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My friend Driftglass is best-known as one of the OGs of the Progressive Blogisphere. Today I helped him mark the eve of the Professional Left Podcast's 1,000th episode with a wide-ranging Wednesday that covers everything from the 40-year history of right-wing media radicalization to Trump's Iran "deal" - actually just a memorandum of understanding that doesn't understand anything. I pulled out a clip from 1984 when one of the original right wing hate talk radio voices Bob Grant -whose show I produced at WMCA at the time. The clip is a shocker to hear today, 42 years later. He was warning candidates then not to be mean. Seriously! He said that the meanest candidate loses. I'd love to see data on that.

In other news, we learned that the January 6th rioters are now attempting to collect millions of dollars of taxpayer money via an obscure federal tort loophole. And while Trump continues lying about President Obama and the deal he made with Iran 10 years ago- and said that the Iranians laughed at him, we looked at the Lego propaganda videos coming out of Iran that are, frankly, more accurate than anything you'd ever hear from the orange one. Plus: JB Pritzker, Illinois politics, and why your uncle probably isn't getting deprogrammed anytime soon.