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)
open.substack.com
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
Ham sandwiches having a hell of a year.
BREAKING via NBC News — Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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BREAKING: Grand jury declines to indict Letitia James after her original case was dismissed
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Ham sandwiches having a hell of a year.
The thing that would bring back station wagons would be banning minivans. Americans don't like station wagons and think hatchbacks are too gay, it has nothing to do with fuel standards.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The thing that would bring back station wagons would be banning minivans. Americans don't like station wagons and think hatchbacks are too gay, it has nothing to do with fuel standards.
Me: “I’m a writer.”
Them: “Oh, you know what you should write about?”
Them: “Oh, you know what you should write about?”
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Me: “I’m a writer.”
Them: “Oh, you know what you should write about?”
Them: “Oh, you know what you should write about?”
@profanity.accountant I suspect I’ve been a bad boy
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@profanity.accountant I suspect I’ve been a bad boy
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Speaking of things that make me rage: this motherfucker.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Speaking of things that make me rage: this motherfucker.
I’ve never seen a clearer case of who’s the top and who’s the bottom.
Put it in The Louvre of US political history. The look on Mamdani's face is priceless.
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I’ve never seen a clearer case of who’s the top and who’s the bottom.
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/7 But this is America. There are people who think Lt. William Calley was a war criminal for the My Lai massacre, but also people who think it was treasonous to report and prosecute him.
Those people are barbarians.
Those people are barbarians.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
/7 But this is America. There are people who think Lt. William Calley was a war criminal for the My Lai massacre, but also people who think it was treasonous to report and prosecute him.
Those people are barbarians.
Those people are barbarians.
If you look at America's home insurance industry and think "That's what we need for our healthcare system," you are deeply stupid, cruel, or (probably) both.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you look at America's home insurance industry and think "That's what we need for our healthcare system," you are deeply stupid, cruel, or (probably) both.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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How hard is it to not write in the newspaper about someone you're fucking? Speaking from my own personal experience as a journalist, it's not that fucking hard! Being both a gay writer and a rampaging tramp during the 90s and 2000s, this came up for me a few times. /1
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
How hard is it to not write in the newspaper about someone you're fucking? Speaking from my own personal experience as a journalist, it's not that fucking hard! Being both a gay writer and a rampaging tramp during the 90s and 2000s, this came up for me a few times. /1
How hard is it to not write in the newspaper about someone you're fucking? Speaking from my own personal experience as a journalist, it's not that fucking hard! Being both a gay writer and a rampaging tramp during the 90s and 2000s, this came up for me a few times. /1
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
How hard is it to not write in the newspaper about someone you're fucking? Speaking from my own personal experience as a journalist, it's not that fucking hard! Being both a gay writer and a rampaging tramp during the 90s and 2000s, this came up for me a few times. /1
As a Realtor, I wish the National Association of REALTORS or any regional or local chapter would publicly combat this deeply racist lie but I ain’t gonna hold my fucking breath. Suffice to say, Vance is a lying piece of shit here.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
As a Realtor, I wish the National Association of REALTORS or any regional or local chapter would publicly combat this deeply racist lie but I ain’t gonna hold my fucking breath. Suffice to say, Vance is a lying piece of shit here.
I skipped reading this one because the "fap fap fap" came through loud and clear in the headline.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I skipped reading this one because the "fap fap fap" came through loud and clear in the headline.
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.