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@bluegal.bsky.social

Old enough to remember when Republicans used abortion to claim the moral high ground.

Turns out they just hate women.

We liberals told you.

Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 17h

Half the world is now investigating Epstein, while America is covering it up. When the truth comes out (it will), Republicans are going to scatter like the pedophilia-protecting cockroaches that they are.

February 7, 2026 at 9:17 PM

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TheRoadie.

@roadie63.bsky.social

So this is a headline on Huffpost:
"Republicans Condemn 'Incredibly Offensive' Trump Post About The Obamas"

Are you fucking kidding me? 3 fucking Republicans said something. 3.
Stop giving them credit for not even doing the absolute minimum. This is ludicrous.

February 7, 2026 at 12:55 AM

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newsound.bsky.social

@newsound.bsky.social

Nope. I didn’t make a mistake posting it.

February 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM

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Krassensteins

@krassenstein.bsky.social

In California:

February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM

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Tea Pain

@teapainusa.bsky.social

Pritzker can lose weight, but Trump will always be a racist.

February 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM

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Sex Crazed Salt Shaker of Death

@dsmdexter.bsky.social

A new brand of the "before time".
No Fair Remembering Stuff™ @driftglass.bsky.social @bluegal.bsky.social

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NPR: State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

NPR: State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office. “The State Department is removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before P…

rbfirehose.com

February 7, 2026 at 1:44 PM

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Liberal Talking Points

@liberaltalknpts.bsky.social

In which @bluegal.bsky.social gives the best explanation of false equivalence centrism I have ever heard.

If you want to understand the rightward creep of the political middle, listen to her at the 26:30 mark:

The Professional Left Podcast @proleftpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

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Ep 967: The Death of Nixon('s Maxim) - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Average voters stay permanently undecided because they get their information from toxic media sources that have been poisoning them against Democrats for decades, making "running to the center" mathem...

www.buzzsprout.com

February 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM

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Tengrain

@tengrain.bsky.social

I’m going to be listening to The Professional Left Podcast starring @bluegal.bsky.social and @driftglass.bsky.social and you should too! Available where’er you find Pods or here:

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The Professional Left Podcast

professionalleft.blogspot.com

February 7, 2026 at 1:09 AM

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Bob Cesca

@bobcesca.bsky.social

Welcome to the Driftglass Learning Annex course on why David Brooks is a hack and always has been. bobcescashow.com @driftglass.bsky.social

February 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM

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Brittney Cooper

@profcrunk.bsky.social

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM

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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump

@wtfgop.bsky.social

Well this should freak everyone the fuck out

David McKillips, the CEO of Chuck E Cheese just resigned because his name is in the Epstein files

Im imaging Chuck E Cheese surveillance equipment & this POS with access 😡

February 6, 2026 at 2:18 AM

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Your pissed off grandma

@anomaly100.bsky.social

Every Republican needs to be asked about Trump sharing a video portraying our country's first Black president and his wife as apes during Black History Month.

There is no bottom with this guy.

February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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Erm, Hanratty

@mossygene.bsky.social

It looks like Trump and Putin have a timeshare on their Farage sockpuppet.

January 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM

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Andy Birss

@andybirss.bsky.social

Classical 'Both Sides!' nonsense regarding the US healthcare system www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Someone who has lived through it and actually knows what has gone on for decades and can explain it in depth is @bluegal.bsky.social

US healthcare needs fixing, but there's no agreement on how to do it

Is there the political will to fix it the US' health horror stories?

www.bbc.co.uk

February 6, 2026 at 7:14 AM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

February 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM

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kevinholsinger.bsky.social

@kevinholsinger.bsky.social

@bluegal.bsky.social @driftglass.bsky.social I wonder what happened to the Zoltar machine that DonDon wished to be "yuge" on.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...

Movie trailer for "Big," for anyone who forgot my 40ish-year-old reference...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGDT...

Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure projec...

www.cnn.com

February 6, 2026 at 10:04 AM

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CringeLibXer

@kimadilla.bsky.social

I know someone who wouldn’t be the least surprised he spiked it @bluegal.bsky.social
@driftglass.bsky.social

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.

What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

Seth Harp
@sethharpesq
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Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT challenged me to a debate on foreign policy. We recorded a 90-minute segment for his show, Interesting Times, on 1/15/26. But I defeated him so decisively that he refuses to air the footage. What an absolute coward.
Today 11:41 AM
Hi
Is the NYT still planning to publish
the interview I did with Ross three weeks ago?
Today 1:01 PM
Hey Seth, we've been working through the edit and it's looking like we aren't going to be able to make it work. We were kind of pummeled by the news cycle in the last 6 weeks and are going to pivot away from this story. Thanks for the time you put into it and for your expertise.
Unbelievable cowardice on Ross's part and a giant waste of my time. I'm going to make it known what actually happened: Ross challenged me to a debate on foreign policy, got crushed, and doesn't have the intellectual or journalistic integrity to air the footage.
Delivered

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. •6h
Five days after we recorded, an editor of mine asked me how it went. I told her that @DouthatNYT was surprisingly unprepared to defend his point of view, and I suspected even then that they would spike it.
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It seemed to go just fine from my perspective although it did get a little heated towards the end when we debated foreign policy. I was somewhat surprised that Ross wasn't better prepared defend his point of view. They may still decide to spike it, we'll see.
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That's great —how did the interview go?
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Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 5h
I also told an editor at Harper's, on 1/30/26, that I suspected the NYT would spike the interview rather than publish video of me dog-walking @DouthatNYT and making a mockery of his defense of US regime-change wars
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Friday 12:35 PM
It's been more than 2 weeks since I was interviewed for Ross Douthat's show. I murdered him in our debate over foreign policy and was genuinely surprised that he wasn't better prepared to defend his point of view.
Now I'm concerned that he will spike the episode.
Do you have a sense of how far ahead they usually record?
Also I really hope I get to hear this
My sense was that it was about a week
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Seth Harp @sethharpesq. •5h
Ross @DouthatNYT was unprepared to take on a subject matter expert, floundered around, and became irritable and sarcastic towards the end.
But spiking the episode is ten times worse for his journalistic credibility than simply losing a debate, which happens to us all.

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Ross @DouthatNYT's producer blames their decision to spike our foreign policy debate on the crazy news cycle. But the last three episodes they've aired have been on Roe v. Wade, Covid-19, and young men's church attendance.
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Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 1h
I'm hearing that prominent guests are cancelling scheduled appearances on @DouthatNYT's show due to his lack of journalistic integrity. Why would you spend hours, days, or weeks prepping for an interview when you know the show is rigged to ensure that you don't show up the host?
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February 6, 2026 at 3:16 AM

Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings

@bluegal.bsky.social

NEW Proleft Podcast Ep! Democrats can't reach "the center." Because every time they try, the media shifts the goalposts to keep Both Sides looking equally bad. Meanwhile, Trump never moderated his fascism once and "won" anyway? www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...