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Brian Mackey

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Host of @21stshow, Illinois’ statewide public radio talk show and podcast → https://t.co/Ro6QP9FpVF.

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Election Touchscreen Map Takes Deeper Look Inside Key Swing Voter | Onion News Network ONN political analyst Jason Copeland breaks down the latest presidential polling trends going on inside Pennsylvania resident Nick Camden.


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Forty years ago this week, an insurance salesman's debut novel began appearing on shelves around DC. That book was THE HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER. It launched Tom Clancy's publishing empire — with a nudge from The Post. Come with us on this deep dive… washingtonpost.com/history/2024/1…


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I'm sitting next to a Lincoln impersonator at the airport bar. He's watching MSNBC reporting on yesterday's assassination attempt. This is easily the most surreal thing I've ever witnessed.

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A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.


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🧵 Let me, in the spirit of bipartisanship, make a genuinely bipartisan point: most politicians, even politicians who are excellent at other parts of the job, are bad at giving big speeches. Most *people* are bad at it & politicians are just people.


Interesting @jmart piece on why so many Republicans are furious about the Democratic nominee switch: “The non-MAGA Republicans only wish they could pull off what their opposition did last month.” politico.com/news/magazine/…


One of those days when, in the middle of your live radio show, a guest drops an F-bomb. (Photo and sticky note by @21stShow engineer Jason Croft, whose quick action to dump our eight-second delay saved us from trespassing against listener sensibilities and federal law.)

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“Zhang … said she was often challenged by ‘frat guys’ at school who thought they could keep up. Every now and then she would oblige them in a rec room on campus. “‘I’d hustle them a little, give them a little,’ she said, ‘and then destroy their egos.’” nytimes.com/2024/07/30/spo…


“A diner reading ‘boneless wings’ on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings.” #TIL apnews.com/article/bonele…


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POV you’re driving through the Midwest in July

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JUST IN: Kamala Harris’ campaign called Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday to gauge his interest in running for vice president, the first indication that the Illinois governor is one of the handful of Democrats under consideration to join the ticket. trib.al/OTM9jhE


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