Sean Bugg
@seanbugg.bsky.social
Writer at The Back Half (backhalfbugg.com). Realtor. Love reading, playing video games, watching cool stuff, baking cakes, and typewriters. Former editor of Metro Weekly, author of Boy Does World. White, gay GenXer, but not evil. Mostly.
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Sean Bugg
@seanbugg.bsky.social
· Jul 21
Ball Game
How a gender-affirming surgery changed my cisgender life in middle school (and long after)
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In 1980, we didn't call it "gender affirming surgery" to overcome my deep shame and fear by giving me a testicular implant but that's sure as hell what it did for me. And affirming medical care shouldn't be limited to cisgender people like me. #gendercare #lgbt #transrights
As someone who got some brief help through a rough patch with food stamps in the early 90s, I can tell you it’s easier to have a job. Unless the job is one from one of Trump’s donors that don’t pay a living wage. God I hate these people.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
As someone who got some brief help through a rough patch with food stamps in the early 90s, I can tell you it’s easier to have a job. Unless the job is one from one of Trump’s donors that don’t pay a living wage. God I hate these people.
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The bigger fight? Buddy, I die without health care and your pals in the Senate — none of whom will ever go without access to lifesaving medical care — told me they were gonna fight so my premiums don't go up 50%. And then they folded.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The bigger fight? Buddy, I die without health care and your pals in the Senate — none of whom will ever go without access to lifesaving medical care — told me they were gonna fight so my premiums don't go up 50%. And then they folded.
I will pay good money to a fundraiser that lets me take a swing (or two) with a sledgehammer at whatever monstrosity he manages to erect.
Trump: First of all, the East Wing… was a poor, sad sight. I could have built the ballroom around it but it would have not have been -- we are building one of the greatest ballrooms in the world
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I will pay good money to a fundraiser that lets me take a swing (or two) with a sledgehammer at whatever monstrosity he manages to erect.
I am so tired of this fucking bullshit.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I am so tired of this fucking bullshit.
As a writer and a Democrat, I'm used to being demoralized.
slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As a writer and a Democrat, I'm used to being demoralized.
Decided to take a Xanax to calm down a bit even though I won’t be able to fucking afford them anymore thanks to Senate Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Decided to take a Xanax to calm down a bit even though I won’t be able to fucking afford them anymore thanks to Senate Dems.
So who’s primarying @markwarner.bsky.social ? I want to get in line to support them.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
So who’s primarying @markwarner.bsky.social ? I want to get in line to support them.
Fucking despicable.
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Fucking despicable.
Kaine's Northern Virginia office: 9408 GRANT AVENUE, SUITE 202, MANASSAS, VA 20110. Sounds like he needs some visits tomorrow.
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Kaine's Northern Virginia office: 9408 GRANT AVENUE, SUITE 202, MANASSAS, VA 20110. Sounds like he needs some visits tomorrow.
Nice to have my despising of Axios buttressed by Axios.
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Nice to have my despising of Axios buttressed by Axios.
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“Quixotic“ should be pronounced kee-HOE-tic.
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“Quixotic“ should be pronounced kee-HOE-tic.
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people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
I've been to my fair share of DC political panels. This is the first time I've ever watched a recording of one and thought "Fuck, I wish I'd seen this live."
since Helen Andrews is in the news again, how about everybody enjoy the best TV cspan ever did, where she gets relentlessly demolished as a truly awful person by her *libertarian* ex-boyfriend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...
Todd Seavey and Helen Rittelmeyer on C-SPAN2 BookTV
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I've been to my fair share of DC political panels. This is the first time I've ever watched a recording of one and thought "Fuck, I wish I'd seen this live."
I’m three hops away from Mohammed Bin Salman and two or three from Ferdinand Marcos. And I’m just a gay white guy from Kentucky who’s lived in DC for a long time. Three hops is insanity.
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I’m three hops away from Mohammed Bin Salman and two or three from Ferdinand Marcos. And I’m just a gay white guy from Kentucky who’s lived in DC for a long time. Three hops is insanity.
I'm not sure I've ever laughed this hard before at a Survivor vote out. #Survivor49
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm not sure I've ever laughed this hard before at a Survivor vote out. #Survivor49
I'll never get fully past the blackhead thing but, damn, I love watching Sage. #survivor49
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I'll never get fully past the blackhead thing but, damn, I love watching Sage. #survivor49
Dress for the job you want, they say.
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Dress for the job you want, they say.
In a two-person debate she’d probably still place fifth.
October 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
In a two-person debate she’d probably still place fifth.
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Dear "news" web site owners: if your "news" article doesn't have in the first paragraph information about the actual thing I clicked through to learn about, I will block your entire domain henceforth, learn how to fucking write a news article god damn it
Nothing, You Loser GIF
Alt: Willy Wonka saying "You get nothing, you lose, good day sir"
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dear "news" web site owners: if your "news" article doesn't have in the first paragraph information about the actual thing I clicked through to learn about, I will block your entire domain henceforth, learn how to fucking write a news article god damn it
It’s amazing how quickly and completely the Washington Post has trashed its position as a prestigious publication.
Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."
Shouting match. Cursing.
And this ⤵️
Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..
"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”
www.ft.com/content/7960...
And this ⤵️
Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..
"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”
www.ft.com/content/7960...
October 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It’s amazing how quickly and completely the Washington Post has trashed its position as a prestigious publication.
This needs to be engraved over every school and church in the nation.
They may be your children but they’re not your property.
October 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This needs to be engraved over every school and church in the nation.
Currently pulled over for a somewhat bullshit traffic violation and the cop’s vibe seems like he expects me to be agitated, etc. Dude, just write the ticket and let’s get on with our days.
October 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Currently pulled over for a somewhat bullshit traffic violation and the cop’s vibe seems like he expects me to be agitated, etc. Dude, just write the ticket and let’s get on with our days.
Little boy uses big word he doesn't actually know the meaning of.
Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Little boy uses big word he doesn't actually know the meaning of.