Michael Bicksel

studying economics and philosophy @UChicago. intern @Heritage and former policy for @WinsomeSears. views my own

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

@CoreyWriting I wonder what department that’s in. I took a quarter of Spanish in the fall and AI was banned.

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

Rare bad take from Alito

[Dan Epps @danepps]

Alito: "marijuana use today is like alcohol use at the founding."

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

It’s also not as crazy as Hanania makes it out that the proportion is 1 in 40, given that the same report I mentioned referenced a separate study finding about 11% of UK women were abused under age 16.

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

250,000 is probably still in the ballpark. The “debunking” report Hanania attached below his tweet points out some real flaws in the method to get to 250,000, but by any count it’s still something in the low-to-mid hundreds of thousands.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

“It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.”

That would be something like 1 in 40 women of reproductive age. It’s not credible and makes you wonder what kinds of standards these people are applying to establish truth.

[Josh Craddock @joshjcraddock]

"The OLC opinion [on disparate-impact liability] moves government policy closer to the colorblind standard embedded in the Constitution. That’s good for the law and social harmony." @WSJEditorials

[Christopher Lynch @realCL424]

President Trump has long been known as a master of firing. In the second season of his second term, federal workers are continuing to hear his signature catchphrase.

Last months stellar jobs numbers show growth concentrated in the private sector, not government.

From @NicoleHuyer and I for @Heritage

https://t.co/3O6xCFZijN

[Nick Minock @NickMinock]

Is @SenLouiseLucas working relationship with Gov. Abigail Spanberger better or worse than her relationship with Gov. Glenn Youngkin?

Lucas: At least he [Youngkin] would call me on the phone and talk to me.

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

The data are increasingly clear: the radical VCEA and economic development are incompatible.

[Brandon Jarvis @Jaaavis]

Microsoft’s Clean Energy Reversal Collides with Virginia’s Climate Goals

“Microsoft is considering ending its round-the-clock or 24/7 clean energy goal, which aims to meet 100% of its energy consumption 100% of the time with zero-carbon electricity by 2030.”

https://t.co/RUd06TD3Br

[hamsters🌐🐹 @sigmahamster2]

“500 more data centers please, specifically wherever this guy lives”

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"Degrowth is the ultimate luxury belief...These are people who already have high incomes, comfortable apartments, generous healthcare and pensions and whose ideas would pull up the ladder on billions of poor people." https://t.co/On3hFp90Vn

[Eric W. @EWess92]

🔥Hot off the presses: @TheJusticeDept issued an opinion today explaining that disparate-impact liability under federal employment law is *unconstitutional*. This is an earthquake in federal civil rights law. If right, this is the foundation to overturn that pernicious regime.

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

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[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

TPSI poll | 6/8 LV

US Senate Maine 2026
🟥Susan Collins 43.7% (incumbent)
🟦Graham Platner 43.1%
Undecided 13.2%
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When voters are informed of Graham Platner’s scandals
🟦Graham Platner 48.2%
🟥Susan Collins 40.1% (incumbent)
Undecided 11.7%

Link to poll: https://t.co/XfVJAkrZP4

[James Kirchick @jkirchick]

People used to say Donald Trump was a poor person’s idea of a rich person.

Graham Platner is a rich person’s idea of a poor person.

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

"The order maintenance tradition is fundamental to the organization of the American polity. It says that in addition to the interests of the criminal, in addition to the interest of the state, there's an interest of the community, a public interest, in peace and orderliness. And that public interest is predicate to us having a functioning society.

Broken Windows theory, at root, is the idea that the community has such an interest, that that interest is legitimate, and that it can and should trump the right of the disorderly to engage in antisocial behavior."

A few weeks ago, @uaustinorg invited me to speak to their students about crime, disorder, policing, and broken windows theory. My full remarks are now available. I hope you'll watch.

[Payton Alexander @AlexanderPayton]

People outside of DC don’t realize what a transformation this is. Union Station used to be packed with drugged out zombies shambling around screaming at passersby, and barefoot, piss-soaked homeless people passed out on the floor. Columbus Circle right outside used to be a gross dead fountain surrounded by dirt and tents. That is what used to greet you when you stepped off the train. Now we have an entrance to our capital city befitting an empire.

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

“Strong moral compass” 🥀

[Jordan Howard @Skwerilleee]

Libertarianism is just 120 IQ people with a strong moral compass projecting their psychology onto everyone else.

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

Unfortunately this is amazing

[Senate Majority PAC @MajorityPAC]

The Devil went down to Georgia.

[Michael Bicksel @MichaelBicksel]

Capping A's is like setting a price cap. Most Harvard students probably understand the content for an A, since they're already very smart. But at Harvard, we expect that classes are harder than at good state schools. A's are a symptom of weak classes, not just weak grading.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: Harvard voted to approve a cap on the number of A’s per course, part of its yearslong effort to curb grade inflation https://t.co/qAx8BjXIAS

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

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