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...
Why does the Trump administration hate abundance?
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White House eyes data center agreements amid energy price spikes
A draft pact, obtained by POLITICO, seeks to help ensure data centers do not raise household electricity prices, strain water resources or undermine grid
www.eenews.net
February 10, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Why does the Trump administration hate abundance?
www.eenews.net/articles/whi...
www.eenews.net/articles/whi...
"'This CRA loophole is just going to go bigger and bigger and bigger until it functionally becomes lawmaking,' Goodwin said. 'In all practical matters, as long as you are creative, you can basically nullify the filibuster.'" www.eenews.net/articles/how...
How Republicans supercharged a Clinton rule-busting law
The effort to expand the bounds of the 1996 Congressional Review Act shows no signs of slowing down.
www.eenews.net
February 10, 2026 at 12:26 PM
"'This CRA loophole is just going to go bigger and bigger and bigger until it functionally becomes lawmaking,' Goodwin said. 'In all practical matters, as long as you are creative, you can basically nullify the filibuster.'" www.eenews.net/articles/how...
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
Yet, somehow we can't afford to protect children's developing brains
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February 10, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Yet, somehow we can't afford to protect children's developing brains
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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He murdered 300,000 people last year right here on earth and the toll may climb to 14 million.
Elon Musk's ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – sending humans to live on the moon. https://cnn.it/46sbAMm
February 10, 2026 at 3:12 AM
He murdered 300,000 people last year right here on earth and the toll may climb to 14 million.
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This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.
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...
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
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 AM
This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.
This is why whenever I hear reporters talk about how "Congress" is broken, I want to punch a hole in a wall
Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he is moving forward with a plan to revive a prohibition on House votes to overturn President Donald Trump’s global tariffs.
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Johnson moves to again block House from voting on Trump tariffs
Opposition from as few as two Republicans could derail the effort.
www.politico.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
This is why whenever I hear reporters talk about how "Congress" is broken, I want to punch a hole in a wall
Now would be a great time to recommit ourselves to the precautionary principle
Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Now would be a great time to recommit ourselves to the precautionary principle
Again, it is amazing that people can claim without justification that cost-benefit analyses are "useful information." It's long past time that we dispense with that unexamined assumption. www.theregreview.org/2026/02/09/c...
The Opposite of Smart Regulation | The Regulatory Review
The federal government is moving backwards in its regulatory analysis and decision-making.
www.theregreview.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Again, it is amazing that people can claim without justification that cost-benefit analyses are "useful information." It's long past time that we dispense with that unexamined assumption. www.theregreview.org/2026/02/09/c...
Imagine believing that the Tea Party was about shrinking government. These fucking people.
February 9, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Imagine believing that the Tea Party was about shrinking government. These fucking people.
"There could be — a libertarian can still dream — a grass-roots movement to shrink government that doesn’t end up co-opted by one of the major parties, as the Tea Party was." This is the most hilarious sentence in the history of the human language.
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Opinion | Libertarians: We Told You So
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:57 PM
"There could be — a libertarian can still dream — a grass-roots movement to shrink government that doesn’t end up co-opted by one of the major parties, as the Tea Party was." This is the most hilarious sentence in the history of the human language.
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"The Pentagon told vendors in recent weeks that it is seeking to acquire cutting-edge 'agentic' AI systems.... One potential use for such systems is to weigh various 'constraints' that govern when units can initiate or continue combat and the risk of killing or injuring civilians."😱
February 9, 2026 at 11:41 PM
"The Pentagon told vendors in recent weeks that it is seeking to acquire cutting-edge 'agentic' AI systems.... One potential use for such systems is to weigh various 'constraints' that govern when units can initiate or continue combat and the risk of killing or injuring civilians."😱
"Hundreds of those uses were marked as “high impact,” meaning they are being used as the main basis for making significant decisions or have implications for people’s rights or their safety, according to federal standards." 😬
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM
"Hundreds of those uses were marked as “high impact,” meaning they are being used as the main basis for making significant decisions or have implications for people’s rights or their safety, according to federal standards." 😬
"The Department of Homeland Security has adopted new, more sophisticated facial recognition tools. The FBI has purchased novel systems to sift through reams of images and text to generate leads for investigators." 😵💫 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
"The Department of Homeland Security has adopted new, more sophisticated facial recognition tools. The FBI has purchased novel systems to sift through reams of images and text to generate leads for investigators." 😵💫 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Henceforth, the best hockey team will be awarded the FIFA Stan Cup
February 9, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Henceforth, the best hockey team will be awarded the FIFA Stan Cup
Fun fact: We're co-hosting the World Cup with Canada this summer
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
February 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Fun fact: We're co-hosting the World Cup with Canada this summer
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This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:12 PM
This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).
This counts www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6v...
Yub Nub (Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Ending)
YouTube video by someperson42
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February 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
This counts www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6v...
Post a banger that isn't in English (can't limit myself to 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkPs...
February 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Post a banger that isn't in English (can't limit myself to 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkPs...
Post a banger that isn't in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7TC...
February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Post a banger that isn't in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7TC...
A multi-fucking-volume treatise
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
A multi-fucking-volume treatise
I could write an entire fucking book about 2
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
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
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I could write an entire fucking book about 2
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