Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

... and he just tweeted it out — PolitiTweet.org

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@alohawolf Right. And what I am saying is that through-running to New Jersey would be a better solutions — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 A little controversy helps to pass the time — PolitiTweet.org

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National Right to Life calls for making it illegal to communicate over the phone or on the internet about abortion medication. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jdcmedlock Well technically you can raise the unemployment rate without putting anyone out of work by inducing more people to want to work — PolitiTweet.org

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Update for the haters: Guilty of walking outdoors in uncrowded places, but not riding a commuter bus to New Jersey. — PolitiTweet.org

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@beyondbeefcake @thetomzone I am not riding on any busses! I’m tweeting about transportation policy because I’m bored. I will confess to walking outdoors. — PolitiTweet.org

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And of course if you did this you wouldn’t need the West Side Rail Yard and could have developed the Hudson Yards area without the incredible expense of decking over the yard. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trains should run through from Long Island to New Jersey and vice versa, cutting dwell times at Penn Station and increasing capacity. Then short intra-Jersey bus trips should feed passengers to the train. — PolitiTweet.org

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The NJ Transit commuter buses into Manhattan have to be the most cursed form of transportation in the developed world. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tszzl Since humanity is going to be extinct, we will all struggle to be remembered for more than a few decades. — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead of subsidizing gasoline consumption, I would pair subsidies for energy *production* with temporary free transit and other ideas to reduce consumption. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jamisonfoser: as we await a likely Supreme Court decision overturning Roe, here is a sign of what will follow: A Heritage Foundation me… — PolitiTweet.org

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@G_Elliott94 I actually have a pretty successful career as a writer. Lots of people like the takes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman No — PolitiTweet.org

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@lymanstoneky @ModeledBehavior Yes — PolitiTweet.org

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We’ve got hot takes schedules for both Tuesday and Wednesday, want to show the world I can still do earnest dull wonk stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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For monetary policy purposes, it seems like a mistake to calculate inflation based on average rents rather than spot rents. I’ve been trying to think of something really tedious to write about for Thursday’s post so maybe this will be it. — PolitiTweet.org

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And the land use near existing commuter rail stations is total garbage. So there’s plenty of room for growth even without improving the infrastructure (which we should of course improve) https://t.co/ZVKKsdszGg — PolitiTweet.org

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Japan’s transportation infrastructure is a lot more sophisticated than ours which might hold us back, but even with current infrastructure NYC has a lot of unused subway capacity. https://t.co/uaJ1IXXunf — PolitiTweet.org

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Given that the United States has so many more people than Japan, I think unconstrained New York should probably grow to be meaningfully larger than Tokyo — more than doubling the current population of the metro area. — PolitiTweet.org

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Something I always wonder about is how big could Greater New York get in a YIMBYtopia? In theory there is supposed to be some balance point between agglomeration benefits and congestion disamenities, but real wages are already higher in Boston & DC so I’m a little skeptical. — PolitiTweet.org

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Me after spending all day walking around in nice weather: Manhattan is amazing, why did I ever leave? [checks real estate prices] Oh. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion My grandfather taught me that when you see a business practice that doesn’t seem to make sense, 90% of the time it’s tax avoidance. — PolitiTweet.org

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A fair amount of what’s currently done is directly counterproductive. https://t.co/XC88dOM2ot — PolitiTweet.org

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Good piece on the urgent need to bring actual evidence to bear on diversity and inclusion programming. https://t.co/R9FE7gXIDs — PolitiTweet.org

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Many middle-aged people can point to a “milquetoastification moment” when we realized that our youthful dreams of scoring a knockout blow against our political adversaries and solving all problems in one fell swoop were naive and unrealistic. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is definitely an unresolved tension between the right’s traditional view of school choice and the more recent push to centralize an anti-woke curricular agenda, interesting to see someone actually articulate the point. — PolitiTweet.org

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Equality is when everyone gets the same stuff. Equity is when everyone gets stock options on a short vesting schedule. — PolitiTweet.org

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Incredible “making up a guy to get angry at” energy here in response to a totally banal presidential tweet. — PolitiTweet.org