From the article: “Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dean’s interest list—applicants whose parents or relatives have donated to Harvard …” https://t.co/TvV7rYq2L1
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Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 04:48PM
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Here’s an excellent, fun-to-read article on the result of this “pincers” effect as reported from the belly of the beast. https://t.co/jMMW7idDK2 https://t.co/6AzYo28W64
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 04:44PM
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Will the result be a backlash, or a healthy collapse in traditional importance of top colleges, or of “meritocracy” itself? Or all of the above? https://t.co/5cwrYIGraB https://t.co/6AzYo28W64
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 04:36PM
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More evidence that this is the year the pincers (connected whites, legacies, atheletes at one end, preferred minorities at the other) have really pinched on regular, unconnected top students. https://t.co/8NqKl0ePgj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 04:31PM
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You would think that evidence like this would cause those (le.g. @SenatorRomney & Co.) who would recreate welfare, in the guise of “refundable” CTC checks, to pause and consider the possible disintegrative effect on family life for kids. You would be wrong. https://t.co/dO1hCpXFKR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 04:14PM
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Thread. We know welfare reform resulted in a lot of single moms joining the work force. What was less clear was effect on family arrangements. The idea was ‘If you’re going to work, why not team up with another breadwinner’? This is some evidence that this may have happened … https://t.co/vfuWMw2ZN6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 04:06PM
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What started to happen around 1992? A concerted effort at reforming welfare. … **
** There are obviously plenty of other factors at work, including new birth controls for teens–a decline in teen birth rate started around the same time. Still … https://t.co/vfuWMw2ZN6
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Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 03:58PM
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From a week ago (his answer was “yes” https://t.co/iloVh5X4Ai ) https://t.co/jKmvBxZPzm
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Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 03:15PM
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Chomsky excludes a middle way, no? Something like: ‘arm Ukraine, let them fight, hope they win, but no war crimes or regime change for Putin.’ That still seems very risky though, in part because of what Putin might do if he’s losing https://t.co/Mxezg6CmVU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 01:49AM
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Is @maggieNYT “rate limited,” I ask you?
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Apr 21, 2022
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April 21, 2022 at 01:33AM
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DC … https://t.co/aiOtnkMwLm
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Apr 21, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 10:52PM
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MAGA! https://t.co/VN6kzS8IbB
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Apr 21, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 10:42PM
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The Secret Oldies Rotation Committee has decided we need to hear Toto’s “Rosanna.” Unfortunate.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 10:02PM
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42 FOREVER: If “Temporary Protected Status” can never end (because it keeps getting renewed) why can’t a “public health emergency” (because new threats keep delaying end)? Keep it going for 2.5 more years and incoming GOP POTUS in 2024 will have border control tool at ready, no? https://t.co/AtP0nVVKt9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 09:51PM
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Coulter notices the @NYTimes has decided to push the pandemic excuse for rising crime: “In its coverage of the subway shooting by a rage-filled black nationalist last week, The New York Times inserted its pandemic theory of crime into nearly every update” https://t.co/gXNhPjrs26
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 09:25PM
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Non-Leninist, So-Crazy-It-Just-Might-Work Alternative: Title 42 Forever! With enough new variants and new diseases … https://t.co/rtF4RlXgzE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 09:15PM
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Does not seem like an insoluble dilemma, though. On the one side, Rep. Ruiz. On the other side, nine (9) terrified Democratic senators! Solution: Ruiz loses, his cause goes on. (Wild card: Will Schumer dig in in favor of letting 42 expire-risking his own near-term majority?) https://t.co/N2j64ziDDd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 03:43PM
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“Sneaky”? It’s been approaching with the subtlety of Gojira for at least a year. https://t.co/duqwr3rtQf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 03:31PM
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Jared’s deck. It’s honest, in a way. Doesn’t pretend there’s anything there. https://t.co/qx5pRTFUIv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 03:18PM
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Whatever you do, keep @RonaldKlain in that job … https://t.co/dXtgFYK819
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 12:37AM
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Seems inevitable that Biden will cave and delay ending Title 42, no? Also a no-brainer. Does WH really think it will lose significant Hispanic voter support if it doesn’t do what a few in DC Hispanic Caucus want? https://t.co/JQXJDpx1G3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2022
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April 20, 2022 at 12:35AM
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Seems like ‘journalists … performing for other journalists’ could as easily lead to a performative contrarianism, which would be better. “Hey, you changed my priors” etc. Maybe the reason it seems to lead to groupthink is MSM journalists overwhelmingly do agree with each other. https://t.co/isjyKkFC9y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2022
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April 19, 2022 at 02:10PM
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Anytime they start talking about “stakeholders” run for the hills. It’s the language of corporatism. https://t.co/jEtouWHxIs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2022
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April 19, 2022 at 01:57PM
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Not saying @RonaldKlain has f–ked up. Not saying he hasn’t. But whatever he’s doing hasn’t worked. His boss and party are in a big hole. Sacking the COS/shaking up staff is sort of what you do in that situation. Gives the President a bit of a second chance.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2022
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April 19, 2022 at 01:55PM
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This is the man who said, “One thing that you’re seeing is that there is a third [political] party emerging in this country, which is the party of CEOs.” https://t.co/mtcjPEk9nG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2022
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April 19, 2022 at 01:26PM
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