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@driftglass.bsky.social

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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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

Sachs believed that the new administration was undermining patient care by making hiring and contract decisions based on political connections. Thompson and Robertson in turn accused Sachs of being financially extravagant, incompetent, and dictatorial. As Sachs resigned from the sanitarium he had worked tirelessly to build, Frank Billings, one of the most respected physicians in the city, called Robertson “utterly unqualified.” On April 2, 1916, Sachs committed suicide. For reformers and the medical establishment, Sachs was a martyr to grotesque political corruption. Although The Republican, a propaganda sheet literally published in an office in City Hall, sneered that suicide “occasionally has been a haven of moral cowards who preferred the shelter of death to public exposure of their shortcomings,” Robertson took a less confrontational tone after Sachs’s death. Still, he refused to step down.
Tengrain@tengrain.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Ken Paxton’s defense attorney just endorsed me. At this point I’m just waiting on Paxton’s family dog to come over to my side.” — James Talarico

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here in Illinois, Mary "Nazi" Miller helpfully lays out the Fox News rage-bait/lies Republicans will be running on in November. Note the many, many "dogs that didn't bark" here. Issues which, by their absence, show how terrified these scumbags are of anyone mentioning them.

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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems@upine.bsky.social · 3d ago

As @driftglass.bsky.social says, the rule of MAGA, even many Never Trumpers, and even most of mainstream media is: No Fair Remembering Stuff upine.medium.com/why-mainstre...

Why Mainstream Media is So Right Wing Biased and How to Chang

I just did a Twitter thread a few days ago, on why mainstream media is so Right Wing biased. Rather than keep this information just on…

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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems@upine.bsky.social · 5d ago

In a world where Right Wing propagandists Bari Weiss, Ross Douthat & David Brooks are showered with cash & job opportunities, but many writers of truth and good ideas are strapped for cash--Please help out the good writers if you can.

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 5d ago

Hi guys, I'm sorry to have to ask for this again but I really could use your support. My father died recently and now I have fallen behind on rent. If you could please chip in a few dollars, it would really help me keep going. I need to raise $10,000 asap to pay expenses. Thank you so much ❤️

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 7d ago

1. At Nuremberg, civilization reasserted itself, not with a firing squad, but with the institutions of civilization: courts, judges, defense attorneys, rules of evidence, witnesses, cross-examination, etc. However...

Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG@thebradblog.bsky.social · last wk.

Are Repubs — Elected or Otherwise — Really on the Verge of Turning on Trump?: Today's #BradCast Guests: @digby56.bsky.social and @driftglass.bsky.social on Blanche's woes, McConnell's life, Beshear's response, Trump's war and Dem odds this November... FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=18314

Are Republicans — Elected or Otherwise — Really on the Verge of Turning on Trump?: ‘BradCast’ 7/29/2026

Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast' on Blanche's woes, McConnell's life, Beshear's response, Trump's war and Dem odds this November...

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driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · last wk.

To grossly overgeneralize, we're becoming more European in our outlook than we used to be. More aware that monsters can come to power and ruin everything, and those monsters will be enthusiastically supported by our neighbors. People we thought we knew, but never really knew at all.