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James Goodwin
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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
Don't think for a moment that the irony of my spending most of today -- Presidents' Day -- worrying about the Unitary Executive Theory is lost on me.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h
Trump/Project 2025 didn't destroy our constitutional tripartite framework per se. Rather, they are thriving because those institutional safeguards were already so corroded and weakened. They're practical import may very well be to put the final nails in the coffin.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h
That this rule ever saw the light of day illustrates how ruthlessly the Trump administration has exploited the weaknesses of administrative law. If it ultimately stands up on the courts, it will illustrate how corrupted our constitutional system has become (mostly pre-Trump).

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h
At the risk of making this boring, the entire point of administrative law is to prevent agencies like the EPA from just making shit up like this. Unfortunately, the safeguards for accomplishing this were primarily norms-based and at best reactive.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on EPA

“How the f**k are they gonna do it? If you can get the Court to rule carbon is not a public health danger, it'll mark the point at which they've abandoned all pretense, bc that’s just a flat out lie” www.publicnotice.co/p/david-robe...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on EPA

“How the f**k are they gonna do it? If you can get the Court to rule carbon is not a public health danger, it'll mark the point at which they've abandoned all pretense, bc that’s just a flat out lie” www.publicnotice.co/p/david-robe...
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h
That Libertarians were more outraged by those standards than they are about Trump's militarized goons killing innocent people is instructive
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 8h
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h
All the while, the Trump administration has been manipulating foreign aid assistance and grants to international civil society groups designed to clamp down on their ability to promote messages opposed by the regime
maxboot.bsky.social Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 7h
The State Department is making plans to fund right-wing think tanks and political groups in Europe under the rubric of promoting “free speech.” This, of course, comes after the Trump Justice Department tried to indict six members of Congress for exercising their free speech rights. wapo.st/4aEwTvC
Opinion | Even far-right foreign leaders are getting sick of Trump’s meddling
Seldom, if ever, have U.S. presidents interceded as brazenly as Trump has done in foreign politics.
wapo.st

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 7h
The State Department is making plans to fund right-wing think tanks and political groups in Europe under the rubric of promoting “free speech.” This, of course, comes after the Trump Justice Department tried to indict six members of Congress for exercising their free speech rights. wapo.st/4aEwTvC
Opinion | Even far-right foreign leaders are getting sick of Trump’s meddling
Seldom, if ever, have U.S. presidents interceded as brazenly as Trump has done in foreign politics.
wapo.st

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 8h
Happy Presidents Day
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8h
President Trump keeps threatening to unilaterally impose rules (like voter ID requirements) on upcoming elections.

Today's "One First" explains why, whether as a matter of constitutional law, existing federal statutes, or simple, practical logistics, his (ominous) threats are ultimately empty ones:
210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections
President Trump keeps insisting that he can unilaterally change the rules for voting in the midterms. It's not just that he's *wrong*; it's that there's no mechanism through which he could even *try.*
www.stevevladeck.com

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8h
President Trump keeps threatening to unilaterally impose rules (like voter ID requirements) on upcoming elections.

Today's "One First" explains why, whether as a matter of constitutional law, existing federal statutes, or simple, practical logistics, his (ominous) threats are ultimately empty ones:
210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections
President Trump keeps insisting that he can unilaterally change the rules for voting in the midterms. It's not just that he's *wrong*; it's that there's no mechanism through which he could even *try.*
www.stevevladeck.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 8h
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 9h
My colleague Wendy Wagner uses the phrase "choose ignorance" to describe when federal agencies intentionally neglect strands of research that might inform *a particular policy decision* (often to the benefit of regulated industry). This administration is choosing ignorance on a *societal level*.
gregggonsalves.bsky.social Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 9h
Thank you to @gtconway.bsky.social for lifting this up. American science is in free-fall, pushed off the cliff by Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 9h
Thank you to @gtconway.bsky.social for lifting this up. American science is in free-fall, pushed off the cliff by Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19h
The film was directed by Arthur Charles Tinsdale, a forgotten filmmaker who funded his productions via subscription (crowdfunding). Buy 100 shares and you could be an extra.

He was based in Sydney and no silent era filmmaker was going to pass up free material like this.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h
If my kids complain about being cold while not wearing socks one more time, I will blow a gasket

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h
Adding June 6th to the calendar
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d
ekko astral is taking the beltway on the road up north this spring. select dates with @perennialtheband.bsky.social

tickets on sale now: linktr.ee/ekkoastral
TOUR 2026 *with Perennial KINGSTON, NY Friday, May 29 - Tubby's* BURLINGTON, VT Saturday, May 30 - Monkey House* PORTLAND, ME Sunday, May 31 - SPACE* PROVIDENCE, RI Tuesday, June 2 - Machines with Magnets BOSTON, MA Wednesday, June 3 - The Rockwell" NEW YORK, NY Friday, June 5 - Night Club 101 PHILADELPHIA, PA Saturday, June 6 - PhilaMOCA

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h
Bubble wrap! www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h
Go, banana
dailysimpsons.bsky.social On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 22h
28 years ago today. February 15, 1998: #TheSimpsons episode “Das Bus” first aired on Fox.

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 22h
28 years ago today. February 15, 1998: #TheSimpsons episode “Das Bus” first aired on Fox.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22h
Matthew Tkachuk. Brady Tkachuk. Matthew Brady.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22h
My non-expert sense is that the Supreme Court has read an implicit minimum age threshold into the 1st Amendment's free speech rights (schools) but not religious free exercise rights (also schools). If so, that's not textualism or originalism. That's just policymaking from the bench.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h
Christian Pulisic at the US hockey game. I was wondering if he'd show up at his local Olympics. cc @jtannenwald.bsky.social

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h
I might call it 'Path of Least Resistance'

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h
I'd watch that biopic
jaker.fightins.online jaker @jaker.fightins.online · 9d
DAN BAREFOOT
Dan Barefoot, skeleton: Another Nittany Lion, the 35-year-old Johnstown, Pa., native didn't take up skeleton until his mid-20s. Barefoot was inspired to start training after looking up online which Olympic sports a novice could learn later in life with little to no experience. When the skeleton was the search result, he got to work. Since then, Barefoot, who graduated from Penn State with a degree in landscape architecture, has competed in three world championships for the U.S. and finished 11th at the 2025 IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. The 2026 Games will be his Olympic debut. Skeleton events can be watched live on Peacock, NBC, and USA Network from Feb. 12-15.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23h
Not sure if it's just a Winter Olympics thing, but we seem to be back in a Golden Age of mustaches.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
Was just thinking that

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
The pitchforks and torches industries seem primed for growth
gabrielzucman.bsky.social Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 1d
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
Mission accomplished

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
Tune in to this to hear me and a great lineup of guests discuss Project 2025 www.wfae.org/show/charlot...
Project 2025 in action: its impact and what’s next
During his campaign, President Trump denied any knowledge of Project 2025, a 900-page conservative blueprint of policy recommendations drafted by the Heritage Foundation. So far, it has served as the ...
www.wfae.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
Powell Memo, cranked up to 11
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

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