jamellebouie.net - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Nate Silver 🤝 Noah Smith Knowing nothing about the past, skimming Wikipedia and not doing the reading, and assuming they’ve invented a new way of understanding human history

submitted 2 hours ago • 63 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 hours ago • 76 comments

Hey remember when I said Chapo trap house was one of the worst things to ever happen to left wing digital spaces?

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 15 hours ago • 370 comments

sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

submitted 19 hours ago • 140 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 19 hours ago • 486 comments

Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1292 comments

It turns out that this was projection from ambitious social climbers who were interested in conservatism solely for the sake of conserving their own privilege.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Vance and others close to him are setting up the intellectual basis for American withdrawal from and hostile rivalry towards the EU based on the claim that a democratic Europe has betrayed an authoritarian vision that Vance presents as the epitome of "Western" civilisation.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Okay, so I’m finally putting a thread together: what is the deep-blue Delaware legislature proposing to do and why is it the most evil thing not directly involving Donald Trump happening in America today? legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...

submitted 21 hours ago • 19 comments

hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

submitted 1 day ago • 348 comments

I'm pretty sure the entire current administration is the result of rich people trying to make 'being rich' a protected constitutional class

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and rich coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.

submitted 1 day ago • 311 comments

I’ll admit it: I am a pearlclutcher who really dislikes it when people use this dehumanising phrase to talk about people, and who cannot understand why people don’t immediately grasp why it is distasteful.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

yeah the mistake they made was assuming their colleagues would have some bare minimum of professional pride or backbone

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

this history is drilled in so hard for those of us who grew up a state that fought the Revolutionary War lol it's really not a game!

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 1 day ago • 298 comments

My greatest disgust for my fellow Americans comes from the way they keep treating life and death, good and evil as a fucking joke

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Trump has never met a dictator that he didn't admire. that's how you know he's self-consciously lying about Zelenskyy being a dictator.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 1 day ago • 587 comments

Crockett on Trump's relatively high approval: We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when your Medicaid goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky... maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted, bc we could at least sleep at night.

submitted 1 day ago • 410 comments

This is like saying parents saved money by not feeding their kids as much and skipping doctors’ appointments. People were actually using the services he’s killed off, among them veterans.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

i thought this was truly terrific. a great documentary and worth watching back to back with the new CNN doc on luther vandross

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

This is my current understanding of the Constitutional order in the United States It is, needless to say, very bad

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments