Lindsey Kornick at Fox News Digital found some toxic Bluesky commentary from New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie on Vice President J.D. Vance:

JD Vance should have been sold by his mother for drugs, NYT columnist says

As he chronicled in his book Hillbilly Elegy, Vance’s mother was an addict, and he recently celebrated her tenth anniversary of sobriety. This nasty blurb came in response to  Vance being pressured to apologize to the family of radical activist Alex Pretti after he was shot dead in a fight with federal agents. First, Vance retweeted Trump adviser Stephen Miller calling Pretti an “assassin.” When the Daily Mail pressed for that apology, he pushed back that Pretti “showed up with ill intent at an ICE protest.”

So the Left took exception, because calling him an “assassin” presumes he showed up intending to shoot someone. He was carrying a weapon, but that doesn’t by itself imply he’s eager to use it. What’s odd here is that the Left typically associates any right-winger carrying a weapon in public with being somewhat unglued. Here’s Bouie going Blue-askew:

“[T]his is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway,” Bouie wrote.

He added, “like, do you see that smirk? that brief ‘ain’t i a stinker’ grin? beneath contempt.”

Bouie also responded to a comment calling Vance “pompous” while musing “No wonder his mom tried to sell him for Percocets.”

“i can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this,” Bouie remarked.

He added, “to be a bit serious one irony of vance’s life is that he is also an addict: addicted to power and clearly willing to sell anything to get it.”

When he was made aware of the Fox article on this, he added “this is very funny”. 

this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van…
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2026-02-06T10:01:18.432Z

Bouie has more anger at Vance than he does with actual “assassins with ill intent.” Try to find Bouie writing about Thomas Crooks, who shot Donald Trump in the ear in Pennsylvania, or his second potential assassin Ryan Routh. He didn’t seem to find those men worth his fury.

Bouie and his liberal friends didn’t want anyone to talk about that “assassin with ill intent” named Nicholas Roske, who arrived in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s suburban Maryland neighborhood with the intent to kill. (Then Roske decided he was a girl named Sophie, so that might please Bouie, the ardent defender of transgenderism.)

This isn’t atypical. Just three weeks ago, Bouie was part of the Bluesky Brigade attacking Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) by lowering himself to an interview with Ben Shapiro. He wrote: 

Big strong savvy Gavin Newsom doesn’t even have the wherewithal to stand up to Ben “I have never satisified a woman in my life” Shapiro.