Ep 987: The Vice of the People - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 987 of The Professional Left takes a deep look at the concept of authority — where it comes from, who really has it, and what happens when the people in charge decide the rules no longer apply...

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Ep 986: 'AmeriKKKan Gothic' - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 986 of The Professional Left traces how one simple political rule — Ronald Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" never to speak ill of a fellow Republican — quietly mutated over decades into somethi...

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Can confirm.

Hasan Piker on Trump’s War, Israel-Hamas, and Building a New Political Coalition YouTube video by Pod Save America

"I want the Democratic party to treat me like a never Trumper."
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Somewhere in the Midwest, a very tall, mildly older man empties a scoop from the litter box into a plastic garbage bag and mutters under his breathe, "Same Hasan Piker, same..."
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Ep 985: 'The Cheaper The Crook...' - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." -- The Maltese Falcon Episode 985 of The Professional Left takes a deep dive into the word "normalizing" — a term that gets thrown around constantly in political coverage, but rarely gets a cle...

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"A memory is the liberal superpower" ~ @proleftpodcast.bsky.social

Ep 983 "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb" - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal In this episode of The Professional Left, Driftglass and Blue Gal dig into the decades-long project that brought American politics to its current breaking point — and what it really means that we've a...

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Ep 982: Failure to Launch - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 982 asks: Did Trump magically bamboozle 70 million voters overnight, or did the GOP spend 40 years deliberately breeding an army of angry, paranoid, racist chumps? How is it that we are living...

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Ep 981: Build Back Better - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 981 traces the Republican descent from the 1990 New York Times editorial warning about Gingrich's "slash and burn" politics through Limbaugh, Fox News, and Trump—a 36-year disaster that Libera...

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#BurnTheLifeboats
Burn them all.

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There IS a "liberal media."

It is called The Professional Left Podcast, headquartered in Lincoln's home town and operated by two whip smart, eloquent writers who will never, ever see even a tiny fraction of the $$ Dems waste on ads, consultants & focus groups.

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Ep 980: Zombie Apocalypse - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 980 uses The Walking Dead's central question—"The world we knew is gone, but keeping our humanity? That's a choice"—to examine whether we accept that the political and cultural America we once...

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Ep 979: Legacy - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 979 begins with Project Hail Mary and science fiction nerds auditing movies on street corners, then pivots to Ozymandias and what lasts versus what crumbles to dust. Driftglass and Blue Gal as...

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Ep 978: WMD - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Driftglass and Blue Gal compare Bush's Iraq debacle with Trump's Iran war—the lying, the cover-ups, the profiteering, the attacks on critics—revealing Trump isn't a break from the Republican past but ...

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Ep 977: An Apple Made of Razors - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal (And we talk about the Illinois Democratic Primaries!  They were counting votes as we recorded.) Episode 977 examines the 2026 Illinois Democratic primary while dissecting David Axelrod's fa...

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Ep 976: Signs and Portents - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 976 examines the signs and portents showing Trump's base starting to fracture as broken promises about Epstein files and "no foreign wars" collide with reality. Driftglass and Blue Gal track s...

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Ep 975: The 'C' Word - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 975 takes a trip back to Chicago to explore how big cities weather economic shocks that would destroy smaller towns—a lesson that matters as Trump's oil crisis, job losses, and ACA cuts hit ru...

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Ep 974: 'But He Promised!' - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 974 examines why Trump's illegal war with Iran is splintering the MAGA base and fueling Democratic victories in special elections across the country. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace how Trump wo...

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Ep 973: Miracles? - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 973 explores biblical healing miracles to reveal what they teach about choice, cruelty, and the difference between victims who deserve compassion and abusers who don't. Driftglass and Blue Gal...

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There’s gonna be a lot of Iran-related corollaries to Bluegal’s Beltway Iron Rule of David Brooks in the coming months: “It is mandatory to quote what ____ said about Iran this week; it is forbidden to quote what ____ said about Iran previously”

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I'm so old I remember Alterman & Brock explaining all of this a generation ago...

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Sh!t, practically every one of the 975 ep of @proleftpodcast.bsky.social explains.

Ep 972: 'Little Note Nor Long Remember' - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Trump's State of the Union was a two-hour Willie Horton ad designed to keep his shrinking base loyal through blood-soaked imagery borrowed from imperial Rome. Proleftpod traces how Michele Bachmann's ...

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Ep 971: The Resistance Comes To Suburbia - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal Episode 971 examines why fact-checkers keep losing to Republican lies in America's ongoing culture war, and why better stories—not more facts—are the only way to win. Driftglass and Blue Gal break dow...

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“The word *fuck* can be used as a verb,noun,adjective,adverb, intensifier,or interjection.

It can convey a whole spectrum of emotions and meanings, even opposite meanings.” - @bluegal.bsky.social

Ep 969: Feb 12, 2026
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If you have an hour to spare in your busy lives, it would be a good way to use it listening to the @proleftpodcast.bsky.social . It is always worthwhile, but this is an exceptional episode. Probably better for usians than people in less shithole nations in the world, but good for anyone.

Classic example of what @proleftpodcast.bsky.social calls out regularly.

No matter how evil the Right is, It’s the fault of the Left, because the Left made them do it.

GOPers have no agency and aren’t responsible for their actions, only Dems are held to account for GOP’s bad deeds.

You should get an oscar for this one. Thanks.

Lotsa neighbors out walking today, it’s not so cold. Harley took me out walking, and after much sniffing and peeing, he took a pretty healthy dump.

And while walking, we listened to @proleftpodcast.bsky.social

If you're not listening to Bluegal and Driftglass, you are missing out. Thanks to @bobcesca.bsky.social for bringing them to my attention about 18 months ago!