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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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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 11h

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 941: Uh Oh, The Media's Building Lifeboats (Again)!

“ Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw. ...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 17h

And yet like black mold in a damp, old building... there he is.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 17h

Day 17 asking the former @nytimes.com public editor, @sulliview.bsky.social , why David Brooks still has a job.

Based on the fact that, in 20 years, *no one* in the know has satisfactorily answered this question, this is apparently the most dangerously transgressive question anyone can ask.

Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 19h

Perhaps no one in American letters has killed his father and married his mother as many times as David Brooks. @driftglass.bsky.social

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David Brooks Wants to Lead the Revolution

The Republican Party gave him everything, but now he wants a popular uprising to overthrow the Trump regime.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 17h

I have run out of words.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

Masked, ID-less, badge-less, warrantless ICE goons who show up in your neighborhood to snatch people off the street should expect to be treated by the locals *exactly* like any other potential carjacker or child kidnapper who swoops into your community to do crimes in broad daylight.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

thanks!

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

Tried that.
Never works.

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Now, The Bush-Belly Sneetches: UPDATE *

were backers of Bush... As I learned years ago , in those fevered moments when a welter of polls, counter-polls, rage, speed, heat, ...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

The rubes *are* Republicans.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

"Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!" Then get millionaires to fund it.

Of course when none of that happens, if you want to stay in power you're gonna need scapegoats the rubes will buy.

Uh-oh... :-)

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

Shorter: Just lie to the rubes. All the time. About everything. They're obviously clueless, so promise them free health care. Everyone gets a big raise. We'll find a job for your useless brother-in-law. To quote the Simpsons from four years before Charlie Kirk was born...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1d

Where have we seen this pattern before?

Oh yeah. I remember!

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MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 on X: "Right wing political influencers are trying to jump ship https://t.co/8meQILqYsh" / X

Right wing political influencers are trying to jump ship https://t.co/8meQILqYsh

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 2d

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

Day 16 @sulliview.bsky.social

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...

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 3d

"Mike Johnson caught lying..."

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

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

I believe so...

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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.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

@cathyyoung

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

Day 15 @sulliview.bsky.social

driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 4d

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

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