Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Also a true testament to progress and equality that a woman was able to become prime minister with no charisma or demonstrated competence — we’re a ways off from that. — PolitiTweet.org

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This level of instability is funny, but it’s honestly one of the best features of the UK system that when a leader becomes embarrassing the party ruthlessly tosses him or her overboard rather than the American norm where the party serves the leader. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EmmaMAshford That’s exactly what I thought about Libya — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GasBuddyGuy: Good news on #gasprices: here's my new prediction on #gasprices over the next couple of weeks... lots of green down arrows… — PolitiTweet.org

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iPhone Night Mode is now so good my wife accused me of turning on all the lights in our kid’s room while he was still asleep — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcGoldwein Used knowledge of fiscal policy arcana to pull off some innovative Medicare fraud. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattGrossmann That seems more like a difference in degree than a discontinuity to me — Susan Collins’ hardwon reputation for moderation is built up out of years of moderate position-taking on various specific controversies and votes. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: @paulg I would put this differently — the media is suffused with negativity because the internet has made the journalism… — PolitiTweet.org

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@paulg I would put this differently — the media is suffused with negativity because the internet has made the journalism landscape more competitive and empowered the audience to get what it wants, and what the audience wants is negativity. https://t.co/BJPZXhtekl — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FordFischer: I can’t overstate how bizarre it is to be learning this detail a year and a half later (half way into the article). The U… — PolitiTweet.org

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No sign of a recession in the Slow Boring gross annualized revenue numbers. No price increases either. https://t.co/ZjHPTIa2Z3 https://t.co/euBJEuhsFX — PolitiTweet.org

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More broadly, I think it's underrated that Democrats struggle political in part just because of all the bad polling — if surveys incorrectly tell you that your strategy is working, you won't change your strategy. https://t.co/Jlw3CfYa0b https://t.co/A49chlQUAo — PolitiTweet.org

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I will follow the weird norm that it's inappropriate for columnists to gamble on elections but am instead betting m… https://t.co/oJBtHaILS3 — PolitiTweet.org

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If I were betting, I would bet that the betting markets are right and the poll-based forecasts are overestimating Democrats' senate odds as they have for the past three cycles. https://t.co/Jlw3CfH6Yb — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro Now I feel like you’re just trying to pick fights with me when we don’t disagree so I’m going to delete these tweets and go to sleep. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro As far as I know, rising crime always helps right-wing parties which sets up bad incentives for right-wing governance but progressives need to try to make there be less crime. — PolitiTweet.org

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The good news is that crime is modestly declining in 2022 after the increases in 2020 and 2021. What would have been better for Democrats would have been a larger improvement that started sooner. https://t.co/HN5twYC4gN — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomricks1 The divisions of the St Louis Federal Reserve — PolitiTweet.org

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I think most people, rightly, don’t believe the federal government has a very large role to play in crime control which has blunted the efficacy of the GOP “message” on this topic but the underlying reality is just not great. — PolitiTweet.org

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IMO this is a case of people thinking too much about messaging — the problem is that crime got worse! — PolitiTweet.org

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@yeselson @ZaidJilani Rich, I think Republicans absolutely are intellectually serious about crime. Zaid, I have frequently and repeatedly written critically about Democrats and crime. Everyone: I think Kevin Sitt made some specific erroneous claims about public safety in Oklahoma. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZaidJilani @yeselson I don’t think you can accuse me of ignoring this topic! https://t.co/1X1PyZH2D7 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion I’m a countercyclical hero — had two mortgages back in 2017 to help beat secular stagnation and zero in 2022 to try to help cool the economy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion Why? How do? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cowabungatime: @Steve_Sailer @mattyglesias Here's one of the leaders of the conservative legal movement bragging about how he successfu… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro Say what you will about Communism but they had a lot of cops. — PolitiTweet.org

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People have lost their damn minds https://t.co/xdV1qROB73 — PolitiTweet.org

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Nope, Racist Twitter’s go-to explanation doesn’t work here — Oklahoma is whiter than New York. https://t.co/4YqiFFilpQ https://t.co/fM60PeDi50 — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad you asked! Crime is higher in cities and almost every major city in America has a Democratic Party mayor, but Oklahoma City and Tulsa happen to be two GOP-governed exceptions to that rule. — PolitiTweet.org