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Matthew Yglesias
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Slow Boring, cohosting politix.fm and The Argument pod. NYT contributing opinion writer.
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Joined July 2008
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    Matthew Yglesias
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    Dec 16, 2022
    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?
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    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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    Jun 9, 2023
    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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    Jan 12, 2024
    Bombing people who disrupt international shipping is in fact the core function of the American military.
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    Matthew Yglesias
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    May 28, 2023
    I’m a free speech absolutist
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    Matthew Yglesias
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    Jan 18, 2024
    Democrats: Trump wants to be a dictator Trump: I want to be a dictator Republicans: Democrats are being hysterical
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    Matthew Yglesias
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    Feb 12, 2024
    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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    Nov 22, 2022
    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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    Matthew Yglesias
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    May 24, 2022
    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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    Matthew Yglesias
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    Jun 2, 2024
    Trump greeting a nonexistent crowd outside of Trump Tower
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    Jul 29, 2024
    Trump did not revive manufacturing or reduce crime, but he did do this.
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    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa now bans most abortions after about six weeks, before many women know they’re pregnant.
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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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