Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Obama doing politics over the past 48 hours has been like if an NBA player just showed up at a college game. — PolitiTweet.org

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At this point I’m watching HOTD mostly to keep up with the podcasts — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m sure she is completely sincere, but a preference for expressive over effective action is endemic to these situations where the donor has no particular upside to succeeding. The Kochs don’t just sincerely favor lower taxes, they directly benefit and care about results. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FeverPotomac @darkblue714 What should they do? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarketUrbanism In general though I hear a lot that people would like new development more if it wasn’t all these ugly cookie-cutter buildings, by which they mean they prefer the cookie-cutter designs of 100 years ago not that they want weird postmodern buildings. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarketUrbanism Isn’t all people mean by “good design” is “it looks old”? — PolitiTweet.org

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@lxeagle17 I think the thread is because she’s given up on the election and is playing to her national media constituency — PolitiTweet.org

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Obama knows how to do it — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s a lot of people in Georgia of all races who are going to benefit from cheaper insulin, who would benefit from Medicaid expansion, and who’ll suffer if Republicans implement their plan to stage a debt ceiling crisis to cut Social Security. — PolitiTweet.org

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Seems sensible to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the problem is that if you frame the stakes clearly for people as a choice between a thriving democracy with expensive gasoline and a durable authoritarian regime with cheap gas, democracy loses 70-30. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Conanbatt I changed my opinion when the situation changed https://t.co/p8Ha0S6wvK — PolitiTweet.org

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@HoodlumDoodlum I was talking about this last night — PolitiTweet.org

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It’ll be interesting to see if we get these “what if we treated unrealized capital gains as income” stories now that the stock market is down. https://t.co/OMWjpBP55c — PolitiTweet.org

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Wealth has been a weird index variable all along. https://t.co/Ob2wSiEwDW — PolitiTweet.org

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When there were low interest rates and rising asset prices there were all these takes about the Fed supercharging inequality, but now that it’s reversed you don’t hear much about this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Erin_Weir That’s a pretty good talking point. What I’m saying is someone on the Russian side needs to try to use it and similar talking points to convince the world. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Trump doesn’t speak Hebrew but maybe Bibi could run for the GOP nomination — natural born citizen clause is unenforceable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidZipper The issue here in an American urban context is you’d need to not only adopt new rules but *enforce them* when the trend is to ease off on enforcement for equity reasons. https://t.co/QzbZfOFoYR — PolitiTweet.org

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Kanye explains that “the Jews came into money through lawyers” because Catholics wouldn’t perform divorces so there was a need for Jewish attorneys. (I think he means to be talking about banking and medieval usury laws) — PolitiTweet.org

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@treckly She’s pretty bad on this — I really hoped she’d lose her primary but she held on narrowly; next time maybe. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/HffGbLmgnH — PolitiTweet.org

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@dmtrubman @Up4Growth Sometimes it take a Washington policy and research group. — PolitiTweet.org

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And here is the right’s new star recruit. — PolitiTweet.org

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At any rate, I continue to believe that putting Trump back on Twitter would make his political fortunes worse not better — his content is not appealing. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/VN86q2WVXs — PolitiTweet.org

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You really don’t need to read between the lines much on this one — Trump has no concept of American Jews as a community that lives and prospers here with an identity and interests that are distinct from the concerns of the State of Israel. https://t.co/jm86JVCHgq — PolitiTweet.org

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How does he convince normal people who’d like to see trade and prosperity resume that he’s not going to just turn around and pull this shit again? It’s a hard problem and the fact that Russia isn’t trying seems like the key roadblock to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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Obviously Putin isn’t glued to English-language realist Twitter looking for advice, but pro-Russian folks like Orban, Tucker Carlson, Salvini, Musk, etc must have capacity to communicate to the Kremlin that their behavior has been very alarming and off-putting to most westerners. — PolitiTweet.org

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A good way for Putin to achieve a negotiated result in Ukraine that meets some of his goals would be to express some kind of openness to or interest in such a solution. — PolitiTweet.org