Thomas Lewis
@tlewis.bsky.social
Manufacturing & Industrial Policy @ BlueGreen Alliance.
Aloof is one of those words where people use it but clearly don’t know what it means
[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:]
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Aloof is one of those words where people use it but clearly don’t know what it means
my god.. I don’t know what I’d do if I was a fan of one of these teams
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
my god.. I don’t know what I’d do if I was a fan of one of these teams
There’s also an added implication that if the economy was humming along Trump should be supported but there are about 50,000 other reasons to oppose him and it’s actually good to not think of them as distractions
When you say something is a distraction, you are not-very-implicitly scolding anyone who makes a big deal out of it: You’re a sucker! You fell for the trick!
When the putative distraction is some egregious breach of political norms or actual laws, you are helping normalize and minimize the breach.
When the putative distraction is some egregious breach of political norms or actual laws, you are helping normalize and minimize the breach.
I find this distraction discourse unhelpful. Trump's video was appalling and significant and should be analyzed and denounced, and part of the work of politics is to turn it into a major controversy in its own right, as a symbol of Trump's autocratic disdain for the people.
November 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
There’s also an added implication that if the economy was humming along Trump should be supported but there are about 50,000 other reasons to oppose him and it’s actually good to not think of them as distractions
Yep! When possible donate money to food banks and food pantries. While intuitively it makes sense for people to give them food — it’s much more logistically challenging for food banks to a) sort and b) distribute donated food. But again it’s dependent on what you can do.
You know what we donate to the local food pantries? We donate MONEY. Because they can turn that money into what those they serve need the most. I do not know what those folks need better than the food pantry does. So I give them my dollars and they turn them into something useful.
Sweet Jesus, do not donate seeds to your food bank in October. Honestly, don’t donate seeds to your food bank unless you are specifically asked to, and even then I would think REALLY HARD about whether that’s regionally appropriate.
When I needed food donations, I was in student housing.
When I needed food donations, I was in student housing.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Yep! When possible donate money to food banks and food pantries. While intuitively it makes sense for people to give them food — it’s much more logistically challenging for food banks to a) sort and b) distribute donated food. But again it’s dependent on what you can do.
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The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...
A Federal Offshore Wind Authority: A Public Moon Shot for Offshore Wind
We propose that a future administration establish a federal Offshore Wind Authority to supercharge buildout and deliver affordable electricity.
climateandcommunity.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...
This is one place where there’s a big gap between how the left and right approach political education where the left often underrates being steeped in big ideas about leftist/liberal principles
A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
Spin this out a bit?
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is one place where there’s a big gap between how the left and right approach political education where the left often underrates being steeped in big ideas about leftist/liberal principles
I need people to realize that under current funding structures there is a tradeoff here! "Most want strong public schools and the flexibility to choose which school their children attend."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I need people to realize that under current funding structures there is a tradeoff here! "Most want strong public schools and the flexibility to choose which school their children attend."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
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A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
“every parade has the right to exist” is a real line actually said here
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
October 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“every parade has the right to exist” is a real line actually said here
It’s amazing how after 200+ years we all just missed the part of the constitution that clearly states Republican presidents are kings. I personally feel stupid.
The entire administration is "new legal analysis."
Is the President a King? Yes, according to new legal analysis. Can we fire civil servants, impound funds and eliminate agencies? *Touches earpiece* Yes, according to new legal analysis.
The shame is that SCOTUS has gone along with much of this.
Is the President a King? Yes, according to new legal analysis. Can we fire civil servants, impound funds and eliminate agencies? *Touches earpiece* Yes, according to new legal analysis.
The shame is that SCOTUS has gone along with much of this.
Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It’s amazing how after 200+ years we all just missed the part of the constitution that clearly states Republican presidents are kings. I personally feel stupid.
This rhetoric is now completely ubiquitous across the Republican Party but yet I’m supposed to apologize and feel bad about a Clinton quote from a decade ago that was taken out of context.. and that’s supposedly the savvy politics knower position
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This rhetoric is now completely ubiquitous across the Republican Party but yet I’m supposed to apologize and feel bad about a Clinton quote from a decade ago that was taken out of context.. and that’s supposedly the savvy politics knower position
“What’s happened to Silicon Valley? Why did the Ayn Rand–loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump’s bootlickers?”
Uhh they became Donald Trump bootlickers precisely because they were Ayn Rand lovers..
Uhh they became Donald Trump bootlickers precisely because they were Ayn Rand lovers..
Reporter Steven Levy admits that he was taken by surprise by the utter moral surrender of Silicon Valley.
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
www.wired.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“What’s happened to Silicon Valley? Why did the Ayn Rand–loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump’s bootlickers?”
Uhh they became Donald Trump bootlickers precisely because they were Ayn Rand lovers..
Uhh they became Donald Trump bootlickers precisely because they were Ayn Rand lovers..
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Trump’s war on clean energy is sabotaging U.S. #solarmanufacturing.
New policies are now threatening solar investment, jobs, and our ability to compete in global markets. 📉⚠️ Read our new blog piece by BGA's @tlewis.bsky.social here: loom.ly/Wz8388s
New policies are now threatening solar investment, jobs, and our ability to compete in global markets. 📉⚠️ Read our new blog piece by BGA's @tlewis.bsky.social here: loom.ly/Wz8388s
September 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Trump’s war on clean energy is sabotaging U.S. #solarmanufacturing.
New policies are now threatening solar investment, jobs, and our ability to compete in global markets. 📉⚠️ Read our new blog piece by BGA's @tlewis.bsky.social here: loom.ly/Wz8388s
New policies are now threatening solar investment, jobs, and our ability to compete in global markets. 📉⚠️ Read our new blog piece by BGA's @tlewis.bsky.social here: loom.ly/Wz8388s
I’ll be honest.. it would be much more shocking if he confirmed it.
September 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’ll be honest.. it would be much more shocking if he confirmed it.
Many people would like to see less polarization of mundane issues but I think that’s backwards — if we try hard enough a successful liberal campaign against drinking raw sewage or bathing in nuclear waste could lead to the opposite becoming official government policy and there’s something to that
August 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Many people would like to see less polarization of mundane issues but I think that’s backwards — if we try hard enough a successful liberal campaign against drinking raw sewage or bathing in nuclear waste could lead to the opposite becoming official government policy and there’s something to that
It’s also that they want to make it illegal for them to feel bad about themselves.
I always felt like people missed that COVID wasn’t anger over lockdowns or about “scolds” — it was about a desire for people to not have to feel bad about choices they made.
I always felt like people missed that COVID wasn’t anger over lockdowns or about “scolds” — it was about a desire for people to not have to feel bad about choices they made.
they really want it to be illegal to dislike them
Sean Hannity says he left New York City because he got too many mean looks from people at restaurants
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It’s also that they want to make it illegal for them to feel bad about themselves.
I always felt like people missed that COVID wasn’t anger over lockdowns or about “scolds” — it was about a desire for people to not have to feel bad about choices they made.
I always felt like people missed that COVID wasn’t anger over lockdowns or about “scolds” — it was about a desire for people to not have to feel bad about choices they made.
There's no reason to establish tough on crime bona fides. It's irrelevant to what's happening.
Trump would do this if there were zero murders in DC. It has nothing to do with crime. The end game for this stunt is to increase disorder and crime and use that to implement further crackdowns.
Trump would do this if there were zero murders in DC. It has nothing to do with crime. The end game for this stunt is to increase disorder and crime and use that to implement further crackdowns.
Pre-Trump the federal government already had a huge role in DC crime and policing with lots of opportunities to do constructive things rather than stage photo ops on the National Mall
www.slowboring.com/p/dc-needs-r...
www.slowboring.com/p/dc-needs-r...
D.C. needs real policing, not propaganda
I’m worried Trump is only going to make crime worse
www.slowboring.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
There's no reason to establish tough on crime bona fides. It's irrelevant to what's happening.
Trump would do this if there were zero murders in DC. It has nothing to do with crime. The end game for this stunt is to increase disorder and crime and use that to implement further crackdowns.
Trump would do this if there were zero murders in DC. It has nothing to do with crime. The end game for this stunt is to increase disorder and crime and use that to implement further crackdowns.
It’s amusing to a certain type of person anecdotes regarding crime supersede the need for actual data.
Here’s a fun anecdote I grew up in the middle of the woods in NEPA and a few properties down my neighbor brutally murdered two people trying to break into his house.
Here’s a fun anecdote I grew up in the middle of the woods in NEPA and a few properties down my neighbor brutally murdered two people trying to break into his house.
August 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It’s amusing to a certain type of person anecdotes regarding crime supersede the need for actual data.
Here’s a fun anecdote I grew up in the middle of the woods in NEPA and a few properties down my neighbor brutally murdered two people trying to break into his house.
Here’s a fun anecdote I grew up in the middle of the woods in NEPA and a few properties down my neighbor brutally murdered two people trying to break into his house.
I served on an anti hunger task force with a goal to increase access/awareness for summer meal sites and my colleague and I had a running joke that anytime anyone new joined they’d inevitably raise their hand and ask if anyone contacted the parks department.
Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.
August 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I served on an anti hunger task force with a goal to increase access/awareness for summer meal sites and my colleague and I had a running joke that anytime anyone new joined they’d inevitably raise their hand and ask if anyone contacted the parks department.
Same
EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator.
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Same
Incredible stuff from the Administrator of EPA:
“What I just said, the left, their minds will explode just pulling that clip,” “Like, oh my gosh, and they'll say, ‘Well, let me lock you in a tank of just carbon dioxide.’ Well, it's like, you lock me in a tank of just water and see what happens.”
“What I just said, the left, their minds will explode just pulling that clip,” “Like, oh my gosh, and they'll say, ‘Well, let me lock you in a tank of just carbon dioxide.’ Well, it's like, you lock me in a tank of just water and see what happens.”
July 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Incredible stuff from the Administrator of EPA:
“What I just said, the left, their minds will explode just pulling that clip,” “Like, oh my gosh, and they'll say, ‘Well, let me lock you in a tank of just carbon dioxide.’ Well, it's like, you lock me in a tank of just water and see what happens.”
“What I just said, the left, their minds will explode just pulling that clip,” “Like, oh my gosh, and they'll say, ‘Well, let me lock you in a tank of just carbon dioxide.’ Well, it's like, you lock me in a tank of just water and see what happens.”
That Brazil letter is absolutely insane. It’s repeated ad nauseam but it’s important to remember this would be a defining scandal for any other Presidency and it’s just a regular Wednesday for this one.
July 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
That Brazil letter is absolutely insane. It’s repeated ad nauseam but it’s important to remember this would be a defining scandal for any other Presidency and it’s just a regular Wednesday for this one.
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NEW analysis of OBBB from me & @advaitarun.bsky.social. We describe how the provisions create uncertainty for capex, re-risk financing, tax solar & wind, and threaten grid reliability itself.
The surviving credits are likely unusable for clean firm too!
publicenterprise.org/one-big-beau...
The surviving credits are likely unusable for clean firm too!
publicenterprise.org/one-big-beau...
One big beautiful blackout
It’s not just about cost—the bill text imposes new and perhaps insurmountable uncertainties on project developers and investors.
publicenterprise.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
NEW analysis of OBBB from me & @advaitarun.bsky.social. We describe how the provisions create uncertainty for capex, re-risk financing, tax solar & wind, and threaten grid reliability itself.
The surviving credits are likely unusable for clean firm too!
publicenterprise.org/one-big-beau...
The surviving credits are likely unusable for clean firm too!
publicenterprise.org/one-big-beau...
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The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡