Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@MattGertz I don’t really have opinions on what “activists” should do, I’m skeptical they should do anything. The polling on anti-NIMBY stuff is pretty good, but per @JerusalemDemsas I don’t think the race-forward framing is the best message. https://t.co/szd27USKEI — PolitiTweet.org

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Favorite Andrew Yang fact I heard during the primaries is that people named “Yang” were over represented in his donor base compared to other Chinese-American surnames. I have solidarity with anyone who suffers under the yoke of alphabetical orderism. — PolitiTweet.org

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Digital news and Google being in the same NAICS code seems like a poor choice. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling Right so I'm curious. When you found yourself "baffled" by the idea that I believe public opinion is fixed and unchangeable did you stop to think "maybe he doesn't believe that?" It's an absurd view, it's not what I said, it's contradicted by many others things I've written. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling But I'm asking why you, personally, took an obviously-wrong view that I did not articulate and chose to attribute this obviously-wrong view to me instead of thinking "hey this guy probably does not hold this obviously-wrong view that he also didn't say." — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @alon_levy @chow_global @lionel_trolling The underlying problem is America has developed an ecosystem of well-educated left-of-center academics, advocates, non-profit leaders, and journalists who devote large amounts of time gaslighting each other about how widely shared our own values and views are. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling I do think the better work on psychology and identity tries to do this contextual work, like in "Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution." But the upshot is personality only contingently relates to ideology. https://t.co/hA4zhdUTtO — PolitiTweet.org

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How I think about Afghanistan https://t.co/jfalfOqW3Y https://t.co/BIie7q0E3i — PolitiTweet.org

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A meta view on Afghanistan https://t.co/jfalfOqW3Y https://t.co/jfalfOqW3Y https://t.co/QUQ4Ojefli — PolitiTweet.org

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It would be easier to "trust the experts" and "stay in your lane" if it weren't so common for studies with incredibly obviously methodological flaws to get published in academic journals. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is amazing — PolitiTweet.org

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Good for the UK; organizing a human challenge trial on Covid reinfection. https://t.co/r3fx0fOqr4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@willwilkinson Incredible grift — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thisisinsider: Research shows the timing of these back-to-back shootings likely isn’t a coincidence. The more people see violence, th… — PolitiTweet.org

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Kim Gordon, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear doing “Aneurysm.” https://t.co/UnctIkudGW — PolitiTweet.org

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Jute erasure smh — PolitiTweet.org

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Hoping that when the semiconductor supply chain issues get worked out, Bill Gates can develop some next generation microchips that don’t cause this much muscle soreness. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nbeaudrot @davidshor “Build a bridge to the 21st century” —> 379 electoral votes — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor Clearly Democrats should talk about this more. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lastpositivist But to be clear, it’s not like some tiny population of billionaires — these are very widely held, almost banal, views that came to be weirdly marginal in digital media startups. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Ibishblog: Two words one rarely wants to encounter: Serb volunteers — PolitiTweet.org

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These disputes are generally not about the underlying science https://t.co/Ih5Qyw2luc https://t.co/C2hPLtlezA — PolitiTweet.org

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ACIP’s membership should have stayed in its lane — PolitiTweet.org

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As I’ve gone from philosophy undergrad to journalist, I can’t help but read this and think “why not just ask Scanlon?” He’s around, he answers emails. https://t.co/3PJboG9UTQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@pleizar You get it — PolitiTweet.org

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If you care about the environment it is your duty to get mad at various Elon Musk tweets so that subsidizing EVs and solar panels becomes a way to own the libs. I don’t make the rules. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sampenrose @Aella_Girl This is a great essay — PolitiTweet.org

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@drvolts What’s in the bag? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aella_Girl I think you’re fine skipping it — PolitiTweet.org

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Go to the future and you’ll be a morlock living among the transhuman super-beings. Go to the past you can buy Microsoft at the 1986 IPO, sell at the peak of the dot com bubble, then buy Amazon when tech is super-unfashionable after the crash. — PolitiTweet.org