Strange @SteveRattner chart–the immigration (including BIden spike) untti 2026 has already actually happened. So if you’re comparing futures you should start both population estimates at the blue line in 2026, no? https://t.co/Ek5fUdMawn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 14, 2026
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February 14, 2026 at 02:57AM
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“Notably absent from his coterie were any federal prosecutors, judges or law enforcement figures …” What’s Ken Starr, chopped liver? https://t.co/l7BOiQBggz [Overall this is a v-good piece]
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Feb 14, 2026
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February 14, 2026 at 01:42AM
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“Notably absent from his coterie were any federal prosecutors, judges or law enforcement figures …” What’s Ken Starr, chopped liver? https://t.co/l7BOiQBggz [Overall this is a v-good column]
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 14, 2026
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February 14, 2026 at 01:41AM
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I think people are assuming (probably correctly) that if you hung with Epstein for any length of time and you’re not an idiot you knew what was going on. This isn’t a court of law, it’s a court of public opinion in which people are shamed even if they didn’t commit a crime. https://t.co/LuHuQXvz6y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 14, 2026
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February 14, 2026 at 01:32AM
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Only @mtracey was courageous and honest enough to immediately call out this photo of Epstein in an Israeli Defense Forces shirt as an obvious AI fake that anyone with a brain would recognize. (It’s not a fake, apparently. Days later Tracey retracted.) https://t.co/8zUWBQkdK5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 14, 2026
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February 14, 2026 at 01:07AM
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Only @mtracey was honest and courageous enough to immediately call out this photo of Epstein in an Israeli Defense Forces shirt as an obvious AI fake. (It’s not a fake, apparently. A while later Tracey retracted https://t.co/FWeaKRxFwY) https://t.co/mVMnJjVQA4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 14, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 08:02PM
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*can’t* https://t.co/e0JMe4xtis
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 14, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 07:24PM
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I thought this guy was the shiny New Moderate in the race … https://t.co/kWFjAb9Crm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 06:01PM
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Isn’t the rule of thumb that people know their economic situation better than the stats. If they think the economy is bad, pushing stats won’t convince them it’s good. If they think it’s good, hard to convince them it’s bad. Anecdotal data rules– anecdotal data from 300M people. https://t.co/V0rkhzIgmj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 04:15PM
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The immigration bar has good reason not to give this sort of rational advice, no? (‘Don’t hire us. We probably can help you.’) https://t.co/HgQEe8ZFgu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 04:07PM
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Even more true today. Employment up. Wages up. Inflation down.https://t.co/GWP97rZnqW Just one month, but seemingly going in the right direction. https://t.co/DA4NIermLm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 03:23PM
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It depends what the meaning of the word “shrimp” is. After reading this v-useful article, I still don’t know. Epstein himself emalied “shrimp, you throw away the head and keep the body.” Is that it? Shellenberger hmself seems unsure. Any help appreciated https://t.co/JP5tR88Er8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 01:14AM
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“Democrats let in more than 10 million “Undocumented Persons” in four years. Now they’re trying to preserve their gains by making law enforcement impossible.” https://t.co/2Nn4xC2Pzo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 12:42AM
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I dunno. Back in the day when I talked about the “espionage”theory–#2 on this hit parade https://t.co/zhDE7RUwHX I said it was “compromising leverage over a slew of public figures.” Seems pretty accurate description of what the files are revealing. No defining down required. https://t.co/NikqvSD7V1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 08:06PM
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Epstein Revelations You Won’t Read In The New York Times, by @AnnCoulter https://t.co/L7TXAPPiHi
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Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 05:54PM
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Bari or not Bari? https://t.co/y3BXxf4KZD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 05:03PM
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So it wasn’t blackmail–it was only kompromat! And it wasn’t a “sex slave ring.” It was only a group of friends accepting “carnal favors.” Got it. Euphemisms aside, it seems to have been a carefully cultivated network of bigshots many of whom got laid through him and were thus https://t.co/rkgDDbuZr4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 04:42PM
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“No Epstein sex-slave ring”-but Swaim says “some of Epstein’s former pals…may have accepted carnal favors, though perhaps not criminal ones.” Just a network of pals. Don’t call it a ring! (Note: You don’t need criminality for “kompromat”) https://t.co/dedAhEFAwZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 04:34PM
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“No blackmail operation”? Here’s the NYT’s @mattgoldstein26 on The Daily: “f or better or worse, let’s call it kompromat. And it was basically that he took the things that people were telling them and also from the work he was doing for some of them, he would glean their https://t.co/dedAhEFAwZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 04:27PM
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“Unemployment also edged down to 4.3% and wages grew 3.7%, outpacing inflation.” If reports like this continue, Trump will be delivering what he promised on the economy, no? https://t.co/mU2kKSTOem
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 03:19PM
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Also *he* was clearly a friend of Israel. From 2007: “Peggy Siegal says Epstein’s two big charitable causes are science and Israel.”https://t.co/RbVNRUbfm6 https://t.co/3oVJFguVYS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 03:00AM
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Pretty amazing how Trump turned the Epstein scandal, mainly a Democratic scandal (Clinton, Mitchell, RIchardson, Ruemmler, Hoffman etc.) into an issue that may help the Democrats in the midterms.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 01:52AM
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Makes sense. But he was surrounded by friends of Israel, and his two biggest sources of money were two of the richest friends of Israel in the U.S. If one of the countries Epstein shared info with was Israel, and if it was info gathered in part from bigshots in his network whom https://t.co/P4w8YNN7he
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 01:35AM
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Vicky Ward: “it’s unlikely Epstein was working for the CIA or Mossad, as conspiracy theories have suggested. Epstein didn’t need to be an asset for a foreign government… he had tentacles into the leaders of countries all around the globe. He was his own intelligence
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 01:21AM
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Correction: The room is in the Justice Dept. https://t.co/Bw1bLjShJF https://t.co/GQNaJWZShJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026 at 01:10AM
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