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 · 5h

Monday after Easter is even better

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

He reminds me of Klaus Kinski (complimentary)

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Tip for any reporters who cover Crews' annual Ten Thousand Commandments report this year: Ask him why he didn't include federal agents shooting an innocent woman in the face

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

That's libertarians for you. Should we be surprised that such a lazy ideology is so unprincipled?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

This clown spends decades railing against regulations as a threat to freedom and the worst of "big government," only to discover that's not the case. So, then he makes up a conspiracy theory and guidance documents. Meanwhile, he's perfectly okay with ICE? cei.org/blog/trumps-...

Trump’s deregulation meets invisible rulemaking: The real 2026 challenge - Competitive Enterprise Institute

After a brief shutdown, most fiscal year 2026 appropriations have been enacted, despite continued debate over Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding. We may soon see the usual springtime stirri...

cei.org

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Looks interesting

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Just to be clear, the point of this is not to justify or invite unwarranted hostility towards rural America, but to stop the same for urban America

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

"[T]his is one Trump administration rulemaking that a prospective future Democratic administration is unlikely to rescind." New litmus test. If this rule does stand, then every Democratic presidential candidate must commit to rescinding it.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

"There is, in short, a long-standing bipartisan awareness that executive branch agencies need periodic reform and restructuring to ensure that the workers are fully aligned with executive branch policies and can be held accountable for not fulfilling them." Um, no. cei.org/blog/yes-exe...

Yes, executive branch employees should answer to the executive - Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued a new rule that has some in Washington aghast. The rule says that executive branch federal workers must be answerable to the White House. That’s the...

cei.org

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

It's so amusing when conservatives think that pointing out how FDR did things that progressives today don't like is a sick burn. First of all, no shit. He did a lot of disagreeable shit. Second of all -- and this might be hard for you to understand -- we're not a fucking cult.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

If this whole law professor thing doesn't work out for you, I think you've got a Plan B

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Something something polarization and both parties

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 16h

White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department

www.nytimes.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

The goal is to make it so only people who actively hate themselves will be willing to work for the federal government. In other words, the hard core MAGA army.
federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

Federal employees put into revived ‘Schedule F’ category may lose loan aid, pay incentives | Federal News Network

Additional Schedule Policy/Career guidance follows the Trump administration's final rule to strip job protections from certain career federal employees.

federalnewsnetwork.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

Extremely niche content

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

Roses are red
Ignorance is bliss
We can do better than
Cost-benefit analysis

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

Are you going to put this up on SSRN?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

It's not just Schedule F, y'all.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

"'It’s all part of a much broader framework to unwind the CSRA bit by bit, regulation by regulation, without having to go to Congress to ask for legislation.'" www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

OPM seeks to consolidate power over employee appeals in new regulations

Under a pair of regulatory proposals published this week, the federal government’s dedicated HR agency seeks to wrest appeals of suitability and reduction in force decisions from the Merit Systems Pro...

www.govexec.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

My in-laws got us an espresso maker for Christmas

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Robert C. Richards, James Goodwin

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8h

Roses are red
Violets are blue
If you’re born here
You’re a citizen too

a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution

ALT: a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 9h

Like, if I were to casually describe the people of Smackover, Arkansas, as a bunch of ignorant hicks (hypothetical!), my political career would be over.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 9h

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”

culver city, crime haven! lmaooo

Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.

www.nytimes.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h

He's just so damn good at this

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h

I don't condone violence or property destruction as a form of protest against this administration, but I will say that such actions are foreseeable consequences of the administration's campaign to systematically eliminate, weaken, commandeer all the traditional or conventional modes of opposition

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h

What a dismal view of a politician's job. Why should anyone interested in making their communities better bother running for office?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 18h

A critique I hear of me sometimes is that I don’t believe in changing public opinion.

What I would say is that I don’t really think *working politicians* should be focused on changing opinion, that’s the job for everyone else — go out and persuade someone!

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

Reposted by James Goodwin

Christine Kexel Chabot @kexelchabot.bsky.social · 11h

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
UET may be on the rise,
But as a matter of history, it’s simply not true. @jedshug.bsky.social @jdmortenson.bsky.social @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social @narosenblum.bsky.social @janemanners.bsky.social

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h

Let's hear it for your classic Hollywood crushes today

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h

Roses are red
Sunflowers are tall
Sweep the midterms
Then impeach them all

Reposted by James Goodwin

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

Republicans to rural voters after the election.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h

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

Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 15h

If they’re losing the “I’m not political but I love America” guys in Callaway hats…

Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

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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