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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. "Oh! I'm sorry! This is abuse." .. more

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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.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

"Resource management plans have historically not been treated as rules, but Republicans asked the Government Accountability Office if the plans are subject to the CRA. In June, the watchdog office said they are."
So, now we're listening to the GAO?
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E&E News: Senate Republicans send bill repealing Montana land plan to Trump

Critics warn the GOP's unprecedented use of the Congressional Review Act could freeze federal agencies' ability to manage public lands.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 9h

My wife did tell me to "put some ice on it." There's nothing in the rules that says "it" can't be a mixture of rye, bitters, and sugar.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h

Making the proof like

a cartoon of tom and jerry playing with a house

Alt: a cartoon of tom and jerry playing with a house

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h

I can't unsee it

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h

Or maybe the point is they are redefining racism as "reasonable"?

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

It’s not racial profiling, it’s reasonable suspicion, we simply think anyone with darker skin tones is suspicious and that this belief is reasonable, so it’s not racial profiling, how dare you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

It’s not racial profiling, it’s reasonable suspicion, we simply think anyone with darker skin tones is suspicious and that this belief is reasonable, so it’s not racial profiling, how dare you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h

Actually, one more point. (3) @sbagen.bsky.social: 🧼

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h

Indeed, this episode puts them well within their rights to demand even greater assurances that any compromises they make to sign on to a deal to reopen the government will actually be honored. Trump's threats on back pay are really threats not to honor future spending measures.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h

(2) Trump is flagrantly refusing to honor a spending agreement that he in fact agreed to. Setting aside the Take Care Clause of Art II that UET supporters conveniently ignore, how can congressional Democrats seriously negotiate over any deal to end the government shutdown?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h

Two things about this: (1) If the Trump administration is pushing such obviously bad statutory interpretation here, that should cast new light on the obviously bad statutory interpretation their trafficking in elsewhere. Right, Supreme Court conservatives? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: Trump under pressure to follow law on shutdown back pay

“The supposed ‘new legal analysis’ is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit,” said one former lawyer for the White House budget office of the threat to withhold pay.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h

Doesn't get much more boyfriend-y than that

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h

Robert Pollard

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 12h

What about us? Didn't social media bring us together?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 12h

Not that anyone asked me, but I like it for both teams

Jeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 14h

#NWSL TRADE (and yes the intra-league window is still open for 28 more hours 😱):

Angel City GETS Zambian forward Prisca Chilufya and a 2025 international roster spot

Orlando Pride GET $50K transfer funds

Chilufya arrived in Orlando in January on transfer from Juarez and had a deal through 2027

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 12h

Good thing I stick to wrecking my liver the old fashioned way (emphasis on the old fashioned)
www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Sorry soda lovers, less than 1 can a day could cause this health problem, new study says

As little as 9 oz of a sugary drink per day, like soda or diet coke, can increase your risk of this health condition. A standard can is 12 oz.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

Just had to inform my wife that I sneezed so hard that I hurt my shoulder -- so that she can begin getting our affairs in order

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 13h

If they've got you angry with tamale vendors, museum displays and trans kids, you are their perfect dumbass and whatnot.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

*holds finger to ear* I'm just now receiving word that it is I who in fact sucks

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

Note that Ilan Wurman and others of his ilk do not fear for their lives or those of their family members such that they feel compelled to leave the country. What could it mean?

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

The insanity of my insanity is my friend

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14h

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

Personal news: I'm going to be cold for the next ~6 months straight

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

I propose a deal: Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize in exchange for the Epstein files

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Jeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 14h

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h

Loper Bright was issued about 5 months before this. Clearly, it was already working in restoring policymaking primacy to Congress.

Gabi 雪 @gabimccauley.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile, Lauren Boebert is asking the *really* tough questions...

"At a congressional hearing on UAPs on 13 November 2024, Boebert asked if there was evidence aliens had ever erected a secret underwater base on earth."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lauren Boebert vows to pursue ‘truth about UFOs’ as she bids for re-election

Colorado Republican congresswoman kicks off fourth term run with email to potential donors: ‘They tell us we’re crazy’

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14h

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h

#satire

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h

No. You all suck.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h

Personally, I'm looking forward to the side trilogy that follows Philemon and Onesimus

Page Six @pagesix.com · 1d

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

Gibson's long-gestating sequel will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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