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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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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

Let's hear it for your classic Hollywood crushes today

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

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Republicans to rural voters after the election.

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

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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@webmd.com, is there a vaccine against hoarding? My kids seem to be showing early signs.

Not to be glib, how do justify still identifying as a Republican then?

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Thanks, Shelby County
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."

I would never be the Valentine of someone who would have me as a Valentine
a black and white photo of a man in a suit running
ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit running
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I guess Bluesky didn't invent arguing with a joke
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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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
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."
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
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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
www.tiktok.com

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
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...

Love is love. Today and every day.

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
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
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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Remembering the 6-time Oscar nominated Hollywood stalwart and hugely talented THELMA RITTER - born 124yrs ago today.

These are concentration camps. Why would anyone call these something other than concentration camps?
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

Post an image you can hear (get off my lawn)

"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!

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.

Holy shit, this is embarrassing. I can't believe he wrote this and then made it publicly available with his name attached.

"[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.

"[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.

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