New publication covering LA. Looks good. https://t.co/Lp2SSCkGrJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 22, 2026

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April 22, 2026 at 01:23AM
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Even a Hormuz understanding would be uncertain and depend on a continuing US military threat, Ferguson suggests here https://t.co/JRkyUt9zU1

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 22, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 09:43PM
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Remember how Iran waited to release the hostages until after Reagan had been sworn in in 1981? Why do we think they don’t intend to prolong any negotiation until the midterms are over? https://t.co/tB7sLyvUtz

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 22, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 09:34PM
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Won’t any deal ultimately rely on the ability of the US to strike again? If so, why is getting something on paper so important? https://t.co/wMrbHxYOLp When Trump feels he’s degraded Iran’s capacity sufficiently for now, he can just stop. Wait to negotiate a deal and he may be https://t.co/xdjmcfoIwh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 22, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 09:32PM
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That’s two weak anti-Vance @gerardtbaker columns in a row. (Not weak because they’re anti-Vance, but weak because they’re weak–though maybe he thinks the Vance-bash gives him a pass.) https://t.co/Qsnu05vgM0

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 06:34PM
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That’s two weak anti-Vance @gerardtbaker columns in a row. (Not weak because they’re anti-Vance, but weak because they’re weak–though maybe he thinks the VDS gives him a pass.) https://t.co/Qsnu05vgM0

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 06:12PM
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Though on the ‘every click hurts’ front, I notice that at McDonald’s this morning it only took 14 clicks to buy a cup of coffee–down from 15 or 16. Good work, everyone. https://t.co/LsUPiwjsmr

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 03:53PM
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If it’s an unconstitutional “tax on voting” to show your drivers license (something you ordinarily carry with you) it seems like a bigger tax on voting to have to go fish out a form you didn’t request and didn’t plan to use that the government sent you and which is probably https://t.co/KkdinYGuxW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 03:37PM
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This is a problem with mailing everyone a ballot. It creates an extra layer of hassle and uncertainty for people who just go to the polling place and vote. (And one of lessons of the Internet Age is that every bit of hassle, every click, hurts.) https://t.co/cz32rzGHal

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 03:29PM
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Yes, Twitter won. … Though maybe the real action is on Threads! https://t.co/ozdmDvgAeC

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 03:27PM
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Outline of a “Take the Win” strategy in Iran that doesn’t require a negotiated deal but does require-“for the time being”-an ongoing blockade and “continuing airstrikes to degrade further the regime’s missile and drone arsenals, and keep its nuclear materials inaccessible.”

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 02:29AM
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The Biden White House was dissatisfied with Becerra. Is this why? https://t.co/XHqP8h4vym

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 02:20AM
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I’ve long thought the filibuster should be reserved for irreversible decisions: statehood and amnesty are two of them. It would probably make sense just to list those issues, and add or subtract from the list as appropriate. Certain irreversible environmental actions–eg aerosol https://t.co/yKlyVzpSUB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 02:18AM
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I’ve long thought the filibuster should be reserved for irreversible decisions: statehood and amnesty are two of them. It would probably makes sense just to list those issues, and add or subtract from the list as appropriate. Certain irreversible environmental actions–eg https://t.co/yKlyVzpSUB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 02:03AM
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The DEFENSE of the bill is chilling: “The courts when they’re considering whether a law violates someone’s free speech rights, they try to balance competing interests and they ask is this limitation on someone’s speech outweighed by the need to limit that free speech? I think https://t.co/VDO4jeGa2c

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 01:35AM
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Given the stakes, I’m always amazed by how small these sums are. https://t.co/YJbn09vP1W

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 01:15AM
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“Trump sent his stooges Jughead Jared, Witless Witkoff, and Jittery JD to Islamabad …” That’s the verbal acrobatics of … @mtracey @mtracey https://t.co/CvxkBO3hwy I thought Tracey’s niche was independent, honest reporter, not another player in the juvenile Trump-bash trade.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026 at 12:40AM
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Shorter: @DouthatNYT was smuggling *his* issue– “collapsed birthrates”–into the list of actual populist voter beefs. … https://t.co/sxSEt5rtjs

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2026

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April 20, 2026 at 04:38PM
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This is for Newsom almost what the “We Came, We Saw, He Died” clip [re: Gaddafi] was for Hillary. https://t.co/ZHpL3b3LAZ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2026

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April 20, 2026 at 02:51PM
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Is that where he finished in the top half of his class? https://t.co/BABW0s1s4T

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2026

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April 20, 2026 at 12:02AM
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Semafor gets the scoops https://t.co/9tQhyBJCjj

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2026

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April 20, 2026 at 12:00AM
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For example, they casually refer to tech workers whose jobs are fated to be taken by AI as “cooked.” … https://t.co/yC8li5f8Sm

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2026

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April 19, 2026 at 11:37PM
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Still can’t figure out what Rick Caruso is up to. Write-in candidacy for governor? Not that crazy! https://t.co/EZhVhf6TzV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2026

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April 19, 2026 at 02:31AM
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Drove past what appears to be a new Pagani dealership in Beverly Hills. I’ve never seen a Pagani out here–a car so underpublicized and unobtainable it can hardly function as a status symbol, since nobody knows what it is. Here is a review of their $3.4M model:

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2026

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April 19, 2026 at 02:16AM
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It’s still astonishing that the establishment (on both sides of the Atlantic) didn’t follow “the most basic theory of how to respond to a populist era: Move to the cultural right, especially on immigration.”

What were Obama and Hillary thinking? https://t.co/1G5IFZ3Ude

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2026

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April 19, 2026 at 02:14AM
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