Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@HallvardHolte In Finland everyone gets a free lunch — PolitiTweet.org

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For a while there something like “seventeen kinds of fruit that are actually racist” or “in Scandinavia everyone gets free fruit and it’s amazing” would always do numbers. — PolitiTweet.org

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The extent to which a lot of the media trends gained traction precisely because of tech-driven shifts in business model is an underappreciated irony — it’s different now but in the mid-2010s left identity politics and socialism were both reliably 📈📈📈. — PolitiTweet.org

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Things I agree with: — Biden is good — Biden is to the left of Obama — These points are under-appreciated At the same time, Obama’s way had bigger legislative majorities and as a result enacted more legislation. https://t.co/VOVtMufuXk — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion #thymos — PolitiTweet.org

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Just be chill, it’s better. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fukuyama Thought is undefeated — PolitiTweet.org

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@yeselson @EricLevitz I really think that’s too much of a US-centric account. In a small country, high trade barriers would be straightforwardly regressive. What motivates the American debate is that sheltering domestic producers from competition is genuinely a plausible approach. — PolitiTweet.org

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@yeselson @EricLevitz The boring thing about Nordic trade policy is that the smaller your country is the more costly it would be to pursue autarky. Nobody thinks Vermont should try to restrict imports from other states. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @vivianwubeijing: Just in.#Beijing. BJ police officers are trying to persuade ppl to leave. They sound mild, speaking clearly Beijing ac… — PolitiTweet.org

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@elgatotroxel Okay but do you think that’s why the time series went up? — PolitiTweet.org

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@caro @jessesingal Cool! This program? https://t.co/8HLBsJuPxS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @caro: @mattyglesias @jessesingal FWIW, Princeton’s starting to do this with a college in NJ that primarily serves a low-income student… — PolitiTweet.org

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Good thread. That said the big problem remains that Musk overpaid for the stock — doesn’t mean the company will fail but it’s hard for the investment to succeed when that’s how you start. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @awprokop: My impressions of what Musk is doing with Twitter, and his likely chances of success, have changed as I’ve seen the past mont… — PolitiTweet.org

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There has never been a better time to be alone in your living room thanks to incredible improvements in the quality of home entertainment options — I’m just skeptical than on net people spending more time at home in their living room is good. https://t.co/sr72YzC2bd — PolitiTweet.org

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This is *the* quintessential cranky middle-aged guy complaint — so much so that I don’t trust myself — but it does seem like the past decade of technological advance has encouraged behaviors that are making people worse off. — PolitiTweet.org

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My hope is that if DeSantis runs we can have more of a national conversation about RDS’ actual views on actual questions of federal policy and not just what he thinks about school libraries or whatever. https://t.co/eRjmnYzqD9 — PolitiTweet.org

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I completely respect that there are some Medicaid-hating Republicans out there who were just so repulsed by Trump that they backed Biden instead and now are excited to hop on the DeSantis Express and snatch away poor people’s health insurance. But I’m just built different. — PolitiTweet.org

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After the 2018 midterms, DeSantis became governor of Florida where he maintained the state’s posture as one of the largest holdouts against Medicaid expansion — hence one of the largest uninsured populations in America. — PolitiTweet.org

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When Ron DeSantis was in congress, he voted for a bill that would (among other things) pay for a regressive tax cut by enacting deep cuts in Medicaid — Donald Trump pushed aggressively in favor of this bill but fortunately for America it died in the senate. — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s going to be an endless series of complaints like this “how dare you say DeSantis is bad after having earlier complained that Trump is bad in some different ways?” To me one key thing is they have the same (bad) view on Medicaid. — PolitiTweet.org

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@robchappell365 They’re not “mutually exclusive” but in practice they are only doing one. — PolitiTweet.org

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A really aggravating DC crime problem is all our courts are federal courts with senate-confirmed judges but it’s hard to get this business on the senate floor so our court system is overworked and understaffed. https://t.co/Q8O1JmekTi — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChrisPolPsych It’s definitely true that most people (including progressive professors!) care more about issues that impact them directly … not sure why you’d level this specifically as a critique of centrist political pundits rather than as a general fact of human life. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s not like “a college that teachers large numbers of Black and Hispanic students from working class backgrounds” is some outlandish idea — there are lots of them — if you want to serve that mission, give those institutions resources. — PolitiTweet.org

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Well-endowed highly exclusionary universities asking job candidates to submit DEI statements rather than transferring material resources to the educational institutions that serve large underprivileged populations is pretty comical. — PolitiTweet.org

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@notalogin I should have mentioned @kellyrader, @asymmetricinfo, @KerryHowley, and some others who aren’t as actively online. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Birdyword: The bravery required to take this sort of stand is breathtaking. Success is unlikely, while the personal consequences could… — PolitiTweet.org

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Irish Me (Matty O’Glesias) does a lot of tweets about how Ireland should fully electrify its passenger rail network. — PolitiTweet.org