Matthew Yglesias
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If you care enough about politics to concern troll and/or fight online about it, you should also care enough to earnestly tell your neighborhood which ticket you prefer.
I’m doing my part.
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They used to publish everyone’s address and phone number in a big book and then deliver it to your house.
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Musk spends a remarkable amount of time *replying to tweets* for a guy who's the CEO of three companies.
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They defunded ... the police?
Johnson: We also advanced cuts to some of the agencies that have been turned against the American people. We are going to cut 3% from DOJ, 7% from the ATF, 6% from the FBI, and 10% from the EPA.
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America retains a decisive advantage in tailoring
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Bad break for the GOP that the lifelong Republican FBI Director appointed by George W Bush turned out to be a hard-core leftist hack so then Trump had to fire him and hand-pick a new FBI Director, also a lifelong Republican, and he *also* turned out to be a leftist.
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Bombing people who disrupt international shipping is in fact the core function of the American military.
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I’m a free speech absolutist
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Democrats: Trump wants to be a dictator
Trump: I want to be a dictator
Republicans: Democrats are being hysterical
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This is fucking bullshit.
You appoint a Republican special counsel to investigate.
He investigates.
His investigation does not reveal a crime.
So instead of saying “all good!” he goes off and does partisan political hits?
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Good reason to vote for Joe Biden, who will raise Elon Musk’s taxes to help address the problem, rather than Donald Trump, who will do the reverse with the opposite effect.
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You read this and think it’s going to be about the CIA staging a coup or something but it’s actually a complaint that Vogue, rather than the White House press corps, was given access to Naomi Biden’s wedding.
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For all its very real problems, one shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the contemporary United States of America is one of the best places to live in all of human history and there’s a reason tons of people of all kinds from all around the world clamor to move here.
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It’s interesting that
@elonmusk
is “impulsive” and “undisciplined” but never accidentally says anything critical of the PRC.
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I think disenfranchising childless people would be a bad idea.
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Difficult to say why young women are moving away from this ideology.
Why would a rich famous guy marry a 34 year old woman? If you started immediately you MIGHT be able to have two kids. And she’s publicly had sex with a ton of guys. Despite her wealth she’s very low quality for any successful male. Just seems weird and almost like he’s a gay guy.…
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@elonmusk
@hodgetwins
@micsolana
I’m pretty sure that Donald Trump was president in October 2020 and Joe Biden didn’t have any government authority. May be misremembering though.
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I don’t see how you can make it clearer than this — Republicans are deliberately sowing chaos at the border because they think it will help Trump, and Ukraine is just going to be randomly sacrificed to Russia as a side effect.
☀️ MCCONNELL BOWS TO TRUMP ON BORDER
Last night, we scooped that MCCONNELL told Republican senators that time had essentially run out on trying to craft a Ukraine-border package.
"We dont want to do anything to undermine [Trump]," said McConnell, who can barely utter the former…
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If the FBI can stop a former president from leaving classified nuclear weapons information at his beach house, they can do it to you too.
Chilling.
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It has come to my attention that some folks feel:
(1) That this is a question &
(2) That I should “answer Elon’s question”
My reply:
(1) That’s not a question!
(2) Every time Twitter is asked by a government to censor something they have a choice about whether to comply
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Impressive that this all happened despite the bad economy
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Occasional reminder that the entire purpose of the US-Saudi alliance is that in the event of a geopolitical crisis with Russia they are supposed to pump extra oil and stabilize prices but they’re just … not doing it.
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This never would have happened to a white university president (except at penn, a couple of weeks earlier, over literally the exact same issue, but without the plagiarism angle).
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Wild to me that this is how a bunch of groups want to burn their credibility this week.
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Respect that Cheney went down swinging instead of slinking away in retirement like so many other Trump skeptics among her colleagues.
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Almost shocking to see such a straightforward and accurate headline
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Democrats should be careful about establishing a precedent where if Biden loses in 2024 but then tries to get Kamala Harris to declare him the winner anyway and then orchestrates a riot at a Capitol to try to coerce her, he too could face similar charges.
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People do these elaborate takes about Trump’s authoritarian aspirations and then he just comes out and says the president should be allowed to do infinite crimes
A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION. ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. EVEN EVENTS THAT “CROSS THE LINE”…
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People get really mad if you point out that inflation has fallen a lot since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act but it is true that this is what happened.
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A combination of size, athleticism, and understanding of the deposit insurance regulations that the world has never seen before.
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“Buy a cheaper car” seems like underrated financial advice
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All the seniors have their brains cooked by Fox while everyone under thirty is pickling in a Chinese propaganda amplification machine, so responsibility falls on us the few, the proud, the middle-aged to rescue America.
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@elonmusk
Look, I’m not the one who bought Twitter amidst a blaze of proclamations about free speech principles. Obviously you’re within your rights to run your business however you want.
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Here’s the social and political model Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump want to bring to the United States of America.
Russians are back leaving flowers at the memorial to political prisoners following Navalny's death. It looks like the police have been told to toughen up. 15 people arrested already, per
@sotaproject
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This is where it’s going — prosecuting people who cross state lines to get abortions and the politicians who talk moderate will be appointing and confirming the hard right judges who facilitate it.
🚨BREAKING: Today, I am filing suit against Planned Parenthood for trafficking minors out of state to obtain abortions without parental consent.
This is the beginning of the end for Planned Parenthood in the State of Missouri.
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How far has wokeness penetrated American institutions?
Black Lives Matter now owns ten percent of all land in the United States.
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At the end of the day there was no conservative “long game” on Roe and the Courts, it’s just that Anthony Kennedy as one individual human being chose to do a strategically timed retirement and Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not.
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Funding the tax police has generated over $500,000,000 in revenue from just 900 scofflaw millionaires.
Enforcing the law works!
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First the MSNBC crowd says the January 6 insurrection was bad but now they’re cheering an insurrection against Vladimir Putin, corporate media hypocrisy at its worst.
Simply breathtaking.
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Imagine a world in which powerful executives like Rupert Murdoch collaborated with government officials to suppress coverage of damaging information about the President of the United States on the most popular and important cable news network.
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Of course racism doesn’t “make sense” in general, but I’m really confused about the outpouring of racism in response to this harbor accident which had absolutely nothing to do with the Mayor of Baltimore.
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This seems like relevant context for future coverage of age in the 2024 race.
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The worst nuclear accident in history vs fossil fuel power working as designed
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And rightly so! They are the people with the most environmentally friendly lifestyle.
The people that live here love to lecture you about the environment:
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Libs are gonna be so owned if this ends up backfiring on Hunter Biden, a huge cult figure among American liberals who see him as an iconic figure who must be protected at all costs.
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The murder rate is lower, the unemployment rate is lower, wages are higher, fewer people are dying of Covid.
Jr: I can’t think of a single metric where anyone is better off now than they were three years ago… even with COVID
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Biden is talking about the Voting Rights Act reauthorization of 1982 where Thurmond (who had opposed earlier iterations of VRA) was a key player because he chaired the Judiciary Committee.
Biden was a key negotiator from the Democratic side.
BIDEN: "When I left the Senate, I was able to convince Strom Thurmond to vote for the Voting Rights Act."
Thurmond died in 2003, while Biden didn't leave the Senate until 2009. The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, before Biden was in office.
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I wish reporting on this would indicate to people that there is no NATO fund that these countries are in arrears to.
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I’ve been thinking an inflationary climate is time to bring back basic economics, but Nikki Haley can’t even do routine math.
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AOC is applauding Biden’s call for higher taxes on billionaires because even though she disagrees with Biden about some things she agrees with him about this.
She’s a politician doing politics, and a bunch of psychotics can’t stand it.
AOC really became the same ineffective, party loyalist, establishment democrat she criticized to get elected
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I think it’s really underrated the extent to which Biden did the right thing on Afghanistan, got slammed by wildly unfair media coverage, and just never recovered.
🚨🚨Exclusive from new book: Biden defends deadly Afghanistan withdrawal — doesn't think anyone made a mistake
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It’s impressive what can be achieved without 18 months of environmental review, several community meetings, and a lawsuit or three.
Ukraine restores the railroad bridge that has been blown up by Russians in Irpin (close to Bucha). The ministry of infrastructure: more than 30 river bridges (auto and rail) have been repaired in less than a month. Ukrainians don’t wait for the war to end to start rebuilding
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Perfect euro-rightistist food take — Mexican food is bad because it’s too flavorful.
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Rising murders in 2020-2021 were a huge news story.
The fact that over 100% of that increase has reversed is a non-story in a world dominated by negativity and doomer narratives.
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Leftists are addicted to using civil disobedience tactics designed to achieve political change in places where there’s no democracy (colonial India, Jim Crow America) under circumstances where their ideas just haven’t won in elections.
The Bay Bridge is SHUT DOWN
Biden will not get away with genocide, Biden will not get away with staying in San Francisco without EVERYONE knowing he is supporting the slaughter in Gaza
No more genocide, ceasefire NOW
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I don't think it's sunk in with people that Trump is asking the Dobbs Court to rule that he's literally above the law and they apparently might do it.
🚨 BREAKING: Supreme Court has *granted* cert and will consider presidential immunity.
Argument is set for week of April 22, an expedited timeline.
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The signature flaw of far-left activist groups on everything from climate to Palestine to housing to policing is refusing to engage in any kind of specific way with how anything is supposed to happen beyond mystifications about political will.
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Republicans, realizing they fucked up by lowering the bar for Biden, are now complaining that “Sleepy Joe” is actually *too* energetic.
No one is going to remember a single thing Biden says tonight. Everyone is going to remember how weirdly amped up he is and how bizarrely fast he’s speaking.
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Ties go zero for seven at the G7 summit.
End of an era.
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Oz rebuts claims that he lives in New Jersey by saying that his father moved the family to “just south of Philadelphia,” i.e. New Jersey.
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Given the intense level of stated interest in Biden doing more public events there is remarkably little coverage of the events he does do.
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Wow sure was nice of the insulin manufacturers to do this!
[people may want to know it is thanks to the inflation reduction act which republicans have promised to repeal if they win]
Starting today, all three major insulin manufacturers are offering $35/mo caps on out-of-pocket costs.
Also today, they’re cutting list prices by 70% or more - a move that’s expected to *save* them hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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Why is life expectancy in the United States so bad?
It seems perverse to be richer than these other countries but falling behind in something as basic as “not dying.”
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He seems totally fine and I think needs to do more press.
Biden: As many of you know, this was an exhaustive investigation. Going back literally more than 40 years. I went forward with a five hour in-person interview on October 8 and 9 last year. I was in the middle of handling an international crisis.
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Honestly think Biden just needs to do more public events (accepting a certain amount of gaffe-risk) he’s pretty funny and charming
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Because we implemented regulations to address these issues!
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Let Biden be Biden
While posing for selfies in LA,
@POTUS
switched a customer’s phone to selfie mode. Customer surprised POTUS knew how to do that.
“After the last guy, the bar’s on the floor,” POTUS responded
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New source of intra-elite conflict and status anxiety just dropped
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New campaign slogan just dropped
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Everyone is surprisingly chill about the clearly elevated risk of nuclear war.
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I stand by this analysis
I’m still adamant that bearded Biden would have a 60% approval rating
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I think this is a lot of people’s politics — driven by a sense that Obama betrayed his promises by bailing out Wall Street when in fact that bailout happened before his election and as president he pursued a bunch of regulatory changes Wall Street hated.
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Look Musk chose, of his own volition, to proclaim himself to be a “free speech absolutist.”
It now turns out that the world is complicated and there are tradeoffs blah blah blah and it’s his company and he can do what he wants with it but I think it’s funny.
@elonmusk
@mattyglesias
The left will always hold you to your own standard but they will never hold themselves to your standard. Ignore them.
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I guess some people are going to be disappointed when it turns out the world adopts enough policy to keep climate change to survivable levels without radically overthrowing capitalism or abandoning economic growth, but personally I think it's good.
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The Secretary of Appearing on Television continues to be excellent at his job
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If there’s one thing I believe in 2022 that I would not have believed five years ago it’s that it absolutely is possible that he illegally walked off with boxes of top secret documents and then refused to return them for no actual reason.
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@elonmusk
What are your thoughts on Covid policy in China and the protests against lockdowns?
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Notable that there are more manufacturing jobs than at any point under Trump.
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He co-sponsored the “life begins at conception act” a year ago!!!
Update -- a statement from
@speakerjohnson
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“I believe the life of every single child has inestimable dignity and value. That is why I support IVF treatment, which has been a blessing for many moms and dads who have struggled with fertility."
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Four years ago today, Trump complained that Covid "could have been stopped right where it came from" in China "if we would have known about it."
We learned later that Trump was fully briefed on the threat in January and told Bob Woodward he deliberately downplayed it.
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Five years ago a reasonable optimist about remote work might have said widespread adoption would make people happier (less commuting), housing more affordable (fewer location constraints), and make people have more babies (more flexible family life).
But none of that happened.
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Since Hamas murdered a bunch of people in an effort to promote a retaliation so severe that it scuttles Israeli efforts at diplomatic normalization with other states in the region, I would consider aiming for a policy response that does not give them their desired outcome.
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If I were Sinema I’d be acting jointly with Mark Kelly to secure a clear win for middle class Arizonans, not acting jointly with John Thune to score wins for private equity firms.
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You shift from a system in which affluent kids are disproportionately in the advanced class to a system where the advanced class is now available *only* to those with parents who are rich enough and motivated enough to buy private lessons.
Cambridge Public Schools eliminated advanced math in middle school with the aim of reducing disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some families and educators argue the decision has had the opposite effect.
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Wouldn’t a “permanent ceasefire” just be Hamas surrendering?
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Is this real time doxxing?
Elon Musk attending the World Cup final in Lusail Stadium, Qatar
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To me, actually brokering a ceasefire agreement is more impressive than “calling for” or “demanding” a ceasefire but that’s just one perspective.
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The dunk is that he’s like a normal middle aged dad?
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Not great that we psyopped ourselves out of a massive reduction in deadly air pollution over a nuclear accident that killed zero people.
The US broke ground on 60 nuclear power plants between 1970-78 until 3 Mile Island halted new construction in 1979. Had we instead kept building at that pace, we'd have about 4.2 BkWh of nuclear generation today. Coincidentally, total US gen from all sources in '22 was 4.2 BkWh.
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