Matthew Yglesias

Operation Warp Speed saved millions of lives and should be a model for future pandemic prevention, instead Trump is throwing away the best part of his legacy to appeal to paranoid losers. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-awf...

I would define Blueskyism as the habit of looking at a Clinton / Biden / Harris voter who happens to be somewhat more moderate than the poster on certain issues and deciding that person should be loudly condemned as a fascist and shunned.

Foreign aid money is scarce, politically unpopular, and should be reserved for poor countries or cases like Ukraine where we are helping someone fend off a much stronger enemy. Without getting into stronger critiques, Israel just doesn’t qualify. www.slowboring.com/p/america-sh...

Opposition to a technology neutral permitting deal is grounded in an underpants gnome theory of how to build a low carbon economy. www.slowboring.com/p/the-permit...

Red state Dem candidates doing well on most issues

If you want to electrify everything, you need a lot more electricity

First term Trump tried to let shitty for-profit colleges totally off the hook, but his second administration has chosen on this one issue to actually be better than the first one. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-new...

Duverger’s Law taking some big Ls here

I’m not owned by any of these interests, I just think it’s a good (not perfect but what is?) bill that should be passed.

To make the satire work you need to construct a version of the BAAJA coalition that doesn’t include clean energy companies, labor unions, or Sheldon Whitehouse. But in the real world they’re important.

Notable that the de-urbanization trend hit as the birth rate keeps collapsing.

He says this like Austro-Hungarian politics is a bad thing. Vienna Circle was great. You need to always be Habsburg-maxxing.

Problematic depictions of plant sex