Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Imagine living in a country with no Italian subs. — PolitiTweet.org

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My hottest, most patriotic take is that Italian-American cuisine is superior. https://t.co/mNoVJe1NVq — PolitiTweet.org

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The economic benefits of immigration, but instead of obtaining them by increasing people's freedom do it by taking their rights away. https://t.co/6FYdQJBdTu — PolitiTweet.org

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We're still refighting old battles about social issues from the 2020 primary, but Democrats' biggest political problem by far is inflation — where I think they *say* the right things and just don't *do* enough of them. https://t.co/xEv2SGBQ61 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shannonrwatts: The Uvalde mother was pulled over for a traffic stop and falsely accused of having undocumented immigrants in her car. A… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump’s conduct between Election Day and January 6 is very controversial in conservative circles, but there seems to be unanimous agreement that “it’s a republic not a democracy” fully answers questions about the fairness of the system so onward we shall go. — PolitiTweet.org

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We edge ever closer to a world where Republicans dispense with election fraud nonsense and just have gerrymandered state legislatures directly allocate electoral votes. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think if there are two candidates for office running in an election and one of the candidates is better than the other candidate you should vote for that candidate and all other commentary about voting harder or whatever is dumb and pointless. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nycsouthpaw: The Conservatives are textualists until the text confers an authority they don’t like. In that case, they sweep all that… — PolitiTweet.org

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Basically I would say: — The establishment outflanked Bernie on the left on identity issues for mostly cynical reasons — Bernie's skepticism of this was vindicated by events — But instead of standing his ground, he outflanked the establishment by going even further left — PolitiTweet.org

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Here @MattBruenig endorses Tumblr and the Clinton 2016 campaign as two key modes of transition for the wokepocalypse and I agree, though he doesn't want to talk about Bernieworld's perverse trajectory post-2016. https://t.co/OrpOpWCkr3 — PolitiTweet.org

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I sometimes think that we should RETVRN TO TRADITION and have schools teach really dumb nonstop right-wing propaganda and then your cool uncle gives you a copy of "Lies My Teacher Told Me." — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 I bet Susan Collins would vote for Susan Collins' abortion rights bill! https://t.co/V8QRVpR2a3 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Philip_DT: This is not getting as much traction as it should. — PolitiTweet.org

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I hope it is right though because this is hilarious. https://t.co/Y0JOP4Lst0 — PolitiTweet.org

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While Fancy Lawyer Republicans insist that congress shouldn't be allowed to delegate detailed rulemaking to administrative agencies, Republican Party politicians complain nonstop that bills are too long. — PolitiTweet.org

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We need to stop philosophy professors from tweeting. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think this "candidate quality will save Democrats in the senate" stuff is pretty unlikely to come to fruition and the individual race polling will converge with Biden approval. — PolitiTweet.org

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Since we're really just talking about messaging bills, wouldn't it be a better message to be backing the bipartisan Collins/Murkowski abortion right bill? The differences between this in WHPA don't seem huge. People like things that are bipartisan. https://t.co/V8QRVpzqLt — PolitiTweet.org

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For SCOTUS reasons and others, I'm very skeptical the United States is going to meet its emissions reduction targets. We do contribute 5% of Slow Boring revenue to carbon removal projects, hoping cost-effectiveness will improve over time as scale grows. https://t.co/AvUJhnIuJu — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman They're just both true. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattizcoop: Justice Kadan in EPA: Some years ago, I remarked that “[w]e’re all textualists now.” It seems I was wrong. The current Cou… — PolitiTweet.org

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@binarybits @RyanRadia @cubicearth 15% of fruit is sent in my kid's day camp lunchbox and then returns home uneaten. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Latent_Dev To be clear, I turned comments off because disagreeing with me about this is an insta-block and I don't want to block tons of people. — PolitiTweet.org

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Right now the fact that the Collins/Murkowski bill or Romney's child benefit bill couldn't pass *even if Democrats agreed to support it* becomes a key argument against compromise wielded by progressive advocacy groups. There's little incentive to make deals & do stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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To once again pitch Filibuster Reform For Moderates, the WHPA couldn't pass the senate even without the filibuster. But with the filibuster dead, we could get a bipartisan vote for the Collins/Murkowski bill. https://t.co/CqR2oNrIVy — PolitiTweet.org

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I also just think it is more publicly defensible and honest to say that you generally prefer a majority-voting system — it's a very familiar system that is widely used in all kinds of contexts. — PolitiTweet.org

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It seems like a 3% or 4% target for core inflation wouldn't be the worst idea in the world. (Just gotta pair it with supply-side efforts to bring energy costs down) — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea that Framers could create a congress whose legislative authority is so supreme they could not choose to delegate it is just laughable on its face — it blows my mind that serious people claim to believe conservative jurisprudence on the regulatory state. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ExpressNews: In the letter to President Joe Biden, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Gov. Greg Abbott has used the issues of imm… — PolitiTweet.org