@POLITICOPro Wouldn’t there be lobbyists who need info even in a reformed, democratic regulatory state where regulations had to pass Congress like other laws. Yes! But there would be less info to need. How many articles on Lisa Murkowski can you read?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 6, 2025
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February 06, 2025 at 04:15AM
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TAKE 2: @PoliticoPro depends on The Swamp–a complex regulatory state, including the headless 4th branch of agencies, with lots of lobbyists and players who think they need 24/7 info. No Swamp, no subs.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 6, 2025
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February 06, 2025 at 04:12AM
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BACKUP TAKE! If @Politico gets a hot scoop about a major change in Congress, is it going in the $3,000/year “Politico Pro” or the free Web Politico? Answer: The latter. “Pro” is a way to take B material and overcharge customers who pay for it because they pass the cost to… https://t.co/3zxHcDHfr7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 6, 2025
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February 06, 2025 at 04:08AM
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You’re all wrong. The answer is “Try to keep up.” https://t.co/iJDYnxE91k
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Feb 6, 2025
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February 05, 2025 at 11:01PM
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Breitbart Business Digest: The Blue Collar Boom Has Already Begun https://t.co/m41S1aaLPW
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Feb 6, 2025
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February 05, 2025 at 10:53PM
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Appeal to Heaven: @elonmusk https://t.co/nMbpSH3MVZ
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Feb 5, 2025
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February 05, 2025 at 06:02PM
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At least she didn’t say “fight like hell.” https://t.co/qDlMAKPIS9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 5, 2025
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February 05, 2025 at 05:23PM
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Here’s Grassley in 2023 getting curious about the program, known as Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility (IPA) https://t.co/noxEa7yn16 Here’s a thread from @AlexThomp https://t.co/Wv3dDQ5hpU Most famous (ab)user of the program is ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, but it can… https://t.co/5lzHudr2By
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 5, 2025
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February 05, 2025 at 04:48PM
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ASSIGNMENT DESK: As long as NGO corruption’s hot, what about NGOs that don’t just get $, but actually send their people to staff government agencies-people loyal to NGOs, not to pols. Like Zuckbucks but for all of government! Sen. Grassley and @alexthomp have been on the case. 1/ https://t.co/5tzxpkGa0Z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 5, 2025
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February 05, 2025 at 04:40PM
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The kicker would have been:
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 5, 2025
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February 04, 2025 at 07:21PM
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This did not work well for Biden/Meacham (except in the 2022 midterms) ….
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 5, 2025
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February 04, 2025 at 07:03PM
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Very important for Dems to retain the Civil Rights Model of politics: on virtually every issue, it’s not just that Dems have the better arguments, or even that they are right. They are morally good and their opponents (the Bull Connors) are morally evil. https://t.co/HxwfGzn9sJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 4, 2025
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February 04, 2025 at 06:55PM
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This story (link here https://t.co/TO2MeqSwy1) makes it clear that the tariff threat a) got the Mexicans to deploy more troops in its south faster and b) got them to accelerate Remain in Mexico. Both measures worked (not clear at time they would), but tariffs not for show. https://t.co/iK6wulfZBF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 4, 2025
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February 04, 2025 at 03:50PM
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Man, it was tough to cut the kicker on this one.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 4, 2025
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February 04, 2025 at 04:22AM
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Right. And the 2019 tariff-induced deal played a key role in blocking the fake-asylum surge of the Trump years. Then Biden opened the floodgates.** So here we are again. What’s the problem?
** He only closed them with a pre-election MX deal. His threat was Trump might win. https://t.co/kDBYzqt2it— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 4, 2025
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February 04, 2025 at 04:19AM
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I see YIMBY boiler rooms filled with earnest @mattyglesias types. … (This is actually not a bad idea. ABADU.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025
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February 03, 2025 at 03:58PM
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Since the fires, I’ve started to get cold calls offering to build me ADUs (i.e. granny houses) in my back yard. I suppose that is a good sign, even if the callers are sketchy.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025
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February 03, 2025 at 03:56PM
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Link: https://t.co/rwII6bDFrA With items on absurd diversity empires & Michigan teacher contracts (“to be fired, a teacher has to be caught drunk at school five times”), TGIF now seems like an updated heir to the late C. Peters’ @monthly
“Tilting at Windmills” column. (That’s a… https://t.co/4rRHNuPquu— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025
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February 03, 2025 at 03:50PM
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Hadn’t read @NellieBowles’ TGIF in a bit. Still good! “Please, I beg you, move on from January 6. It’s been done! Democrats see themselves as the January 6 Remembrance Party. And I’m telling you, that’s cool, but it can’t be the whole thing. You have to have one other thing!”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025
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Link: https://t.co/VdxZLPqqiY With items on absurd diversity empires & teacher contracts (“to be fired, a teacher has to be caught drunk at school five times”), TGIF now seems like an updated heir to the late C. Peters’ @monthly “Tilting at Windmills” column. (That’s a good… https://t.co/LmCVxqbMnv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025
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February 03, 2025 at 03:44PM
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Hadn’t read @NellieBowles TGIF in a while. It’s still good! “Please, I beg you, move on from January 6. It’s been done! Democrats see themselves as the January 6 Remembrance Party. And I’m telling you, that’s cool, but it can’t be the whole thing. You have to have one other… https://t.co/oq8girfLuy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025
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February 03, 2025 at 03:30PM
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Measured! https://t.co/GkAyi5h0DW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025
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February 02, 2025 at 08:52PM
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“Twenty big cities, Aspen and Martha’s Vineyard–that’s what’s left of the Democratic Party.” https://t.co/huYU6y14bH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 2, 2025
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February 02, 2025 at 04:06PM
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Time for “The Brutalist Is a Pack of Lies That Conveys Nothing About Our Time” by @richardrushfield– a sequel to his famous, and effective >> https://t.co/7sYV20LixD https://t.co/ELOIyq2D2c
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 2, 2025
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February 01, 2025 at 10:39PM
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How is Maher useless? Here you are praising him for his LGBTQ views on Fox (“it strikes at the heart of this progressive orthodoxy in these big cities …”) https://t.co/nStOmg6x3i I think you have to name names to make your argument and his was the only name you gave. https://t.co/I7OmFuux4k
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 2, 2025
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February 01, 2025 at 07:57PM
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