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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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False60% confidence8 sourcesAug 27, 2026The United States is importing contaminated beef from Argentina.Said by AThe claim that the US is importing contaminated beef from Argentina is not supported. The only US recall of Argentine beef (about 29,628 lbs, August 2026) was triggered by a missed import reinspection, not a confirmed contamination finding, and the one contamination case (a March Chinese rejection of a single Argentine plant's shipment) did not involve US imports. Snopes declined to rate the viral claim, but experts quoted by HuffPost call such claims overblown and incorrect, so the contamination assertion fails on the sources, though it is not a formal fact-checker rating. Argentine beef imports are ongoing, so the import element is true; the claimed contamination is not.False60% confidence7 sourcesAug 27, 2026Blueberries in the United States are killing people.Said by AThe sources show a real multistate E. coli outbreak tied to frozen organic blueberries from one supplier, with 17 illnesses and 6 hospitalizations, but CDC reports no deaths. A wrongful death lawsuit alleges one death, which is an unadjudicated allegation, so the broad claim that blueberries in the United States are killing people is contradicted by the official record as of the claim date.False60% confidence7 sourcesAug 27, 2026Members of the Trump regime are linked to a pedophile ring in the Epstein files.Said by AThe claim that Trump administration members are 'right in the middle of a pedophile ring' is not supported by the sources. FactCheck.org flags unsupported Trump-Epstein allegations, PolitiFact says being mentioned in the files is not wrongdoing, and the FBI findings as quoted in Wikipedia say other victims did not corroborate a trafficking ring that lent girls to powerful men. The only sourced kernel is that Trump appears in the files and flew on Epstein's jet, and a partisan House Democratic report alleges, without resolving, possible co-conspirator status.Mixed85% confidence4 sourcesAug 27, 2026Jack Posobiec stated, 'Welcome to the end of democracy. We're here to overthrow it completely. We didn't get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here' after Donald Trump won his second term.Said by AThe quoted words are accurately attributed to Jack Posobiec, but the speech was delivered at CPAC in February 2024, before Trump's November 2024 election win, so the claim that it came after Trump won his second term is contradicted by the sources.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed50% confidence9 sourcesAug 27, 2026Republicans drive up the federal deficit.Said by AThe sources support the claim in some measures and contradict it in others: Republican presidencies are associated with larger absolute deficits and about 63% of enacted fiscal damage, but Republican presidents show similar or slightly smaller deficits relative to GDP in other studies, and Republican Congresses are assigned less responsibility than Democratic ones. Whether the claim holds depends on the measure used (presidency vs. Congress, absolute vs. GDP-relative), so it cannot be graded as simply true or false.True95% confidence6 sourcesAug 27, 2026Todd Blanche is the Attorney General of the United States.Said by AMultiple authoritative sources (Reuters, AP, DOJ, White House, Britannica) confirm Todd Blanche was confirmed by the Senate 50-49 on August 8, 2026 and sworn in as Attorney General on August 10, 2026, so he held the office as of the claim date of 2026-08-27. The extraction's 'Todd Blanch' spelling is a minor typo of the same person, and the post's 'newly minted attorney general' framing matches the sources.True80% confidence7 sourcesAug 27, 2026In the 2024 election, Donald Trump won Texas's 15th congressional district by 18 percentage points.Said by AMultiple sources report Trump carried Texas's 15th District by about 18 points in 2024 (PollCheck: 58.5% to 40.6%, R+17.9; other outlets: +18 or nearly 18), which is consistent with the claim within rounding. The House race was a different contest: De La Cruz won that race by about 14 to 15 points, so the claim's presidential reading is the one the sources support.True85% confidence5 sourcesAug 27, 2026Voter fraud is barely non-existent in the United States.Said by AMultiple reliable sources (Reuters, AP, BBC, Brookings, NPR) find that documented voter fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare, which supports the core assertion. The sources say fraud does occasionally occur, so 'barely non-existent' is loose wording for 'extremely rare', but the casual phrasing does not change the verdict.True93% confidence6 sourcesAug 27, 2026Time magazine reported that the Trump administration removed a painting by artist Kehinde Wiley from an embassy.Said by ATIME's August 25, 2026 article reported that the Trump administration removed a Kehinde Wiley painting from a U.S. embassy, and the NYT, San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo, and The Independent independently confirm the removal from the embassy in Santo Domingo. The claim's 'woke' qualifier was dropped in extraction, which does not change the core assertion; the post's misspelling 'Kahinde' refers to the same artist.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True95% confidence5 sourcesAug 27, 2026A federal judge ruled that the Texas ban on drag shows is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment.Said by AMultiple tier1 and tier2 sources (AP, Reuters, CBS Texas, NBC, NYT) report that on Aug 25/26, 2026, U.S. District Judge David Hittner ruled for a second time that Texas Senate Bill 12, which restricted public drag shows, is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The claim's wording matches the passage and the sources; the ruling is a reaffirmation of his 2023 decision after the Fifth Circuit remand.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell20% confidence1 sourceAug 27, 2026Thomas Massie stated that the GOP is offering voters mystery meat, 50-year mortgages, four-dollar gallons of gas, six-dollar gallons of diesel, more war, and liability-free pesticides.Said by ANone of the provided sources mention Massie making this remark about the GOP's offerings, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The extracted wording is faithful to the passage, which is the claimant's own account of Massie's response, and that account cannot corroborate itself.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell60% confidence10 sourcesAug 27, 2026People are dying of measles due to deregulation.Said by ASources confirm that measles deaths have occurred in the US in 2026, with Pennsylvania reporting five and the CDC counting three as of late October. None of the sources connects those deaths to deregulation: they attribute the outbreak and deaths to declining vaccination rates and unvaccinated status, so the causal link in the claim is not addressed. The post itself juxtaposes deregulation with the measles remark rather than stating the causal link, so the claim adds a causal story the sources do not support.