‘That said’ journalism on the rise … https://t.co/CxjHdQKLF5

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2025

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September 17, 2025 at 03:12PM
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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

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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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September 17, 2025 at 01:34AM
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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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September 16, 2025 at 09:35PM
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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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September 16, 2025 at 09:21PM
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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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September 16, 2025 at 09:10PM
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Has ANY conservative defended Bondi’s original “hate speech” comment?

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Sep 17, 2025

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September 16, 2025 at 08:58PM
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What about the messages that weren’t leaked to Ken Klippenstein? https://t.co/s0TNNjiT46

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2025

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September 16, 2025 at 03:07PM
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Thinking outside the box at @CBSNews. https://t.co/c3riPBaEyF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2025

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September 16, 2025 at 02:49PM
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Great week for @TheAtlantic!
–Have to pay writer Ruth Shalit Barrett more than $1M for shabby treatment (defamation) https://t.co/gGRLyg2VMR
–Contributing writer Jemele Hill spreads crazy conspiracy theory that Kirk murdered by a “white supremacist gang” https://t.co/aLKPCnjVgE https://t.co/JozLLmFz8B

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2025

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September 16, 2025 at 01:51AM
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Here’s the full interview; I was worried we weren’t given the full quote, but seems accurate. The context was anti-Semitism. Doesn’t make it any better. She goes on to talk about the attack on Josh Shapiro’s official residence. [Starts around 12:17] https://t.co/mZZnWngwXO https://t.co/xNiETiYN2Q

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2025

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September 16, 2025 at 12:28AM
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Why is Kash on thin ice and Bondi not? https://t.co/xNiETiYN2Q

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2025

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September 15, 2025 at 09:19PM
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Isn’t it time to stop having on pols (eg Cox) to filter the evidence for us? Just give us the evidence. We’re grown-ups and can assess it for ourselves. Cox may have an agenda. (Same goes for @FBIDirectorKash–who blew his credibility with Epstein and obviously has an interest in https://t.co/lDZdV0czN8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2025

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September 15, 2025 at 08:03PM
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Her quote of Kirk was wrong, in a significant way. Others made the same mistake (i.e. not checking out something too bad to be true). I bet I’ve made similar mistakes. This seems like a case of firing someone whom you’ve wanted to fire for a long time (maybe for good reason). https://t.co/IJt1b0Tta9

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2025

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September 15, 2025 at 07:43PM
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Reminds me of the ’90s debate about welfare, where smart liberal pundits argued it wasn’t really about welfare, it was about worker feelings of alienation and disempowerment, etc.. Yeah, yeah. But it was mainly about welfare. People hated welfare because people hated welfare. One https://t.co/qe6RHOb5Zh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2025

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September 15, 2025 at 03:40PM
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“This is about something bigger than immigration slogans …” Sometimes a protest about immigration is a protest about immigration. Going BigThink (“Karl Polanyi, writing in The Great Transformation…”) to talk about grander issues that won’t be solved soon can a classy way to https://t.co/lQjOSOkX0y

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2025

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September 15, 2025 at 03:32PM
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COSTCO, one of the too-few institutions where Americans of all classes meet as equals, has started an “exclusive” executive tier. So far it’s pretty tame– “executive” customers get some earlier shopping hours. No Disney-like special lanes, but the night is young

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2025

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September 15, 2025 at 02:28PM
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Not a lot of soul-searching here by Grok … https://t.co/H3gHl5meea

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2025

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September 15, 2025 at 01:35AM
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Just an embarrassing performance by @Grok. If it were a football team it would be UCLA. https://t.co/UJ2LzvCfQS

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2025

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September 14, 2025 at 11:17PM
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Conquest’s 2d Law applies to AI too. Who knew? https://t.co/sVrVMmUCSx [Except in this case, an AI that *was* pretty explicitly right-wing has turned left wing–I assume because what it reads is left-wing or the people under Musk who run it are left-wing) https://t.co/itEQAXMPPM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 14, 2025

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September 14, 2025 at 05:32PM
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