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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

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 40m
Breaking this out again: 💥

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 41m
Or a "Yes, that is exactly the point I'm making but you go with it since you have like a billion followers" button.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 43m
This platform needs a "But... Never mind. I don't have the energy" button.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 50m
Which I suppose is why AI so attractive to these people. It is in effect the rule of a small elite but mediated more efficiently across millions of subjects through algorithms.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 52m
I see a lot of people dunking on Miller, and rightly so. But the point of racism isn't the internal coherence, but the power structure: Getting to determine who is in and who is out. In other words, a small group of people get to decide -- not abstract rules.
originalsp.in Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1h
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 56m
💥

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The Onion @theonion.com · 59m
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
I've been dying to see it for years. Thankfully, Criterion picked it up for a bit.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
Top music discovery: Horsegirl

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
Top 5 movies new to me this year:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
2. Amadeus (1984)
3. Mother Hummingbird (1929)
4. Tumbbad (2018)
5. Joint Security Area (2000)
(Honorable mention: Black Gravel (1961))

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1h
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
It seems like an academic version of red team vs. blue team. Do I have that terminology right?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h
In his own way, Wurman's making the case for birthright citizenship. He tries so hard and yet comes up with nothing. If there was a there there, it seems he would have found it by now.
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d
Prof. Wurman is now tossing about bits of historical evidence for his mission to undermine the 14th Amendment. Far from useful, this tells us nothing.

To start, this unsigned newspaper blurb was published in 1862– years before the 14th Amendment.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
Dr. No, PhD
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4h
make a Bond movie academic

The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
ncweaver.skerry-tech.com Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 4h
make a Bond movie academic

Spectre: {Insert bacronym here}

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
Other than the Second Amendment, I think the Trump administration has brazenly violated all of the Bill of Rights by this point.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
Are we able to decipher that code from the Founding era? Or are we just repurposing it for our own bullshit ends.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3h
The problem with looking to the Founders is that when they were talking about "good government" they were probably rarely talking about good government. Just like today's policy debates wrapped in neutral language are often sophisticated code for naked politics.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 3h
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
Only 10 more days until the kids go back to school! *cries*

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4h
make a Bond movie academic

The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
ncweaver.skerry-tech.com Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 4h
make a Bond movie academic

Spectre: {Insert bacronym here}
nuclearanthro.bsky.social 🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 4h
make a Bond movie academic

No Time to Die: Techno-Fascism and Its Imaginaries of Immortality

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
It took the Trump administration less than a year to oust upwards of 10% of career civil service.
That means lost of things. But one worth emphasizing is this: The Trump administration cannot blame the so-called "deep state" for its failures. It's *their* deep state now.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
Terrific piece

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
I'm reading Light's 'A Government Ill Executed,' which is, you know, old. But the literature it cites seems to unwittingly sketch a picture of the early days of GOP insanity. Just an interesting time capsule in that sense.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
Not really fully steeped in the political science/public literature. How well does it account for the basic point that the GOP is insane? Or is that like forbidden?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h
To think, Chevron deference may have been blocking this
jesspish.bsky.social Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 5h
For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?
The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.
www.rollingstone.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 5h
For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?
The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.
www.rollingstone.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
It was my fault

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
I see the Heritage Foundation is still driving our foreign policy. If there was any question about where Trump stands on the turmoil there.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.   DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret. trib.al/KjSnpN1
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.   DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA