Hasan: "What does it say for your credibility on foreign policy issues if you've got the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime, Iraq and Gaza, both wrong?"
Yglesias: "I don't know that those were the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime..."
Mehdi Hasan: “You’ve argued that progressives need to take more moderate positions… But here’s why I don’t get Matthew the pragmatist. Abolish ICE is popular. Medicare for All, super popular. Ending or restricting arms sales to Israel has a super majority with American voters.”
Me: "Do you know how many times you've tweeted about Piker since you wrote that tweet [about not tweeting about him] on August 30th?"
@mattyglesias: "Probably more than I intended to."
Me: "8 times.... you tweeted about Mike Rogers 6 times. So you're tweeting about the streamer you didn't want to talk about more than the Republican candidate you say you want to defeat."
Yglesias: "Yeah, that's fair."
Me: "Why?"
Yglesias: "What do you want me to say? You got me."
From my new Zeteo interview with the top centrist pundit - on the left, Michigan, Gaza, immigration, polls, electability, and more:
https://t.co/yPv9wXnujC
Adam Jentleson of @SearchlightInst argues for Democrats to support building data centers.
Jentleson: "The impulse from a lot of college-educated folks and activists is to just oppose data centers... but the people who build the data centers tend to be working-class people."
Matt Yglesias: "Neera Tanden, who I've known for a long time, one of the things she specifically did in her previous stint as president of CAP was disciplined left-wing staffers who wanted to criticize Israel too much..."
NYT: Bot accounts based in India were paid to push pro-Haley Stevens content before the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan.
Link to article: https://t.co/BManO0D97A
Opinion | I Can't Afford Gas and Have Tinnitus From the Data Center Across From My House, but If Democrats Don't Cut Ties With Hasan Piker I Will Have No Choice but to Vote for the Republicans.
We were the first to call on Democrats to reject Hasan Piker. We have taken an immense amount of grief for that, as have allies like @shannonrwatts and @neeratanden. But we are right, as Jonathan Chait makes crystal clear in this must-read piece.