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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4h

Progressive prosecutors seem fine.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 7h

The bitter war between the party establishment and the insurgent left has devolved into battles about ego and personality with little content.

www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...

Democrats need to debate ideas, not people

Endless establishment retreads are not the same as the center of public opinion.

www.slowboring.com

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 19h

That would be the dream. Really in an ideal world the most important thing to have super-close to transit stations is jobs more than homes.

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 21h

It's not a climate economics nobel, but Philippe Aghion has applied his insights about creative destruction to climate. Namely that climate policy should seek primarily to foster and induce technological innovation especially by firms that specialize in green technology heatmap.news/economy/nobe...

The Latest Nobel Winner Thinks ‘Creative Destruction’ Can Stop Climate Change

Economist Philippe Aghion views carbon taxes as a tool to decarbonize, but not a solution in themselves.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 19h

It must be sad to live in a country where the spelling is perfectly rational and there are no phonics arguments to have.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhhhh I missed the second chart!

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't an alternate reading of this that Democrats uniformly govern to the left of public opinion in a way that is not mirror-imaged by the GOP?

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Indigenous People's Day hot takes.

www.slowboring.com/p/postcards-...

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Companies used to do IPOs really early

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

This is an obsession of mine - a huge pathology of the press is coverage suggesting that politicians who are less skilled performers are somehow less "authentic"

Me on Romney coverage in CJR: www.cjr.org/united_state...

Me on Hillary Clinton coverage in The Upshot:
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/u...

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

The prospects for political change in Alaska

www.slowboring.com/p/could-the-...

Could the “Last Frontier” turn blue?

Alaska’s shifting rules and demographics could give Democrats a foothold in a state previously seen as untouchable.

www.slowboring.com

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 3d

I see

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 3d

But this is Ross Douthat, not a center-left pundit.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of the credit goes to Santi Ruiz for being really well prepared and asking great questions … but this is probably the best market wide and historical conversation I’ve had on apartments. And how it affects “apartments for families”

open.spotify.com/episode/63C6...

Why We Don't Build Apartments for Families

open.spotify.com

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4d

I want to be really clear — I think that YOU are overstating the role of "progressives are annoying on the internet" as a driver of these trends. I do NOT think that is way I have more moderate political opinions than you.

But you attribute magical powers to this annoying behavior.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4d

SB 79 signed!!!!!

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4d

Think I'm going to cancel my Post subscription and find some other local news source to support

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4d

No, I don't think that's correct. But it's something that DR frequently says.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4d

This is where I personally stood on the question of Trump, free speech, and annoying centrists vs good decent progressives.

www.slowboring.com/p/philosophi...

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4d

Terrible on its own terms, and also poisoning the waters in congress for any kind of bipartisan deal on transmission/permitting issues.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4d

I used to be a practitioner of the "write an article about a single academic study" form of journalism, which I've come to think is a pretty bad way to cover research.

But covering it better by summarizing a bunch of related studies is a lot more work...

www.slowboring.com/p/philosophi...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d

There are certain hypotheticals you simply never get to test out. This seems to be an exception. How will a judge and later a jury treat an indictment if you had to fire multiple prosecutors before you could find someone to bring an indictment. I guess we'll find out! www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department | CNN Politics

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in federal court on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two source...

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4d

The Orange Man is in fact very bad.

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