If only 500,000 Social Security recipients get paper checks, that’s surprisingly low. I would have thought shifting them to digital would produce Tea Party II. https://t.co/TBCOH3N2e3 PS I’m much more scared of electronic theft than physical theft. Aren’t you?
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Jun 4, 2025
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ICE doing its job. But if you’re looking to avoid backlash, while sacrificing some shock & awe, may I recommend E-Verify? Could accomplishe the same goal more quietly. Just saying. … https://t.co/XXl5A9U53V
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Jun 4, 2025
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June 04, 2025 at 06:51PM
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Also: DC lawyers would be begging in the streets, eating at McKenna’s Wagon. Wouldn’t even last until they were replaced by AI. …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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June 04, 2025 at 06:12PM
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“'[T]he biggest obstacle to fast, decisive, ambitious government action was the Administrative Procedure Act ….’Time and time again, [ex-Biden official] Ramamurti says, it was fear of lawsuits filed by corporate interests under the APA that thwarted government action.” https://t.co/Bj2venZVTh
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Jun 4, 2025
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Key point to remember: If Congress just passed regulations as statutes there would be none of APA’s procedural chazerei–no notice & comment, no judicial review for anything “arbitrary and capricious”(eg whatever the judge doesn’t like). APA wouldn’t apply. Only issue would be https://t.co/6Pv7hVckJ2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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June 04, 2025 at 04:31PM
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Serious question: Have any actually significant spending reforms (e.g. reductions) been achieved by using debt limit leverage? Seems to me it takes up a huge amount of DC’s political energy and either conservatives lose or wind up with mostly window-dressing reform. https://t.co/Q6FTrHvArs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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June 04, 2025 at 04:25PM
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In other words, win/win!
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Jun 4, 2025
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June 03, 2025 at 10:52PM
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The Admin Procedures Act imposes a layer of judicial review of regs due to the suspect democratic bona fides of rules declared by unaccountable “independent” agencies. If regs are now to be produced by a democratically accountable president fighting with an accountable Congress, https://t.co/Zre5xSfkLh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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June 03, 2025 at 10:47PM
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The point is “There is no easy solution.” Bezos’ Post has become Hugh Sidey on Agronsky & Co. https://t.co/X7BdaZunLV https://t.co/uYsTmD47Vz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 3, 2025
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June 03, 2025 at 04:59PM
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The point is “There is no easy solution”! Bezos’ post has become Hugh Sidey on Agronsky & Co. https://t.co/X7BdaZunLV https://t.co/uYsTmD47Vz
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Jun 3, 2025
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June 03, 2025 at 04:54PM
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.@nytimes hours behind Fox’s @BillMelugin_ –still hasn’t ID’d the perp suspect in Boulder as an immigrant (let alone an illegal immigrant) https://t.co/jvgMDTFca4
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Jun 2, 2025
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June 02, 2025 at 12:36AM
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“Mr. Simion said that ‘globalists’ intended to steal the Polish election as, he claimed without evidence, they had done in Romania.” Huh? In Romania they annulled the first election and banned the winner from the second. https://t.co/sm4mCnaGoZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 2, 2025
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June 01, 2025 at 10:50PM
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OK, so why *did* Trump drop Isaacman? https://t.co/nFwHgYVz30
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Jun 2, 2025
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June 01, 2025 at 10:37PM
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Up to a point, Lord Trzaskowski https://t.co/Ktf2V53DnI
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Jun 2, 2025
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I don’t think this is a new clip. Still … https://t.co/eP6DdyU2Ea
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Jun 2, 2025
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In fact, if Trump is smart he’ll release his own version of “Abundance”–attacking the “legalistic commitment to fragmentary proceduralism,” maybe with more suburbs. That could end the idea that it’s an election-deciding partisan issue-unless it’d decide election in favor of GOP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 1, 2025
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Especially suspect is the idea that “Abundance” offers a “vision that contrasts sharply and clearly [with] Trump’s.” Removing legalistic impediments to construction, cutting NEPA enviro delays, pruning procedurallism installed by libs? Trump would go for these things in a second.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 1, 2025
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June 01, 2025 at 03:35PM
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“Luke & Leanna/Don’t have any children/They said they didn’t want ’em/ But lately she’s thinking/ What’s the point of this whole thing …”
It’s a powerful song. You gotta listen to the whole thing. https://t.co/WO05YSVcJt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 1, 2025
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June 01, 2025 at 02:54AM
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“Luke & Leanna/Don’t have any children/They said they didn’t want ’em/ But lately she’s thinking/ What’s the point of this whole thing …”
This is a powerful song. https://t.co/WO05YSUETV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 1, 2025
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June 01, 2025 at 02:49AM
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It’s like the Dems are having a “civil war” over whether roofs should leak. Do you stand for spending $42 billion on internet access and connecting “zero customers”? I say no! And this is the “tentpole” around which a new Dem party can be built!
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 1, 2025
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Chait on Abundance: “Its ideas are ambitious enough …” You think? Abundites want government to work again–they sound like Charlie Peters disciples from the 70s, which is a good thing. But after that, what sort of society do they want? What about income diffferences, racism,
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 1, 2025
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Chait on Abundance: “Its ideas are ambitious enough …” You think? Abundites want government to work again–they sound like Charlie Peters disciples from the 70s, which is a good thing. But after that, what sort of society do they want? What about income diffferences, racism,
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 1, 2025
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June 01, 2025 at 01:48AM
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Take that, DINKS https://t.co/hFsJYd6JOj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 1, 2025
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May 31, 2025 at 11:39PM
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.@EllisItems very clarifying on Trump and AI threat: “[R]ealistically, we’re left with Mr. Schwarzman, members of the MIT community and Mr. Musk as the candidates most likely to steer Mr. Trump’s thinking on how to ‘regulate’ artificial intelligence.” https://t.co/BY6c01AAZE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 31, 2025
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May 31, 2025 at 07:34PM
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Niskanen Center: Wrong on mass immigration. Wrong on “child tax credit” welfare. Don’t need to look for strike three. https://t.co/VbM7ebFi2y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 31, 2025
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