James Goodwin
@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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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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
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...
"Holmstead argued that withdrawal of the endangerment finding might actually force Congress to try to reach a bipartisan agreement on climate legislation...." 🤣
Bless his heart insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...
Bless his heart insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...
As the Trump EPA Prepares to Revoke Key Legal Finding on Climate Change, What Happens Next? - Inside Climate News
Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities grapple with the escalating cost of extreme weather and more intense wildfires, t...
insideclimatenews.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
"Holmstead argued that withdrawal of the endangerment finding might actually force Congress to try to reach a bipartisan agreement on climate legislation...." 🤣
Bless his heart insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...
Bless his heart insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...
If only there was an addition to the Constitution that addressed this. I might even make it prominent somehow.
Update: FAMU says banning the word Black from a law student’s Black History Month flyer was a mistake, and the result of an “overly cautious interpretation” of Florida law
www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...
A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law
February 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
If only there was an addition to the Constitution that addressed this. I might even make it prominent somehow.
If the Supreme Court overturns Massachusetts v. EPA, I don't see why a future Supreme Court couldn't overturn Citizens United. It's all just politics.
February 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
If the Supreme Court overturns Massachusetts v. EPA, I don't see why a future Supreme Court couldn't overturn Citizens United. It's all just politics.
But the "success sequence" bsky.app/profile/jame...
For Everything is Political, I reported on young people working multiple jobs. It's about more than side hustles—factors like worker exploitation & lack of opportunities to break in have impacted multiple generations. Now, some young adults say working only one job has never felt viable.
The Toll Working Multiple Jobs Takes on Young People
“Rat race,” “chaos,” “stressful”: these are just a few ways young people are describing days stuffed with side projects, shift schedules, and Google Calendars color-coded by job. Illustration Credit: ...
everythingispolitical.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM
But the "success sequence" bsky.app/profile/jame...
How are the Kansas City Current avoiding the NWSL's salary cap? Creative, Chelsea-esque bookkeeping?
February 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
How are the Kansas City Current avoiding the NWSL's salary cap? Creative, Chelsea-esque bookkeeping?
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Impossible for me to fathom how a publication like the @washingtonpost.com could survive the revelation that propagandists in the administration literally feed it the stories and opinions they want it to print--and the Post just does it.
This all makes sense now: the “EPA press team”—given credit for ‘working’ the despicable Washington Post editorial that reads like a Daily Caller right-wing fever dream—literally includes the Daily Caller’s former editor-in-chief. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
February 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Impossible for me to fathom how a publication like the @washingtonpost.com could survive the revelation that propagandists in the administration literally feed it the stories and opinions they want it to print--and the Post just does it.
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"We'll always have the dow is over 50,000"
February 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
"We'll always have the dow is over 50,000"
I will welcome libertarians to join us off the sidelines, but on two conditions. (1) I will not tolerate any bullshit self-congratulations. (2) I expect a little introspection: What have you done wrong, what have you learned, how will you do better in the future.
February 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I will welcome libertarians to join us off the sidelines, but on two conditions. (1) I will not tolerate any bullshit self-congratulations. (2) I expect a little introspection: What have you done wrong, what have you learned, how will you do better in the future.
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Private tax collection should be a federal crime IMO. There is literally no reason for any level of government to outsource its most basic function.
the local privatized tax collector says I owe $4700. awesome
February 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Private tax collection should be a federal crime IMO. There is literally no reason for any level of government to outsource its most basic function.
Kinda unseemly that justices just just casually use their position as a cash grab now, and it's no bigs, no?
So @elienyc.bsky.social and @strictscrutiny.bsky.social have speculated that Alito may retire soon. I agree. Elie lays out the case here—it'd be odd to release a memoir in October if he's (a) still serving and (b) unable to promote it because he's hearing arguments. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe?
In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week’s big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement. Also, the anti-trans mob’s latest target: tight clothing.
www.thenation.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Kinda unseemly that justices just just casually use their position as a cash grab now, and it's no bigs, no?
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Moody lighting wasn't invented for film noir, lighting became increasingly important in the 1910s and films of that decade, like the gangster picture ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE (1915), used light dramatically. Director Maurice Tourneur was also a cinematographer, this was his wheelhouse.
February 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Moody lighting wasn't invented for film noir, lighting became increasingly important in the 1910s and films of that decade, like the gangster picture ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE (1915), used light dramatically. Director Maurice Tourneur was also a cinematographer, this was his wheelhouse.
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It me.
Swipe for democracy!
Swipe for democracy!
February 11, 2026 at 11:18 PM
It me.
Swipe for democracy!
Swipe for democracy!
Don't mean to brag, but the power outlets actually work on my @amtrak.com train today
February 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Don't mean to brag, but the power outlets actually work on my @amtrak.com train today
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Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
February 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
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Since February 15th is coming up, a friendly reminder that mouthy women get stuff done even way back in the day: constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this... #belva #lockwood #women #lawyers ⚖️♀️
On this day, women first allowed to argue Supreme Court cases
On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a new law that would admit women as members of the Supreme Court bar and allow them to submit and argue cases at the high court.
constitutioncenter.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Since February 15th is coming up, a friendly reminder that mouthy women get stuff done even way back in the day: constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this... #belva #lockwood #women #lawyers ⚖️♀️
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Olympic Athletes Launch Second Campaign to Ban Future Fossil Sponsorship www.theenergymix.com/olympic-athl...
Olympic Athletes Launch Second Campaign to Ban Future Fossil Sponsorship
As someone who has skied since he was 10, Swedish cross-country skier Björn Sandström said it’s “impossible not to connect the dots” between the sport he loves, the warming climate, and the fossil fue...
www.theenergymix.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Olympic Athletes Launch Second Campaign to Ban Future Fossil Sponsorship www.theenergymix.com/olympic-athl...
There's a vaccine for that
note that Josh Hawley is literally foaming at the mouth by the end of this clip
Hawley ended up getting so aggressive toward Ellison, including calling for his arrest, that even Rand Paul asked him to tone it down
February 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
There's a vaccine for that
And it's not even close
February 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
And it's not even close
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
Kirk Herbstreit
Kirk Herbstreit
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
Kirk Herbstreit
Kirk Herbstreit
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Administrative Burdens: Policymaking by Other Means
The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ
Contact Your MOC
social.demcast.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Administrative Burdens: Policymaking by Other Means
Should be closer to 600 at least
February 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Should be closer to 600 at least
Don't leave me hanging
February 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Don't leave me hanging
Dayton, Ohio, represent! *extends high five to no one in particular*
February 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Dayton, Ohio, represent! *extends high five to no one in particular*
On a semi-related note, I don't think enough Americans know about Paul Laurence Dunbar
“It was at least the fourth such event in two days among Fayette County Public Schools. On Tuesday, between 200 and 250 students at Lexington’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School participated in a walkout to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
More FCPS students stage walkouts to protest ICE. Additional protests planned
Students at Lexington’s Bryan Station High School staged a walkout on Wednesday to protest ICE
amp.kentucky.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
On a semi-related note, I don't think enough Americans know about Paul Laurence Dunbar
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This all makes sense now: the “EPA press team”—given credit for ‘working’ the despicable Washington Post editorial that reads like a Daily Caller right-wing fever dream—literally includes the Daily Caller’s former editor-in-chief. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
February 12, 2026 at 2:38 AM
This all makes sense now: the “EPA press team”—given credit for ‘working’ the despicable Washington Post editorial that reads like a Daily Caller right-wing fever dream—literally includes the Daily Caller’s former editor-in-chief. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...