Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Building high ridership mass transit projects is good even though cement causes CO2 emissions. https://t.co/d5TvQD17FP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SpeakSamuel: @mattyglesias Here’s a public comment that @AFPfoundation wrote last year on solutions to the DOS backlog. https://t.co/H5… — PolitiTweet.org

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Going to the movies isn’t social but once you’re at the movies you may as well grab a drink or a bite before or after the movie and that is social. Of course theoretically you could just meet up with your friends to talk. But we’re talking about men! — PolitiTweet.org

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We need to address the national hanging out crisis by producing more 1990s-style R rated action movies that are only in theaters. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BjornLomborg @lymanstoneky It doesn’t radically alter the conclusion but fwiw part of the reason is that “cold snap” has become the more common term for this. https://t.co/BMVZRwQthm — PolitiTweet.org

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But if you think bipartisanship is hopeless and the only path forward is with Democrats that makes the “pressure Biden” strategy even crazier — if you can’t work with Republicans then you need to give Biden a long leash to be popular and win re-election! — PolitiTweet.org

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What if we made it easier to launch geothermal power projects? https://t.co/IxMy8tJh94 — PolitiTweet.org

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IMO with congress divided rather than working to “pressure Biden” climate groups should try to think of ways to reduce emissions that at least some Republicans might like. https://t.co/8BjkM1L4XX — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Entertaining children on planes — PolitiTweet.org

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Great @AnnieLowrey piece on sexual harassment in economics — it’s clear that after years of #metoo and some #metoo backlash we still don’t have anything like a scalable, structural mechanism for redress or accountability. https://t.co/ovhQHvj8Uc — PolitiTweet.org

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Stay non-metaphorically woke https://t.co/Hr3Bt9ChUT — PolitiTweet.org

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Caffeine is for libs now, that’s how it works. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @atrembath: “Making progress requires tuning out the eco-doomers and human extinction advocates — the world is going to keep growing wha… — PolitiTweet.org

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I once wrote about how we should give less weight to elite academic credentials in appointing judges — that’s at least on the topic (though I was saying the opposite). https://t.co/ZKmyc76enc https://t.co/3N2KcRmUwV — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m curious what I’ve ever said that even slightly resembles this. — PolitiTweet.org

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M-Pox promotes stigmatization of mutants. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m also just not sure I get it, we’re concerned that the old name unfairly stigmatizes … monkeys? — PolitiTweet.org

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Several layers of strangeness about this, including the fact that the “m” clearly just stands for “monkey”! — PolitiTweet.org

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But they had such macho videos! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @opinonhaver: as a Radical Scholar, I believe that my role is not to just analyze the world, cloistered in my ivory tower, but bring for… — PolitiTweet.org

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But it doesn't make sense for the minority of jurisdictions (mostly big cities in rich countries) that care most about climate to express that concern by adopting local-level anti-growth policies. https://t.co/d5TvQD17FP — PolitiTweet.org

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This means admitting that we don't actually have all the technology we need and just need to inject a little political will. We have a *lot* of useful technology we should deploy aggressively, but we also need more new stuff. https://t.co/r87OfNLfPw — PolitiTweet.org

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But I think it also reveals the hidden hand of bad degrowth ideas influencing thinking about a lot of specific issues. The actual problem is that we need to develop ways to do low-carbon construction. Promising work is being done, but we need more. https://t.co/d5TvQDiaHP https://t.co/IQgAuuyep6 — PolitiTweet.org

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A post by @alon_levy reveals that Berlin Greens have decided that the CO2 emissions associated with construction projects are so high they should oppose even high-value U-Bahn extensions. It's bad analysis as Alon writes. https://t.co/pOsBN0xmha — PolitiTweet.org

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Love this brief explanation of France's hydrogen strategy: "On veut faire plus de renouvelable, on veut fair plus de nucléaire, on veut faire plus d’electricité bas-carbon, faire notre électrolyse en France et ainsi produire de l’hydrogen vert." — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead of brand ads, I now see lots of promoted tweets paid for by random people self-promoting. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HistoryBoomer: Jefferson Davis Andrew Johnson Bull Connor J Edgar Hoover Herman Talmadge Lester Maddox Strom Thurmond — PolitiTweet.org

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This sure would be nice! — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the biggest mistakes cities make is trying to reduce *local* CO2 emissions in a way that underrates the climate benefits of urban infill development and successful transit projects. https://t.co/d5TvQD17FP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AliceFromQueens: Changes in real wealth under Biden. 1. Varies a lot more by wealth-level than most of you probably think. 2. Bottom… — PolitiTweet.org