Mike Williams

Wished my longtime friend Troy Jackson a very happy birthday this morning in front of the entire Maine ALF CIO COPE convention. Proud of my 100% labor voting record and to stand with organized labor and Maine's working people. I'll fight for workers and their families from day one as governor.

Listen to @kayeeendra.bsky.social ⬇️

Wait... so staying quiet on climate and net zero WON'T lead to magical solutions?

This is why it drives me insane when the climate sector say things like ‘we should stop using net zero’. If you don’t opponents to change will continue to dictate what net zero means. So important to talk about it ALONGSIDE climate impacts. It is our best and only solution

For those of you who will see this man for the first time as DRC-Congo takes on Colombia in the World Cup, the history of the man he represents: Patrice Lumumba, is worth your time to learn. ➡️https://andscape.com/features/afcons-real-mvp-refuses-to-let-us-look-away-from-patrice-emery-lumumba/

Today, #JimCroce’s music draws about 7 million monthly listeners on Spotify, more than many of the era’s biggest names. And yet Maury Muehleisen, the guitarist who helped shape his sound, remains largely unknown. This is his story. Read for free—link in bio. #musicsky #musiciansky

Err, you were saying?

Hey, everyone remember that the New York Knickerbockers are NBA CHAMPS? Just checking.

I cried after game 7 in 1994 as a 12 year old… and I cried after game 5 at 5:30am in a German hotel (trying not to yelp and holler) as a (nearly) 44 year old. #KnicksForLife

Everybody’s gonna see your Shawne Williams tat!

Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto

He had to wait to become a team exec to do it, but Patrick Ewing is finally an NBA champion.

KNICKS 🧡🧡💙💙

I fucking love birthright citizenship

As always, the good folks at CAN International bring the heat with their ECO Newsletter. This time calling out the failure of the article 6.2 framework that straight up left out labor and working people.

Good morning from Bonn, the climate negotiations yearly intercessional. This year we’ve got a serious focus in the trade-climate nexus… which is where I currently am… at the dialogue between the UNFCCC, WTO, UNCTAD and the member countries. Except for the US of course. 🙄

This week in the People’s Music, I look back at the Voices of East Harlem, a teen choir that showed us the power of joy as a form of protest, New York style. Read the story for free. Link in bio. GO KNICKS #musicsky #voicesofeastharlem #knicks

Did you boo Chris?

"[Trump] represents everything that is wrong with a toxic male and I don’t know how people can be drawn to that," fourth-generation union member James A. Williams Jr. tells @kimkelly.bsky.social. "In general, you see a disenfranchisement." www.playboy.com/read/politic...

This reminds me of a tour of a cement plant and there was sincere excitement from the company that they had recently replaced burning coal dust to heat the kilns with... burning tires.

I dove deep into the life and career of Paul Pena, a blind singer-songwriter and guitarist originally from Cape Cod whose two albums are extraordinary documents of timeless originality—full of emotional honesty and musical honesty—but who is still largely unknown. His story is tragic and uplifting.

An unabashed class focused campaign… that won against the odds. Huh.

AMEN.

Tony regularly giving me the opportunity to re up this www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/698...

Welp! Gotta go get me some JNCOs… a few waist sizes larger than the last pair I owned.

What if… AI ate just the tech industry and the rest of us just kept on keeping on? Could we make that happen?

America’s unions welcome today’s historic ruling from the International Court of Justice affirming that the right to strike is a fundamental human right protected under international law. We commend the @ituc.bsky.social for their efforts in achieving this result. https://bit.ly/4x0uwh9

How it started: Ronald Reagan rips the solar panels off the White House roof How it's going: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is closed today as a fast-moving wildfire bears down on Simi Valley

Folks... the Donald J. Trump EV Mandate ⬇️

People need immediate relief from rising electricity prices. @americanprogress.bsky.social has 3 policy proposals: 1. A rate relief fund, 2. A national AI data center fair share policy, and 3. A program to build a better, bigger power system Check it out: www.americanprogress.org/article/a-pl...

Well this royally sucks.

This is an excellent tweet.

The "abundance agenda" aims to solve our supply crises, but often ignores a critical factor: worker power. In our new report, Kate Andrias & @awhf.bsky.social argue for "Democratic Abundance"—a vision where workers shape the future they’re building.🏗️💪

Start handing out the cards!

Happy birthday Davis-Bacon!

This… and maybe we go nuts and try to eventually just ban surveillance capitalism and all its tentacles?

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok. If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

Clean energy was always the more affordable, more secure, and more competitive bet. The Iran war has simply made that impossible to argue with. Our @americanprogressaction.org latest: www.americanprogressaction.org/article/the-...

To hesitate on this IS WHY SHE'S trailing by +20 in the primary. It's what many of us Mainers have been trying to explain...

NEW from @rooseveltinstitute.org: 🔥Major report from @betonyjones.bsky.social @joepeck.co.uk on how Biden pursued pro-labor clean energy policy. 🔥Me 👇on why this matters, and what a new World Bank about-face on industrial policy tells us about this era rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-th...

Apple is closing its first unionized store in the country. Reminder that Apple spent $700B+ on stock buybacks over the past decade. CEO Tim Cook raked in over $74M in compensation in 2025 — 650 times the median Apple employee's pay. The greed of union-busters knows no end.

"All this is sparking a stampede toward renewable energy and EVs around the world." prospect.org/2026/04/15/a...

Happy Jackie Robinson Day! There's nothing more American than baseball -- but that's not stopping the Trump administration from trying to delete and censor stories about this American hero www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Evergreen post.

I once had AI write a Valentine’s Day sonnet for my wife, which I sent to her by saying, “I had AI write you a shitty Valentine’s Day poem cuz you think Valentine’s Day is stupid.” She thought jt was hilarious. That’s the extent of writing I’ll use it for.

We can remember at least one time when the United States did take care of daycare; it was during a time of war. 🤔 #FDR