Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@hamandcheese Does it? The outcomes don’t seem very compelling from what I’ve seen. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@drvolts @chrislhayes @jbouie Some other dads at school have Radpowers and a bunch of people on Twitter said they are good. Seems like you have philosophical objections to their design/approach which I can respect, but I’m enjoying my RadCity. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fool me twice… — PolitiTweet.org

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To me the philosophical quibbles I have with this position are less significant than the fact that the community is right that there is much too little mainstream policy emphasis on the rising tide (IN THE SHORT TERM!!) of catastrophic pandemic risk. https://t.co/8NGDNvK35X — PolitiTweet.org

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This critique seems pretty compelling to me, which is why I don’t think it’s a coincidence that in practice the longtermist community is focused on problems that aren’t particularly long term. https://t.co/cUWBH1TJhU — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler Yes I think it would be better to talk more about the consequences of ultra-maga semi-fascism than the abstract values… — PolitiTweet.org

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(the joke is that it was @JDVance1 who wrote that) — PolitiTweet.org

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Cannot believe Biden had the temerity to say this about Trump voters https://t.co/CWAi850DIS — PolitiTweet.org

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I was really mad at the time — both about politics but also some difficult personal stuff going on in my life — and wanted to take drastic action to try to stop Bush from taking power. If Gore and other top Dems had been urging me to, I might have. But they didn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

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Right — Al Gore conceded the election rather than organizing a mob to storm the capital. That did a lot to calm things down. — PolitiTweet.org

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Same question about this — creating inflation in the west to try to get concessions on Ukraine makes sense. But then why undermine your own bargaining by lying about what is causing the inflation? https://t.co/8MgLi0Lke4 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @brooks_rosa: Friends, many of you knew our mother, Barbara Ehrenreich. She passed away yesterday, surrounded by family. We miss her alr… — PolitiTweet.org

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I can see this as a foreign policy move but if you’re going to go that direction in inflationary times then I think you’d better go Maximum Free Trade on every country that isn’t China. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasoncrawford Lumber is less transportable so maybe you just want more mills around — PolitiTweet.org

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@jdcmedlock Because the base level at the bottom is so low, outsized percentage growth doesn’t move the aggregate that much. — PolitiTweet.org

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GPT-3 can’t do my job but it’s definitely in the neighborhood — I don’t see much of a future for this line of work 😬 — PolitiTweet.org

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Relatedly the new AI applications seem like they are primarily going to displace people with above-average wages rather than people doing food service, child care, cleaning, etc — more likely to diagnose an ailment & prescribe treatment than clean a bedpan. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nbeaudrot That sounds about right — PolitiTweet.org

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Nobody talks about this but over the best decade, income inequality has fallen. https://t.co/7AI8qU4wy4 https://t.co/Gju1nLrRu5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nancook: "Standing in the middle of police tape, the coach noticed how few of his players were crying or in hysterics. “It’s normal fo… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss On its face it sounds like she gave the kid up for adoption after a pregnancy her husband doesn’t know happened because it’s from a prior relationship. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MichaelBennet: Retweet if you think a woman's health care decisions should be between herself and her doctor, not the government. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion Yeah @AdamSerwer made this point to me and it changed my life — PolitiTweet.org

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Shoutout to Ward 1 where the housing is now incredibly expensive but the student test scores are still about as bad as in the poorest neighborhoods. https://t.co/uB91dLG0Vz — PolitiTweet.org

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What is the upside to Russia of making up fake reasons for cutting Europe's gas? If the goal is to make voters want to elect politicians who'll do what Putin wants, shouldn't he make it explicit that he's willing to do a deal? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoshKraushaar What's the deal with cash bail? — PolitiTweet.org

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The Achilles heel in Biden's political comeback is it's hard to guarantee that gas prices will keep falling, but I hope everyone is working overtime on making sure they are identifying all the available policy tools... — PolitiTweet.org

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Brandon won't rest until every teen has a summer job at a local pool fighting Corn Pop — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DailyCaller: BREAKING: Disney+ just released the poster for their newest star wars series https://t.co/rHLJGJSx5G — PolitiTweet.org

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Problem with my “get an ebike” plan is I forgot you need to charge the battery — gonna be a long ride home… — PolitiTweet.org