Matthew Yglesias

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Indeed, housing affordability is usually highest where there are the *most* vacant homes rather than the fewest (which is a sign of scarcity not efficient use). https://t.co/DZHToSxbqy — PolitiTweet.org

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Yeah, but medieval peasants were basically on vacation 24/7 and didn't need to worry about seed oils. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Khidr25 It is genuinely fine with me that you haven't read the book, haven't read anything I've written about the book, haven't read any coverage of the book, and have no idea what the thesis or argument of the book is. Life is busy, fair enough. But please don't opine about it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TrevorGriffey And no big cities either. — PolitiTweet.org

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For the record, if you tripled the US population then on average the country as a whole would be slightly less dense than Connecticut is today. People have this idea that One Billion Americans is about Kowloon Walled City or favelas or something, but Connecticut is very nice. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarketUrbanism I have a friend who grew up on Park Avenue and then did Teach for America in the Mississippi Delta and outraged her students by saying she lived in an apartment before college because they could tell she was a rich white lady who went to a fancy school. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nilocobau Would be cool to superimpose a map of San Francisco's footprint on this to get a sense of the scale. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattGrossmann How well can we distinguish declining effects from declining effort? i.e. in the past, some Dems from conservative states would actually be to the right of some Rs from liberal ones (since the median voter in GA is right of the median in ME) which nobody tries anymore. — PolitiTweet.org

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👀👀👀 https://t.co/c4rZY0xXpA — PolitiTweet.org

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@Willyintheworld How would you even know? That’s the nature of controlling the platform. — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple, another American company with massive manufacturing interests in China, maintains a rule that no Apple TV+ content is allowed to upset the Chinese government. That’s shitty but ultimately trivial compared to applying a similar rule to Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@hamandcheese @ColdButtonIssue Maybe. My interpretation was always that conservatives have a principled opposition to subject-matter knowledge and so they index heavily on constitutional law because the whole field is transparently top to bottom nonsense. — PolitiTweet.org

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The problem with Elon Musk owning Twitter is that his business interests in China far exceed the value of Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@biztsar @DistractedAnna Yes people need cars. But it’s not a speculative asset where people are counting on their car to finance their retirement or whatever. They just want to drive it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@hamandcheese @ColdButtonIssue But I think that’s the point — if you have good LSAT scores and are willing to recite some FedSoc mumbo-jumbo you are basically guaranteed a high-level role in American politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DistractedAnna Total auto loan debt is like 1/10th of total mortgage debt. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @calebwatney: The Washington Post editorial board on the USICA conference process https://t.co/Lo1Fj58GBB https://t.co/9nW4rPCDor — PolitiTweet.org

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Strange New Worlds / Alien crossover is very fun. — PolitiTweet.org

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The anti-monopoly people should talk about the benefits to consumers of streaming video being fragmented across Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, Peacock, etc instead of just buying a single bundle from the cable company. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa It’s not very well-labeled, I’ll have to make a better one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KiraboJackson Yes it’s mostly that low unemployment has disproportionate benefits for marginalized groups. But there is a slow long-term reduction in the ratio as well. https://t.co/i5XJFozsHP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shannonrwatts: Jason Ford, 45, a landscaper in Washington, DC, was shot and killed by a passing driver who was angry that grass clippin… — PolitiTweet.org

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@StefanFSchubert Black unemployment is usually ~2x white unemployment so the lower the overall unemployment rate the smaller the absolute gap. — PolitiTweet.org

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The racial employment rate gap is at its lowest level ever. https://t.co/tzLqordyCf — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann @lymanstoneky There is also this somewhat odd discussion of executing a pregnant woman. https://t.co/e7PTONIQ40 https://t.co/YI8B86VuzR — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 I went to see civil war reenactors at Gettysburg today! Still plenty of time for tweeting https://t.co/wO7Kuf0yBK — PolitiTweet.org

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@joshua_slykhuis @ChristinaPushaw @ezralevant I was just kidding around, I’m Joe Manchin’s #1 fan https://t.co/W013nml3Nn — PolitiTweet.org

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@mateosfo Has Poland been reducing automobile use? — PolitiTweet.org

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Note that it’s Cal State and obscure UT campuses, though. It’s the whole non-prestige tier of American higher education that gets under-discussed. Quality here is very mixed but when it’s good it’s extremely valuable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StevenBratman Got any charts of life expectancy at 50 or whatever? — PolitiTweet.org