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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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?
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I ran in 2022. I lost the NYTimes endorsement and the race to an extremely wealthy white man with 0 experience. I was the legislator and former staffer with 20 years of legislative experience under my belt. So, what this tell me is, we will never be “experienced” enough.
June 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I ran in 2022. I lost the NYTimes endorsement and the race to an extremely wealthy white man with 0 experience. I was the legislator and former staffer with 20 years of legislative experience under my belt. So, what this tell me is, we will never be “experienced” enough.
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This is what unity for the people looks like.
Rank me #1 and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social#2. Join us LIVE on IG & X at 11AM for our joint announcement.
Rank me #1 and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social#2. Join us LIVE on IG & X at 11AM for our joint announcement.
June 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is what unity for the people looks like.
Rank me #1 and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social#2. Join us LIVE on IG & X at 11AM for our joint announcement.
Rank me #1 and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social#2. Join us LIVE on IG & X at 11AM for our joint announcement.
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With Tish James as our Attorney General, New Yorkers have a champion for the rule of law, a fighter who stands up for working people over greedy corporations, and a leader who has taken on Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo—and won. I am so proud to have her support.
June 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
With Tish James as our Attorney General, New Yorkers have a champion for the rule of law, a fighter who stands up for working people over greedy corporations, and a leader who has taken on Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo—and won. I am so proud to have her support.
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This isn't normalizing - it is actually complete fantasy/outright lying. you could hear the tank wheels squeaking it was so silent.
June 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This isn't normalizing - it is actually complete fantasy/outright lying. you could hear the tank wheels squeaking it was so silent.
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Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.
Shooters were dressed like law enforcement and this is exactly why I’m pissed about ice officers wearing masks, driving unmarked cars and not being identifiable when they terrorize communities
June 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.
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Well past time for big city mayors to call for the arrest of anyone who claims to be law enforcement but wears a mask and/or won’t identify themselves
June 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Well past time for big city mayors to call for the arrest of anyone who claims to be law enforcement but wears a mask and/or won’t identify themselves
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It's absurd to debate whether militarized repression is a distraction or how hypothetical swing voters will react in 18 months. This is happening. Now. And we're less than 5 months into this administration. Wake up.
Armed National Guard troops mobilized by President Trump accompanied federal immigration enforcement officers on raids in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a move that the state of California has called unlawful and inflammatory.
Armed National Guard Troops Aid Immigration Agents on Raids in Los Angeles
Soldiers mobilized by President Trump protected ICE agents on their raids in Los Angeles. The state of California said the deployment was illegal.
trib.al
June 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It's absurd to debate whether militarized repression is a distraction or how hypothetical swing voters will react in 18 months. This is happening. Now. And we're less than 5 months into this administration. Wake up.