If you read this 2 times over you can get scared that DOGE will try to shift all of Medicare to an iffy “value based” approach . But not much evidence (yet) that this will actually happen. “Value-based care” was, of course, an Obama buzzword initially. https://t.co/G7vxbqUjbY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2025
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February 17, 2025 at 05:29PM
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“Test scores have improved (apart from an alarming slippage in recent years).” Oh. https://t.co/SYZFyVe2jR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2025
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February 17, 2025 at 05:00PM
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Because I don’t think their problem was lackluster short form video or sloppy coordination with influencers. https://t.co/KAi0Rcye4h
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2025
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February 17, 2025 at 03:17AM
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This so doesn’t bother me. For one, think how the Feds could screw up a paperless system. Also, hard to cyberattack a tricycle. https://t.co/lxwWxBweL1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 10:52PM
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“The Birds” but for coyotes.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 10:00PM
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“The armchair generals include the vast majority of people who attend the Munich Security Conference [and] who hyperventilate about…whether Europeans should sit at the table. … It is logical that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin settle this because there would be no… https://t.co/cM7PF1rgJF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 05:26PM
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e.g. “The political reality today is that immigration is the big divide in western politics. .. The center does not hold not only because centrist economic policies are failing to deliver, but because the centre disagrees fundamentally on immigration policy.”–eurointelligence https://t.co/c6qrwg79sm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 05:15PM
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“Why the government built only 58 EV charging stations in three years” https://t.co/zcplnpVXPv Big part of the answer: the Administrative Procedures Act. Is there nothing it can’t fuck up?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 04:34PM
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Surprised by how unpersuasive this is https://t.co/pDX2UIKpMn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 02:06AM
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“[Illegal immigrants] gave no obedience or allegiance to the country when they entered — one cannot give allegiance and promise to be bound by the laws through an act of defiance of those laws.” https://t.co/OJgHE0N7WH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 01:05AM
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Trump Might Have a Case on Birthright Citizenship https://t.co/AEFXwzWhg3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 01:04AM
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“Is it the decrease in real wages (which has nothing to do with policy)?” How did the decrease in wages have nothing to do with policy when Biden’s policy was to let in 7-10 million migrants to bid down wages (which his economists trumpeted as a feature, not bug)? https://t.co/reShCJJZnQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 12:56AM
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Intel‘s Stock Crashes as Visa Worker Population Rises https://t.co/N3gfKTAQLE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025 at 12:31AM
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Little Deuce Coupe? https://t.co/XEqJ5Wwr8i
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 06:43PM
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Good for the Dems’ shift-to-EV agenda, no? The right starts buying Teslas. The left buys KIAs. Market covered. https://t.co/NQ0LCM68Z4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 03:37PM
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Substack Notes is pretty useful, I just discovered. https://t.co/VtWdTu3T5f
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 03:19PM
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Ex-NYT columnist @paulkrugman: “[A]ll Times opinion writers were banned from engaging in any kind of media criticism.” Do @nytimes readers know this? https://t.co/ZBTNgskokM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 03:06PM
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Maybe the left is energized, or returning to Twitter from its Bluesky ghetto—or more likely they’ve tweaked the X algorithm— but I’m seeing more Dems and anti-Trumpers in my For You feed, which is good.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 05:15AM
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Back in the 1960s lefties would say democracy was a sham, the voters would never be allowed to alter the grim establishment (OK, ruling class) status quo. I never understood this point when I was a leftist, and when I stopped being a leftist. Now I understand it. Between the… https://t.co/OlYvo5kxHN https://t.co/2iTxz0QCUa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 04:03AM
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Again, allowing the courts to apply the incredibly pliable “arbitrary” or “capricious”” standard to second guess virtually any executive agency action–even, say, a pause in actions to enable a review, or an internal reorganization–seems like a huge shift in the relative powers… https://t.co/Sw4KyoOCSo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 03:13AM
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So Silicon Valley Community Foundation acts as a cutout to prevent public from knowing which progressive outfits Zuckerberg is funding. Not sure this gets him off the hook of trying to have it both ways re MAGA https://t.co/u0s1NSuNtS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 02:07AM
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OK piece but they are wasting @ShawnMcCreesh with these play-to-they-readership anti-Trump assignments. https://t.co/jzAABb4MXO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 01:51AM
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When I was writing about welfare and actually making phone calls, Jencks was sometimes, but not always, the guy you called who’d tell you the answer to a question. But he was always the guy you called who’d tell you whom to call to get the answer to a question. Incredible… https://t.co/6aGFJQ5FHT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 14, 2025 at 09:56PM
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Oh no. A giant. https://t.co/ZstBKNuzSf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 14, 2025 at 09:43PM
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Take all the time you want. https://t.co/q6QqO67818
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 15, 2025
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February 14, 2025 at 09:20PM
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