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@mattyglesias Avatar @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias is currently discussing the controversy surrounding Medicaid cuts, with many people, including him, expressing concern that millions of people will lose their health insurance. He and others are criticizing the lack of attention to this issue, particularly given its unpopularity among Democrats and the general public. The proposed cuts are part of a larger bill, and Yglesias is urging people to pay attention to this critical issue.

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Social topic influence money #4158, over the 0.27%, shutdown #992, york #2453, hamas #1631, joe biden #127, white house #313, trump administration #211, people with #193, democratic party #18

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"I suspect there are Mexican-American Trump voters who wanted a tight clampdown on new arrivals but assumed mass deportation wouldnt really happen (it didnt in Trumps first term) or would just target Biden-era arrivals"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-07T22:01Z 550.4K followers, 121.8K engagements

"What do you make Graphics processing units. So people use them for processing graphics Not the good ones"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T00:03Z 550.3K followers, 35K engagements

"Chetty Hendren and Katz (2015) find that while of course there are tremendous selection effects it's also true that when you move young kids out of high-crime high-poverty neighborhoods this has positive impacts that are larger the younger they move"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-17T13:45Z 550.4K followers, 20.2K engagements

"Elite actors define left vs moderate Democrats in terms of specific groups of people and factional dog whistles like oligarchy or pocketbook issues but what voters care about are the actual positions you take"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T23:15Z 550.4K followers, 25.5K engagements

"Kind of sobering to watch a movie that reminds you it actually matters a lot whether or not the president makes prudent decisions based on good values"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T23:00Z 550.3K followers, 48.1K engagements

"As a non-hypocritical person I really dont think it makes a ton of sense for Ed Markey to run for reelection at XX or for the DSCCs prime recruit in Maine to be 77"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T17:38Z 550.4K followers, 134.2K engagements

"Harris keeps emphasizing the short duration of her campaign but the problem wasnt that she didnt have enough time its that after jumping out to a lead she faded down the stretch"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T15:29Z 550.4K followers, 69.9K engagements

"Spot on -- people with large amounts of money all too often oscillate between carelessness about what it's used for and paralysis because figuring out what's truly optimal is hard. It's important to accept responsibility and try to use it for something that is constructive"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T15:03Z 550.4K followers, 50.5K engagements

"Incredibly correct New York Times editorial"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T12:14Z 550.4K followers, 55.2K engagements

"IMO the idea that everyone good enough at their job to get hired by big company should be exiled from Democratic Party politics was a mistake"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T18:19Z 550.4K followers, 138K engagements

"I'm not sure there's a ton of complexity here what you have is one side who is correct and then HTC which is pursuing a parochial interest group agenda"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T17:50Z 550.4K followers, 41.1K engagements

"Not sure I agree with this take"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T17:11Z 550.4K followers, 69.8K engagements

"The problem with trying to defend an overvalued currency peg is that you keep needing to put more money into it"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T18:59Z 550.4K followers, 35.1K engagements

"I got my check personally from the CEO of Antifa"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T16:37Z 550.4K followers, 162.8K engagements

"(((Abundance))) am I right"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T18:07Z 550.4K followers, 115.6K engagements

"Hate to earnest-post but the MAGA movement is openly expressing desire to eviscerate the rule of law free speech freedom of assembly etc and the whole situation is actually extremely dire"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T12:06Z 550.4K followers, 193.3K engagements

"@GregTSargent This focus on paid advertising as the essence of political communication is like XX percent of whats wrong with the Democratic Party"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T14:31Z 550.4K followers, 11K engagements

"Democrats are doing much better than they expected they would do in the blame game zero incentive to fold"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T18:00Z 550.4K followers, 51.8K engagements

"We take for granted liberalisms greatest achievements"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T00:10Z 550.4K followers, 63.3K engagements

"Having kicked the press out of the Pentagon we're now purging senior commanders in order to pursue this bizarre war against Venezuela"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T22:55Z 550.4K followers, 106.8K engagements

"Hamas clearly hoping they can reassert control over the Strip with a ceasefire in place despite the formal terms of the agreement"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T22:27Z 550.3K followers, 129.2K engagements

"This is driving me insane when Joe Biden was president the idea of a ceasefire deal that returned the hostages and left Hamas around was portrayed by the American Jewish Right as the greatest betrayal of the Jewish people in history. Then Trump does it and he's a genius"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T14:50Z 550.4K followers, 500.4K engagements

"The White House is telling allies on the Hill that tariffs will magically become popular next year once all the new factories are built but manufacturing output is shrinking"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-07T10:43Z 550.3K followers, 144.5K engagements

"A man so universally beloved it was a crime to criticize him"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T22:38Z 550.4K followers, 366.9K engagements

"Again I do not mean in any way to disparage Mamdani or his campaign by pointing this out but "how do we win elections in New York City" is just not the problem that the rest of the Democratic Party is trying to solve"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T17:31Z 550.4K followers, 195.5K engagements

"This conflict is not a technical dispute over territory boundaries or security arrangements"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T21:18Z 550.4K followers, 42.7K engagements

"Beating the racism charges by going hard against a white police officer in the suburbs. (Can we talk about Melanias dodgy visa issues now)"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T21:36Z 550.4K followers, 93.6K engagements

"Political activists have a tendency to read voters anger at the system as a desire for dramatic policy change but in practice Do Nothing governors are very popular and leaders who make big changes face backlash. Maybe what voters want is anti-system affect + minimal change"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T14:41Z 550.4K followers, 28.3K engagements

"@LPDonovan Russ Vought keeps making new announcements on a daily basis that are screaming in red lights WE WILL NOT FOLLOW THE TERMS OF ANY SPENDING DEAL. It sucks imo but means Republicans should just pass party line bills instead of monkeying around"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T01:21Z 550.4K followers, 3377 engagements

"I agree with a large fraction of the Free Press articles that I read and also see it as a political project that is fundamentally opposed to my ideas about the world"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-17T20:10Z 550.4K followers, 21.2K engagements

"Government shutdown is going to cancel Boo At The Zoo this year so now things are getting serious"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T13:01Z 550.4K followers, 72.5K engagements

"Keep in mind that if tariffs dont increase prices including the price of domestic non-tariffed goods they arent working. The mechanism through which tariffs incentivize domestic production is higher prices and windfall profits"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T23:11Z 550.4K followers, 21.1K engagements

"Smart piece from @CathyYoung63 on The Free Press coverage of the Trump administration"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T16:13Z 550.4K followers, 85.5K engagements

"Looking forward to all the anti-gerontocracy warriors of the left supporting this exciting campaign for generational change against the bankrupt establishment"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T11:55Z 550.4K followers, 131.8K engagements

"A pod with @ezraklein and @jonfavs is always going to be worth your time and I recommend checking this one out for its many insights but also because I think it features a significant blind spot"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T15:31Z 550.4K followers, 163.5K engagements

"The relevant questions are about the social purpose of sex segregated institutions not the metaphysics of gender identity"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T00:02Z 550.4K followers, 223K engagements

"Kudos to @JamesGunn for having the guts to keep woke politics out of his movies and just stick to fun fantastical stories"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T22:05Z 550.4K followers, 47.4K engagements

"I think eventually people will come to see nuclear as the environmentally friendly alternative to utility scale renewable projects due to the smaller land use footprint"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T18:57Z 550.4K followers, 40.2K engagements

"Would be interested in left-populists' best theory as to why Sherrod Brown is losing union support"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T17:15Z 550.4K followers, 67.5K engagements

"The lack of actual intraparty backlash when Biden finally made up his mind to crack down on asylum is interesting and I think suggests that Democratic leaders have more scope to be tough-minded than they think or want to acknowledge"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T16:03Z 550.4K followers, 66.4K engagements

"Winsome Earl-Sears on abortion murder is murder and one day its going to be your turn. (In my experience most pro-life people do not push the logic of their position to this conclusion)"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-08T18:33Z 550.4K followers, 169.1K engagements

"Republicans have changed filibuster rules three times this year they didnt want to nuke on the CR because they were confident a shutdown would backfire on Democrats but it hasnt"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T23:37Z 550.4K followers, 108.6K engagements

"Something that Democrats used to understand is that you can run candidates like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama (or the fictional West Wing presidents) who are outsiders without being policy radicals. Biden or Bernie is a false choice"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T14:43Z 550.4K followers, 16.6K engagements

"That seems like smart political entrepreneurship"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T00:31Z 550.3K followers, 76.8K engagements

"Maduro is bad but its weird to me that were starting a war with Venezuela for no reason"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T22:50Z 550.4K followers, 128.1K engagements

"Feels like its been a while since a media company made a splashy hire"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T13:25Z 550.4K followers, 61.3K engagements

"This is better than airplanes"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T22:04Z 550.4K followers, 25.3K engagements

"The people in denial about the practical utility of existing LLMs are really weird to me"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T17:17Z 550.4K followers, 122.1K engagements

"We should probably consider renaming GPUs at this point"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T23:58Z 550.3K followers, 97.5K engagements

"Right like even if everything else about it works fine freeing the rent on rent-stabilized units is not going to help you if you dont have one"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-17T01:50Z 550.4K followers, 60.4K engagements

"Chinese air pollution has reduced a lot"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T12:28Z 550.3K followers, 29.4K engagements

"This is a study of Finland but research in the United States has different results"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-17T13:42Z 550.4K followers, 85.7K engagements

"I hope it all works out and everyone lives in peace but this ceasefire seems pretty likely to me to break down once Hamas has reestablished control and the heat is off Netanyahu. X. Hostage-for-prisoner swap X. X. Tony Blair is in charge of Gaza I foresee problems"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T23:57Z 550.4K followers, 62.2K engagements

"An underrated aspect of the shutdown: Republicans won't bring the House back into session because they'd have to seat Grijalva which would put the Epstein discharge petition over the top so neither chamber can hold votes on message bills designed to squeeze Democrats"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-07T11:28Z 550.3K followers, 130.4K engagements

"@nick_field90 @talmonsmith Rather than weird stuff about anger I think what happened is that after Democrats kicked Mitt Romneys ass on Medicare cuts in 2012 Trump dropped that plank from the GOP agenda while Democrats shifted left on climate and immigration"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T00:15Z 550.4K followers, 133.2K engagements

"Again how are you supposed to get Democratic votes for a deal on government spending when the Republicans keep promising to backtrack on elements of the deal via party-line votes"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T15:53Z 550.4K followers, 166.1K engagements

"@paulnovosad It's not really a fiscal issue per se he's chosen an unsustainable exchange rate peg to make his (very real) success against inflation look more successful than it actually is. One way or another the country is going to need to accept reality"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T22:50Z 550.4K followers, 2082 engagements

"The median annual wage in the United States is $49500 fwiw"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T18:55Z 550.4K followers, 229.6K engagements

"At last AI porn"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T18:59Z 550.4K followers, 137.4K engagements

"The Declaration of Independence is an incredibly explicit statement of enlightenment liberalism and the American project is a fundamentally liberal project"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T23:19Z 550.4K followers, 180.3K engagements

"Hayek in The Constitution of Liberty seems to regard the idea of discretionary permitting for new housing development to be so obviously unworkable that you dont really need to worry anyone actually imposing a system like that"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-07T02:07Z 550.4K followers, 40.1K engagements

"I think the neo-Brandeisian movement cares only about bigness per se and not about competition. It's not very subtle. The reason Stoller's newsletter is called "Big" and his book was called "Goliath" is that his concern is with the scale of enterprises"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T15:07Z 550.4K followers, 47.1K engagements

"Its striking that clearly on some level the Trump administration knows tariffing intermediate goods is bad theyve chosen to apply this knowledge exclusively to the AI sector that drives the stock market while sacrificing manufacturing on the altar of POTUS ego"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T13:43Z 550.4K followers, 109.8K engagements

"Between the Gaza ceasefire and the fact that he's learned to tie a tie I believe more than ever in Shapiro's viability as a presidential candidate"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T17:52Z 550.3K followers, 159.5K engagements

"@HBendaas I'm genuinely not consumed with rage at all I just have non-leftist political opinions (like most people)"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T18:48Z 550.4K followers, 5505 engagements

"The politics of 1975 Robert Byrd Jerry Brown and Joe Biden slam the Ford Administration for allowing in too many Vietnamese refugees"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T23:08Z 550.4K followers, 94.7K engagements

"Hillary Clinton Joe Biden Kamala Harris Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are all people who've done extremely well electorally in NYC. This is a solved problem. The difficulty is beating Republicans in PA/WI/MI/NV/GA/AZ and ideally expanding the senate map beyond that"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T17:34Z 550.4K followers, 39.1K engagements

"It is strange but honestly I think a lot of rich tech guys have been negative polarized against far-left political ideas that they were personally involved in finding during Obama X and Trump X. Better to just be consistently moderate"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T18:23Z 550.3K followers, 91.8K engagements

"It's insane that Nick Clegg didn't make electoral reform the price of his participation in the Cameron government"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T18:14Z 550.4K followers, 374.7K engagements

"Hey ho let's go"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T23:55Z 550.4K followers, 42.7K engagements

"@bscholl In a totally optimal world it may be desirable to have some kind of weight adjustment because I think heavier vehicles are disproportionately responsible for road damage"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T12:55Z 550.4K followers, 15.3K engagements

"There is clearly something to this analogy but saying it's "exactly the same thing" is preposterous. It's true that young Republicans embrace of Nazism is in part just a way to thumb their nose at annoying scolds. But also . it's Nazism"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T23:53Z 550.4K followers, 148.4K engagements

"To be clear the Young Republican National Federation is for people between the ages of XX and XX not "young boys.""
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T17:53Z 550.4K followers, 114.9K engagements

"@lionel_trolling If Mamdani had pollsters who were telling him to blow off affordability then he was definitely right now to listen to him but I'm quite sure that if he'd asked @davidshor he'd have told him that the cost of living polls as the most important issue"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T20:09Z 550.4K followers, 5175 engagements

"I am willing to wager with any of the right-wing reply guys on here that there is no medication whose cost will fall by XXX% or more"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T17:21Z 550.4K followers, 118.6K engagements

"So is it a bubble If I had a way to reliably forecast financial bubbles Id be a trading billionaire not writing political columns"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T10:56Z 550.4K followers, 17.2K engagements

"Distribution + transmission are a larger piece of the utility cost pie than the actual generating of electricity"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-08T13:53Z 550.3K followers, 87.1K engagements

"@joenorton @JDVance @daveweigel Does Vance denounce them It seemed like he didnt"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T23:22Z 550.4K followers, 15.3K engagements

"I am willing to serve as Prime Minister of France"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T13:39Z 550.3K followers, 37.9K engagements

"The woke left wants you to think its bad to love Hitler now what do they have against love"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T18:11Z 550.4K followers, 58.6K engagements

"Like is it true that anti-discrimination law makes it illegal for a company to underrepresent women in senior management I feel like this is a reasonably common situation at well-known companies"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-17T01:21Z 550.4K followers, 41K engagements

"@Noahpinion I think they mostly understood it just couldnt execute change is hard"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T16:54Z 550.4K followers, 7493 engagements

"Average Ed Markey enthusiast"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T18:34Z 550.4K followers, 84.7K engagements

"Young people seem to be binary again"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T16:00Z 550.4K followers, 692K engagements

"@ryangrim @grahamformaine I mean thats a reasonable question to ask and I think Planter very well might do better since hes younger and probably more conservative on guns but Denvir was making a much more aggressive argument than that. Take it up with him"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T01:59Z 550.3K followers, 8238 engagements

"Traditionally a White House press team would find it to be in their own interest to cooperate in the task of just explaining basic facts to the public about what's happening"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-17T20:56Z 550.4K followers, 51.5K engagements

""Public goods" is an oft-misused term but weather forecasting data is a public good and cutting it is harmful"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T13:41Z 550.4K followers, 39.6K engagements

"The incredible investor enthusiasm for AI ("bubble" or not) is now carrying the whole load for American growth leaving the economy very vulnerable to any kind of negative shift in sentiment or piece of bad news for the sector"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T23:04Z 550.4K followers, 21K engagements

"$40 billion is also just an incredibly large sum of money to spend on helping a guy you like win a midterm election why not just pay for some campaign ads"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T19:01Z 550.4K followers, 19.2K engagements

"David Romer should get a Nobel Prize for his influence on NFL fourth down play calling"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T01:19Z 550.4K followers, 40.8K engagements

"My ten-year old is a young boy. There are XX members of the US House of Representatives who are young enough to qualify for the Young Republicans. Not the same thing"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T18:03Z 550.4K followers, 18.1K engagements

"@DanielDenvir Do you think hell do better with college grads or with non-grads"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T00:07Z 550.4K followers, 87.8K engagements

"A bunch of hostages endured months of additional captivity a ton of Palestinians died Israel's international reputation plummeted and no strategic goals were achieved that weren't already in place in March. I'm glad Trump changed his mind but it's an infuriating sequence"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T14:52Z 550.4K followers, 49.4K engagements

"It's also just good to have someone smart energetic and engaged enough to dig into things like commuter rail modernization"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T19:32Z 550.4K followers, 16.4K engagements

"As a person experiencing mismatch between skin tone and surname I have some concerns about this approach to law enforcement"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T21:12Z 550.4K followers, 108.2K engagements

"I hope they are all investing in low-fee index funds 😬"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T15:17Z 550.4K followers, 52.3K engagements

"Presbyterian minister gets shot in the head with a pepper ball for no good reason"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-08T13:31Z 550.4K followers, 315K engagements

"This is a big theme on right-wing twitter but there are ten Jewish Democrats in the senate and six out of the XX Democratic governors are Jewish"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T18:04Z 550.3K followers, 60.3K engagements

"The international media continues to make good faith efforts to cover the various war crime and humanitarian disasters in Sudan but there is minimal audience interest"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T23:06Z 550.4K followers, 73.3K engagements

"@L_Wastell Right he settled for this referendum rather that his coalition partner the ranked rather than demanding actual election reform. Dumb"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T21:20Z 550.4K followers, 13.7K engagements

"Economys got a fever and the only cure is more tariffs with exemptions for the stuff AI companies need to build data centers"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T22:32Z 550.3K followers, 56.7K engagements

"The ratio of questions about foreign policy and taxes to questions about things within the authority of municipal government in coverage of the New York City mayoral election is really insane"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T00:53Z 550.4K followers, 51.1K engagements

"Hillary Clinton facing pressure in the primary from Bernie Sanders opportunistically started platforming a lot of left-wing identity politics and academic concepts that earlier Democrats had shied away from to outflank him"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T00:09Z 550.4K followers, 27.7K engagements

"All of Trump's abuses of power are justified because the Democrats came after Trump with the law (because he tried to do a coup)"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T21:50Z 550.4K followers, 101.8K engagements

"I feel like trads are really trying to have it both ways on this Taylor Swift thing she got engaged at XX after establishing herself in her career and traveling the world. Isnt this exactly the life script they dont want people to follow"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-07T11:51Z 550.4K followers, 212.2K engagements

"@PeteHegseth @POTUS @DeptofWar What is a narcoterrorist"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T19:45Z 550.4K followers, 14.3K engagements

"Three options for ending the shutdown: Make concessions to Dems Go nuclear Create pressure on Dems to cave Trump seems to be choosing none of the above in favor of trying to just subvert the whole appropriations process pay who he likes and RIF the rest"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T12:53Z 550.4K followers, 102.1K engagements

"I think a lot of people go from Ivy League schools to working for McKinsey and other consultancies is that they offer high salaries to smart people with no specific skills and the opportunity to have other similar people are colleagues"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T15:24Z 550.4K followers, 471.4K engagements

"A slightly random example but passenger jetliners have definitely worked out as a technology tons of people use them and they are integral to the whole world economy. But the combined market cap of Boeing + Airbus is unimpressive"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T21:59Z 550.4K followers, 31.7K engagements

"He got mocked a lot but hasnt Jared Kushner actually been involved in most of Trumps most successful initiatives and largely clear of the biggest fiascos and crimes I think Id feel happier if he and Ivanka were back in town to counter Miller & Vought"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T20:12Z 550.4K followers, 511.3K engagements

"The core fallacy of the blame Obama left is not acknowledging that Barack Obama was very popular in the fall of 2016 and wouldve beaten Trump handily"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T00:07Z 550.4K followers, 266.2K engagements

"@lionel_trolling @davidshor I know that fighting through your Yglesias Derangement Syndrome is probably futile but it's right here in his "most important issues" chart from the Ezra Klein Show"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T20:11Z 550.4K followers, 5231 engagements

"Trump is giving special treatment to a sex criminal to perpetuate a coverup"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T23:45Z 550.4K followers, 326K engagements

"We took the freedom of speech away"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-08T20:07Z 550.4K followers, 194K engagements

"The Argentina First economic policy is really something I hope Trump is at least getting some nice steak out of it"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T20:27Z 550.3K followers, 31.8K engagements

"Marjorie Taylor-Greene argues that Trump has betrayed the basic interests of his voting base in favor of catering to AI industry insiders and crypto donors"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T13:41Z 550.4K followers, 134.1K engagements

"A lot of forgetting that there was in fact a ceasefire in place negotiated by the Biden administration that didnt stick because Trump came into office and undermined it. Then months and many deaths later he can take credit for sealing a deal he couldve sealed in March"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T11:19Z 550.4K followers, 531.6K engagements

"Jetliners seem a lot more important and impressive than the idea of a big box building supply store but in terms of market cap Home Depot Boeing + Airbus. Technology is hard but then business is also hard"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T22:02Z 550.4K followers, 30.1K engagements

"Vance seems to want us to believe that Homan was paid $50000 in cash in a paper bag for normal non-bribe reasons as tends to happen in life"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T15:35Z 550.4K followers, 371.3K engagements

"The whole US growth model right now is a big bet on continued revenue growth at the major AI labs might be a good bet but its an unusually narrow foundation for the economy"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T10:54Z 550.4K followers, 44.4K engagements

"Unitary executive theory + Trumps utter domination of the congressional Republican Party have created a very real breakdown of the rule of law"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T00:18Z 550.4K followers, 199.5K engagements

"Time for a change imo"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T10:37Z 550.4K followers, 129.2K engagements

"It's not just that we easily could have had this deal in 2024 if the Biden administration had political cover on the right to pursue it we IN FACT HAD THIS DEAL in January of 2025 and Trump and Netanyahu deliberately blew it up"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T14:51Z 550.4K followers, 53.7K engagements

"Backlash to Trumps immigration abuses is growing but Democrats are haunted by the failures of their own immigration policy under Biden. To put things on a more sustainable course we need to understand what went wrong"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T10:17Z 550.4K followers, 87.9K engagements

"Trump claiming credit for cleaning up his own mess + a credulous media swallowing it are all sort of par for the course but its unfortunate to see some leftists so consumed by hatred for Bidens Gaza policy that they bend over backwards to give Trump totally undeserved credit"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T11:27Z 550.4K followers, 69.4K engagements

"Not enough parking. Two thumbs down"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T20:55Z 550.3K followers, 86.7K engagements

"Unfortunately all those democracy is on the line arguments that we kept warning Biden & Harris werent persuasive were also pretty accurate"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T00:19Z 550.4K followers, 195.6K engagements

"Good sweater pretty good message"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T01:13Z 550.4K followers, 79.3K engagements

"This is much more common in hyper-capitalist Europe than in the socialistic USA but it makes a lot of sense to me"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-08T23:02Z 550.4K followers, 62.2K engagements

"@JDVance @daveweigel Can we fix the showers Gas chambers dont fit the Hitler aesthetic Joe Maligno who previously identified himself as the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans wrote back"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T23:08Z 550.4K followers, 200.6K engagements

"Democrats have very little incentive to get to yes especially with Vought making it clear that deals made with this White House are worthless. But could always reopen by going nuclear"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T19:51Z 550.4K followers, 64.9K engagements

"There is a lack of I dont exactly what you want to call it empathy understanding consideration for the viewpoint of people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and then were genuinely upset and disheartened by what happened with immigration"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T15:33Z 550.4K followers, 129.8K engagements

"Not to be some kind of one billion Americans freak but I feel like as long as China has 4x Americas population preventing them from having 4x our manufacturing output is going to be hard"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T14:50Z 550.4K followers, 153.8K engagements

"The truth of course is that Rurik was a Norse-speaking Viking and it makes no sense to project these nationalist claims centuries into the past"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-17T15:24Z 550.4K followers, 12.9K engagements

"I would not expect the DSCC to be supporting Platner but at least a "getting to know you" phone call seems like a no-brainer. Meanwhile I continue to be gobsmacked by the decision to line up behind Stevens rather than McMorrow in Michigan"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T21:45Z 550.4K followers, 108.1K engagements

"Key point in here from @Noahpinion even if the AI tech turns out to be exactly as promising as the bulls think its not totally clear whether this would mean high margin businesses"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T21:58Z 550.4K followers, 148.1K engagements

"In this post @bendreyfuss answers the most important question in journalism why would the Nakatomi Corporation have hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bearer bonds in a safe I hope he will investigate the Heat bearer bonds plot next"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T12:31Z 550.4K followers, 60.4K engagements

"Ill just say again that Mitt Romney ran on an agenda of radical change to Medicare and Obama ripped him to shreds over it. Trump did better by reassuring people that he wasnt going to do that then repeated the pattern on abortion in 2024"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T14:39Z 550.4K followers, 103.2K engagements

"So is the Republican answer to this going to be another stab at ACA repeal Let insurers go back to canceling peoples policies once they have health care needs and denying coverage at all to people with preexisting conditions"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T15:46Z 550.4K followers, 106.5K engagements

"Biden-era immigration policy didnt feature a singular bad call so much as drift a consistent reluctance to decide or to act decisively in the face of a situation that top officials knew as early as March 2021 wasnt working as intended"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T10:18Z 550.4K followers, 19.4K engagements

"White House hype reel about Chicago "is littered with outdated footage highlighting drug busts arrests and deportation raids in other states including Florida Texas South Carolina and Nebraska.""
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T15:26Z 550.4K followers, 22.2K engagements

"The essential problem of NYC is largely non-ideological it's such a desirable place to live and do business that government has been colonized by a swarm of predatory interest groups who don't quite kill the golden goose but do make everyone poorer"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T17:52Z 550.4K followers, 14.3K engagements

"Asked Hamas killing opposition Palestinians Trump appears to say hes given them approval to do what they have to do to maintain order"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T00:42Z 550.4K followers, 142.6K engagements

"They say every paid protester at the No Kings rally this weekend is getting $50000 cash in a Cava bag"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T19:46Z 550.4K followers, 547.6K engagements

"They've rebranded drug dealers as "narcoterrorists" to justify bombing them and now they are also characterizing bog standard normal political opposition as terrorism"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T15:22Z 550.4K followers, 162.2K engagements

"Conservatives are very eager to tweet about the need to get drug addicts and the mentally ill into treatment but it turns out this costs money that could be better used on regressive tax cuts or buying Argentine pesos"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T16:48Z 550.4K followers, 169.4K engagements

"@KarlM29171 @PeteHegseth @POTUS @DeptofWar What is it"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T23:04Z 550.4K followers, XXX engagements

"There's been a sense of exultation in some quarters over the past year about Israel's dramatically eroded political standing in the US and elsewhere in the West but fundamentally the war ends with Palestinians much worse off than they were before it started"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T14:17Z 550.3K followers, 120.3K engagements

"Mitch McConnell specifically explained his acquittal vote by saying We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-11T20:49Z 550.4K followers, 179.2K engagements

"You see the fingerprints of this in @WorksInProgMag and @stripepress's books in the @IFP and in the deliberate utopian musings sections of "Abundance" and "The Conservative Futurist" the idea that we can generate more prosperity by reviving a public culture of optimism"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T11:03Z 550.4K followers, 32.2K engagements

"My most contrarian opinion is that Trump moving to the middle on Medicare in 2016 and abortion in 2024 are the actual most important contributors to his electoral wins neutralizing the other partys best issue is smart"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T01:14Z 550.4K followers, 86.5K engagements

"ChatGPT is a Mike Johnson Truther (and rightly so)"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T21:01Z 550.4K followers, 16.3K engagements

"So they are making prices higher"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T18:43Z 550.4K followers, 94.2K engagements

"This guy just won a Nobel prize"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-09T12:11Z 550.3K followers, 47.3K engagements

"China is pursuing the true all-of-the-above energy strategy leading the world in renewables and nuclear rand also coal"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T13:42Z 550.3K followers, 34.1K engagements

"Mokyr argues that the Industrial Revolution takeoff was driven not just by particular innovations or political/legal institutions but by an Enlightenment culture that believed in the idea of progress through innovation"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T11:01Z 550.4K followers, 27.1K engagements

"I subscribe to the Post primarily because I value them as the best source of local news coverage but they've been consistently disinvesting from that sphere so I'm canceling now and going to look for new local publications to support"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T15:04Z 550.3K followers, 34.3K engagements

"I tried to keep an open mind about Jeff Bezos' desire to reconfigure the Post opinion section around "free markets and individual liberties" but it's turned into total garbage with remarkable speed. This is much worse than the tariff coverage at WSJ opinion or The Free Press"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-10T15:03Z 550.4K followers, 264.2K engagements

"The six week Phase X of the Biden ceasefire complete with the release of many Israeli hostages was implemented. But Trump & Netanyahu chose not to implement Phase X which would have entailed the release of all the remaining hostages months ago"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-14T11:23Z 550.4K followers, 93.6K engagements

"The Long Groyper March through the institutions continues"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T20:50Z 550.4K followers, 239K engagements

"The lack of any data or argumentative clarity in this article is a brilliant piece of metatextual performance"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T23:47Z 550.4K followers, 199K engagements

"Maybe Argentina can front us some bailout money"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-16T19:52Z 550.4K followers, 64.5K engagements

"Oh now its a crime to have a flag"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T23:38Z 550.4K followers, 133.4K engagements

"Wittgenstein and Nietzsche are the two guys who you really wish had been around to Tweet"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T21:56Z 550.4K followers, 25.6K engagements

"What happened here is that Tom Honan was caught taking a $50000 cash payment in a Cava takeout bag so Stephanopolous asked what the deal was with that and Vance couldnt offer any kind of explanation. So now I guess the regime will pressure Disney to force him off the air"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-12T22:47Z 550.4K followers, 396.9K engagements

"Columbus Day hot takes"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-13T11:56Z 550.3K followers, 37.4K engagements

"Change is in the air"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-17T02:50Z 550.4K followers, 65.5K engagements

""Mike Johnson" is not a real member of congress. There's a reason nobody had heard of him until he became Speaker. GOP leadership and the staff of Punchbowl just made him up one day and have kept the fiction going with AI-generated images"
X Link @mattyglesias 2025-10-15T20:57Z 550.4K followers, 61.9K engagements