Here’s the tweet Talarico’s spokesperson put out two days after his candidate’s “bad” flu was said to have been diagnosed and he dropped off the trail. True, it doesn’t say that Talarico would be at any of the events. Still seems discordant, especially since I can’t find Ennis himself mentioning the flu while Talarico was absent, and there’s a void from 10/2 to 10/9. He should feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

(No mention of the flu on @TeamTalerico page either, FWIW.)

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Oct 13, 2026

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October 13, 2026 at 02:20PM
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A receipt from the urgent car should be easy to produce, no? Maybe he’s done that already. https://t.co/3BG6sXLAsv

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Oct 13, 2026

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October 13, 2026 at 01:23PM
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New hot take: It was really RSV (which lasts forever) and was misdiagnosed, or not really diagnosed at all. https://t.co/ixlDQwrf3l

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Oct 13, 2026

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October 12, 2026 at 10:25PM
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NYT checks out the mental clinic story–good, up to a point. We need a report on ‘Inside the Talarico campaign. What they were doing and thinking when their candidate disappeared and they seemingly did nothing.” https://t.co/mbPP5Ni0K4

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 13, 2026

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October 12, 2026 at 10:03PM
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He tweets to say he gave a sermon https://t.co/asdJQSoWyR He tweets to thank the people at ACL https://t.co/d4gAgTbI0c He tweets to thank Kacey Musgraves. https://t.co/D6Z4ot3y0D Not like it’s not an account for personal news.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 12, 2026

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October 12, 2026 at 04:52PM
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Talarico’s own Twitter feed has only 5-8 posts during his off-the-grid period (depending on if you count Sept 29). Who knows who wrote those posts, of course. Why couldn’t he just have tweeted “Hey, I still have the flu. Hope to be back soon”? (Couldn’t the campaign have tweeted it for him?) It’s just weird.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 12, 2026

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October 12, 2026 at 04:45PM
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“Clark has complained that she is intentionally targeted with hard fouls—and sometimes she is, but not because she’s white.” How does Sally Jenkins know? Did the @Atlantic fact-checkers verify this? https://t.co/33IzMSt6cx

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Oct 12, 2026

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October 12, 2026 at 03:45PM
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Remember there’s nothing threatened indigenous people like more than mass migration! https://t.co/iyak9LYart

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Oct 12, 2026

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October 12, 2026 at 03:02PM
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Well, looks like it would have happened under @BrendanEich too, if I read this correctly https://t.co/9HwpqIaWYH

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 12, 2026

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October 12, 2026 at 12:29AM
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Do you find Talarico’s explanation for his NINE day absence plausible? Sorry, I don’t. Not in the final weeks of a close campaign without his campaign trying to fill the void with, eg, videos of the candidate thanking his supporters from bed. I’ve been wrong before but it seems like there is still a mystery here.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 12, 2026

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October 12, 2026 at 12:23AM
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Note to @bariweiss: Isn’t this the sort of story you hired Boswell for? https://t.co/4IAeWUk7i8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 11, 2026

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October 11, 2026 at 02:33PM
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Thank you @Firefox for the unsolicited surprise after-hours update that wiped out my browser history, bookmarks and passwords.
This would have never happened under @BrendanEich!

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 11, 2026

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October 11, 2026 at 02:03PM
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Well, they might have some good reporters working on it behind the scenes. It practically screams that there is some story there we’re not being told. What would Ben Bradlee do? https://t.co/vmTDaHjbgs

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Oct 11, 2026

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October 11, 2026 at 01:35PM
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We can rebuild him. We have the technology. https://t.co/QKIHVse2DX

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Oct 11, 2026

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October 10, 2026 at 11:51PM
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Was Reid Hoffman invited? https://t.co/AYbH9ucEpz

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Oct 11, 2026

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October 10, 2026 at 08:59PM
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“[P}eople close to him expect he will support her if she decides to run.” You mean there’s some doubt? That would be fun. https://t.co/kOclWLQyLK

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Oct 10, 2026

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October 10, 2026 at 01:43PM
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Bringing Lasseter back seems a big deal (in Hollywood, anyway). https://t.co/QFi7bJUYCN

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Oct 10, 2026

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October 9, 2026 at 09:59PM
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.@moseskagan: Do you have an opinion on this debate, and this project? Thanks https://t.co/2RAF1Uuld6

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Oct 10, 2026

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October 9, 2026 at 09:16PM
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Joel Kotkin: The goal of reviving downtown Los Angeles as a dense, livable, public transit oriented model is dead, dead, dead. It’s dead. @Mattyglesias hardest hit! Note to YIMBYs: Densification or homeless “harm reduction.” Pick one. https://t.co/T6QPGEmUYb

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Oct 9, 2026

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October 9, 2026 at 04:56PM
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Joel Kotkin: The goal of reviving downtown Los Angeles as a dense, livable, public transit oriented model is dead, dead, dead. @Mattyglesias hardest hit! Note to YIMBYs: Densification or homeless “harm reduction.” Pick one. https://t.co/T6QPGEmUYb

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 9, 2026

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October 9, 2026 at 04:50PM
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ASSIGNMENT DESK: If not a Pulitzer, there’s some sort of prestigious award waiting for the journalist who blows the lid off the scandal of government employees who really pursue to the agendas of the NGOs who pay their salaries. Maybe MSM was reluctant to hype it when they owed allegiance to Schmidt or lib NGOs. But now, if they owe allegiance to Musk …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 9, 2026

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October 9, 2026 at 02:56PM
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From the 2022 @Politico story “FAS [non-profit] fellows, known as IPAs after the law that created them, have served or currently serve in Biden’s White House Council of Economic Advisers, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Trade Commission. At least six FAS IPAs work in the Office of Evaluation Sciences in the General Services Administration, which serves as a sort of outside consultant to help agencies across the executive branch.” https://t.co/PWYOT8nJJM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 9, 2026

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October 8, 2026 at 09:17PM
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This isn’t the only example of a bigshot or activist NGO paying the salaries of government bureaucrats. See @ericschmidt: https://t.co/dQZYuZVKlv Whose agenda are you going to pursue–elected politicians or your NGO paymasters? Probably many such cases. Seems a big scandal. https://t.co/2IhBReygiP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 9, 2026

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October 8, 2026 at 09:13PM
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You’d think @DrPatrick would have done some gene therapy by now. … https://t.co/QsT6OVReNk

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Oct 8, 2026

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October 8, 2026 at 07:44PM
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It’s also nothing the Chinese can’t copy in a month and a half.

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Oct 8, 2026

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