Or you could argue that while the FCC was once necessary (i.e. by scarcity of airwaves) it isn’t anymore and now makes more trouble (eg corruption, speech jawboning) than it’s worth. https://t.co/I2fsy1xEsu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2025
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Because the head of the FCC stupidly threatened the network with government retribution. https://t.co/p1CsXbgEVx
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Sep 18, 2025
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Incredibly weak 4 points. (“Arguments can be made”!) https://t.co/U0q9cweScZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2025
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Why are Trump-backing Republicans blocking attempts to track Epstein’s money? What are they worried they’ll find? Money laundering?–that’d take some heat off the sex-blackmail-spy allegations, no?. Trump transactions? Israel transactions? In the absence of info, people gonna
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2025
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But it’s very effective Epstein Distraction! For example, this should have been an embarrassing front page story for House Republicans https://t.co/Go1ktKOaBZ https://t.co/pAAXl1I7c4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2025
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Of course the unified TV network opposition didn’t stop Trump. And a pro Trump late-night slate won’t enshrine Trump. Absent levels of internet control that surpass China’s, the idea of effective media control in US seems a delusion. https://t.co/1xHEmWiWtQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2025
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“one Hollywood producer … one royal prince, one high-profile individual in the music industry, one very prominent banker, one high profile government official… one rock star …” Was Epstein building an ark? https://t.co/7RZ5VS8ZuX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2025
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September 18, 2025 at 02:37PM
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All those tallies of who commits more violence, left or right, should focus on the time since the 2024 election, which is when the left found out they were losers, perhaps for a long time, in our democracy. For some, it was time for Plan B. https://t.co/kGx7QK5uaI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2025
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Obama Defends His Migration ‘Experiment‘ After Charlie Kirk Shooting https://t.co/R70JUXahwE After all, George W. Bush believed in it!
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Sep 18, 2025
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That’s an apology? https://t.co/ZERrAfODdv
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Sep 18, 2025
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Need to draw the line somewhere. With some people who’ve lost their jobs the punishment seems needlessly cruel. But teachers? I would put them on the pilots’ side of the line, at least through high school. https://t.co/cRU51v5S5G
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Sep 18, 2025
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See also Tribe, L. https://t.co/wdXdvL8uLF
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Sep 18, 2025
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It would be one thing if the credentialed media relied on their own credentialed (often wrong) sources. The wrinkle in Kimmel’s case is the he obviously relied on his side’s ‘deranged hobos’ (& Heather Cox Richardson). The establishment is down the hobo rabbit hole too. https://t.co/yjTayS34py
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Sep 18, 2025
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Teach them defamation law? https://t.co/bWOJyhfMEV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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‘That said’ journalism on the rise … https://t.co/CxjHdQKLF5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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Wasn’t ending quarterly earnings reports a fairly common recommendation of (liberal) Washington Monthly types in the Carter-Reagan era who argued they encourage short-term business thinking? I may even have seen it in a Robert Reich article. https://t.co/OZPW3QzKIO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 03:02PM
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I’m not finding ’ ‘My reason for doing this is to protect you’ in the texts. Am I missing something? https://t.co/EELq59Lh9u
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 03:31AM
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Sneakers, if I remember is where you can see Redford’s seemingly effortless appeal in an ordinary, fun, no-big-deal movie. https://t.co/fkny4D6qPr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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She wants to be the star. But many people are able to be on TV all the time without f*cking up again and again. https://t.co/4bdCC98IUa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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September 16, 2025 at 09:48PM
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Patel is looking at a lucrative career as a podcaster. It would be more lucrative if he’d stood up to Trump, even resigned, rather than lose every shred of his credibility. https://t.co/XGCrFNnuvL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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BS. Evidence is right there in Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony. https://t.co/iR6WWg0NG8 He created the occasion of sin for others to take advantage of. What more did he have to do? https://t.co/XGCrFNnuvL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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September 16, 2025 at 09:33PM
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Not clear that this is a “big problem for them.” Works for me. https://t.co/WFdEQBcYmR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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September 16, 2025 at 09:28PM
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I can definitely see this sympathetic treatment, probably on NETFLIX. Bracing myself. https://t.co/e60CKBRsDE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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Link to the @NewRepublic: https://t.co/jCdfdNWlvX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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September 16, 2025 at 09:11PM
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.@NewRepublic: “As for Bondi, she’s been pushing the same disinformation campaign that every conservative seems to be signing on to right now in an effort to take First Amendment rights from anyone they don’t like.”
This is BS-conservatives rose up almost as one to blast Bondi. https://t.co/jzbU7ybVrv— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025
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