James Goodwin
@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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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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
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...
Give me a long enough repayment schedule, and I'll buy the world.
“Everything is affordable if you take out a long enough loan” - Donald Trump, probably
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Give me a long enough repayment schedule, and I'll buy the world.
Maybe we should ask why elected Republicans see absolutely no downside to engaging in this kind of brazen corruption
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Maybe we should ask why elected Republicans see absolutely no downside to engaging in this kind of brazen corruption
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.
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.
INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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.
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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."
"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."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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."
"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."
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
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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...
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Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."
As a Pike Co. student, I see the SNAP delays, and I see our people suffer | Opinion
OpEd: As a high school student, I see the struggles of our mountain communities, already hurt by floods, now suffering under SNAP delays.
www.kentucky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."
Adventures in Unitary Executive Theory
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.
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
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Adventures in Unitary Executive Theory
I really thought ending Chevron deference was going to fix Article I. Boy is my face red.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I really thought ending Chevron deference was going to fix Article I. Boy is my face red.
"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
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"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...
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Somehow, against all odds, this turned out to be a good writing day.
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Somehow, against all odds, this turned out to be a good writing day.
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"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...
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
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"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...
www.eenews.net/articles/fed...
My kids are the best, and I wish you all could meet them. Well, most of you, at any rate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My kids are the best, and I wish you all could meet them. Well, most of you, at any rate.
I wish I could still get a free pizza for reading books
I, too, would like people to know I have read a book
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I wish I could still get a free pizza for reading books
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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
This is a big escalation in the rhetoric we've been hearing for months on this
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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
This is a big escalation in the rhetoric we've been hearing for months on this
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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
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ruy gonna Ruy www.thefp.com/p/are-democr...
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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...
@theathleticfc.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
FIFA’s next 2026 World Cup cash cow: Exorbitant parking prices
If you're paying to park at 2026 World Cup matches it'll cost you more than some match tickets at previous editions of the tournament
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Every day, I look at my kids, and I think to myself, "I sure hope they grow up to be just like Jeanne Shaheen."
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Every day, I look at my kids, and I think to myself, "I sure hope they grow up to be just like Jeanne Shaheen."
If this is how the Senate "works," then the Senate does not work. Abolish it.
Oh @durbin.senate.gov is out on this surrender publicly and he is openly being contemptuous of the base - sounding like the coward he has always been.
Via @notus.com
Via @notus.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If this is how the Senate "works," then the Senate does not work. Abolish it.
Even if Obergefell remains in place de jure, what is left of it de facto?
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Even if Obergefell remains in place de jure, what is left of it de facto?
States were a mistake. I really do not see how US constitutional democracy can endure as long as states have a role to play.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
States were a mistake. I really do not see how US constitutional democracy can endure as long as states have a role to play.
The absolute minimal requirement for a Democratic elected official right now -- the absolute least we can expect from them -- is a recognition that we face the greatest threat to US democracy since the Civil War. Yet, how many demonstrate every day a failure to meet even this low bar?
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The absolute minimal requirement for a Democratic elected official right now -- the absolute least we can expect from them -- is a recognition that we face the greatest threat to US democracy since the Civil War. Yet, how many demonstrate every day a failure to meet even this low bar?