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James Goodwin
@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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I'm Policy Director at @progressivereform.bsky.social where I specialize in federal regulatory policy. When not analyzing federal regulatory policy, I enjoy silent film, soccer, and running.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · Nov 7
Now that we're staring down the barrel of Project 2025, I guess it's a good time to re-up this essay I wrote a few months ago exploring its plans for an authoritarian administrative state www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
Inside Project 2025 - Boston Review
Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.
www.bostonreview.net

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h
"The Trump administration has reduced rule output in unprecedented fashion while expanding industrial policy and federal steering more generally." This is what a libertarian laments? Not gay rights, reproductive freedom, or federal agents gunning down members of the public? cei.org/blog/deregul...
Deregulation’s year-end illusion - Competitive Enterprise Institute
As the year winds down, The Trump administration is congratulating itself on deregulation. In a White House statement and in what it described as an exclusive Fox News story, the administration claims...
cei.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 12h
Jesus, another one? Washington Post, you are really, really bad at this.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 12h
When you think about it, libertarians really are the Q-tips of the American political scene: Dangerously awful at their singular intended purpose.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
I would have thought these guys were due for the momentary nostalgia trip a few years ago, but it doesn't seem to have materialized

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
Libertarians really think we're "freer" because Trump has attempted to repeal a few environmental regulations. There is no group of people more categorically embarrassing than these guys.
reason.com/2026/01/07/f...
Federal red tape plunges under Trump
Trump carried over a deregulatory agenda from his first term. Unfortunately, he has also continued a taste for unilateral action.
reason.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h
Me getting up off the couch on the first try

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17h
He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them

And oil companies are like

Meh

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h
There's growing body of evidence linking common chemicals to infertility. Heritage has made it clear where it will stand when its pro-natalist and pro-chemical industry visions collide www.uclahealth.org/news/release...
Household chemicals may be linked to infertility
Researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health have found the first evidence that perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs chemicals that are widely used in everyday items such as food packaging, pesticides...
www.uclahealth.org

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17h
He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them

And oil companies are like

Meh

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h
I guess that's only a problem when Biden is doing it? www.heritage.org/government-r...
The Biden Administration’s Radical Regulatory Agenda
The Biden Administration’s regulatory agenda for 2022 reveals complete indifference toward the social and economic chaos perpetrated to date by the President’s progressive policies. Few, if any, of th...
www.heritage.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h
"The report also calls on Trump to issue 'a series of executive orders requiring every grant, contract, policy, regulation, research project, and enforcement action... to do the following: Explicitly measure how it helps or harms marriage and family....'" Sounds all-of-government-y.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h
"...Heritage writes... education policy 'should not coax young Americans to delay marriage while pursuing needless credentials.'”
Conservatives, in fact, don't believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. And they don't want a middle class.
www.news10.com/news/politic...
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h
I'm a bad lawyer. Like really bad. And even I know this horseshit.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
The problem with Solyndra was there was only one of them. What Trump reveals is that if several Solyndras a day *every day*, no one says shit.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
Not a single GOP member of Congress will condemn this. And that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the GOP.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
Lives are destroyed. No impact on national debt. If that's not the perfect summation of GOP economic policy, I don't know what is.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
"'It’s the small numbers that hurt people,' said Lisa Shea Mundt, whose company, the Pulse of GovCon, tracks government contracts."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
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mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 20h
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h
What do we want?
Insipid and complex incrementalism!
When do we want it?
Wait, what were we talking about?

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 20h
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h
Outside agitator
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
Hard to find any outlet than more propagandistic about supporting ICE and smearing its victims than the NY Post , owned by an Australian who lives in the UK.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h
I'm old enough to remember when
www.eenews.net/articles/hou...
House Republicans come for EPA agents' guns
The legislation represents Republicans' latest attempt to strip the agency of its guns, a recurring target for the party that stretches back across
www.eenews.net

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
Hard to find any outlet than more propagandistic about supporting ICE and smearing its victims than the NY Post , owned by an Australian who lives in the UK.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h
How your email finds me

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h
How would the US Chamber of Commerce reacted if Biden had announced a policy like the?
How is it responding to Trump making this policy announcement?
How are they similar? How are they different?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%."
Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be “ripped off” by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration. AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%. Coincidentally, the January 20th date will coincide with the one year anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump Administration. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h
I seldom venture across the Schuylkill. Apparently, I'm missing a lot.
guygrossman.bsky.social Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 23h
This ad appeared this week on our West Philly block. Read all the way down.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h
Makes you wonder what else they're doing poorly