Tom Schmitz
@tschmitzwrites.bsky.social
Speechwriter and executive comms strategist with a focus on energy & climate. Professional Californian, practicing Virginian, anywhere sailor. Soundtrack by Steely Dan.
Every single one of his sentences is a lie.
KERNEN: Does the admin want to dismantle wind projects that are getting started?
WRIGHT: The track record is bad. We've spent hundreds of billions of subsidies for an energy source that's sometimes there. The main goal is to stop subsidizing. There are no meaningful subsidies for fossil fuels
WRIGHT: The track record is bad. We've spent hundreds of billions of subsidies for an energy source that's sometimes there. The main goal is to stop subsidizing. There are no meaningful subsidies for fossil fuels
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Every single one of his sentences is a lie.
This is a smart and useful analysis 🧵
Uhm...TM1 went offline because it wasn't profitable
"The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant has been awarded a $1 billion federal loan guarantee that will enable it to shift onto taxpayers some of the risk of its plan to restart the Pennsylvania facility and sell the electricity to Microsoft for its data centers."
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is a smart and useful analysis 🧵
People forget this, perhaps because it happened so long ago, in a different world. But no question that it's the linchpin for everything that's happening now.
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
People forget this, perhaps because it happened so long ago, in a different world. But no question that it's the linchpin for everything that's happening now.
Ugh
well, that's (another) dealbreaker for Josh Shapiro in 2028 www.eenews.net/articles/rgg...
RGGI exit ends Pennsylvania’s only major climate policy
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed the deal Wednesday to leave the regional cap-and-trade system, ending a four-month budget impasse with Republicans.
www.eenews.net
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Ugh
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Is that bad? That seems like it might be bad. www.jalopnik.com/2022878/tesl...
Tesla Is Now Renting Cars From Its Showrooms As Sales Keep Crashing - Jalopnik
For now, the short-term rentals are limited to San Diego and Costa Mesa, California.
www.jalopnik.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Is that bad? That seems like it might be bad. www.jalopnik.com/2022878/tesl...
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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That was a hell of speech—as local as it comes yet a national gauntlet from someone who can’t run for president. Mamdani is saying New York will show others the way.
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
That was a hell of speech—as local as it comes yet a national gauntlet from someone who can’t run for president. Mamdani is saying New York will show others the way.
U.S. as Mafia State. We used to refuse to do business with governments run by thugs. Now we are one. And with regard to everything climate, we have completely switched sides to join the worst of the worst - if not outdo them - in protecting fossil fuel interests around the world.
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
U.S. as Mafia State. We used to refuse to do business with governments run by thugs. Now we are one. And with regard to everything climate, we have completely switched sides to join the worst of the worst - if not outdo them - in protecting fossil fuel interests around the world.
I would expect no less from Simon, and his refusal to even begin to entertain this sort of smart-ass, provocative bullshit is consistent not only with his own character as a writer, but also every character he ever wrote.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I would expect no less from Simon, and his refusal to even begin to entertain this sort of smart-ass, provocative bullshit is consistent not only with his own character as a writer, but also every character he ever wrote.
Fuck this into the sun
Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 robot with ONYX NAUT marine thrusters.
October 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Fuck this into the sun
PunchingYourselfInTheFace.GIF
A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!
Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...
October 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
PunchingYourselfInTheFace.GIF
Replies to this post tell a very different story from the one the militarists are trying to sell
Actual resident of Washington, DC: the only time there’s been a serious crime near my current residence was DURING the occupation (an elderly lady was carjacked in the quiet and normally very safe alley behind my house). I am not happy with that outcome.
Rep. Riley Moore: "I think the actual residents of Washington DC are very happy with the outcome. And I think the actual residents of Chicago and our other great cities here in America would actually like to have safe streets and not people murdered every night."
October 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Replies to this post tell a very different story from the one the militarists are trying to sell
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If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.
Every single one.
Every single one.
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.
Every single one.
Every single one.
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The world's first carbon border tax is about to go live, roiling — and possibly reshaping —global trade share.google/yTtxujzkAx8a...
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The world's first carbon border tax will soon go live — shaking up global trade
The European Union is poised to fully implement its carbon border tax from Jan. 1.
share.google
October 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The world's first carbon border tax is about to go live, roiling — and possibly reshaping —global trade share.google/yTtxujzkAx8a...
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THIS 👇👇👇
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
THIS 👇👇👇
We're going to have to invent new words to describe this kind of abject, nauseating corporate cowardice. Current vocabulary just isn't up to the task.
I’m old enough to remember when corporations fought tooth and nail all the way to the Supreme Court to make sure the government couldn’t take their money or control how they run their businesses.
BREAKING
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle the lawsuit brought by President Trump against the company for suspending his account.
Most of the funds will go towards the fund the president setup for the White House ballroom.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/46IT4P1
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle the lawsuit brought by President Trump against the company for suspending his account.
Most of the funds will go towards the fund the president setup for the White House ballroom.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/46IT4P1
September 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We're going to have to invent new words to describe this kind of abject, nauseating corporate cowardice. Current vocabulary just isn't up to the task.
More of this, Democrats. More, more, more. All day, every day.
Let me just say a simple thing.
Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy.
If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.
Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy.
If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.
September 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
More of this, Democrats. More, more, more. All day, every day.
Nothing like a cheeky naval history thread for a satisfying timeline cleanse
This thing here, exhibit A in "the danger of leaving our ships to melt in the hot sun", is HMS Glatton.
And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...
And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Nothing like a cheeky naval history thread for a satisfying timeline cleanse
Endorse
We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
September 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Endorse
Well that felt good
September 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Well that felt good
Excellent, if depressing, explainer about how we got here as a nation, and why so few of our fellow citizens who should share our outrage and alarm simply can't comprehend the horror of the moment, much less confront it.
I consume a good amount of normie, center-left political content (New Yorker, NYTimes, Atlantic, Bulwark, Hayes, Maddow, etc.) produced mostly by people who've been in the US politics biz for over 2 decades...and in the past month there's been a noticeable shift in tone and urgency.
How many more warning do American elites and masses need?
September 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Excellent, if depressing, explainer about how we got here as a nation, and why so few of our fellow citizens who should share our outrage and alarm simply can't comprehend the horror of the moment, much less confront it.
Essential thread for anyone looking for an effective way to fight back against this madness, along with refreshing proof that it can be decisively defeated through peaceful acts of moral courage.
Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
September 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Essential thread for anyone looking for an effective way to fight back against this madness, along with refreshing proof that it can be decisively defeated through peaceful acts of moral courage.
JFC
Oh, I was so close.
September 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
JFC
Salute this man, along with the flag he had every right to use as a symbol in making his constitutionally protected point as a patriotic American.
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
August 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Salute this man, along with the flag he had every right to use as a symbol in making his constitutionally protected point as a patriotic American.