EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

theres only one blog i can think of that has good comments, really feel like 'comments off' should be the default

TNC i assume?

your bløg has good comments joe

yah tnc and lol of course goes w/o saying my blog

btw how much does this trolling gig pay, who do i contact

i know, right

i saw an interview w/yglesias where he was like all my readers really hate me i have no idea why they come to my blog

he was k funny tbh

eh i've watched a few of his bloggingheads's and he comes off like a jerk imo, interrupting, going on and on

ha yeah ive never been able to bring myself to watch a blogginghead and in general id much rather read than watch any news type thing but for some reason i saw this it was a friendly interview at a like blogg convention where they we just joking around

anyway my head says klein but my heart goes yglesias, not sure what to do, prob follow my heart

yglesias is good on urban issues - not that he says anything new, but at least he's talking to relatively wide audience. but still...super annoying on a personal level. I like klein.

Yglesias is a philosophy major in every word he writes and this is awesome about him.

ugh this is gonna be like that week i read glenn greenwald isnt it

neither of these guys is much like glenn greenwald

unless you have some sort of distaste for american journalists, then yes it'll be like that lol

these guys are on the sensible/technocratic side of the great progressive blogger divide - greenwald exists on the polemic/activist shore - which is not to say hes any more or less otm, just that hes harder to take

nah, that was what i liked abt greenwald its just that in the end i was like "wtf this is not my country i dont care"

haha

yeah but usa is in charge of the rest of the countries iirc

when krugman is updating regularly i don't have much of a reason to follow klein too closely - i don't hate him or anything though

[Yglesias is] a shitty writer imo

Actually, typos aside, he's not. He's remarkably concise and clear even if he liberally sprinkles his posts with "negative externalities" this and "regulatory capture" that jargon.

yglesias is embarrassed about having been a socialist and will occasionally mix in some right wing tinted bullshit to try and build a bit of center cred. i have grown to hate him. klein is kind of a young dinner party blogger but i keep the feed there to flick thru. i enjoy greenwald's secular fire and brimstone and i get angry about the same things as him. his biases are so transparent that is is v easy to think critically about what he writes.

maybe ill face the winner of this one off w/greenwald

can't wait

feel like klein is getting sold short here - he was hands down the best all around guy on health care reform

his coverage was comprehensive but his opinions were so milquetoast it was like reading a blog by that dude on gawker

feel like his opinions were pretty otm especially compared w/almost everyone elses which basically added up to OMG PUBLIC OPTION

they both kind of remind me of how a lot of people move to dc and get kind of absorbed into the weird political networky culture here at a pretty young age. dc is so conservative.

would love to run into these guys at a bbq and get into a drunken political argument

since the democratic primaries, even when drunk i try to sidestep political arguments. i ran into weigel at a bar one time but did not pick a fight. he is a good dude imo. that's actually one of the few blogs i regularly read - don't have time/energy to slog through a lot of content anymore.

yeah ive had v little exposure to it but dc political culture seen close up seems v strange

seems so unbearable. lotta people wearing new balances on the weekend and shit.

they r not sexy rip

never trust a libertarian

or a journalist

lol i own 2 pair of new balances

just sayin if u cannot figure how to dress how are u gonna run the country

daria i seen the shoes youre buying, you know what youre doing

new balance are great sneakers, just dont wear them on the weekend or max will shun u

you pride yourself on living in the mouth of the dragon but being fireproof, and then one day you realize it is saturday and you are in whole foods buying ingredients for a cool mac n cheese with a twist recipe you found online, wearing new balance sneakers

^^ gets it

i mean tbh i would rather live in boston than dc, at least some people there have accents

where would ilx end up siding on a boston vs dc poll?

it would turn into an argument about pizza

harDCore

whole foods, new balance sneakers, check. i don't really care about recipes

boston sucks, accents there are horrible. i hate boston

in that case the poll would require a 'neither' option xp

i am in boston with an accent. thx daria.

except <3 the patriots but the rest of new england can have them. the rest of new england hates boston more than anyone

sorry roberto! team providence.

providence: boston
baltimore: dc

daria u from pvd? i didnt know

nope not at all just spent some time there. i like it. it's like baltimore kinda. lots more weird than the other major city, more arts scene, better music, etc

Ah i read the wired article not the stanford daily because why would i

Which articles are you talking about?

o i see. so many big ideas guys.

https://bsky.app/profile/crimew.gay/post/3moejlixgvc2z

how do we know klein is a thiel dialog member? aside from this thread. if you know because X, well fuck that i don’t do that. so i looked for sourcing on google. wired seems reasonable. nope. ok, stanford daily.

if you read x, are you happy possibly to contribute to this?

https://bsky.app/profile/quinnslobodian.com/post/3moitszmhs225

pres keyes i was not aiming x comments to you. statement of my genl objections to x

Klein sucks whether he’s a member of the fascist techbro cabal

really good dig into the Abundance/ “Affordability” discourse, and how little there actually is under the hood besides more deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy.

also notes the Party’s & Dem aligned media’s focus on Mamdani’s charisma instead of his actual policies (as per unperson’s post upthread)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975?i=1000761654223

oops. Not that one. This one:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975?i=1000773149304

if you read x, are you happy possibly to contribute to this?

https://bsky.app/profile/quinnslobodian.com/post/3moitszmhs225

― just what is it that you think the "ilxor algorithm" directs? (Hunt3r), Wednesday, June 17, 2026 11:21 AM (six hours ago)

don't love it but there's good hoops talk there

there is only one good place for hoops discussion that is ilxor dot com board i love hoops

If the Klein be Naomi
You’re all set, homie
If the Klein be Ezra
I’d reassess, bruh

who was Ezra rumored to be in a polycule with, like a year ago? Caitlin Dewey is posting "three married, big-name journalists are in a secret polycule" as a blind item, and two of them have to be Ezra and Annie, but I can't remember the third, and Google is no help.

gotta be Nate Silver. he manages the spreadsheet

oh Jesus Christ, it was Bari Weiss, wasn't it?

I don’t think so..:

abundance in the streets, abundance in the sheets

dont let anyone tell you being a liberal apologist for right wing bigotry is an easy job

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