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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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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 · 4h

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

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 6h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1h

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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 · 5h

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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 · 6h

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 · 7h

Well done.

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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

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10h

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

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 14h

@support.bsky.team

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No, I mean literally...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 1d

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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 · 1d

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 · 2d

*chock-a-block*

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

@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 · 2d

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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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

From the @nytimes.com

From this fucking guy.

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Why does this guy still have a job @sulliview.bsky.social ?

David Brooks: Liberal Bloggers Are Nuts and Worse Than The Right 02/12/06

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

The worst people in the world have all been trained - right down to the grassroots - to *automatically* go to the Both Sides lie whenever they're in danger of being held accountable.

You know where they learned to do it?

From the legacy media repeating it a million times, decade after decade...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

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Compare and Contrast

The American Enterprise Institute paid Jonah Goldberg actual money to [it has been bruited about] have Claude AI write this. But t'...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

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Full Metal Jacket - Mickey Mouse song

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