Happy Thanksgiving to our listeners! We are so grateful to you for support of our show. We are off on Thursday. Next week we hope to do a Science Fiction University episode! Links for this episode: Mama Nous: "Worrying Has Never Changed a Thing" is used by permission. https://www.instagram.com/p/DCPONzGqtHV/ and wherever you get your music. Parkrose Permaculture (excerpt) “Why are Tr*mpers mad that folks are setting boundaries?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmMHtQyZsZI Trumpers effing around ...
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 857
It's bathroom bigotry all over again. We remember just how racist Jesse Helms was, and how perfectly okay the Republican Party was with all of that bigotry. There's likely to be lots of Cabinet-appointment drama in the next little bit, but please keep your eyes on the corruption and grift. What music is Bluegal listening to? Link for this episode: "Franciscan Blessing" More at proleftpod.com . You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-fi...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 856
Today is a good day for us to remember that we are not alone or crazy...or doomed. Trump Co is destined for SELF-destruction. And we came across a Steve Gilliard post from TWENTY years ago that is amazingly timely. More at proleftpod.com. Links for this episode: Athenae/Allison Hantschel in Dame Magazine, "Democracy is dying in broad daylight." https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/11/19/democracy-is-dying-in-broad-daylight/ Driftglass 2012 remembers Steve Gilliard, 2004: https://driftglass.blogspot...
Nov 20, 2024•49 min•Ep. 855
Thursdays with Royko. Guess who says we need a new liberal media? Guess who says Matt Gaetz is a Sex Pervert? And Blue Gal interviews our 26yo about the election. More at proleftpod.com You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangum Our podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support the show: PayPal | https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Pat...
Nov 15, 2024•55 min•Ep. 854
We're on BlueSky! bluegal, driftglass, proleftpodcast. Join us! Five stages of grief? How about five stages of MAGA victory, including bargaining, denial, and anger? Because FAFO isn't just a cute acronym, it's their way of life. Also, Bluegal finds out that Artificial Intelligence can save a life, but may be programmed NOT to save a democracy. And Driftglass remembers when Archie Bunker joined a group with white hoods. Heh. More at proleftpod.com You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 853
The post-election episode. We're going to get busy, working to make the world a better place, because that is what we are ALWAYS, in all circumstances, called to do. More at proleftpod.com. Link for this episode: Sojourners Magazine, 'Preaching the Word' (Sample page) https://sojo.net/preaching-the-word/epiphany-lord-year More at proleftpod.com You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https:...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 852
h/t Jimmy Kimmel for turning "Dumpster Fire," which Driftglass actually coined on his blog, into "Dumpster Fuhrer." Bible Bitch has a very special "thou shalt not" for the Trump campaign. And Driftglass compares Harris at the Elipse with Lincoln at Gettysburg. And it fits. We're off next Tuesday, Election Day, but we will appear on the Hal Sparks program on YouTube that day. See you then! More at proleftpod.com You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-e...
Oct 31, 2024•33 min•Ep. 851
Happy Birthday Driftglass (Oct 30)!!! Trump's very very racist rally. Who could have predicted? Everybody. Also, a certain NYT columnist who is NOT David Brooks, Ross Douthat, makes up reasons why he can't endorse Harris, including, and we are not making this up, traffic deaths during Covid. And we've seen election literature from BOTH parties here in Springfield Illinois, but one party is... missing something? from their literature. More at proleftpod.com You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor...
Oct 30, 2024•51 min•Ep. 850
Brian Kilmeade should win an award. Links for this episode: Ezra Klein on Trump’s lack of guardrails… and dem failures? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/opinion/donald-trump-ezra-klein-podcast.html Chris Hayes hosts Michelle Goldberg and Jess McIntosh on the press failure to cover women’s rage in the wake of Dobbs. https://crooksandliars.com/2024/10/watch-what-happens-after-maga-candidate You just knew Brian Kilmeade would defend Trump's wanting Nazi generals https://crooksandliars.com/2024/10...
Oct 25, 2024•54 min
Funny how Republicans loved the "p" word when it was about Bill Clinton. Driftglass's 'five minutes on David Brooks' is back. Tick tock! And we're not exactly accepting the Cheneys and The Bulwark into our tent. More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangum Our podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support the s...
Oct 23, 2024•48 min•Ep. 848
Three weeks left. Kamala shows Bret Baier for the abusive bully jerk and not-a-journalist he is. Driftglass reads a right wing Facebook post for filth and notes how much it depends...on the lies of the past? More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangum Our podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support the show:...
Oct 17, 2024•59 min•Ep. 847
Karl Rove, Fox News, and the rest wanted to program voters to vote Republican no matter what. They spent so much time on the 'vote Republican' part, and now the 'no matter what' part has come home to roost. Also, Kamala Harris uses "Good Trouble" to drive Trump into publicizing his insanity repeatedly. And we make some predictions about the first David Brooks columns of 2025. More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medi...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 846
How is Donald Trump like a hurricane? How is toxic Republicanism like climate change? And snuggle up with a cuppa hot cocoa, kids, as Uncle Driftglass reads an excerpt from the 1955 story "Franchise" by Issac Asimov. More at proleftpod.com . You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangum Our podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support...
Oct 11, 2024•57 min•Ep. 845
The idea of focusing on the future isn't the flex (or the excuse) the Trump campaign thinks it is. We are pleasantly surprised on a road trip to Burlington, Iowa. Is Elon Musk's mom alright? Is Megyn Kelly? They seem upset. And Kamala Harris isn't aiming for "humble." More at proleftpod.com . You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangum Our podcast YouTube Channe...
Oct 09, 2024•54 min•Ep. 844
Trump is melting. Vance is a robot replacement. Walz understood his assignment. And isn’t it interesting that Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, #1 enemy of socialism, wants the taxpayers to fix her husband’s driveway in the wake of Helene? More at proleftpod.com . You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangum Our podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.co...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 843
We cover the usual (sad!) media failures leading up to the Vice Presidential Debate Tuesday night. Note: Our recording host had some technical issues that other podcasters were also experiencing today. Our apologies for "aborting" the show early...we had to get ready for the Vice Presidential Debate. Please listen to Driftglass and Digby discuss the Vice Presidential Debate on the BradCast ( https://bradblog.com/ ) on Wednesday Oct 2. More at proleftpod.com . You can help us pay for DG's eye doc...
Oct 02, 2024•28 min•Ep. 842
A Block: Driftglass and Bluegal read each other a list of standard performance review questions. Are we staff or management? B Block (40:30): Donald Trump and his party are flat-out in favor of ethnic cleansing in the United States. C Block (50:15): Kamala Harris's substantive interview on economics; reactions to it broke precisely as expected. News Round Up (57:30). Link for this episode: Drew Magery at SF Gate, 'The New York Times is Washed' https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/new-york-t...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 841
Sorry, Maggie Haberman, we're just two married podcasters who live in a little house near a cornfield and who think the Beltway media is waaay too busy patting each other's backs. We're not an industry, we're pro-journalistic ethics (hello Olivia Nuzzi), political integrity (good bye Mark Robinson), and funding school lunches (Ahem). More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting po...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 840
This week, Blue Gal is traveling, so we're bringing you a special rebroadcast of our recent appearance on "The Bill Show," which originally aired on September 9, 2024. Bill is an American ex-pat living in Australia, and his podcast is liberal and political with a heavy dose of ribald humor. Sounds like a good match for us? It is! Hear more Bill Show episodes at https://expatprogressive.podbean.com/ . You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-med...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 13 min
No Fair Remembering 2010? Our SECOND episode from over 14 years ago. Before we were married! Driftglass was in Chicago, and Blue Gal was in Springfield, recording over Skype. This episode was recorded at a pivotal moment in recent American political history. The Supreme Court had just handed down its landmark Citizens United decision, fundamentally altering and corrupting the landscape of campaign finance. Meanwhile, the country was mere weeks away from the signing of the Affordable Care Act, a ...
Sep 17, 2024•43 min
Our two cents about the Presidential Vs. Donald Trump Debate. And we have some opinions, too, about Morning Joe guests attempting to "reunite the country." More at proleftpod.com. Link for this episode, check out our Episode 713: No Fair Remembering Vice Presidents. "The belief that somehow Kamala Harris isn't "doing something" as Veep runs counter to nearly every other Vice President in the history of the United States." https://www.buzzsprout.com/229/12764766 You can help us pay for DG's eye d...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 837
Thanks Liz and Dick Cheney now GET LOST. You get NOTHING for doing the right thing. And you especially don't get more political power because you're pretending to be "centrist." Have a nice day! Also David Brooks pretends Trump was a "hostile takeover of outsiders" of the lovely kind Republican Party he knew and loved back when Dick Cheney was Vice President. We remember differently, David. And guess who wrote for the NYFT that tariffs might be what Trump lies say they are. AHEM. More at proleft...
Sep 11, 2024•40 min•Ep. 836
Oh wait, the Russia thing was real? And DOJ just indicted a whole mess of September Surprise? We muse on the idea of "earning" $100,000 an episode. Did you think you were worth it, Tim Pool? And Mike Barnicle asks, "What happened to the Republican Party?" Hey Mike! WE KNOW!!! More at proleftpod.com You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangum Our podcast YouTube ...
Sep 06, 2024•47 min•Ep. 835
A short episode so DG can recover his voice sooner rather than later. Links for this episode: Margaret Sullivan: An ugly case of 'false balance' at The New York Times https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in Thanks to The Bill Show out of Australia for hosting us this week. Our show should drop in a few days here: https://open.spotify.com/show/71kZ2ppjrX6bOEg2ql7Zsk More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.co...
Sep 03, 2024•31 min•Ep. 834
Doctrines come from the stories that a church or a political party or some other group tells about itself. In that sense, the stories people tell themselves create the reality that they believe in. Powerful stories tell them what’s true and what’s false. It gives them heroes and villains and victims, and an explanation for why things are the way they are. And right now we are experiencing a huge war over who gets to tell the stories of what's happening. And for once, the good guys are winning th...
Aug 29, 2024•58 min•Ep. 833
Also welcome back to the fight as, at long last, Democrats are "floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee." Are we finally back to the days of "Give 'em Hell, Harry"? We hope so! And the Donald Trump campaign has at least three "vendors" taking millions and no one knows what's being done with the money. (We can guess, though). More at proleftpod.com. Links for this episode: The Educated Imagination from 2010: What's wrong with the New York Times Part 3? https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryebl...
Aug 27, 2024•54 min•Ep. 832
No fair remembering stuff only applies to Republicans. Democrats get to celebrate THEIR past! Links for this episode: Driftglass on the Bradcast 8/21/24: https://bradblog.com/?p=15139 Brian Baez, Content Creator: https://x.com/MentallyDivine/status/182630516407842 Mad Men, "Carousel": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast!...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 831
Happy 13th Wedding Anniversary to us! We celebrated by enjoying Night One of The Democratic National Convention, and attending a dear friend's funeral. We are reminded again this week that the Mainstream Media feeds respectable and legitimized propaganda to right-wing outlets because "even" the New York Times covers BenghaziBenghaziBenghazi, Solyndra , Fast and Furious, Uranium One, tan suit, Seth Rich, baby parts, Pizzagate, 'her emails,' death panels, Dominion, and the tarmac. More at proleftp...
Aug 21, 2024•59 min•Ep. 830
Well, it's worth a try. The news of the week continues to prove Republicans are weird. The three Jell-O molds the mainstream media tries to form "news salad" into. And DG brings back "shelter culture." More at proleftpod.com. Links for this episode: Doc Searls Weblog: Where Journalism Fails https://doc.searls.com/2019/07/23/where-journalism-fails/ You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden Blue Gal's knitting podcast! htt...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 829
Sir, many people have told us that Trump might drop out. Several important people said that Trump should drop out of the race. Some people say he should flee the country. I've even heard one person say he's a flight "risk," and that's what they call it, a "risk"- that he'll flee the country. Many things we thought would last forever didn't. Democratic messaging on housing, pollution, autism. Driftglass notes, "I, too, am in Hell." Explore the critical role of media in shaping political narrative...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 828
