Mike Williams
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Mike Williams
@mwilli.bsky.social
Senior Fellowing @AmericanProgress. Formerly @BGAlliance. Former local elected official. All opinions mine… I hope.
Paraphrasing one of my favorite poets…

What better place than here?

What better time than now?

Who else but us?

#NoKings

(From the small town of Yarmouth, ME where the people showed up!)
October 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
October 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Is that guy standing up giving the “white power” sign…?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Shot... chaser.
July 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Portland, ME #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This one’s for you, Ben.
June 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Official thoughts on the stupidity of the administration’s gutting of manufacturing investments:
May 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
May 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
As a Knicks fan, tip of the hat to Paul Pierce. But somebody send a cab to pick him up. No need to make the man walk the whole way... otherwise we're gonna reenact this... ⬇️
May 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Errr, amazingly (especially to me who got engaged in politics in the early aughts)... Drudge is playing this role...

drudgereport.com?NF=1
April 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Portland, ME showed up. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Just in case anybody thought Heritage actually has values…

Shot… chaser.
March 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This all sucks.

Here’s a picture of Zelda. She’s very good at being comforting… and stealing my food.
March 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A reminder:
February 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In short, we’ve let out industry leave and let deindustrialization hollow out communities in the past – the Jenga-ization of the economy as we call it…
January 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is literally every offshore wind project. Every single one.
December 10, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Over in the hellscape that's Xitter, getting some fun engagement on our paper on State Efforts to Decarb the Industrial Sector. And it's from a state rep from CO, hoo boy.

cc @jamiefriedman.bsky.social

www.americanprogress.org/article/stat...
November 26, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Hi Zelda! Meet our Zelda! You two look like opposites, but I guarantee you’re both extremely good dogs.
November 21, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Finished off my time at #COP29 with an event we (@americanprogress.bsky.social) co-hosted with the folks at Shakti, RFF, and ANU on the climate, trade, and industrial policy intersection. A mighty interesting discussion with a mighty interesting opening by Sen. Whitehouse 1/13
November 17, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Would anyone like to see a sleeping Zelda? Yes? Okay, here she is snuggled with a friend:
November 11, 2023 at 3:45 PM
Oh to be a flat cat like Sevy…
October 27, 2023 at 9:55 PM