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
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
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
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
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.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 8, 2026
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October 8, 2026 at 07:42PM
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Well the Big Tech summit was “corporatist”in both senses, no? Only need a few big AI firms to be the super brains of the national body (corpus). Not like that’s irrelevant. https://t.co/eNUQAEQMNO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 8, 2026
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October 8, 2026 at 07:13PM
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Doesn’t seem so mean. Standard, relevant type of question—what if Mitt Romney’s company was accused of abusing migrant workers? https://t.co/AOBOxWh9Iu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 8, 2026
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October 8, 2026 at 06:35PM
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As long as they were doing this, they should have made it squarer. Worked for Scion. https://t.co/40csXOoNcA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 8, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 08:47PM
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An aluminum sarcophagus in which the art of automotive design is buried (to paraphrase Ada Louise Huxtable on the Kennedy Center). https://t.co/m5pGV3Dq7W
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 8, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 08:43PM
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From Failed Woke Rebrand to failed unwoke rebrand. Although actually they didn’t change much from the panned Miami preview except the color (no longer pink). The benign Ferrari Luce is looking better already.
Maybe they can convert it to a data center. https://t.co/p2X5HqJcHs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 8, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 08:38PM
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“The only thing Jaguar still has going for it in a very crowded EV market is the heritage of its brand. By breaking with that, it has abandoned the only thing that was ever likely to persuade people to buy one. Jaguar’s new electric car is a terrible mistake.” https://t.co/r3yRE3R6Zy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 8, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 08:21PM
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Seems an obvious move for Trump. I’m amazed he hasn’t proposed it already. (I assume a big objection is that tariffs are not a steady, predictable source of funds.) https://t.co/z4qpqpLNxa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 07:31PM
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That latest caravan was an inter-Mexico caravan, reports @BensmanTodd https://t.co/g3euR8T3rU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 07:17PM
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Paxton was obviously right, no? This is a Kinsley Gaffe. https://t.co/gQAOj8SQP2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 06:58PM
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It’s in the @LATimes DNA. https://t.co/ChmzLaw90q
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 03:11PM
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LA’s new westside subway is near miraculous–downtown during rush hour in less than 30 minutes. Took $10B and 65 years of planning and struggle. Crime will destroy it and politicians like Mayor Bass know this. It will be on them. https://t.co/mYRrmjkukP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 02:11PM
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Welfare reform in 1996? (More poor young men grow up in homes where some adult works.) The timing fits. Seems more plausible than a lot of these, including “Expansion of Community Violence Intervention.” https://t.co/H3NDIl4VJi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026 at 01:34PM
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CORRECTION OF THE DAY: “This article was amended on 6 October 2026. Trump suggested that Iran could “take out” the two cities, but did not suggest that it do so, as the original headline indicated.” https://t.co/XUuPP2YuL3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 6, 2026
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October 6, 2026 at 01:52PM
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Here’s the immigration section on Talarico’s website. https://t.co/tt73W8bBdu Can you find any limit on mass in-migration, even a fake phony one? There is none. https://t.co/3mcCmXPscT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 6, 2026
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October 6, 2026 at 01:32PM
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Starting back up the Biden-Mayorkas conveyor belt for mass in-migration. Hey, as long as it’s “orderly.” …. https://t.co/GcoiWkZnu7 https://t.co/3mcCmXPscT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 6, 2026
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October 6, 2026 at 01:27PM
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Looks orderly! So orderly. What could be your objection, Republicans? https://t.co/GcoiWkZnu7 https://t.co/HP9N8FJczj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 6, 2026
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October 6, 2026 at 12:55PM
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Starting back up the Biden-Mayorkas conveyor belt for mass in-migration. Hey, as long as it’s “orderly.” …. https://t.co/3mcCmXPscT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 6, 2026
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October 6, 2026 at 12:51PM
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Most important: Does Talarico support ANY limit on the number of migrants who can come through his proposed “front door”? It seems no. Once they’ve passed his “orderly vetting process” they’re in for good. How many millions? https://t.co/uFBhDG03Hj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 6, 2026
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October 6, 2026 at 12:48PM
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