.@NYTimes pounces! (I’ve missed the old kick-em-when-they’re-down, knives-out journalistic instinct. Welcome back.)@NYTimes. https://t.co/33SIPymDnv
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Jan 14, 2025
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January 13, 2025 at 08:56PM
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Seems more likely that Biden’s seizing on the dip in #s at the very end of his term (thanks, Mexico) and exaggerating that, Biden-style, into the lie that he reduced illegal immigration. He graduated in the top half of his law school class and marched in the civil rights… https://t.co/j990BJuw1i https://t.co/n5cW3D93kV
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Jan 14, 2025
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January 13, 2025 at 08:39PM
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The more difficult question, it seems to me, is whether at his age a) Biden consciously decides to lie about x or b) his brain now functions on autopilot to construct a fantasy reality that it thinks (incorrectly, at this point) will work for him politically.… https://t.co/1d18Z9HhfV https://t.co/Xc8zgOXmrO
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Jan 14, 2025
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January 13, 2025 at 08:38PM
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Seems more likely that he’s seizing on the dip in #s at the very end (thanks, Mexico) and exaggerating that, Biden-style, into the lie that he reduced illegal immigration. He graduated in the top half or his law school class and marched in the civil rights movement, remember. https://t.co/n5cW3D93kV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025
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January 13, 2025 at 08:32PM
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Stay paranoid https://t.co/GvesWWFqeA
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Jan 13, 2025
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January 13, 2025 at 12:58AM
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Hmm. Can I get back to you on this? https://t.co/rQL4zoBMFt
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Jan 13, 2025
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‘We don’t have enough housing and apartments for the people here. YIMBY!”
‘We need a half a billion more immigrants!’
I still claim there’s a bit of tension between those two positions
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 13, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 07:10PM
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East Coast intellectuals ate his bullshit up, of course …
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Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 06:33PM
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PS: The LATimes once sent a reporter to fact check Davis’ “Ecology of Fear.” The conclusion –softpedaled in the lede–was inescapable: Davis was full of … blarney. His tall tales were wrong in key details, bent to fit a story. https://t.co/uvPRObDiYZ
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Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 06:30PM
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The resurrection of Mike Davis’ “Ecology of Fear” would be an especially high price to pay in the aftermath the apolcalyptic destruction. Davis made a big deal of noting that SoCal has tornadoes! His problem is that he couldn’t document a case in which LA’s tornadoes had killed… https://t.co/RZmAG9p3ws
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Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 06:24PM
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It’s especially convenient for liberal Democrats to say “Stop Blaming Politicians. L.A. Was Built to Burn.” when the politicians in question all happen to be liberal Democrats. But let’s put that aside for now …
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Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 06:19PM
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I’m on Team Decadence. As @lwoodhouse (Team Hubris) notes, “The area around Pacific Palisades, in particular, has been on fire countless times before. There was a huge conflagration in Malibu in 1929. Then 1930 and 1935. Then 1938 and 1943, and so on, averaging two per decade up… https://t.co/BUhyTVUnNV https://t.co/5FGvZGnmQ6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 06:16PM
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.@bariweiss and @TheFP should stage a debate between the Hubris take (humans should never have built LA where it is https://t.co/4IfIFaAnvm) and the Decadence faction (CA doesn’t work anymore, they leave the reservoir unfilled, don’t clear brush etc) https://t.co/iwumpokIsa).
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 06:03PM
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Tucked away in the NYT’s big immigration editorial:
“Immigrants without specialized skills have pushed Americans out of some types of low-wage work because they are willing to accept worse conditions and lower pay. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts the… https://t.co/j0TiSgdKEz
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Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 02:25PM
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Here’s Pacific Palisades being laid out in 1927. [from https://t.co/7asvyLZAUy]. Somehow it didn’t burn to the ground until last week. https://t.co/HW1rtibnLS
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Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 03:16AM
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Of course @Jbarro and @mattyglesias want to build way MORE housing in these places where WaPo says housing should never have been built in the first place. Yglesias wants “unlimited height” apartments.https://t.co/WAOVGi8nyt I sense some tension on the left here. https://t.co/wBfQOxVTtI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 03:12AM
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.@WashingtonPost seems to say that much of LA should never have been built, including Pacific Palisades 100 years ago. https://t.co/vZsAGzQFb4
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Jan 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 02:57AM
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????? https://t.co/6coFPoYNnj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 11, 2025
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January 11, 2025 at 02:30PM
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Has anyone else noticed that, aside from the famous riff in the chorus, Al Kooper’s organ playing on “Like a Rolling Stone” is kind of … awful? [He would probably admit this.]
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Jan 11, 2025
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January 11, 2025 at 05:26AM
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Solid “situationer,” as they call it https://t.co/V2qnHB13hk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 10, 2025
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January 10, 2025 at 05:03PM
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From @Politico’s defense of Karen Bass on the LA Fire Dept. budget: “[O]verall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.” Hmm. Let’s hear more about these “concerns.” … https://t.co/C5IopIm009
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 10, 2025
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January 10, 2025 at 05:32AM
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“As urban growth spreads into wilderness areas …” Palisades has been there a long time. I don’t think it’s grown all that much in the last few decades. Hard to say ‘houses-encroaching-on-nature’ is the reason the hydrants couldn’t handle the fire. https://t.co/93A4O0s746
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 10, 2025
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January 10, 2025 at 05:00AM
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This article https://t.co/v5J4UG35vT was flagged by Google AI to show that Californians whose homes are burned down won’t lose their Prop 13 assessment when they rebuild the same house. Hope it’s true! Prop 13 has problems but it’s the only thing keeping many non-rich families… https://t.co/sIkRtV7UI8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 10, 2025
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January 10, 2025 at 03:31AM
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It’s not that they ran out of water. It’s just that “we were not able to fill the tanks fast enough,” Oh, well then! … (‘We didn’t lose the game. We were just not able to score more points than the other team.’)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 10, 2025
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January 10, 2025 at 02:40AM
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Some people seem to feel this article https://t.co/eysy4kLG95 gets LA officials and planners off the hook for the failure of water to come out of fire hydrants. You see there was “unprecedented demand”!–i.e. there was a fire.
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Jan 10, 2025
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January 10, 2025 at 02:35AM
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