For the next three weeks, the sound and fury of right wing distraction and nonsense will be rising all around you.  Ignore it and focus on the fundamentals.   Driftglass attende...

Trump distracts with Kanye but we skip that insanity (literal) to talk about voter suppression, because it appears to be 1963 again in Georgia and Texas.  DG goes after Michael ...

On a day when it appears the Kavanaugh Nomination will pass, Youngest Child has learned that doing her school work improves her grades. Can we Democrats learn the same lesson? G...

Lindsey Graham, Crisis Actor. The Kavanaugh meanness points to the abuser who is UNQUALIFIED to sit on the high court. Everyone has a survivor story to tell. More at ProLeftPo...

Kavanaugh and Company in the Trump White House fail to not appear guilty. Senator Hirono teaches Washington a special word. Women didn't choose this war, but we're gonna fini...

Nevermind the smoke flowing from the volcanos and wildfires, the hurricane bearing down on the Atlantic coast, or the so-called president who truly needs a 25th Amendment interv...

Wingnuts lack the power of memory, but get lots and lots of Karma this week. More at ProLeftPod.com.REVIEW US ON ITUNES | SPORT OUR SWAG! CONTACT US The Professional Left Po...

John McCain was no saint but was likely the last lockbolt against Republicans going full fascist. Aretha Franklin’s funeral shows where the moral center of the country is righ...

The Republican President is an unindicted co-conspirator. Republicans hate women. Duncan Hunter throwing his wife under the bus and Donald Trump's crimes directly connected to h...

Jeanne Pirro says take away Hillary Clinton's security clearance. Please take away ours! More at ProLeftPod.com.REVIEW US ON ITUNES CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS ...

We hear from a listener who wants more GOTV, and can you believe the amount of corruption in one administration? Hope Hicks went on Air Force One, not even the tarmac! And Blue ...

It's all coming out. Russia, Manafort, totalitarianism in the Republican Party. Burn the lifeboats, no rebranding for the Republican Party, even into that Q-tip-non nonsense. Mo...

Driftglass wound up in Twitter Jail for a while but he's out now on personal recognizance? More of the week's news and a rant about why this awful person is still in office, not...

The Republican party follows Trump down the pro-Russia sewer. Why? It’s about racism, fascism, and misogyny, same as it ever was. More at ProLeftPod.com.REVIEW US ON ITUNES CON...

A very bad week for Republicans. The Peter Strzok hearings, Donald Trump's disastrous attack on NATO, and the Russian indictments. How to stay healthy when you feel the world is...

Trump is the second President of the Confederacy. This podcast is NOT brought to you by "Hello Fascist" - boxed meals for Republican enablers and traitors who can't eat dinner o...

We've got work to do! Deep breath, set despair aside, and prepare like hell for the midterms, including the #FamiliesBelongTogether March this weekend. Also RIP Harlan Ellison....

If the Right wanted to make liberals heads explode, using "baby cages" on migrant children did it. Congratulations fellow liberals we are now the Moral Majority. On to Novembe...

The Republican administration is separating children from their parents at the border and still found the time to look the other way at Scott Pruitt's corruption and Donald Trum...

Sad news: Driftglass got laid off from his part-time job. Colbert, Heilmann and Michelle Goldberg get the Pro-Left bump. Nobody needs Bill Clinton's fiction. Destroying the Go...

Conspiracy theories like “Beyonce is the Illuminati something” are the Republican Party, and have been for longer than Trump. What does Jeff Sessions have on Trump? Roseanne i...

Our episode title comes from "Legion" on FX. We read your letters and discuss the week's news (recorded before Trump cancelled the North Korea Summit). More at ProLeftPod.com.R...

We talk about Rudy Guiliani, at least one person who is "tired of winning," and a number of people who've discovered all of a sudden that Truth is important, like Rex Tillerson ...

Notice how torture, Dick Cheney, and claiming Democrats are terrorists is back? It’s the Republican pay-to-play book! Along with Race Bait and Switch with their own voters. Mich...

Maybe the Trump Era is an alternate universe designed to destroy the Republican Party and chasten the mainstream media. Or maybe we just need to fight harder for what's right. ...

Three Reboots: Queer Eye, Lost in Space, and ...Jonah Goldberg reboots Ayn Rand? We do get to Trump's Fox and Friends meltdown eventually. But this is a Diamond and Silk F...

Hannity is the third client, Haley is not amused, and some climate denying whack job is head of NASA. Plus some Comey. More at ProLeftPod.com.REVIEW US ON ITUNES CONTACT US, S...

Multiple Trump Meltdowns. Buh Bye Paul Ryan. Facebook is a new thing in the world, we'll regulate it in time. The dignity of everyone in the world is why to have trade. More...

We apologize for the occasional sound distortion in this week's show -- we're working on it!!! More at ProLeftPod.com.REVIEW US ON ITUNES CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR B...

Driftglass celebrates his 13th blogiversary by taking on all the regular targets. For details on how to support the show visit us at ProLeftPod.com.REVIEW US ON ITUNES CONTACT...

Do Not Congratulate-gate, what happens when Fox News determines policy at Twitter-speed, The Illinois Primary results, Cambridge Analytica and more. For details on how to sup...

They're firing everyone in the White House and replacing them with Fox News Green Room Zombies? More at ProLeftPod.com, where we have a new Patreon in addition to our Paypal acc...

It's nothing but chaos in the Trump White House. More at ProLeftPod.com, where we have a new Patreon in addition to our Paypal account and GoFundMe accounts.REVIEW US ON ITUNES ...

Trump goes off the rails on Tariffs. We've got advice for progressives and applause for students, strikers, and Moms. More at ProLeftPod.com, where we have a new Patreon in add...

Student Activism is back. And Manafort is going down. Also, Bible Bitch and Sandy Hook Promise.More at ProLeftPod.com, where we have a new Patreon in addition to our Paypal ac...

Another shooting, but this one is different. 13 indictments of Russians. And Trump's lawyer paid Stormy? Really? That reminds us of our new fake sponsor, WHAT?! Campaign Fin...

This week's politics. The Nunes footnotes, Washington Prayer Breakfast now with more Russians! Deficits schmeficits, and there's another "No Labels" type "independent" group ...

Yeah we remember that George W. Bush was a terrible president. We remember LOTS of things. (recorded Thursday before the big nothing burger of the Nunes memo was known among t...

If society needs something under the Trump Era, people have to sue to get it. Also Hannity screws the pooch, Trump shows his butt on Obstruction of Justice, and we talk about g...

The brink of government shutdown is entirely about Trump's sh*thole racism. More at ProLeftPod.com

Donald Trump's insanity and cruel policies won't stop us from celebrating The Professional Left Podcast's 8th Anniversary. More at ProLeftPod.com, where we have a new Patreon in...

It's the book. And also the reaction to the book from the White House. More at ProLeftPod.com, where we have a new Patreon in addition to our Paypal account and GoFundMe accoun...

We end the year with a long one. And after the music Driftglass tells you what HE thinks is wrong with The Last Jedi (spoilers, though his critique is what many others have sai...

Great, Trump got tax cuts for the rich from a Republican Congress. Not exactly a miracle, but don't tell Mike Pence and Ben Carson that. Driftglass gets five minutes to rant a...

What is with Donald Trump sexually harassing Senator Gillibrand? And Roy Moore still has not conceded the Alabama Senate Seat as of this writing. More at ProLeftPod.com, where ...

We'll miss Al Franken in the Senate. The week's politics after we announce that our Amazon account was cancelled, taking with it half the income we receive from doing this show...

NOTE: Blue Gal talks late in this podcast about why she's a #MeToo participant. It's not difficult to talk about and she doesn't cry, but people easily triggered by recollecti...

David Brooks omits whole sentences of Lincoln's Second Inaugural address because what Lincoln said was inconvenient to his argument. No one at the New York Times editorial boar...

Why are we talking about Bill Clinton? Also Bible B*tch finds a surprise from Google when looking for a Bible verse. What is our way out of despair? Thanksgiving. More at Pro...

Recorded Thursday afternoon. Carter Page, why do conservatives buy books that reinforce their worldview but liberals don't? Both Siderism and centrism are AS BAD as conservati...