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[@mattyglesias](/creator/twitter/mattyglesias)
"@MeghanMcCain My concern is about things like firing federal prosecutors unless they are willing to persecute his enemies while using pardons to shied his allies from legal accountability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979600992783286274) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-18T17:30Z 550.6K followers, 107K engagements


"Pretty good stuff imo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979963495920607258) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T17:30Z 550.6K followers, 69.5K engagements


"Okay hear me out. A hypothesis that I am tentatively developing is that some of the Trumpworld concern about political violence is not entirely in good faith or on the level. What do you guys think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980599294488113263) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T11:37Z 550.6K followers, 169.5K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1977494403431510231) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-12T21:59Z 550.5K followers, 31.8K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1977691092502929839) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-13T11:01Z 550.6K followers, 27.3K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1977691591201509815) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-13T11:03Z 550.5K followers, 32.4K engagements


"They say every paid protester at the No Kings rally this weekend is getting $50000 cash in a Cava bag"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1977823239268438393) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-13T19:46Z 550.5K followers, 549.5K engagements


"As a person experiencing mismatch between skin tone and surname I have some concerns about this approach to law enforcement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1977845028983648320) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-13T21:12Z 550.5K followers, 108.4K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978058041497879011) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-14T11:19Z 550.5K followers, 534.8K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978111065872269640) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-14T14:50Z 550.5K followers, 505.1K engagements


"Young people seem to be binary again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978128844394541241) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-14T16:00Z 550.5K followers, 705.2K engagements


"A man so universally beloved it was a crime to criticize him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978229009373630858) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-14T22:38Z 550.5K followers, 368.4K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978429506374263083) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-15T11:55Z 550.5K followers, 132.6K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978473683065675782) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-15T14:50Z 550.5K followers, 158.3K engagements


"It's insane that Nick Clegg didn't make electoral reform the price of his participation in the Cameron government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978524889339318551) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-15T18:14Z 550.5K followers, 376.8K engagements


"The Long Groyper March through the institutions continues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978564093385597307) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-15T20:50Z 550.5K followers, 241.6K engagements


"Maduro is bad but its weird to me that were starting a war with Venezuela for no reason"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978594391548727517) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-15T22:50Z 550.5K followers, 130K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978613812619006255) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T00:07Z 550.5K followers, 286.3K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978616525851341136) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T00:18Z 550.5K followers, 201.9K engagements


"Unfortunately all those democracy is on the line arguments that we kept warning Biden & Harris werent persuasive were also pretty accurate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978616796484624386) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T00:19Z 550.5K followers, 197.7K engagements


"Good sweater pretty good message"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978630413120618814) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T01:13Z 550.5K followers, 79.9K engagements


"Not sure I agree with this take"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978871431149539650) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T17:11Z 550.6K followers, 73.5K engagements


"Hard to believe this turned out to be bogus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978874008989827556) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T17:21Z 550.6K followers, 108K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978878330490232877) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T17:38Z 550.6K followers, 136.6K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978938078749147341) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T21:36Z 550.6K followers, 94.6K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978960163718529529) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T23:04Z 550.6K followers, 23.3K engagements


"I love that the age for youthful indiscretions has been pushed into the late thirties nothing I did in my career at The Atlantic Think Progress Slate or Vox counts life begins at forty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979142733756244337) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-17T11:09Z 550.6K followers, 114.1K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979290491092193374) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-17T20:56Z 550.6K followers, 165.1K engagements


"Its time for George Soros to come out of retirement for one last job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979307788481499503) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-17T22:05Z 550.6K followers, 25.4K engagements


"@emmma_camp_ @HistoryBoomer @reason Waffle House vs Applebees totally different scenario"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979365502872096949) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-18T01:54Z 550.5K followers, 2970 engagements


"I just dont want to hear from leftists about blog posts I wrote when I was too young to buy beer legally ever again. 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979552938256159039) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-18T14:19Z 550.6K followers, 66.7K engagements


"Thats right frequency and speed of transit service is much more important than the fare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979553373729993183) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-18T14:21Z 550.6K followers, 50.4K engagements


"When your actions are based on solid evidence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979636086315118764) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-18T19:49Z 550.6K followers, 188.2K engagements


"This will be a cool movie someday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979881729956680186) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T12:06Z 550.6K followers, 24.9K engagements


"@Sevens_2 On the one hand Damore got fired. On the other hand Google and everyone else keeps employing predominantly male engineering teams and life goes on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979928473809359228) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T15:11Z 550.6K followers, 59.1K engagements


"Think the Nobel Prize might have been a little premature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979948799272370259) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T16:32Z 550.6K followers, 84.2K engagements


"The terms of the agreement were transparently unworkable but Im very glad the hostages are home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979949493870112804) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T16:35Z 550.6K followers, 42.6K engagements


"@SadMuskateer I think that's right she describes things as she sees them fearless of the pummeling which means she engages in a lot of sloppy overstatement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979967204222189831) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T17:45Z 550.5K followers, 8346 engagements


"For your consideration on No Kings Weekend is this kind of hyperpersonalistic rule in line with the founders' intentions or compatible with a durable rule of law"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979974230780395645) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T18:13Z 550.6K followers, 29.4K engagements


"Moultons camp would like to make this race *purely* about generational change but realistically the groups are thrilled with a weekend at bernies senator and some of the ideological questions are bound to come into play"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979998865571930535) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T19:51Z 550.6K followers, 90.2K engagements


"@dieworkwear Who do you recommend for dress shoes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980002695529345027) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T20:06Z 550.6K followers, 6681 engagements


"@ReubenR80027912 @Sevens_2 I feel bad for the way the guy got fired but per @RichardHanania I think this is a bit of an anti-woke as autism situation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980005443863802001) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T20:17Z 550.6K followers, 5524 engagements


"@dieworkwear Looks like theres an Alden shop in DC 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980006088003977707) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T20:20Z 550.6K followers, 6805 engagements


"@talmonsmith 1999 is a weird place to start a timeline for evaluating the ACA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980230795202908286) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T11:13Z 550.5K followers, 2692 engagements


"@MattWelch It seems like in the real world third party voting was highest in the 90s when the D & R nominees were more moderate so people didnt worry that much about the downside of voting for a spoiler"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980272881683587157) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T14:00Z 550.6K followers, 4260 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978236394750255321) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-14T23:08Z 550.6K followers, 203.2K engagements


"@CartoonsHateHer @Aella_Girl If fewer people are having sex at all it's possible that the remaining sex-havers are kinkier on average"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978846156026183918) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T15:31Z 550.6K followers, 27.6K engagements


"Democrats are doing much better than they expected they would do in the blame game zero incentive to fold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978883848936022151) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T18:00Z 550.6K followers, 52.9K engagements


"The Declaration of Independence is an incredibly explicit statement of enlightenment liberalism and the American project is a fundamentally liberal project"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978964162932768827) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T23:19Z 550.6K followers, 266.4K engagements


"The lack of any data or argumentative clarity in this article is a brilliant piece of metatextual performance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978971025430765757) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T23:47Z 550.6K followers, 237.6K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978972503096656078) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T23:53Z 550.6K followers, 492.2K engagements


"Hey ho let's go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978973206087168361) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T23:55Z 550.6K followers, 79.1K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979182051619209697) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-17T13:45Z 550.6K followers, 25K engagements


"The NYC Council's bipartisan cross ideological push against pro-housing ballot initiatives reveals at the end of the day what housing politics are about parochial power games vs the public interest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979230441690345724) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-17T16:58Z 550.6K followers, 56.4K engagements


"I would just emphasize that the economic benefits of new housing supply more jobs more customers for local businesses a broader tax base extend way beyond mechanical impacts on rent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979538535117127785) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-18T13:22Z 550.6K followers, 47.2K engagements


"Soros payments to No Kings protesters account for XX% of Q3 economic growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979655901280969013) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-18T21:08Z 550.6K followers, 38.5K engagements


"America has its problems but we are the most 24/7 country in the world forget high-end factories were running CVS and random diners on this basis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979736079683981492) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T02:27Z 550.6K followers, 64.8K engagements


"Wage compression has reversed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979876725573214413) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T11:46Z 550.6K followers, 244.8K engagements


"Whats frustrating about the Andrews great feminization essay is that its clearly true that the influx of large numbers of women into roles with social power is a big deal whose consequences deserve a serious treatment thats not full of blatantly false assertions. _()_/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979900726928196032) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T13:21Z 550.6K followers, 188.9K engagements


"Via @StefanFSchubert this looks like a more serious effort to examine the same basic themes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979909201003446326) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T13:55Z 550.6K followers, 54.3K engagements


"Unfortunately the effort to reinterpret Nazi Germany as smol bean victims has become a lot more mainstream over the past five years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979950483964903489) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T16:39Z 550.6K followers, 220.6K engagements


"The only acceptable ID should be a passport is the thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979997974915616976) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T19:47Z 550.6K followers, 197.7K engagements


"Over the past fifteen years we have made incredible strides in delivering ubiquitous very compelling streaming video content to more people than ever. The problem is all this video-watching is crowding out basically all other forms of human activity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980230571340320908) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T11:12Z 550.6K followers, 43.8K engagements


"Trump is Raising taxes without congressional approval Dispatching the national guard over governors objections Canceling programs duly created by law Firing prosecutors to gin up bogus cases against his opponents Its reminiscent of George IIIs abuses of power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980234405831647590) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T11:27Z 550.6K followers, 736.3K engagements


"The ask is for the existing majorities in congress to either play their constitutional role and check these abuses or else be replaced by other people who will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980234618738708944) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T11:28Z 550.6K followers, 35.5K engagements


"Defend democracy by adopting views that people agree with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980241566200447341) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T11:55Z 550.6K followers, 39.4K engagements


"Argentina First. Amazing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980310494436368430) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T16:29Z 550.6K followers, 214.3K engagements


"Was the Tron franchise really beloved IP that needed to be expanded into an expensive trilogy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980350435660849205) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T19:08Z 550.6K followers, 39.2K engagements


"Love this from @RubenGallego absolute upward mobility in living standards is what matters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980391508663800074) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T21:51Z 550.6K followers, 70.8K engagements


"Is a strong Trump endorsement what Ciaterelli wants in New Jersey I feel like this guy is a Trump pawn is Sherrills message"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980412308271820841) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T23:14Z 550.6K followers, 24.8K engagements


"@DHSgov Return to what We still have cars and soda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980421609799270574) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T23:51Z 550.6K followers, 72.9K engagements


"@DrewPavlou @DHSgov How would they go about restoring the white population share to its 1950s level Do I get deported due to my quarter-Cuban ancestry Id be against that personally having lived here my whole life and loving this country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980426617160978807) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T00:11Z 550.6K followers, 64.7K engagements


"@DrewPavlou @DHSgov What do you mean its not possible Its clearly possible. It just would entail a lot of violence and human suffering. But if the right really wants to do it they could probably pull it off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980428516731809883) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T00:18Z 550.6K followers, 152.6K engagements


"The thing they should build on the White House grounds is not a ballroom but a large modern office building so the Executive Office of the President is not working in weirdly cramped and dingy spaces these are inportant jobs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980437210890661896) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T00:53Z 550.6K followers, 73.3K engagements


"There are some tensions in the MAGA coalition that Trumps personalistic rule helps manage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980446717754663212) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T01:31Z 550.6K followers, 146.8K engagements


"I wrote about this years Nobel Prize for economics and especially the argument that technological progress relies on having just enough not too much but not none monopoly pricing power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980587220483641695) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T10:49Z 550.6K followers, 48.5K engagements


"One disconnect I'm having is that Platner's dad is a lawyer his mom's a small business owner and he went to a private high school in Bangor and later GWU. There's no actual working class background here. (My dad is a union member who didn't finish high school)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980728414953726209) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T20:10Z 550.6K followers, 184.1K engagements


"In a different political context Platner was described as a "small business leader" which is much more reflective of both his job and family background. Lawyers restaurant owners & oyster entrepreneurs are small town elites (nothing wrong with that) not the working class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980730012916396073) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T20:16Z 550.6K followers, 26K engagements


"Its all part of a bizarre obsession with downplaying the *content of what candidates say* in favor of vibes stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980765552713810178) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T22:38Z 550.6K followers, 73.2K engagements


"Yes if you think the value of youth means its worth backing Platner over Mills I can buy it but then for Gods sake Id better see you supporting Moulton who managed to serve in the Marines without getting any problematic ink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980803771623174146) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T01:09Z 550.6K followers, 84.2K engagements


"@PatrickRuffini I think Donald Trump has done a fair amount of sidestepping congress in novel ways. Is this even controversial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980977671317184603) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T12:40Z 550.6K followers, 8595 engagements


"This is a very useful effort from @chao_becky and @mtkonczal to try to de-escalate the factional warfare and synthesize some populist and abundance-oriented ideas about affordability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980986244508340297) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T13:15Z 550.6K followers, 26.7K engagements


"That Wisconsin senate race probably the clearest case of Democrats blowing a very winnable seat by nominating someone with a regrettable track record of left-wing posts. Would be nuts to nominate him statewide again Dems have a real shot at a trifecta"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981022698819002662) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T15:39Z 550.6K followers, 57.7K engagements


"How did DC manage to do a bus network redesign that involved renaming every single route while making very few actual changes to the network It seems like they were trying to maximize the ratio of confusion to improvements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981103696944779569) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T21:01Z 550.6K followers, 43.1K engagements


"Go forth unafraid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981138440420020726) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T23:19Z 550.6K followers, 57.2K engagements


"I both appreciate the symbolism of Trump literally tearing down the White House and also think the case on the merits for constructing a large ballroom is reasonable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981141501796368790) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T23:31Z 550.6K followers, 59.6K engagements


"@whstancil @ezraklein @jonlovett @jaketapper Its a bit of a neo-nazi hellhole but also a pretty fun place for jokes news ideas etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981158068693192890) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T00:37Z 550.6K followers, 69K engagements


"Were so back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981158701655609350) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T00:40Z 550.6K followers, 212.7K engagements


"For over a decade regulating the cigarette industry was a top-tier political issue with Bill Clinton and Al Gore regularly giving major speeches about their struggles against Big Tobacco. By the time progressives won under Obama people barely cared"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981328189709570514) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T11:53Z 550.6K followers, 33.8K engagements


"The NYC Council is using public funds to advance their own parochial interests against the overwhelming public interest in more abundant housing send tweet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981375384684765400) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T15:01Z 550.6K followers, 67.2K engagements


"@TheStalwart Never been easier to know in advance which team is likely to win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981377253822124443) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T15:08Z 550.6K followers, 9226 engagements


"This dude just LOVES white collar crime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981384142555144510) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T15:36Z 550.6K followers, 128.6K engagements


"@MikeBarron15 As a Jewish/Cuban guy from New York City same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981401773534281881) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T16:46Z 550.6K followers, 2123 engagements


"Polling obviously has its limits but it's worth remembering that the alternative in practice is often stuff like impressionistic surveys of self-selected groups of flagship university students"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981405916454146084) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T17:02Z 550.6K followers, 19.4K engagements


"It does look like that yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981406582593220982) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T17:05Z 550.6K followers, 248.4K engagements


"It's underrated that back in the Before Times of gambling generally being illegal the fact that it was illegal led to dramatically less gambling even though there was very minimal actual enforcement. It didn't take some massive War On Gambling to make a difference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981407042305941634) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T17:07Z 550.6K followers, 38K engagements


"@Rafa_Mangual Whatever happened with the super rats though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981418475575738859) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T17:52Z 550.6K followers, 3225 engagements


"It's trite because it's true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981432248428605517) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T18:47Z 550.6K followers, 18.8K engagements


"There is a world in which we are making a case for transgender rights based on universal values of freedom and equality rather than losing on sports edge cases based on obviously untrue assertions about sex differences in strength"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981439038541484056) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T19:14Z 550.6K followers, 266.7K engagements


"We have to go back to large scale landfill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981495833368424642) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T22:59Z 550.6K followers, 22.8K engagements


"Well at least we are all getting a chance to learn that discretionary merger review processes are an invitation to corruption"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981515236973662660) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-24T00:17Z 550.6K followers, 86.4K engagements


"This is an interesting post about the Progress Conference but in fact that Apollo Program was unpopular at the time people saw it as a waste of money it was sustained by an elite bipartisan consensus at a time of low polarization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981520861405614184) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-24T00:39Z 550.6K followers, 35K engagements


"Two things I wish people knew about public opinion in the 1960s is that the Civil Rights Act was broadly popular and investing in space exploration was not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981522521234034864) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-24T00:45Z 550.6K followers, 31.4K engagements


"This is a study of Finland but research in the United States has different results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979181196249616740) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-17T13:42Z 550.6K followers, 105.7K engagements


"Trump loves corrupt politicians more than anyone else in history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979324265322418346) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-17T23:10Z 550.6K followers, 124.5K engagements


"Trumps economic policies are handicapping American manufacturing and biasing the economy more than ever toward the interests of the tech companies that dominate the stock market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979931166787408075) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T15:22Z 550.6K followers, 29.4K engagements


"Hitler was bad is a pretty good basis for a civic religion as far as these things go. The guy got an awful lot of people killed in pursuit of some extremely ugly ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979950185263309119) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T16:38Z 550.6K followers, 1.7M engagements


"Chatbots espousing cosmopolitan liberal values in all languages could have some interesting implications for social change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980038644392980535) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T22:29Z 550.6K followers, 67.6K engagements


"@DrewPavlou @DHSgov Seems alarming that DHS (according to you) is advocating for mass horrors. I thought maybe they just liked the car"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980435593760039231) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T00:46Z 550.6K followers, 18.1K 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](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978776495733567904) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T10:54Z 550.6K followers, 45.1K engagements


"Of course populisms of various kinds and many other currents exist in American life but our traditions are the traditions of liberalism getting both sides of the aisle to remember that once again is the key to restoring sanity to our politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978964684955922481) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-16T23:22Z 550.6K followers, 34.9K engagements


"Message discipline is always a good idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979604983499944225) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-18T17:46Z 550.6K followers, 54.7K engagements


"Midterm voters 👍👍👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979715333016768811) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T01:04Z 550.6K followers, 119.3K engagements


"Advanced capital-intensive manufacturing runs XX hours in every country (three shifts at Boeing etc) but the greatness of America is we have fry cooks working the graveyard shift in towns nobodys heard of Americans are sickos for working weird hours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979739070503989624) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T02:39Z 550.6K followers, 25.1K engagements


"Seems like a good amount of firing despite the ceasefire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979884023741661344) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T12:15Z 550.6K followers, 29.9K engagements


"A lot of discourse is thrown off kilter by left-wing intellectuals not realizing or acknowledging that donor influence over the Democratic Party pulls the elected officials to the left on almost ever topic other than Israel but the evidence is overwhelming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979914876257513912) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T14:17Z 550.6K followers, 291.3K engagements


"You dont hear so much about the Customs Enforcement part of the acronym. What are those guys up to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979994401758667141) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T19:33Z 550.6K followers, 50K engagements


"These guys pivoted really fast from warning of widespread antifa rioting to making fun of No Kings for being corny and earnest. The fact is large-scale nonviolent demonstrations are a powerful and effective political tactic and they are afraid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1979994907189055621) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T19:35Z 550.6K followers, 368.9K engagements


"Trump administration shelled a state police squad car as part of a pointless publicly stunt _()_/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980059298316038161) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-19T23:51Z 550.6K followers, 69.4K engagements


"Evidence keeps piling up that the incredible progress in the field of ubiquitous hyper-compelling short-form video delivery has been bad for society and deleterious to most peoples interests"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980221629767852492) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T10:36Z 550.6K followers, 31.7K engagements


"I mean its just not true that nobody disputes Hitler was bad thats why we keep having arguments about whether Hitler was bad this thread started with a bunch of young republicans saying pro-Hitler stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980229363775013011) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T11:07Z 550.6K followers, 181.5K engagements


"Would love to see more national voices engage on this its a golden opportunity for Democrats up and down the ballot and across states to make a point about a big anti-MAGA tent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980243691202846906) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T12:04Z 550.6K followers, 86.4K engagements


"The downward spiral of compelling content"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980273683404075194) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T14:03Z 550.6K followers, 24K engagements


"Social media isnt social anymore its just media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980312873659507164) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T16:39Z 550.6K followers, 26.3K engagements


"I like this guy He's the author of the RAISE Act on AI safety one of the best state bills on the subject and it would be amazing to have a House member like him who has a comp sci master's and is actually technically competent to address increasingly important AI issues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980361861066551569) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T19:53Z 550.6K followers, 113.3K engagements


"Nazi streak sounds bad. I'm against Nazis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980365363356615023) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-20T20:07Z 550.6K followers, 47.9K engagements


""I can no more disown my totenkopf than I can disown the white community.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980715724453617759) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T19:20Z 550.6K followers, 31.4K engagements


"Trump moved Republicans to the center on Social Security and Medicare at the same time Democrats moved left on energy crime and immigration. A realignment happened. If you want to change it you need to change the content"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980766259424698445) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-21T22:40Z 550.6K followers, 25.4K engagements


"James Talaricos Teach for America grift is that he spent two years teaching ELA to sixth graders in San Antonio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980821285543506214) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T02:19Z 550.6K followers, 175.3K engagements


"@s8mb Oh suddenly its bad to be tough on crime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980958200800121316) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T11:23Z 550.6K followers, 5759 engagements


"I love that leftists have discovered the merits of a big tent approach and the perils of cancellation but why not see some openness to embracing the Geoff Duncans John Bel Edwardses Jared Goldens Vincente Gonzalezes and dare I say Joe Manchins of the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980959185178149323) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T11:27Z 550.6K followers, 122.3K engagements


"Both sides' polling is good enough that nobody particularly feels pressured to deal _()_/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980978469027852333) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T12:44Z 550.6K followers, 53.9K engagements


"Read the whole thing here. I think it's great work but note that they don't say anything about the big economic policy issue that cuts across this divide should Democrats follow the green groups' desire to block oil and gas production at all costs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980986789541433527) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T13:17Z 550.6K followers, 16.5K engagements


"I think anti-abundance regulation of the lobster industry is fine because lobster fishing is genuinely a zero-sum competition for a finite natural resource"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1980994225178337509) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T13:46Z 550.6K followers, 97.6K engagements


"Fun new trend Ive noticed is electeds from states that border Canada describing them as border states"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981096995428454422) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T20:35Z 550.6K followers, 27K engagements


"Younger candidate Military veteran taking on the ossified political establishment Want Democrats to project a fresh new image even in blue states"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981105516056351177) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T21:08Z 550.6K followers, 43.5K engagements


"@asymmetricinfo Can I vote for very unlikely to matter in either direction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981114595033977310) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-22T21:45Z 550.6K followers, 4494 engagements


"Strong migration demand is good you dont want to be a country that nobody wants to move to. But stronger demand means you need to invest in security Obamas first term had low illegal immigration in large part because the labor market sucked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981160540547551668) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T00:47Z 550.6K followers, 60.2K engagements


"When they cartels send guys to become ICE agents do you think they let them keep the signing bonus or do they need to kick the $50k upstairs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981161482231402571) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T00:51Z 550.6K followers, 25.4K engagements


"It's funny that after all the freaking out about the (admittedly dumb) idea of city-owned grocery stores the Trump administration is just repeatedly nationalizing industry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981186273290191138) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T02:29Z 550.6K followers, 44.6K engagements


"I never thought the leopards would eat my face"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981304470374920618) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T10:19Z 550.6K followers, 101.1K engagements


"I feel like in fact Woke NPR is constantly pushing bluegrass music on us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981400467247943696) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T16:40Z 550.6K followers, 89.3K engagements


"The ban on tobacco TV ads used to be a big subsidy to print magazines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981407912804147634) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T17:10Z 550.6K followers, 28.7K engagements


"Another illustration of the Free Press as a basically partisan rather than ideological enterprise just zero commentary on the past week of Trump/Bibi tensions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981410942752620852) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T17:22Z 550.6K followers, 31.4K engagements


"@ryangrim otoh Ellsworth ME (the town where Bronson Platner's legal practice was) is not one of those no high school towns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981440233162805472) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T19:18Z 550.6K followers, 8470 engagements


"The day after the Knicks playoff exit I told my dad my brother and my son that they should fire Thibs and replace him with Mike Brown and then improbably thats exactly what happened so Im now in the loudmouth fans worst case scenario where my ideas may be proven wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981478099964281250) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T21:49Z 550.6K followers, 17.3K engagements


"I am ride or die for Platner over Mills because I sincerely want to test the theory that a feisty left-populist outsider who is good at attentional politics can beat an extremely boring moderate in a general election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981481360238800980) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T22:02Z 550.6K followers, 80.9K engagements


"The whole case for Bernie wouldve won has always hinged on the fact that in 2016 he was to Clintons right on guns immigration and arguably other cultural issues he then dropped that brand but if wants to bring it back that would be good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981505059314901366) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T23:36Z 550.6K followers, 79.6K engagements


"You could argue that the Koch/Zuckerberg investments in promoting criminal justice reform and laxity on immigration enforcement were the most effective strategy for getting rich peoples taxes cut that was ever devised"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981505693355299322) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T23:39Z 550.6K followers, 17.7K engagements


"Not jealous I have 20000 paid substack subscribers without dealing with the kind of management hassles it would take to run an organization at the FPs scale. They also run a decent number of good articles. But I profoundly disagree with their political project"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981510015119716469) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-23T23:56Z 550.6K followers, 81.3K engagements


"There is a perilous low IQ problem on the right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1981534734787187047) [@mattyglesias](/creator/x/mattyglesias) 2025-10-24T01:34Z 550.6K followers, 49.7K engagements