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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Mediaite: Former Miss Switzerland Accuses Trump of Rape A former Miss Switzerland alleges that President Donald Trump raped her while she was in the U.S. for a pageant in 1993. The allegation was included in a report released on Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. mediaite.com/media/news/form…
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Geothermal well drilling has been completed at 410 N Elizabeth Street in Chicago. 🕳️65 wells 📏800ft deep 🪏Total bore length is 22 miles Building heat is going to be one of the hardest things to decarbonize in northern latitudes. Although they get a lot of hype, air source heat pumps lose efficiency in deep cold. At high penetration rates they will cause lots of peak strain on the energy system. Ground source heat pumps don’t lose much efficiency in a cold snap, so they consume a lot less electricity. Awesome to see the technology deployed at this scale in Chicago! chicago.urbanize.city/post/m…
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Michael McLean retweeted
Democratic turnout in Florida hits 30% of their registered voter pool
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Apparently part of the cheat code to gaining 5% in three weeks: banning DraftKings. Paging US politicians :P
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Michael McLean retweeted
Friday is what now?
This week @StateNavigate Tuesday: Vermont Governor poll Wednesday: Georgia Governor poll Thursday: Minnesota Governor poll Friday: Nagasaki Saturday: TBD
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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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Michael McLean retweeted
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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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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