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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. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Published: May 21, 2026 14:56
recently watched some Hinchcliffe and it is wild to me that he has a career. profoundly unfunny dude with an intolerable voice to boot.
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Published: May 21, 2026 14:29
i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.
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Published: May 21, 2026 14:19
hachi machi
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Published: May 21, 2026 13:28
i think this is a polling question that makes sense to the kinds of people who read polling for fun and makes relatively little sense to the people polled, i.e. “left” “center” are vague terms that mean an infinite number of things to ordinary voters
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Published: May 20, 2026 19:13
not to dip too much into this discourse but worth saying that the fresh ingredients for this saag paneer ran me about $26 (all of that fresh spinach is expensive). made six servings, so that comes to about $4.33 a serving.
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Published: May 20, 2026 15:03
conservatives are being pretty clear that they see anything more than a token black presence as tantamount to "anti-white discrimination," and even then, they view that as suspect
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Published: May 20, 2026 14:53
my latest is on trump's "pecuniary presidency" (gift link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/opinion/trump-irs-settlement-blanche.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.0Aj2.4G3eLRFluJbJ&smid=url-share
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Published: May 20, 2026 12:59
i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights
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Published: May 20, 2026 00:37
i like how my taco bell post ended up being an excuse for a bunch of clearly joyless people to scold me about my health
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Published: May 19, 2026 22:01
looks like a few smart republicans are worried the war might destroy the GOP senate majority (probably too late, the pain is baked in)
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Published: May 19, 2026 21:49
mise en place for some palak paneer (paneer getting a quick roast in the oven)
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Published: May 19, 2026 20:17
recorded this just before news broke that the settlement shields the trump family from IRS audits which is OUTRAGEOUS https://youtu.be/hraZ4tIuDWA?si=6g_eoZPNlGuReJvh
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Published: May 19, 2026 19:29
live mas
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Published: May 19, 2026 18:29
shoutout to jared polis
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Published: May 19, 2026 17:56
aw hell yeah
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Published: May 19, 2026 16:54
reading some charles sumner and happened upon this banger from an 1869 address (cont.)
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Published: May 19, 2026 01:15
second roll of the month was taken out in iowa https://jamellebouie.net/blog/2026/5/18/twenty-twenty-six-roll-2
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Published: May 18, 2026 21:07
watching BULLWORTH. this movie is insane
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Published: May 18, 2026 20:05
“Once a guy sent me a video with Emily’s nude on a tablet on a pillow, and he was basically recording himself fucking the pillow,” he says. “It was incredibly weird, but he sent me a $50 tip, so I was like, OK, do what you want.”…
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Published: May 18, 2026 18:36
The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/yale-medical-school-trump-doj-findings/
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Published: May 18, 2026 11:25
critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black…
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Published: May 18, 2026 10:46
plagiarizing from compact magazine? boy, i dunno https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5824503/new-york-magazine-review-ross-barkan
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Published: May 18, 2026 01:46
seems like jared polis thought this would make him look like an enlightened and humane centrist instead of a dumbass
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Published: May 17, 2026 18:52
noted profile in cowardice wants his old colleagues to stand up to the guy he kowtowed to back when his choices actually mattered https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/politics/lamar-alexander-republicans-trump.html
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Published: May 17, 2026 18:37
just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white…
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Published: May 17, 2026 17:53
i am reading james madison’s replies to hamilton on the subject of washington’s declaration of neutrality and it is wild how the very first letter reads like a diss track
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Published: May 17, 2026 16:03
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves.…
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Published: May 17, 2026 14:30
incredible reader email. genuinely shocked that some of these people can breathe.
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Published: May 17, 2026 14:06
$5+ gas in Evanston, Illinois. Woof.
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Published: May 16, 2026 20:37
i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits
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Published: May 16, 2026 15:47
i think this is one of the best hip hop records of the decade so far https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQgK8V490F7CwbsnACumjCnakXaOivsAE&si=4GjEC_BxwO8cNDSR
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Published: May 16, 2026 15:14
it is my favorite time of the year, i.e., when my solar panels mean that my monthly power bill is < $10. we also just got a level 2 charger installed for the car, and as i’m thinking of doing some more serious renos to the house, i may get more panels…
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Published: May 16, 2026 14:51
“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function…
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Published: May 16, 2026 14:41
the trump administration assertion that it is “unlawful” for private organizations to pursue diversity is nonsense. what this is, once again, is an effort to roll back desegregation that the ABA has surrendered to.
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Published: May 16, 2026 14:30
yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!
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Published: May 15, 2026 21:14
governor brainworms
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Published: May 15, 2026 19:27
new video https://youtu.be/P9NlRz7w27E?si=94JbAMaSpOYhVXJv
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Published: May 15, 2026 16:33
my feeling about this is that Third Way is basically just three guys in an office and should be ignored
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Published: May 15, 2026 16:09
this is obviously stupid but also "i should not have to see a black person in a position of power or influence" is a guiding belief of the trump administration
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Published: May 15, 2026 03:04
good thing tomorrow is whiskey friday
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Published: May 15, 2026 00:04
are they like, selecting for people who lack any and all on-screen charisma?
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Published: May 14, 2026 21:52
here again we see this idea that american citizens do not have rights apart from what their states provide.
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Published: May 14, 2026 17:11
vance making his bid for the groypers
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Published: May 14, 2026 16:13
this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it
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Published: May 14, 2026 15:53
i feel that over the years i have played a small part in bringing "chud" into the discourse as an insult https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/magazine/chud-political-insult-maga.html
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Published: May 14, 2026 15:08
this is a good example of what I’m talking about when I say that people like stoller are completely irrelevant on the platforms that actually reach people. he thinks that if you’re not on X, you’re not anywhere. meanwhile, half of americans get their news…
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Published: May 14, 2026 14:00
brb gonna go concealed carry a blunderbuss
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Published: May 14, 2026 01:25
watching clips of adlai stevenson in the 1956 campaign for the first time and my immediate thought was “of course this nerd lost”
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Published: May 13, 2026 22:28
gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat…
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Published: May 13, 2026 22:23
i've said it before but there needs to be serious congressional regulation of clerkships at the federal level
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-on-the-fancy-lawyer
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Published: May 13, 2026 22:18
this is an example of “who cares what the court says it is none of their business”
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