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Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
Bible Belt natives and progressive podcasters, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan share how they *really feel* about political news. Their comedic, feel-good takes drop daily, possibly more when sh*t really hits the fan.
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True90% confidence3 sourcesAug 10, 2026Donald Trump has profited $2.2 billion while in office.Said by BTrump's financial disclosure for 2025 shows he took in at least $2.2 billion during his first year back in office, a figure confirmed by PolitiFact, the BBC, and the New York Times. The claim's wording ('profited') is looser than the disclosed figure, which is gross income, but PolitiFact reports experts saying overhead could not account for all of it, and the extraction faithfully reflects the post.True65% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers' campaign faith coalition has two ties to a church upended by child sex crimes.Said by AMultiple sources, including ABC 12 (Sept 30, 2026) and Michigan Advance (May 13, 2026), report that Rogers' faith coalition had two ties to Living Word Church, the Midland church tied to child sex abuse convictions: Tim Cross and Brian Ford. Cross resigned in April 2026 and Ford remained, so the coalition had one remaining tie by August, but the two connections existed on 2026-08-10.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Abdul El-Sayed has visited 110 cities and held 500 public events during his campaign.Said by BThe claim faithfully extracts the post's figures (110 cities, 500 public events), and AP's August 5 report, republished by PBS and others, states that El-Sayed visited 110 cities and hosted more than 500 events. Later sources give higher counts (600 events, or 120 cities and 700 events by October), but the claim is graded as of the August 10 posting, so those later figures do not make it false.True90% confidence11 sourcesAug 10, 2026Fox News paid a billion dollars in a settlement.Said by AThe claim that Fox News paid a settlement of about a billion dollars is a loose rendering of the post's 'had to pay a billion dollars'; sources show Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems in April 2023 to settle a defamation suit, so the settlement is real but the amount is roughly 790 million rather than a billion, a magnitude gap that is within the 'roughly a billion' casual phrasing of the post and the Stelter book blurb ('almost a billion dollars in legal settlements'), with the claim not departing from the passage. The post's 'you can't lie to a judge' framing is not graded separately.True80% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers previously distanced himself from Donald Trump's claims about the 2020 election but is now embracing them.Said by ASources show Rogers rejected Trump's 2020 fraud claims and called Biden the winner, then moved closer to Trump's election messaging by 2024-2026, praising Trump's 'commitment to transparency' and declining to say Biden won. The sources support the shift, though his language is more hedged than a full endorsement of the fraud claims.True95% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Abdul El-Sayed lost his race in 2018.Said by BEl-Sayed lost the 2018 Michigan Democratic gubernatorial primary to Gretchen Whitmer, finishing second with about 30% of the vote, per the NYT results and multiple other reports. The post's 'his race' refers to that 2018 primary, and the claim matches the passage's own statement that he ran and lost in 2018.True80% confidence8 sourcesAug 10, 2026The Trump administration has been engaged in a war with Iran for nearly six months.Said by AAs of the post date (2026-08-10), the sources show the US-Israel war on Iran began February 28, 2026 and was ongoing, with Trump declaring a June ceasefire 'over' on July 8 and fighting continuing, so the war had run about 5.4 months, which fits 'nearly six months.' The war was still ongoing at the 2026-11-02 check, and the claim's 'Trump administration' framing matches the post's 'Trump's war'.True80% confidence7 sourcesAug 10, 2026AIPAC opposed President Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).Said by BMultiple sources, including AIPAC's own statement, confirm AIPAC opposed Obama's 2015 JCPOA, with Wikipedia calling it a leading opponent and Haaretz calling it perhaps the most significant political avatar for opposition. The post's 'APAC' is evidently a typo for AIPAC, and the 'chief opposition' wording is supported by the Haaretz characterization.True97% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers served in Congress.Said by BMultiple primary and tier1 sources, including the U.S. House history office and AP, confirm Mike Rogers served in Congress from January 2001 to January 2015 (seven terms, representing Michigan's 8th district). The claim's past-tense statement is fully supported and the extraction faithfully reflects the post's reference to his time in Congress.True90% confidence7 sourcesAug 10, 2026Abdul El-Sayed is a doctor.El-Sayed holds an MD (doctor of medicine) from Columbia University and a DPhil in public health from Oxford, as PolitiFact, Bridge Michigan, Britannica and USA Today all report, so he is a doctor in the degree sense. He has never been licensed to practice medicine or completed a residency, so calling himself a 'physician' is contested, but that does not undo the 'doctor' claim; the claim matches the post's own 'Dr. Abdul El-Sayed' wording.True90% confidence4 sourcesAug 10, 2026Jennifer Welch authored a book titled Not Today, Fascists.Multiple sources show Jennifer Welch, co-host of the I've Had It podcast, wrote a book titled "Not Today, Fascists," so the claim is supported. The book's official release was October 6, 2026, after the August 10, 2026 post, but it was already available for pre-order then, which matches the post, and the authorship claim holds as of the posting date.Can’t tell40% confidence9 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers voted to raise prescription drug prices 19 times while in Congress.Said by BThe 19-vote figure appears only in El-Sayed's campaign statements, ads, and debate remarks, which repeat the claim without independent records behind it. The sources do not verify the count: the one fact-check on Rogers' drug-pricing votes (PolitiFact) counts five votes on Medicare negotiation, a narrower set, and does not refute the 19 total.