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.

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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

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

Give me a long enough repayment schedule, and I'll buy the world.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3h

“Everything is affordable if you take out a long enough loan” - Donald Trump, probably

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3h

“Everything is affordable if you take out a long enough loan” - Donald Trump, probably

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe we should ask why elected Republicans see absolutely no downside to engaging in this kind of brazen corruption

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

This is a disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

This is a disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches

www.nytimes.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

Sadly a lot of people seem to. I wish it weren't so, though.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Look, I know this may sound stupid. But there's very little daylight between this and what Ezra Klein is selling. And everyone thinks Klein is a genius.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

TRUMP: The ones who stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus

INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?

TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

TRUMP: The ones who stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus

INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?

TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

I've been calling for this kind of thing since the elections. Also tried to raise money to contribute with my own project. But you all know the sad saga of my fundraising efforts.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

And this subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: Civil service group launches job survey for feds

The new poll ensures there is no data gap for 2025 — a tumultuous year for federal employees — since the Trump administration axed its own survey.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Great to see efforts afoot to build critical independent governance institutions to "shadow" the Trump administration and help hold it accountable. www.ucs.org/resources/in...

Independent Science Advisory Committees

Establish science infrastructure outside of government and ensure that essential science advice remains available for those who need it.

www.ucs.org

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Adventures in Unitary Executive Theory

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

White House officials are furious with Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, who talked Trump into suggesting a 50-year mortgage plan.

The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.

‘Sold POTUS a bill of goods’: WH furious with Pulte over 50-year mortgage

The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.

www.politico.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

I really thought ending Chevron deference was going to fix Article I. Boy is my face red.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

"All 17 respondents who work on lead poisoning reported being furloughed."

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

"The AFGE survey indicates that in the current shutdown, many of the agency employees in areas tasked with rewriting rules as part of Zeldin’s effort to roll back three dozen regulations remain on the job." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

How Trump officials have transformed the EPA to weaken enforcement

An analysis of environmental enforcement cases, together with targeted furloughs during the federal shutdown, shows the EPA’s shift towards deregulation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

‘Sold POTUS a bill of goods’: WH furious with Pulte over 50-year mortgage

The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.

www.politico.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 8h

Somehow, against all odds, this turned out to be a good writing day.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well

"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."

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Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · 9h

"Uma Outka, a professor of law at the University of Kansas who has studied LIHEAP, emphasized the need for state governments to participate in the affordability conversation."

www.eenews.net/articles/fed...

Federal energy aid goes dark with heating bills set to rise

Low-income households won't get funding to help pay utility bills during the government shutdown.

www.eenews.net

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”

I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h

too soon

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h

My kids are the best, and I wish you all could meet them. Well, most of you, at any rate.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10h

I wish I could still get a free pizza for reading books

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10h

I, too, would like people to know I have read a book

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10h

I, too, would like people to know I have read a book

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Courtney Bublé @courtneybuble.bsky.social · 11h

NEWS: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a subcommittee hearing chaired by Cruz on 11/18 titled "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Responsible"

This is a big escalation in the rhetoric we've been hearing for months on this

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

Ruy gonna Ruy www.thefp.com/p/are-democr...

Are Democrats Celebrating a Little Too Much?

Tuesday’s elections gave the GOP a lesson in political humility, writes Ruy Teixeira. For Democrats, the risk is that a good night papers over major problems.

www.thefp.com

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14h

Here we go

Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
NEWS -- SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON plans to swear in Rep.-elect ADELITA GRIJALVA before the government funding vote.

This will not change the vote count on the funding bill. But it will put the EPSTEIN discharge petition over the 218-signature threshold.

@PunchbowlNews text…

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14h

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Henry Bushnell @henrybushnell.bsky.social · 14h

FIFA is selling parking spots (exact location: unknown) at 2026 World Cup games for between $75 and $175 — more than the price of some actual match tickets at previous World Cups.

@theathleticfc.bsky.social:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...