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Comfortably Smug on The Megyn Kelly Show: the DNA collection tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar required "Bin Laden, CIA level attempts." The Ruthless co-host said it straight to @megynkelly, then the panel zeroed in on one document. A DHS certification of absence of record for Omar's father's 2000 naturalization. If that certification stands, they argue, derivative citizenship fails and Article One bars her from the seat. The 2021 Miranda Devine report claimed a 99.9999999 percent sibling match. Omar denies the marriage fraud allegation. #MegynKellyShow
The panel's demand is the part most coverage skips. They say expulsion follows if fraud is proven, and they extend the same citizenship logic to Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed and New York's Chevalier. Their sharpest complaint: the FBI never ran its own DNA test, even as raids reached Omar's sister Sara. Kelly also played a super PAC ad where Amy Acton's own mother calls her a chronic liar, then read Bexley police reports from 2013 and 2019 involving drinking, prescription drugs and shattered glass. She says the Canfield Fair video shows no felony and no close contact. The Christina Applegate moment lands at the end of the hour, and it reframes a diagnosis she built a public identity around.
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Britain is sending RAF Typhoons to Saudi Arabia to shoot down Houthi missiles. On Novara Live, @aaronbastani pointed at the number missing from the announcement: 377,000 dead in the Saudi-led war on Yemen, per the UN. 85,000 of those were children who starved to death.
The framing is the story. Bastani argued the escalation did not start with the Houthis. It started with July's coalition airstrikes on Sanaa airport. The Houthis now control most of Yemen's population, its farmland, and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the chokepoint for shipping between Europe and Asia.
Co-host Banseka Kayembe added the taxpayer angle. British money defends Gulf tax exiles. Saudi Arabia spends $80 billion a year on defence and still cannot stop missiles hitting its own airports.
Bastani's warning: a Saudi state collapse would hit Europe harder than the 2008 financial crisis did.
#Yemen #NovaraLive
Same episode, different fight. Ashok Kumar of Greens for Palestine defended the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" motion as a deliberate, year-long strategy borrowed from La France Insoumise. He cited YouGov polling that 75% of the British public recognizes a genocide in Gaza.
Kumar's case: principled maximalism shifts national discourse and wins voters. Bastani pressed him on whether the motion brands the Greens as the Palestine party and buries their economic platform. Bastani conceded it moves the dial but predicted a short-term electoral cost.
Then Kumar turned on the interviewer's own outlet, criticizing Novara Media for not acting as a bulwark against attacks on the Greens. What he said next, and how Bastani handled it, is the exchange worth hearing in full.
The show closes on Andy Burnham's new £100 fines for playing phones out loud on public transport, and why the enforcement gap is the whole story.
#GreenParty #UKPolitics
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"So if you get animal style, what happens is that when they're cooking the meat, they put mustard on it and mustard fry it and then they put like the cheese and then the grilled onions on it."
Drina, former In-N-Out employee, calling into H3 After Dark #115.
The mustard goes on the patty before the cheese ever touches it. That single step is the entire burger. Ethan Klein and @HilaKleinH3 tried In-N-Out live on air for the first time, and Ethan's verdict was that it was "the most mid, boring nothing burger." The crew landed somewhere narrower: unbeatable after midnight with $7 in your pocket.
#H3Podcast
Most people order animal style without ever knowing the mustard hits the meat before the cheese does. Drina walked the H3 crew through the full sequence, plus the "yes culture" that shapes how the chain runs, and the one station cooks hate more than any other. That last part is the reason the grilled onions taste the way they do.
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Johnny Hamcheck spent 5 years hiding his face. He filmed his biggest viral pranks while high on fentanyl-laced pills. Then he quit Suboxone in February 2025 and says it was harder than quitting fentanyl.
That reversal is the core of his conversation with @theovon on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von (#691).
Hamcheck got clean in 2010. A surgery in 2023 put painkillers back in his body and pulled him into a relapse. The pranks that made him famous, the ones with millions of views, were shot during that stretch.
His worst demon was never the drugs. Gambling held on through 13 years of sobriety. He lost $7,000 in a single day at the Hard Rock. He owes the IRS over $100,000. He convinced himself poker was a sport because it airs on ESPN.
He traces the habit back to church fair dice games like Chuck a Luck, where he learned to scam before he learned much else.
Theo matched him on that front. He told Hamcheck he is about 77 days sober.
Hamcheck also explained the name. He invented "Hamcheck" on the spot while answering phones at the Salvation Army rehab center where he lived for 6 months.
At 50, he says he is burned out on street pranking.
#Recovery
Johnny Hamcheck says the hiding was the exhausting part. The pranking nearly killed him.
On This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, he listed what the videos cost. 20 gang members surrounded him in Columbus and nearly stabbed him. A road rage driver pointed a gun at him and he kept filming. Someone threatened his brother over a prank.
Then Pennsylvania. He was arrested while secretly pranking the cops during his sobriety test.
He admits the work can be exploitive. He says he reassures subjects off camera once the bit ends, and he is considering taking some videos down. What he does for those people, and which videos he wants gone, is the part that reframes the whole catalog.
The pressure did not leave when the drugs did. He calls it feeding the fish. Post a video and the internet wants more. Go quiet and they get angry. No viral hit and he says he gets withdrawal, he gets sick.
His words: "It's an addiction and you know that I have addictive tendencies and I hate the addiction to feeding the fans these videos."
At 50, he is done with street pranking. A movie and a documentary crew are on the horizon. His stated goals are health, family, and doing something positive with the platform.
#ThisPastWeekend
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Megyn Kelly and Preya Samsundar cover the Ilhan Omar brother mystery, a DNA dumpster dive, the coming indictments, Kimberly Guilfoyle claims, and the Victoria's Secret backlash. @megynkelly
7. Megyn Kelly: It does not matter what the Victoria's Secret models were wearing. It does not matter what Jane Doe was wearing if she were in fact sexually assaulted. It had nothing to do with that, Vanessa.
$17.6 million was promised in a Venezuela-related deal. Between $5 and $6 million of it was earmarked for the Kennedy Center. None of that money arrived.
The cash that did land came from the government of Congo.
That is the core of the foreign money scandal around Alina Habba's new husband, per New York Times reporting cited by Will Sommer on Bulwark Takes (@Timodc) with Sam Stein.
Sommer traces the man's climb: a middle class background in Turkey, marriage to a construction billionaire's daughter, a tight lane to Erdogan, business in Maduro's Venezuela, and finally Habba herself. Stein compares the arc to The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Trump is personally investigating the dispute at Habba's urging. She supplied receipts and text messages. Stein asks whether the Kennedy Center is becoming a slush fund for foreign governments courting Trump.
Same episode, different continent: protests in Albania over Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's resort deal on a flamingo preserve escalated until demonstrators set the Supreme Court building on fire. Payments on the project are frozen over corruption questions.
#BulwarkTakes
The episode does not stop at Habba.
Bari Weiss's CBS News is chasing right-wing internet rabbit holes: an investigation into whether James Talarico was in a mental hospital, and attempts to link Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood. Stein argues the Twitter For You page has become the assignment editor. Sommer counters that right-wing rumors occasionally prove real, citing Biden's decline. They also flag Jan Crawford's deleted tweet congratulating a GOP operative for triggering El-Sayed, plus leaked CBS audio of a contentious Gaza meeting.
Then the personal dramas. James O'Keefe hosts a $3,000-a-ticket citizen journalist ball at Mar-a-Lago with a strange attendee list. Nick Fuentes's online courtship of Faith Merrill collapses when she urges followers to leave the America First cult. Court records show Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski personally fed Laura Loomer a FEMA smear, and Stein argues her influence is now institutionalized.
The last segment is the one that lingers. James Fishback's suspiciously well-timed marriage, then an endorsement of a liberal Senate candidate in a feud with Byron Donalds. Stein notes the move targets the wrong opponent, and the reason it backfires is the part you have to hear in full.
#BulwarkTakes
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"Chris Ballard was a good man. He loved his guys so much so that he rode them all the way into a run here with the Indianapolis Colts that didn't have a lot of victorious celebrating moments."
Pat McAfee said that on The Pat McAfee Show after Indianapolis fired its GM of 10 seasons. @ToneDigz and the crew were on set at Levi's Stadium for Overreaction Monday, and they did not soften it.
10 years. 0 AFC South titles.
The Colts went 2-11 across their final 13 games. They blew a halftime lead to a previously winless Titans team. Since Andrew Luck retired they have cycled through Philip Rivers, Anthony Richardson at 4th overall, and Daniel Jones on a $100 million deal.
Ballard re-signed his own draft picks and kept the locker room tight. The scoreboard never cared.
#NFL
McAfee's follow-up is the part that lingers: a Kumbaya building is a good thing when you are winning. When you keep losing and nothing has repercussions, players start wondering if the culture is a winning culture.
Adam Schefter then traced the whole collapse back to one retirement and one trade that cost Indianapolis a fortune. The detail he added reframes how you read the last decade of Colts football.
#Colts
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