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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · 4d

“every parade has the right to exist” is a real line actually said here

onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · 12d

That movie came out when I was 16 and it dazzled me from a visual experience more than any other film to that point but yet I have no desire to see another one lol

Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · 14d

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.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14d

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.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

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"

Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · 16d

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · 23d

Jesus.. I live a few blocks from there closer to H St and they’ve really increased their presence on H recently. It’s so stupid

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · 26d

An interesting time to be doing this when all the recent headlines are about them quietly rehiring thousands of people because stuff was breaking

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · 28d

“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..

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29d

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.

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Sep 16

He just reads books!

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The BlueGreen Alliance @bluegreenalliance.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Okay not a movie but “The Simple Things” in Hey Arnold where Mr. Hyunh inexplicably has Randy Travis’s singing voice is a certified banger youtu.be/WWsQ-03owSM

Mr. Hyunh Sings "The Simple Things" | Hey Arnold! | Nicktoons

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Sep 7

HAHAHAHA

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Sep 7

we have a great track record when cutting corners to send people into space so this should end well!

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Sep 6

It reminds me of when Kelsey Piper wrote a bizarre thread defending James Damore and describing his firing as a “formative experience”. If for some reason these events are that big a deal for you then you’ve got some deeper issues that need to be unpacked.

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Sep 6

Especially since the first three of them really didn’t pitch well

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hey now August ‘22 was pretty fun as well

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’ll be honest.. it would be much more shocking if he confirmed it.

Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Aug 28

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.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Aug 28

they really want it to be illegal to dislike them

The Independent @the-independent.com · Aug 27

Sean Hannity says he left New York City because he got too many mean looks from people at restaurants

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Just when I was feeling pretty confident knowing the original one smh

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yep. If you encountered this in everyday life you’d naturally do everything possible to avoid it and yet somehow it being on the Internet changes the calculus for them.. for reasons that make absolutely no sense

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Aug 22

Knowing nothing about contracts.. I would have felt great if he signed for 3X this amount!

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Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Aug 20

Any time spent arguing about actual crime rates, etc in DC is a stupid waste of time that totally misdiagnoses the problem.

It's also a consequence of people staying on twitter where everyone is trying to out right wing each other and they end up missing the forest for the trees.

Thomas Lewis @tlewis.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

D.C. needs real policing, not propaganda

I’m worried Trump is only going to make crime worse

www.slowboring.com

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