Matthew Yglesias
Fake news. Totally biased. Coastal. Elite. Sharpshooter Bar Three. Shill. Dad. Bad tweets & bad takes.
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Networks pass on Sean Spicer for exclusive paid contributor role
NBC News 3d 2 tweets
Despite his turn at the Emmy Awards, news network sources tell NBC News that Spicer will not be a paid contributor for any of the five major organizations.
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Matthew Yglesias Bad look for the Kennedy School to be at a "below cable news" level of investment in integrity over entertainment.  3d ago
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Puerto Rico Braces for ‘Potentially Catastrophic’ Hit by Hurricane Maria
Frances Robles — Nytimes.com 3d 1 tweets
A glancing hit by Hurricane Irma left 70 percent of households without power and 34 percent without water. Now Hurricane Maria is on a path to hit the vulnerable island directly.
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Matthew Yglesias Nobody knows in America...  3d ago
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The economy really is broken — but we know how to fix it
Matthew Yglesias — Vox 3d 3 tweets
Median household income is back to its 1999 level. Hooray?
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Matthew Yglesias Raising kids is expensive. The market doesn't direct much income to young parents. Let's cut some checks.  3d ago
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Matthew Yglesias If this were print, I’d have called this "two cheers for bland technocracy"  3d ago
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"I write political thrillers. The Trump era keeps spoiling my books."
Vox 3d 3 tweets
In Trump’s America, why bother with fiction when reality is beyond belief?
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The Numbers Show Silicon Valley Is Already Fading
Bloomberg.com 3d 2 tweets
Apple's new headquarters may mark the end of the region's impressive run.
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Matthew Yglesias Silicon Valley housing shortage now so acute the region is shedding workers and jobs.  3d ago
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The staggering hypocrisy of Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham
Matthew Yglesias — Vox 3d 1 tweets
Bill Cassidy, a Republican senator holding a safe seat in Louisiana, could easily have spent the past six months imitating his state’s other senator by basically lying low and voting for whichever...
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The DaimlerChrysler emulsion
The Economist 3d 1 tweets
Our second merger brief asks whether cross-border deals are different from other mergers, or just harder to carry out. DaimlerChrysler may offer an answer
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Matthew Yglesias One issue in the Daimler-Chrysler merger was American executives were paid 3-4x what German executives made.  3d ago
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Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees
Somini Sengupta — Nytimes.com 4d 25 tweets
A draft report by the Department of Health and Human Services contradicts a central argument made by advocates of deep cuts in refugees.
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Matthew Yglesias Government data shows refugees have a beneficial economic impact so the Trump administration suppressed the data.  3d ago
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The Trump administration’s big new anti-leak memo leaked last night
Matthew Yglesias — Vox 4d 1 tweets
Of course it did.
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With a Picked Lock and a Threatened Indictment, Mueller’s Inquiry Sets a Tone
Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo — Nytimes.com 4d 18 tweets
Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, has aggressively used warrants and subpoenas for the Russia investigation, sending a message in Washington.
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Spain's prosecutor warns over Catalonia referendum as leaflets seized
U.S. 5d 1 tweets
Spanish authorities on Sunday pursued efforts to block an independence vote in Catalonia, seizing campaign materials as the chief prosecutor said jailing the region's top politician could not be ruled out.
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Matthew Yglesias This seems like an awfully counterproductive course of action from the Spanish government.  4d ago
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Bella Hadid, Before and After
Beautyeditor 4d 1 tweets
The beauty evolution of the model and social media star.
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Deciding the Democratic Party’s direction
Seth Masket — Vox 4d 1 tweets
Democrats today face similar questions as those faced by Republicans after 1960.
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CBO aims to provide preliminary assessment of Graham-Cassidy bill by early next week
Congressional Budget Office 4d 4 tweets
CBO will provide as much qualitative information as possible about the effects of the legislation, however CBO will not be able to provide point estimates of the effects on the deficit, health insurance coverage, or premiums for at least several week
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Matthew Yglesias This is some outrageous, cynical shit  4d ago
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What really happened in 2016, in 7 charts
Matthew Yglesias — Vox 4d 3 tweets
Okay, some of them are tables
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Matthew Yglesias Charts and graphs that will finally make it real  4d ago
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Matthew Yglesias Fun fact I learned researching this -- Michael Dukakis was the last Democrat to lose women.  4d ago
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Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace: The Saudi
The Independent 6d 1 tweets
OSAMA Bin Laden sat in his gold- fringed robe, guarded by the loyal Arab mujahedin who fought alongside him in Afghanistan. Bearded, taciturn figures - unarmed, but never more than a few yards from the man who recruited them, trained them and then di
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Matthew Yglesias 1993 profile of Osama bin Laden  6d ago
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These German CEOs earn the biggest salaries compared to their workers
Thelocal.de 6d 1 tweets
The CEO of HeidelbergCement earns 190 times the salary of his average employee - and he's not even the highest earning boss in Germany.
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Matthew Yglesias The highest-paid CEO in Germany, from SAP, got 14 million euros last year.  6d ago
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Trump Administration Won’t Withdraw from Paris Climate Deal
Emre Peker — WSJ 6d 20 tweets
The U.S. has stated it will “not renegotiate the Paris accord” but will review its terms after President Donald Trump said in June that the administration would nix or renegotiate the climate pact.
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Matthew Yglesias Uh...  6d ago
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Wages are stagnating, robots are taking our jobs. This Democrat has a $1.4 trillion solution.
Vox 8d 2 tweets
He wants to give a major boost to the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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Matthew Yglesias The / GAIN Act seems like a much better idea than a big corporate tax cut.  6d ago
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‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’
Ta-Nehisi Coates — The Atlantic 6d 1 tweets
The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism
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Matthew Yglesias A lot of people forget how Barack Obama talked about race back in 2008.  6d ago