Payday for Elliott Investment? (Isn’t that Paul Singer?) https://t.co/SDhyIJwink

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Jan 7, 2026

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January 07, 2026 at 02:55PM
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My favorite part’s when Cohn says the blame may not lie with Walz’s administration but “with factors beyond its control”-i.e. running day care by outsourcing to private groups. That “‘does require more aggressive oversight.'” Who if not Walz was supposed to do that oversight? https://t.co/rKAiynxNvA

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 7, 2026

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January 07, 2026 at 01:58AM
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Even the liberal @CitizenCohn looks at the Minn. Fraud scandals and discovers (in the words of fellow liberal @haroldpollack) that “A really bad thing happened, and it demonstrated a real failure of public management that has to be addressed. AND THE SCALE OF IT WAS JUST

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 7, 2026

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January 07, 2026 at 01:50AM
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Only 4 of the 7 cars in front of me at this random stoplight in West LA are Teslas. Maybe Tesla sales are down because they’ve already sold one to the people who want one, and those people have kept them, the cars have held up and there are no new Tesla models to buy.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 7, 2026

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January 06, 2026 at 10:44PM
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Klobuchar’s problem as a presidential candidate was that she talked like a candidate for local or state office–sensible, but all small-bore and compromise. No national vision. Governor is a good choice for her.

PS Pushing out Franken was a mistake. Triumph of short-termism. https://t.co/DZP6GOCmN2

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 7, 2026

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January 06, 2026 at 09:33PM
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They’re going to pounce, aren’t they? https://t.co/xdVYf2FuxW

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Jan 6, 2026

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January 05, 2026 at 11:48PM
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They did also adopt a reading curriculum based on phonics, Dionne notes. You would think this reversion to old methods has worked out well, as it has in other states. But check on that too. https://t.co/Btxc3W9gPg

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 6, 2026

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January 05, 2026 at 10:15PM
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Minnesota Democrats won the “trifecta” in 2022 and basically enacted the entire Biden Dem agenda–family and medical leave, child tax credits, gun restrictions and lots more. @EJDionne was ecstatic. (“Momentous.) I made a mental note to come back in a few years and see if

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Jan 6, 2026

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January 05, 2026 at 10:11PM
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A big, definitive piece on this was written by @blaineharden decades ago–I forget if it was in the NYT or WaPo.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 6, 2026

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January 05, 2026 at 09:54PM
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Of course, strict enforcement of elaborate “New Property” tenant protections — eg drug dealers fighting eviction — was what turned public housing developments into crime-ridden hellholes. Not crazy to say Cea Weaver embodies Mamdani’s contradictions. https://t.co/5M9AdZ8qOr

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 6, 2026

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January 05, 2026 at 09:53PM
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How dare they change the weather forecast. I have a reliance interest!

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 4, 2026

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January 04, 2026 at 05:16PM
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AFTER WATERGATE BURGLARY, NIXON’S A DEMOCRATIC PUNCHING BAG. https://t.co/5F8gyYZhxG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 4, 2026

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January 04, 2026 at 01:31AM
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They used to just pounce. “Tim Walz was a Democratic hopeful. Now, he’s a Republican punching bag.” https://t.co/Ck1FkHuwsT

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Jan 4, 2026

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January 04, 2026 at 01:29AM
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Link: https://t.co/5bZ43cL2DE
“The U.S. government has since repeatedly raised its reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction — increasing it to as much as $50 million in August. It remains unclear whether the reward will be paid out, or to whom.’’

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 4, 2026

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January 04, 2026 at 01:22AM
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“Don’t let anybody claim it,” Trump quipped at the news conference. “Nobody deserves it but us.’’

Do we ever actually pay up on this type of reward? (And if we did, wouldn’t whoever claimed it be marked for death?)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 4, 2026

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January 04, 2026 at 12:50AM
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The CIA is bragging. Skepticism always advisable https://t.co/v17t63Lshh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 4, 2026

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January 04, 2026 at 12:33AM
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OK. Now back to Epstein? …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 3, 2026

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January 03, 2026 at 04:39PM
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Here’s the key sentence: “This gap of 78,000 suggests that immigrants left the workforce and native-born workers filled those vacated positions. Using the foreign-born employment-to-population ratio of 63.5%, this implies net negative immigration of only about 123,000 people .”

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 3, 2026

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January 03, 2026 at 04:35PM
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The St. Louis Fed report confronts both the 1) CPS “locked in” population problem cited by Gurley and 2) the ‘immigrants just didn’t answer the survey’ problem by consulting other statistical sources (eg. the CES establishment survey of jobs). It seems to conclude that what Trump https://t.co/cjobWSgmKa

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Jan 3, 2026

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January 03, 2026 at 04:33PM
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Ah. We are ‘cultivating a new partner.” https://t.co/D5rNJ8i4kH

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Jan 3, 2026

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January 03, 2026 at 03:37PM
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I suppose you could “read the room” and then, Hitchens-style, tell the room to go screw themselves, but that’s not the way the phrase is used. https://t.co/uFd5VTRi11

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 2, 2026

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January 02, 2026 at 02:48PM
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This genre of journalism, where you knock down a Trump claim by calling a select few experts, whose conclusion is then presented to readers with absolute certainty, should be thoroughly disreputable by now.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 2, 2026

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January 02, 2026 at 02:19PM
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Hmm. The number of jobs is still growing. albeit more slowly than before. Meanwhile “immigrants are leaving the U.S. labor market, economists agree.” So who is taking the new jobs? Space aliens? https://t.co/GNZ8XlyBDV

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Jan 2, 2026

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January 02, 2026 at 02:15PM
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A theme of https://t.co/bKeiVB1jOS https://t.co/NX8WM4Fwbv

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 2, 2026

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January 02, 2026 at 01:50PM
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Seems obvious why landlords wouldn’t provide appliances–they want tenants who’ll stay a long time, and a tenant who invests in a fridge (and stove, I think, in some apartments) isn’t likely to leave in a few months. (NYT makes no attempt to explain why) https://t.co/bdVxQWtaiE

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 2, 2026

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January 02, 2026 at 01:47PM
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