Just looked for something on @Google. Didn't find it. Found it immediately on @Bing. First time this has happened. I suspect Google's politics have so distorted its search that it wouldn't cough up what I was looking for (a story I'd read on @murphymike support of min wage).
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 22, 2019
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Munro has a good section on the various ways the "country cap" bill WILL increase the total number of guestworkers, despite lobbyist claims that it just reallocates existing slots to India https://t.co/uw8Hk6Tuaa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 22, 2019
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Will Trump give away a potent immigration bargaining chip (end to "country caps") to BIg Tech without getting ANYTHING to fix border crisis in return? https://t.co/uw8Hk6Tuaa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 22, 2019
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Tech moguls want media silence as outsourcing bill sneaks through Congress. They seem to be getting it. (Can't find much in Bezos' Washington Post, for example) https://t.co/uw8Hk6Tuaa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 22, 2019
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THERE'S NO ESCAPING THE PEOPLE'S MUJAHIDEEN! Ask Rudy, Newt. … Sen Hawley was involved with this weird cult-like group too, albeit as a hired gun? … https://t.co/Swesn0HZwh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 22, 2019
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According to @tomfriedman the Democratic nominee must campaign on "creating …good jobs"? Hard to see how he/she plausibly argues they'll do better than Trump in that department. There must be other winning issues. … https://t.co/ZaiYfScXYp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 22, 2019
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Try this link (the one in Cass' tweet doesnt work): https://t.co/hvkMThbXiI https://t.co/advUN0Ok9D
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 22, 2019
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This is awful. Mark was a powerful thinker/advocate, always guided by evidence. Gave some of the best talks I've ever heard. Also a good friend and positive presence. You figured he'd always be there. https://t.co/HrNJE0cATe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 21, 2019
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[what did they eat?–Newsweek ed.]
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 21, 2019
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Here's background on the *uncapped* OPT guestworker program, not passed by Congress but dreamed up by Microsoft and sold to Bush DHS Sec. Michael Chertoff over dinner. https://t.co/q5dqvUQYUL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 21, 2019
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Huge $$ coalition of tech giants & Kochs wouldn't be pushing HR 1044 UNLESS it increased their supply of labor, no? How? Answer seems to be: once odds of green card increase, Indians will flood into UNCAPPED "OPT" guestworker program [allows grads of lo-rent universities to work) https://t.co/TrROKNNOZr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 21, 2019
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If under HR 1044 Indians will take 90% of the allotted green cards for a decade, how can that possibly help Filipino nurses? https://t.co/TrROKNNOZr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 21, 2019
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Answer to the question: What headline would you put on a v-useful summary of the border crisis that would guarantee nobody reads it? https://t.co/GAKhjHMIqK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 21, 2019
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Hot Nate-on-Nate action https://t.co/xgs3HgO328
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 20, 2019
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Right. But a minimum wage hike/border control (loophole closing) deal could let Trump replace cheap-labor GOP diehards with at least some Democrats who really want a minimum wage increase. https://t.co/QvNIDOQfJq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 20, 2019
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I assume by "immigration reform" Girdusky means closing asylum loopholes, building wall, E-verity etc.–not what's previously called "reform" (ie amnesty). PS: Seems a mistake to try to reappropriate that weaselly term. Call it "immigration control." https://t.co/hntSKYwf34
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 20, 2019
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Don't understand: Graydon Carter says Epstein "showed up at the [Vanity Fair] office one day and he was sitting in our lobby" as @VickyPJWard's story on him was closing. He'd been asked to pose for photos, but he "didn't do that." So why was he there? https://t.co/ycBrWjrkBE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 20, 2019
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"Trump has not built a single mile of new border fence after 30 months in office "https://t.co/bXYJzXkNE8 Pathetic, but how many miles of not-new fencing replaced flimsy hop-over "Normandy-style" vehicle barriers? Story should tell us. That's almost like a "new" fence.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 20, 2019
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They are both the right thing to do. Do them both. https://t.co/k7ILrOf7Ua
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 19, 2019
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Dr. Drew: Los Angeles Faces Imminent Outbreak of Bubonic Plague https://t.co/8o4gWRQyH6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 19, 2019
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Do people know that another well-regarded history of Apollo (focusing on the people who *weren't* the actual astronauts) was co-written by @charlesmurray? https://t.co/6naTQxGsCE https://t.co/SiEBZK7NNI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 19, 2019
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IT'S ORGANIC: Yes, that's what they'll say. But a) min. wage WAY more popular with Dem. base than Cent. Am. migrant cause b) Trump demand for border fix is organically related to min wage hike–a higher min. wage is a recipe for unemployment if immigrant workers keep flooding in. https://t.co/oF7nuszjDS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 19, 2019
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Trump's term often seems like random grasping at any leverage that floats by: Tariffs on MX! Deportations! Well here comes big leverage: Min. wage hike for immig. fix. Base will like-it's win-win for them. Issue is can Trump stand up to McConnell/Chamber/donors–ie be a President https://t.co/3u3RirKiuv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 19, 2019
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Maybe the business cycle is over. That was my position in 2006. Bad idea to count on it, though. https://t.co/j9JHmGUVcI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 19, 2019
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Trump (when he says we "need workers" due to strong economy, as he did yesterday) doesn't even address what happens if–as is inevitable–there's a recession, when we WON'T need as many workers (but the millions of new arrivals will still be here competing for the available jobs) https://t.co/I1pShQ1w4s
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 19, 2019
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