Matt

Lawyer. Union member. Views are my own. I enjoy both rock and/or roll. "There is no point in being privately wealthy but publicly impoverished." #LetEmKnow

[Matt @StruMatt]

@TheTyronePalmer Holy shit, you're right

[Andrew Berzanskis @ABerzanskis]

If you want to know why J.D. Vance's national bestseller rang false with many who know Appalachian history and culture, I highly recommend the lively "Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy" from @WVUPRESS, edited by Anthony Harkins & @Meredith_McC

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

JD Vance engaging in some very recent and very brazen Islamophobia re the UK:
https://t.co/NEDwh42pxU

[Daily Union Elections @UnionElections]

JD Vance is a poser larping as working class.

[Diana Hussein @heyadiana]

First time here?

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

JD Vance's record speaks for itself.
https://t.co/xqk5AHTUfL

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

Wanna know how bad JD Vance is?

Hi from Ohio — we got you covered:

https://t.co/egg0iJ029i

[Matt @StruMatt]

It's also not in Appalachia.

[Thomas Schaller @schaller67]

Vance’s small rural town in Ohio, Middletown, isn’t even rural.

Its population is over 50k.

His hillbilly schtick was a lie from the jump.

#whiteruralinterloper

[American Bridge 21st Century @American_Bridge]

JD Vance is bringing more anti-abortion extremism to Trump’s presidential ticket. Vance once doubled down on his position that abortion in cases of rape and incest was wrong.

“Well… two wrongs don’t make a right.”

[Matt @StruMatt]

I can play JD in a mock debate.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

A candidate capable of advocating for herself and driving a message in earned media daily has significant upside that’s not captured in static polling.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Housing inflation is finally slowing and there's decent reason to believe it will continue to head downward.

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

Mostly agree with this thread. Whether you’re a liberal concerned about the future, or a horserace nihilist, it’s a form of dishonesty to blot out his record for fear it might interrupt the drive for a new ticket. But it cuts both ways. He should also want to husband that record.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

I'm gonna bang this drum until it tears, but this has been the best macro-economic stewardship of any administration *and Fed chair* of my lifetime.

[ID4 in Real Time @1996ID4]

President Whitmore and others are presuming that the unidentified crash is the spacecraft flown by Hiller and Levinson. General Grey is gathering a party to drive thru the desert to the site for investigation.

[Erik Loomis @ErikLoomis]

So I am hearing union folks tell me that internally, they are saying that the attacks on labor aren't really that big of a deal, that worker militancy is the only thing that matters, that the NLRB is bad for workers really, etc.

This is complete ideological bullshit.

[Matt @StruMatt]

@kyrstensinema

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

For the first time in decades, wage growth is consistently stronger in the middle and at the bottom than at the top. https://t.co/r7BDatwlge