For perspective, the hated AFDC welfare program had 14.3 million people at it’s peak in 1994 (including children–the number of families was 5 million). Food stamp growth is the product of a bipartisan anti-poverty establishment effort to eliminate stigma, normalize receipt. https://t.co/dQ3RNp0ioq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 4, 2025
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November 03, 2025 at 08:43PM
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Another explanation from @AlanTonelson: https://t.co/b3dsrwuQlr (Is construction industry in such bad shape? Not much hard evidence in NYT (“worries,” “potential drag,” etc). Does Times write about it because it offers a way to blame Trump tariffs and ICE for “potential” harm?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 3, 2025
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November 03, 2025 at 04:07PM
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“The demand is not there.” NYT finally mentions lack of housing demand near the end of this article–not just higher costs due to tariffs and fewer illegal workers– but blames higher interest rates. What about … fewer people? https://t.co/xm4bQGNnT6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 3, 2025
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November 03, 2025 at 03:56PM
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I think it may mean “I’m going to call up Joe Biden and say I convinced myself that he was fit for office during the campaign but now my relationship with that truth has changed–e.g. I’ve learned it’s BS. And this somehow substitutes for explaining myself to the public.”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 3, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 11:03PM
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“I’m going to express my relationship to my truth with the former President.” What does this mean? https://t.co/bsYOuvS7lw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 3, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 10:15PM
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But you’re NIMBY if you don’t want one on your block.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 2, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 03:15PM
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“That’s a reference to the ‘Housing First’ laws and regulations that make public funding for homeless housing contingent on the project having absolutely no requirement for residents to stop using drugs, or even to participate in programs or counseling.” https://t.co/YYxxneaQMp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 2, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 03:15PM
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Another way to put it: Approval of Trump deportations ROSE in the last month despite all the bad publicity. https://t.co/4xdMgUQMuv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 2, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 02:49PM
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True. But until Gates comes clean on Epstein his policy shifts are susceptible to suspicion … https://t.co/guHVYYM7tb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 2, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 01:48PM
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It’s true that East Coast pundits are way too impressed with Newsom. https://t.co/jHkNKOXADH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 2, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 01:41PM
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“Now, in an especially stunning turn of events (and an entertaining one, for industry watchers), the American Trucking Association is admitting that, actually, there never was a labor shortage.” https://t.co/Bk4xqdQ5us
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 2, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 01:20AM
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I don’t think the market can bear any more @MichaelWolffNYC content
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 2, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 01:13AM
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Shouldn’t you be studying? https://t.co/GjtH3vAq6q
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 2, 2025
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November 02, 2025 at 12:34AM
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If they win today, the entire edifice of the Dodgers’ championship will have been built on a lie! https://t.co/Dty3oEU40P
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 05:52PM
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The perverse genius of cash welfare (no-work) programs is more that they do so much damage with relatively little money. (Once you start extending them up into the middle class–see Biden: food stamps, child tax credits–you do start spending big bucks. But not this big.) https://t.co/ox41rBOwB7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 05:39PM
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The ‘ol 501(c)(4) loophole: “The chief accusation…is that major 501(c)(3) charities, which are entities legally barred from engaging in partisan politics, channeled millions of dollars to affiliated 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups that can legally conduct limited political https://t.co/HpoQmuRxMP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 05:29PM
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Let in even more illegal immigrants! Faster! With less vetting! https://t.co/vxx8iuAeag
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 05:09PM
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Pssst: Of course they could have easily pulled that ball out from under the padding.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 04:54PM
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Today’s installment of “As Heritage Turns.” I can’t tell if this is anti-Tucker backpedaling or just reassigning someone who was a little too thuggish in enforcing the pro-Tucker party line. PS Why did Roberts have to wade into this in the first place? https://t.co/Wymy8M8kDI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 04:42PM
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Graydon Carter has some chutzpah publishing articles about an “endless post-Epstein-gate spiral.” https://t.co/LwTxxsff8Z [Background https://t.co/pGGONfm1Du Basically he cut the sex parts of Vicky Ward’s important early Epstein story.]
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 04:23PM
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This of course is why governments throughout history have preferred retaining kompromat on bigshots and officials to letting the truth become public in some sort of idealistic pursuit of transparency. https://t.co/IVSi0OLCsY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 04:13PM
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“Welfarism is an insult to those who work, and especially to those on lower wages who put in long hours for a meagre but honest income. …..Tory and Labour politicians have created an experimental, universal basic income via the back door, and the results are disastrous.” How
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 04:08PM
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The fuller version would be: Bill Gates gets himself into Epstein trouble. White House retains the Epstein files. Gates suddenly moderates his previous alarmism on climate change in the direction of White House position. Just saying.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 03:51PM
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“Is the bunker still even there?” What did Trump do to the secret emergency bunker under the East Wing when he demolished the East Wing? WH has been cagey. @Isikoff asks the question on the @SpyTalk podcast https://t.co/ztXY4BHn0g [about 3:10 in]
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 03:49PM
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Bill Gates gets himself into Epstein trouble. Moderates his previous alarmism on climate change. Just saying.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 1, 2025
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November 01, 2025 at 03:22PM
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