Matthew Yglesias

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RT @HenryJFoy: Extraordinary photo. Impossible to imagine, prior to Putin’s war, that the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan would hold fo… — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/tDgPkt77M7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: I rolled my eyes like everyone else at the "not an accurate reflection of the time and effort" phrasing because pfffffff… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NickKristof: In discussions of how to supply more affordable housing, there isn't enough push for manufactured homes. They're cheap but… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AFA_Alliance: We sat down with @AmnaUncensored and @JeffreyASnyder of Carlton College, who have written extensively on threats to acad… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HeartlandSignal: NEW: Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake uses footage of Russian soldiers marching in her campaign ad, claim… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mitchryals: So many explosive details in the @ODCA_DC's report on @DCPoliceDept officers who got their jobs back after they were fired—… — PolitiTweet.org

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@nick_bunker @willystaley @MattZeitlin @jack_hamilton Need the fires of those Valyrian volcanos — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s a conceit in anti-anti-Russian circles that they are the only ones who recognize that the war is economically damaging or that a nuclear exchange would be very bad when I’m pretty sure that’s not actually what anyone is disagreeing about. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Neil_Irwin Decline in average weekly hours? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @medievaldaniel: @mattyglesias I love the idea of calling it "bad takes"--politely self-deprecating while skewering the opposition. — PolitiTweet.org

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YIMBY, the first ten years. https://t.co/Df2M4B5V4f — PolitiTweet.org

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The final resolution of the plastic straw controversy in DC seems to be that they are still banned but most places give you plastic straws anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin @willystaley @jack_hamilton How would you tell from what we’ve seen whether or not they developed better mills or a more efficient way to forge armor or whatever else? — PolitiTweet.org

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Random day off from school hits different when you’re a parent. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ebwhamilton I sleep soundly on the third floor of a single-stair single-family townhome with no sprinklers. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ebwhamilton: .@mattyglesias is stair-pilled https://t.co/XRHpHTmkRE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @timjhogan: The reviews on The Right Stuff dating app are so good https://t.co/748HRhMB1h — PolitiTweet.org

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@alon_levy What research do you have in mind? Always up for some more reading. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EmmaMAshford And I mean I guess a state could do worse things with its military budget than focus on core territorial defense. But Russia seems to have had some bigger policy goals in mind. — PolitiTweet.org

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My most radical opinion is that comprehensive central planning is a bad approach to economic policy, and it’s better to have free markets with a welfare state. https://t.co/Df2M4B5V4f https://t.co/sAwcLXTHLP — PolitiTweet.org

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@aaron_renn I guess if your question is “which level of government should set land use rules?” my answer is that state legislatures should do it. But what I want is freedom — I’m not a communist, so I think we should build whatever housing people want to build. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alon_levy @ColinVParker I just don’t like this rhetoric of what’s “needed” (I’m not a communist) — I think people should be *allowed* to build all kinds of housing in all kinds of places. — PolitiTweet.org

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@aaron_renn What do you mean “forcibly”? I don’t think there should be a coup or anything. The plan is to persuade people that it would be better to allow smaller lots so we should change the rules. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not subtweeting anyone, it’s just that usually when I look up election maps to assess political conditions in a given country I try to look up the most recent election — if you rely on 2012 data, Ohio is well to the left of Arizona. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TomPepinsky I concede nothing, just posting some old election maps. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ColinVParker @alon_levy Forgot the sunbelt … these one acre minimum lot rules are everywhere in Connecticut. Let people have a small yard! https://t.co/jmc99QLFGE — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s notably that the pro-Russian party in Ukraine (blue in both cases) lost a lot of its support between 2012 and 2019. — https://t.co/qF6NFctsfU — PolitiTweet.org

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Another new frontier is pro-housing politics without urbanism — promoting small lot suburbanism, ending trailer bans and anticompetitive HUD code rules to build cheap structures on cheap land. https://t.co/Df2M4B5V4f https://t.co/UY4J6k2PPW — PolitiTweet.org

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But we also need to break into some new areas — what does Red State YIMBY politics look like? Probably more free market cheerleading and less talk about climate change and desegregation — preempt zoning in Austin & Madison to own the libs? https://t.co/Df2M4B5V4f https://t.co/iuj4egE0wH — PolitiTweet.org