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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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False70% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers earned $14 million after his time in Congress.Said by BThe claim that Rogers earned $14 million after leaving Congress is not supported. PolitiFact found no record of any payment or group of payments matching $14 million, and CBS/60 Minutes said it could not verify the figure because disclosed numbers reflect net worth, not earnings. Rogers' net worth did rise after 2015, but the sources give a $7–14 million range, not a $14 million earnings figure.False62% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers left government service in 2014 and earned 14 million dollars.The $14 million earnings figure is not supported: PolitiFact found no single payment or group of payments matching that amount, and 60 Minutes could not verify it, since the disclosed net-worth rise ($7M to $14M or more) reflects net worth, not earnings. The 2014 departure date also conflicts with sources saying Rogers left Congress in January 2015, though the earnings figure is the central assertion.Mixed50% confidence7 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers received over $1 million in campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry during his time in Congress.Said by BThe claim's over-$1 million figure holds only if leadership-PAC money is added to direct campaign contributions: OpenSecrets-based sources show about $673,390 in direct pharma/health donations plus at least $329,921 to his leadership PAC, while PolitiFact found only hundreds of thousands in pharma-related corporate PAC money. Whether the claim is true therefore depends on which measure is used.Mixed50% confidence8 sourcesAug 10, 2026The United States sent $22 billion to subsidize genocide.Said by BThe roughly $22 billion figure is in the range of Costs of War estimates for U.S. military aid and operations tied to Israel after Oct. 7, 2023, though the scope and timeframe vary by study (for example, $17.9B plus $4.86B in Houthi operations for one year, or $21.7B in military aid over two years) and PolitiFact cites analyst estimates of $16.3B to $21.7B. The 'genocide' characterization is a contested political judgment that the sources present only as the view of some researchers and advocates, not as an established finding.Mixed55% confidence4 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers supported the Iraq War, the war in Libya, and regime change in Syria.Said by AThe record strongly supports Rogers backing the 2003 Iraq War, but the Libya and Syria elements rest on thin or conflicting evidence: an opinion piece says he backed military action in both, while a 2016 voting-record summary shows a 2011 vote to ban armed forces in Libya without congressional approval and funding for Syrian rebels. The claim also departs slightly from the passage, which adds the Iran War and was attributed to Greenwald, but the three listed items are graded as stated.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesAug 10, 2026Gas prices are nearly five dollars a gallon because of the war with Iran.Said by BThe war's role in higher gas prices is supported: AAA and Cleveland.com tie August 2026 pump prices to the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz volatility. But 'nearly five dollars a gallon' is not supported for 2026-08-10. The national average was about $4.06 to $4.10 that month, roughly $0.90 short of $5, so the price figure is overstated. The later rise toward $4.50 in late September postdates the claim and does not change the August assessment.True93% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Michigan.Said by AAbdul El-Sayed was declared the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan on August 5, 2026, after winning the August 4 primary, so the claim was accurate on the August 10 posting date. The AP's November 1 coverage still calls him the Democratic nominee, and the claim matches the passage's wording without adding anything.True92% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers served 14 years in the U.S. Congress.Said by BMultiple sources confirm Mike Rogers served 14 years in the U.S. House, from January 3, 2001 to January 3, 2015, which matches the claim. The post's other assertions about his pharmaceutical votes and later income are not addressed by these sources, but the extracted claim is graded only on the 14-year service.True90% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026The Department of Justice sent election observers to the August 2026 primary election.Said by BMultiple sources confirm that DOJ monitors were deployed to August 2026 primaries, including Michigan (Aug. 4), Wyoming (Aug. 18, per the DOJ press release and AP), and Minnesota (per Reuters). The claim matches the post's own reference to DOJ observers at the August primary, and the extraction adds no unsupported detail.True75% confidence7 sourcesAug 10, 2026A billionaire accused in a Florida prostitution sting donated $12,000 to the Mike Rogers Senate campaign.Said by AMultiple sources, including The 'Gander's review of FEC records and a later Metro Times review of federal filings, report that billionaire John W. Childs, charged in 2019 with soliciting prostitution, gave $12,000 that Team Rogers, Rogers' joint fundraising committee, accepted in August 2025. The claim's wording is a faithful paraphrase of the post, though the money went through the joint fundraising committee rather than the candidate's campaign account directly.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers receives funding from pharmaceutical, banking, oil and gas PACs.Said by ASources support each element as of the August 2026 posting: PolitiFact found Rogers accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from pharmaceutical-related corporate PACs while in Congress, Metrotimes reports $693,234 from oil and gas sources during his congressional years plus ongoing oil-industry super PAC money, and a banking-PAC donation appears in 2025 FEC reports for his Senate committee. The claim's 'takes money from' wording is present-tense, but the banking gifts were from late 2025 and the oil and pharma gifts were largely from his House career, which fits the claim's general framing. No source contradicts it.True85% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026The United States provides $3.3 billion in baseline funding to Israel.Said by BThe State Department and CRS both report that the US annually provides $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing to Israel as the baseline, so the claim's figure and characterization hold. The claim is faithful to the passage, and the $3.8 billion total including $500 million for missile defense is a different measure that does not contradict it. The sources were published after the 2026-08-10 posting date, but they describe a baseline that was in place then.