Recent show from Andreessen Horowitz on New Media stresses that you have to be authentic and maybe have some discipline responding to criticism. Co-founder Ben Horowitz: “If you start answering the X replies of people who have 50 followers … then like it’s just like a colossal
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Jun 30, 2026
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The estimable Dan Walters excuses the massive EDD fraud, in part, because it “reflected pressure, during the Joe Biden administration, to speed claims processing,” Well, maybe there was pressure from Biden (and now from Jeffries & Schumer) to increase Dem election wins too https://t.co/aMFhUDFkV6
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Jun 30, 2026
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“While unemployment fraud was rampant across country during the pandemic as governments rushed to provide support, California’s problems stood out.” Even the LAT agrees. If Newsom’s willing to tolerate billions in Covid unemployment fraud, why wouldn’t he be willing to tolerate
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Jun 30, 2026
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June 29, 2026 at 09:48PM
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Seems right to me. No big country will allow their auto industry to be killed. (UK can’t help if Jaguar commits suicide.) https://t.co/FPclW5QB8Y
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Jun 30, 2026
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June 29, 2026 at 08:58PM
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In other words, Earth becomes a swamp of purposeless UBI-based lassitude–not “paradise” https://t.co/4K59re9gpg. We need to launch ourselves into outer space to preserve normalcy (having a purpose, needing to work). https://t.co/bQB2gN2vNP
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Jun 29, 2026
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In other words, Earth becomes a swamp of purposeless UBI-based lassitude–not “paradise” https://t.co/4K59re9gpg. We need to launch ourselves into outer space to preserve normalcy (having a purpose, needing to work). https://t.co/A9mFHrQjJb
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Jun 29, 2026
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June 29, 2026 at 05:28PM
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The argument is that nationwide Voter ID is a reform that will smooth the way for other reforms–when it turns out that, contra Dem claims, it’s not an onerous suppression of the vote. https://t.co/E434Z7hz5u
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2026
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June 29, 2026 at 02:13PM
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Back and forth between me and @robertwrighter in the comments on this. https://t.co/kpW06o6zPH
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Jun 29, 2026
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June 28, 2026 at 09:59PM
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Here’s the official list, with some dollar amounts missing https://t.co/ss0Du4L4sz You make the call. (Looks wildly ineffective to me.) Note handy filters. https://t.co/WLxfAeUwuE
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Jun 28, 2026
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June 28, 2026 at 07:15PM
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Here’s a (partial, but big) list https://t.co/ss0Du4L4sz You make the call. (Looks wildly ineffective to me.) https://t.co/WLxfAeUwuE
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Jun 28, 2026
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June 28, 2026 at 07:11PM
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Where do you go if you think Bolton’s about to be oversentenced, and the antifa assholes in Texas were oversentenced? (70 years? 100 years?) https://t.co/n11FMb1A8d
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Jun 28, 2026
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“The Equality Act is being used to fine retailers like Next for paying warehouse workers more than those in shops, despite staff preferring to work in the shops. Meanwhile public sector regulations leave good staff torn between actually helping people and staring at screens.
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Jun 28, 2026
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Good grief. People are taking my bio seriously. I’ll have to change it. https://t.co/xlj4vUlz4a
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Jun 28, 2026
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What is the “God Test”? https://t.co/qKDVZ5dEmY
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Jun 27, 2026
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Takes me a half hour and I know what to expect. Imagine you’re a foreigner landing here for the first time.
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Jun 27, 2026
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June 26, 2026 at 08:01PM
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“Some say”? It’s a nightmare and a huge embarrassment for LA. https://t.co/75SJKwaf4t
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Jun 26, 2026
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Not much difference between “great replacement” (stripped of the anti-Semitism) and the Dem’s Coalition of the Ascendant. https://t.co/mYDtYGqXEK
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Jun 26, 2026
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Right, but Newsom’s obviously doing this mainly as cover for campaigning against the *state* wealth tax on the ballot in Nov. https://t.co/01cacMTP51
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Jun 26, 2026
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Two years ago, a cold storage locker in FInley, WA, owned by the same company that owns the burned LA facility, burned down. @lamaterial reports:
“L.A. is still waiting for more data on whether the smoke from the Boyle Heights fire contained any uniquely hazardous toxins. But
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 26, 2026
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Isn’t compromise obvious course now for GOPs? How about a bill with just requirement for a photo ID to vote. Drop the proof of citizenship for registration. (Let government enforce it.) Drop mail-in rules. I think mail-in rules are more important, but you take what you can get. https://t.co/ECJBgViIhj
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Jun 26, 2026
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June 26, 2026 at 05:17PM
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A left-wing community group (say, CHIRLA) is your landlord. You need your shower fixed. Their political wing knocks on your door, asks for your ballot. What are you gonna do? https://t.co/Lw3FqqDyy0
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Jun 26, 2026
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I disagree–it doesn’t turn it into a welfare program. I’d define “welfare” as “the government gives you money even if you don’t work”–eg. the old AFDC program. Even in a dramatically means-tested SS system you don’t qualify for anything if you haven’t worked the requisite https://t.co/FCWg8zRi3J
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 25, 2026
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A left-wing community group (CHIRLA) is your landlord. You need your shower fixed. Their political wing knocks on your door, asks for your ballot. What are you gonna do? https://t.co/Lw3FqqDyy0
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Jun 25, 2026
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Today’s crazy idea: If you want to take it out of the elderly’s hide, isn’t there an obvious mild means-test compromise solution: Let the 20% *overall* cut happen, but make the cut nothing for the poorest recipients, and about 40% for the richest, and 20% about halfway between https://t.co/SjmXaDZGz3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 25, 2026
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Why wasn’t a reasonable government response to evacuate the surrounding community? Expensive, yes. But what are taxes for?** People are going to have serious health problems down the road …
**Or get Caruso to pay for it. (“Boyle Heights is deeply personal to me.”) https://t.co/AtSCLorFzU
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Jun 25, 2026
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