Scooter Braun would have been better.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 02:58PM
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Zendaya was awful. Sydney Sweeney would have been better.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 02:49AM
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In some sectors, there were big jumps in pay under Trump: Landscaping (6.74 percent). Parking lots & garages (10.75 percent). In a smaller number of sectors Biden did better, including “Disability, mental health & substance abuse facilities” (whose decline may not be a bad thing)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 04:51PM
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The Beat Goes On; “[P]rice-adjusted hourly pay of U.S. private sector blue-collar workers during the deportations-heavy second Trump administration has fared better than it had under the most directly comparable period of the Open Borders-friendly Biden administration.”

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 04:46PM
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Weird. It’s almost like there’s a large group of people — I can’t think of a word for it — who are suddenly and simultaneously attacking JD Vance from every possible angle, however spurious, since his Joe Rogan interview. I hope they put an end to all the paranoid conspiracy https://t.co/PWpzGhFOXd

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 02:50PM
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I guess not! https://t.co/qhJP60i2UL Bizarrely, the @NYT didn’t even notice Vance’s “striking” comments about Epstein and Israeli intelligence in its “5 Takeaways” coverage three days earlier https://t.co/bLXWnUQYRK https://t.co/a4qtP2rlZG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 01:45AM
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Josh Kerr has broken the mile record before a stadium of cheering fans https://t.co/nwblDlSnOt Worth watching Roger Bannister break the 4 minute mark in 1954 in a much lower key setting. An inspiration. https://t.co/5iLUUjozep

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 12:07AM
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Actual “conspiracies” are almost the default mode in Washington. I remember there was a large conspiracy of liberal antipoverty types to stop welfare reform. So? You want AOC or Marco Rubio to be president? You’re starting a conspiracy right now. The biggest conspiracies are

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 19, 2026

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July 19, 2026 at 04:29PM
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Josh Kerr has broken the mile record before a stadium of cheering fans. Worth watching Roger Bannister break the 4 minute mark in 1954 in a lower key setting. Still an inspiration https://t.co/5iLUUjozep

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 19, 2026

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July 19, 2026 at 05:16AM
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You’d think a piece titled “Trump shifts his tone on Jimmy Carter” would have some examples of … Trump shifting his tone on Jimmy Carter. You’d be wrong. Instead of the promised “wistful” sentiments we get a couple of statements of the obvious–that Trump didn’t want a failed

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 19, 2026

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July 19, 2026 at 02:14AM
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“I shouldn’t be judged by the worst day of my life.”–John Wilkes Booth

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2026

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July 18, 2026 at 05:41PM
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Tell it to @SorhabAmhari https://t.co/HuYchwI7Sd https://t.co/kEb6CysoK3

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2026

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July 18, 2026 at 05:38PM
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It’s PR, not ombudsmandry. They aren’t going to say anything negative about the Times. At least if their Platner episode is representative. https://t.co/TAwGT0CQnQ https://t.co/PnIAQFD9XW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2026

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July 18, 2026 at 05:26PM
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Here are 2 Tonelson links on ‘Take the Win’:

From April: https://t.co/wMrbHxYOLp

From June: https://t.co/Yp2jogZU3a

See also @ByronYork in May: https://t.co/2KWnntb9cY

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Jul 18, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 09:06PM
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The problem *could* be solved by tinkering with the rules (including the size of the goal). Possible sources of inspiration: a) Australian rules football b) 23-Man Squamish.

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Jul 18, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 08:50PM
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Link: https://t.co/izyxPLvLRi

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Jul 18, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 08:45PM
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Link below goes to @AnnCoulter’s entertaining point-by-point attack on soccer. An obvious point she left out: soccer is inherently susceptible to referee interference because its’ so low-scoring. In a basketball game if a ref takes away a score with a bum call it’s not such a

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 08:44PM
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Another obvious, incurable problem with soccer is it’s inherently susceptible to referee interference because its’ so low-scoring. In a basketball game if a ref takes away a score with a bum call it’s not such a big deal–there will be 80 more scores. But every game I saw in the

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 08:41PM
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“Should the Trump administration return to negotiations over the nuclear program? Maybe, but what’s the rush? Trump was right when he [said] that Iran’s key facilities had been ‘obliterated.’ There’s no pathway to a bomb now …” https://t.co/6FgJAdyPe8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 08:04PM
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Here are 2 Tonelson links on ‘Take the Win’:

From April: https://t.co/Yp2jogZU3a

From June: https://t.co/Yp2jogZU3a

See also @ByronYork in May: https://t.co/2KWnntb9cY

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 07:57PM
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I was victim of a fender-bending hit-and-run in a VA suburb of DC and they gave the culprit 24 hours to change his mind (even after they tracked him down to his home). No such mercy for Pelosi. (I think the 24 hour rule is ridiculous and probably designed to minimize arrest for https://t.co/44p75pCQYE

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 07:44PM
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Sensible Ignatius column on Iran. The CW is coming around to something like the Take the Win strategy of–as summarized by @AlanTonelson– “ignoring diplomacy altogether and pressing America’s clear military advantages.” No rush on the nuke piece especially.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 07:36PM
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“If he was living with and or sleeping with his staffer he needs to be tossed out. That’s not okay.” I’m having trouble with this being a “toss-him-out” (as opposed to maybe vote-him-out) scandal. https://t.co/JJD7pvw8mK

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2026

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July 17, 2026 at 07:00PM
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Too on the nose https://t.co/A59VIlZ9Se

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2026

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July 16, 2026 at 07:49PM
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Has Epstein’s “connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence” gone from being a baseless conspiracy theory to “old news” without any intervening period of being acknowledged in, say, the NYT? https://t.co/qRlS0BhBiu

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2026

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July 16, 2026 at 07:29PM
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