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Mostly tilting at windmills.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@demewill79 @mattyglesias So you're paying empty-nesters to stay in their houses after their kids have left, rather than moving somewhere smaller so a young family can move in.

You won't convince the author of One Billion Americans that that kind of anti-family policy is good. He wants more Americans!

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

We do this every four months but it’s just Baumol Effect — if you put privatized services like pet care, summer camp, etc on the chart you’d see the exact same cost explosion.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattyglesias ...for some strange reason.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattyglesias Just don't count on this state of affairs lasting.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Openness to immigration has on balance been a huge source of strength to the United States but it can be a problem when you get immigrants like Elon Musk who fundamentally reject American values and ideals.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@RuyDiazB1976 @mattyglesias We should make the effort to remember all our allies' help, but in the popular imagination there's no substitute for actually being in the thick of things beside George Washington.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattyglesias "And here we have the Garden of American Heroes, which is the brainchild of a traitor who tried to overthrow 250 years of democracy after he lost an election."

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

Really interesting point. Still not sure people understand that the Supreme Court created new agencies this week — governing the power grid, natural gas infrastructure, nuclear safety, consumer protection law, and more — that Congress never would have designed.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattyglesias This tweet would've worked better before Trump turned traitor in January 2021, and MAGA stood by him.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I’m all for lobbying Congress, but the Supreme Court just said Congress *may not* try to set up an independent technical body to regulate AI — that’s a terrible call on an incredibly consequential issue.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattyglesias Couldn't remember Ms. No-On-the-Minimum-Wage's name, but luckily Duck Duck Go remembered.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattyglesias *more openness

[Senator Ruben Gallego @SenRubenGallego]

Our bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act would help make home ownership attainable again. 

You can bet that’s pretty important to millions of Americans.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

Really helpless feeling about where we're at. There's a historic (by American standards) level of corruption and looting going on right now and the party that could stop it is fine with it. And since it is cult of personality his supporters cheer it!

https://t.co/Qi1xGRyZLE

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@Tweets_of_Oscar @bromodiol @mattyglesias Yeah, Congress delegated broad tariff-setting powers to the president decades ago, thinking that he could be trusted to set policy to benefit the whole country.

This was always iffy because of how the Electoral College elevates swing states, but Trump has blown the door off it.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattyglesias "Less efficient" is such a cold way of phrasing it. TARIFFS TAX INPUTS TO PRODUCTION.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@s6525513 @Richx183 Maybe they're an HVAC technician. Don't want people to notice the declining marginal utility of each additional air conditioned room!

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattwing1973 @mattyglesias Netflix discontinued its DVDs-by-mail service three years ago.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@mattyglesias 🌞 Forum Webmaster by day.
🌛 Body-count-so-high-that-even-speaking-it-aloud-is-interpreted-as-incitement-to-violence by night.

[Malcopticon @Malcopticon]

@_britmonkey Nothing worse for cryptocurrency than "useless" when the killer app is crime? Tsk.