Pirate Bugleg
@bugleg.bsky.social
Breaking old rules to make new ones; building the better world that could be; refusing to approach the Anthropocene with fear
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On its face. Note that he disabled comments. That says a lot right there.
January 11, 2026 at 12:56 PM
On its face. Note that he disabled comments. That says a lot right there.
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Which elected Democrat has defended Mangione? Which elected Republican has not defended ICE'S murder of Good? @chatterton.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Which elected Democrat has defended Mangione? Which elected Republican has not defended ICE'S murder of Good? @chatterton.bsky.social
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The only ax to grind that I have is against lazy thinking, of which this post is great example. You are equating the lionization of Mangione by a small number of Americans — in a manner no different from classic veneration of the outlaw — with propaganda in defense of state-sanctioned murder.
Anyone without a strange axe to grind (even that journeyman @jodyrosen.bsky.social) knows there’s nothing remotely objectionable about advocating for basic decency in a country where Good’s murder is welcomed and Luigi Mangione is lionized.
January 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
The only ax to grind that I have is against lazy thinking, of which this post is great example. You are equating the lionization of Mangione by a small number of Americans — in a manner no different from classic veneration of the outlaw — with propaganda in defense of state-sanctioned murder.
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Corporate dems when we tell the truth
January 11, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Corporate dems when we tell the truth
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on 22 february 1943 sophie scholl and her friends were executed by guillotine by the nazi regime. in court scholl said this:
"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
January 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
on 22 february 1943 sophie scholl and her friends were executed by guillotine by the nazi regime. in court scholl said this:
"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
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THIS IS A SCHOOL, WHY ARE THEY SHOOTING
An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
January 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
THIS IS A SCHOOL, WHY ARE THEY SHOOTING
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@governorwalz.mn.gov: You no longer have anything to lose politically
It's not fair that anyone should have to endanger themselves and their families by being the first, but please be the first anyway
Please be the first governor to call the National Guard to deal with this emergency
It's not fair that anyone should have to endanger themselves and their families by being the first, but please be the first anyway
Please be the first governor to call the National Guard to deal with this emergency
January 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
@governorwalz.mn.gov: You no longer have anything to lose politically
It's not fair that anyone should have to endanger themselves and their families by being the first, but please be the first anyway
Please be the first governor to call the National Guard to deal with this emergency
It's not fair that anyone should have to endanger themselves and their families by being the first, but please be the first anyway
Please be the first governor to call the National Guard to deal with this emergency
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Just because the Republican Party is trying to wreck state capacity doesn’t mean that we have to go along and help. Private charity will never be a substitute for public works.
“Everyone needs mutual aid” - I should hope not because it’s usually not going to be there and its total capacity to support the needy is very low. Part of what makes us progressive is that we understand these kinds of charitable private systems of support are insufficient, and often actively bad.
December 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Just because the Republican Party is trying to wreck state capacity doesn’t mean that we have to go along and help. Private charity will never be a substitute for public works.
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Wild scenes. Absolutely wild. My brain can't comprehend this kind of behavior
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Wild scenes. Absolutely wild. My brain can't comprehend this kind of behavior
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NORAD is using "Gulf of Mexico" on their Santa tracker.
That's hilarious!
That's hilarious!
December 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Officially Celebrated Serious Thinkers despise contingency because it makes almost all of their sober expounding absurd. No one can predict the future, not even a little. The past did not predict the present, not even in hindsight. Stuff just happens. You can only ever look backwards.
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Officially Celebrated Serious Thinkers despise contingency because it makes almost all of their sober expounding absurd. No one can predict the future, not even a little. The past did not predict the present, not even in hindsight. Stuff just happens. You can only ever look backwards.
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New York is not for sale.
October 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New York is not for sale.
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No Kings won't gain us any ground, it's true. But No Kings helps us hold the line — a line that is very much at risk
There can be no mass movement if the masses succumb to fear and despair
There can be no mass movement if the masses succumb to fear and despair
Why You Should Go To A Protest Tomorrow
No Kings Day: October 18th
www.bannedinyourstate.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
No Kings won't gain us any ground, it's true. But No Kings helps us hold the line — a line that is very much at risk
There can be no mass movement if the masses succumb to fear and despair
There can be no mass movement if the masses succumb to fear and despair
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
August 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
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August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Are tech billionaires drivers of industry and innovation, or an existential threat to democracy?
Adam Becker, astrophysicist and author of the new book, “More Everything Forever," makes a case to @karaswisher.bsky.social for the latter.
Full interview here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Adam Becker, astrophysicist and author of the new book, “More Everything Forever," makes a case to @karaswisher.bsky.social for the latter.
Full interview here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
July 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Are tech billionaires drivers of industry and innovation, or an existential threat to democracy?
Adam Becker, astrophysicist and author of the new book, “More Everything Forever," makes a case to @karaswisher.bsky.social for the latter.
Full interview here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Adam Becker, astrophysicist and author of the new book, “More Everything Forever," makes a case to @karaswisher.bsky.social for the latter.
Full interview here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Like, whatever you think about that, the agreed-on fact is that he identified himself as "African-American" and the disputed interpretation is whether that amounts to identifying as "Black" or not. So the caption is stacking the deck even on the NYT's own terms.
July 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Like, whatever you think about that, the agreed-on fact is that he identified himself as "African-American" and the disputed interpretation is whether that amounts to identifying as "Black" or not. So the caption is stacking the deck even on the NYT's own terms.
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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Last point on this, which is that there is real and dangerous antisemitism rising in the United States right now, including on the left. When Democratic leaders throw around obviously bad faith accusations of antisemitism, it gives plausible deniability to actual antisemites.
June 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Last point on this, which is that there is real and dangerous antisemitism rising in the United States right now, including on the left. When Democratic leaders throw around obviously bad faith accusations of antisemitism, it gives plausible deniability to actual antisemites.
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Congrats to Zohran Mamdani. Important lessons.
Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it.
Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.
Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it.
Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Congrats to Zohran Mamdani. Important lessons.
Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it.
Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.
Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it.
Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.
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Just learned from @katiehonan.bsky.social that Andrew Cuomo didn’t show up for his scheduled interview with the New York Editorial Board this morning. (That’s the independent org of veteran journalists trying to fill the gap left by NYT edit board.)
June 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Just learned from @katiehonan.bsky.social that Andrew Cuomo didn’t show up for his scheduled interview with the New York Editorial Board this morning. (That’s the independent org of veteran journalists trying to fill the gap left by NYT edit board.)
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What I learned today is that the @nytopinion.nytimes.com doesn’t believe in young people of color in leadership. Time and time again people tout “seniority” and “experience”. 75 years ago, there were no women of color elected in NY. Where is “seniority” or “experience” to come from for us?
June 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
What I learned today is that the @nytopinion.nytimes.com doesn’t believe in young people of color in leadership. Time and time again people tout “seniority” and “experience”. 75 years ago, there were no women of color elected in NY. Where is “seniority” or “experience” to come from for us?