Isaacson makes a key point: We don’t need every institution or public space to be socially egailitarian, but we need enough of them to condition the rest of society. And as the economy becomes more meritocratic (divided by smarts) and unequal by $, we need a BIGGER socially https://t.co/WLZabTkSWC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 12:34AM
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The Nothingburger position has gone from ‘the girls were only there for Epstein’ to ‘only a “select few” of Epstein’s friends had sex with the girls.’ I suspect the next shift will be to the Bezos/Brooks position: ‘We don’t want to hear about it, OK?’ https://t.co/9QnpL5Cy5H
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 04:51PM
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If the DOJ discovered a deeply suspicious trend in which election boards across the south disqualified a large number of minority voters in the run-up to a particular election, it couldn’t publish a report that, among other things, listed the officials involved even if it chose https://t.co/xogAmHSeDL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 04:15PM
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“Google, ‘can the Department of Justice do anything other than prosecute crimes and civil lawsuits?'” Why yes! https://t.co/bHMcSYEukB https://t.co/xogAmHSeDL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 04:08PM
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Huh?
—Tight labor markets and rising incomes at the bottom (so lower income people who work can afford more stuff)? https://t.co/LgrabpYKNp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 03:52PM
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“.@WalterKirn on Epstein: “It’s becoming the same sort of conventional wisdom among talkers that just as Putin controlled Trump in the first administration, Netanyahu controls him in this administration.”–American This Week https://t.co/dKp2vg1FSg 1) It is? 2) I suppose that’s a
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025
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“.@WalterKirn on Epstein: “It’s becoming the same sort of conventional wisdom among talkers that just as Putin controlled Trump in the first administration, Netanyahu controls him in this administration.”–American This Week https://t.co/dKp2vg1FSg 1) It has? 2) I suppose that’s
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 01:30AM
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This is a kind of fallacious argument strategy (I think Aristotelian?) where you declare the purpose of something is X, and if it’s doing something else, you win! But where is it engraved that DOJ only prosecutes crimes? Can they have programs to educate kids on the Constitution? https://t.co/bgZxa6dh6k
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025
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November 23, 2025 at 10:04PM
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“As far as H-1B visa go, the tech companies are going to take this matter very efficiently and smartly. There is absolutely nothing to worry about. Watch.” https://t.co/9aW0A7XRDP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025
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November 23, 2025 at 08:59PM
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People! Gates is the sacrificial lamb, not Summers!https://t.co/GpHkGopa5b
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 23, 2025
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November 22, 2025 at 08:06PM
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“For Lease” signs all over the apartment-rich Beverly Grove area of LA. Shortage? Who’m I going to believe—Scott Wiener and the Abundance lobby or my own eyes.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 23, 2025
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November 22, 2025 at 07:22PM
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If true, good for Republicans. It was a stupid strategy. https://t.co/lFboCDBkfu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 22, 2025
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November 22, 2025 at 03:38PM
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It’s actually kind of telling if Summers’ wife recommended “Lolita” to Epstein, no? That is, it’s relevant to the question of how many people knew what was going on. (I suspect everyone knew) https://t.co/4nnd7Mgy2Z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 22, 2025
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November 22, 2025 at 12:37AM
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Also from that ABC interview with Epstein victims’ attorney Brad Edwards says he doesn’t think Epstein e “made it a practice” to extort or blackmail the other men who had sex with the girls, “even though those men may have been legitimately concerned that Epstein had
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 22, 2025
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MAGA’s stood up to Trump on H-1Bs, on his occasional calls for more immigrant labor, and most recently on the Epstein files. Don’t go all @TheAtlantic on us! https://t.co/5YaoRARF2b
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 04:55PM
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Trump is finished. The walls are closing in. Wheels coming off. https://t.co/cSEe4rORHA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 03:28PM
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Terrible news. You were great on the immigration beat! https://t.co/7HQsqKceEx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 03:20PM
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Also note “primarily”– meaning some were under 18. https://t.co/9QnpL5Cy5H
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 03:13PM
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The list of the “select few” would be a start … https://t.co/9QnpL5Cy5H
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 03:02PM
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Attorney Brad Edwards on Epstein: “There were occasions where a select few of these men engaged in sexual acts with a select few of the girls that Jeffrey Epstein was exploiting or abusing — primarily girls who were over the age of 18.” Amazingly this interview was just cited
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 03:01PM
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Was this “norm” (which is not in the Constitution) followed with the Warren Commission? I don’t know but I suspect not (e.g.the commission had subpoena power). Yet it’s goal was at least as much to satisfy a public need to know as to prosecute crimes. Sometimes maybe a public https://t.co/G5ejH26gO2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 12:37AM
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It looks so proud of itself https://t.co/Nle00K8IS7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 12:21AM
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The atmosphere in many Congressional office pre-Shays is captured in the beginning of Marty Kaplan’s “Distinguished Gentleman” (starring Eddie Murphy).
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 20, 2025 at 08:22PM
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Maybe it wasn’t an amendment, but a bill. https://t.co/bFjoIYP476
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 20, 2025 at 08:21PM
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For a relatively optimistic analysis of the possible impact ot the Massie/Khanna Epstein disclosure bill, see here https://t.co/EqqzOk84rW https://t.co/SS4DuJt3kx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2025
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November 20, 2025 at 08:17PM
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