attacked Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattBruenig @JamesSharpsteen @soncharm @gpurcell When I was a kid in NYC we didn’t even use that word and just called them “delis.” — PolitiTweet.org

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An important insight I gleaned from Bernard Bailyn is the value of studying bad takes https://t.co/jsyIQDVMsm https://t.co/yaGTbSkUP9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sasha_trub: Two charts I've seen in the last few days that seemed oddly complementary - since 2009, Europe has been gaining life expe… — PolitiTweet.org

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@DeanBaker13 Very low! Hence the political value of seeming chill. — PolitiTweet.org

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@heterodox_blogs @DeanBaker13 These are good points on economics, but I don’t understand them as an explanation of voting patterns — it’s not like the parties that have been gaining working class votes are dismantling patent monopolies or tackling the doctors’ cartel. — PolitiTweet.org

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America’s best and most valuable qualities will not survive in a changing world if we give in to racists, free market dogmatists, or eco-doomers. We need to recruit global talent, support parents & kids, and go for growth. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 now more than ever 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 — PolitiTweet.org

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The patriots fought and worked, initially, to preserve their understanding of the status quo and to vindicate their historic rights as English subjects. But on July 4 they announced that solution was inadequate and that to vindicate their goals they needed to think bigger. — PolitiTweet.org

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This July 4 ask yourself — if rising from 13 colonies with a population of 3-4 million people into today’s superpower was good, wouldn’t it be even better to keep growing? https://t.co/6AJy9XvJj6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Best example of non-opportunism is probably on campaign finance reform where Democrats want to curb “dark money” that mostly supports them and create a public financing system that would mostly help right-populists. — PolitiTweet.org