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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

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The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. I do not live in New York.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22m

rangefinder but yeah

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i remember arguing with people on tiktok that no, democrats do not “make more money by losing”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i knew what you were talking about because i had just spent 20 minutes looking for a way to see them over here

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i had taken some pretty nice shots too, at the suffolk, va. peanut festival

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

got most of the way through a roll of 120 film before i noticed that the cap was still on the lens.

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Whomp Whomp Reaction

ALT: Whomp Whomp Reaction

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

Breaking news: The Pentagon acknowledged that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.

washingtonpost.com

Pentagon raises official toll of troops killed during war with Iran to 21

The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

he is doing gregory peck as atticus finch!

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/10/2026

it rules

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 09/10/2026

i genuinely think they make him do this because they know he’s bad at it because he gets bad reviews because it’s bad for his brand and because they’re extremely mad about all his iran leaks.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst

A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 09/10/2026

This is pretty funny. This is the story of conspiracy theorists trying to document their conspiracy to clear the lowest of legal bars, but they keep discovering that their theories don’t fit the facts. These people then quit, to be replaced by new conspiracy theorists. Repeat forever.

How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article)

The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

this is distinct from the bipartisan political consensus that enabled Watergate

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

That's all, have a good night.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

What is possible is structured by the political environment, and although Democrats can shape that environment, it is not infinitely malleable, and that should be taken seriously as well.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

Given that there is not likely to be a national, bipartisan demand for accountability in the wake of Trump — the major distinction with Nixon — any accountability, civil or criminal, will be a partisan and political project that I think should be pursued as vigorously as possible.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

The purpose of the question was to begin to make an observation about how the Nixon circumstance is different enough to not be a useful parallel as well as to note that *Democrats* were not principally responsible for the lack of criminal accountability.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

I am genuinely struck by your absolute confidence that you can divine a stranger's thoughts based off of nothing but a single, unadorned question and your total lack of curiosity about what I was responding to or why I thought the question was relevant.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

Here you are, again, supposing you know what I think rather than asking a question to figure it out.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

Wrong again. I asked you a simple question. Your sense of how I was "acting" is entirely your invention, based on your suppositions.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

No, and nothing I said suggested that. You should try to reply to the things people say, rather than the things you imagine they think.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

I understand the invective is a kind of signaling to let me know that you hold me in contempt, but it is very tedious. And no, you did not answer my question.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

Two things are very funny about this. First, you are clearly unfamiliar with what I write about Republicans. And second, you are unable to answer a very simple question.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

A lot of words here and none of them are an answer to my question.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

so you don't know the answer?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

who pardoned Richard Nixon?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...

Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

all respect i do not think there is an evidence that ossoff is currently disadvantaged within the democratic party because he is jewish

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tferg23.bsky.social @tferg23.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Between this and the AES debate tonight, it's refreshing to hear this from democrats. I'm glad every question is not treated as an opportunity to pivot to "kitchen table issues," but is instead met with all the reasons why the R is a gigantic piece of shit.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

i am really curious to know how far that line has circulated

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

i genuinely want nothing more in the world than to see ossoff eviscerate vance on a debate stage

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

exactly

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Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is a great rated R horror movie for kids @jdvdub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Importantly, everyone knows he’s right. You can tell that they know it. He’s learning that you can say things like this when they are true.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

yes

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

ossof basically

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Chappelle's Show: Silky Johnson's Playahaters Ball

ALT: Chappelle's Show: Silky Johnson's Playahaters Ball

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

“Lynching in the US.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

It does not downplay one form of lynching to identify another form. It is helpful to remember that many categories include multiple types.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

“Lynching” in the US is not a singular phenomenon. The lynching you are describing is a “racial terror” lynching. There were “public spectacle lynchings,” which have elements of the former but are not identical. There are also “legal lynchings” which were the summary use of capital punishment.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

cruikshank underrated as one of the worst ever decisions of the court