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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.
www.bostonreview.net

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
Anyway, I'm reading this. And so should you. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
A Record of Historic Harm in the First Year of Trump’s Second Term
The breadth of actions harming low- and moderate-income people over the last year is staggering, with huge cuts to health coverage, food assistance, and other basic needs programs, paired with hikes i...
www.cbpp.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
Comes down to whether they'd reliably vote for GOP Senators, doesn't it?
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1h
Small peeve: Punditry (or GOP boosterism) that pretends Greenland would be the 51st state.

Of course it wouldn't. We bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark a century ago. More than 2x the population of Greenland. It's a territory, and its citizens don't have voting DC reps. Neither would Greenland.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
*smashes like button*

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1h
Small peeve: Punditry (or GOP boosterism) that pretends Greenland would be the 51st state.

Of course it wouldn't. We bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark a century ago. More than 2x the population of Greenland. It's a territory, and its citizens don't have voting DC reps. Neither would Greenland.

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · 1h
EPA will soon release its final repeal of Obama's greenhouse gas endangerment finding and all climate regulations for cars and trucks. Then comes all the litigation. Here's my cheat sheet about what folks will be looking for in the final version: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: 3 things to watch in EPA’s endangerment repeal
The agency is close to finalizing its rollback of the endangerment finding. Legal experts say its success could hinge on these details.
subscriber.politicopro.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
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stonekettle.bsky.social Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 3h
When Fascism came to America, no one crawled on their bellies and kissed the boot more willingly than those who once defiantly shouted "Don't Tread On Me!"

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
"When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election"

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
And "How Green Was My Valley" to "Citizen Kane"
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1h
Since we’re giving away prizes, Birdman should give its Best Picture Oscar to Boyhood.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
Even if I accepted that illegal immigration were a problem, no amount of it would make this okay.
arminsamii.bsky.social Armin Samii @arminsamii.bsky.social · 12h
Holy shit.

Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1h
Since we’re giving away prizes, Birdman should give its Best Picture Oscar to Boyhood.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
I forgot to check what color the Comcast tower was last night. Are the Eagles still in the playoffs?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
Just as well. I can't afford whiskey in this economy anyway.
aprilglick.bsky.social April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 2h
everyone is making the whiskey friday joke so I am sorry to inform you that they have, in fact, tucked their tail between their legs
Alexandra Steigrad @AlexSteigrad From a CBS rep: "This is not a segment for broadcast. This is not a real title. This is not a real sponsor. And this is not a real story. This is simply an experimental mockup the graphics team created with placeholder text for a potential non-televised, in-person private event."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
The Trump administration may want to rethink its plans to gut EPA www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
How has Iran’s environmental crisis fuelled nationwide protests?
Iran’s protests are often framed as economic, political or ideological. Yet a deeper ecological crisis is eroding the fabric of society.
www.euronews.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1h
CNN poll shows that Trump's approval is cratering among many of the people who put him in the White House:
-29% of independents approve
-30% of Latinos approve
-30% of adults younger than 35 approve
www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
CNN poll finds majority of Americans say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities | CNN Politics
Public opinion on nearly every aspect of President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House is negative, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with a majority of Americans saying Trump is f...
www.cnn.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
My kids would be so good at this website. No matter what you say to them, their instinctive reflex is to infer the worst possible meaning from it.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 2h
everyone is making the whiskey friday joke so I am sorry to inform you that they have, in fact, tucked their tail between their legs
Alexandra Steigrad @AlexSteigrad From a CBS rep: "This is not a segment for broadcast. This is not a real title. This is not a real sponsor. And this is not a real story. This is simply an experimental mockup the graphics team created with placeholder text for a potential non-televised, in-person private event."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
They don't want civic health. They just want people sitting in the chairs of their Utility Maximizing Machines, repeatedly pressing the More button.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
Never forget that the Abundance Movement bros like Klein and Thompson and Dunkelman (and proto-Abundance bros like Sunstein) are repulsed by people like this, and don't want them anywhere near the levers of government power. Civic health is antithetical to their vision of "effective government."
michellegoldberg.bsky.social Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 2h
Something I wrote in my column today and want to reiterate is that all these anti-ICE operations are manifestations of local civic health
aaronsojourner.org Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3h
They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 2h
Something I wrote in my column today and want to reiterate is that all these anti-ICE operations are manifestations of local civic health

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
And to be clear, I'm accepting their position that a pro-family society requires single income households *for the sake of argument*. I don't necessarily buy it myself.

This fucking place.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 3h
When Fascism came to America, no one crawled on their bellies and kissed the boot more willingly than those who once defiantly shouted "Don't Tread On Me!"

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
Project 2025 told them what was coming. In fact, it was presented to them as a Faustian bargain: tolerate fascism and you'll get and regulatory and tax relief. They could have rejected it. But they didn't. Now, it's too late.
 David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 4h
Bob Rubin: All business leaders should ask themselves three questions. Do Mr. Trump’s actions regarding the economy, the law, and use of the federal government cross a red line? If not, what would? What will I do differently if and when such a line is crossed? www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why Have Business Leaders Gone Silent?
Everyone is intimidated by President Trump, but we need to find the courage to stand up against abuses.
www.wsj.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
New, from me: A year in, did DOGE deliver on its promises?

Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.

But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
A Year On: The DOGE Disaster
A Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of your government
donmoynihan.substack.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
And domestic economic policies driven by aggressive austerity goals and stingy welfare programs -- could accomplish that.

Yet, Heritage is fully on board with all of that.

You can be pro-family or pro-Heritage economic agenda. But you can't be both.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
The pro-family society Heritage aspires to depends on an economy that reliably sustains single income households. It's laughable to believe that our economy -- which is characterized by low stagnant wages, growing market concentration, dominant firms with extractive/regressive business models...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
Yet, Democratic leadership believe we can work across the aisle with these people on something like climate legislation?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
In other words, the GOP wants to get rid of the new TSCA, which was supposedly evidence that the GOP could still compromise on environmental legislative www.eenews.net/articles/hou...
House GOP unveils sweeping chemical law reforms
The draft bill’s goal is to ensure swift EPA approvals of new chemicals and to narrow restrictions on existing compounds.
www.eenews.net

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 3h
Trump’s war on kids with cancer. Infuriating.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Kids with brain cancer were already in a life and death struggle. Then came Trump
The US president vowed to ‘end childhood cancer’. But his administration is dismantling the search for a cure and sending families scrambling for treatment
www.theguardian.com

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 4h
Bob Rubin: All business leaders should ask themselves three questions. Do Mr. Trump’s actions regarding the economy, the law, and use of the federal government cross a red line? If not, what would? What will I do differently if and when such a line is crossed? www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why Have Business Leaders Gone Silent?
Everyone is intimidated by President Trump, but we need to find the courage to stand up against abuses.
www.wsj.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5h
This op-ed holds up a mirror to all of us. The mirror also reflects back on the editors and journalists who seek to normalize this administration by playing both sides so late in this game. Yes coverage has gotten better, but there’s still an enormous appetite for BS. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
Opinion | They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.
www.nytimes.com