Waiting for pardon of born again MAGA Republican and Biden victim Sam Bankman-Fried … https://t.co/GjWzBnEGGX

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 10, 2025 at 01:28PM
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PS: I discovered this article while casually perusing the Journal and other daily pa…..No, who has time for that? I discovered it through @EllisItems News Items (https://t.co/cgqvkO4RsG), still a super-valuable guide to what’s on the web today. https://t.co/Z6s5PZW1kz

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 10, 2025 at 01:09PM
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DON’T LOOK NOW: Trump approval rating climbs, no longer at record lows (9 points underwater instead of 13). Has a ways to go. https://t.co/yiOe1Ut32S

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 10, 2025 at 12:51PM
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“Many countries are frustrated by China’s strategy, which is squeezing out their own manufacturing sectors ..” You’d think this is a problem tariffs might solve. @greg_ip suggests a united front of US/Canada/Mexico to block Chinese exports. https://t.co/Z6s5PZW1kz

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 11:47PM
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Maybe some mysterious ghost was intentionally pushing them to open the floodgates ….It’s really amazing–actionable journalistic malpractice–that the @NYTimes doesn’t even mention Mayorkas’ influence in its Big Deal story. Like discussing Trump policies without Stephen Miller. https://t.co/yj45jedJrK

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 11:36PM
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They laughed when I suggested the housing market was softening (in part due to deportations) and the need for an Abundance Housing Agenda was dissipating except in a handful of markets (NY, SF, San Jose, but not Austin) … https://t.co/XchS7XPOC7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 11:14PM
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I guess “Baristocracy” is obvious, though it might seem to mean rule by baristas.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 09:01PM
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We have a word for rule by nobility (aristocracy); for rule by the ultrarich (oligarchy) and for rule by the most competent (meritocracy). But we don’t yet have a word for rule by Bari Weiss.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 08:56PM
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Have people thought this through? In March, Trump abruptly ends tariffs. Prices fall. The economy booms. GOP buoyed by economic tide in midterms. Oldest trick in the book. (See old Jewish joke, with punchline “Get those animals out of there!”)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 10, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 08:53PM
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“China growing about 0.6 percentage point a year faster over the next few years, but that will reduce the rest of the world’s growth by 0.1 point a year.” China growth used to increase the rest of the world’s growth. This seems to deserve more attention than it’s getting.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 9, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 03:34PM
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Don’t be silly. That’s impossible–it’s the Fixed Number of Jobs Fallacy. There are infinite jobs no matter what AI does, just as there are infinite jobs no matter how many migrants enter the country! Right? …. Right? https://t.co/ApMQhSLm6O

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 9, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 02:21PM
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This is data on how many houses “turn over,” not how many people are leaving any given state. Headline seems like BS. When a house turns over there’s a buyer as well as a seller. https://t.co/AzxybsoxkY

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 9, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 12:31PM
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Hungary’s much touted pro-natalist policy seems to be flopping https://t.co/JEzIyM3F9W

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 9, 2025

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December 09, 2025 at 12:12PM
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Trump could win an election today (and blow up US politics) with this one weird trick: Propose lowering the Medicare age to 55.**

Someone poll it, please! (It polled well in the Clinton years, I think.)

**–Unfortunately Trump is not up for reelection.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 9, 2025

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December 08, 2025 at 08:41PM
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I tend to blame more the MSM** for reflexively or intentionally spreading the shoddiness and failing to call BS (which is their job) on any of it until the 2024 election intervened … Still hard to believe Donilon et al actually believed it, though.

**–With some exceptions I https://t.co/HaNldVxxa9

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 9, 2025

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December 08, 2025 at 08:27PM
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UCLA’s big chance here! https://t.co/rdLTwXc7FI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 9, 2025

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December 08, 2025 at 08:15PM
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Amazingly disappointing. 13 reporters contributing yet fails to crack Biden’s “circle of close confidants,” doesn’t even mention what Mayorkas’ role was, spends a lot of time on a few people who had bad ideas (e.g. flying migrants to their destinations at public expense). https://t.co/Jfo623DbrP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 8, 2025

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December 08, 2025 at 12:17AM
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Do we need a new Fed to regulate the growth of AI so we have full employment and no need for mass immigration? https://t.co/P5FWv5FvjG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 8, 2025

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December 07, 2025 at 10:04PM
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Do we need a new Fed to regulate the growth of AI so we have full employment with no need for mass immigration? https://t.co/P5FWv5FvjG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 8, 2025

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December 07, 2025 at 09:47PM
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A) AI will put a huge part of the population out of work!
B) We desperately need either more births or more immigrant workers!

Birth doomers and mass migration enthusiasts have a hard time with this contradiction.

@DouthatNYT (a doomer) talks about “wealth and technology and

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2025

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December 05, 2025 at 01:23AM
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A) AI will put a huge part of the population out of work!
B) We desperately need either more births or more immigrant workers!

Birth doomers and mass migration enthusiasts have a hard time with this contradiction.

@DouthatNYT (a doomer) talks about “wealth and technology and

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2025

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December 05, 2025 at 01:10AM
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.@tedfrank had an explanation: Palantir got better. https://t.co/ibDqzFPVy7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2025

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December 05, 2025 at 12:22AM
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I know Bill Gates’ spokeswoman’s said Gates was amused by Epstein’s “unique decor” in other contexts https://t.co/5GyimzjTp8, but these island rooms seem kind of…dreary. Not rooms you sit in to look out the window. What could you do to entertain yourself? Frisbee on the patio? https://t.co/gLLtPuQZoy

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2025

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December 04, 2025 at 11:42PM
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I know Bill Gates’ spokeswoman’s said Gates is amused by Epstein’s “unique decor” in other contexts https://t.co/5GyimzjTp8, but these island rooms seem kind of…dreary. Not rooms you sit in to look out the window. What could you do to entertain yourself? Frisbee on the patio? https://t.co/gLLtPuQZoy

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2025

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December 04, 2025 at 11:40PM
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Yes it’s all Trumps fault https://t.co/0i8U73rNdY

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2025

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December 04, 2025 at 09:18PM
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