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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

By: 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."

© 2026 The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
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  • Ep 969: Whatever Happened To 'The American People'?
    Feb 13 2026

    Episode 969 explores how politicians and media use vague phrases like "the American people," "the voters," and "the public" without anyone agreeing on what these terms actually mean. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace these polyfunctional words through American history, from Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to Nixon's "silent majority" and today's political battles over who gets to speak for the nation. They examine how these phrases do political work rather than descriptive work, often excluding people while claiming to represent everyone. The episode reveals why this ambiguous language matters so much in the ongoing fight over American democracy and who counts as part of "we the people."

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Ep 968: Their Loyalty Test Never Ends
    Feb 11 2026

    Probably no need to play catch-up on this, except for future reference when we hit episode 2000 and are trying to convince the Neo-Republi-tarian Constitutional Independents who will come to dominate the media in 2045 after the Great Forgetting of 2032, that all of this actually happened...

    More at proleftpod.com.

    Link for this episode: Chelsey Gods with that song about Kristi Noem.

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    • 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

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    1 hr
  • Ep 967: The Death of Nixon('s Maxim)
    Feb 6 2026

    Average voters stay permanently undecided because they get their information from toxic media sources that have been poisoning them against Democrats for decades, making "running to the center" mathematically impossible and politically useless.

    Links for this episode:

    Volts ϟ 1.30.2026 – Michael Hobbes (All About "Reactionary Centrism") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5cFRQtPbcM

    Ian McKellen (on Colbert) 'using Shakespeare to tear off the false moral mask that xenophobes wear across the West.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiw9xbQUYQ

    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


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    1 hr and 10 mins
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