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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

shoutout to what i wrote two years ago after trump’s reelect

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Nov 24

i just want to say that i wrote this exactly one year ago.

This election was not a grand public affirmation for his most expansive plans and aggressive schemes. The electorate was as close to evenly divided as is possible (Trump is ahead by less than two percentage points in the popular vote) in a system where someone has to win. The marginal Trump voter — that is, the person who put him over the top — wants lower prices and cheaper homes, not chaos, dysfunction and autocratic, strongman government. But there are no real Trump plans to improve life for most Americans.

If there is such a thing as favorable terrain for a fight, this is it. This is the opportunity to weaken Trump and make his administration even less effective than it is already shaping up to be.

The 2024 election was the end of one iteration of the American republic. But the new one is still gestating — still formless, its outlines still unclear. And we, as free and equal citizens, have the capacity to shape it.

Yes, Trump will fight to try to impose his vision of the new world. Yes, he will lay claim to the powers of a monarch. Yes, he will speak as if he has royal prerogative. Yes, he will work to undermine our revolutionary heritage. But there is a large gap between a stated intention and an accomplished fact. And it is within that space that politics happens.

November 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM

andré, but scarier

@andre-carlisle.bsky.social

shoutout to lindsay graham for being dead

November 4, 2026 at 3:03 AM

Brooke Breit

@brookebreit.bsky.social

shoutout to the house giving out condiments this year

November 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH

@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app

There is no Senator Talarico without Beto kicking that door in repeatedly and refusing to die. Shoutout to him.

November 4, 2026 at 12:43 PM

Covie

@covie93.bsky.social

Shoutout to the Michigan Dem voters who saw through that woman's act in the primary

November 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Shoutout to all the airport authorities who have added art or museum displays to concourses. They’re wonderful.

October 31, 2026 at 6:38 PM

Jerry Chen

@jcsalterego.bsky.social

shoutout to the sports app bluesky for staying up and online tonight. also all of you folks

November 4, 2026 at 4:55 AM

Various Threnodies

@various-threnodies.bsky.social

shoutout to the EU

November 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM

alicia 🍳

@acorviart.bsky.social

shoutout to everyone at the undertale concert checking election results together during intermission

November 4, 2026 at 6:11 AM

Cooper Lund

@cooperlund.online

Shoutout to the teen who just dropped an f-bomb on MSNow

November 4, 2026 at 4:04 AM

Mina Kimes

@minakimes.bsky.social

Hey shoutout JJ Watt and Jim Nantz for actually saying what Justin Tucker is accused of and saying Reid was understandably under fire for it. I know the bar is low but it’s appreciated!

November 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social

Shoutout to every poll worker and poll watcher doing the work of democracy.

Thank you for your service.

November 3, 2026 at 2:51 AM

Mr. Roybot 👺

@misterroybot.bsky.social

Shoutout to Keisha Lance Bottoms on being the first Black woman governor ever

November 4, 2026 at 2:06 AM

Alexis🏳️‍⚧️

@alexispace.bsky.social

SHOUTOUT TO MY LESBIAN NIECE WHO STILL LIVES THERE

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee @thedlcc.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Democrats just BROKE the GOP’s supermajority in the South Carolina House!

This will prevent Republicans from passing the most extreme legislation and could put the chamber in play in future cycles as more voters turn away from the failing GOP agenda.