Does giving up a big name put out the fire or give it new oxygen? There’s never only one cockroach, right?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 29, 2025 at 06:34PM
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.@VickyPJWard : “My hunch, Jim, and this is, you know, speculation, is that Ghislaine Maxwell is going to have to give up some big names … and almost certainly not Donald Trump’s.” On Jim Acosta’s podcast (See https://t.co/bZpLyPYW8L or https://t.co/bmoaHhkZmW)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 29, 2025 at 06:32PM
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Turnaround starts in mid-1990s, which happens to be when welfare was reformed under Clinton (1996). Just sayin’. https://t.co/Vel1ylOtOg

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 29, 2025 at 04:21PM
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Hawley wants tariff rebate checks-cash, about $600 per person & per kid-for “every working person.” Does this mean there’s a work test in his plan, or is it a straight cash dole, even to non-workers, with all the attendant bad cultural consequences? (I couldn’t find the work https://t.co/L51lG2YAKQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 29, 2025 at 04:14PM
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This study didn’t even try to measure the (probably negative) effect of growing up in a *neighborhood* where lots of families rely on cash from the government. Would be hard to do that as a double-blind experiment (create 2 separate neighborhoods otherwise identical?) But https://t.co/eimR7jyh8b

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 28, 2025 at 11:13PM
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Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development https://t.co/Pqqb7Qx2Oh Not what the researchers wanted to find out …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 28, 2025 at 11:09PM
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“While we’re attacking frontally
Watch Brinkally and Huntally
Describing contrapuntally
The cities we have lost
No need for you to miss a minute
Of the agonizing holocaust …”

— RIP Tom Lehrer. Hard to beat that.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 28, 2025 at 10:39PM
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“The contradiction is glaring: while German citizens are asked to accept cuts and fewer benefits, pressure is mounting to fill the country with cheap labor from third countries.” https://t.co/J0yxjL181B

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 28, 2025 at 10:24PM
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In retrospect (see Jake Novak piece) https://t.co/KKelDsrbHO ) it’s amazing how stupid Democrats were during Trump I in rejecting deals the President foolishly offered. …. It’s the sort of thing you do when you think you’re the Coalition of the Ascendant. … https://t.co/3uqQWPr1Yw

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 29, 2025

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July 28, 2025 at 10:19PM
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One problem in the Epstein scandal is that @RonWyden seems incapable of explaining in clear understandable terms what is suspicious about the giant “suspicious transactions” connected to Epstein. What’s he talking about? Was Epstein money laundering? Does it really cost

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 28, 2025 at 02:40PM
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One problem in the Epstein scandal is that @RonWyden seems incapable of explaining in clear understandable terms what is suspicious about the giant “suspicious transactions” connected to Epstein. What’s he talking about. Was Epstein money laundering? Does it really cost

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 28, 2025 at 02:35PM
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House Speaker no fan of pardoning Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell – https://t.co/OT0OiK6nA2 – @washtimes

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 28, 2025 at 03:26AM
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Wright is reacting to this Tucker Carlson podcast: https://t.co/8B6mAv3rkO

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 11:07PM
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“‘We are not going to let up on this.’… Goddamn it, powerful people have too much fucking power in this world and we just want all the chips to fall where they may,…and I kind of feel that way about this . I don’t think you’re going to gratify the darkest conspiracy

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 11:06PM
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Link to Wright’s podcast with Paul Bloom: [See 16 min in] https://t.co/AR5MDx42Av

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 10:53PM
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THIS IS NOT A DENIAL! https://t.co/sOcqrh5aCU @RobertWrighter makes the point that Alex Acosta’s “denial” of the “belongs to intelligence” quote goes to such “great pains to not deny it without actually confirming it” that it’s almost tantamount to a confirmation. [Link below]

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 10:51PM
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Link to Wright’s podcast with Paul Bloom: [See 16 min in] https://t.co/AR5MDx42Av

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 10:39PM
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THIS IS NOT A DENIAL! https://t.co/5TGfa5kNRt @RobertWrighter makes the point that Alex Acosta’s “denial” of the “belongs to intelligence” quote goes to such “great pains to not deny it without actually confirming it” that it’s almost tantamount to a confirmation. [Link below]

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 10:37PM
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Wolff’s theory is that there’s a whole network of brilliant scientists Epstein cultivated, who’d resist a full file release, many because they’re innocent and would be tarred, and maybe AI tech-bros are backing them up. Has @WalterKirn’s semi-endorsement: https://t.co/5TGfa5kNRt https://t.co/PiFQNNnvkx

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 10:24PM
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PPS One thing that gives her a small bit of leverage: She might have some valid issues on appeal, meaning if she’s NOT pardoned she still has some hope. @mtracey makes a good case on this question, if on nothing else https://t.co/9G7eAOebnv

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 10:13PM
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PS You may not think Epstein was murdered, but she apparently does https://t.co/apO8Xr60Ws

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 10:09PM
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Before I assume she was trying to avoid Epstein’s fate by signalling she wouldn’t talk. Now Trump is president & she sees a route to a pardon–but she’s gotta do what Trump wants her to do, which I suspect is to give some carefully crafted scandal-killing testimony to Congress https://t.co/nE3mCpmD27

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 10:07PM
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EPSTEIN IS EVERYWHERE–
Epstein is everywhere, man!
He’s in everything,
He’s in everybody
Epstein is in your jeans
Epstein is in Nutty Buddies!
Presenting, Science Epstein
https://t.co/e5ujicWuio
[Apologies to the late Mojo Nixon https://t.co/TozOZCi89i]
P.S.: Epstein needs boats

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2025

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July 27, 2025 at 07:45PM
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You’ll all be marching to preserve it from demolition in 30 years, I tell you

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2025

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July 26, 2025 at 08:49PM
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2024 Autopsy: https://t.co/SSRWPfNrvu Democrats could follow Kamala’s lead and blame her husband https://t.co/fqNsmAfxgN

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2025

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July 26, 2025 at 08:04PM
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