Matthew Yglesias

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RT @brianbeutler: ‘Unfortunately our constant lying has placed us in a bind, which we will escape with yet more lying.’ Rinse repeat, year… — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/LCo9j1YTeJ — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanchait Yes … though what is true is that post-presidential Obama seems to have walked away from this factional fight and Biden has positioned himself much closer to the unions while also owning the moderate factional brand. — PolitiTweet.org

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Income inequality is falling https://t.co/LUE5yCistN — PolitiTweet.org

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All the Chicago mayoral election discourse is about crime, but Paul Vallas’ career has overwhelmingly been as an education reformer — a political movement that used to be at the center of debate but has now largely vanished from national dialogue https://t.co/GUBUEqCQRP https://t.co/t6Uh4RxPWO — PolitiTweet.org

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Introduce yourself with seven books: 1. Dune 2. Dune Messiah 3. Children of Dune 4. God-Emperor of Dune 5. One Billion Americans 6. Heretics of Dune 7. Chapterhouse: Dune — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SenSchumer: I will talk about Tucker Carlson’s outrageous manipulation of January 6th facts today at 10am on the Senate floor. — PolitiTweet.org

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Stakeholders gonna be engaged! — PolitiTweet.org

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We don’t do a centralized assessment of each household’s “refrigerator needs” and then mandate a specific minimum fridge size based on what planners think is needed — people buy bigger or smaller fridges based on preference/space/budget tradeoffs they make on their own. — PolitiTweet.org

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Parking reform 👏👏👏 I would just say I don’t love the framing about “parking needs.” The point is just that this doesn’t need to be a question of central planning and regulatory mandates — let people build the parking they think makes sense. https://t.co/A2wgmn1s5Z — PolitiTweet.org

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Defund police speeches at CPAC. What a time to be alive. — PolitiTweet.org

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Theft of negotiable bonds, the ultimate pop culture crime of the 80s and 90s. https://t.co/p0pBGFtdPd — PolitiTweet.org

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The first post in the series just tries to reconstruct what was this fight about — what were the management changes people fought over and how did something so technical come to be such a hot button topic and then vanish without a trace? — PolitiTweet.org

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These debates carried enormous emotional and rhetorical heat — Obama called it “the civil rights issue of our time” — and my argument is a lot of today’s politics play out in what amounts to a toxic fallout zone left behind by these fights. https://t.co/GUBUEqCQRP https://t.co/IfQ5C43E8p — PolitiTweet.org

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Education reform stood apart from traditional conservative emphasis on budget-cutting and splintered the Democratic Party coalition by tackling teacher union sacred cows. It had the support of Obama & George W Bush and then it petered out. https://t.co/GUBUEqCQRP — PolitiTweet.org

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For nearly thirty years, but peaking during Barack Obama’s first term, there was an always-controversial but deeply influential movement that believed better measurement and changed management practices could and should revolutionize K-12 education. — PolitiTweet.org

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Today on Slow Boring the first edition of what I hope will be a substantial series of articles looking back at what I think is one of the most underrated political stories of our time — the strange death of the “education reform” movement. https://t.co/GUBUEqCQRP — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinKollar @JuddLegum We now appear to be at an end of fruitful conversation. 1. Crime is up, as @AshleyRParker said. 2. Violent crime (i.e., robbery) is down as @JuddLegum said 3. Murder is up as I said. People disagree about the merits of the criminal code reform. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jaycaspiankang: This is what you call a real dilemma lol. On the one hand, pickleball is a scam aimed at the elderly and the feeble min… — PolitiTweet.org

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@awprokop Vince Gray the GOAT mayor. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinKollar @JuddLegum I mean, I don't know. The thing she literally said is true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler I think the burden of proof should be on you to show that getting to the left of the mayor of DC would somehow be politically popular. It's on its face an absurd idea. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler But you accused me of having a generalized preference for unprincipled political action, which is 100 percent true and I make no apologies for it. I think Biden should far more frequently sell out, pander, etc. based on data, based on vibes, just as a knee-jerk thing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianbeutler It's true that there's no publicly available data. There's also no public data showing DC voters support this. Does Biden have private data? I'm not sure. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinKollar Well what she said is that "crime" is up, which is ture, thanks to a large increase in reported thefts of various categories. Then @JuddLegum said "violent crime" is down, which is true due to a decline in reported robberies. So I added that murder is up. All three are true. https://t.co/4Zk4qgmjlR — PolitiTweet.org

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The good news for the country is that murder is in fact down in most American cities this year, continuing the decline that we saw last year. But in DC murder dipped last year and then a bunch of people have been killed so far this year and people are worried! — PolitiTweet.org

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With the exception of murder! — PolitiTweet.org

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I thought @perrybaconjr's headline on this framed the issue well even though he means it as biting criticism — Biden put reelection over principles, which seems like a pretty reasonable choice to me. https://t.co/Qiru71KnQT — PolitiTweet.org

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Brian's criticism of this is that it's "unprincipled," which I agree with — my premise was that you might be passionate about the cause of DC statehood. If instead you are passionate about the cause of principled stands, you should take principled stands. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you are passionate about the cause of DC statehood, this is how to achieve DC statehood: 1. Pro-statehood Democrats win elections. 2. Pro-statehood Democrats make DC a state. — PolitiTweet.org