Michael McLeary

Excellence is good, actually.

Cognitive Infrastructure Engineer.

Unlicensed Pundit.

La energía es vida.

The famines are intentional.

[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

We can get back to culture war after the totalitarian takeover of our "cognitive infrastructure" is ripped out at the root..

If you haven't heard that phrase, look up Missouri v Biden.

[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

@drawandstrike Assuming DNC gives RFK Jr the Bernie treatment,

Trump should invite Bobby to be his running mate.

R/D split ticket to obliterate the deep state.

[Marco Rubio @marcorubio]

After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.

The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.

In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.

Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

Donald Trump in 2015:

“The problem in Syria is we have no idea who the other side are. Maybe we’re better off with Assad. We give (the Rebels) weapons and ammunition but, to me, Assad looks better than the other side.”

How right he was! 💯

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

To deport a lawful permanent resident over a speech issue without due process or a criminal conviction is un-American. Maybe this is the new America, but let’s be honest that we are gutting the First Amendment, the cornerstone of what makes us a free country.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Every grandiose EU lecture on “democracy” must now have a mandatory sitcom laugh track

[KitasanBlackLover7 @CrimeofCritique]

I think this is legitimately the first time a politician has done a meme and
1. It not be cringe
2. It's actually funny
3. Shows he's in the culture

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

This 1000%. I too used to think male strength was mostly about size until my super-skinny college boyfriend, who actually weighed less than me, effortlessly pinned me in a (playful) wrestling match, then held me down with one arm while he ostentatiously took a bite of his sandwich

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

This is, in fact, how I ended up writing a bunch of columns on trans issues: someone name-checked me in the Lia Thomas controversy, I thought "Wait, do grown people still really believe this?" and it turned out that yes, many do--and as someone who is perpetually annoyed when tiny women in movies beat the crap out of huge men, and likes to argue on the internet, I happened to have some research at my fingertips on male athletic advantage ...

[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

@PeterMoskos The FBI should go back to recruiting from police departments instead of new college grads.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

After living through COVID, Russiagate, the Ukraine war, the Syrian war, and 20 years of Afghanistan, I am now doubting climate change.

Especially since I found out how easily medical journals and doctors can be corrupted by Big Pharma. None of the climate predictions have come true, and all of the prominent people making them are still flying around in private jets.

[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

@treypicou @mattparlmer This is the rub, and it's one that Matt has consistently pounded the table about.

I'd like to see Matt reify this point.

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There are long-term disadvantages of this, including the fact that the US loses the capacity to build on its own
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[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

@DwightsWordOTD @CaseyMattox_ @CricketSurfing Do public universities have to provide a forum for bikini contests?

Seems like the answer should be the same.

[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

@NoFollo92476663 @RnaudBertrand Prediction: crickets

[FOOL NELSON @FOOL_NELSON]

Katherine Clark using the big girl potty.

[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

5. Effective Governance that is responsive to the people.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

4. Education. Detracking and attacking gifted programs and selective schools have all got to go. Time to focus on making free schools every bit as good as private schools, making excellence accessible instead of punishing fast learners who stay in public school.

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are the cool kid in the nuclear block. But, despite the hype, there are none commercially available in the US and a measly three in the world.

Rep Carter is right.

If we want to start building nuclear today, we need to build existing designs.

[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

This is my favorite type of error, and it happens all the time.

Reality is so crazy that "smart, reasonable" people assume Trump is wrong.

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

This man is an idiot. Trump claimed Biden spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back this up with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice. https://t.co/6l54xc4FD8

[Michael McLeary @michael_mcleary]

@NAChristakis @benryanwriter @CathyYoung63 An absolutely incredible backpedal.

"Trump is such an idiot that he confused transgenic mice with transgender mice."

"Actually it's good they were studying transgender mice."

[Phil Mickelson @PhilMickelson]

Common sense needs a bill? But here we are 🤦‍♂️