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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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Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 202629% of Americans approve of Donald Trump's actions.Said by CThe 29% figure matches the American Research Group poll (Sept 16-20) and Pew's 'three-in-ten' finding (survey Sept 28-Oct 4), but other polls in the same period showed roughly 32-40% approval, so 29% is one point in a range rather than the settled national figure. The claim is also a point-in-time statement from 2026-10-15; later polls (31-32% in late October) are after that date and do not change the verdict.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026Chuck Schumer controls and raises money for almost the entirety of the Democratic Senate caucus.Said by CSources show Schumer is a prolific fundraiser who transfers money to many Democratic Senate candidates and runs the fundraising apparatus (DSCC, Senate Majority PAC closely aligned with him), and PBS/AP says he has directly or indirectly overseen the campaign arm in almost every cycle for 20 years. However, the sources do not establish that he 'controls' the entire caucus or gives money to 'almost the entirety' of it; the 2022 AP piece shows him giving $1M each to nine candidates, and the claim's 'controls' scope is characterized by sources as influence and leverage rather than total control. As of 2026-10-15 the caucus broadly supported him, with a Stratton-style dissent noted, so the scope of 'almost the entirety' is only partly supported.Mixed70% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 2026Lindsey Graham died a month and a half ago.Said by BLindsey Graham's death is well supported: multiple tier1 and tier2 sources report he died July 11, 2026 (reported July 12) after a sudden illness, with a preliminary medical examiner finding of aortic dissection. The timing is contradicted: measured from the October 15, 2026 posting date, July 11 was about three months earlier, not a month and a half, so the post's 'just happened' framing is also wrong.Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesSep 20, 2026The Heritage Foundation conducted an investigation into voter fraud and found very little, minuscule instances of it.Said by BThe Heritage Foundation's voter fraud database does list only about 1,000 proven cases over decades, which sources like Politifact, the BBC, and the Utah study cite as evidence that fraud is rare. However, the database is a non-comprehensive sampling of prosecutions rather than an investigation, and no source shows Heritage itself concluding that fraud is minuscule.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesSep 20, 2026Donald Trump has placed at least 25 election deniers in county-level election positions.Said by BThe sources support the count: a New York Times analysis of Voting Rights Lab data, republished by the Daily Press, finds at least 25 county-level election officials who took office since 2024 and aligned with the election-denier movement. They do not show that Trump placed them, since the officials came to office through local appointments or elections, and the sources say only that they took office after Trump returned to power. The post's 'he placed' framing is therefore partly unsupported. The claim was made on 2026-09-20, and the August 2026 count predates that date, so it is judged as of then.Mixed55% confidence8 sourcesSep 20, 2026The current administration is holding people in concentration camps.Said by BThe sources clearly support that the administration is detaining large numbers of people in ICE facilities, including warehouse camps and Camp East Montana, where deaths and violations have been reported. Whether those facilities are 'concentration camps' is a contested label used by advocates, journalists and some experts, not a settled factual finding by an authoritative body, so the claim leans on a contested reading.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.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.