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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 13h

I see

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

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

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

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

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Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

Why We Don't Build Apartments for Families

open.spotify.com

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 19h

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

But you attribute magical powers to this annoying behavior.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20h

SB 79 signed!!!!!

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 23h

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

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

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

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

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

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

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

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

The Orange Man is in fact very bad.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d

Harvard (and all universities) must take a stand against Trump's extorionary "compact". Enos and Levitsky.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. You seem to have a totally different sense of what EAs think and what their criticisms of Scott are than I do.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

I think that Democrats winning more elections would be extremely beneficial on net for all the relevant groups, even if what it took to get there was some moderation on specific positions.

Justin T. Brown-Ramsey @brown-ramsey.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve been on every major platform imaginable saying in one way or another that the democrats can function by cleaving random marginal groups because doing so would be electorally advantageous. This is the right’s fault, but it is also YOUR fault for trying to get in on their game, too, *******!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's the right's fault, personally.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

What are they wrong about?

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Secretary Kennedy knows what a placenta is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Why is that amusing?

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

How does this generic ballot compare to 2018?

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

I think Roberts is overstating the role of the yelling.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's the right's fault, personally.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Yes to be clear this is an above average income for 1843

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

You have this strongly held (and in my view pretty overstated) opinion that the obnoxious social media behavior of progressives set in motion a backlash that generated catastrophic results but seem reluctant to follow the logic of that view where it leads.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 2d

All the terrible stuff we were worried about that mostly didn't happen in Trump's first term is ... actually happening

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

The authoritarian menace has arrived

And so has the backlash — but the resistance needs to be smarter

www.slowboring.com

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