“What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven!” https://t.co/NJ4em1iu7y

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 16, 2025

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January 16, 2025 at 01:47PM
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Shorter: ‘Easier to impose apartment buildings & density on working class people, because they really shouldn’t have been owning single family homes in the first place, you know … ‘ https://t.co/3iDOwWC20I

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Jan 16, 2025

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January 16, 2025 at 12:44AM
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Barn door, locked https://t.co/YVJTSyLrLb

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Jan 16, 2025

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January 16, 2025 at 12:38AM
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This seems like a big deal. (I’ve been wrong before …) https://t.co/cCu8G8Bx8u

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Jan 16, 2025

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January 16, 2025 at 12:34AM
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“Everyone in LA hates Karen Bass now,”

What are they putting in Cenk Uygur’s food? https://t.co/6HdYD6uvrB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 16, 2025

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January 16, 2025 at 12:12AM
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“The Santa Ynez Reservoir had been out of commission since February of 2024, awaiting repairs to its cover …LADWP made the conscious decision not to timely repair the Santa Ynez Reservoir cover, leaving the reservoir drained and unusable, all as a ‘cost-saving’ measure.” https://t.co/G1qWnf8cM5

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 16, 2025

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January 15, 2025 at 08:16PM
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I forget the Charlie Peters party line on ‘blue slips’. Jimmy Carter tried to get rid of them. They seem like a way to cement establishment hold on Fed justice system. But they’re surely a barrier to any president’s authoritarian ambitions, no? They remain in place under Trump https://t.co/Pigki5vP6Y

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2025

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January 14, 2025 at 10:06PM
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Also tension:
‘We need to end zoning restrictions so we can build, build, build everywhere!’

‘Don’t blame Bass & Newsom! It was an arrogant defiance of nature to build where Palisades is. Actually, it was a mistake to build Los Angeles where it is.’

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2025

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January 14, 2025 at 09:25PM
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Thread. Good point: https://t.co/SoSAQufCpu

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2025

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January 14, 2025 at 08:48PM
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.@LATimes suggests the cataclysmic Palisades fire was started by an earlier New Year’s Eve fire (itself started by fireworks) that wasn’t quite snuffed out by the Fire Department. Could be politically explosive, if true. Also does not fit the ‘destruction was inevitable’ Hubris… https://t.co/9I1gPzZDd1

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025

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January 14, 2025 at 04:18AM
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Amazing videos of what look like the first moments of the Palisades fire. Hard to know what to make of them. https://t.co/GLpiZ4msjO https://t.co/qykMPRDAwV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025

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January 14, 2025 at 03:32AM
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Bonin was city coumcilman for the area and a protector of the homeless https://t.co/AQ9XzolK3T and https://t.co/4r28vDhILQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 11:27PM
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Boninfire of the Vanities https://t.co/KLGSf0eLGv

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Jan 14, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 11:09PM
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BREAKING: Federal and Local Arson Investigators Converge at Site of Palisades Fire Ignition https://t.co/Ue6QJxX873

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 09:39PM
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.@NYTimes pounces! (I’ve missed the old kick-em-when-they’re-down, knives-out journalistic instinct. Welcome back.)@NYTimes. https://t.co/33SIPymDnv

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Jan 14, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 08:56PM
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Seems more likely that Biden’s seizing on the dip in #s at the very end of his term (thanks, Mexico) and exaggerating that, Biden-style, into the lie that he reduced illegal immigration. He graduated in the top half of his law school class and marched in the civil rights… https://t.co/j990BJuw1i https://t.co/n5cW3D93kV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 08:39PM
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The more difficult question, it seems to me, is whether at his age a) Biden consciously decides to lie about x or b) his brain now functions on autopilot to construct a fantasy reality that it thinks (incorrectly, at this point) will work for him politically.… https://t.co/1d18Z9HhfV https://t.co/Xc8zgOXmrO

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 08:38PM
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Seems more likely that he’s seizing on the dip in #s at the very end (thanks, Mexico) and exaggerating that, Biden-style, into the lie that he reduced illegal immigration. He graduated in the top half or his law school class and marched in the civil rights movement, remember. https://t.co/n5cW3D93kV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 08:32PM
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Stay paranoid https://t.co/GvesWWFqeA

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Jan 13, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 12:58AM
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Hmm. Can I get back to you on this? https://t.co/rQL4zoBMFt

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 13, 2025

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January 13, 2025 at 12:38AM
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‘We don’t have enough housing and apartments for the people here. YIMBY!”

‘We need a half a billion more immigrants!’

I still claim there’s a bit of tension between those two positions

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 13, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 07:10PM
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East Coast intellectuals ate his bullshit up, of course …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:33PM
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PS: The LATimes once sent a reporter to fact check Davis’ “Ecology of Fear.” The conclusion –softpedaled in the lede–was inescapable: Davis was full of … blarney. His tall tales were wrong in key details, bent to fit a story. https://t.co/uvPRObDiYZ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:30PM
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The resurrection of Mike Davis’ “Ecology of Fear” would be an especially high price to pay in the aftermath the apolcalyptic destruction. Davis made a big deal of noting that SoCal has tornadoes! His problem is that he couldn’t document a case in which LA’s tornadoes had killed… https://t.co/RZmAG9p3ws

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:24PM
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It’s especially convenient for liberal Democrats to say “Stop Blaming Politicians. L.A. Was Built to Burn.” when the politicians in question all happen to be liberal Democrats. But let’s put that aside for now …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:19PM
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