Homelessness rose in LA (a bit) but fell in San Francisco (more than a bit), whose mayor has been turning away from the left’s Housing First dogma. https://t.co/Gvgl9KE7k6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 8, 2026
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November 7, 2026 at 11:57PM
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Crime down, homelessness down. Job market strong. How did Trump lose? Or, right. He attacked Iran. https://t.co/QVlxLqwSB3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 8, 2026
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November 7, 2026 at 11:54PM
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Homeless population drops: @JasonDeParle actually partially credits the immigration explanation: “the trend likely reflects in part the ebbing of a crisis that began in 2022 when a wave of people seeking asylum were bused to Northern cities, where they flooded shelters.” https://t.co/A1cm8mC2Fu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 8, 2026
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November 7, 2026 at 11:51PM
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Rector was the heart & soul of Heritage and a powerful, credible voice on welfare issues. I assume he’ll continue to be the latter.
Note to my leftish friends: He favored work over welfare, including the imposition of work requirements (me too), but he had the balls to oppose putting a work requirement on Medicaid.https://t.co/hMrdUGfsCc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 8, 2026
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November 7, 2026 at 11:29PM
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.@Peggynoonannyc on voters and corruption: “They’ll accept a normal amount if the government keeps a strong economy and peace. But fail on the economy and peace and they’ll see your corruption and be angered by it.” OK. But it was the non-short war that disrupted the strong (non-inflationary) economy and peace. So even the corruption issue can be traced back to the war. https://t.co/AegW5STMDY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 7, 2026
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November 7, 2026 at 06:29PM
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‘Stop donating to Republicans or we will investigate you’? Is that the message? https://t.co/CFRyOlZOWe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 7, 2026
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November 7, 2026 at 03:51PM
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“DEAL” FETISH: I don’t understand this push for a “deal” formalizing some sort of surrender by Iran on the nuclear issue. Will they abide by a deal? Maybe, maybe not. Can we bomb their nuke facilities again if they resume that project, whether or not there’s a deal? Yes. What does the pursuit of a deal get us, except more war and a photo op?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 7, 2026
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November 7, 2026 at 03:42PM
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[Trump meeting with Tucker Carlson in Feb. 2025, a year before the US and Israel attacked Iran:]
“They want you to go to war with Iran,” Carlson said.
“We’re not doing that,” Trump answered.
“Good, because the only thing that can blow up your administration is if you get into a war with Iran,” Carlson said. “Your voters don’t want any more wars. You ran on that.”
[From Haberman and Swan’s “Regime Change,” page 74]
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Nov 7, 2026
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Except there’s this: https://t.co/MgD95kjdId https://t.co/DWz2fA3Znn
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Nov 7, 2026
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November 7, 2026 at 02:03AM
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A salesman sells you a crappy refrigerator, you don’t say he’s blameless. He sold you a piece of crap.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 7, 2026
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November 6, 2026 at 09:52PM
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Bizarrely, @spencerpratt has become one of the best (ie interesting) columnists in the country. Much better (eg more heterodox) than his mayoral campaign (which was pretty good). The obvious question: Does he write it himself or does he have a Blake Neff? I’d believe he writes it. I’d believe he has help. (He’s blocked me too, so I don’t care if he doesn’t like the question.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 6, 2026
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November 6, 2026 at 05:30PM
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The chart does not show tariffs “weighed much more heavily on voters’ minds.” It shows voters thought the tariffs were a bad thing. Does not measure the weight on their minds. [Kicker cut] https://t.co/dWIbw6ahaV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 6, 2026
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November 6, 2026 at 04:58PM
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Was waiting for this … https://t.co/5NDGJeK8eh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 6, 2026
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November 6, 2026 at 04:40PM
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Bibi pushed for the war for his own reasons. Trump bought Bibi’s faulty pitch for his own reasons. I don’t see how that gets Bibi off the hook. https://t.co/nxow3LoxY3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 6, 2026
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November 6, 2026 at 04:26PM
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1) Palisades wasn’t only neighborhood that burned down. Racially mixed Altadena did too, esp. the historically black area. Altadena isn’t in the city of LA, but Bass was the representative of the Establishment (including Newsom) that had disastrously failed to, eg, clear enough brush and prevent the calamity; 2) Her polls tanked after the fires 3) Raman seems to have campaigned on the fires; So did Spencer Pratt. 4) Homeless problem a huge negative but would that have been enough to sink her? 4) Hollywood hated Bass because the Dialog Cafe collapsed in a water main break? Versus the fire, general not-up-to-jobness it illustrated? Please. (And I like Dialog Cafe.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 6, 2026
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November 6, 2026 at 01:58AM
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Spencer Pratt thinks the fires didn’t do Bass in. https://t.co/XEuAM9USfb What does he know? https://t.co/9TulAfgtrE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 6, 2026
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Strict liability’s important re: fires and other hazards where you need to do lots of little things to defend against a low-probability threat. It’s not like you’ll get credit if the threat doesn’t materialize. That means it’s always tempting to slack off on those things (eg cleaning brush, repairing reservoirs). Unless pols know a fire could utterly destroy them
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 5, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 10:14PM
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At least we’ve established the principle that if you’re in charge when your inefficient misguided bureaucracy lets a large part of your city burn to the ground, you will lose. Strict liability. It doesn’t matter if you say you’ll do better than before. It doesn’t matter if you say you’re better than your opponent. It doesn’t matter if you ARE better than your opponent. You are through. And even @RickCarusoLA can’t save you.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 5, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 10:09PM
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Rahm Emanuel is talking sense https://t.co/13ZwAcS0E8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 5, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 09:45PM
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MAGA-friendly candidates swept to victory in the Beverly Hills school board race, as the liberal coalition collapsed.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 4, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 04:16PM
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Truth is a defense https://t.co/CUCDwbpsba
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 4, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 03:05PM
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You could argue that it’s better strategy for Vance to establish his independence from Trump now rather than waiting loyally for Trump to turn on him later (meanwhile letting DeSantis be the blunt truthteller). But I don’t think there’s a strategic rationale. I think it was ballsy.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 4, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 02:47PM
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“The reason we lost is the war.”– Vance. Ballsy thing to say. Good for him. https://t.co/mTTVHeCGnS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 4, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 02:43PM
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Once in a generation you get an inspirational leader like California’s new governor, Xavier Becerra. His election immediately vaults him into the front row of 2028 presidential contenders.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 4, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 02:37PM
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.@EllisItems points out it’s not true all that big money spending didn’t help the Republicans–it actually HURT them. Voters react against it. “Elon Musk’s $30 million donation to the Susan Collins campaign in Maine didn’t help her. It hurt her.” Something the fundraisers & consultants will never admit. https://t.co/wGdPR43ksT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 4, 2026
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November 4, 2026 at 02:24PM
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