It would be really beneficial to future governance in CA if Newsom and Bass were swiftly and impolitely removed from office. There’s almost a case for strict liability regardless of whether they’re at fault–‘Lose your city, lose your job”. But they are clearly both at least… https://t.co/fA6FjOeWAB https://t.co/ZF7QjkvKvQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 18, 2025
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January 18, 2025 at 02:55AM
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Gripping isn’t enough. We expect riveting. https://t.co/tcbkORTMAW
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Jan 18, 2025
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January 18, 2025 at 01:36AM
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Schumer always gloats with detailed leaks to the @NYTimes. This isn’t exactly gloating, but it’s not exactly not gloating either.
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Jan 18, 2025
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January 18, 2025 at 01:08AM
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It turns out Jeffries had met with Biden the day before, presumably with the same message from Dem pols (“laid out similarly grave concerns”). But Schumer leaked to the NYT, so he gets billed as the hero; https://t.co/kIAMC5oOhP
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Jan 18, 2025
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January 18, 2025 at 01:07AM
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Missing word: “Epstein”
https://t.co/oTBgnHKL6p— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 18, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 11:37PM
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I’m not seeing “supporting growing families” on this list. Sorry, @Heritage https://t.co/OfFRDtHthi https://t.co/GRfCx1bHGW
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Jan 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 06:01PM
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It worked for Wiliam Henry Harrison too. What’s Trump worried about? https://t.co/37CeUHNlpK
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Jan 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 05:32PM
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It worked for Wiliam Henry Harrison too. What’s Trump worried about. https://t.co/37CeUHNlpK
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Jan 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 05:10PM
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Seems obvious she wants to get him on record, in order to be able to prosecute for lying to Congress if any allegations come up, no? https://t.co/pPLRi7Uc5Q
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Jan 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 01:40AM
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Jan 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 01:17AM
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He sounds shaky, but there’s nothing ignorant about his answer. Medicaid’s a joint federal-state program. Seems like he wants to devolve it more to the states (something we did with welfare in 1996) in a way that would let them raise or lower benefits. (May be bad policy, but… https://t.co/7ALe0aphHK https://t.co/7X9jOTRgRv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 01:02AM
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He hints at a connection because in both parts he’s discussing “effectiveness” of the vaccine. There are not edits in this section, nor does he pause. He didn’t state clearly there is a causal link, but even a hint of a correlation from him seems significant. Community Notes… https://t.co/Ciye6HSbvu https://t.co/Kxa2OESUDw
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Jan 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 12:39AM
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Jan 17, 2025
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January 16, 2025 at 10:35PM
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“What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven!” https://t.co/NJ4em1iu7y
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Jan 16, 2025
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January 16, 2025 at 01:47PM
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Shorter: ‘Easier to impose apartment buildings & density on working class people, because they really shouldn’t have been owning single family homes in the first place, you know … ‘ https://t.co/3iDOwWC20I
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Jan 16, 2025
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Barn door, locked https://t.co/YVJTSyLrLb
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Jan 16, 2025
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January 16, 2025 at 12:38AM
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This seems like a big deal. (I’ve been wrong before …) https://t.co/cCu8G8Bx8u
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Jan 16, 2025
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“Everyone in LA hates Karen Bass now,”
What are they putting in Cenk Uygur’s food? https://t.co/6HdYD6uvrB
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Jan 16, 2025
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“The Santa Ynez Reservoir had been out of commission since February of 2024, awaiting repairs to its cover …LADWP made the conscious decision not to timely repair the Santa Ynez Reservoir cover, leaving the reservoir drained and unusable, all as a ‘cost-saving’ measure.” https://t.co/G1qWnf8cM5
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Jan 16, 2025
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January 15, 2025 at 08:16PM
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I forget the Charlie Peters party line on ‘blue slips’. Jimmy Carter tried to get rid of them. They seem like a way to cement establishment hold on Fed justice system. But they’re surely a barrier to any president’s authoritarian ambitions, no? They remain in place under Trump https://t.co/Pigki5vP6Y
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Jan 15, 2025
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January 14, 2025 at 10:06PM
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Also tension:
‘We need to end zoning restrictions so we can build, build, build everywhere!’‘Don’t blame Bass & Newsom! It was an arrogant defiance of nature to build where Palisades is. Actually, it was a mistake to build Los Angeles where it is.’
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Jan 15, 2025
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Thread. Good point: https://t.co/SoSAQufCpu
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Jan 15, 2025
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.@LATimes suggests the cataclysmic Palisades fire was started by an earlier New Year’s Eve fire (itself started by fireworks) that wasn’t quite snuffed out by the Fire Department. Could be politically explosive, if true. Also does not fit the ‘destruction was inevitable’ Hubris… https://t.co/9I1gPzZDd1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025
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January 14, 2025 at 04:18AM
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Amazing videos of what look like the first moments of the Palisades fire. Hard to know what to make of them. https://t.co/GLpiZ4msjO https://t.co/qykMPRDAwV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025
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January 14, 2025 at 03:32AM
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Bonin was city coumcilman for the area and a protector of the homeless https://t.co/AQ9XzolK3T and https://t.co/4r28vDhILQ
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Jan 14, 2025
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January 13, 2025 at 11:27PM
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