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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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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 40m
i have a story coming today that explains how this tweet is… unacceptable levels of weirdly inaccurate
Matt Yglesias: You've probably read 90,000 excited tweets about how renewables can now beat fossil fuels on costs and how we need to all roll up our sleeves and embrace the solarpunk future. But look how green groups react to bill that makes both both renewal and fossil infrastructure easier.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
@chriscolin3000.bsky.social invented Admin Night, a strategy to turn the drudgery of completing dreaded administrative tasks into a party.
"We’re social beings. We’re meant to update our password apps together!"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
Heads up, press. Trump doesn't have an Affordable Care Act replacement plan today.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
But it does confirm this place is full of nerds. That part is true.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
Lot of disagreement about the ranking of Star Wars films on this social media platform. I thought Bluesky was supposed to be an echo chamber.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h
Sounds like Total Recall?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h
That I knew about. Unforgivable

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h
"The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people and spilled millions of gallons of oil, caused the Rice’s whale population to decline by an estimated 22 percent. Fewer than 100 of the animals are thought to remain."

Goddamn. I didn't know this.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h
www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/n...
Who Ya Gonna Call? Goosebusters. (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h
The film that "radicalized" me into a classic film fan was 'Grand Hotel' (1932). I'd seen a lot of classic films before that one. But that was the one that revealed all the possibilities that classic film had to offer.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h
Is this democracy?
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
Since 2000, political donations from the richest 100 Americans have increased nearly 140x.

They collectively spent over $1B in 2024, amounting to 1 in every 13 dollars spent during the election.

Is it any wonder why so many regular people feel like they no longer have a voice?
election.Is

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
Since 2000, political donations from the richest 100 Americans have increased nearly 140x.

They collectively spent over $1B in 2024, amounting to 1 in every 13 dollars spent during the election.

Is it any wonder why so many regular people feel like they no longer have a voice?
election.Is

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november blaine @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 18h
YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN... you hurt your back simply by trying to move a huge desk by yourself!

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 18h
Here's the paragraph from the latest Carville blathering that should be circulating. Why it's strategic in for Democrats to reinforce the fascist opposition's frame remains a mystery to me.
For this to work, we can’t get sidetracked on our message. The Republican Party’s greatest weapon has always been its uncanny ability to turn us against one another. It cannot be said enough: The era of performative woke politics from 2020 to 2024 has left a lasting stain on our brand, particularly with rural voters and male voters. The term Latinx was despised even by many Latino people. Calling folks “BIPOC” should have never been a thing. “Defund the police” was a terrible idea. Polling shows that nearly 70 percent of Americans think the Democratic Party is “out of touch” and that it is more interested in social issues than economic ones.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
theonion.com/rfk-jr-denie...
RFK Jr. Denies Ever Laying Eggs In Olivia Nuzzi
WASHINGTON—In an attempt to dispel rumors of an affair during the 2024 presidential campaign, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference Monday during which he d...
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h
The other frame is to somehow suggest that the discrepancy somehow confirms that Trump is not beholden to Project 2025.

Really? *That's* the inference you draw from that?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h
We can all stipulate that Project 2025 was radical. So, when Trump goes beyond that, it doesn't make it *less* radical. It just makes Trump worse.

And admittedly *that's* a story. But that's never quite how it's framed.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h
I don't understand this subgenre of fact-checking journalism that "defends" Project 2025 when Trump does something that goes beyond what Project 2025 recommended.

Okay, technically correct. But what is the point again?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h
I presume that Ezra Klein is fully on board with all of this, but the fact that I don't know speaks volumes about his rendition of Abundance Liberalism also www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 22h
Today, Jed Britton-Purdy continues our symposium on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts.*

To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?
What Can Politics Make of Nature?
Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts argues that capitalism limits our freedom to decide how to value the nonhuman world. Politics, as the domain in which we choose the terms of our collective life…
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22h
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joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So

As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
newrepublic.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So

As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
newrepublic.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h
What could go wrong?
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d
While Josh Shapiro is ditching the Northeast climate agreement, Abigail Spanberger (no radical liberal) is preparing to join it. @gurleygg.bsky.social explains why.
prospect.org/2025/11/24/j...
Josh Shapiro Ditched the Same Climate Pact That Abigail Spanberger Is Joining - The American Prospect
To seal a state budget deal, Pennsylvania is departing the RGGI emissions control program, but Virginia is jumping back in.
prospect.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
New research reveals AI makes puppies less snuggly

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
I'm still waiting to hear one way that the AI industry is good
karaswisher.bsky.social Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d
“Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting.” The guy who first pointed out Enron’s sketchy accounting is now scrutinizing AI accounting and it’s the same nonsense: www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by James Goodwin, Greg Linden

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d
“Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting.” The guy who first pointed out Enron’s sketchy accounting is now scrutinizing AI accounting and it’s the same nonsense: www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com

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Tabitha Fringe Chase @tabby676.bsky.social · 1d
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
Still from the first ever MST3K Experiment Crow, Joel, and Beeper are on the bridge of the Satellite of Love

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
I can't even begin to understand what he's driving at here