Mark Goodman
@markwgoodman.bsky.social
Retired (but not retiring) public servant, scientist, diplomat, lifelong wonk.
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"NSPM-7 threatens core constitutional rights. The smearing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good is not simply a rhetorical tactic. It is part of a larger operation."
The Smearing of Alex Pretti and NSPM-7
By @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social and @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
The Smearing of Alex Pretti and NSPM-7
By @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social and @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
The Smearing of Alex Pretti and NSPM-7
How administration officials' labelling Alex Pretti and Renee Good as "domestic terrorists" fits in with NSPM-7.
www.justsecurity.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:15 PM
"NSPM-7 threatens core constitutional rights. The smearing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good is not simply a rhetorical tactic. It is part of a larger operation."
The Smearing of Alex Pretti and NSPM-7
By @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social and @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
The Smearing of Alex Pretti and NSPM-7
By @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social and @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
My latest post on the extrajudicial killings by the Trump regime. I use those terms deliberately. open.substack.com/pub/markwgoo...
Extrajudicial Killings by the Trump Regime
Words and phrases we should be using
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January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
My latest post on the extrajudicial killings by the Trump regime. I use those terms deliberately. open.substack.com/pub/markwgoo...
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Listen now! Episode 5 of The Steady State Sentinel: The Country is Suffering (recorded 1-5-2026)
Listen at thesteadystate.org/podcast, on Apple at apple.co/45rB0JB. or wherever you get your podcasts. @johnsipher.bsky.social @denverr.bsky.social
Listen at thesteadystate.org/podcast, on Apple at apple.co/45rB0JB. or wherever you get your podcasts. @johnsipher.bsky.social @denverr.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Listen now! Episode 5 of The Steady State Sentinel: The Country is Suffering (recorded 1-5-2026)
Listen at thesteadystate.org/podcast, on Apple at apple.co/45rB0JB. or wherever you get your podcasts. @johnsipher.bsky.social @denverr.bsky.social
Listen at thesteadystate.org/podcast, on Apple at apple.co/45rB0JB. or wherever you get your podcasts. @johnsipher.bsky.social @denverr.bsky.social
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1/ “The Steady State unequivocally condemns the fatal shooting earlier today in Minneapolis by ICE paramilitary officers…
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Statement on the January 24, 2026, Minneapolis Shooting
The Steady State
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January 24, 2026 at 8:11 PM
1/ “The Steady State unequivocally condemns the fatal shooting earlier today in Minneapolis by ICE paramilitary officers…
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Listen now! Episode 5 of The Steady State Sentinel: The Country is Suffering (recorded 1-5-2026)
Listen at thesteadystate.org/podcast, on Apple at apple.co/45rB0JB or wherever you get your podcasts. @denverr.bsky.social
Listen at thesteadystate.org/podcast, on Apple at apple.co/45rB0JB or wherever you get your podcasts. @denverr.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Listen now! Episode 5 of The Steady State Sentinel: The Country is Suffering (recorded 1-5-2026)
Listen at thesteadystate.org/podcast, on Apple at apple.co/45rB0JB or wherever you get your podcasts. @denverr.bsky.social
Listen at thesteadystate.org/podcast, on Apple at apple.co/45rB0JB or wherever you get your podcasts. @denverr.bsky.social
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"[In this updated assessment,]We assess with high confidence that ... democratic backsliding continues. While some institutional resistance exists...the trajectory poses both immediate and long-term risks to constitutional order and national security."
"[In this updated assessment,]We assess with high confidence that ... democratic backsliding continues. While some institutional resistance exists...the trajectory poses both immediate and long-term risks to constitutional order and national security."
Democracy SITREP - Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline - A Periodic Update
The Steady State
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January 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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"[In this updated assessment,]We assess with high confidence that ... democratic backsliding continues. While some institutional resistance exists...the trajectory poses both immediate and long-term risks to constitutional order and national security."
"[In this updated assessment,]We assess with high confidence that ... democratic backsliding continues. While some institutional resistance exists...the trajectory poses both immediate and long-term risks to constitutional order and national security."
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In today’s #MustRead, Mark Carney warns the rules-based order is breaking down and urges middle powers to stop pretending, work together, and build strength without surrendering values. ⬇️
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada
Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.
www.weforum.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:47 PM
In today’s #MustRead, Mark Carney warns the rules-based order is breaking down and urges middle powers to stop pretending, work together, and build strength without surrendering values. ⬇️
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
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So ICE is training its officers to violate the Fourth Amendment. And don’t get me started on the First and Fourteenth.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 1:17 AM
So ICE is training its officers to violate the Fourth Amendment. And don’t get me started on the First and Fourteenth.
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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Trump’s withdrawal from international climate bodies leaves the United States isolated and diminished politically but cannot insulate the United States from the physical effects of climate change. It will leave Americans less safe, less healthy, and less prosperous. open.substack.com/pub/markwgoo...
A Climate of Isolation
We Can’t Insulate Ourselves from Global Climate Change
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January 20, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Trump’s withdrawal from international climate bodies leaves the United States isolated and diminished politically but cannot insulate the United States from the physical effects of climate change. It will leave Americans less safe, less healthy, and less prosperous. open.substack.com/pub/markwgoo...
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NSL4A warns against threatened use of the Insurrection Act in Minnesota and the potential deployment of active-duty troops for domestic operations.
Such actions risk constitutional rights and civil-military trust.
Read our full statement here: www.nsl4a.org/nsl4a-announ...
Such actions risk constitutional rights and civil-military trust.
Read our full statement here: www.nsl4a.org/nsl4a-announ...
January 19, 2026 at 7:13 PM
NSL4A warns against threatened use of the Insurrection Act in Minnesota and the potential deployment of active-duty troops for domestic operations.
Such actions risk constitutional rights and civil-military trust.
Read our full statement here: www.nsl4a.org/nsl4a-announ...
Such actions risk constitutional rights and civil-military trust.
Read our full statement here: www.nsl4a.org/nsl4a-announ...
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American friends deserve better. So does America.
American friends deserve better. So does America.
“Trumpland”
The Steady State | by Greg Rushford
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January 19, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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American friends deserve better. So does America.
American friends deserve better. So does America.
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1/ With this policy, the administration has effectively created a federalized immigration enforcement force embedded within local policing nationwide—one that mirrors key structural features of a secret police system.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
January 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
1/ With this policy, the administration has effectively created a federalized immigration enforcement force embedded within local policing nationwide—one that mirrors key structural features of a secret police system.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
CBS under Bari Weiss and David Ellison is being used to plant dubious stories favorable to the MAGA narrative and bury carefully reported stories that aren't. This is not the network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
What the Trump Administration Is Buying With CBS's Reputation
The administration's story about the Renee Good shooting was falling apart. CBS gave them the credibility to put it back together.
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January 18, 2026 at 4:10 AM
CBS under Bari Weiss and David Ellison is being used to plant dubious stories favorable to the MAGA narrative and bury carefully reported stories that aren't. This is not the network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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Many of our followers have asked "how can I get involved/support" @steadystatevets.bsky.social? If you are a former NatSec vet, think about joining us. If not, think about joining The Steady State Auxiliary. No secret decoder ring. But... steadystate1.substack.com/p/announcing...
Announcing: The Steady State Auxiliary
The Steady State
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January 15, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Many of our followers have asked "how can I get involved/support" @steadystatevets.bsky.social? If you are a former NatSec vet, think about joining us. If not, think about joining The Steady State Auxiliary. No secret decoder ring. But... steadystate1.substack.com/p/announcing...
The hateful rhetoric is coming from ICE agents and their political masters. To criticize the public for describing accurately what they say is just more gaslighting.
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The hateful rhetoric is coming from ICE agents and their political masters. To criticize the public for describing accurately what they say is just more gaslighting.
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I've been saying this for years. DHS and the Patriot Act were Orwellian mistakes.
Agree.
There should never have been a DHS. (Argued that at the time.) Nor the "Patriot" Act.
Every Democrat, every actual patriot, should start with abolishing the modern gestapo that is "ICE."
There should never have been a DHS. (Argued that at the time.) Nor the "Patriot" Act.
Every Democrat, every actual patriot, should start with abolishing the modern gestapo that is "ICE."
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
January 8, 2026 at 4:45 AM
I've been saying this for years. DHS and the Patriot Act were Orwellian mistakes.
Today’s my birthday, but it’s also the fifth anniversary of a grave assault on our democracy. This post is about what I call information pollution, which was one cause of the Capitol Insurrection. And it’s getting worse because those in power profit from it. open.substack.com/pub/markwgoo...
Information Pollution
A Growing Threat
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January 7, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Today’s my birthday, but it’s also the fifth anniversary of a grave assault on our democracy. This post is about what I call information pollution, which was one cause of the Capitol Insurrection. And it’s getting worse because those in power profit from it. open.substack.com/pub/markwgoo...
I date it back over 30 years, to Newt Gingrich and the Contract With America.
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
January 5, 2026 at 4:10 AM
I date it back over 30 years, to Newt Gingrich and the Contract With America.
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A call to support the values of public service from Steady State’s own, Mark Goodman
A call to support the values of public service from Steady State’s own, Mark Goodman
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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A call to support the values of public service from Steady State’s own, Mark Goodman
A call to support the values of public service from Steady State’s own, Mark Goodman
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