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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.

www.bostonreview.net

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 53m

My kids are so stinking cute.

How?

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Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social · 1h

We've long seen this kind of contingent partisan evaluation of other institutions, but as far as I know this is some of the first real evidence of it when it comes to administrative agencies. It makes sense: people could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that agencies just are the President.

Which agencies do Americans think are doing a good job?

Recent surveys have shown that how Republicans and Democrats view federal agencies has switched since Donald Trump became president again.

www.govexec.com

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1h

I don’t spam y’all much anymore about my book but a photographer at a department event snapped this handsome pic so send tweet

A photo of my book, THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON, on a display table next to
“Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement” by my colleague Judith A. Houck

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

ICYMI

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

Check out my latest with @federicoholm.bsky.social: Our analysis of the recent use of the CRA provides fresh evidence that the law "fails as a mechanism for reinforcing constitutional checks and balances between the executive and legislative branches."
www.theregreview.org/2025/10/13/g...

Revisiting Congressional Oversight | The Regulatory Review

Abolishing needed protections through the Congressional Review Act is not effective oversight.

www.theregreview.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h

Subsidy-through-deregulation is no longer as effective as it might have been for the fossil fuel industry. And I think that helps explain a lot of the Trump administration's energy/environmental policy agenda.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans in the 80s: The great scandal of our time is women are having kids to avoid working!
Republicans now: The great scandal of our time is women are working to avoid having kids!

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

*loud* We're going to restore congressional primacy! *whispers* But they can't actually do anything.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h

You remember when Biden's OMB Director Shalanda Young would periodically post a tweet celebrating individual members of the civil service?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h

Fingers crossed

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h

I guess scare quotes would have been in order

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h

When I look at how Columbus is remembered now, it makes me terrified how someone like Charlie Kirk will be remembered 100 or 200 years from now

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h

Mickey Rooney was active in film from 1927 to 2014 -- about 87 years. That's nuts.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h

Gutting Musk’s "competition"

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

reut.rs

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h

Jesus, I think I had that book

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

"And the chili isn't like tex-mex chili. It contains cinnamon and baker's chocolate. It's a crime against nature."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

Turning the House into a second Senate. Whee.

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 18h

Reports that a North Carolina congressional redraw is now going to happen, most likely targeting NC-01, the eastern North Carolina district of Black Democrat Don Davis.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

He memorizes the birthday of basically everyone he meets so that he can know one fact about them

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

Kids these days don't understand the indignity of looking up the phone number for pizza delivery in a phone book

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18h

I think most people knew numbers for at least a dozen friends and neighbors off the top of their heads plus of course you had to have the numbers for the fire department and the police memorized

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, you also had a little book where they were all written down. people generally knew their family, their work, and maybe a close friend or two

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

Holy shit

ashley ray @theashleyray.bsky.social · 22h

i’m not here to tell the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social what to do, but they must know if they put out a coffee table book of all the read posters, people would buy that

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Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

reut.rs

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

"No, it's *Columbus* Day." ~ same people who get mad at you for saying "unhoused people"

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

Not really the point, but "begs the question" is not coterminous with "raises the question"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 18h

if you know a single soul in…

• the Kansas City metro area
• the St. Louis metro area
• the Indianapolis metro area
• the Nashville metro area

@ekkoastral.bsky.social is playing a few impromptu shows on our way back to DC

tomorrow thru friday

our last shows of the year!!!!

linktr.ee/ekkoastral

ekko astral on stage lookin epic photo credit alec pugliese

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18h

I think most people knew numbers for at least a dozen friends and neighbors off the top of their heads plus of course you had to have the numbers for the fire department and the police memorized

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, you also had a little book where they were all written down. people generally knew their family, their work, and maybe a close friend or two

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 18h

Reports that a North Carolina congressional redraw is now going to happen, most likely targeting NC-01, the eastern North Carolina district of Black Democrat Don Davis.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h

Like him, I have two daughters. And they are, quite literally, the only thing that keep me sane in doing my job. I can't believe I feel bad for the guy. That he doesn't seem to have what I am so fortunate to have.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h

Didn't realize that Vought was divorced. Don't know the facts, obviously, but I wonder what role an unhealthy work-life balanced played in this? Really sad. observer.co.uk/news/profile...

Russell Vought, Maga’s shutdown ‘bulldog’ | The Observer

The director of the White House office of management and budget is playing Cromwell to Trump’s Henry VIII

observer.co.uk

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h

Why is this song stuck in my head? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pws...

Gang Of Four - I Love a Man in a Uniform (Music Video)

YouTube video by Exit

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20h

Aaron's middle name is Fucking?

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 20h

Cape Verde have just become the smallest country by area to ever qualify for the World Cup.

The nation is smaller than 49 of the 50 U.S. states and could have fit into the Soviet Union — the largest country to ever play at the World Cup — 5,554 times.

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