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.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 24m

Is this "universal healthcare"? Is this "progressive"?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 24m

Quick! Tell me if you make up to 250% of your states' median income! Also, tell me what is 7% of your households' monthly income! www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/p...

Harris wants to limit child care costs to 7% of family income | CNN Politics

Two weeks after former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance raised eyebrows when answering how they’d make child care more affordable, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked how s...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 29m

This looks like the staging for 'Annie Jr.' at my kids' school

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 59m

Trump is posting a bunch of photos without captions, presumably of him watching the Maduro kidnapping.

Is this the inside of a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago or did they just toss up some pipe and drape?

Photo of Hegseth and Ratcliffe with Trump inside what looks like a makeshift command center

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 31m

Now, I try to remind progressives that moderates are not just coterminous with low-information cranks, but damn you're making it hard for me.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 33m

Would you tell me that Harris had French toast if I'm talking about fucking flapjacks? What the fuck are we even doing here?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 37m

Harris had a moderate proposal that is categorically different from what you're talking about and was so milquetoast and impossible to explain that literally no one remembers it including, probably, her own policy team. But yes I'm full of shit.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 38m

You mean her proposal for a means-tested limited subsidy? What if -- and I'm just spitballing here -- that proposal was categorically different from universal childcare? Would any of that clarify "what the fuck" I'm "on about"?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 40m

It's become increasingly apparent to me that the basic problem with moderates is crucial words have no fucking meaning to them. How are you even supposed to talk to them?

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 57m

living in this country is like being awake on the table

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 59m

Trump is posting a bunch of photos without captions, presumably of him watching the Maduro kidnapping.

Is this the inside of a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago or did they just toss up some pipe and drape?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Schumer seems predictably unprepared for this bsky.app/profile/eric...

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1h

Chuck Schumer puts out a statement saying "Let me be clear: Nicolás Maduro is an illegitimate dictator. But launching military action without congressional authorization and without a credible plan for what comes next is reckless"

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) released the following statement after President Trump launched military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization and his announcement that he plans for the U.S. to “run” Venezuela.

“Let me be clear: Nicolás Maduro is an illegitimate dictator. But launching military action without congressional authorization and without a credible plan for what comes next is reckless.

“The administration has assured me three separate times that it was not pursuing regime change or taking military action in Venezuela. Clearly, they are not being straight with Americans.

“The idea that Trump plans to now run Venezuela should strike fear in the hearts of all Americans. The American people have seen this before and paid the devastating price.

“The administration must brief Congress immediately on its objectives, and its plan to prevent a humanitarian and geopolitical disaster that plunges us into another endless war or one that trades one corrupt dictator for another.

“To distract from skyrocketing costs Americans face and the historic cover up of the Epstein files, Donald Trump is attempting to the throw Americans into more international chaos and uncertainty.”

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Or, hell, the US

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Free question idea for the press: Bring unlabeled world map and ask Trump to identify Venezuela

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1h

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1h

I'm starting a private military company fuck it

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Today is like the Super Bowl and Oscars all wrapped into one for the "are you surprised?!" crowd

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Just to cut to the chase: There are no answers to those questions that make any of this okay.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Old and cold: Sen. Collins' "concerns"
The new hotness: Rep. Jeffries' "questions remain unanswered"

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1h

… Speaker Jeffries statement:

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

After this regime change, Trump will need a diaper change

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: The US has something of a mixed record of ousting dictators without necessarily a plan for what comes after---

TRUMP: Not with me. That's when we had different presidents. With me, we've had a perfect track record of winning.