Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @w_katz1: Seven years ago… — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I don’t do a lot of football analysis on here but my take is that it’s bad to have all your quarterbacks keep getting injured. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Because guess what: You *are* a stranger who wandered into my mentions and started talking to me. If you want to be rude or annoying that’s your right, but I’m blocking. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Imagine you a stranger who wandered up to me at a party and then said “____” to me. If I’d want to walk away from the conversation with you, that’s a block. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Reminder: If you’re not someone I follow, I will block you on a hair trigger for extremely minor acts of rudeness. You’ll be saying to yourself “that wasn’t hate speech, that wasn’t harassment, why am I blocked?” The answer is “it was a tiny bit annoying.” — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I wish there was more polling done asking people about their personal financial situation — Gallup does it but only once a year, Langer’s consumer comfort poll asked it routinely but that was discontinued a year ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HistoryBoomer: A man enters my feed, a man I have met many times, a man who wishes only to argue, only to win, not to debate, not to tr… — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@nycsouthpaw https://t.co/YXDBCcrGvI — PolitiTweet.org

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The post-pandemic decline in labor force participation is old people reaping the benefits of the boom in house prices. https://t.co/LebEycEuSO https://t.co/u4wGGKHY37 — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Perhaps someday we will have an AI powerful enough to create a usable bank website. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Almost all of Ireland’s post-2007 growth is phony profit-shifting by multinationals dodging taxes https://t.co/diMPfdF7Ww https://t.co/8HQ944bs4L — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @tobinjstone: My newest column, in @DenverWestword: Thursday night’s mayoral forum was disappointing for a lot of us to watch. Municipal… — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There’s a huge part of politics that is “arguing about what words mean” rather than arguing about which policies are likely to have which effects and whether or not that’s desirable. https://t.co/d9rb1HA8Pa — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @PEWilliams_: Once again seeing some of you argue about whether housing programs should have budgets in the tens of millions, or in the… — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead of stigmatizing language like “tax the rich,” use inclusive person-first language — “tax people experiencing elevated incomes.” — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I tried to warn the world that some people just do annoying tweets in a way that isn’t really about ideology. https://t.co/8isoU3P5Q2 https://t.co/iPkemo1Bdl — PolitiTweet.org

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Very nice to see! But we still badly need congress to push the NRC to align safety regulations with a comprehensive look at the health downsides to *not* building and thereby extending our reliance on fossil fuels. https://t.co/wH2VEIuTwJ — PolitiTweet.org

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The mainstream media with its laptop class mentality won’t tell you this but a samizdat outlet called the New York Times says we shouldn’t require college degrees for employment. https://t.co/5bQ8mMnpyF https://t.co/hUfOYOZcO9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PradyuPrasad: First, it led to higher housing construction in upzoned areas which increased supply. https://t.co/eHCf6bjPGw — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Living on the edge by touching the part of the Instant Pot that’s labeled “don’t touch.” It’s hot, but you’ll live. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My personal view is that people should acknowledge that social media is fundamentally public and try to bring less “blowing off steam at the bar” energy to their posting, in favor of song that in private chats or actual bars. But in practice it’s what a lot of posts are. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In IRL human interactions we take for granted that expressive venting and practical problem-solving are two different things people do with words, that they are both valid, and that we can usually tell who is doing which and respond accordingly. Online flattens everything. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinTLogan The high cost of saying “Indo-Pacific” instead of “could fight China” or whatever it is we actually mean. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinTLogan Look at these random islands! https://t.co/iUQA8e0eVC — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidmanheim @paulg I think I’ve been more productive per hour of work since my son was born but that ≠ more productive overall. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

REPORT: NOT EVERYTHING PEOPLE SAY ON HERE IS TRUE https://t.co/K3A8WoxDg1 — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The difference is that pets, where we have embraced freedom and abundance, are economically trivial while on housing — by far the largest sector of the economy! — we have opted for mandatory scarcity. But treating land as normal is very beneficial. https://t.co/BU5gGfN9Xf — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Do *I* want to own a fish tank? No. Do I want *you* to own a fish tank? Not really. Do I think people *should* own pet fishes? I can’t see why they would. And yet, it’s good that if people want to own fish tanks they are allowed to do this. — PolitiTweet.org

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The case that *it should be legal* to add housing to urban areas does not hinge, on any level, on the idea that everyone does or should want to live in urban areas. It’s like how if you want to buy a fish tank and some fish, you can do that. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @rcafdm: mean height (in) and weight (lbs) https://t.co/rEjJantfja — PolitiTweet.org