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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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

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
My kids are so stinking cute.

How?

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profdanwalters.bsky.social
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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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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jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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.

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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!

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

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

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
I guess scare quotes would have been in order

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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

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

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
Jesus, I think I had that book

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

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
Turning the House into a second Senate. Whee.
mcpli.bsky.social
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.

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
He memorizes the birthday of basically everyone he meets so that he can know one fact about them
lalaspeaks.bsky.social
What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
Holy shit
theashleyray.bsky.social
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

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

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
Not really the point, but "begs the question" is not coterminous with "raises the question"
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Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
jael.bsky.social
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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tomscocca.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
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.off-the-records.com
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
mcpli.bsky.social
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.

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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.

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
Aaron's middle name is Fucking?

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willjeanes.bsky.social
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.