Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s time for some real No Labels shit where a cross-party group of moderates seized control and appoints the Ghost of Colin Powell to be Speaker of the House. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve also seen (through glass) the cash operation in the New Vault at the Cleveland Fed — they really do have a lot of little pieces of paper in there, the system is legit. — PolitiTweet.org

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I did this once. Got a cashiers’ check, walked it across the street, opened a new account at a new bank. — PolitiTweet.org

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I love that a key guy from the Giants Super Bowl team when I was a kid is just out here all day doing climate-conscious pro-nuclear posting. Get this guy to take back one of the most NY House seats. — PolitiTweet.org

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@morningmoneyben Wonderful news — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler I don’t think so, if you do that without paying off the progressive operatives they drag you for being cringe #resistance and you end up bowing and trucking to the groups. It’s good to hire some lefty comms people to make sure you can ice out the lefty policy people. — PolitiTweet.org

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The IRA provisions reducing prescription drug prices, a lefty hobbyhorse that moderates opposed, was far and away the most politically effective part of Biden’s signature legislation. https://t.co/iodgbPDNxr — PolitiTweet.org

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My plan to talk the one guy into buying Nexstar and Gray to create a Sinclair-esq juggernaut pushing center-left politics and existential risk reduction probably isn’t going to work out, but these assets whose propaganda value far exceeds market price and someone should do it. https://t.co/VQmzQwhWcN — PolitiTweet.org

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Had Lamb been the nominee and won, moderates would be saying Dems only won the seat because they went mod with Lamb. So the factional stakes on a personnel level were quite real even if they didn’t have any policy differences. Voters don’t care about that stuff tho. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sincerely think the Fetterman strategy of earning progressive cred by hiring some good progressive operatives is underrated. When you like the candidate, he’s doing smart tough politics — when you don’t like him he’s a weasely squish. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @gelliottmorris: In competitive Senate races with more than 2 polls, this is the second-best performance for pollsters since 1998 https:… — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want the continued smooth functioning of government, to somewhat reduce the right-wing sway over the judiciary, to protect Social Security & Medicare, and to send a message that parties shouldn’t nominate kooks & scumbags help Warnock run some ads. https://t.co/WRGaaEwMjr — PolitiTweet.org

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My prior position had been that Dem ads were really good but they were overestimating the efficacy of paid vs earned media. I think you see from Golden that earned > paid is right, but the overall results indicate that I was underrating the power of good plentiful ads. — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing I am updating on is that ads seem more potent than I would have thought. Dems overperformed specifically in the key races where they spent a lot of money on carefully optimized advertising. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the best! — PolitiTweet.org

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Legendary thread here —> — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DanaGoldstein: Another tweet in support of @ehanford's new series on the problems with balanced literacy. There is something really per… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Scott_Wiener: Does 6’7” count? — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad to see some scrutiny coming to the RCCA proposal from my councilmember — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aifunhouse: 🧵Categorizing complaints to Elon with AI 1. It's a tumultuous time here in tweet town. For the good of the community, we… — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I assume donors don’t love him because he’s promised to eliminate mask mandates that are already gone — they think he will reverse Trump’s softness on Medicare and Social Security and bring back Ryanism. But he’s avoided that as a public stance. He’s smart, albeit too short. — PolitiTweet.org

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The danger for Republicans is that if they don’t renominate Trump they might end up in a policy bidding war where candidates vie to stake out right-wing positions on abortion and welfare state rollback — DeSantis has so far pleased donors in private while staying quiet in public. — PolitiTweet.org

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What is the “Covid issue” in 2022? Basically nothing. What will it be in 2024? Absolutely nothing. But he leveraged it at a time it did matter to win a Conservative Hero brand without taking hard-right public stances on traditional policy issues. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the extent to which he’s understand (perhaps wrongly!) as a moderate in the style of Larry Hogan who mostly upholds the status quo is pretty underrated. It’s a potent political lane that is normally hard to sell the base on, but he achieved that with Fauci-bashing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Selling shovels in a gold rush is good business and that’s true even if the miners have actually just found a bunch of fool’s gold. The problem is that when your clients are suckers it’s tempting to make even more money by selling fake shovels… — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s what @matt_levine says about how takeaway from the (in)famous interview in which SBF seemed to admit that crypto was a pointless scam — it was reassuring to know the guy wasn’t a true believer and was just in the business of providing people with tools they wanted. https://t.co/ScfOCILkBV — PolitiTweet.org

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There is a “true crypto has never been tried” narrative brewing. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Wave” originally referred not just to the idea of who won, but to a uniform national swing — something that became more and more common as media and politics were increasingly nationalized. This time we got a highly non-uniform swing but Dems improved in the key states. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great overview — in some ways a reversion to an older pattern when not every election was a “wave” and specific situations played out differently in different states. — PolitiTweet.org