Electoral votes? https://t.co/Dclguabw9g

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 18, 2025

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August 18, 2025 at 01:23AM
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Here’s the Brooks column I’m talking about: “Restrictionists often cite a 2007 Robert Putnam study finding that more diversity leads to less trust. But Putnam tells me they are distorting his research.” Apparently not so much. https://t.co/yqvVuxMR26 https://t.co/Eg4S9dJCXb

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 18, 2025

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August 18, 2025 at 12:50AM
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Newsom is going to run on the “California Dream.” That’s “not as implausible as it sounds”–@Semaforben Yes it is. It’s August. https://t.co/VvtDUnL0aN https://t.co/Jx1Mjqca9G

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 18, 2025

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August 18, 2025 at 12:01AM
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I was going to say this is a variant of Fox Butterfieldism, but I think it’s a straight clone: The paradox of lower arrests despite a show of federal force! https://t.co/WVfiFM5haF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 18, 2025

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August 17, 2025 at 11:23PM
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New trend: It looks like it’s locked up, but the door actually isn’t locked. I assume CVS doesn’t have enough employees anymore to keep running around opening things up. https://t.co/nLYQzW4Ybq

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 18, 2025

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August 17, 2025 at 10:54PM
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Seems irresponsible for SCOTUS to have let that city-destroying Ninth Circuit ruling stand for two years. Should have zapped it via the shadow docket! https://t.co/GNmx6LrIcM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 17, 2025

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August 17, 2025 at 02:48PM
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I’m all for rebuilding the public and civic institutions that can cope with the problems created in part by immigration (which also produces greater inequality and lower wages). But wouldn’t it help to simply control the immigration? Root causes!

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 17, 2025

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August 17, 2025 at 02:42PM
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“Many boys and men are struggling today, too, in an America once again disrupted by technological change, immigration and growing inequality.” Immigration? But I thought @RobertDPutnam had reassured @NYTDavidBrooks that immigration wasn’t a problem for cohesion and inequality?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 17, 2025

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August 17, 2025 at 02:37PM
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Maybe she thinks Epstein didn’t kill himself … https://t.co/p6a82eVV4Y

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 17, 2025

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August 17, 2025 at 02:07PM
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Maybe she thinks Epstein didn’t kill himself

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 17, 2025

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August 17, 2025 at 02:05PM
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“New tool to clear homeless camps” is a benign phrase for ending a wacky overreaching decision by the 9th Circuit that said it was “cruel and unusual” punishment to enforce laws against camping in streets and parks. https://t.co/hAUpqQ2ZBS

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 17, 2025

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August 17, 2025 at 11:26AM
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Well, Trump could also pass some more laws … https://t.co/hsMixI6FbX

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 07:32PM
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Latest on the Harveyiad, which is sordid on all sides. … https://t.co/QSiUogAGp7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 07:19PM
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Sound punditry. https://t.co/c7hxEMPngQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 01:53PM
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This seems a big point: Americans used to move. Unemployed Rustbelters were supposed to move to booming Western cities … where they could now compete against low-wage illegal migrants. They declined. https://t.co/DpvhyWMzGB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 01:43PM
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“An employer can get in trouble for hiring illegal aliens but not as much trouble as they can if they actually try to make sure they don’t hire illegal aliens.” https://t.co/YoLV4Jyic1

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 01:21PM
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Listening the @MichaelWolffNYC’s instagram episodes is as frustrating as listening to Bob & Ray’s “Slow Talkers of America” routine. https://t.co/3LjoVDXZjq

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 02:30AM
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So *this* wasn’t just foreign-born workers lying to the BLS and saying they were natives. This is a sharp drop in hard, real dollars that were sent by people who aren’t in a position to send them any more (in part because they no longer are in the labor force, presumably). https://t.co/TVeWXZ0iKQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 02:20AM
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way *above* 2022 https://t.co/lKOgvVxfEo

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 02:15AM
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And a big disappointment for those who’d seen him live. https://t.co/tVGMy7vO9j

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 15, 2025 at 01:43AM
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And even the @NYTimes says the 2023 DC homicide rate was “the highest rate in over 20 years.” https://t.co/I5YnOqYAYg Even if you use 2024 for your comparsion, homicides (and carjackings) seem to be significantly higher than pre-2020. https://t.co/0A6lOkis9L https://t.co/if8ZCLVPCa

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 14, 2025 at 09:49PM
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Looks like you can beat somebody up and have it still be a misdemeanor in DC, as long as it doesn’t require hospitalization or medical treatment beyond what a layperson can administer. https://t.co/SHa9hXMo7g

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 14, 2025 at 09:35PM
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Note that Yahoo’s graph of the *rate* of violent crime in DC (in an article disputing Trump) does not show it as “at a thirty year low.” It’s at a one-year low, coming down from a big 2023 spike but still way about 2022. https://t.co/B3EO9XvQQa https://t.co/KBEZkgQLmM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 14, 2025 at 09:08PM
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Given the persistent charges that DC downgrades crimes to pretty up its stats–eg lowering aggravated assaults to mere assaults–it seems especially important to include mere assaults.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 14, 2025 at 09:01PM
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This seems to be the chart relied on for “violent crime in DC is at a 30 year low.” https://t.co/k7FD0LxZBs (h/t @JamesFallows). But I’m still confused! It seems to count 4 crimes-homicide, “sex abuse,” assault w/ a dangerous weapon & robbery. What about plain old assault? Isn’t

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 15, 2025

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August 14, 2025 at 08:59PM
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