Ep 1020: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1020 opens with a deep dive into the Snoopy vs. the Red Baron novelty songs — where continuity gets rewritten and enemies become "friends" who never have to answer for their body counts — befo...

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Ep 1019: Where's The Beef? - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1019 asks the question rarely posed — "Is our Republicans learning?" — and finds them relearning the exact same 2006 playbook: distance yourself from an unpopular president, rebrand as "indepe...

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Ep 1018 Meet Dem Candidate Dr. Cinde Wirth (IN-06) - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1018 features Driftglass in conversation with Dr. Cinde Wirth, the Democrat running to flip Indiana's 6th Congressional District. A seventh-generation Bartholomew County Hoosier, high school s...

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Ep 1017: Judgment Day - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1017 puts a decade of Never Trump confessions on trial, dissecting this unusual week where Tim Miller, Stuart Stevens, Rick Wilson, and Joe Scarborough all admitted, in various roundabout ways...

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Ep 1016: F**k Civility - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1016 puts Tone Policing on trial, tracing the long history of the powerful lecturing the powerless about civility while dodging the actual substance of their protests — from abolitionists to M...

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Ep 1015: James and the Giant Screech - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1015 takes apart James Carville, the "rusted-out antique device" who trashes progressives on Fox News over a single deleted Thanksgiving tweet and then pivots to backing the very candidate he ...

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Ep 1014: The New Red Scare - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1014 dismantles the "Democrats in Disarray" panic after Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's progressive primary win in Michigan, tracing Third Way's $15 million war chest against democratic socialism back to...

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Ep 1013 Talking Dem Politics with a Dem Politician - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass sits down with Blue Rep in a Red State!   Democratic State Representative Gregg Bush of Missouri is in the superminority in the Missouri State Legislature.   We go over Tuesday's ...

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The Zeal of the Convert - The American Prospect

Matthew Sheffield, a former rising star in the conservative movement, turned away from what he finally realized was an extremist, anti-truth agenda.

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Ep 1012: A Convo With Matthew Sheffield - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

In a special crossover episode, Driftglass sits down with Matthew Sheffield of Flux and the Theory of Change podcast — a journalist with a genuinely unusual vantage point on American radicalization. S...

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Ep 1011: Not Sending Their Best - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1011 argues that the Fauci witch hunt and the White House Correspondents' Dinner were the same show: theater staged to give a cult desperate for a villain someone new to hate. Driftglass and B...

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Ep 1010: WHCD WTF? - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1010 dissects the White House Correspondents' Dinner disaster, where Trump used his own celebration of press freedom to attack the journalists in the room with vile personal insults. Driftglas...

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Ep 1009 The Wall - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1009 asks what happens when you're 20 miles into the political marathon and there's no cavalry coming over the hill to save the day. Driftglass and Blue Gal explore the difference between Amer...

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Ep 1008: Reality Remains Undefeated - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1008 continues the "No Fair Remembering Stuff" retrospective:  Driftglass and Blue Gal trace the throughline from Biden's early economic wins and Republican obstruction, through the Janua...

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Ep 1007: Happy Birthday Blue Gal Retrospective, Part I - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1007 celebrates Blue Gal's birthday with a nostalgic trip through 16 years of podcast archives, revisiting what was happening in politics on or around her birthday each year since 2010. Driftg...

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Ep 1006: Pump Up The Venom - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1006 uses the beloved 1990 teen rebellion movie "Pump Up the Volume" to ask a deeper question: what happens when you take "Truth is a virus" and unrestricted free speech into the real world, w...

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Ep 1005: Meanwhile, In Local News... - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1005 of The Professional Left makes the case that if you really want to understand America — not a focus group of twelve Trump voters in Florida, not three congressional primaries in Brooklyn,...

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Ep 1004: The MAGA Merry-Go-Round - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

It goes in circles but never gets anywhereIt’s all horses’ assesAnd there is no brass ring.Driftglass on the Bob Cesca Show : https://www.bobcesca.com/the-bob-cesca-interview-driftglass-day-7-1-26/&nb...

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Ep 1003: Science Fiction University - Trust - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Science Fiction University returns at long last, with an extended deep dive into one of the oldest and most unsettling questions in the genre — who can you trust when the threat is wearing a human fac...

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Ep 1002: It’s Still the Republican Party - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

No rebranding!  They cashed all those checks with the Tea Party.  Episode 1002 of The Professional Left opens with a pop quiz, and the reveal says everything you need to know about how this ...

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Ep 1001: 119 Billion Kilometers and Counting - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1001 of The Professional Left kicks off the post-1000 era with a reading from Octavia Butler — written in 1993, about a fictional America that looks uncomfortably like the one outside your win...

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Ep 1000: For Your Consideration... - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1000 of The Professional Left opens with the countdown finally hitting zero — and instead of a victory lap, Driftglass and Blue Gal do exactly what they've been doing for 999 episodes: explain...

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Ep 999 The Patron Saint of Corruption - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 999 of The Professional Left takes a detour through the smoke-filled back rooms of mid-century Chicago machine politics to explain something essential about the moment we're living in right no...

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Ep 998: Who's This Jagoff? - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 998 of The Professional Left opens with a game of "Who's This Jagoff?" — a quiz that turns out to be a master class in how the Both Sides Do It lie gets laundered through the media, repeated w...

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