First Thing Today with Joe Thomas
Oct 22, 2026 · 55 min · 39 segments
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as the Sudanese army continues its track towards genocidal warfare against South Sudan, and just bombing the bejibbers out of a marketplace this morning, killing 153 others, adding that to the 150,000-person body count in this.

I compared Alyssa Slotkin to the Iranian or to pardon me the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Some are saying that I took that too far And I understand because I don't say it to be salacious I didn't say it to be a intentionally dancehall comment I But one of the stories I do want to get into, and you've got to listen to this, you want to talk about multifaceted.

I give you Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talking to a Jewish community group in New York yesterday.
make you this pledge.
When I become, God willing, majority leader, we will get even more money for the JCRC.
and more money for our nonprofit security grant so desperately needed by the Jewish community and other communities facing this gorge of bigotry in America.

Wait, what? Wait, wait, what? You just said we're going to send money to the Jewish community and care.

Did you hear that? We're going to get more money, and some of it's going to go to the Jewish community, and some of it's going to go to CARE and the Muslim Brotherhood.

You heard Chuck Schumer say to—and you notice how the Jewish community group didn't clap when he said, and the other groups facing bigotry.

Elon Musk is reported in a Wall Street Journal whistleblower publication, is the one that ordered the slowdown of Starlink used by the Iranian military last week.

The restrictions on October 14th limited the Ukrainian drone's speed and other capabilities during the offensive and defensive missions, according to the report in the Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials and, quote, people familiar with the matter.

Musk and President Trump, these people familiar with the matter, say, had a phone call after the fact to discuss it.

And two people familiar with the conversation said that there is also a discussion of the matter before the restrictions were imposed, indicating that it was imposed at the request of the U.S. White House.

White House envoy Steve Witkoff, meanwhile, just left the company of Vladimir Zelensky.

as the Sudanese army continues its track towards genocidal warfare against South Sudan, and just bombing the bejibbers out of a marketplace this morning, killing 153 others, adding that to the 150,000-person body count in this.

I compared Alyssa Slotkin to the Iranian or to pardon me the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Some are saying that I took that too far And I understand because I don't say it to be salacious I didn't say it to be a intentionally dancehall comment I But one of the stories I do want to get into, and you've got to listen to this, you want to talk about multifaceted.

I give you Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talking to a Jewish community group in New York yesterday.
make you this pledge.
When I become, God willing, majority leader, we will get even more money for the JCRC.
and more money for our nonprofit security grant so desperately needed by the Jewish community and other communities facing this gorge of bigotry in America.

Wait, what? Wait, wait, what? You just said we're going to send money to the Jewish community and care.

Did you hear that? We're going to get more money, and some of it's going to go to the Jewish community, and some of it's going to go to CARE and the Muslim Brotherhood.

You heard Chuck Schumer say to—and you notice how the Jewish community group didn't clap when he said, and the other groups facing bigotry.

Elon Musk is reported in a Wall Street Journal whistleblower publication, is the one that ordered the slowdown of Starlink used by the Iranian military last week.

The restrictions on October 14th limited the Ukrainian drone's speed and other capabilities during the offensive and defensive missions, according to the report in the Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials and, quote, people familiar with the matter.

Musk and President Trump, these people familiar with the matter, say, had a phone call after the fact to discuss it.

And two people familiar with the conversation said that there is also a discussion of the matter before the restrictions were imposed, indicating that it was imposed at the request of the U.S. White House.

White House envoy Steve Witkoff, meanwhile, just left the company of Vladimir Zelensky.
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