@mattyglesias Matthew YglesiasMatthew 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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"@_rotimia Society if Clinton hadnt spent the [----] primary perversely attacking Sanders from the left on guns immigration and identity issues and had just admitted shes not as left-wing as him"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:39Z 572.1K followers, 31.7K engagements
"Good take https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:44Z 572.1K followers, 650.1K engagements
"One important finding here is that people dont know what a data center is and somewhat reasonably assume that its a facility for storing data"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:05Z 572.1K followers, 32.2K engagements
"Farmer's markets are fun but there is a lot of value to being able to consume non-local produce. Seems like we just need to cut out all the waste in the middle. Find a local potato grower at a farmers market and tell the billionaires in the middle to take a hike. Seems like we just need to cut out all the waste in the middle. Find a local potato grower at a farmers market and tell the billionaires in the middle to take a hike"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:38Z 572.1K followers, 39.6K engagements
"I think short timelines on AI capabilities are way more plausible than short timelines on massive AI labor market impacts. Well probably be killed by a rogue superintelligence long before self-driving taxis are allowed nationally"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:19Z 572.1K followers, 53.4K engagements
"@razibkhan Actual crime situation in Chicago seems to be moving in the right direction"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:26Z 572.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The levels of corruption in this administration are insane Four days before Trumps inauguration lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M according to documents & people familiar. The buyer paid half up front steering $187M to Trump family Four days before Trumps inauguration lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M according to documents & people familiar. The buyer paid half up front steering $187M to Trump family"
X Link 2026-02-01T11:20Z 571.1K followers, 215.3K engagements
"Bukharin obviously the best of the got purged by Stalin Old Bolsheviks. Ive become less and less impressed with Leon Trotsky over time The left wing of the Politburo during the 1920s only looks better than Stalin because they got to criticize from the sidelines It would have been a disaster if they were in charge Ive become less and less impressed with Leon Trotsky over time The left wing of the Politburo during the 1920s only looks better than Stalin because they got to criticize from the sidelines It would have been a disaster if they were in charge"
X Link 2026-02-01T11:42Z 570.8K followers, 44.9K engagements
"@katz_morris So Tom Steyer is not a corporate Democrat because hes a self-financing billionaire"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:17Z 571.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@zachdcarter What is a progressive policy agenda that is responsive to the concerns of people who want DoorDash to be cheaper"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:19Z 571.1K followers, 39.1K engagements
"I just want to say that I am actually very successful and well-liked The point of performative Yglesias-bashing is to intimidate other writers out of just forcefully saying true things even though on balance youll do better if you forcefully say true things. A big part of why lots of people hate Yglesias is sometimes he's just rude and says stuff like this everyone who works in Democratic politics knows this about donors of course but it's considered uncouth to actually say out loud. A big part of why lots of people hate Yglesias is sometimes he's just rude and says stuff like this everyone"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:24Z 571.4K followers, 229.5K engagements
"A take I am mulling is that online recipe content has obscured from a lot of people that it is possible to cook at home in an extremely lazy way. [--] meals at $3 each (with leftover cheese). Now tell me again how DoorDash is actually cheaper than cooking at home https://t.co/t0T0TVH9aF [--] meals at $3 each (with leftover cheese). Now tell me again how DoorDash is actually cheaper than cooking at home https://t.co/t0T0TVH9aF"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:42Z 571.5K followers, 1.1M engagements
"Anti-Asian sentiment is the highest form of nativism because you have to resort to saying stuff like "the problem is they work too hard in school" and do it with a straight face. Asian immigrants are often openly contemptuous of American education normslike that Vivek tweetbecause they think the only reason someone would opt out of grind culture is because theyre lazy and stupid. Actually American education is traditionally quite demanding it just Asian immigrants are often openly contemptuous of American education normslike that Vivek tweetbecause they think the only reason someone would opt"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:42Z 571.4K followers, 758.4K engagements
"When/where solar works well zero marginal cost electricity is pretty cool"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:47Z 571.4K followers, 25.2K engagements
"@elonmusk I mean the reason you knew youd be smeared despite never having attended his parties is that you knew there was correspondence where you are talking about your desire to attend parties on his island"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:15Z 571K followers, 82.3K engagements
"@glukianoff Schools are closed tomorrow in Arlington Fairfax Montgomery and almost all the other suburban counties"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:22Z 571.1K followers, 192.5K engagements
"Guy who wants nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein ππ"
X Link 2026-02-02T00:36Z 571.1K followers, 289K engagements
"Income cap of $500000 More tax breaks for poor seniors https://t.co/wR1lXTJsFl More tax breaks for poor seniors https://t.co/wR1lXTJsFl"
X Link 2026-02-02T02:19Z 571.5K followers, 125.1K engagements
"These programs giving special property tax breaks to seniors: [--]. Push more of the tax burden onto working people [--]. Generate misallocation of the housing stock by discouraging empty nesters from realizing their capital gains https://www.slowboring.com/p/where-has-all-the-money-gone https://www.slowboring.com/p/where-has-all-the-money-gone"
X Link 2026-02-02T02:21Z 571.1K followers, 55.7K engagements
"Democrats [----] front-running is the single politician in the whole country with the most similar resume and profile to Kamala Harris two San Franciscans who won statewide in California and never needed to appeal to swing voters. https://www.slowboring.com/p/gavin-newsom-is-very-similar-to-kamala https://www.slowboring.com/p/gavin-newsom-is-very-similar-to-kamala"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:03Z 571.5K followers, 262.1K engagements
"Most Democrats say they value electability highly in [----] nominee but they also say that Gavin Newsom who has a weak electoral track-record is their idea of an electability candidate. Over-indexing on identity. https://www.slowboring.com/p/gavin-newsom-is-very-similar-to-kamala https://www.slowboring.com/p/gavin-newsom-is-very-similar-to-kamala"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:56Z 571.1K followers, 42.5K engagements
"Tariffs are bad economics but good for large incumbents with lobbying clout who can secure exemptions for themselves"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:28Z 571.3K followers, 23.8K engagements
"This is ultimately a big part of the appeal to Trump. He likes that tariffs empower him personally and create more opportunities to do corruption. https://www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-tariffs-mean-big-opportunities https://www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-tariffs-mean-big-opportunities"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:30Z 571.4K followers, 29.7K engagements
"What does Chuck Schumer think was happening during Jim Crow The SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow style restrictions on voting. It will be dead on arrival in the Senate. My statement: https://t.co/OAJRsmgkWn The SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow style restrictions on voting. It will be dead on arrival in the Senate. My statement: https://t.co/OAJRsmgkWn"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:27Z 570.7K followers, 77.1K engagements
"From [--------] poverty fell by [--] percentage points with even larger declines for Black people and all children. https://www.nber.org/papers/w34759 https://www.nber.org/papers/w34759"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:01Z 571.4K followers, 118.4K engagements
"AIPAC realized that hitting @Malinowski on Israel would probably help him in a primary so they pivoted to hitting him from the left on ICE. https://www.slowboring.com/p/an-upset-in-texas-and-a-new-jersey https://www.slowboring.com/p/an-upset-in-texas-and-a-new-jersey"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:47Z 571.1K followers, 60.5K engagements
"Conservatives do not like to read All of the Top [--] Substack newsletters are leftists (Richardson Reich Krugman) ex-conservative leftists (Bulwark Lincoln Project) or post-left liberals (Weiss Taibbi). The only conservatives are yours truly and what seems to be a spam newsletter run by Mike Huckabee. https://t.co/aUNvq9d4YS All of the Top [--] Substack newsletters are leftists (Richardson Reich Krugman) ex-conservative leftists (Bulwark Lincoln Project) or post-left liberals (Weiss Taibbi). The only conservatives are yours truly and what seems to be a spam newsletter run by Mike Huckabee."
X Link 2026-02-02T23:48Z 571.5K followers, 899.7K engagements
"When I was in college I really thought Rawls (and the [----] version of Bernie Sanders) had gotten this wrong but I've come around to the view that he was right all along and liberalism needs to be bounded by a national community. https://www.slowboring.com/p/liberalism-and-globalization https://www.slowboring.com/p/liberalism-and-globalization"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:07Z 571.5K followers, 69K engagements
"American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommends against gender transition surgeries for minors https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/02/03/plastic-surgeons-youth-gender-surgeries-guidance/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/02/03/plastic-surgeons-youth-gender-surgeries-guidance/"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:16Z 571.4K followers, 150.5K engagements
"An impressive political skill on Mamdanis part is convincing his base that hes delivering on all kinds of stuff without actually doing very much. This from BS is spot on. The salient feature that defines why @NYCMayor is awesome is because he is high agency when nearly the entire coterie of elected Democrats are low agency losers capable only of saying Im worried and texting fundraising appeals that begin with My https://t.co/SocIKOAJkm This from BS is spot on. The salient feature that defines why @NYCMayor is awesome is because he is high agency when nearly the entire coterie of elected"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:14Z 570.7K followers, 292.5K engagements
"@JDVance The sound of settling"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:39Z 571.1K followers, 13.6K engagements
"You wouldnt ban the construction of new cars or tools or appliances to help increase peoples refrigerator wealth or boost used car values. Artificial scarcity is not a wealth-building strategy. https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-country-cant-get-rich-by-making https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-country-cant-get-rich-by-making"
X Link 2026-02-04T11:10Z 571.2K followers, 60.5K engagements
"My interpretation of this anecdote has always been that its about the inherently pragmatic influence of holding executive office (where you are responsible for outcomes) rather than legislative. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/02/before-the-revolution-bernie-sanders-burlington/ https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/02/before-the-revolution-bernie-sanders-burlington/"
X Link 2026-02-04T12:33Z 571.3K followers, 16.6K engagements
"Preferences cascading"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:37Z 570.7K followers, 53.2K engagements
"Its also clear if you just talk casually to doctors that lots of them had serious doubts about the statements being put out by professional associations but didnt particularly want to go to war over this. Now that the momentum is flipping it will flip further"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:44Z 571.5K followers, 14K engagements
"@zachdcarter @sarahmillerdc If you want billionaires to support money-losing local newspapers then I think you are in fact going to need to butter them up quite a bit"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:47Z 571.6K followers, 419.9K engagements
"Catastrophe for one of Americas biggest and most important metro areas to turn into a de facto local news desert. Need the @BaltimoreBanner to expand. Scoop: The Washington Post will announce its highly anticipated layoffs tomorrow. As we've reported WaPo is expected to cut hundreds of jobs and eliminate sections instead focusing on core areas like politics & nat'l security. Jan. 26: https://t.co/vo2Lk28umB @PuckNews Scoop: The Washington Post will announce its highly anticipated layoffs tomorrow. As we've reported WaPo is expected to cut hundreds of jobs and eliminate sections"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:53Z 571.5K followers, 190.4K engagements
"I continue to think an underrated way for a rich guy to gain social esteem would be: [--]. Buy/start a newspaper [--]. Accept that it will not be profitable [--]. Focus on a lot of very traditional very down-the-middle state/local reporting [--]. Also run editorials you agree with"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:16Z 571.6K followers, 203.9K engagements
"Hatred of women is really at the core of the MAGA rights turn against the broad principles of liberalism"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:45Z 571.6K followers, 212.6K engagements
"The logic of every citizen gets equal voting rights is pretty clear and stable. By contrast nobody tries to apply the bizarre logic of the senate or the electoral college to the internal politics of Kansas or whatever"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:48Z 570.7K followers, 94K engagements
"@HeinrichKuttler If your boss would like to make a clearer argument at greater length I'd be thrilled to engage with it more substantively"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:23Z 570.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Post disbands its sports section and immediately the Wizards start doing deals that make no sense BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading 10-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis Jaden Hardy D'Angelo Russell and Dante Exum to the Washington Wizards for Khris Middleton AJ Johnson Malaki Branham Marvin Bagley III [--] first-round picks and [--] second-rounders sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/sfrQQubI5i BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading 10-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis Jaden Hardy D'Angelo Russell and Dante Exum to the Washington Wizards for Khris Middleton AJ Johnson Malaki Branham Marvin"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:49Z 571.2K followers, 95.8K engagements
"What fucking morons https://x.com/ericm_katz/status/2019127123689218269s=46&t=DqqqiPqo3dK8m-7tJy5LZA SCOOP: After shedding 1000s of staff and hiring just 2% of its target for filing season the IRS is detailing HR employees + others w/ no relevant experience to process tax returns/provide customer service. Employees predict systemic failures + skyrocketing error rates on returns https://x.com/ericm_katz/status/2019127123689218269s=46&t=DqqqiPqo3dK8m-7tJy5LZA SCOOP: After shedding 1000s of staff and hiring just 2% of its target for filing season the IRS is detailing HR employees + others w/ no"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:44Z 570.7K followers, 485.2K engagements
"I think a little underrated that: [--]. Wage stagnation was very real [--]. Wage stagnation ended [--] years ago [--]. Wage stagnation coincided with the runaway political success of Ronald Reagan's coalition"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:07Z 571.6K followers, 92.1K engagements
"It's completely possible for upzoning to make it cheaper for a renter to buy a home while also increasing the asset value of existing homeowners' property. https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-country-cant-get-rich-by-making https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-country-cant-get-rich-by-making"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:59Z 571K followers, 21.6K engagements
"What did I possibly do to deserve an influx of Flemish-language spam emails today"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:37Z 571.4K followers, 19.7K engagements
"I think if you read between the lines here you get the sense that Senator Wyden would like to see some public questions asked about something happening at the CIA"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:48Z 570.7K followers, 67.8K engagements
"Democrats could learn a lot from Norways labor party Morena in Mexico and Mark Carney in Canada. https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-reply-to-critics-on-american-oil https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-reply-to-critics-on-american-oil"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:48Z 570.7K followers, 12.9K engagements
"Dont get divorced π Whoever said money cant buy happiness really knew what they were talking about π Whoever said money cant buy happiness really knew what they were talking about π"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:23Z 570.8K followers, 73.6K engagements
"American whaling died shortly after the rise of abundant kerosene but Norway and then the Soviet Union reinvented and revived it with global whale slaughter peaking in the 1960s https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-really-saved-the-whales https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-really-saved-the-whales"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:25Z 571.2K followers, 30K engagements
"Traditional-bound American whalers were out-innovated by Norwegian whale-killing entrepreneur Svend Foyn whose harpoon cannon became a boon to the margarine industry. https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-really-saved-the-whales https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-really-saved-the-whales"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:07Z 570.8K followers, 14K engagements
"Communism was bad for whales https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-really-saved-the-whales https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-really-saved-the-whales"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:13Z 570.7K followers, 16.8K engagements
"The Post reached great heights of journalistic achievement and readership under Trump One and was sacrificed in Trump Two to Bezos desire to avoid angering the regime but what Im yearning for as a reader is robust coverage of local issues in DC and the suburbs"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:42Z 571.2K followers, 52.6K engagements
"I think this region needs both more routine coverage of our core government institutions and also more analytic coverage to help contextualize things. How does our tax and spending situation compare nationally What are we getting Where does it go"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:46Z 570.7K followers, 15.9K engagements
"The initial rise of coal in the United States mostly crowded out firewood and was probably a big win for the environment https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-really-saved-the-whales https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-really-saved-the-whales"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:51Z 570.7K followers, 16.4K engagements
"This guy runs a fake government watchdog and anti-corruption organization but even with the most corrupt administration in history in office his SOLE passion in life is attacking Democrats and trying to kick people out of the party"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:10Z 571.3K followers, 25.9K engagements
"Is the solution to the affordability crisis cooking chicken legs instead of beef"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:36Z 570.8K followers, 33.3K engagements
"The problem is @DCWard7teachers idea of caring about education was keeping schools closed forever during COVID and then again during the snowstorm and undermining accountability by ending mayoral control of DCPS. To me as a parent its a huge anti-endorsement"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:10Z 571.3K followers, 32.1K engagements
"@bendreyfuss White people (this was how we ate tacos in nyc in the benighted 1980s)"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:28Z 571.3K followers, 16K engagements
"Important to understand that these traditional newspapers were very lucrative for-profit business enterprises that paired journalism with commodity information services (box scores weather movie showtimes) and incredibly valuable ad sales franchises. Quite revealing that people think Im talking about the Times when my whole point is that these werent national papers. Miami used to have several independent daily papers. The Baltimore Sun had multiple foreign bureaus. The Morning Call in Allentown PA employed [----] people. Quite revealing that people think Im talking about the Times when my"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:39Z 571.5K followers, 81.2K engagements
"It wasnt like the newspaper owners of yore were just really nice guys they were making tons of money selling thick stacks of newsprint full of ads because their printing presses were the best way for businesses to target customers"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:41Z 571.5K followers, 19K engagements
"When I first moved to DC the Post still had a subsidiary business where they leveraged their press and citywide network of distribution boxes to print a booklet of apartment rental listings it was just a pure ad catalogue a nice moneymaker wiped out by the internet"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:42Z 571.1K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Need someone to do the electoral college analysis on this. If you take American Facebook friendship links and create [--] contiguous communities out of them this is what they look like: https://t.co/xKwUBb40rZ If you take American Facebook friendship links and create [--] contiguous communities out of them this is what they look like: https://t.co/xKwUBb40rZ"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:22Z 571.3K followers, 50.6K engagements
"Emanuel is making a lot of good points here and elsewhere in his [----] quest but he seems like literally the worst possible messenger for this. Rahm Emanuel stirring the pot: we lost thousands of young men and women in a war built on a lie.Thousands more were maimed for life. We spent a trillion dollars and no one who sold that lie was ever held accountable not legally not morally. π§΅(1/5) Rahm Emanuel stirring the pot: we lost thousands of young men and women in a war built on a lie.Thousands more were maimed for life. We spent a trillion dollars and no one who sold that lie was ever held"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:37Z 571.2K followers, 85.1K engagements
"Perfection the top message is from Beto O'Rourke who nobody cares about anymore and it's also the most vacuous on the list. π€£ π΅NEW FROM @BlueprintPolls: We tested Democratic Party vision statements from a range of electeds and pundits. Here's what worked and what didnt: Fight language stands out. The top-two most-preferred messages among voters overall as well as independents both lead with https://t.co/QQI4CiQhIj π΅NEW FROM @BlueprintPolls: We tested Democratic Party vision statements from a range of electeds and pundits. Here's what worked and what didnt: Fight language stands out. The"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:58Z 571.2K followers, 57K engagements
"LLMs seem like they'd be really well-suited to replacing Supreme Court justices"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:50Z 571.6K followers, 190.5K engagements
"A bigger reaction to the Ivica Zubac trade than I was expecting. Today will go down as some kind of turning point. Somewhat arbitrarily but it is OK if journalists and historians have to present things in that manner. Today will go down as some kind of turning point. Somewhat arbitrarily but it is OK if journalists and historians have to present things in that manner"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:28Z 571.3K followers, 49.8K engagements
"Trump is who he is but its fascinating that the entire conservative movement has decided to subordinate itself to these antics. @PunchbowlNews PM: TRUMP WANTS HIS NAME ON DULLES PENN STATION Trump admin asked SCHUMER to support his renaming Washington-Dulles and Penn Station after TRUMP. TRUMP would release funding for Gateway project in exchange. THE BACKSTORY: https://t.co/218DPAWjih @PunchbowlNews PM: TRUMP WANTS HIS NAME ON DULLES PENN STATION Trump admin asked SCHUMER to support his renaming Washington-Dulles and Penn Station after TRUMP. TRUMP would release funding for Gateway project"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:06Z 571.6K followers, 229.9K engagements
"This is the correct way to Gerrymander IMO rather than making districts that are unwinnable for Republicans even in a red cycle what theyve done is maxed out the expected number of Dem seats in a neutral political climate"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:16Z 571.3K followers, 68.8K engagements
"@katrosenfield Thats why youre a novelist and not working at an Olive Garden"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:21Z 571.3K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Hakeem Jeffries: On track to win the majority Neutralized Trumps gerrymandering gambit Has wielded discharge petitions to more effect than any minority leader Vindicated on the ACA shutdown tactic Not bad https://www.slowboring.com/p/saying-what-we-mean-about-ice https://www.slowboring.com/p/saying-what-we-mean-about-ice"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:56Z 571.3K followers, 175.9K engagements
"AIPAC nuking Malinowski and thereby electing a further-left House member is not just a fiasco on its own terms but will probably permanently take the shine of their image as genius political puppetmasters"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:59Z 571.6K followers, 137.5K engagements
"This will create jobs for American-born math geniuses another America First win. Vietnams two most world-renowned mathematicians Vu Ha Van (Yale) and Ngo Bao Chau (UChicago) are both leaving the US for the University of Hong Kong. https://t.co/Q56o0fW362 Vietnams two most world-renowned mathematicians Vu Ha Van (Yale) and Ngo Bao Chau (UChicago) are both leaving the US for the University of Hong Kong. https://t.co/Q56o0fW362"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:54Z 571.3K followers, 250.3K engagements
"Sickos: yes What photo ID also proves that you are a citizen There are only two options. 1) US Passport 2) "Enhanced" driver's licenses which are only offered by [--] states: Michigan Minnesota New York Vermont and Washington State 3/ What photo ID also proves that you are a citizen There are only two options. 1) US Passport 2) "Enhanced" driver's licenses which are only offered by [--] states: Michigan Minnesota New York Vermont and Washington State 3/"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:56Z 571.6K followers, 411.8K engagements
"This is an egregious fuckup by AIPAC and both the fact that it happened and their absurd response are representative of what's been really catastrophically bad politically decision-making by the pro-Israel community over the past two years https://x.com/UnitedDemocProj/status/2019774426875572526s=20 The outcome in NJ-11 was an anticipated possibility and our focus remains on who will serve the next full term in Congress. UDP will be closely monitoring dozens of primary races including the June NJ-11 primary to help ensure pro-Israel candidates are elected to Congress. https://t.co/Cd790k6QtI"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:15Z 571.5K followers, 224.4K engagements
"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took meaningful politically costly pro-Israel actions that displeased their base and for their trouble got completely hung out to dry"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:16Z 571.6K followers, 488.5K engagements
"This is not how I remember the Lion King Heres what the White House says about the racist depiction of the Obamas in a video that the president posted last night: https://t.co/FTnpSj5bok Heres what the White House says about the racist depiction of the Obamas in a video that the president posted last night: https://t.co/FTnpSj5bok"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:02Z 571.4K followers, 44.8K engagements
"lmao andrews et al are still going days later with asians are too good at school"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:39Z 571.5K followers, 88.8K engagements
"Tall people earn more because they're smarter and stronger. A study of middle-aged Kenyan adults finds that monthly earnings increase by [----] percent per centimeter of increased height from Wilson King @tedmiguel and @mwwalkerecon https://t.co/UJTsakvCzO https://t.co/aLPIs3UKKz A study of middle-aged Kenyan adults finds that monthly earnings increase by [----] percent per centimeter of increased height from Wilson King @tedmiguel and @mwwalkerecon https://t.co/UJTsakvCzO https://t.co/aLPIs3UKKz"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:02Z 571.2K followers, 48K engagements
"This plays as a hype tweet but IMO the timeline isnt short enough were watching exponential growth. for me the odds that AI is a bubble declined significantly in the last [--] weeks and the odds that were actually quite under-built for the necessary levels of inference/usage went significantly up in that period basically I think AI is going to become the home screen of a for me the odds that AI is a bubble declined significantly in the last [--] weeks and the odds that were actually quite under-built for the necessary levels of inference/usage went significantly up in that period basically I think"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:50Z 571.2K followers, 96K engagements
"@Noahpinion Surely this came up in Texas under Jim Crow"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:02Z 570.8K followers, 10.5K engagements
"I feel like we should have televised curling all the time"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:44Z 571.6K followers, 102.2K engagements
"Parenthesis were not lying this time The White House has deleted the apes video and a person familiar tells me: President Trump didnt see the video (legitimately didnt) a staffer posted it. FWIW only a small handful of staffers have access to his Truth Social account m. The White House has deleted the apes video and a person familiar tells me: President Trump didnt see the video (legitimately didnt) a staffer posted it. FWIW only a small handful of staffers have access to his Truth Social account m"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:27Z 571.3K followers, 80.5K engagements
"The professionalization of the Olympics is a relatively recent event https://www.slowboring.com/p/better-hockey-fewer-miracles https://www.slowboring.com/p/better-hockey-fewer-miracles"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:44Z 571.6K followers, 30.8K engagements
"@MariGO2thepolls The whole song is just her bragging about how chill and cool she is"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:49Z 570.7K followers, 20.9K engagements
"@David_JYoung Makes sense"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:56Z 570.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Will AI replace skiathlon jobs"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:38Z 571.3K followers, 17K engagements
"πΏ I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared. If they want answers lets stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about. I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared. If they want answers lets stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:22Z 571.3K followers, 86.9K engagements
"@daveweigel It would have been good for house republicans from CA VA etc to have thought of this earlier"
X Link 2026-02-07T14:12Z 571.1K followers, 27.2K engagements
"@SeanCasten Wouldnt a bill that makes it harder to vote if you: (a) Dont have a passport (b) Are a married woman who changed her name Mostly suppress the votes of Republicans"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:48Z 571K followers, [---] engagements
"There is more to life than growth and economic efficiency but to me what that means primarily is that we need taxes and a social safety net to ensure that the poor share in the fruits of growth. https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-common-sense-economic-agenda https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-common-sense-economic-agenda"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:52Z 571.2K followers, 18.6K engagements
"I wish Mark Zuckerberg had gone from backing far-left causes to backing center-left ones rather than skipping all the way to cozying up to MAGA"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:55Z 571.7K followers, 44.7K engagements
"Congressional Democrats have proposed repeatedly a national ban on gerrymandering. Its a good idea. Republicans should say yes to it. Virginia Democrats applaud themselves for this map saying it saves democracy and provides fair representation. Outside Democrats sooth their consciences with the claim that Republicans "started" the whole gerrymandering thing. Virginia Democrats applaud themselves for this map saying it saves democracy and provides fair representation. Outside Democrats sooth their consciences with the claim that Republicans "started" the whole gerrymandering thing"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:09Z 571.8K followers, 369.8K engagements
"Has anyone had a worse run as a newspaper publisher ever Will Lewis just sent a note to staff at The Washington Post announcing that he is stepping down as publisher. https://t.co/hNTf6wyrDk Will Lewis just sent a note to staff at The Washington Post announcing that he is stepping down as publisher. https://t.co/hNTf6wyrDk"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:50Z 571.2K followers, 80.2K engagements
"You cant just pretend history started the day Harris became the nominee"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:33Z 571.6K followers, 211K engagements
"The entire prog narrative about the [----] campaign is based on the idea that there was no political context outside the four walls of the campaign. https://www.slowboring.com/p/theres-more-to-politics-than-what https://www.slowboring.com/p/theres-more-to-politics-than-what"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:34Z 571.6K followers, 97.9K engagements
"@DouglasLFarrar These comparisons are hard to judge but progressives were pretty enthusiastic at the time theres a reason Bernie Warren and the CPC were the last of the Biden dead-enders"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:19Z 571.2K followers, 17.1K engagements
"@DistractedAnna Sandwich. Mac & cheese. Frozen pizza or burrito. Box or can of soup. We used to be a country"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:03Z 571.3K followers, 19.3K engagements
"Impressively chill and banal policy platform from the candidate who scored an enormous swing in a special election last night"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:26Z 571.6K followers, 28.1K engagements
"@GregTSargent Dont you think its a little noteworthy that this same poll shows Republicans with a strong advantage on immigration and it remains one of their best issues even as they are increasingly unpopular and on track to lose the midterms"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:34Z 571.2K followers, 22.7K engagements
"@GregTSargent @AEiffel95 People remember that Democrats were in office very recently and unleashed an immigration situation that they really disliked and its hard to convince them that putting Dems back in office wont lead to a repeat of that"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:57Z 571.2K followers, 16.1K engagements
"If you run into JD Vance at the Olympics and arent sure if its really him his VANCE windbreaker will be useful"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:45Z 572K followers, 382.1K engagements
"Who has the deep dive on the collapse of Dutch speed skating dominance"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:38Z 571.2K followers, 43.5K engagements
"@patdennis @StefFeldman When I was an intern for Schumers communications director [--] years ago I got really good at remembering the codes that would send faxes to different groups of media outlets all-state print only upstate television all Rochester outlets whatever you needed I had a code"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:23Z 571.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Great game for those of us who appreciate some quality kicking and punting"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:09Z 571.2K followers, 26.6K engagements
"The vibe is shifting back"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:32Z 571.5K followers, 234.2K engagements
"Together we are America"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:40Z 571.6K followers, 44.5K engagements
"Always fun to see Boston lose though its still no helmet catch game"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:59Z 571.2K followers, 25.6K engagements
"Its kind of incredible that American Idiot is in fact not about he Trump administration. https://youtu.be/_0UqnYmQyLQsi=57hcOD20GwlX_tmv https://youtu.be/_0UqnYmQyLQsi=57hcOD20GwlX_tmv"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:09Z 571.2K followers, 77.8K engagements
"This was considered at the time to be a strikingly anti-intellectual president who was bad at speaking coherently. https://youtu.be/l16tPdgQzYksi=kfIFYJg_N6FFhfVU https://youtu.be/l16tPdgQzYksi=kfIFYJg_N6FFhfVU"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:14Z 572K followers, 78.5K engagements
"I think this is correct but its not dumb what the swing voters think is very important This whole Kamala lost because she was too moderate/too progressive argument is so dumb. β‘ Progressives/lefties thought Harris was too moderate Moderates/swing voters thought Harris was too progressive/lefty She was caught in no mans land. Plus inflation was high. This whole Kamala lost because she was too moderate/too progressive argument is so dumb. β‘ Progressives/lefties thought Harris was too moderate Moderates/swing voters thought Harris was too progressive/lefty She was caught in no mans land. Plus"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:40Z 571.3K followers, 50.3K engagements
"Texas and California are both relatively sunny and have a lot of land. The fundamentals for solar in the northeastern United States are just not very good barring a massive increase in transmission capacity. What's striking is a. how few renewables champions there are across the US b. that Texas is relatively speaking a green powerhouse and c. that NYC is a horrible laggard. What's striking is a. how few renewables champions there are across the US b. that Texas is relatively speaking a green powerhouse and c. that NYC is a horrible laggard"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:59Z 571.6K followers, 74.6K engagements
"Because much of rural Texas is organized as very large ranches it is possible to purchase or lease a very large plot of private land and build a utility-scale solar project on it. Even low-density parts of the northeast tend not to have many large parcels available"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:00Z 571.3K followers, 22K engagements
"@MattZeitlin If he comes out for lower taxes on billionaires to restore fairness to NYC he'll truly be the Lisan al Gaib"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:07Z 571.2K followers, 12K engagements
"Internet recipe-mongers have funny ideas about what "easy" cooking is. https://www.slowboring.com/p/doordash-and-the-dilemma-of-affluence https://www.slowboring.com/p/doordash-and-the-dilemma-of-affluence"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:12Z 571.3K followers, 28.8K engagements
"Obesity is/was the number one public health problem in America the fact that we finally developed an effective treatment and there is interest in marketing it is very good people keep throwing glp-1s in here as if theyre not actually solving a real issue people keep throwing glp-1s in here as if theyre not actually solving a real issue"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:21Z 571.3K followers, 69.6K engagements
"A style of anti-billionaire politics that I could get on boar for would be for blue states to stop lavishing explicit subsidies on Elon Musk. NEWS: In the past year the California has set aside nearly [----] vouchers worth at least $165 million to provide commercial fleets with steep markdowns on the @Tesla Semi intended to accelerate the electrification of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. https://t.co/Mo8zrIbNqL NEWS: In the past year the California has set aside nearly [----] vouchers worth at least $165 million to provide commercial fleets with steep markdowns on the @Tesla Semi intended to"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:23Z 571.3K followers, 35.4K engagements
"Progressives need to find a way to connect the half of their brain that loves regulatory mandates to buy electric cars with the half of their brain that is furious at Elon Musk in particular and "tech billionaires" in general. https://www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-should-stop-subsiding-tesla https://www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-should-stop-subsiding-tesla"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:24Z 571.3K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Civil War pension payments reached their peak hilariously late in American history"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:20Z 571.6K followers, 48.6K engagements
"I have been saying for a while that JOSH TUREK (@turek4iowa) is the Democrats' best candidate in Iowa and an underrated choice for donors looking for high leverage opportunities to check MAGA which I believe is confirmed by this poll. Change Research poll in Iowa has three point lead for Hinson (who it has with underwater favs) against all three Dem challengers with it shrinking on an informed ballot https://t.co/fgVXHwHGjL Change Research poll in Iowa has three point lead for Hinson (who it has with underwater favs) against all three Dem challengers with it shrinking on an informed ballot"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:22Z 571.6K followers, 47.3K engagements
"First off Iowa in general. After North Carolina the closest Trump states were (in order) Ohio Alaska and then Iowa. In other words it's a very red state but if Democrats are going to compete for the senate majority Iowa is the kind of state where they need to compete"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:23Z 571.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Iowa is not only slightly less red than Texas it is dramatically cheaper to advertise in so on the basic fundamentals it seems like a more cost-effective investment than these Texas races. What's more we have TUREK who is a great candidate"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:24Z 571.4K followers, [----] engagements
"He represents an area where Obama did well but that swung toward Trump in [----] and stayed red ever since. He won his state leg seat in [----] with an over-performance that projects to statewide victory. He calls himself a common-sense moderate but also a prairie populist"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:28Z 571.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Owning the libs by doing abusive immigration enforcement against Irish guys so you can debunk charges of racism"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:49Z 571.7K followers, 90.3K engagements
"@AlexSJacquez @YvannaCancela @AnnieLowrey @Groundwork @ChadMaisel @nealemahoney Where do paper straws rate on the annoyance spectrum"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:53Z 571.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@richcalhoun @adam_tooze I mean I suppose if you dont mind really high prices its fine"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:00Z 571.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Theres a bloc of people who just fundamentally dont want to see anything happen that changes the built environment. Good grief: "In general our polling has found that people who strongly oppose clean energy are also most likely to oppose data centers." https://t.co/ah18Ym1V0c Good grief: "In general our polling has found that people who strongly oppose clean energy are also most likely to oppose data centers." https://t.co/ah18Ym1V0c"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:04Z 571.7K followers, 49.2K engagements
"@richcalhoun @xiaowang1984 In the northeast compared to Texas: there is less sunshine land is more expensive parcels are smaller These are fundamental reasons to believe it is harder for solar to succeed in the northeast than in Texas"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:05Z 571.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@DeanBaker13 Well youd reduce cargo capacity with more batteries. They probably figure its better to just deliver something thats cost effective on short routes first and then try to go bigger as batteries improve"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:19Z 571.2K followers, [----] engagements
"RINO Take the vaccine please said Dr. Mehmet Oz as measles cases continue to rise in the U.S. We have a solution for our problem. https://t.co/Mfz7fZ7Zc4 Take the vaccine please said Dr. Mehmet Oz as measles cases continue to rise in the U.S. We have a solution for our problem. https://t.co/Mfz7fZ7Zc4"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:19Z 571.5K followers, 57.4K engagements
"@KarthikForTexas Yes instead of trying to win elections the Democratic Party could just give up on its existence"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:58Z 571.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Unfortunately a lot of people have decided they should opine on big picture macroeconomic concepts without bothering to learn anything about them"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:11Z 571.8K followers, 53.7K engagements
"Normal people don't like it when their stuff gets stolen it's really unfortunate that one of the issues that animate tenants the most is package theft. it brings out the most hitlerite responses from otherwise normal seeming people. it's really unfortunate that one of the issues that animate tenants the most is package theft. it brings out the most hitlerite responses from otherwise normal seeming people"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:32Z 571.5K followers, 165.3K engagements
"Cracking down on fare evasion is good https://www.slowboring.com/p/dc-is-right-to-crack-down-on-metro https://www.slowboring.com/p/dc-is-right-to-crack-down-on-metro"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:50Z 571.6K followers, 37.7K engagements
"@Hank_Krill Yes the AI industry has proven to be very fast-moving"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:33Z 571.7K followers, 13.7K engagements
"@ZacharyGraves If nobody does it then nobody does it but Musk seems like a pretty smart and successful guy to me"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:06Z 571.3K followers, 15.4K engagements
"@garagemahal2 @ZacharyGraves I think a lot of leftwing people over-index on anti-Musk sentiment. It is true that he has made some overstated forecasts. It is also true that he has pulled off a lot of impressive study. I hope Space X thrives which it may not but I worry about monopolization"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:23Z 571.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The anti-economics horseshoe is bad news Jon noticed some anger from economists in the comments last week. He gets into that and so much more with the Chief Economist of American Compass @oren_cass on a new episode tomorrow. #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics https://t.co/fRrWRkjdKJ Jon noticed some anger from economists in the comments last week. He gets into that and so much more with the Chief Economist of American Compass @oren_cass on a new episode tomorrow. #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics https://t.co/fRrWRkjdKJ"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:06Z 571.8K followers, 95.4K engagements
"A voter suppression bill that micro-targets married women who change their last names Dont threaten me with a good time. The SAVE Act could block [--] MILLION women from voting. The bill would require people to show a birth certificate or passport to register to vote. This would threaten the vote of millions of women who changed their last name after marriage. This is a voter suppression bill. The SAVE Act could block [--] MILLION women from voting. The bill would require people to show a birth certificate or passport to register to vote. This would threaten the vote of millions of women who"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:18Z 571.6K followers, 163.1K engagements
"@averyfjames @billyez2 I know @dylanmatt is ready to do the screenplay https://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5881009/in-defense-of-warren-harding https://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5881009/in-defense-of-warren-harding"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:19Z 572K followers, [----] engagements
"You can and should just root for the team and feel good about it https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-liberal-case-for-the-olympics https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-liberal-case-for-the-olympics"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:42Z 571.6K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Olympics World Cup and other international sports events are a great example of channeling peoples competitive zero-sum instincts in a positive-sum direction. https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-liberal-case-for-the-olympics https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-liberal-case-for-the-olympics"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:18Z 571.6K followers, 15K engagements
"Reformation Effect Literacy rate in Europe around [----] π https://t.co/FHBNCbFPTo Literacy rate in Europe around [----] π https://t.co/FHBNCbFPTo"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:32Z 571.9K followers, 35K engagements
"I bet NAEP scores would go up if we could sincerely persuade people that their eternal salvation depended on them spending a lot of time reading and re-reading the Bible"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:35Z 571.6K followers, 14.8K engagements
"They sort of vaguely think that Donald Trump is bad but they attribute everything bad about him to Obama and their singular political focus is on making sure that we do NOT return to anything resembling the pre-Trump situation"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:57Z 571.8K followers, 46.4K engagements
"@MaxMMillerAT @Afinetheorem @ezraklein @Noahpinion What is the "Epstein class""
X Link 2026-02-11T17:58Z 571.8K followers, [---] engagements
"How do men's and women's curling differ Do the men sweep harder"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:20Z 571.8K followers, 40.1K engagements
"@MarcGoldwein Well an AI executive told me earlier this week there's going to be [--] percent annual GDP growth soon so maybe it'll all work out ()/"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:21Z 571.6K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Feels like Anglophone countries are at a disadvantage here since I bet the Czechs understand our English conversations just fine but they get to speak in secret code"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:42Z 571.8K followers, 20.1K engagements
"@CartoonsHateHer Being sketchy in the third degree"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:52Z 571.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Two topics of conversation lately the decline of local newspapers and whether AI has any real utility for journalism. As an experiment I asked Claude Code to read every available MPDC staffing report and MPDC overtime report and write up and interesting analytical article about it. Below is what it came up with verbatim. You be the judge. DC Is Spending Four Times Its Police Overtime Budget And the Problem Is Getting Worse In January [----] the Metropolitan Police Department had [----] sworn officers on the payroll. By January [----] that number had fallen to [----] a loss of [---] officers nearly 12"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:46Z 571.8K followers, 44.4K engagements
"http://x.com/i/article/2021756072713768961 http://x.com/i/article/2021756072713768961"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:21Z 571.9K followers, 46K engagements
"You can just be normal and watch the Olympics https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-liberal-case-for-the-olympics https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-liberal-case-for-the-olympics"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:26Z 571.8K followers, 16.3K engagements
"Claude made a bunch of charts to go with this article but I didn't know how to upload them to Twitter. Just figured it out and I think it's way better this way. https://t.co/7qeX8snonm https://t.co/7qeX8snonm"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:40Z 571.8K followers, 57.3K engagements
"@brianbeutler @tysonbrody @gelliottmorris I ran out of Claude tokens but can probably do that tomorrow when mine refresh"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:55Z 571.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@WeisbergNate I didn't write it at all Claude Opus [---] did"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:05Z 571.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@WeisbergNate No . I gave it some PDFs to read and it just wrote the whole thing (and made the charts) and I posted it without edits"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:06Z 571.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@WeisbergNate Chat GPT did this one but I don't think it's as good. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/2021756531876790601s=20 https://t.co/4cRZZxzP6K https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/2021756531876790601s=20 https://t.co/4cRZZxzP6K"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:11Z 571.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@chris_j_paxton I mean its not doing those things for now but youre working on humanoid robots that maybe will right"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:31Z 571.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@RossBarkan @FantasyBackup2 I asked Claude to read every available MPDC staffing and overtime report and write an analytic article based on the reports and it gave me this. https://t.co/7qeX8snonm https://t.co/7qeX8snonm"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:50Z 571.8K followers, 75.1K engagements
"@sandeepvaheesan How did Bidens approach of empowering neo-Brandeisian antitrust regulators do at keeping the far right out of power"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:17Z 571.8K followers, 24.2K engagements
"@EVCurveFuturist @DeanBaker13 US emissions peaked twenty years ago how has China debunked this myth we debunked it"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:38Z 571.9K followers, 16K engagements
"I do not believe that a fair minded person who reads this article would reach the conclusion that I am arguing that apartheid is good. https://www.slowboring.com/p/americans-think-everyone-is-corrupt Here Mattyflake is arguing apartheid is actually a good thing Democracy is overrated Let an elite Epstein class tell us what needs to be done. Its not corruption. Its economic learning. https://www.slowboring.com/p/americans-think-everyone-is-corrupt Here Mattyflake is arguing apartheid is actually a good thing Democracy is overrated Let an elite Epstein class tell us what needs to be done. Its"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:00Z 571.9K followers, 44K engagements
"@MaxMMillerAT No that's not what I want. What I want is for progressive philanthropists to be more cautious about giving money to people who sloppy in their work and mean-spirited in their approach to disagreement"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:55Z 571.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@MaxMMillerAT I am sure that I have been mean-spirited at times and all I am really asking is for this constellation of groups to receive the exact same level of donor support ($0 per year) as I get"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:05Z 571.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Excellent recent article from @KelseyTuoc on Waymo's safety track record https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-absolutely-do-know-that-waymos https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-absolutely-do-know-that-waymos"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:01Z 571.9K followers, 10.4K engagements
"@DanAncona @lxeagle17 @AJentleson Maybe Democrats should be more moderate"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:27Z 571.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@superwuster Do you think this will cause large numbers of voters to abandon Trump"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:57Z 571.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@cremieuxrecueil I am just putting Claude's analysis on the internet"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:14Z 571.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@JacksonKernion It's a lot faster to directly provide the data but I've been trying to shift to more fetching"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:13Z 571.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@jon_stokes @matthewstoller Because its fake"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:12Z 571.8K followers, [---] engagements
"These guys started a political movement whose core idea was that antitrust enforcement should move away from the consumer welfare standard. I dont agree with that idea. They are just incapable of debating the thing at issue and instead constantly make stuff up"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:05Z 571.9K followers, 10.5K engagements
"@musharbash_b I definitely think sports betting should be regulated more strictly. What do you think"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:20Z 571.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@musharbash_b @churroallie I don't understand what you think "bad faith" is or means in this context. But I am happy to bring this bizarre blood feud back to the world of antitrust doctrine where we have a non-fake disagreement"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:51Z 571.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@WeisbergNate Personally I think it is good to try to make revenue go up if you can do it without making the content or reader experience worse"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:57Z 571.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@WeisbergNate When the NYT runs an ad for whatever this is (a law firm) the company is buying exposure. When Hewlett makes a grant to TAP or The Atlantic or TNR or Washington Monthly it's specifically payment to support their crank economic doctrines"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:03Z 571.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@MattPrinciple KIPP DC is nearly 100% African-American and has been throughout this whole stretch. But compositional shifts are key to understanding some of what's going on in DCPS as covered here. https://dclocal.substack.com/p/which-dc-schools-are-actually-improving https://dclocal.substack.com/p/which-dc-schools-are-actually-improving"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:59Z 571.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@GregTSargent @mtomasky To my way of thinking which is maybe just too small minded everything is about priorities and choices. If were laser focused on a critique of billionaires we need to downplay other things if were all-in on defending immigrants we should seek business allies"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:12Z 572K followers, [----] engagements
"@GregTSargent @mtomasky @Nate_Cohn I think understand your argument. And I think understand MTs argument. To me they seem like arguments you guys should have with each other and I think it is noteworthy that you dont see it that way"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:00Z 572K followers, [---] engagements
"@GregTSargent @mtomasky @Nate_Cohn I keep trying and failing to disengage from this conversation. I read both articles. I thought there was a tension. I asked you if you thought there was a tension. You say theres is no tension. That is a useful clarifying answer to me. I promise I will write something longer"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:16Z 572K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive noticed π Under any other president a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump familys crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be an investigation by Congress televised hearings and months of damage control my latest @guardian https://t.co/D1n4GtuxYF Under any other president a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump familys crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be an investigation by Congress televised hearings and months of damage control my latest @guardian https://t.co/D1n4GtuxYF"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:40Z 572K followers, 62.2K engagements
"@rcobooth @mtomasky But thats because on an abstract level conservatives outnumber liberals and people say they want the government to do less and reduce regulation. If you debate values Republicans will win easily"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:46Z 572K followers, [----] engagements
"@GregTSargent @mtomasky @Nate_Cohn We dont need to keep tweeting in circles about this Im saying theres some tension between a politics singularly focused on crushing billionaires and a politics centered on combatting Millers immigration agenda. You dont see it. Ill write something longer later"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:12Z 572K followers, [---] engagements
"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"
X Link 2022-08-12T00:17Z 572.1K followers, [----] engagements
"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"
X Link 2022-08-20T01:03Z 572.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Choose your fighter"
X Link 2022-12-25T00:59Z 572.1K followers, 1.1M engagements
"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: https://t.co/1OcGbCW5q7 The people that live here love to lecture you about the environment: https://t.co/1OcGbCW5q7"
X Link 2023-01-15T21:02Z 572.1K followers, 1.1M engagements
"The greatest thread in the history of forums"
X Link 2023-07-22T13:01Z 572.1K followers, 799.1K engagements
"New source of intra-elite conflict and status anxiety just dropped"
X Link 2023-07-24T11:32Z 572.1K followers, 939K engagements
"Trump greeting a nonexistent crowd outside of Trump Tower"
X Link 2024-06-02T02:43Z 572.1K followers, 3.4M engagements
"The pace of academic publishing and the pace of AI frontier model progress are so radically misaligned that I fear the situation is unsalvageable. i am begging academics to study AI capabilities using frontier models. the models used in this study (which is going to be cited for years as proof that "AI is bad at health advice") are GPT-4o Llama [--] and Command R+ two obsolete models and one i've never heard of. https://t.co/ekq502dhPe i am begging academics to study AI capabilities using frontier models. the models used in this study (which is going to be cited for years as proof that "AI is"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:58Z 572.1K followers, 121.9K engagements
"Speaking of productivity I made that chart by sending Opus the BLS report and asking it to make a chart that it thought illustrated an interesting narrative about the past year"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:34Z 572.1K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Obvious concerns I have about this: Maybe it's all made up I think it's not and I could have checked before publishing but for the sake of the exercise I did not. A proper reporter would try to get comment from MPDC about this but Claude can't do that"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:54Z 572.1K followers, 22.5K engagements
"If you take a position that your constituents disagree with the odds are high that voters will attribute that to the corrupt influence of social elites or donors theres no firm line between basic be popular and dont be corrupt. https://www.slowboring.com/p/americans-think-everyone-is-corrupt https://www.slowboring.com/p/americans-think-everyone-is-corrupt"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:47Z 572.1K followers, 18.4K engagements
"I think America was quite a bit poorer in the 1880s and 1890s for starters back then nobody could afford DoorDash Trump correctly pointed out that our nation was its richest in the 1880s and 1890s but he is incorrect to attribute that wealth to tariffs. The reason we were so rich back then is that government was so tiny that we could afford to pay for it with tariffs. Back then total Trump correctly pointed out that our nation was its richest in the 1880s and 1890s but he is incorrect to attribute that wealth to tariffs. The reason we were so rich back then is that government was so tiny that"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:44Z 572.1K followers, 41.2K engagements
"As I noted in todays piece Matt Stoller the research director at AELP by his own admission just concocts fake stories about who donates to his enemies. How are you going to make regulatory decisions and win legal cases with this method https://www.slowboring.com/p/americans-think-everyone-is-corrupt https://www.slowboring.com/p/americans-think-everyone-is-corrupt"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:10Z 572.1K followers, 18.8K engagements
"These guys also for some reason decided a year ago that Donald Trump was a good faith partner in their agenda only to later discover that he's actually a corrupt aspiring autocrat"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:16Z 572.1K followers, 13.7K engagements
"@superwuster This is a good example of what I'm talking about you simply cannot bring yourself to simply engage in the debate you feel compelled to get a dig in and call me personally corrupt in a totally nonspecific way"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:45Z 572.1K followers, 22.5K engagements
"@ScottWRasmussen Right but Trump is cooking up schemes to subsidize coal"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:36Z 572.1K followers, [---] engagements
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