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@driftglass.bsky.social

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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.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:33 AM

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@joankay.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:52 AMReposted by @driftglass.bsky.social

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:31 AM

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@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:58 AM

Gotta say, it cracks me up a little bit that I've been talking about Brooks on the regular for +21 years on my blog (& podcast for +15 yrs) & have rarely gotten more than 6-8 comments per post on any of it :-)

Here's a sample: Brooks filing a police report.

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@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:53 AM

Fun fact: He's Canadian by birth.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:52 AM

That's about a mile from my house.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:46 AM

done. thanks.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:32 PM

The Tone Police will be out in battalions.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:32 PM

And use his position in Conservative media to gleefully slag anyone who opposed the war. Later on, when everything Liberals had warned about came to pass, he flat out lie about ever writing any such thing. And I have that exchange on film.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:28 PM

The force behind scuttling most Progressive initiatives and, for years, the Never Trumpers favorite Democrat.

Good riddance.

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@joshtpm.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:37 PMReposted by @driftglass.bsky.social

I don’t care about brooks or what cush sinecure he has. He’s wrong. It’s a dumb point. And Collins campaign is literally stocked with Nazis. To any of this gate keeping tut tutting just stfu.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:31 PMReposted by @driftglass.bsky.social

Amid ballooning inflation and corruption, it's getting harder and harder to find MAGA diehards in the diners of Trump country. But after much effort, we did. Here are their personal stories, their opinions, and what Democrats must do to understand them.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:54 PM

You have that backwards. The base of the GOP has been this way for decades. They finally voted themselves a leader who represents who they truly are.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:52 PM

Both Gerson and Frum were Bush speechwriters.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:51 PM

Brooks left the times & is now being paid by The Atlantic. And the Aspen Institute. And PBS. And Yale (Presidential Senior Fellow). And endless speaking gigs. And...well, you get the idea.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:04 PM

One of which I have on my shelf. He's blunt about the history of the GOP and what he was wrong about, which I've written & podcast about many times. But to my knowledge, no NTer has ever said, "Y'know, the Left was right." To them, we either don't exist at all, or are still punching bags.

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 5:51 PM

The Tone Police never sleep.

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@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 5:00 PM

It's *always* "...but the democrats."

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:59 PM

How many times do Liberals have to have been shown to have been right about the Right all along before any Never Trumper anywhere will admit that, yep, shoulda listened to those Liberals who'd been warning about the trajectory of the GOP decades?

@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:57 PM

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