Meghan Goodwin
@meghanegoodwin.bsky.social
Government relations professional + senior policy specialist w 17 years experience (#health, #climate, #foreignaffairs) now working on Ph.D. @uva. Ethics+public life. Citizen of Cherokee Nation. New to bluesky, would appreciate a follow! #saltingthevibes
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"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."
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Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby
Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
Comparing Iran 2025 to Iraq 2003 is inaccurate and unwise.
Very different when there’s no Congressional AUMF, apparently no unified position of the intel community, no inclusion of allies or UN (or even VP!) and much much greater potential for devastating retaliation incl cyberattacks + nuke war.
Very different when there’s no Congressional AUMF, apparently no unified position of the intel community, no inclusion of allies or UN (or even VP!) and much much greater potential for devastating retaliation incl cyberattacks + nuke war.
June 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Comparing Iran 2025 to Iraq 2003 is inaccurate and unwise.
Very different when there’s no Congressional AUMF, apparently no unified position of the intel community, no inclusion of allies or UN (or even VP!) and much much greater potential for devastating retaliation incl cyberattacks + nuke war.
Very different when there’s no Congressional AUMF, apparently no unified position of the intel community, no inclusion of allies or UN (or even VP!) and much much greater potential for devastating retaliation incl cyberattacks + nuke war.
Spicy take: one day someone will publish on the way that, in this moment, therapists encouraged abdication of civic responsibility in the name of self care.*
*I support going to therapy. I also think there must be standardized care that recognizes the need for social bonds and civic participation.
*I support going to therapy. I also think there must be standardized care that recognizes the need for social bonds and civic participation.
June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Spicy take: one day someone will publish on the way that, in this moment, therapists encouraged abdication of civic responsibility in the name of self care.*
*I support going to therapy. I also think there must be standardized care that recognizes the need for social bonds and civic participation.
*I support going to therapy. I also think there must be standardized care that recognizes the need for social bonds and civic participation.
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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
June 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
8yo daughter wakes up at the end of a road trip, stretching and yawning: “I literally slept for thirty-six minutes. That’s the longest in my entire booster seat career.”
June 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
8yo daughter wakes up at the end of a road trip, stretching and yawning: “I literally slept for thirty-six minutes. That’s the longest in my entire booster seat career.”
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Political violence is always unacceptable. This is a horrifying day for Minnesota, and a sad day for America. What has occurred is a direct attack on our American values and democracy.
June 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Political violence is always unacceptable. This is a horrifying day for Minnesota, and a sad day for America. What has occurred is a direct attack on our American values and democracy.
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My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.
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Something that sometimes gets missed is that the government does not “give” or “take away” rights. Rights are “unalienable” & “endowed by the Creator.” You can’t earn them or lose them. They are either protected (by a legitimate government) or not (by a therefore illegitimate government).
April 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Something that sometimes gets missed is that the government does not “give” or “take away” rights. Rights are “unalienable” & “endowed by the Creator.” You can’t earn them or lose them. They are either protected (by a legitimate government) or not (by a therefore illegitimate government).
This honestly feels insignificant in light of everything else but DOGE stealing USIP’s building - the most beautiful piece of architecture in DC - is a tragedy. It’s a monument to peace. You stand inside and the light pours in.
They meant “doing fraud waste and abuse” not “finding fraud, waste and abuse.”
www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
April 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This honestly feels insignificant in light of everything else but DOGE stealing USIP’s building - the most beautiful piece of architecture in DC - is a tragedy. It’s a monument to peace. You stand inside and the light pours in.
Does anyone know of resources (articles, documentaries, easily-consumable media) that offers a kind of Ethics in Democracy 101 geared towards military or police? Constitutional obligations of security forces to citizens of their own country?
March 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Does anyone know of resources (articles, documentaries, easily-consumable media) that offers a kind of Ethics in Democracy 101 geared towards military or police? Constitutional obligations of security forces to citizens of their own country?
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SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
www.politico.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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well, here's that precipice I guess we were all waiting for to happen #political
March 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
well, here's that precipice I guess we were all waiting for to happen #political
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
www.nhpr.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
White House plans to expand mass layoffs to IRS and Veterans Affairs
Trump administration looks to axe half up to half of the tax agency’s workforce and fire up to 83,000 workers at the VA
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Tracking the performance of the S&P 500 through 100 days of an administration because I don't want to grade.
March 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Tracking the performance of the S&P 500 through 100 days of an administration because I don't want to grade.
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Correct
Like Tim Walz said, “You don't win elections to bank political capital — you win elections to burn political capital and improve lives.”
March 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Correct
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I’m going tomorrow 1-3ish
February 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’m going tomorrow 1-3ish
Words of encouragement today: resistance movements that engage just 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. Nonviolent movements are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts.
Don’t be discouraged by those who aren’t engaged. Find your people
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Don’t be discouraged by those who aren’t engaged. Find your people
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
www.bbc.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Words of encouragement today: resistance movements that engage just 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. Nonviolent movements are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts.
Don’t be discouraged by those who aren’t engaged. Find your people
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Don’t be discouraged by those who aren’t engaged. Find your people
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Don’t let the other side set the terms of engagement. Anything about DOGE can be dispensed with a simple “Those 19 year olds accidentally fired 350 nuclear bomb specialists because they didn’t understand what their titles were. Don’t try to tell me the layoffs have anything to do with performance.”
February 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Don’t let the other side set the terms of engagement. Anything about DOGE can be dispensed with a simple “Those 19 year olds accidentally fired 350 nuclear bomb specialists because they didn’t understand what their titles were. Don’t try to tell me the layoffs have anything to do with performance.”
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If you think the headline is good, you should read the copy.
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
theonion.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you think the headline is good, you should read the copy.
They are telling us what they are going to do. They are telling us on X. They are telling us on Fox News (Hegseth saying JAGS were fired so they “wouldn’t get in the way” of what comes next). In all seriousness: Be smart. Make a plan. Get your documents together. Get cash. Just in case.
February 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
They are telling us what they are going to do. They are telling us on X. They are telling us on Fox News (Hegseth saying JAGS were fired so they “wouldn’t get in the way” of what comes next). In all seriousness: Be smart. Make a plan. Get your documents together. Get cash. Just in case.