James Goodwin

FIFA created a fake award to give to Trump.

The stadiums are gonna be empty!

Can y'all just stop writing interesting stuff for like 2 or 3 months? I'm trying to catch up.

That's interesting

The Strongmen’s Game: Inside Populism’s Global Takeover - LSE Undergraduate Political Review This Op-Ed was written by Dominik Császár, First Year Politics and International Relations student and Op-Ed Writer at the LSE UPR. The end of democracy as we know it? By the close of the twentieth ce...

"The strongman doesn’t overthrow democracy; he hijacks it. He wins elections, then rewrites the rules to ensure he can’t lose them again. Each reform, a gerrymander here, a new media law there, appears procedural, even democratic." blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseupr/2025/...

Boy, did our social institutions turn out to be fragile. It's almost like they have been decaying for decades.

Why Indiana Is the 'Last Line of Defense' for Republicans Indiana's new congressional map could solidify Republican power by potentially changing two Democrat seats to Republican representation.

I mean. This probably comports with the letter of c3 law, but clearly violates the spirit. www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/09/w...

The next best thing to impoundment is pissing away money

‘Complete roller coaster’: EPA probationary staff returns to work Employees said uncertainty still looms as restructuring of the agency by the Trump administration takes hold.

See also www.eenews.net/articles/com...

The inefficiency and waste is a feature, not a bug

Guess that's a no. Well, tomorrow is another day. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is exactly the kind of thing Frank Drebin would say

Also, I'm guessing the Trump administration won't be doing a OMB Report to Congress on Cost-Benefit Analysis (draft or final).

On top of a healthcare reform plan and the Epstein files, the Trump administration technically has less than 2 weeks to release a Fall 2025 Regulatory Agenda

This is legit hilarious

At least it's not in crayon?

Pretty sure this was called for in Project 2025

a black and white photo of two men in military uniforms standing next to each other in front of a filing cabinet . ALT: a black and white photo of two men in military uniforms standing next to each other in front of a filing cabinet .

It’s important to note that, right up until Pearl Harbor, condemning Nazis was up for debate in Hollywood. “You wouldn’t want to be bigoted against them, would you?”

Most studios attempted “neutrality“

Charlie Chaplin was a major exception and took on fascism directly before it was acceptable

Just to tie this in a tighter bow: Dudley and her ilk only vociferously defend cost-benefit analysis/OIRA when it "happens" to block regulations. They're not interested in better policy; they're interested in blocking regulations. And we should treat them as such.

Dudley has no authentic claim to being interested in promoting "good government" or "sound policymaking." To the extent she can muster any criticism at all it's that the Clark memo minimizes the role of OIRA -- as if the value of OIRA is self-evident.

This memo dumps on cost-benefit analysis and OIRA and other executive orders governing regulatory analysis. If a Biden OIRA administrator had written something like this, she would be apoplectic. But clearly she buys into the dual standard for regulation vs. deregulation that undergirds the memo.

"In many ways, Clark’s memo is well-crafted and well-reasoned...." My goodness, this is embarrassing from Dudley.

I've been eagerly waiting for her views on this memo. I was hoping for better, but her response is so disappointing.

DOGE Is Dead, But Deregulation Is Just Getting Started | The Regulatory Review The White House’s recent memo could reshape the regulatory landscape faster than ever.

"Every President since Ronald Reagan has relied on OIRA to improve regulatory quality."
What is the definition of "quality" here?
www.theregreview.org/2025/12/09/d...

With all that's going on in American politics these days, how is "progressive" a bad word?

And days away from your army
And spent with the whimsy kings and slaves
A girl of God becomes a cash flower
A catalog of garden and grave

from “Kisses to the Crying Cooks” by Guided By Voices, Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994)

Show up to class wearing a bathrobe

Too early for Nyquil?

I am an A+++++ Policy Director at a small advocacy organization

bad ass

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

(2) seems to be an even more dubious point than (1). first because agencies are shaped by congress as well as executive appointments, and second because the agency rule-making process is more transparent and democratic than top-down decrees from political appointees