Mickey Kaus

My old @NonzeroPods podcasts with @robertwrighter are here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rob… Archives of the Patreon Parrot Room podcasts [$] are here: nonzero.substack.com/t/parrot-room Parrot now resting.

Actually, this Gotti example is a bit off. It's not as bad as that. It's worse, in a sense. Trump has a power Gotti never had--the power to grant Ghislaine a pardon or commutation of her 20-year sentence.

I mean, to many people (not me) Trump is the prime suspect in this case. If the point is to end the conspiracy theories, why send a Trump lawyer to be first to talk to the key witness? To use an extreme example, what if John Gotti was being investigated and his consigliere rushed…

A vote on an immigration bill-to increase penalties on those entering illegally-was delayed when Trump's Epstein info clampdown provoked a House GOP revolt politico.com/news/2025/07/2… What was so important to Trump about squelching the inquiry that he was willing to pay this price?

Not sure the "Ghislaine testifies/disappoints/end of story" strategy will work now-her testimony's already tainted by her meeting with Trump's [ex?]-consigliere, Blanche. If point is to tamp down paranoia, bad move msn.com/en-us/news/cri…

My Cancer and My AI, by @NonzeroNews nonzero.org/p/my-cancer-an…

Let's retake that poll (see if anything's changed). Why the Epstein info lock-up?

Democrats deleted this tweet after everyone with eyes pointed out it showed grocery prices skyrocketed under Biden

.@semaforben thinks he was in it for the policy panels

Hard to believe Bill Clinton would be mixed up with any inappropriate conduct. wsj.com/us-news/jeffre…

A Massachusetts school secretly “transitioned” an 11-year-old girl behind her parents’ backs. Her parents said no. The school did it anyway! Now it’s headed to the Supreme Court.

Forbes 30 under 30 has been doing this for years

Weird. In the Lankford bill (which promoted ankle monitors) they didn't call them "shackles." Restrictionists should adopt the term, since their preferred requirement is detention, not ankle bracelets. 'Beds, not shackles!'

And they say X doesn't improve our civic dialogue

Next: Trump asks Sen. Stennis to review the Epstein evidence.

I joined @RyanGirdusky to discuss the evisceration of standards in medical school admissions and in medical school faculty and hospital hiring in the wake of the post-George Floyd mass racial psychosis. spreaker.com/episode/it-s-a…

The ECHR is a major reason for the illegal-immigration crisis in the UK, and they won't be able to fix it until the withdraw from the treaty. This new paper lays out how. (And then, maybe they can join us in pulling out of the UN refugee convention too!)

The ‘New Georgia’ Points to America’s Future Atlanta’s rapidly diversifying suburbs might provide a road map for coexistence in the rest of the country newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-… Did "old" Georgians vote for there to be a "New Georgia"?

The ‘Dignity Act’: Amnesty for 12 million now plus more than five million extra immigrants over the next decade cis.org/Fishman/Dignit… A deep dive into the amnesty and increased-immigration provisions in @RepMariaSalazar's latest "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" proposal.

And of course Blanche is, implicitly if not explicitly, carrying with him the prospect of a pardon or commutation for Maxwell ... Normally prosecutors dangle favorable treatment if criminals implicate others, but the opposite seems more likely in this case. Whole thing stinks.