For modern architecture fans, he seems like the Hugh Stubbins of cinema.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 24, 2026

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July 23, 2026 at 10:40PM
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PS Wolff got much better (esp. on Murdoch) before he became crazily obsessed with the idea that he could get Jeffrey Epstein to destroy Trump.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 24, 2026

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July 23, 2026 at 10:35PM
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Please, no. A friend of mine once called the journalist Michael Wolff a “topic killer”–he’d latch onto a great subjectc\ and do a mediocre job writing about it–but just good enough of a job to preclude someone else from tackling it. Nolan’s a cinematic Michael Wolff. https://t.co/fQQWLDUmXm

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 24, 2026

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July 23, 2026 at 10:31PM
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Finally started reading Robert Wright’s AI book, “The God Test,” worried that it’d be too technical, filled with Silicon Valley jargon, or too familiar (I did a podcast with Bob for years). I should have known that it would be completely accessible, with normal, engaging language

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 24, 2026

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July 23, 2026 at 10:16PM
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FWIW https://t.co/jeTVNEgX7F

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2026

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July 23, 2026 at 05:22PM
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Events first. Journalism second. https://t.co/6Gs6hc9Ndn

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2026

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July 23, 2026 at 04:01PM
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“Gavin Newsom is running a shakedown campaign against major companies” that helps fund the NGO blob.

I mean, why would corporations want to relocate out of California?

https://t.co/RjPSFHDQPr

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2026

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July 23, 2026 at 02:51PM
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“Kids” up to 25 years old? OK! Why not also lower the Medicare age a bit? https://t.co/8uEZ8SgTrh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2026

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July 22, 2026 at 10:56PM
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“The bill would flood cheap H-2A migrants into many additional jobs — and so force young Americans out of the rural districts, said Jenks. ‘Americans living in those areas … are going to have to leave — they’re not going to have any choice,'” https://t.co/bZ51x0yCSQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2026

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July 22, 2026 at 10:43PM
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.@NPR actually led its new summary–before Iran war–with the Nolan Wells case, despite no big new info (inconclusive autopsy) and still no evidence of foul play. Maybe one day it will be a big story but for now we need a @davidfolkenflik report on @npr’s bizarre news judgment.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2026

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July 22, 2026 at 07:08PM
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How does Trump (via his cat’s paws at the agency) get to write regs that are in effect laws? Because Congress has delegated that power to the agency and the recent Slaughter case says independent agencies are controlled by the WH. Right? Would this be a good occasion for Congress https://t.co/oXbpuYXS9U

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2026

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July 22, 2026 at 02:28AM
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Of course in the 1950s there was also a broken correlation between high education and income: Liberals were insecure, non-rich middle class folks who made up with pretentious consumption (Olivetti typewriters) what they lacked in $. (See Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling.) The ultimate https://t.co/7asuj5voR3

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2026

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July 22, 2026 at 02:09AM
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Will pending changes in the regs of federal historic preservation laws allow the razing of Greenwich Village and Georgetown? https://t.co/Hkxj6Aevhw Neither the Yglesian Abundance movement nor Donald Trump has any feel for preservation–eg not ripping down the old Penn Station.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2026

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July 22, 2026 at 01:52AM
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“Instead, they found that lower birth rates predicted faster growth in output per working-age adult and, in turn, higher wages, with no decline in aggregate output.” https://t.co/1slVq0Bu3y

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 11:00PM
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But then why doesn’t CA do the simple thing–anonymously compare the voter rolls with the list of those who have the AB60 “illegals” driver’s license? Just to see if the overlap number is big or small. As Claude sums the argument: “if the state is confident no AB 60 holders are https://t.co/NoEzjoHGTq

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 10:30PM
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Coincidentally Gov Newsom just signed a law moving California decisively toward a system of digital mobile IDs. https://t.co/2pngGVR6z3 What could go wrong? https://t.co/9KdrE8j18X

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 10:14PM
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It’s like disbanding Saddam’s army. Gee, wonder what will happen … https://t.co/DHWA9iUmeH

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 06:16PM
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When AI starts destroying “symbolic analyst” high-Merit careers, it’s not hard to see who will lead the anti-AI revolution. … https://t.co/CMyME6CepQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 06:10PM
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Scooter Braun would have been better.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 02:58PM
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Zendaya was awful. Sydney Sweeney would have been better.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2026

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July 21, 2026 at 02:49AM
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In some sectors, there were big jumps in pay under Trump: Landscaping (6.74 percent). Parking lots & garages (10.75 percent). In a smaller number of sectors Biden did better, including “Disability, mental health & substance abuse facilities” (whose decline may not be a bad thing)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 04:51PM
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The Beat Goes On; “[P]rice-adjusted hourly pay of U.S. private sector blue-collar workers during the deportations-heavy second Trump administration has fared better than it had under the most directly comparable period of the Open Borders-friendly Biden administration.”

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 04:46PM
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Weird. It’s almost like there’s a large group of people — I can’t think of a word for it — who are suddenly and simultaneously attacking JD Vance from every possible angle, however spurious, since his Joe Rogan interview. I hope they put an end to all the paranoid conspiracy https://t.co/PWpzGhFOXd

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 02:50PM
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I guess not! https://t.co/qhJP60i2UL Bizarrely, the @NYT didn’t even notice Vance’s “striking” comments about Epstein and Israeli intelligence in its “5 Takeaways” coverage three days earlier https://t.co/bLXWnUQYRK https://t.co/a4qtP2rlZG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 01:45AM
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Josh Kerr has broken the mile record before a stadium of cheering fans https://t.co/nwblDlSnOt Worth watching Roger Bannister break the 4 minute mark in 1954 in a much lower key setting. An inspiration. https://t.co/5iLUUjozep

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 12:07AM
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