Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Human traffickers 🤝 GOP politicians The border is open — PolitiTweet.org

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Tiger, tiger burning bright https://t.co/gC0UjXMk9t — PolitiTweet.org

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IMO we should talk more about how a few simple, tweaks* to land use policy would let Americans live in even bigger houses. (*eliminating all restrictions on FAR, building height, lot occupancy, parking, and quantity of units on all residential parcels everywhere) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: @JosephMcCartin Maybe! Though it's also possible that college professors whose day job is charging sky-high tuition to th… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JosephMcCartin Maybe! Though it's also possible that college professors whose day job is charging sky-high tuition to the children of the American upper class could find themselves looking at these questions through a distorted lens that lacks pragmatism. https://t.co/d9WVuqYDkE — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen 90s period movies for millennial nostalgia would be fun, I liked that aspect of Captain Marvel. — PolitiTweet.org

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@spaceship_nova @kwekwle_h2 The point is we should build as many units as people want to build rather than having a Soviet-style planning process to try to guess how many there should be. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss “People” — PolitiTweet.org

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@JakeAnbinder @nilocobau The plaza situation at ground level was bad but the buildings were cool — PolitiTweet.org

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The exception that proves the rule is they should at least try the idea of a period Bond set against the backdrop of decolonization, the early Cold War, and an acute sense of British imperial decline — the original Bond setting is very compelling in a way that updates aren’t. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m asking America’s prestige directors to consider setting films in the present-day. It both saves money and also makes it easy to build social relevance into your story. — PolitiTweet.org

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Covid school closures reduced youth suicides, consistent with the general seasonal pattern. https://t.co/CVtQphM7RX https://t.co/ervGJHaEam — PolitiTweet.org

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“Midweeks last week were very strong, and the sci-fi epic is continuing that trend this week with vacations in full swing and a lot of holiday distractions in the rearview.” https://t.co/5DKQAynqM8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@_alice_evans One thing I’ve heard is that Anglophone Canada and the non-southern USA are actually very similar. The real contrast is a very secular Quebec and a very religious Dixie. — PolitiTweet.org

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Beau travail — PolitiTweet.org

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@stareaskesis @red_boxer0 My reasons are in the article! — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s an amazing contrast running through this article between labor union leaders’ views of Biden and the harsh criticisms from the left offered by various college professors. https://t.co/AC8DHdRKA5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @franklinleonard: Someone must have some of @benshapiro’s spec scripts, and I would like to read them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_C_Klein @conorsen Steven Spielberg has also been known to produce some mainstream entertainments in his life. — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_C_Klein @conorsen Glass Onion! — PolitiTweet.org

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Amazing law — PolitiTweet.org

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If new construction generates such large external benefits as to actually raise demand by even more than supply, that’s even more reason to embrace it — it’s just not actually true in the vast majority of cases. https://t.co/IRZz8tznTD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chryllaird: Occupations still in use: Document preparer, microfilming, Telephone quotation clerk, nut sorter, addresser, film touch-up… — PolitiTweet.org

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My big picture take on the Twitter Files is that Elon Musk already bought the company and is under no particular obligation to justify any of the changes he’s made or wants to make in the future so I find the discourse a little confusing — Musk-era Twitter seems fine. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s a good @lhfang “Twitter files” article that I learned a lot from and that also doesn’t suggest anything other than an interest in the subject matter. https://t.co/hR2wkznZIi — PolitiTweet.org

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I just want to be clear that the reason I said Taibbi needs therapy is that he described himself as struggling psychologically due to his relationship with social media apps. https://t.co/layEAjCdFm — PolitiTweet.org

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My deflationary version of this is that women are more extroverted than men on average, so people interact with women expecting them to be extroverted in a way that makes life more difficult for introverted women than for introverted men. — PolitiTweet.org

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Housing scarcity creates acute problems for the unhoused, the displaced, or even just those who move away from neighborhoods they love in order to get space to raise kids. But it also perpetuates this upside-down "good things are bad" politics. https://t.co/IRZz8tzVJb — PolitiTweet.org

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"Don't improve the neighborhood because it will raise housing demand" as a premise is a powerful acid that would dissolve all kinds of things that have nothing to do with zoning. Is it bad to build better parks? To renovate schools? Have safer streets? https://t.co/IRZz8tzVJb https://t.co/2tqOY701aH — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I think it is sadly probably not the case that this works in general. Several empirical studies find that ⬆️ supply leads to ⬇️prices. But more importantly, if a project is so good that it raises demand that much you should do the project! https://t.co/IRZz8tznTD — PolitiTweet.org