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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 · 5h
Let's hear it for your classic Hollywood crushes today

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h
Roses are red
Sunflowers are tall
Sweep the midterms
Then impeach them all

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h
Republicans to rural voters after the election.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h
All I'm saying is that this is great opportunity for the Left to make inroads with rural America -- not by pandering or compromising on core values, but rather by connecting through shared common values
amandamull.bsky.social Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 6h
If they’re losing the “I’m not political but I love America” guys in Callaway hats…
crindivisible.bsky.social Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 20h
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Reposted by Christian E. Weller, James Goodwin

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 6h
If they’re losing the “I’m not political but I love America” guys in Callaway hats…
crindivisible.bsky.social Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 20h
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
If 1950s America could handle songs in Spanish, I think we can, too youtu.be/Coy8Hoa1DNw?...
RITCHIE VALENS-LA BAMBA
YouTube video by l3liljokerl3
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
@webmd.com, is there a vaccine against hoarding? My kids seem to be showing early signs.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h
Not to be glib, how do justify still identifying as a Republican then?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
Tillis:

@politico.com
www.politico.eu/article/muni...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h
Thanks, Shelby County
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h
I would never be the Valentine of someone who would have me as a Valentine
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h
I guess Bluesky didn't invent arguing with a joke
busterkeaton.bsky.social Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 7h
This Day in Buster... February 14, 1923
The Cleveland Press reviews "The Electric House," saying, "Some of the ideas are practical. Not many years ago people laughed at the idea of an electric washer and other contrivances which are rather common use in 1923."

#oldhollywood

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 7h
This Day in Buster... February 14, 1923
The Cleveland Press reviews "The Electric House," saying, "Some of the ideas are practical. Not many years ago people laughed at the idea of an electric washer and other contrivances which are rather common use in 1923."

#oldhollywood

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction. By Thomas Chatterton Williams Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.

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Ann Elizabeth @diggybaby.bsky.social · 8h
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 9h
You remember when Obama said he would use a "pen and a phone" to *implement laws Congress had passed* and the press lost its collective shit
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 9h
Love is love. Today and every day.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 9h
Valentine's Day is a genuine holiday totally divorced from the cynical impulses of capitalism reflecting spontaneous demonstrations of affection in all its glorious forms among people acting with complete independent agency

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 10h
China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11h
Remembering the 6-time Oscar nominated Hollywood stalwart and hugely talented THELMA RITTER - born 124yrs ago today.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
These are concentration camps. Why would anyone call these something other than concentration camps?
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
Post an image you can hear (get off my lawn)

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
"The automated cost-benefit analysis draws from public sources to the greatest extent possible. If it cannot find a source, it makes an educated guess...." So rigorous! And I'm sure totally reliable!

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
AI-generated cost-benefit analyses for existing rules? Jesus, what a horrible idea. If it's so important, then do it for real with real human beings.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
Holy shit, this is embarrassing. I can't believe he wrote this and then made it publicly available with his name attached.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
"[W]ith respect to [WV] v. EPA, if the algorithm discerns that a regulation is using an obscure or vague provision of a statute, it could then... assess if it implements a politically controversial program based on a scan of the web or social media." Yes, we need more conservatives in the academy.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
"[A]n algorithm could potentially be used to scan the C.F.R. to identify regulatory provisions that may be in tension with the U.S. Supreme Court’s holdings in West Virginia v. EPA, Loper Bright, or other seminal cases." What a clown.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
Yes, but could AI be used to identify existing regulations that ought to be strengthened to better fulfill the authorizing statute's protective mission? You bone head. www.yalejreg.com/nc/ai-empowe...
AI-Empowered Regulatory Reform: Spreading the Virginia Model, by Reeve T. Bull - Yale Journal on Regulation
As these federal efforts get underway, agencies in D.C. can draw on the successes of their counterparts in Richmond. Though federal regulations and state regulations differ in certain important respec...
www.yalejreg.com