A fair report, of the kind @bariweiss says CBS should want, would point that out. A report designed by anti-deportation CBS staffers designed to be part of a post-MN anti-ICE crescendo wouldn’t, which is what CBS did. No different from @NPR, though NPR sometimes gives more https://t.co/T7cM94NyzY
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Feb 9, 2026
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Has Bari gone all Bunny on us? If 60.2% are accused or convicted of a crime, that’s more focused than I’d expected. Everyone knows there’s a policy fight in DHS over how much to focus on criminals. If you are here illegally you are subject to deportation–criminal or not. That’s https://t.co/S8SS1cXElD
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Feb 9, 2026
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Good piece. But doesn’t describe where Epstein fits (he wasn’t an ordinary rich 1%er–he was almost a 3rd category). Explains what Mandelson saw in JE but not what JE saw in Mandelson (was it cultural status or….POWER?). Also may be less difference between the 2 elites when it https://t.co/7N3Kjr0bSs
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Feb 9, 2026
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In other words, it’s a byproduct of the ’96 welfare reform’s success at getting people off the rolls (including a huge number of single mothers who went into the labor force). A failure would mean there were still 5M families on TANF and no slush fund. https://t.co/oQ0RKo4833
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Feb 9, 2026
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Crazy to blame everything on climate change. It’s obviously all caused by Epstein. https://t.co/wOpYaSEjLw
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Feb 9, 2026
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This is a great idea. There must be 20 big towns in the US that need this. https://t.co/ouRR7O2ZZ3
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Feb 9, 2026
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Nobody is going to be watching by the time this Bunny person comes on.
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Feb 9, 2026
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Wherein lies the genius of @arthurbrooks? He has always seemed a huge fraud to me. Amazed that @theFP fell for it. https://t.co/MZh4o449cc
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Feb 9, 2026
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Gates didn’t like the Internet much at the beginning, if I remember. https://t.co/jJkfKOUUrq
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Feb 9, 2026
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It’s all just a hobby with peers in a favor economy, And fundraising for MIT! What’s all the fuss about? Sounds like fun! https://t.co/lElT9EX3uZ
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Feb 9, 2026
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It’s all just a hobby with peers and a favor economy, And fundraising for MIT! What’s all the fuss about? Sounds like fun! https://t.co/lElT9EX3uZ
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More from the Epstein files: “Also ensnared are high-profile Norwegian diplomat couple Terje Rød-Larsen and Mona Juul, key players in the 1990s Israel-Palestinian peace efforts.”
Hmm. Who might want to cultivate this couple? Russia, Russia, Russia! Right?
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Feb 8, 2026
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More from the Epstein files: “Also ensnared are high-profile Norwegian diplomat couple Terje Rød-Larsen and Mona Juul, key players in the 1990s Israel-Palestinian peace efforts.”
It’s obvious: Russia, Russia, Russia! Right?
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Feb 8, 2026
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Sure was a whole lotta blackmailing going on for someone (Epstein) who some say wasn’t a blackmailer. The NYT discovers … https://t.co/8XIRuZxlFC
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Feb 8, 2026
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There were 5 million families on the welfare rolls in 1994, right before the 1996 reform that created TANF. Now there are fewer than 900.000. But states still get about the same amount of federal money as when welfare peaked, pre-reform. More money than they need. The result is
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Feb 8, 2026
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California has a corruption problem. https://t.co/0toYnHpYrf
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Feb 8, 2026
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He was fundraising! MIT! https://t.co/YFK2VuuzCH
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Feb 8, 2026
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Worth reading the rest of the blog. Sample: “Insiders’ response to this repeated verdict is a) doubling down on more of the things voters keep rejecting, especially importing men from the worst places on earth, b) an increasingly deranged discussion among themselves that ‘the
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Feb 7, 2026
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Dominic Cummings blog: UK voters are upset about mass immigration but “the mainstream voters I explored actually greatly UNDER-estimate the scale of immigration — and not by 10% or 30% but by a factor between 5X and 30X.” [Emphasis added] https://t.co/Ye2xjEGK5K
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Feb 7, 2026
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Homan has given up on inducing self-deportation? He’s looking the other way? https://t.co/uh0ozLBry0
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Feb 7, 2026
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Seems overwrought. But the firing ideas are good. https://t.co/vKjFMQajaj
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Feb 6, 2026
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Trump doing a good job of convincing people he’s still worried about SOMETHING in the Epstein files. … https://t.co/YCQprxOYTO
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Feb 6, 2026
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TOMORROW’S LINE: Of course Epstein was using his leverage for espionage and political influence! He was a spy but a RUSSIAN spy! https://t.co/hoWl1noYfV
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Feb 5, 2026
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V-interesting. Don’t know what to make of this argument. Could it be that Bill did not totally straight-arm Epstein’s blackmail attempt? (I do not know. Further study required.) https://t.co/TJoBAZYKL5
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Feb 5, 2026
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After writing about civil service reform for a while years ago, I reluctantly concluded this: Any system that makes it easy enough to fire a government employee (to say, root out sloth or quiet resistance) will make it possible to just replace employees on political grounds.
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Feb 5, 2026
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