Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@alon_levy We’ve done this dozens of times for years. I describe a policy to expand immigration to sub-national areas that desire expanded immigration and then you decide to get angry and yell at me, while misdescribing the proposal. It’s exhausting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alon_levy Not when you’re not allowed to. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Was trying yesterday to convince someone that if he really thinks we’re going to have high inflation “for a long time” then current mortgage rates are low not high and he should go buy a house. Didn’t work. Inflation expectations are fake. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think we need more focus on bringing *geographical* selectivity into the immigration system. These places with ultra-low unemployment rates would benefit from more workers and there should be a way for communities to opt in (or out) of that if they want to. https://t.co/bt8SZjvhj7 — PolitiTweet.org

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@kevanhuston I think the chart is clear that it was the tweet — PolitiTweet.org

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Note the salience dynamics here … immigration-related stunts don’t need to “work” in order to help Republicans by pushing abortion off A1 and getting asylum stories on instead. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mmurraypolitics: 4. GOP with huge issue-handling leads on economy, crime, border/immigration. Dems with big leads on abortion, health… — PolitiTweet.org

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If you’re going to be colonized, it’s preferable to be colonized by someone who will send missionaries to set up schools. https://t.co/shIgVwvYZO — PolitiTweet.org

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Setting up a brutal extractive regime is bad. https://t.co/mQKIRugqXZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Gasoline prices since Brandon tweeted that the prices should be lower https://t.co/7Mve9evdMf — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s always much less reporting in the US media on Mexico than seems warranted — things that happen there often have a very direct impact on events in the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a serious problem but also a somewhat predictable consequence of some short-sighted decisions Dem leaders made around some of these GOP primaries. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alex_block Right. My simple solution is to just let people build stuff (or not) and not sweat it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Slow but real progress https://t.co/OdI8nf6iye — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A few more. Obviously pandemic recovery is somewhat uncertain. https://t.co/3L3qz5813w — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @nataliesurely: In a new Havana Syndrome podcast, US officials are apparently as direct as they’ve ever been publicly that there’s no ev… — PolitiTweet.org

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There are probably not a lot of people impacted by this in practice but it’s a bizarre policy — PolitiTweet.org

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Some development success stories https://t.co/N6McdNCVvZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@axelsoiv I’ve never written about it specifically but the integration of new housing with T-Bana expansion was very well done — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 We love a good state fixed effects map — PolitiTweet.org

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“You expect me to believe you can’t remember the plot of the highest grossing movie of all time?” https://t.co/ukpKXF4FMm — PolitiTweet.org

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🐐 Sigourney Weaver learned to free dive so should could do underwater performance-capture scenes (never been done before!) while portraying a different character than in the first Avatar. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am a Way of Water believer — PolitiTweet.org

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Nationals Park doesn’t conform with the existing zoning and absent some intervention it will become illegal to host baseball games there on September 30 (perhaps a sign that there are some flaws in this system) https://t.co/P6CoOD3vld — PolitiTweet.org

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There are other possibilities — advanced geothermal, some new kind of battery, direct air capture or CCS good enough to let us keep burning gas — but it needs to be something and the problem is big enough that I think we should try to advance on all fronts. — PolitiTweet.org

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But if you want to get to net zero then you either need to have a ton of hydro power available (Norway, Switzerland, Canada) or else you’re relying on some additional technology. I think Nuclear is a very plausible candidate here. https://t.co/wH2VEIulHb — PolitiTweet.org

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One takeaway from this is that at the current margin, natural gas is pretty green. When Russia adopted a “keep it in the ground” approach to their gas, EU emissions went up not down and there are valuable lessons here. https://t.co/wbcTnK6UWt — PolitiTweet.org

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Solar and wind are very cheap at the margin with natural gas (or hydro) backup, which makes them extremely potent decarbonization tools in a world where electrification of transportation and home heat are raising electricity demand. https://t.co/KHNEpDki5p — PolitiTweet.org

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Send the Venezuelan asylum seekers to Burlington so they can moderate Vermont politics with a healthy dose of skepticism about socialism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Marginalism running amok — PolitiTweet.org