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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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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 9h

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.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 11h

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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 · 11h

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

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

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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 · 1d

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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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Well done.

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Alfred Lehmberg @lehmberg.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

@support.bsky.team

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

No, I mean literally...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky search seems to be selectively broken. Works fine for some people, not at all for others.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 939: Huckleberry Finn And The Sins Of MAGA

“ All right, then, I'll go to Hell!" -- Huckleberry Finn ...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

Why does David Brooks still have a job at the
@nytimes.com ? Day 11.

Care to comment @sulliview.bsky.social ?

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

*chock-a-block*

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

Esquire newsletter updates are going to confuse the hell out of historians. Stories like "The jackboots are at the door!!" chock-a-clock with "What shoes to wear on a 2nd date?"

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

...why David Brooks still has a job at the @nytimes.com ? Day 10.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

@sulliview.bsky.social Today in American Crisis you wrote: "...mainstream press is largely playing its usual “both-sides at fault” game".

Since one of the leaders of this Both Sides cult is David Brooks (who has been selling this lie in virtually every column for +20 years) can you explain...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

It's not ignorance.

It's the reflexive deployment of the "Both Sides Do It" lie by the worst people in the world whenever they're in danger of being held accountable for the evil that they do.

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