Matthew Yglesias

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Hydrogen is very important, potentially, as a way to turn renewable electricity (cheap but intermittent) into something storable and useful in a range of industrial applications. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Didn’t they also just take more swings? Like 1999 featured (famously!) a very large number of good movies but if you scroll through the entire list of wide releases there were also a ton of now-forgotten stinkers. — PolitiTweet.org

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@catlin201 None taken, you've obviously failed to read any of my actual writing on this which is your problem not mine. — PolitiTweet.org

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If voters think of IRA as a deficit reduction bill that addresses a few cost of living concerns in a pragmatic way, that's much *better* than them hearing exaggerated stories about sweeping progressive change. https://t.co/S5nOrWo4Og — PolitiTweet.org

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I get the impulse to want to brag about the "historic" nature of the energy production tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, but in terms of minimizing thermostatic backlash it's better to avoid the chest-thumping and demands for recognition. https://t.co/S5nOrWo4Og — PolitiTweet.org

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It's a good, moderate bill that takes a lot of stuff Republicans say we should do (support law enforcement, address climate through technology and innovation, reduce the deficit, increase American energy production) and actually does them. But in practice they love tax cheats. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Nooooo! Call it a moderate bill!! — PolitiTweet.org

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I think I am the world's only Susan Moller Okin conspiracy theorist but she died alone at home in her mid-fifties of no clear cause ... she knew too much (about the neglect of gender in traditional political theory) — PolitiTweet.org

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Susan Moller Okin erasure! — PolitiTweet.org

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@powellnyt Well, it seems unfair that different citizens would have different levels of formal voice in the political process — not letting women vote was the constitutional structure at one point but then it was changed to be more just. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just call me MMatT https://t.co/FiDRQBK93D https://t.co/8GF8Ow0h8k — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NSiegel_DC: Today, @usedgov announced they will discharge ALL REMAINING FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS held by defrauded borrowers. Total loan… — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m often annoyed by lack of good shade but assume that is at least municipalities saving money. The absence of vendors from many (most?) American parks just baffles me. — PolitiTweet.org

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Many have questioned the authenticity of Oz's asparagus crudité selection but Wikipedia says it's legit. https://t.co/2GAMzdS0MU — PolitiTweet.org

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@LemieuxLGM I think they could have thought harder about the pacing — do more Gene stuff earlier, push Howard's death into the penultimate episode and have the breakup with Kim be part of the multi-timeline finale that's all about regrets. — PolitiTweet.org

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This looks tasty. https://t.co/UxrAe6ye8S — PolitiTweet.org

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I think Fetterman has actually been remarkably circumspect about the fact that his opponent volunteered to serve in a foreign military for the purposes of maintaining his dual citizenship — it's pretty unusual. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKarol @BrendanNyhan @kwcollins It’s common for candidates to emphasis their service in the (American) military to underscore patriotic values and willingness to put country over self-interest and I think legitimately so. Choosing to do it for a foreign military also seems relevant! — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen It seems like they are not. WFH saves money on a bunch of dimensions but you’d expect people to repurpose most/all of the savings into housing and related things. — PolitiTweet.org

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You don’t want to end up with a series of Colorado ski resort scenarios where affluent remote working professionals show up in small towns and end up pricing out working class service workers. Location continues to be very relevant even if the in-demand locations change. — PolitiTweet.org

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A key thing about remote work is people want more housing than they previously did, and they want it in different (and somewhat unpredictable) places. So the value of flexibility is high. https://t.co/28FxNsbTb2 — PolitiTweet.org

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I would simply allow for more housebuilding — note that with interest rates squeezing housing supply it’s more important than ever to legalize the highest ROI projects so the real resources don’t go totally unused for financing reasons. https://t.co/PsZ4k2bAJ5 — PolitiTweet.org

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So here are two uncontroversial claims: (1) Quantity restrictions on output are very inefficient (2) Housing is the largest line item in basically every household budget But if you jump up and down and talk a lot about the implications of 1+2 you’re very eccentric. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a little recursive because one thing I think is “what’s the most important topic?” is a much harder question to answer than “how can I personally make a difference?” and for me personally the answer is often “get more people to pay attention to X.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianmdoherty I think they really got into the Gus Fring character (who I agree is cool) in a way that way that ended up distracting a bit from “what is this show about?” — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s probably worth asking as an exercise “what is the absolute most boring thing we could possibly say about Policy Area X” and then try to figure out why that extremely boring thing isn’t being done — possibly because advocating for it is just so banal. — PolitiTweet.org

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In academic research, you’re supposed to try to ask and answer hard questions. But in terms of practical policy advocacy the biggest gains are probably from urging people to pick the low-hanging fruit. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Democrats do meaningfully better than the average presidential incumbent party during the midterms” and “Democrats lose the House and dig a Senate hole they can’t climb out of for 20 years” are sadly compatible scenarios. — PolitiTweet.org

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@techbasset I don’t know what colloidal silver is so I couldn’t really say what I think about that — PolitiTweet.org

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@ModeledBehavior But when is it gonna get cheaper for me to just stay in DC but have a bigger house? — PolitiTweet.org