Note: And this is for a union job in what seems to be a shrinking industry. …

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Dec 1, 2025

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November 30, 2025 at 10:51PM
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Saw this today in the supermarket. Haven’t seen one for a while. Maybe the first of many … https://t.co/DoM3tljf8a

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 30, 2025

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November 30, 2025 at 02:57AM
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We could bury new model iPhones and pay people to dig them up. https://t.co/yMiRRKILVO

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 30, 2025

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November 30, 2025 at 12:07AM
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I’m waiting for a judge to invoke the reliance interest of American workers waiting for the program to end because it’s illegal. https://t.co/6UiTmSFvq0

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 30, 2025

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November 30, 2025 at 12:04AM
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You obviously haven’t met Justice Roberts’ wacky “Hotel California” principle, from the DACA case: It was illegal to create DACA by mere executive action but you can’t end it by mere executive action! Think about all the reliance interests! https://t.co/Fo8sZL6xXx

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 29, 2025

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November 29, 2025 at 03:39PM
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“What’s striking about this is how severe this punishment and shunning is compared to anyone else in the Epstein orbit. Bill Gates remains an esteemed public intellectual. Mr. Clinton is feted far and wide.” Mainly Summers is the main one damaged-so far-because only some evidence https://t.co/zbILLwWfMc

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 29, 2025

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November 28, 2025 at 11:21PM
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Why It’s Reasonable to Talk About Epstein, Sex, Blackmail, and Israel … https://t.co/nRJEM6XKH2

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 28, 2025

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November 28, 2025 at 01:22PM
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Kausfiles used to have a matchmaking feature–the Yenta-matic. Maybe I should revive it to fix up:

Laura Loomer and Curtis Yarvin https://t.co/67KufYcA9G

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 27, 2025

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November 27, 2025 at 03:43PM
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“We’re working with DOJ to see [say?] if we can produce anything more.”–Patel on Epstein files.

Yikes. https://t.co/a9ey5QvNxh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 27, 2025

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November 27, 2025 at 12:38AM
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So if they murdered somebody in the previous fiscal year, no problem … https://t.co/vw9uVQNbwC

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2025

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November 26, 2025 at 05:56PM
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Don’t think it was a “giant” ring, and I’m not sure any governments, let alone industries. were “manipulated.”  My suspicion is it was a smaller operation jerry-built opportunistically, by Epstein himself, and not allied with any one foreign country, though Israel would figure https://t.co/Cz1UWWnjzW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2025

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November 26, 2025 at 04:56AM
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When you live in DC there’s a layer of dinner-table knowledge that people outside that world don’t get. For all I know everyone in Cleveland Park is convinced Epstein was an Israeli spy, or CIA, or gay. That’s ur-“conventional wisdom.” Sometimes it’s wrong. Sometimes it’s useful https://t.co/1sM5LezhDN

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2025

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November 26, 2025 at 02:48AM
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Some evidence it may be working (by lowering consumer confidence, at least). https://t.co/aH4TxxQS1x “Consumers’ write-in responses [contained] increased mentions of the federal government shutdown” …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2025

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November 25, 2025 at 10:00PM
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What if Dems’ shutdown efforts aren’t about extending O’care subsidies or showing they can fight back against “Trump’s authoritarianism,” but simply to fuck up the economy so Trump/GOP will lose next year? It worked when the COVID lockdown killed a terrific Trump economy in 2020.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2025

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November 25, 2025 at 09:57PM
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You’re demanding conviction-ready evidence when people are just asking to see the files so we see what the evidence is. Also saying the ring is “giant” and “manipulates” governments is setting the bar artificially high. How about ‘he recruited a bunch of girls, let some of his https://t.co/njAICZuSAJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2025

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November 25, 2025 at 07:05PM
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More on this point in this, um, 33-year old book https://t.co/bKeiVB1jOS https://t.co/ui4S2QsS1q

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2025

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November 25, 2025 at 12:37AM
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Isaacson makes a key point: We don’t need every institution or public space to be socially egailitarian, but we need enough of them to condition the rest of society. And as the economy becomes more meritocratic (divided by smarts) and unequal by $, we need a BIGGER socially https://t.co/WLZabTkSWC

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2025

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November 25, 2025 at 12:34AM
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The Nothingburger position has gone from ‘the girls were only there for Epstein’ to ‘only a “select few” of Epstein’s friends had sex with the girls.’ I suspect the next shift will be to the Bezos/Brooks position: ‘We don’t want to hear about it, OK?’ https://t.co/9QnpL5Cy5H

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025

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November 24, 2025 at 04:51PM
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If the DOJ discovered a deeply suspicious trend in which election boards across the south disqualified a large number of minority voters in the run-up to a particular election, it couldn’t publish a report that, among other things, listed the officials involved even if it chose https://t.co/xogAmHSeDL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025

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November 24, 2025 at 04:15PM
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“Google, ‘can the Department of Justice do anything other than prosecute crimes and civil lawsuits?'” Why yes! https://t.co/bHMcSYEukB https://t.co/xogAmHSeDL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025

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November 24, 2025 at 04:08PM
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Huh?

—Tight labor markets and rising incomes at the bottom (so lower income people who work can afford more stuff)? https://t.co/LgrabpYKNp

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025

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November 24, 2025 at 03:52PM
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“.@WalterKirn on Epstein: “It’s becoming the same sort of conventional wisdom among talkers that just as Putin controlled Trump in the first administration, Netanyahu controls him in this administration.”–American This Week https://t.co/dKp2vg1FSg 1) It is? 2) I suppose that’s a

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025

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November 24, 2025 at 01:35AM
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“.@WalterKirn on Epstein: “It’s becoming the same sort of conventional wisdom among talkers that just as Putin controlled Trump in the first administration, Netanyahu controls him in this administration.”–American This Week https://t.co/dKp2vg1FSg 1) It has? 2) I suppose that’s

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025

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November 24, 2025 at 01:30AM
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This is a kind of fallacious argument strategy (I think Aristotelian?) where you declare the purpose of something is X, and if it’s doing something else, you win! But where is it engraved that DOJ only prosecutes crimes? Can they have programs to educate kids on the Constitution? https://t.co/bgZxa6dh6k

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025

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November 23, 2025 at 10:04PM
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“As far as H-1B visa go, the tech companies are going to take this matter very efficiently and smartly. There is absolutely nothing to worry about. Watch.” https://t.co/9aW0A7XRDP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2025

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November 23, 2025 at 08:59PM
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