Micro-gaslighting! Car crash of two highy suspect contemporary concepts https://t.co/hY1qcGGQnz

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 16, 2022

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January 16, 2022 at 03:26AM
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Ryan: So, who did you have dinner with last night, Steve?

Steve: The first dinner or the second dinner?

[Not since Rudy “Two Lunch” Maxa … Or I guess it was a joke.] https://t.co/ZVmBI7gPTT

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 16, 2022

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January 16, 2022 at 02:27AM
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Scatological or Eschatological? You make the call! https://t.co/r8514nzZzJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2022

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January 15, 2022 at 10:00AM
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Drop that name! https://t.co/r8514nRArh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2022

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January 15, 2022 at 09:00AM
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New Parrot Room https://t.co/r8514nRArh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2022

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January 15, 2022 at 04:25AM
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Hmmm…. Jon, Peggy. Peggy, Jon: https://t.co/G2isdvRVlm https://t.co/TNYu85jG3W

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2022

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January 15, 2022 at 01:07AM
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Here’s a lawsuit, or at least the threat of one. Gets results! https://t.co/Npb8OdE0WI https://t.co/qPf8h6uZGD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2022

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January 15, 2022 at 12:43AM
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Not since it’s media critic (Howard Kurtz) covered the press while being paid a large sum of money by one of the companies he covered (CNN) has the @washingtonpost watchdog’s own ethics policy been so …nuanced https://t.co/yb1tYRrN8r https://t.co/LQjG13vvvf

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 02:11PM
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Shorter Biden: “I’ll die on this hill! ….No, wait. I’ll die on *this* hill. … No, wait ….”

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 04:03AM
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“If a president is rhetorically manipulative and divisive on a voting-rights bill it undercuts what he’s trying to establish the next day on Covid and the economy.” Good point. https://t.co/1EyGSOUsSU

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 04:02AM
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Is Biden just drifting masochistically? One reason his WH should open up to the press is to show voters there’s at least *some* strategy behind his moves — it’s NOT manatees pushing numbered balls around a big pool, really. https://t.co/KQBZKILxsW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 01:21AM
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PS Gorsuch only got 2 other votes for this. Fellow Trump appointees Kavanaugh and Barrett didn’t sign it. https://t.co/9diVLksiGl

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 12:48AM
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Note Gorsuch’s opinion says that even IF Congress clearly gave OSHA authority for mandate, it’d still be unconstitutional under the “non-delegation doctrine.” I like the non-del. doctrine–Congress shouldn’t outsource its job. But pandemic crisis is a strange place to invoke it. https://t.co/IP6VUR5qfT

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 12:41AM
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Not clear why Manchin needs to meet @hamandcheese in the “middle” anyway. As Hammond notes, Manchin’s the senator. He holds the cards. Manchin doesn’t even have to meet Schumer “in the middle.”

He rightly wants a work test. Give him a work test, build on that. https://t.co/eeF6df3qzi

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 12:16AM
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Effect in avoiding non-work/culture of welfare in this plan would seem to be minimal. Why not just have more generous benefits with a work test (which is not necessarily onerous–was only $2500 a YEAR)? https://t.co/fX12xRZ0mI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 12:11AM
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Seems like a fake “meet in the middle” proposal. Preserves welfare/no-work checks for parents of kids <6. What % of the parents who’d get welfare in Biden’s BBB plan is that? Suspect it’s way > half. (Includes parents who have a 2d kid when 1st kid hits 6) https://t.co/vzzLXRxmQV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 14, 2022 at 12:07AM
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Seems clear this is @AliMayorkas’ “metric” of success … https://t.co/qIeTcnSDCT

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 11:34PM
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I don’t care about Prince Andrew. I care about George Mitchell … https://t.co/URZNqNZPjB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 10:56PM
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The joke will be that Abrams really was the best Dem candidate for President … https://t.co/8JFphixEMc

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 10:54PM
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“Three Hour Window” would be a good title for a nonfiction book about Clinton’s WH social life https://t.co/FHM8FMK44d

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 10:28PM
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My what big windows you have! https://t.co/FHM8FMK44d

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 10:26PM
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The piece is available here (as a PDF) https://t.co/jMMW7idDK2 Just the sort of reported, funny-yet-significant thing the ponderous, take-heavy Atlantic needs. And yet! …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 09:39PM
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I should say I’m a friend of @RuthSBarrett1, I liked her piece on insane niche high-school sports and think @TheAtlantic bizarrely came down on its own writer like a ton of bricks for unknown reasons, over a trivial wrong fact (in a piece that held up under its re-fact-checking) https://t.co/LQjG13vvvf

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 09:34PM
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Here’s @ErikWemple going on about the need to comply w/ conflict-of-interest rules even in “opinion” journalism https://t.co/8O31LVqS3y
Here’s Wemple column about a suit where he’s deeply enmeshed on one side, central to complaint & a clear likely witness https://t.co/fJgnYukOrP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 09:29PM
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I’m always up for a Malaise Speech myself. Our country has much more profound problems than supply chains …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2022

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January 13, 2022 at 09:10PM
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