Worst thing ever for the housing affordability crisis: It’s getting better on its own, even in California (thanks in part to the end, for now, of mass immigration). https://t.co/1CH3hdj9uT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 29, 2026
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April 29, 2026 at 04:16AM
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Here’s a map of the scene. Doesn’t seem like he had far to go to get in, but you make the call: https://t.co/QTXEA7yZ5A https://t.co/LQVrQy3lxG
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Apr 29, 2026
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April 29, 2026 at 03:35AM
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More evidence that anytime someone (especially a business) claims to have “reimagined” something, run for the hills. https://t.co/px6p6a0ckb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 at 06:33PM
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Maybe add skyboxes where “Reserve” members can eat and look down on proles buying $14 take-out cauliflower. https://t.co/JZfPWFKcJZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 at 03:10PM
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Why turn an extremely successful upscale LA grocery store, ready to go national, into a stratified Las Vegas club? One answer: They don’t want to go national. They want to milk this for all the $$ possible now, because they know it will end. https://t.co/px6p6a0ckb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 at 03:08PM
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.@Erewhon being badly advised, I think. It’s expensive but doors are open to rich and poor, and it attracts a lot of non-rich, aspirational customers. Now they’re not going to feel like rich people for a few hours–half of them are going to feel like peons. https://t.co/B2sPR2Yt57
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 at 03:06PM
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Social equality dies at @Erewhon: They’re unveiling at least three tiers of membership, with “priority in-story checkout” for the elite. https://t.co/GGlYFdJklh So two lines? Or three?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 at 03:03PM
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“The gunman was stopped at an outer security ring and would have had to penetrate several additional defensive layers to get into the ballroom… a person familiar with the planning said.”
Do you believe that? Seems like he got past the main ring and was a few steps away from
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 at 01:24PM
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My sense is that politicians aren’t encouraging Dems to get crazier and crazier. They’re rushing to keep up with grassroots Dems getting crazier and crazier. It’s the only way to get attention, money, traction. (Formerly semi-responsible pols aren’t calling for violence, but https://t.co/oZa0jMVb2R
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 at 01:12PM
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So this is the BS job that’s left after AI: planning “events” and “brand experiences” (“everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to large-scale industry activations”). I nominate @Justin_B_Smith.
https://t.co/ThMq50Pcac— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 at 02:14AM
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Is that like staying at the Hampton Inn? https://t.co/XmLyE9XKmo
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Apr 28, 2026
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April 27, 2026 at 11:53PM
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RIghtly booed by Sherman Oaks residents. But she doesn’t need Sherman Oaks. (She could use some charm. She’s like the private equity version of Mamdani.) https://t.co/eVYQ79I5I1
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Apr 28, 2026
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April 27, 2026 at 11:47PM
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They have free coffee. https://t.co/zl3W5LumGS
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Apr 28, 2026
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April 27, 2026 at 11:39PM
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This seems to be part of the answer–booming number of “vanlords.” It’s hard to believe the local government and NGOs don’t have some role in trying to steer this trend. Do they view it as a positive development, compared to the alternatives–especially given upcoming Olympics? https://t.co/1NMFdpfv2p
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 27, 2026
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April 27, 2026 at 03:59AM
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Not sure @chamath is right here. To get at billionaires’ intangible property (eg stocks) the “Billionaire Tax Act” includes a state constitutional amendment, creating an exception to an existing state constitutional limit of 0.4% for taxing intangibles. The amendment “authorizes https://t.co/r1oOXP5b8o
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 27, 2026
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April 26, 2026 at 10:27PM
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Not sure @chamath is right here. To get at billionaire’s intangible property (eg stocks) the “Billionaire Tax Act” includes a state constitutional amendment, creating an exception to an existing state constitutional limit of 0.4% for taxing intangibles. The amendment “authorizes https://t.co/r1oOXP5b8o
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 27, 2026
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April 26, 2026 at 09:32PM
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Pattern seems to fit Mangione, Tyler Robinson and Cole Allen. https://t.co/tiTToAmY4Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026 at 07:28PM
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Good points. I suspect California has changed for the worse since the Schwarzenegger revolt–more dogmatically Dem, with a more powerful and disciplined Dem turnout/harvesting/ID politics machine. Hope I’m wrong. https://t.co/kj36js5GZr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026 at 07:16PM
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Pattern seems to fit Mangione, Tyler Robinson and Coe Allen. https://t.co/tiTToAmY4Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026 at 07:08PM
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For Mangione, see: https://t.co/CiEOeYoL6k
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026 at 07:02PM
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Isn’t there a pattern emerging of a type who attempts assassination that might be called the “Luigi”?
–very intelligent, generally left
–from a not-small family (2 siblings)
–fails to live up to early promise
(maybe add others–eg family is conservative? studied— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026 at 07:02PM
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In many respects, Trump’s new ballroom seems less safe than the Hilton ballroom. The former— like WH itself—is out in open, subject to attack from ordinary battlefield weapons. The Hilton ballroom is buried deep under a large building. https://t.co/YKKtPqymqo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026 at 01:33AM
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Re: Spencer Pratt (LA mayoral candidate). Winning over skeptics. https://t.co/L1TDCfZtmD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 25, 2026
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April 25, 2026 at 03:32PM
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Gallego’s ides of “border enforcment” IS amnesty. You came here illegally? “Get yourself right with the government.” Not “get out of the country.” https://t.co/OLcvmz0r0r
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 25, 2026
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April 25, 2026 at 03:02PM
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“A bad deal with Iran is one that removes the highly enriched uranium from Iran and reopens the Strait of Hormuz but at the price of sanctions relief.”–Michael Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to US. https://t.co/WOlMilLM3X I dunno, sounds OK to me. We have to solve all
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 25, 2026
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April 25, 2026 at 12:20AM
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