A podcast exchange turned ugly after @sostalksmoney joked about a guest’s mother dying from brain cancer, saying, “Your mom might have died from a headache.”
When confronted, he claimed he was misunderstood, offered a conditional apology, and then accused the grieving guest of being “triggered.”
Imagine having to defend your dead mother from someone’s idea of a joke, only to be mocked for taking offense.
There’s nothing edgy or entertaining about that. It’s basic human decency.
🚨 BREAKING: Iowa’s U.S. Senate race has officially shifted into TOSS-UP territory just ONE DAY before the midterm elections, with Democrat Josh Turek erasing nearly all of Republican Ashley Hinson’s advantage in prediction markets. The race is now virtually 50-50. Think about that. Donald Trump carried Iowa by more than 13 POINTS in 2024, and now Republicans are fighting to hold a Senate seat in a state that looked comfortably red just two years ago.
BREAKING: Iowa's Senate race shifts to "Tossup" on the eve of the midterms, with Democrat Josh Turek erasing Republican Ashley Hinson's lead in the odds.
Now a 50-50 race.
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🚨 BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed has SURGED to a 77% chance of winning Michigan’s U.S. Senate race on Polymarket US, with just ONE DAY remaining before the midterm elections. Republican Mike Rogers trails at 24%.
BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed surges to his largest lead yet in odds to win Michigan's Senate race, just 1 day before the midterms.
77% chance.
🔗 https://t.co/vqD5zT3EHy
🚨 BREAKING: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is threatening to SUE ICE if federal agents continue using city-owned parking lots in the Bronx and Queens to stage immigration raids, including locations near a city-run PRESCHOOL.
Donald Trump Jr. warned that Democrats will “make Ohio a state.” Folks, Ohio has been a state since 1803. That’s 223 YEARS. I’m genuinely curious what he thinks Ohio has been this entire time. You cannot make this stuff up.
🚨 BREAKING: A MASSIVE CYBERATTACK is hitting supermarkets across SEVEN European countries, with hackers reportedly manipulating refrigeration systems and raising freezer temperatures to 50°C (122°F), destroying enormous quantities of food, according to Reuters. “Everything is destroyed,” one Swedish store manager said. More than 50 stores have been affected in Belgium alone
You have to watch this entire Haley Stevens interview on CNN. Anderson Cooper keeps asking her one simple question: How do you go from supporting Abdul El-Sayed yesterday to endorsing Republican Mike Rogers today? And she cannot give a straight answer. She says she woke up “clear-eyed,” but what exactly changed overnight? We’re talking about a U.S. Senate race that could determine control of Congress, and she can’t even explain her own decision.
You have to watch this exchange between Anderson Cooper and Haley Stevens. He asks whether she told Debbie Dingell she wouldn’t endorse Mike Rogers, and instead of answering the question, she accuses him of “editorializing.”
Cooper immediately reminds her that he’s about to interview Dingell herself.
I mean, seriously, what is going on here? He’s giving her an opportunity to explain her own words before someone else does it for her.
That’s not editorializing. That’s journalism. Why can’t she answer a simple question?
🚨 WOW: Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell just delivered a devastating assessment of Haley Stevens’ CNN interview defending her endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers: “That was one of the most painful interviews I have ever watched.” Dingell says Stevens had personally reassured her that she supported Abdul El-Sayed, only to reverse course TWO DAYS before the election.
🚨 Tucker Carlson claims the Pentagon has discussed using TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS against Iran, with proposed strikes reportedly appearing in classified military briefing slides.
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
Haley Stevens really walked into a Black church in Detroit to promote Republican Mike Rogers over her own party’s nominee. Think about how insulting that is. You don’t get to use a Black congregation as a political prop, promote a candidate aligned with Trump’s agenda, and then pretend you’re standing up for that community. People aren’t stupid.
Using black voters as a prop to embrace a racist who will do nothing but rubber stamp this fascist administration is shameful behavior and every Democrat that *actually* wants to win back the Senate should condemn this.
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🚨BREAKING: AIPAC's super PAC spent $30.6M to make Haley Stevens a senator. She lost. Now she's fighting a $1,000 ad, and the same super PAC's Oct 29 FEC filing marks a line ‘Support’ for Mike Rogers, as filed. We read the forms.
🚨 BREAKING: Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel has declared that Rep. Haley Stevens is NO LONGER a member of the party following her endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed. “Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future.”
🚨 NEW: Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens told The New York Times she is considering CONVERTING TO JUDAISM ahead of her wedding to Jewish political donor Jason Turkish, who publicly endorsed Republican Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed
NEERA TANDEN AND CHUCK SCHUMERS HAND SELECTED CANDIDATE BTW. FOR THE LAST 8 MONTHS THE PARTY BOSSES HAVE BEEN SCREAMING AT US FOR DARING TO VOTE FOR REAL FIGHTERS. THEY NEVER STOPPED COMING AFTER US FOR HELPING DEFEAT AIPAC IN THE PRIMARY. ALL BECAUSE WE DARED TO CALL OUT HALEY FOR WHAT SHE WAS, AN ISRAEL FIRST REPUBLICAN.
VOTE FOR MICHIGAN, VOTE FOR M4A, VOTE FOR LABOR UNIONS, VOTE AGAINST HATRED OF ALL FORMS, VOTE FOR ABDUL EL SAYED. WE WILL DEFEAT FASCISM IN THIS COUNTRY! NO MORE FASCIST COLLABORATION!! NO MORE CAPITULATION TO TRUMP!!