Outline of a “Take the Win” strategy in Iran that doesn’t require a negotiated deal but does require-“for the time being”-an ongoing blockade and “continuing airstrikes to degrade further the regime’s missile and drone arsenals, and keep its nuclear materials inaccessible.”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 at 02:29AM
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The Biden White House was dissatisfied with Becerra. Is this why? https://t.co/XHqP8h4vym
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Apr 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 at 02:20AM
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I’ve long thought the filibuster should be reserved for irreversible decisions: statehood and amnesty are two of them. It would probably make sense just to list those issues, and add or subtract from the list as appropriate. Certain irreversible environmental actions–eg aerosol https://t.co/yKlyVzpSUB
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Apr 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 at 02:18AM
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I’ve long thought the filibuster should be reserved for irreversible decisions: statehood and amnesty are two of them. It would probably makes sense just to list those issues, and add or subtract from the list as appropriate. Certain irreversible environmental actions–eg https://t.co/yKlyVzpSUB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 at 02:03AM
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The DEFENSE of the bill is chilling: “The courts when they’re considering whether a law violates someone’s free speech rights, they try to balance competing interests and they ask is this limitation on someone’s speech outweighed by the need to limit that free speech? I think https://t.co/VDO4jeGa2c
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 at 01:35AM
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Given the stakes, I’m always amazed by how small these sums are. https://t.co/YJbn09vP1W
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Apr 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 at 01:15AM
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“Trump sent his stooges Jughead Jared, Witless Witkoff, and Jittery JD to Islamabad …” That’s the verbal acrobatics of … @mtracey @mtracey https://t.co/CvxkBO3hwy I thought Tracey’s niche was independent, honest reporter, not another player in the juvenile Trump-bash trade.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 at 12:40AM
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Shorter: @DouthatNYT was smuggling *his* issue– “collapsed birthrates”–into the list of actual populist voter beefs. … https://t.co/sxSEt5rtjs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2026
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April 20, 2026 at 04:38PM
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This is for Newsom almost what the “We Came, We Saw, He Died” clip [re: Gaddafi] was for Hillary. https://t.co/ZHpL3b3LAZ
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Apr 20, 2026
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April 20, 2026 at 02:51PM
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Is that where he finished in the top half of his class? https://t.co/BABW0s1s4T
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Apr 20, 2026
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April 20, 2026 at 12:02AM
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Semafor gets the scoops https://t.co/9tQhyBJCjj
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Apr 20, 2026
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For example, they casually refer to tech workers whose jobs are fated to be taken by AI as “cooked.” … https://t.co/yC8li5f8Sm
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Apr 20, 2026
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April 19, 2026 at 11:37PM
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Still can’t figure out what Rick Caruso is up to. Write-in candidacy for governor? Not that crazy! https://t.co/EZhVhf6TzV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2026
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April 19, 2026 at 02:31AM
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Drove past what appears to be a new Pagani dealership in Beverly Hills. I’ve never seen a Pagani out here–a car so underpublicized and unobtainable it can hardly function as a status symbol, since nobody knows what it is. Here is a review of their $3.4M model:
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2026
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April 19, 2026 at 02:16AM
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It’s still astonishing that the establishment (on both sides of the Atlantic) didn’t follow “the most basic theory of how to respond to a populist era: Move to the cultural right, especially on immigration.”
What were Obama and Hillary thinking? https://t.co/1G5IFZ3Ude
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Apr 19, 2026
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April 19, 2026 at 02:14AM
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A really good column. No notes. OK, one: Why not name some pundits who overplayed the Orban threat?…And maybe another: Are “collapsed birthrates” really a cause of populism? Is that why people are pissed? Do we need more Americans for AI to displace? https://t.co/eP6l0gwaJV
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Apr 19, 2026
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April 19, 2026 at 02:11AM
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Drove past what appears to be a new Pagani dealership in Beverly Hills. I’ve never seena Pagani out here–a car so underpublicized and unobtainable it can hardly function as a status symbol, since nobody knows what it is. Here is a review of their $3.4M model:
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2026
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April 19, 2026 at 01:44AM
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If you need to get up to speed on new AI tools, or just want an jarring glimpse into Silicon Valley culture, this is a very good podcast https://t.co/yxst3Cdp0Q
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Apr 19, 2026
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April 18, 2026 at 09:23PM
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School superintendant negotiating pay raises with his brother-in-law. What an embarrassing, amateurish conflict of interest for the nation’s second largest city. https://t.co/KF32ikzQIj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2026
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April 18, 2026 at 09:17PM
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Some big news, buried under the bigger Iran news … https://t.co/Eaf1Db6vUE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2026
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April 18, 2026 at 02:41PM
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If Iran has a deterrent (closing Hormuz) even without nukes, that should make getting them to abandon their nukes easier, no? (I’m not sure they have that deterrent, but the premise of this news story is that they do.) https://t.co/fsU01jv4NZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2026
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NYT: “The United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on the argument that if Iran one day got a nuclear weapon, it would have the ultimate deterrent against future attacks.” Was that the argument? I thought it was they’d blow their enemies (eg US, Israel) up.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2026
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April 18, 2026 at 02:31PM
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Seems wrong to me. One of Baker’s particulars against Vance is that he” travelled all the way to Pakistan for a day” to try to negotiate an end to the war. This shows “a moral vacuum.” Huh? https://t.co/kV7XVsObp5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 17, 2026
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April 17, 2026 at 07:49PM
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It would bring America together https://t.co/mCLmtq7pQT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 17, 2026
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April 17, 2026 at 07:37PM
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At the very least AI wealth would have to be very heavily taxed. Is it possible @ElonMusk hasnt’ completely thought this through? https://t.co/N6Q6iCe8n3
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Apr 17, 2026
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April 17, 2026 at 07:33PM
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