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Matthew Yglesias

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Slow Boring, cohosting and The Argument pod. NYT contributing opinion writer.

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1May 28, '23I’m a free speech absolutist58.7×8M13k1.5k459
2May 29, '23It 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 T39.5×5.4M7.6k449137
3Dec 16, '22They used to publish everyone’s address and phone number in a big book and then deliver it to your house.36.9×5.1M53k4.5k363
4Jun 2, '24Trump greeting a nonexistent crowd outside of Trump Tower24.6×3.4M9.8k1.5k638
5Oct 10, '23Wild to me that this is how a bunch of groups want to burn their credibility this week.14.5×2M7.7k759407
6Mar 6, '24They defunded ... the police?14.1×1.9M17k2.6k500
7Nov 17, '23America retains a decisive advantage in tailoring12.5×1.7M18k648311
8Dec 19, '22It’s interesting that @elonmusk is “impulsive” and “undisciplined” but never accidentally says anything critical of the PRC.12.1×1.7M9.6k687162
9Jul 12, '24A personality cult without the personality is just depressing.11.9×1.6M4.5k22491
10Nov 16, '23Leftists 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 circums11.5×1.6M5.1k461483
11Feb 12, '24Good 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.10.1×1.4M11k1.4k127
12Jan 12, '24Bombing people who disrupt international shipping is in fact the core function of the American military.10.1×1.4M14k1.1k448
13Jun 9, '23Bad 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 n9.7×1.3M15k1.7k427
14Jan 30, '24Difficult to say why young women are moving away from this ideology.9.0×1.2M8.9k480365
15Jun 23, '23First 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 breath8.6×1.2M6.4k62187
16Aug 31, '23Perfect euro-rightistist food take — Mexican food is bad because it’s too flavorful.8.5×1.2M5.1k244160
17Jul 12, '23People 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.8.5×1.2M6.3k1.3k226
18Mar 11, '23A combination of size, athleticism, and understanding of the deposit insurance regulations that the world has never seen before.8.4×1.1M7.2k529217
19Jan 15, '23And rightly so! They are the people with the most environmentally friendly lifestyle.8.3×1.1M5.7k15560
20May 24, '22For 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 th8.0×011k943524
21Dec 25, '22Choose your fighter7.9×1.1M7.3k859213
22Aug 9, '23How far has wokeness penetrated American institutions? Black Lives Matter now owns ten percent of all land in the United States.7.7×1.1M6.6k300231
23Apr 14, '24Rising 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.7.7×1.1M4.8k1.2k252
24Jan 25, '24I 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 r7.0×961k7.3k2k212
25Jul 24, '23New source of intra-elite conflict and status anxiety just dropped6.8×933k4.7k285534
27Feb 17, '24I 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.6.7×912k4.8k672190
28May 31, '24I always say: When your opponent is convicted of felonies, you need to do everything possible to shift the national conversation back to your absolute worst issue — something that 6.5×895k8k573291
29Nov 14, '22Musk spends a remarkable amount of time *replying to tweets* for a guy who's the CEO of three companies.6.2×029k1.7k111
30Jul 2, '23I think disenfranchising childless people would be a bad idea.6.0×819k9.2k269108
31Oct 25, '23The 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 is5.8×801k5.1k454489
32Jul 22, '23The greatest thread in the history of forums…5.8×793k5.8k171291
33Nov 9, '23Honestly think Biden just needs to do more public events (accepting a certain amount of gaffe-risk) he’s pretty funny and charming5.7×778k4.4k528222
34Jan 18, '24People 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 crimes5.7×778k6.7k1.3k198
35Jun 9, '23Libs 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 costs5.6×766k5.4k27753
36May 31, '24One can always debate the case on the merits, but the idea that a prominent politician should have carte blanche to commit crimes because any effort at accountability would constit5.6×762k7.9k706184
37Jul 20, '24Seems like a good ad to me5.4×734k5.1k613804
38Jul 24, '24Everyone seems fine with the switch except Republicans.5.2×711k5.5k17655
39Jul 7, '24American rightists refuse to accept the legitimacy of any electoral defeat — including in foreign countries — it’s a real problem.5.0×689k6.9k879177
40Feb 29, '24This 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 w4.9×668k6.2k1.5k187
41Apr 25, '24Every European country has various laws on the books that are just like “productivity is illegal now” and then people wonder why they are poor.4.8×660k5.1k434475
42Feb 8, '24He seems totally fine and I think needs to do more press.4.7×650k4.3k566193
43Jul 16, '24There’s been less interest in the whole question of what exactly happened here and why than you would think.4.5×618k5.7k806283
44Oct 2, '23Biden 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 Co4.4×598k5.1k586108
45Nov 6, '23Joe Biden has done a good job as president.4.3×595k5.3k39363
46Jan 10, '24All 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 pr4.2×570k6.8k664342
47Feb 28, '24I 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.4.1×567k4.5k956127
48Jan 4, '24This 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).4.1×565k8k619260
49Jul 29, '24Identity politics fifty years ago4.1×560k6.4k349673
50Feb 17, '24Here’s the social and political model Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump want to bring to the United States of America.3.8×525k6.2k1.8k98
51May 27, '24If you ever happen to find yourself in Lyon, their museum of Roman artifacts has some of the coolest modernist architecture I’ve ever seen.3.7×511k5.3k1861.5k
52Aug 2, '23Democrats 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 a3.6×493k6.8k65299
53Jan 18, '24Democrats: Trump wants to be a dictator Trump: I want to be a dictator Republicans: Democrats are being hysterical3.5×475k11k1.7k154
54Apr 21, '24This guy genuinely has no idea what America is about.3.4×465k4.6k20195
55Jan 12, '24Funding the tax police has generated over $500,000,000 in revenue from just 900 scofflaw millionaires. Enforcing the law works!3.2×437k5.9k1k159
56Mar 6, '24Impressive that this all happened despite the bad economy3.2×436k7.2k994314
57Jan 11, '24The murder rate is lower, the unemployment rate is lower, wages are higher, fewer people are dying of Covid.3.2×435k5.1k855112
58Jul 24, '24I’m voting for Kamala Harris to protect abortion rights, low-income people’s access to health care, and the long-term viability of Social Security & Medicare and because I thin3.2×434k5.6k432183
59Jul 22, '24Interesting take3.1×425k5.5k551127
60Mar 27, '24Of 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 with3.0×414k6.1k231116
61Apr 1, '24“Buy a cheaper car” seems like underrated financial advice3.0×409k7.2k9673
62Feb 11, '24I wish reporting on this would indicate to people that there is no NATO fund that these countries are in arrears to.2.9×396k4.9k852121
63Jul 21, '24It’s time for Nancy Pelosi to make a call to Sonia Sotomayor.2.8×386k6.1k34299
64Jan 2, '24Wow 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 wi2.8×386k4.5k90976
65Mar 8, '24AOC 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 do2.6×354k4.9k33777
66Aug 6, '23It’s so funny that this happened2.5×344k4.5k174111
67Jul 29, '24Trump did not revive manufacturing or reduce crime, but he did do this.2.5×341k9.4k1.3k85
68Nov 22, '22You 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 acce2.4×010k1.2k127
69Oct 4, '23This seems like relevant context for future coverage of age in the 2024 race.2.4×327k5.5k1.2k157
70Jul 28, '24Every argument with conservatives about crime goes like this: — Vote Trump, he’s tough on crime — But crime went up under Trump and has gone down since he left — You can’t blame Tr2.3×320k6.3k567181
71Jul 14, '24I don’t think the fact that Trump got shot in the ear retroactively means it was a good idea to lie to people about the 2020 election, try to get congress to overturn the results, 2.3×313k5.5k498107
72Mar 8, '24Republicans, realizing they fucked up by lowering the bar for Biden, are now complaining that “Sleepy Joe” is actually *too* energetic.2.2×298k4.7k48175
73Feb 19, '24Given the intense level of stated interest in Biden doing more public events there is remarkably little coverage of the events he does do.2.2×295k4.3k70857
74Jun 24, '22At 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 re2.1×06.1k420162
75Feb 7, '24Almost shocking to see such a straightforward and accurate headline2.1×291k6.3k1.4k104
76Feb 12, '24Deep state wins again2.1×283k6.3k45991
77Jul 21, '24JOE BIDEN PUT AMERICA FIRST IN A WAY THAT DONALD TRUMP NEVER COULD OR WOULD — THE WHOLE GOP IS A HOLLOW SHELL INCAPABLE OF RESISTING THE CAPRICE OF A LOUCHE AND SELFISH FELON WITH 1.9×263k5.7k477118
78May 20, '22Occasional 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 pri1.8×07.1k1k126
80Jul 2, '22Why 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.”1.8×04.8k723388
81May 31, '24Stock market way up on Trump’s conviction, investors liked the strong vote of confidence in the integrity of the American legal system.1.8×246k4.4k75878
82Aug 14, '22Kind of remarkable.1.7×05.5k555408
84May 31, '24“Bob Menendez doing crimes just makes me like him better” is something no flavor of Democrat has ever said.1.6×224k4.4k50561
85Jan 24, '24When your brain is fried by culture war1.6×219k4.5k37791
86Aug 13, '22The worst nuclear accident in history vs fossil fuel power working as designed1.6×06k1k232
87Jun 26, '22Ties go zero for seven at the G7 summit. End of an era.1.5×05k331120
88Dec 4, '22Imagine a world in which powerful executives like Rupert Murdoch collaborated with government officials to suppress coverage of damaging information about the President of the Unit1.4×05.7k858106
89Aug 17, '22Respect that Cheney went down swinging instead of slinking away in retirement like so many other Trump skeptics among her colleagues.1.4×06.7k38611
90Jul 4, '22I’ve been thinking an inflationary climate is time to bring back basic economics, but Nikki Haley can’t even do routine math.1.3×04.8k44584
91May 7, '22It’s impressive what can be achieved without 18 months of environmental review, several community meetings, and a lawsuit or three.1.2×05.2k55181
92Aug 20, '22Oz 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.1.0×04.6k35052
93Jul 20, '22Because we implemented regulations to address these issues!1.0×04.6k28569

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