The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal
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"Fiercely and unapologetically progressive, and definitely NSFW. 'The Professional Left' features award-winning bloggers Driftglass and Blue Gal as they skewer right-wing absurdities and dismantle mainstream media mealy-mouths with razor-sharp wit and zero filter. From mercilessly mocking partisan hacks to elevating stories the media ignores, it's the profane, unflinching political commentary you didn't know you needed. More at http://ProLeftPod.com."

  1. 17h ago

    Ep 1014: The New Red Scare

    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 nearly identical Red Scare rhetoric almost a century ago.   Driftglass and Blue Gal prove that the same "socialism!" screeching Republicans threw at Obama just two weeks into his presidency in 2009 is word-for-word the same panic thrown at another Democrat facing deep economic crises a century earlier.   That "Red Scare" was funded then by Hearst's media empire and is now funded by Big Pharma, Big Banks, and Big Tech.  The episode also indulges in a little well-earned schadenfreude over a solar-industry-funded super PAC quietly picking off the Republicans who sabotaged clean energy, one primary at a time.  It's about corporate "centrist Democrats" manufacturing a crisis, media amnesia as a weapon, and why the same lies have been recycled for 100 years. Links for this episode:   https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-all-socialists-now-82577 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/democratic-party-socialists-moderates.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/03/centrist-democrats-launch-new-pledge-moderate-party/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/brooks-and-capehart-on-what-progressive-primary-wins-mean-for-democrats https://www.commondreams.org/news/cheri-bustos-next-american-era https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/29/fema-democratic-disaster-requests-trump-01013938 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-31/alaska-road-permit-shows-how-trump-upends-business-norms https://crooksandliars.com/2026/08/theres-nothing-we-could-do-cornyn-concedes https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/10/white-house-max-miller-pressure-campaign-01031353 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/trump-vaccine-executive-order-autism.html https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/07/how-solar-donors-helped-take-down-a-trump-backed-republican-01028209  More at proleftpod.com.  Stay in Touch!  Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com  Website: proleftpod.com  Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod  or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpod Mail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791 Support the show

    Ep 1014: The New Red Scare

  2. 5d ago

    Ep 1013 Talking Dem Politics with a Dem Politician

    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 Missouri ballot initiative and how Missouri voters turned back a Republican attempt to take their power away.  Also, the future of the Democratic Party, and how a Covid-era nurse got elected to the State House.  All this and more in this truly fascinating conversation.   More at proleftpod.com.  Stay in Touch!  Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com  Website: proleftpod.com  Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod  or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpod Mail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791 Support the show

    Ep 1013 Talking Dem Politics with a Dem Politician

  3. Aug 5

    Ep 1012: A Convo With Matthew Sheffield

    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. Sheffield grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family, left that world, then spent years as one of the internet's first conservative bloggers before walking away from that movement too, disillusioned by its hostility to facts and to people. The conversation explores why things are happening the way they are in politics, religion, and media, rather than just chasing the next news cycle. It's a rare chance to hear two people compare notes from opposite sides of the same long road out of, and against, movement conservatism. More at proleftpod.com.  Stay in Touch!  Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com  Website: proleftpod.com  Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod  or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpod Mail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791 Support the show

    Ep 1012: A Convo With Matthew Sheffield

  4. Jul 31

    Ep 1011: Not Sending Their Best

    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 Blue Gal use Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" to describe legacy media pundits partying safely behind castle walls while the plague of modern Republican fascism finally breaks through the door. The episode names the psychological trap keeping disengaged voters stuck in "Yeah, but Democrats..." thinking, and exposes how devastating SNAP cuts are quietly starving hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans while being sold as "reform." It's about who the real cavalry is, why nobody's coming to save us but us, and why the midterms are the only thing that can pull the brakes on a car that no longer has any. Links for this Episode: Driftglass on The BradCast  https://bradblog.com/?p=18314 Driftglass on the Nicole Sandler Show  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozwmgb421eI  Stay in Touch!  Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com  Website: proleftpod.com  Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod  or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpod Mail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791 Support the show

    Ep 1011: Not Sending Their Best

  5. Jul 29

    Ep 1010: WHCD WTF?

    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. Driftglass and Blue Gal replay a decade-old clip from their own archives—recorded the week Trump effectively won the 2016 nomination—to prove that Liberals saw this coming while the legacy media obsessed over Hillary's emails. The episode argues the real scandal isn't Trump's cruelty, which was never a mystery, but a media class that keeps getting blindsided by exactly what it refuses to honestly examine. It's about pattern recognition, receipts a decade old, and why nothing about the GOP or its media enablers has gotten better—only worse. Link for this episode:  Status. https://www.status.news/  Stay in Touch!  Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com  Website: proleftpod.com  Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod  or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpod Mail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791 Support the show

    Ep 1010: WHCD WTF?

  6. Jul 24

    Ep 1009 The Wall

    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 American "hero arrives just in time" storytelling and the harder truth found in movies like Spotlight and Lincoln—where victory comes from grinding, patient work, not a last-minute miracle. The episode confronts what it feels like to hit The Wall after decades of activism that moved the needle but not nearly far enough, while also finding real hope in how DSA ideas about time, freedom, and healthcare are quietly winning the battle of ideas. It's about exhaustion, endurance, and why you should never take political advice from your enemies.   This week, thanks again to Hal Sparks who had Driftglass on Monday.  Bob Cesca and Nicole Sandler who put up with him for an hour each, back to back, on Wednesday.   Hal Sparks https://www.youtube.com/live/QPVAxnKjtV4 Bob Cesca show https://www.bobcesca.com/the-bob-cesca-interview-driftglass-day-7-22-26/ Nicole Sandler show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2acNSp9cNVg More links from the episode:   https://patricemersault.substack.com/p/part-2-i-went-to-a-meeting-of-young  https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-take-advice-from-your-enemies https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/punching-left/ The Internet Kitty’s book, “Futura”  https://www.amazon.com/Futura-Michael-Laser/dp/B0G9Q9GSTF/ref=sr_1_9  Stay in Touch!  Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com  Website: proleftpod.com  Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod  or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpod Mail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791 Support the show

    Ep 1009 The Wall

  7. Jul 22

    Ep 1008: Reality Remains Undefeated

    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 January 6th hearings, to broke state GOP parties and Bari Weiss's billionaire-funded "anti-woke" grift.  This sad yet hilarious episode reveals how the same media failures—perpetual surprise at good economic news, endless both-siderism, and refusal to name who actually funds Republican radicalization—keep repeating no matter the year.  It's proof that the receipts have been there all along, for anyone willing to look. Link for this episode: Driftglass on Hal Sparks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVAxnKjtV4  Stay in Touch!  Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com  Website: proleftpod.com  Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod  or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpod Mail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791 Support the show

    Ep 1008: Reality Remains Undefeated

  8. Jul 17

    Ep 1007: Happy Birthday Blue Gal Retrospective, Part I

    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. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace a remarkable through-line from the Tea Party's rise and the "Evil, Stupid, or Crazy" game, through Obama-era both-siderism, Trump's 2016 takeover, and the pandemic's collapse of conservative respectability. The episode reveals how the same cast of media enablers and Republican radicals keeps reappearing decade after decade, proving some patterns never change even as the crises get bigger. It's part one of a two-part birthday retrospective, with 2021 through 2026 still to come. Stay in Touch!  Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com  Website: proleftpod.com  Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod  or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpod Mail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791 Support the show

    Ep 1007: Happy Birthday Blue Gal Retrospective, Part I
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"Fiercely and unapologetically progressive, and definitely NSFW. 'The Professional Left' features award-winning bloggers Driftglass and Blue Gal as they skewer right-wing absurdities and dismantle mainstream media mealy-mouths with razor-sharp wit and zero filter. From mercilessly mocking partisan hacks to elevating stories the media ignores, it's the profane, unflinching political commentary you didn't know you needed. More at http://ProLeftPod.com."

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