Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

So, yes, we should improve society somewhat while also acknowledging that life in the contemporary United States is very good in terms of global or historical comparisons. — PolitiTweet.org

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The thing about this meme is that as stated it is a defense of moderate, meliorist politics (“improve society somewhat”) but it’s typically invoked as a defense against the charge that *radicals* are being hypocritical or obtuse. https://t.co/i5vfRe7JDj — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling @MattZeitlin What’s remarkable are the replies defending the fake girls https://t.co/0gqO233Hqq — PolitiTweet.org

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I think everything in media is like this, the “average tweet” is sent by some tiny account and the “average newspaper” serves a small town while a small number of high performers dominate the medium from an audience share perspective. — PolitiTweet.org

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So for example OBA is a bit over 20,000 copies sold which is incredibly good for “a book.” But it’s not “a book,” it got a good advance from a major publisher so there’s higher expectations. The government’s argument is we should treat this as a distinct market. — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of tweets flying around yesterday about the incredibly low sales figures of most books, but it’s worth reading the full context from which that was pulled which is about market segmentation. https://t.co/WwGYSdD82B https://t.co/gz5EE3N9Wm — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JustinSandefur: Good excuse to re-up our recent symposium on whether school meals are worth the cost: https://t.co/nH0E0FTPSr — PolitiTweet.org

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@ModeledBehavior Well you (ideally) get an advance that changes the odds. — PolitiTweet.org

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Daemon when he gets that note https://t.co/mq7nrBwxco — PolitiTweet.org

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This whole crab-feeding thing is pretty gross. — PolitiTweet.org

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@olgakhazan Ask for the check early. Bring some crayons and paper. Make a habit of doing it and get some reps in, kids can learn to behave themselves at restaurants and doing it when they’re young pays dividends for years. — PolitiTweet.org

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@janecoaston https://t.co/myzRK8Tqy1 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ChrisMurphyCT: Trump had 43 empty classified folders in his possession. So either he absently mindedly stuffed a bunch of empty class… — PolitiTweet.org

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@andrewperezdc @Econ_Marshall No condo board but, for example, when I wanted to put solar panels on my roof I had to go begging to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission. They okayed it eventually, but said no to modern well-insulated windows. — PolitiTweet.org

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Our best hope for reversing education polarization — PolitiTweet.org

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/T5HubxyYmn — PolitiTweet.org

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I feel like the overt anti-semites are making a comeback on https://t.co/n1cNBMfYvQ recently. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KevinCSullivan Desperate for a Moby Dick limited series? You bet! — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the streamers should make a Moby Dick limited series and try to trick people into getting mad about the “woke” casting of the harpooners. — PolitiTweet.org

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There are externalities associated with driving a car (which could be addressed with prices) and with parking (which could be addressed with prices) and with home energy which (which could be addressed with prices) but there’s no externality of adding a house. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, exactly, new housebuilding should be regulated for bona fide externalities (and there aren’t any) rather than for dumb pretexts. — PolitiTweet.org

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Excited for this https://t.co/SFYMDcF0bA — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_C_Klein A lot of denial about the Baumol Effect issues in a world where thanks to feminism teaching isn’t segmented from the rest of the labor market — nobody wants to hear “we need to spend more and more just to avoid getting worse” but… — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea that instead of clearly defined property rights we should have a situation where your neighbors can tell you what to do with your land and in exchange you can tell them what to do with their land is like some weird feudal system shit. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yeah I think if you own some land and it’s residentially zoned and you want to build a residential structure on it that’s safe, you should be able to make it whatever size you want and with however many units or parking spaces or whatever that you want. Freedom! — PolitiTweet.org

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I think a good way to balance these considerations is to allow unlimited density on all residential parcels in all parts of the state (and every other state), and then if people decide they don’t want to live in them because of water or fires or whatever they don’t have to. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kimmaicutler That’s the dream — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanchait Rather than a lack of smarts, I think Trump’s preference for extremely clear and explicit communications (“he said the quiet part loud!”) is one of his strengths and I wonder why most politicians snobbishly insist on being writerly. — PolitiTweet.org

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UK is so cursed this is how the *incumbent* party describes the economy. https://t.co/PB6iGVYFgZ — PolitiTweet.org

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But your honor the bank vault was empty when the police searched it, how can you say my client stole anything? https://t.co/FIX2gIxmlH — PolitiTweet.org