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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. "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.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

Exhibit A: "[L]egal doctrine has by and large insulated immigration enforcement, national security bureaucracies, and state-sponsored surveillance from the kind of skeptical (if not hostile) scrutiny reserved for labor, climate, and inclusionary regulations."

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

Boo. Now the gates of hell remain open.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

QT this post with someone you wish was still alive.

Painter Bob Ross in front of one of his paintings

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

Administrative burden is a new kind of company scrip

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

And what, if anything, is the US getting in return from Putin for this?

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5h

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5h

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

"Counterintuitively, a progressive state needs both more power and less." One of the many problems with neoliberalism is it prevented progressives from asking exactly these kinds of questions. One of the "benefits" of Trump/Project 2025 is it is forcing progressives to ask these questions.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

See, e.g., cost-benefit analysis
progressivereform.org/publications...

Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Racist - Center for Progressive Reform

In this web article, James Goodwin describes the ways that cost-benefit analysis as used in the regulatory process perpetuates racial injustice and reinforces race-based inequities.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

"[C]hecks on executive power have operated unequally, suffocating the policies most in service of regular Americans while leaving mostly unrestrained powers over national security, surveillance, and incarceration." Rahman truth bomb.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...

The Next Progressive State

We can’t just return to the status quo ante. Paradoxically, we’ll need a federal government with both more power and less.

democracyjournal.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

Congress has first mover advantage under our constitution. The problem is that the GOP has made it impossible for it to move.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

I've been seeing a lot of conservatives lately talking about how the president enjoys "first mover advantage" as if that's some automatic feature of our constitutional structure. And I'm just here to say, that's bullshit. That wasn't true under FDR. And it doesn't have to be true now.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

Good grief. She just operates at a different level.

Hey Spirits! @heyspirits.bsky.social · 6h

More of Trin's banger wow we thought you'd never ask

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

One of the most embarrassing things I've read in a while. And *that* is saying something.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

The FDA is simultaneously captured by industry and thus approves drugs that aren't safe *and* is too precautionary? The fuck?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Industry innovates new fucked up ways to cheat people or otherwise harm them, causing Congress to expand agency authority or agencies to apply existing authority in new ways? More greed! Abolish them!

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

How is Johnny Rotten still alive?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Great how libertarians have used public choice theory to turn something like "increased expertise" into a bad thing. They can't lose!
Agencies get worse at things? Incompetence! Abolish them!
Agencies get better at things? Greed! Abolish them!

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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 6h

15,000 minutes between the posts for Aubrey Kingsbury 👏

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Hey Spirits! @heyspirits.bsky.social · 6h

More of Trin's banger wow we thought you'd never ask

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Industrialized food systems. Increasing poverty. Increasing prevalence of two-income households. But sure, let's blame the deep state for people's bad diets.

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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 6h

TRINITY RODMAN SLAMS IT HOME 🚀

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

I'm almost done with a cool writing project and I'm thinking about it on a Saturday night

two men are standing next to each other and one of them is asking does this guy know how to party or what .

Alt: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is asking does this guy know how to party or what .

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Whoa if true

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 19h

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Officially sick of this shit

Black dog looking tired while laying in bed

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

The defining error that all libertarians make is assuming that just because things are not great with regulations, things would therefore be better with no regulations at all. Um no.
lawliberty.org/too-many-bur...

Too Many Bureaucrats in the Kitchen – Julia R. Cartwright

Government cannot make Americans healthy.

lawliberty.org

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

1, maybe 2, of my eyebrows have been raised when I read that particular sentence

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 7h

You literally can't trust Trump to faithfully execute any laws, much less than the ones even signs www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

Trump administration’s claims against automatic furloughed worker backpay lack legal, historical basis

Experts say the White House’s new theory that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not guarantee feds backpay following a shutdown fails a basic tenet of legal analysis.

www.govexec.com

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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 8h

The weather: ☔️🌧️

Tara McKeown: 😄

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 8h

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Expected Own Goals @xowngoals.com · 8h

To give some apples-to-apples comparisons:

- 2.6 points per game, the most ever
- 83% win percentage, the biggest ever
- Lorena has a 64% shutout percentage, the biggest ever

These aren't records being padded by the extra games. They are staggeringly real.

Chad Smith @chadcsmith.bsky.social · 8h

The KC Current win 2-0 over Gotham FC!
- 62 points, the most ever
- 20th win, the most ever
- Lorena's 14th shutout, the most ever

kcsoccerjournal.com/10/11/2025/t...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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