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it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30m

the other thing is that this is a totally incoherent and arbitrary standard for deciding who has rights and who doesn't. you could say the same, for instance, of alito's vision of inviolate "religious liberty" or expansive gun rights.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 45m

that's why i just don't think he's worth responding to anymore. he's a professional rage-baiter. that's what he does.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

and what did biden win NJ by?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

a competitive texas is like a vicksburg level defeat for the GOP

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

and honestly, losing either statewide race in texas is something close to a strategic defeat. it completely upsets the political map going forward. it would be similar to trump winning new jersey in 2024 (where he came close).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

they want it all to be spreadsheets so badly

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 16h

The pundit view of the world is skewed by many things, one of which is a refusal/inability to understand geographic spaces that exist outside their own neighborhoods. It's all based on stereotypes and conjecture—even when they go to other places, and their columns are essentially bad travel writing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i was really struck by the absolute conviction on part of the mom (?) that every black person was looking at her with absolute hatred in their heart

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i like the idea of will smith being an apex predator for chris rock and only chris rock, like he is the metroid to an x parasite

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

someone call up will smith we need him to do something

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

these fucking ghouls should never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

also thanks jd vance and christopher rufo

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 22h

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

Could you say more about reforming the filibuster to require 41 votes to continue debate?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

foundation of my election takes this year is that there is basically a reversion to the norm when trump is off the ballot.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can basically break this down into "elections Donald Trump ran in" and "all other elections." For whatever reason, ppl on here keep ptsding themselves (and political news media keeps wishcasting) into thinking that a non-Trump election is going to act like a Trump one

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

As long as he’s aiming his invective at concepts associated with Black people he’s perfectly fine, once he strayed from anti-Black racism the mainstream press began to notice his bigotry.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

legitimately looking forward to this street fighter movie. if it isn’t stupid fun i will be very disappointed

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

David Dastmalchian just posted this on his IG 😭

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

what makes you think i am unfamiliar with either?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

i didn’t ask for your advice

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

i also like this "moss herringbone" that propercloth is offering

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

i have too many herringbone tweed sportcoats as it is but if i were in the market i think this would be near the top of the list. the green accent is a wonderful touch. www.brooksbrothers.com/no.-1-sack-s...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

the birthright citizenship question is, to me, the clearest evidence that originalism as practiced is just living constitutionalism for right-wing jurists. the originalist answer is the conventional one is the textual one, but that was basically unacceptable to much of the right.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

what is this interview?!?

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Unsung Women Behind America’s Most Celebrated Civil Rights Protest The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Book Review: ‘How Bright the Path Grows,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Gift Article)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

yeah people say this and i have to wonder what their example is

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

whoever my photographer is, he sometimes liked to get a little artsy, as in this photo.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

i have been laughing at this for 5 minutes straight

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The liberty interest of emancipation was, in essence, to take that reproductive choice out of the state purview.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.

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