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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

I saw 'the best thing I have read about her' and thought oh okay let me check it out

...

image of Big Sean holding his phone and looking directly into the camera, straight faced and unamused. let down, even

November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

screenshot of the opening paragraphs of the quote-skeeted article, with the final sentence highlighted. text reads:

When news broke last September about Olivia Nuzzi’s alleged relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., my first instinct—within minutes, actually—was sympathy. I sent her a DM: “You’ll get through this.” She responded with a heart.

(The fact that I’m opening a column about media narcissism with my own DM slide should tell you everything about how far gone we all are. But I promise this is going somewhere.)

I meant it. I’d known Nuzzi professionally for years—never close friends, but friendly enough through the White House Correspondents’ Dinner circuit and occasional professional courtesies. She’d always been generous with contacts and advice. More importantly, she was, without question, one of the best political writers of her generation.

meme of Thor squinting and squinching up his face, from the scene in Ragnarok where he asks "Is he though?"

November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

The way this tells me something terrible must have just happened

Screenshot of my feed

First we got Micah saying: my wife is not online enough to understand why I’m losing my entire mind over the new Nuzzi revelations and I love that for her

Then there's a post from Faine: this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”

Followed by Victor: Stop kink shaming her doomed outsider presidential candidate fetish. Rude.

And then finally Melissa, who posted a horrendous photo of Gavin Newsome and his then wife Republican Kimberley Somebody, laid all up under each other on a carpet in an ugly glamor shot; and Melissa had the nerve to say "timeline cleanse"

November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

when you're a Seattle resident forced to pay for free childcare

cover of Ciara's 2004 album 'Goodies'

she's wearing a very 2004 velvety pink hooded tracksuit of some kind with pink eyeshadow and pink lip gloss, and has very long straight/slightly wavy blondeish brownish hair

November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Public Service Announcement, my friends, that the place where I be getting those expensive-but-worth-it swimsuits and dresses and whatnot that have my waist lookin' comically snatched is having a 40% off sale -- go forth and live your best, baddest life

ta3swim.com/collections/...

photo of me on my honeymoon, standing on a sidewalk in a lush green area, wearing navy blue shorts over a black crewneck swimsuit with white side paneling, unzipped into a deep v, and a floppy hat. hip to waist ratio is outrageous

photo of me when I was doing a talk on a Friday, wearing a navy blue dress with tan-ish side paneling and pearl jewelry. hourglass figure is hourglassing

photo of me on my birthday two months ago, wearing a black spaghetti strap bodacious dress, strappy black sandals, and fancy jewelry

another hooneymoon photo, of me on the beach in a hot pink swimsuit with a matching hot pink mini wrap skirt, body is again looking ridiculous

November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

upside: this gives me an excuse to post cute wedding pics. hell I'll even post one in black and white 😅

black and white photo of me and The Husband on our wedding day, sitting a long bench, towards the right end. behind us to the left is a sign reading BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK. we are looking at each other and smiling; he's lookin all sharp in his suit, and I am looking all princessy wearing a strapless wedding gown with an enormous train fully laid out and a tiara, and holding a bouquet

November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

I just realized, months later, that New York Times posted my wedding announcement on Facebook, and some of the commenters are either *too happy or *too upset that I'm Black and The Husband is white like can y'all please be fuckin normal 😭

Screenshot of a reply reading: "She's black and he white. They'll enjoy but their kids taunted in the US. Sad."

Screenshot of a reply reading "Black women always look so happy when they marry out of their race"

Screenshot of a reply reading "I'm not laying down with the oppressors"

Screenshot of a reply reading "I thought bible said not to mix races. So you have a nice life on Earth. But spend eternity burning in hell. Don’t know why some people think rules don’t apply"

November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

screenshot of an email exchange between Tom Barrack and Jeffrey Epstein. On March 9 2016 Tom Barrack said "Hope ur good. Let's catch up" to which Epstein replied a few days later "send photos of you and child. -- make me smile"

November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

It was a real nice day out earlier

The fall was fallin

Photo of Prospect Park Lake, with some burgundyish shrubbery peeking out on the left and some tall mostly-green trees in the back, with some clouds and God Rays poppin out behind em--you know when the Sun is doing that thing kinda making beams in the sky like *aaaa (holy sound)*?

Photo of me standing near a railing by the lake, laughing about something or the other. I'm wearing a white T-shirt with a navy blue button down open on top of it and a navy blue knit cap. The trees here are really nice vibrant shades of orange and reflecting on to the water

Selfie The Husband took of us smiling in front of the railing by the lake. I'm in the aforementioned outfit, he's wearing a winter coat bc he be getting cold lol. There are a few ducks swimming about visible on the lake behind us. If you squint maybe you can make out a rock where turtles like to hang out

November 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Every so often my Dad sends some shit to our family group chat and I'm just like......Lord have mercy this man was a born poster

Screenshot of a text from my dad reading as follows:

I just came back from a funeral home where I went to attend a funeral but there was NO ONE THERE.

No Mourners. No Deceased.

The funeral took place yesterday.

I hope I miss my funeral too!

November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

rare straight hair Madiba sighting

selfie of me in my bedroom - the lighting is soft white and I'm standing in front of light blue curtains, wearing a mostly-grey New Jersey Reparations Council t-shirt and smiling softly. Importantly, my hair is straight! not, like, *bone* straight, it has a *little* body, but very much not my regular curly hair (which will be back soon, this is a semi-regular service I get done that involves a heat treatment which I typically wash out within a day or two lol)

another selfie showcasing the straight hair, in the same tshirt but now I'm sitting on the couch in my living room, in warmer white/yellow light, and smiling more broadly

November 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification"

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Screenshot of p.3 of the linked Supreme Court opinion, with relevant passage reading as follows:

The Government seeks to enforce a questionably legal new policy immediately, but it offers no evidence that it will suffer any harm if it is temporarily enjoined from doing so, while the plaintiffs will be subject to imminent, concrete injury if the policy goes into effect. The Court nonetheless fails to spill any ink considering the
plaintiffs, opting instead to intervene in the Government’s favor without equitable justification, and in a manner that permits harm to be inflicted on the most vulnerable party.

Such senseless sidestepping of the obvious equitable outcome has become an unfortunate pattern. So, too, has my own refusal to look the other way when basic principles are selectively discarded. This Court has once again paved the
way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification. Because I cannot acquiesce to this pointless but painful perversion of our equitable discretion, I respectfully dissent.

November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Black New Yorkers, did y'all get this mailer?

Or I guess any New Yorker, that could tell me how targeted this is

Photo of a mailer I received, paid for by the National Black Empowerment Action Fund. There's a photo of a Black woman and text reading "THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA Have an Extreme Agenda and it's threatening the Black community. STAND UP AGAINST EXTREMISM. Scan to help stop the DSA"

It also encourages the reader to go to www.EmpowerBlackNY.org

November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Separately, I looked a lil cute today

Decided I'ma get my money's worth outta this expensive swimsuit I got over the summer by wearing it like a bodysuit 😅

Selfie of me smiling broadly in front of a window in my living room, wearing a black crew neck style sleeveless top with a center zipper pulled down into a deep V. Also a black knit cap

Another selfie but in the bathroom mirror, and zoomed out more so you can see that the zipper extends down more of the swimsuit, and that my waist to hip ratio is doing its thing a lil bit. I'm smirking. And if you noticed my bathroom mirror is dirty, no you didn't

November 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

the pause was so silly like Gorsuch really went

meme of a woman deeply inhaling with her hands together in front of her face; then sharply pointing them forward and saying BITCH

November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

he did it 🥲 WE did it

clearing 50 percent I KNOW THAT'S RIGHT

Screenshot from NYT acknowledging Zohran's victory with 75% of votes in and Zohran having 860,327 out of 1,708,515, amounting to 50.4% of the vote

Cuomo has 41.3 and Sliwa has 7.5

November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

I hope Linda Ahmed is having a great day

hellgatenyc.com/mayoral-spew...

November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

I blocked them (and recommend you do the same) but not before giving myself a lil chuckle

screenshot of my original post, which was a gif of crying llama-Kuzco from Emperor's New Groove and the text "it is kinda funny how Zohran got all the worst people in the world just screamin cryin throwin up

droppin to their knees in the lobby of McKinsey like how could this happen"

Some asshole, @normaloption.bsky.social, replied "It's funny now but not next year when nyc is the new Detroit"

i then replied saying "no, there are Black people in NYC already"

screenshot of the exchange, picking up from me saying "no, there are Black people in NYC already"

@normaloption.bsky.social, the aforementioned asshole, then said "What do you mean by that? Hmmm"

i replied "I mean that people often use Detroit as a stand-in for "Black people are present." your concerns about NYC becoming Detroit, meaning, having Black people, are thus unwarranted, because there are already Black people in NYC. hope this helps!"

November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

that's what I get for not listening to the mug I got out, sippy sip supposed to come *first

selfie of me all bleary-eyed and bedheaded wearing blue dinosaur pajamas and an almost-smirk, while holding a mug with Baby Yoda on it and the words "BUT FIRST, SIPPY SIP"

November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

This Google-suggested news story I just got hfjdkke it's not even election day yet and Google's like aight I've seen enough

Screenshot of a Google notification I just got that says "Mamdani wins NYC mayoral election
Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of New York City in a landslide victory" which is certainly what I want to happen but I have confusion

November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Cackled at seeing these two posts back to back

Screenshot of a post reading "Turn that Christmas music on before Monday and see what happens....." accompanied by a photo of a gun. Directly underneath that post is someone else saying "Merry Christmas everyone!"

November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

yo lol this reminds me of walking into therapy the other day thinking I ain't have shit to talk about like 'oh I had a good week actually bc I was supposed to do abc and I did so I'm happy 🙂' and this woman gon be like, 'so happiness is contingent on achieving the goals other people set for you?'