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The internet's grim conscience. OG blogger. Blue Blaze Irregular. Coiner of the phrase #DumpsterFire. Also podcast w/ Blue Gal -- @ProLeftPodcast -- https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/ I AM the motherf*cking shore patrol!

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · Nov 18

This was my pinned post at the Bad Place

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Look, if you have no idea why the @nytimes.com still employs an always-wrong hack like Brooks, just say so. Sure, it'd be extremely suspicious that you wouldn't know, but whatever...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

Day 14 and still looking for clarification about why David Brooks still has a job at the @nytimes.com .

Care to weigh in, @sulliview.bsky.social ?

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 8h

"Mike Johnson caught lying..."

You forgot to add, "...for the thousandth time."

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 19h

I believe so...

www.thebulwark.com/p/bari-weiss...

Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance

The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.

www.thebulwark.com

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@cathyyoung

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 19h

The road to hell is paved with legacy media professionals who should damn well know better giving the benefit of the doubt to MAGA-trolls-in-pundit-clothing for waaay too long.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 19h

The road to hell is paved with legacy media professionals who should damn well know better giving the benefit of the doubt to MAGA-trolls-in-pundit-clothing for waaay too long.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 23h

Now that antifa has teamed up with antiphon, antihistamine and antidisestablishmentarianism, I anticipate we will be the antithesis of and antidote to MAGA'a antimonic, antisocial antipathy for facts and reality.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

Day 15 @sulliview.bsky.social

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

Day 14 and still looking for clarification about why David Brooks still has a job at the @nytimes.com .

Care to weigh in, @sulliview.bsky.social ?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“When it comes to education policy, Republicans are now kicking Democrats in the butt,” our columnist David Brooks writes.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker should dispatch the Illinois National Guard to Texas to take Greg Abbott into custody for treason.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

Day 14 and still looking for clarification about why David Brooks still has a job at the @nytimes.com .

Care to weigh in, @sulliview.bsky.social ?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“When it comes to education policy, Republicans are now kicking Democrats in the butt,” our columnist David Brooks writes.

Opinion | Democrats Are Increasing Inequality

When it comes to education policy, Republicans are now kicking Democrats in the butt.

nyti.ms

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 940: We Are All Antifa's Girlfriend

“ Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring." -- Nelson Algren ...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

More and more I like to go places where I don't have to explain everything.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

Day 13 and still wondering why David Brooks still has a job at the @nytimes.com .

Can you help me out here, @sulliview.bsky.social ?

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

Still wondering why David Brooks still has a job at the
@nytimes.com ? Day 12.

Looking for an answer that fits the facts, @sulliview.bsky.social

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/10/tom-...

Tom Nichols Puts On His Tone Police Girdle And Goes To Work On...

...Kamala Harris? I am convinced there is a hitherto undocumented organ in the body of every professional, opinion-having Conservativ...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

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Tom Nichols Puts On His Tone Police Girdle And Goes To Work On...

...Kamala Harris? I am convinced there is a hitherto undocumented organ in the body of every professional, opinion-having Conservativ...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

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"Both Sides Do It" Remains...

...the last refuge of the worst people. Mona Charen has always been terrible. She's wired to loathe Liberals: her entire caree...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

Still wondering why David Brooks still has a job at the
@nytimes.com ? Day 12.

Looking for an answer that fits the facts, @sulliview.bsky.social

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

Well done.

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Alfred Lehmberg @lehmberg.bsky.social · 4d

Huck Finn is NOW—there might be a reason why this book has always faced the hurdles of banishment? I'm posting this everywhere and listen twice a week, always! You should, too! They are sense and sensibility cleverly expressed! #MAGA @driftglass.bsky.social @bluegal.bsky.social youtu.be/egehtikpEMg

Ep 939: Huckleberry Finn And The Sins Of MAGA

YouTube video by Professional Left

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

He's not lying for your or mine sake.
He's lying to keep the reprogrammable MAGA meatbags on-side.

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

If it's Tuesday, it must be Reputation Rehab Day at The Bulwark.

There is a Club.

We are not in it.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

Jake is currently busy at the @thebulwark.com Reputation Rehab spa, so please leave a message at the sound of the tone...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

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