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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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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 · 9h
"[T]he administration issued another memo announcing the sunsetting of the Federal Academic Alliance, which allows federal employees — and sometimes their families — to pursue post-secondary education at colleges and universities at reduced tuition."
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: Trump team urges agencies to reassign ‘entrenched’ feds
The administration is also ending an academic program for government workers.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h
Turning the House into the Senate. Just what we needed.
stephenwolf.bsky.social Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 17h
Indiana Republicans have unveiled their proposal to re-gerrymander the congressional map & expand their current 7-2 majority to 9-0.

The Dem-held 1st would flip to Trump+12 & the 7th to Trump+19. All 7 GOP seats would be at least Trump+18.

Interactive map:
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h
Yes! The whole pageantry is what I want!

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h
I kind of want to go to a live audience taping of a show. Don't really care which one. I'm 45, and I should have done that at least once by this point. Right?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h
Not quite as charming....
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jamesgoodwin.bsky.social James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h
30th Street Station is looking very festive

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h
Quick! To the colonoscopy prep cave!
windows98support.bsky.social matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 13h
Oh shit waddup

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h
Final accounting: I managed to watch 22 noir films in Noir-vember

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 11h
My 9 yo's rose was looking particularly beautiful this morning

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matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 13h
Oh shit waddup

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
Ooh good one. Also remembering Walter Brennan now.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
Or Karl Dane -- the great character actor of the silent era. He is in everything. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Dane
Karl Dane - Wikipedia
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
Character actor is the right strategy: Others worth a look are Elisha Cook Jr. and William Bendix
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
Correct answer is Stephen Root: with a character actor like that you get hundreds of hours of content, some amazing, some awful www.imdb.com/name/nm07405...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
He even slammed his thankless role in Crocodile Dundee II out of the park

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
Correct answer is Stephen Root: with a character actor like that you get hundreds of hours of content, some amazing, some awful www.imdb.com/name/nm07405...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h
The one time I had durian it started out very good. And then after about 3 minutes, the returns diminished very, very rapidly.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h
Yes, a packed Amtrak train is the perfect occasion for going on an exotic, pungent culinary adventure as well

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h
The single greatest asset we have for rebuilding American democracy after Trump is the all the federal workers who were recently fired/resigned. What are progressive funders doing now and over the next 3 years to leverage that asset?

Reposted by Benjamin Braun, James Goodwin, Erin O’Donnell

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 16h
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.

The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h
The thing about the Congressional Review Act is that deregulatory legislation ought to be subject to a filibuster rule, not exempted from it insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
Congress Axes Biden-Era Protections That Shielded Alaskan Wetlands From Drilling - Inside Climate News
By wiping out the environmental guardrails, Congress reopened one of the planet’s last great wilderness regions to oil and gas development, a move that could destabilize one its largest carbon stores.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h
30th Street Station is looking very festive

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 17h
Indiana Republicans have unveiled their proposal to re-gerrymander the congressional map & expand their current 7-2 majority to 9-0.

The Dem-held 1st would flip to Trump+12 & the 7th to Trump+19. All 7 GOP seats would be at least Trump+18.

Interactive map:
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...
Image of a gerrymandered congressional map proposed by Indiana Republicans that is intended to expand their seven-to-two majority to nine-to-zero.

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 17h
On Nov. 21, 1965, the Widow Combs put on her coat and scarf and sat down in front of a bulldozer to block a coal company from strip mining her farm. She spent Thanksgiving in jail but awakened fellow Kentuckians to exploitative corporate practices and the rule of law that enabled them.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
I present to you the GoodWebWinSter family Christmas tree

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
This is like head on spike shit but for professors who would have the audacity to take academic rigor seriously.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
I have to believe OU is thrilled by the "bad" publicity
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
“'If there isn’t oversight that keeps pace, the potential for real danger is great,' that former official said, adding: 'You are left to ICE policing itself.'"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms
www.theguardian.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d
Strong floor, strong ceiling, strong walls and bars for all the corrupt and criminal members of the Trump administration
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*