Advocate for city building. Hyping up nuclear energy ⚛️, transit 🚇, bicycles 🚲, and housing 🏘️. Mostly on bluesky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/wu0Lset8OY

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In 2024, northern Illinois was the nuclear king. ⚡️ 93 TWh electricity consumed ⚛️ 89 TWh estimated nuclear electricity generation ⏰ Nuclear exceeded load 47% of the time 📅 Nuclear exceeded load on 338 days 💵 ¢17.2 per kilowatt hour for residential electricity
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Michael McLean retweeted
Imagine a world without a gazillion Scam PAC emails and texts. Imagine that inbox pollution GONE. In that same world, must-win races have millions more in hard-money ... and at a time HMP says $17m more would help win unthinkable races. Nuke 'em. Good politics. Good policy.
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Michael McLean retweeted
left-NIMBYs think left-YIMBYs are private development absolutists because they’re public housing absolutists and lack the intellectual horsepower to comprehend a position more nuanced than their own.
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Michael McLean retweeted
Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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Border security being dead last is so fucking funny
Useful @gelliottmorris look at who the undecided voters are and what they care about. gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10…
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This is the moment that won Lula the runoff: Bolsonaro: "Why did 60% of the prisoners vote for you???" Lula: "I want 100%, including your father!!!"
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Michael McLean retweeted
Victor Orban - GONE Aleksandar Vučić - GONE Flavio Bolsanaro- FLOP Up next is the Republican Party next week… 👀
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Michael McLean retweeted
Nevada firewall grew to 🔵 D+15,600 last night The same day equivalent in 2024 was 🔴 R+32,000 Election Day was only R+1% in 2024 but obviously that can change from election to election
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Michael McLean retweeted
Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
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Michael McLean retweeted
The whiter the precinct in Texas, the worse the precinct is holding up compared to this point in 2024.
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Michael McLean retweeted
Dems putting another $264K into Darren Soto’s FL-09. Serious chance the FL GOP fails to flip even a SINGLE one of the seats they gerrymandered.
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YIMBY martial law declared in California!
HUGE new Ct. of Appeal decision holds that CA homeowners whose ADU application was denied may sue city for damages. The logic sweeps broadly, probably reaching all housing projects subject to ministerial approval under state law -- and perhaps even more. 🧵/23
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The winner of the most “free” state in America looks like … this single-family-only zoning is the anthesis of freedom
My latest for @PostOpinions is a first look at the new & improved "Freedom in the 50 States" report from @CatoInstitute, discussing how common partisan breakdowns of economic & personal freedom in the US are mostly wrong: wapo.st/4igStdq (🎁)
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The pardon power has to be reformed. In the wrong hands it can create an authoritarian state
Trump White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers — as Trump allies press the administration to protect lower-ranked officials from prosecution and other legal challenges, according to two sources familiar with the conversations. washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
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OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.
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Daily Mail: Texas Governor Greg Abbott warns that if Democrats win Texas, Republicans might not win the presidency ever again “If we lose Texas, there's no chance ever for the future of the United States” dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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Michael McLean retweeted
Nevada (mail + early vote) firewall for Dems grew to 🔵 D+13,000 votes last night At this point in 2024 it was 🔴 R+ 30,000
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Michael McLean retweeted
Elon Musk's total political spending in the 2025-2026 cycle: $469 million, by my count.
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Palmer Luckey warns America cannot compete with China’s population advantage forever through innovation alone: “We need 1 BILLION Americans minimum. Probably more like 2 or 3 billion.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “Yes, we need to get our act together. We need to do better at manufacturing, at defense, all these things. But everything is just biting around the margins if we’re 350 million people and they’re 2 billion people who are roughly the same. How exceptional do we have to be to achieve a 10-to-1 ratio forever, in perpetuity? It’s not practical. It’s not logical. I would say it’s even possibly a racist thing to believe that we can be so much better than China and the Chinese people that we’ll just beat them with a tiny fraction of the population. We need to do better with what we’ve got. But we also just need a lot more people. We need 1 billion Americans minimum, probably more like 2 or 3 billion, with better demographics and better natural resources. The Dutch once had the most powerful navy in the world. They didn’t lose that position because they fell behind on factories or shipbuilding. They became economically irrelevant.” Both countries are competing with respect to declining birth rates. Both nations must be more willing to have children and expand the population growth exponentially over the next decade. The current economic path is unsustainable if our labor force begins to shrink even with artificial intelligence on the rise.
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Michael McLean retweeted
Elon Musk found us here. We’re indigenous to this land.
If people dislike Elon Musk so much, why do they still use the platform he owns?
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Michael McLean retweeted
Round one of the battle between the coalition of evil comprised by Putin, Musk and Trump vs US Congress and the Free World - and we won.
Ukrainian officials now confirm: Starlink is back at its previous speed
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