Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Zients rhymes with science. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jttiehen My grandma was in the "Obama-voter who believed weird Obama conspiracy theories" camp but she'd passed away by 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joftius Great! Do you have anything relevant you'd recommend I read so I can spread the good word? — PolitiTweet.org

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@dsquareddigest @joftius I don't really agree with that characterization, but fair to agree to disagree. Mainly complaining because my past interactions with Professor Loftus have been near-universally unpleasant. You're in a different camp, though — have any recommendations on this topic? — PolitiTweet.org

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@snlester Exact question wording: "Please tell me whether or not you think it should be possible for a pregnant woman to obtain a legal abortion if she is married and does not want any more children." https://t.co/mb7QRkeNjm — PolitiTweet.org

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It's interesting to think about what topics the non-"contrarian" writers you read never write about and wonder what cross-pressured views they are keeping under wraps. — PolitiTweet.org

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Frame it as "welfare" and popularity drops across the board — but even so 10 percent of Republicans are saying we spend too little on welfare. https://t.co/UzCtlokLpk — PolitiTweet.org

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Almost half of Republicans say we should spend more on the poor! https://t.co/ByTDDUUx0a — PolitiTweet.org

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Should a woman be allowed to have an abortion if she's married and does not want more children? 27 percent of Democrats (not me, I'm totally orthodox on this) say no — but you never hear from them. https://t.co/ekQYXtKtwP — PolitiTweet.org

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On the internet, you get described as a "contrarian" if you express disagreement with the view of the political party you vote for on a non-zero minority of issues. But the vast majority of voters are like this — it's the full-time conflict extension people who are being weird. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joftius I don’t think I represented myself as having incredibly deep convictions here; is there something you’d recommend that I read? Or is this one of these things where you just lash out with a lot of hostility for no real reason? — PolitiTweet.org

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@granderojo @Gok @nilocobau I don’t know city limits vs city limits but US median income > Austrian median income and Washington is one of the richest states. https://t.co/TiFV3zi8RN — PolitiTweet.org

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Joe Manchin’s dumb annoying commission idea is good — Republicans should work with him on this! https://t.co/t9CvjKdPFb — PolitiTweet.org

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Good thread here though I wouldn’t make too much out of the bare fact that market rents are lower in Vienna, Austria has much lower incomes than Washington State. — PolitiTweet.org

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Still, Republicans in 2021 are to the left of where Democrats were just ten years ago — there’s been tremendous progress on topics in this area. — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans in disarray? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mkraju: Michael McCaul, GOP chairman of House Foreign Affairs, says to @DanaBashCNN “no,” Ukraine should not be worried the US won’t be… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @igorbobic: Manchin on CNN says there should be no cuts to those now getting Social Security & Medicare, and rejects idea of raising the… — PolitiTweet.org

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A simple trick for getting perfect roast chicken every time: 1. Drive to your local Costco 2. Buy one of their rotisserie chickens 3. Take it home https://t.co/1PgIyookT0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Another big good thing from the omnibus but I think was mostly Republicans’ doing was extending the telemedicine stuff that was introduced into Medicare during the pandemic — simple way to bring more competition to health care. https://t.co/hFWeTppmZw — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s kind of a two-front war for democracy in the Biden Era — part of it is defeating the insurrectionists but part of it is showing people that the institutions of government function. The US system has some big flaws but it’s more resilient than it sometimes appears. — PolitiTweet.org

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We also got some Secret Congress stuff in the NDAA including this good clean water legislation. https://t.co/Wy8Nzp42Iy — PolitiTweet.org

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Secret Congress often manifests itself in vehicles like an omnibus but the phenomenon is much bigger than that. https://t.co/KY96HLI8fu — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey I promise that I will write a multi-thousand word column outlining my objections to this legislation (which are overwhelmingly not about the carjacking provision) but my stance on the carjacking tweet is that it was accurate and Mark should admit it was accurate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey Here’s what I’m hung up on. I did a tweet that was accurate. Mark in return accused me of lying. Since I was not lying, that made me upset. I wish that he would apologize. After that perhaps he and I could have a productive exchange about the merits of this package. — PolitiTweet.org

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Medicaid expansion! Who knew? https://t.co/keuWqFTKsm — PolitiTweet.org

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Some great Secret Congress coverage from @sangerkatz teaching us about the wide range of healthcare provisions tucked quietly into last year’s omnibus. https://t.co/zTDJqIO6vP — PolitiTweet.org

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Now maybe all the people charged with implementing the new law are mistaken about it, but I wish @mjs_DC would engage with the strong criticisms and not make this out to be some big media-centric misunderstanding. — PolitiTweet.org

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I will write about this at greater length but I find this framing of the controversy as being about “pundits” frustrating — mayor of the city, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, and the police chief are not Fox News hosts. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki I haven’t corrected the tweet because the tweet was accurate. I appreciate that proponents of the bill have their reasons and their context, but I do corrections when I say something that’s wrong — that tweet was correct. — PolitiTweet.org