Matthew Yglesias

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The orange man is bad

Fifteen thoughts on the shitshow in the House Republican caucus www.slowboring.com/p/fifteen-th...

Fifteen thoughts on Kevin McCarthy's downfallwww.slowboring.com It's funny, mostly. Also sad. But funny.

The economic and political conditions are right for the most boring and hated idea in politics — a bipartisan commission on deficit reduction. www.slowboring.com/p/its-time-f...

It's time for a fiscal commissionwww.slowboring.com A boring old idea that deserves a comeback

The fundamental structure of the climate issue is very difficult and policy needs to proceed with those difficulties in mind. t.co/8BE7Ag2jPb

Why climate policy is hardt.co Decarbonization means local costs for global benefits

There’s nothing “paradoxical” about loneliness — like a lot of social problems it predominantly impacts people with less money/education/resources. www.slowboring.com/p/loneliness...

Loneliness isn't paradoxicalwww.slowboring.com People with more money do more stuff and have more friends

Dumb Money has a bunch of problems but it’s one of the best depictions of pandemic life that I’ve seen. boxd.it/4TzosZ

Review of ‘Dumb Money’ (2023) ★★★½boxd.it I wish this wasn’t based on actual events because since the Game Stop story is true, I am acutely aware that the project of trying to paint day traders as populist heroes is stupid. The critique of�...

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WGA reaches a tentative deal and initial reports suggest they got most of what they were striking for. A good reminder that collective action still matters here in America! www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09...

Hollywood Writers Strike: Screenwriters Reach Tentative Deal With Studios to End Strikewww.nytimes.com The Writers Guild of America got most of what it wanted. With actors still on picket lines, however, much of Hollywood will remain shut down.

Just for the record I don’t live at this address any more, please do not harass the people who do because you disagree with something I wrote on the internet.

Inflation adjusted net worth for the bottom 50% of the population — down from its peak but up relative to pre-pandemic fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?graph...

Peterson has gone woke

When Italian civil servants get higher pay they are less likely to accept bribes, which makes them more likely to be murdered by the mafia. www.nber.org/papers/w31586

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issue positions and ideological labels, rather than group constituents or personal traits, are the central elements of partisan stereotypes academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

I find the whole “Matt should be beaten to death with hammers” sentiment disquieting but I’m skeptical anyone posting on here actually means it as opposed to immature acting out.

I probably wouldn't want to post on a website where even a significant minority of users wanted to beat me to death with hammers

It’s bizarre that a cast this good with a couple of experienced writers could make a movie this bad. My expectations were low because everyone said it was bad, but it was still surprisingly bad! boxd.it/4Som1B

Review of ‘You People’ (2023) ½boxd.it What the hell happened here? Such a great cast and a movie that is unwatchable.

I’m skeptical that the handful of psychos who like to post hammer emojis at me are a representative majority.

but why would you want to be on a platform where the majority of us would rather you fuck off?

The funniest David Brooks food content since the time he and a friend fled in terror of a sandwich featuring Italian cold cuts

Legalizing single stair apartments lets you do much nicer family friendly buildings. www.slowboring.com/p/in-praise-...

In praise of courtyard apartmentswww.slowboring.com A nice lifestyle facilitated by European building codes

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Stata licenses are $7,300 at Newark Airport. No wonder why people are angry at this economy.

I mean if you don’t want to read my stuff then fair enough — don’t follow me

The thing I actually like to write about a lot is land use regulation — these are really exciting proposals and if they happen it would be great for NYC’s economy and tax base. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/n...

In Yards, Offices and Basements, New York Hopes to Build 100,000 Homeswww.nytimes.com As New York’s housing crisis rages, Mayor Eric Adams is proposing broad changes that would make it easier to build above commercial strips, near subway stations and elsewhere.

I wrote about my experience with weight loss surgery and what I learned from it. www.slowboring.com/p/what-i-lea...

What I learned losing 70 poundswww.slowboring.com Medical interventions work, among other things

I’m trying to hedge my bets in light of Twitter’s ongoing collapse under Elon Musk’s misrule

No name-searching involved, Bouie is a prominent New York Times columnist who a lot of people follow so if he says stuff about you it’s likely you’ll hear about it.

this sentient egg came clear across from the bad site to name-search himself

There’s a big thread here full of research about gender affirming treatments and sports. The conclusions are all pretty boring — treatment causes trans women’s performance to partially but not fully converge with cis women. x.com/benryanwrite...

provide any data, bud. like all anti-trans people, you're just talking about vibes.

Just, like, for the record I do not support any state’s effort to ban anyone from getting gender affirming surgeries.

To be clear nobody is saying that there is a one-to-one correspondence between max squat and jumping ability. But leg strength and jumping ability are clearly related — the idea that evidence on strength is irrelevant to considerations about athletic ability is absurd.

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A good article

I wrote about Jewish-American superhero myths, George Soros, Magneto, and Elon Musk’s descent into Lex Luther territory.

Elon Musk is wrong about George Soros and Magnetot.co But the Tesla CEO is veering into Lex Luthor territory with his own behavior

There’s really little coverage of the stuff Trump is promising to do in a second term but what he’s promising is bad. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-new...

Trump's new economic plan is terriblewww.slowboring.com We need coverage of what’s at stake in 2024

I wrote about Jewish-American superhero myths, George Soros, Magneto, and Elon Musk’s descent into Lex Luther territory.

Elon Musk is wrong about George Soros and Magnetot.co But the Tesla CEO is veering into Lex Luthor territory with his own behavior

“Why would CNN do something that’s likely to boost ratings and help them make money? Have they learned nothing!!”” P