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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

It's not like they did anything really egregious like correctly identify Charlie Kirk as a racist

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 55m

Now I'm curious as to why social media posts that correctly point out that Charlie Kirk was a racist do not also qualify as "banter"

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1h

“Banter”

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1h

“Banter”

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

I'm about to listen to this new clip from Rupar. But first, I'm going to take a comically large sip of water...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

I just invented a time limit on the Second Amendment. Hey! That is fun!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Calvinball

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 1h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 1h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 2h

Only at @theathletic.com — Christen Press pens her farewell letters to herself, the game, and her fans as she announces her retirement at the close of the 2025 NWSL season with @angelcity.com.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

USWNT’s Christen Press’ thank you letters to herself, football and the fans: Exclusive

Two-time World Cup winner Christen Press exclusively shares with The Athletic letters to her younger self, soccer and fans as she retires

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 3h

Two-time World Cup champion Christen Press announced that she will retire after the 2025 #NWSL season. She'll play her last home game in LA on Sunday on ESPN. Press retires as the #USWNT's 9th highest scorer with 64 goals. Exceptional player who charted her own course through Sweden and back home.

Former USWNT star Press announces retirement

Two-time World Cup champion forward Christen Press announced on Wednesday that she will retire from professional soccer at the end of the 2025 NWSL season.

www.espn.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

Our tacker systematically monitors the administration’s implementation of Project 2025’s domestic policy proposals spread across 20 agencies within the executive branch. You can check it out here: progressivereform.org/tracking-tru...

Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker - Center for Progressive Reform

progressivereform.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

In all, 251 of the 532 recommended actions identified in the tracker have been completed. That equates to a progress rate of almost 1 action per day since the inauguration.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

NEWS: Along with our friends at Governing for Impact, @progressivereform.bsky.social is releasing the latest update of our Project 2025 Tracker. So far, the Trump administration has initiated or fulfilled more than 47 percent of its domestic regulatory agenda progressivereform.org/publications...

Tracking Project 2025 Update: 47% of Domestic Policy To-Do List Commenced Ahead of Government Shutdown - Center for Progressive Reform

The Trump administration managed to initiate or fulfill more than 47 percent of the Project 2025 domestic regulatory agenda before the current government shutdown, according to the latest data from th...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

Have any GOP officials trotted out the old "oh they're just kids making youthful mistakes" chestnut yet? Funny* how white people get to play that card.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

Better yet, see Marilyn Monroe in 'Don't Bother to Knock' (1952). A tantalizing peak at what she could have accomplished as an actress with more practice and better roles.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

For me, the really remarkable thing is that the gap between how conservatives behave in public is rapidly catching up with how they behave in private. Aided and abetted by a press more concerned with preserving access and maintaining the appearance of "fairness" that is unmoored from reality.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown.
Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

The Shutdown Shitshow

As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pam Bondi claims Trump "absolutely has the right" to invoke the Insurrection Act

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h

How do conservatives begin to explain that?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h

Like the absolute low point of Congress in our nation's history. It's not even close.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h

Has anyone noticed that Congress has never been more dysfunctional since Loper Bright?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h

Is there a Nobel prize for dodging bullets.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h

Tesla: The official car of people who refuse to take responsibility for their bad decisions

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h

Remember when the press universally scolded Obama for not reaching across the aisle enough?

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Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social · 22h

I've just been alerted to a "symposium" that is going on over at the Yale J on Reg Notice & Comment blog that seems designed to lend an air of legitimacy to some very extreme ideas about how admin law doesn't apply to deregulation. Surprised they're running this.

www.yalejreg.com/nc/foreword-...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22h

Of course, when the press so royally blew it on their reporting of that statement, you can understand how it became the gift that keeps on giving. (If you're a reporter covering the president, take a damn admin law class.) www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-i...

Obama: I will use my pen and phone to take on Congress

“We are not just going to be waiting for legislation,” the president said at his first Cabinet meeting of 2014

www.cbsnews.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22h

I still hear Obama's "pen and phone" invoked on a nearly weekly basis -- more than 11 years after the fact.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 23h

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025