I’m not for the Medicaid work requirement, but don’t you think it weeds out bigger-than-average risks? https://t.co/mk7xzf5SPU

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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July 01, 2025 at 04:42PM
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Best quote is “maybe not federal” https://t.co/WaMDrYI1Qd

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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July 01, 2025 at 04:33PM
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One interpretation: This is what in CA is called a “juice bill.” Why pass it now when there are years more lavish contributions to be milked from Silicon Valley? https://t.co/mSmQQbaAaF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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July 01, 2025 at 04:26PM
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I don’t quite understand this. He is doing such a good job as a candidate he doesn’t need this victim stuff. https://t.co/3U2p39rVXI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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July 01, 2025 at 04:05PM
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Isn’t the political divide, almost everywhere, between the cosmopolitan cities and the conservative countrysides? Are there exceptions? (Venezuela seems like one.) https://t.co/YffQQ1C7fd

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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July 01, 2025 at 04:00PM
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Harmless boilerplate! https://t.co/O2wrdwtroE

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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July 01, 2025 at 03:42PM
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Has any company ever bet as wrong as @Jaguar? Killed their gas cars, betting on an all-EV future at the very moment it became clear there won’t be an all-EV future anytime soon. Ads suck. Font sucks. Prototype sucks. Sold 49 units in Europe last month. https://t.co/pInJpxhMW7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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July 01, 2025 at 04:34AM
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Well, there’s this complication (from 2021). https://t.co/iGDemfJadU https://t.co/YJEIyj7pLu

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 11:42PM
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If 15 different companies can contact me when my auto lease is about to expire … https://t.co/0QpskuH7N3

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 11:27PM
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We’d gain democratic accountability but lose Ben Sasse. I’ll take that trade. https://t.co/YxTHqVUJzy

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 08:09PM
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.@newrepublic doesn’t really even try to explain the “provider tax” gimmick to its readers, especially what I think is a key point: The tax gets the feds to send higher Medicaid reimbursements which DON”T all get spent on Medicaid. (Let me know if I’m wrong.) It’s just $ for

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 07:54PM
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.@newrepublic doesn’t really try to explain the “provider tax” gimmick to its readers, especially what I think is a key point: The tax gets the feds to send higher Medicaid reimbursements which DON”T all get spent on Medicaid. (Let me know if I’m wrong.) It’s just $ for states,

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 07:48PM
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And think of all the crap writing it produces https://t.co/Q966cWgTW1

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 03:04PM
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Did FDR have party discipline, as well as huge majorities? Suspect he did.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 02:52PM
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I don’t know. If we consistently had more party discipline Congress might be able to pass lots of regulations democratically and we would have less (no?) need for the unelected “independent rulemaking agencies” that are such a constitutional headache. https://t.co/OZmT0204Nh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 02:49PM
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‘Tell Zohran Mamdani to keep his rice fingers off our money’ https://t.co/ZxVHukEWD8 https://t.co/DkyNkec30v

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 30, 2025 at 01:07AM
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The usual constant explanations (polarization, personality, etc.) wouldn’t seem to explain why Trump isn’t gaining much even as positive results materialize. Is it possible there’s a Ninth Planet effect–eg an underlying shift to the left in the general electorate (that just https://t.co/EOSEfj7XK6

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 09:50PM
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PS Those “outlier” levels cover most of the 20th century https://t.co/a8C3pKum6w

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:50PM
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1) Your chart ends in 2023. The RCP piece estimates over 16% now; 2) There’s a reason why we remember the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s as golden years! Wages were high, for one thing. https://t.co/tud7MF6yoM https://t.co/GpHHLfmgyT

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:43PM
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.@SecRollins is for a fully “LEGAL agricultural workforce, which she will achieve by legalizing all the illegal migrants who work on farms. https://t.co/1gGzSPKUGF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:23PM
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Biden seems to have destroyed the basis for a “comprehensive immigration reform” compromise-which was always a trade of amnesty now for future enforcement measures. After Biden who’ll trust that a future Dem president won’t ignore or eviscerate any enforcement measures or limits?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:21PM
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“Most of those who were added to the foreign-born population during the Biden years were added illegally.
… about 10 million illegal aliens were added to the U.S. population during the Biden administration.” https://t.co/cesgaAJmYb

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:16PM
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“[A]bout one out of every six people now living in the U.S. is foreign-born, versus one out of every 21 on the eve of the Bicentennial. That’s a massive population transformation – one unlike anything our country has ever previously experienced.” https://t.co/mFkDFpuSaA

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:08PM
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Everybody’s focused on the free buses and government grocery stores and tax hikes, but it’s the lax welfare policies and open migration policies that will destroy NYC … https://t.co/DRU5XWhikc

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 07:50PM
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Kagan hardest hit https://t.co/hA3Y1rR2wN

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 07:41PM
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