Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What people sometimes want to do is go in for really edgy protest tactics, which is a mistake — any large, normal, peaceful demonstration drives coverage *of your message* whereas the edgy tactics tend to drive coverage of the tactics. You want people to see the slogans. — PolitiTweet.org

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Because the distribution of opinion varies from state to state, people are going to need to be somewhat flexible and pragmatic in terms of specific legislative demands but there will be winnable fights everywhere and it’s helpful to have high-profile demonstrations. — PolitiTweet.org

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Protesting is good! Racial justice protests moved opinion on racial issues in a progressive direction! You want to protest for a reasonable policy goal (i.e. not “defund the police) but it’s good for folks to march for abortion rights. — PolitiTweet.org

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We need to center efforts to improve our understanding of what it means to “center” something. — PolitiTweet.org

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@badler I agree, the problem is they are willfully ignoring all of the relevant evidence not that they’re being contradictory — it’s very smart people putting their considerable verbal skills to work in order to overcomplicate something pretty simple. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @StevenFulop: This is a fact - we aren’t perfect and we can do much more (and we will) but this 👇 remains a fact. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marcscribner: @mattyglesias The relationship between transit commuting and household income is parabolic. https://t.co/aXBG0QUcI3 — PolitiTweet.org

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In the MD suburbs Rockville stands out. Big win for @jon_m_rob, big loss for R.E.M. https://t.co/YL7Ksbl0KR — PolitiTweet.org

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@IDoTheThinking Arlington County thanks you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@natemcdermott @IDoTheThinking Nah, I like to leave the house. Slow Boring World HQ is in this coworking space. https://t.co/AB36x0tn7l — PolitiTweet.org

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The bus is most popular with people who live near 14th or 16th street. I don't commute via bus, but I do live near these lines and after walking they are my most common form of transportation. https://t.co/tCXEPsqfZt — PolitiTweet.org

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What's interesting is that transit *is* very popular east of the river. The high driving mode share comes from the low-for-DC levels of walking & biking (few local jobs, bad connections to downtown, hostile street design). https://t.co/oNGwMSrrTB — PolitiTweet.org

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I keep wanting this not to be true because it's politically inconvenient, but the poorest part of the city really does have the highest share of car commuters — even more than the basically suburban parts of Upper Northwest. https://t.co/WGTaPML2Jh — PolitiTweet.org

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Per @IDoTheThinking's maps, central DC is a hotbed of walking to work. (that's been my commute mode most of the time i've lived here) https://t.co/york71FvzX https://t.co/TShis5WLNg — PolitiTweet.org

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Gotta give the people the link! https://t.co/cJ67B0pTkF — PolitiTweet.org

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Big plans https://t.co/URAL4W7eoy — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @holz_bau: simplicity is climate action yet land use codes - 1400 pages in seattle, plus neighborhood design guidelines - do everything… — PolitiTweet.org

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Parents are desperately clinging to tiny patches of shade on the playground and it’s only June. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nhannahjones: We pretend Brown v Board/Roe epitomized a SCOTUS that has stood to protect the rights of the marginalized & vulnerable. B… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NAPAWF: We’re here in DC for the Unity March to come together for racial justice, solidarity, and reproductive rights! #AAPIAbortionJus… — PolitiTweet.org

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This from @DouthatNYT seems like the kind of situation where it would be clarify to wager rather than speculate. I would put a lot of money on abortion restrictions and generous family benefits continuing to be negatively correlated. https://t.co/6clNgYPYGs https://t.co/AjsicbUMDa — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shannonrwatts: “As soon as possible, force Republicans to vote on a federal right to abortion in the first trimester and in cases of ra… — PolitiTweet.org

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Most European countries restrict late-term abortions but they also try to minimize the financial and logistical barriers to obtaining one earlier in pregnancy. https://t.co/fyGDtdMs4g https://t.co/H9QhqIRbS8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@donmoyn Of course in the states we had this kind of embrace of drag over twenty years ago. https://t.co/TrfcsHGYfq — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donmoyn: The Irish Prime Minister tweeting out pics of himself with a drag queen at an LGBTQ event underlines how far the country as tr… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emollick: I am baffled by the lack of expert panels on why agency responses to the pandemic failed so badly. It seems so vital & panels… — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler Right, I mean we can kick around various quotes. Which gets me back to my original observation that one disagreement here is disagreement about whether or not the people ruling the roost are or are not among the alarmists. To me they seem alarmist. https://t.co/wVhesFs1CC — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler Right, he seems pretty alarmist to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Rafa_Mangual @MichaelWTracey Indeed, hence my pious concern that recent judicial trends have stepped away from that noble tradition. — PolitiTweet.org

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Can confirm that I was vaxxed and boosted, got Covid, and did not die. — PolitiTweet.org