Plus: US strikes Iran, the Texas murder verdict, $70B for ICE & the SPLC hearing meltdown, all in today's episode.
186,000 deceased people were still receiving food stamps as of last July, according to the USDA's own report: $419 million a year, with another $3 billion flagged as potential fraud, waste, and abuse. But the number isn't the story. The story is why 21 states marched into federal court to keep the audit data sealed, and the broken incentive Chuck names that guarantees the stealing continues.
And while the books bleed, US forces struck Iranian radar and air defense sites after an Apache went down over the Strait of Hormuz. Two pilots in the water, a rescue boat with nobody at the helm, and what one senior official reportedly called a hand-of-God moment. Then: a Collin County jury needed just three hours in the Austin Metcalf case. Redfin says home sellers now outnumber buyers by 47 percent, the most lopsided market in six years, and Chuck asks why nobody in Washington wants it fixed before the midterms. A $70 billion ICE and Border Patrol bill sails through with no riots and no screaming, and Chuck wants to know what changed. And the SPLC's president sits before the House Judiciary Committee unable to answer one simple question, while the room laughs.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Truth starts now.
