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 · 1h

Here's what DOGE really learned: That, all in all, our government works pretty well in a scrappy, inelegant but greater-than-a-sum-of-its-parts sort of way. And that the largest source of its inefficiencies is inadequate resources and legal authority.

Imagine if the public ever heard that message.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

For a four-hour movie, you should get 2 fucks.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

Make a Bond film casual

Leafraker and then maybe some apple cider

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1h

Make a Bond film casual

Cubic Zirconia Lasts Fairly Long, More Than You Would Think for the Price

Erin Snyder @erinlsnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Make a Bond film casual

On Her Majesty's Secret Santa

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1h

Make a Bond film casual

Cubic Zirconia Lasts Fairly Long, More Than You Would Think for the Price

Erin Snyder @erinlsnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Make a Bond film casual

On Her Majesty's Secret Santa

David A. Smith @davidasmithphotos.bsky.social · 9h

Make a Bond film casual

The Spy Who Liked Me

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

I should clarify: he is unwittingly performing this role. Which would make the situation hilarious were the stakes not so great.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

No matter how far Trump's approval sinks in the toilet, I'm still not confident about the 2026 midterms. And neither should you be.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

This is very bad.

Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...

stateline.org

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rebecca Tushnet, James Goodwin

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

This is very bad.

Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline

stateline.org

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

So just stop recording videos of your kids doing cute things with animals. That era is gone forever.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

I pretty much assume all cute videos of small children and animals are AI slop now

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

August 29, 2008, was the day everything changed (announcement of Palin as the vice presidential candidate)

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

Back to the Future: The Musical: The Movie

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

Back to the Future Part II: The Musical

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

True

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

White Collar!

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds of 40s/50s B-movie production at major studios. Small budgets, so little studio interference in creative decision. Creative up-and-coming filmmakers who used the small budgets as an opportunity, rather than a challenge. Some "misses," but when they hit....

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

I can't name a single industry where white men have been excluded. So problem solved. Time for cocktails?

Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 13h

@startribune.com finally stands up for the truly forgotten! White men! Can't make this shit up

www.startribune.com/2026-reading...

Opinion | You can’t be diverse if you exclude white men

Those year-end book lists that claim to be all about diversity often seem to miss this one major demographic, Annie Holmquist writes.

www.startribune.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

USA was on a tear back in the day

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

I wish I could use "sleep now" on my kids

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

Looks like the US will remain the top financial supporter of the IMF -- but I'm guessing the Belt and Road Initiative makes that sort of irrelevant.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not an IR scholar -- would there be any practical significance to China overtaking the US as the top financial supporter of the UN? www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025...

US leverages UN, IMF and World Bank to advance revamped 'America First' agenda | The National

White House is using its pocketbook to push for big changes at institutions that serve as major instruments for US soft power

www.thenationalnews.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

There's even an icky AI summary of those search results

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

The Heritage Foundation's "newsletter" has had 13 stories about anti-Christian attacks since Trump's inauguration www.dailysignal.com/search?q=nig...

www.dailysignal.com

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

If there's any justice when this is all over, Miller will be sentenced to life in Taco Bell

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine?

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

Prove me wrong

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

'One Million Years B.C.' (1966) is technically a Christmas movie. Part of it takes place on what would later become December 25.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Breaking this out again: 💥

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

Or a "Yes, that is exactly the point I'm making but you go with it since you have like a billion followers" button.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h

This platform needs a "But... Never mind. I don't have the energy" button.

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Street Sense Media @streetsensedc.bsky.social · 6h

Thousands of Americans have full-time jobs and still can’t pay rent. But they’re a significant and revealing part of America’s homelessness crisis, Brian Goldstone argues in his new book, “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.”

https://bit.ly/4b228Cs

Working, homeless, hidden: A talk with Brian Goldstone - Street Sense Media

Street Sense editor-in-chief chats with author of “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” Brian Goldstone.

streetsensemedia.org

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