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

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 8m

Is this right-sizing government?

Mario Bruzzone @bruzzone.bsky.social · 15h

Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

www.reuters.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 12m

Beef-fed turkeys = Turfucken

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 15m

Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths.
 “The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.”

The worst EPA ever.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths

The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.

www.washingtonpost.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 31m

"To reverse and undo what has been done by a predecessor, is very often considered by a successor as the best proof he can give of his own capacity and desert." ~ Federalist 72

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 47m

I have an electric car

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 54m

Trump lies: "Gasoline will soon be hovering around $2 a gallon"

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 48m

Cool. Now let's do human children.

derek van vliet @derek.bike · 1h

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 54m

Trump lies: "Gasoline will soon be hovering around $2 a gallon"

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 57m

Today, Mason Kortz explains how FOIA’s Exemption 4 has evolved into a powerful tool for corporate secrecy, allowing government agencies and private firms to thwart transparency through confidentiality pacts.

lpeproject.org/blog/public-...

Public Money, Private Secrets: Rethinking FOIA in the Age of Public-Private Governance

As public-private partnerships become central to modern governance, FOIA’s Exemption 4 has evolved into a powerful tool for corporate secrecy. After Argus Leader, government agencies and private firms...

lpeproject.org

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 1h

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Reposted by James Goodwin, Stuart Shapiro

Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 2h

New Paper: Presidential Control of the Civil Service.

Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Presidential Control of the Civil Service

<p>Conventional wisdom treats the federal civil service as largely beyond the president’s reach. This Article challenges that assumption. Legal scholars too oft

papers.ssrn.com

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

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.

Reposted by Caroline Krafft, James Goodwin

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

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

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Heads up, press. Trump doesn't have an Affordable Care Act replacement plan today.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner , and 6 more Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Jacob T. Levy, James Goodwin, Michael Jones‐Correa, David Darmofal

Mario Bruzzone @bruzzone.bsky.social · 15h

Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

www.reuters.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h

But it does confirm this place is full of nerds. That part is true.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h

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.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

Sounds like Total Recall?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

That I knew about. Unforgivable

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h

"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.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h

www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/n...

Who Ya Gonna Call? Goosebusters. (Published 2023)

www.nytimes.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h

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.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h

Is this democracy?

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

election.Is

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november blaine @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22h

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...

theonion.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

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?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

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.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h

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?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

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

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