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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. driftglass.blogspot.com/2010/11/beas...

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The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the Congress with His Head Up His Ass While Sucking His Own Balls

Based on his latest 800-word New York Times Centrist embarrassment , ... This ethos has dissolved, on left and right. The new mentality sees...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4h

Fun fact: He's Canadian by birth.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4h

That's about a mile from my house.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 6h

The Tone Police will be out in battalions.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 6h

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.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 6h

The force behind scuttling most Progressive initiatives and, for years, the Never Trumpers favorite Democrat. Good riddance. driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/09/with...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

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.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 9h

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.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10h

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.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10h

Both Gerson and Frum were Bush speechwriters.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10h

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.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 11h

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.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 12h

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

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 12h

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?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This could have been a debate. While Ken Paxton refuses to face James Talarico on the debate stage, James will be answering questions directly from Texans LIVE on CNN. Find a watch party near you: www.mobilize.us/texasdemocra...

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Disagree. He was actually the worst. By using his NYT perch to write the same "Both Sides Do It' column over and over again for +20 years, he did more to propagate that despicable, enabling lie than any other single person.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Can we get a "Banned Brooks Week" someday?

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This sentiment, and blaming Both Sides for explicitly Republican atrocities, has been the through line of his writing for +25 years.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When asked about Whiskey Pete Hegseth's plans to livestream a firing squad execution, Brooks led with, "Saint Augustine was a fifth century, I guess, scholar, theologian, bishop of Hippo." Because he's a fucking robot.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Still out there peddling his vile "Both Sides" snake oil decades after the sell-by date on that lie expired. Still revered by the ossified media and treated as a sage by clueless, wealthy political shut-ins and cowards.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 09/10/2026

If the person leaking all the Paxton audio is not *already* working as a campaign media consultant, they need to hang out a shingle and start taking clients immediately. Masterclass in breadcrumb-dropping. Hats off, 10/10 no notes. www.cnn.com/2026/10/09/p...

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‘He wants me to lose’: Paxton complains about lack of support from Cornyn in leaked audio | CNN Politics

Ken Paxton has publicly said he would “love to have” John Cornyn’s support after their bruising Republican primary runoff in the Texas Senate race. But privately, Paxton has grown frustrated with the ...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I believe the ABA still vets judges and posts their ratings. Other than that, it might depend on where you live. For example, In Chicago, the IVI-IPO vetting organization was usually reliable.

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Tengrain @tengrain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Old Election News 10 years ago... I cannot believe that the mango-hued shitgibbon “won” the so-called Xristian vote following that. I cannot believe that he got the vast majority of white women to vote for him over Hillary. Boggles the mind, it does.

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Old Election News

10 years ago... I cannot believe that the mango-hued shitgibbon “won” the so-called Xristian vote following that. I cannot believe that he got the vast majority of white women to vote for him over Hillary. Boggles the mind, it does.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful. -- Edward R. Murrow.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kurt Russell Kurt Russell Kurt...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I could hug @anandwrites.bsky.social for this. This is so true but you NEVER hear it in US media. Never. Truly doing god's work.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Let them take out Miami. Let them take out Fort Worth. It's a small price to pay.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Both Sides Do It" continues to be the last resort of the worst cowards, Quislings and scumbags.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The shockwaves were such that we in the Midwest thought the New Madrid fault had finally cut loose.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We tried that. It was called the Obama administration. Remember how they reacted to the election of a decent, humane, Centrist who tirelessly offered them one olive branch after another and genuinely wanted to work together to solve our most critical problems?

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of the most maddening events that the rise of Trump triggered was how many Conservative evangelical Republicans with public platforms were shocked!shocked! at how easily their fellow evangelicals fell in line behind Trump.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With few exceptions, the entire Never Trump thing is based on false history.

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