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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 · 1h
Post a banger that isn't in English (can't limit myself to 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkPs...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
Post a banger that isn't in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7TC...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
A multi-fucking-volume treatise

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
I could write an entire fucking book about 2
karlbode.com Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
Amazing

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Washington Spirit @washingtonspirit.com · 2h
👀🫢

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3h
TrumpRx Unveils $1 Million Citizenship Pill

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
Meanwhile, we can't afford to protect children from lead poisoning bsky.app/profile/reic...
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
Please buy my new paradigm-shifting service: Punch Yourself in the Throat. I will now spend $100 million on ads convincing you that you -- yes, you -- must buy this service.

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Cape Cod Demon Hunter @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3h
The panic over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was blown massively out of proportion by newspaper owners trying to tank the reputation of radio as a medium, which is a lesson in how many problems attributed to flaws in human nature are actually five rich guys lying.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
Government has to tighten its belt after cutting taxes for rich people www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Outrage after US Congress votes to slash $125m in funding to replace toxic lead pipes
Move will hit Michigan, Illinois, New York and other states with highest levels of lead drinking water pipes the hardest
www.theguardian.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
What? I hope that lives on the internet somewhere.

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Chad Livengood @chadlivengood.bsky.social · 4h
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.

www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm just trying to raise my kids to be their own Fig Newtons.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
Anybody else remember that old Fig Newton ad campaign that was all about how Fig Newtons were better than cookies? I found that really inspiring. Because, no, you're not better than cookies. Not on this or any other planet. But your unbridled determination that you could be was just really moving.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
The only way I could win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics is if complaining about being cold was an event

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h
Speaking of libertarians, they're probably perfectly fine with our Ring surveillance state, just so long as the cameras are free from the tyranny of energy efficiency standards.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h
The appropriate response is to move further to the left, and force the "center" to redefine itself accordingly. That's how we got the Community Reinvestment Act and disparate impact liability. Those were the "centrist" responses to the realistic specter of socialism in the 1960s.
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5h
Oh! Just what the world needs! Another centrist think tank whose purpose is to prevent the Democrats from moving even a tiny bit to the left! 🤪🫠
axios.com Axios @axios.com · 22h
Ezra Klein's Abundance movement is getting some backup: A new political group is urging Democrats to embrace "pro-growth," deregulatory policies with an eye toward 2028, according to plans first shared with Axios.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5h
Oh! Just what the world needs! Another centrist think tank whose purpose is to prevent the Democrats from moving even a tiny bit to the left! 🤪🫠
axios.com Axios @axios.com · 22h
Ezra Klein's Abundance movement is getting some backup: A new political group is urging Democrats to embrace "pro-growth," deregulatory policies with an eye toward 2028, according to plans first shared with Axios.
Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group
It's the latest effort by moderate Democrats to shape national politics and expand their influence.
www.axios.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
That so-called libertarians are more fixated on appliance efficiency standards than actual fucking authoritarianism tells you what a miserable, worthless group of people they are.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
Now, @cato.org puts out a few blog posts condemning ICE's violence in Minneapolis, and all is supposed to be forgiven?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
Fuck. All. Of. This. Libertarians voted for Trump. Libertarians helped write Project 2025. Libertarians have been sitting on their fucking hands for past year.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
How to get people's asses into public transit in one easy step
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 9
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 9
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
Correct. The light blue.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
On the one hand, the Supreme Court wants the judiciary to usurp agencies in interpreting complex statutes. On the other hand, subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: Climate science removed from judicial manual after GOP complaints
Republican attorneys general argued the new chapter would put judges “firmly on one side” of climate lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry.
subscriber.politicopro.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h
I'm looking to next year's halftime show featuring an extended symbolic critique of Unitary Executive Theory

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 7h
Weird. I tried to warn libertarians about Trump