Asher SchechterVerified account

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Journalist, I write here: & here: & here: Opinions are my own

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Feb 6

    Israel's leadership, circa 2017: no ideologies, just two rival elites fighting for spoils. My latest

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    35 minutes ago

    Goldman Sachs says tax reform will probably pass and probably boost growth by a bit less than 0.1 percentage point per year.

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  3. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    Imagine having so much racism in you that writing for Breitbart doesn't use it all up & you need to moonlight.

    Breitbart writer caught running secret, virulently racist Facebook group
    50 replies 2,402 retweets 7,486 likes
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    12 hours ago

    SoftBank will offer to buy shares in Uber at a price that would value the company at 30% less than its most recent $69 billion valuation

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    15 hours ago

    One spin through the revolving door: In Colorado, an attorney leaves a lobbying firm to become the Gov's chief of staff. Governor hires said lobbying firm. Then the chief of staff returns to firm.

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    10 hours ago

    Deputizing a woman to fake sexual assault and coerced abortion allegations for the purpose of exposing media bias in an effort to obfuscate truth and elect a child molester to the U.S. Senate. Hardly gets worse.

    233 replies 2,736 retweets 8,916 likes
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    Nov 26

    If you knew nothing about two candidates on their politics or policies except that one was a child predator and the other prosecuted the KKK, that should be more than enough to make a decision.

    200 replies 3,258 retweets 9,039 likes
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    15 hours ago

    Woman with anti-"liberal media" group reached out to me -- posing as Roy Moore accuser. Instead of publishing fake story, busted her.

    531 replies 6,539 retweets 13,177 likes
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    12 hours ago

    So, donors to Project Veritas got: 1) a botched sting that demonstrated how careful WashPost reporting is 2) a sting video of a reporter saying the news and editorial sections are different 3) a rehash of a 10-month old story of Bezos coining the paper's slogan.

    77 replies 1,266 retweets 4,695 likes
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    13 hours ago

    Hatch says changes to tax bill probably won’t be public until they are made on the floor.

    160 replies 480 retweets 382 likes
  11. Retweeted
    Nov 24

    Real things cities are offering to get Amazon HQ2 *Chicago: Let Amazon keep employees' income tax *SoCal: Give away $100M in land *Boston: City employees working just for Amazon *Fresno: Let Amazon decide how to spend tax dollars

    161 replies 3,035 retweets 2,626 likes
  12. 12 hours ago

    What do the Koch brothers want from Time? Hint: not to promote democracy or an independent press

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    15 hours ago

    A woman approached The Post with dramatic — and false — tale about Roy Moore. She appears to be part of undercover sting operation.

    758 replies 8,921 retweets 12,714 likes
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    15 hours ago

    Say what you will about Elizabeth Warren but she got the CEO of Wells Fargo fired and his bonus clawed back even though she had no legal authority to do so. No one in power has done anything close to that.

    17 replies 374 retweets 1,172 likes
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    18 hours ago

    “If you want to see what America would be like if it ditched net neutrality, just look at Portugal.” in

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    18 hours ago

    Comcast promises it won't block or throttle content, but may engage in paid prioritization. Also Comcast added that words are just bits of sound and that nothing matters.

    Comcast is dropping its promise not to charge users for fast lanes after FCC repeals net neutrality rules
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  17. 18 hours ago

    Comcast is dropping its promise not to charge users for fast lanes after FCC repeals net neutrality rules

    40 replies 507 retweets 296 likes
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    18 hours ago

    In 6 years, $12 billion returned to 29 million Americans cheated by fraudsters. has the consumers in mind and we must

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    19 hours ago

    Reading that Zizek op-ed - or is it “junk-ed”? - I wondered if he ever read Marcuse’s “The struggle against liberalism in the totalitarian view of the state”. The idea that fascism is joining some kind of anti-capitalist fight is a new low in bullshit studies, even for Zizek.

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    19 hours ago

    13 million people would lose their health insurance by 2027

    5 replies 61 retweets 42 likes
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    19 hours ago

    My piece on how: Tax benefits should bubble up, not trickle down.

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