Sensitive Skin: Ossoff Quietly Rebrands $1,700 Payment to Hollywood Makeup Artist as 'Event Production'

Jon Ossoff's makeup tab continues to mount heading into the midterms. The Democratic senator from Georgia paid his favorite Hollywood makeup artist $1,749 in July, according to his latest campaign financial disclosure. Ossoff has now paid Atlanta-based freelancer Stephanie Ponder, whose film credits include The Notebook and The Hunger Games, more than $4,600 since February.

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Ocasio-Cortez dumps BIG MONEY into El-Sayed campaign



Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has come to the rescue of Abdul El-Sayed.

The firebrand leftist has dumped $1 million into helping El-Sayed's effort to keep a Michigan U.S. Senate seat blue against Republican Mike Rogers. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) did not seek re-election in 2026.

'I look forward to working with Abdul ... to build a politics that is free from the corrupting influence of corporate money.'

It's the latest sign that Democrats are worried that the race is too close in the final weeks of the campaign.

"I'm not waking up on November 4 wishing I did more to combat the smears aimed at Abdul," AOC said in a statement to the New York Times. "I'm leaving everything I can on the field."

The Times indicated it was an unusually large donation from a member of the House to support a U.S. Senate candidate.

Winning in Michigan is key to Democrats' hopes to retake control of the Senate from Republicans.

It may also be another example of Ocasio-Cortez trying to raise her national profile in anticipation of a possible presidential run in 2028.

AOC joined El-Sayed in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Thursday. She also previously campaigned for El-Sayed in the Senate primary and when he ran for governor. Both El-Sayed and Ocasio-Cortez are considered to be in the extreme socialist fringe of the Democratic Party.

She raised $4.7 million in the third quarter, according to her financial filings, and has $17.4 million in cash going into October.

"Once he’s in Washington, I look forward to working with Abdul to guarantee health care as a human right for all Americans and to build a politics that is free from the corrupting influence of corporate money," she said, according to USA Today.

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El-Sayed's victory over Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary was seen as a victory for the far-left fringe against the establishment of the party. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York had backed Stevens, who lost by a narrow margin.

In recent polling for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, Ocasio-Cortez was tied with Pete Buttigieg in third place with 9%.

El-Sayed has a slim lead over Rogers, according to Blaze News' Poll Watch.

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Woke 1 Is Still Crazy

"Woke 1 was crazy," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said in August. We rate this claim half true. Crazy? Yes. Was? Hardly.

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'Fight fascism': Mike Myers goes full social justice warrior at New York rock concert



If a rock concert in 2026 isn't overtly political, is it really a rock concert?

Apparently not if the Strokes are involved.

'As we as we fight fascism and genocide, raise wages, and guarantee health care to everyone.'

Fight the Powers

The New York band performed before roughly 40,000 fans at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on Friday, with a lineup that included Beach House, TV on the Radio, and Fcukers — plus a couple of considerably more political special guests.

One famous audience member made sure everyone knew he was there.

"Austin Powers" star Mike Myers posted several photos from the concert to Instagram while wearing a black T-shirt reading "FIGHT FASCISM," emblazoned with the familiar red raised fist of left-wing protest movements.

Myers described the Strokes with fire emojis before writing, "#voteinnovember #fightfascism."

The leftist love wasn't limited to the crowd.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took the stage before the Strokes' set and heaped praise on the band.

"The greatest city in the world is now welcoming the greatest rock band of our generation, who have always been committed to a better future for all of us," Ocasio-Cortez declared, "as we fight fascism and genocide, raise wages, and guarantee health care to everyone," she continued, as the crowd cheered.

The audience got even louder when AOC introduced the next guest: Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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Bern there, done that

AOC escorted Sanders to the microphone, the two raising their arms together as the crowd roared.

Sanders opened by joking that he had come to sing a few songs.

"You wouldn't want to hear that," he added.

He then thanked the Strokes for "standing up for economic justice" and "fighting racism," while praising the band's "understanding that health care is a human right."

Sanders closed by urging the audience to vote and to "stand up to authoritarianism" in November.

The Strokes have been "feeling the Bern" for a few years now. The band performed at a Sanders campaign rally in New Hampshire during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, with frontman Julian Casablancas calling Sanders America's "only truly non-corporate candidate" and declaring, "This is why we support him."

Friday's event — which the band's website noted was taking place in "one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the world" — also featured a live edition of Casablancas' podcast, "S.O.S. Earth Is a Mess," devoted to climate change.

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Citizen Mike

As for Myers, this was hardly his first recent political outing.

The Canadian-born actor endorsed Liberal Party leader Mark Carney during Canada's 2025 federal election and helped popularize "Elbows Up," a hockey-derived rallying cry that Canadians adopted while pushing back against President Donald Trump's tariff threats and repeated talk of making Canada the 51st state.

Myers is also an American citizen. In a previous interview, he spoke about being grateful for that citizenship and described living in the United States as a privilege.

Apparently dual citizenship also means never having to choose just one country's politics.

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AOC’s latest ICE rant sounds like a campaign launch



Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent speech demonizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement not only infuriates the “Pat Gray Unleashed" panel, it makes them think the democratic socialist is gearing up for a presidential run.

On September 27 during More Perfect University’s “Students vs. Billionaires” series, AOC compared ICE to a black-box surveillance stack.

“ICE is an agency that has not even existed for as long as many of us have even been alive. They are a new agency created in the surveillance state establishment after 9/11,” she said. “ICE is Palantir; ICE is AI; ICE is facial recognition; ICE is surveillance — and ICE is coming after you regardless of your status.”

Pat is incensed at her calling ICE a new agency.

“They’re 25 years old — 25!” he exclaims. “That's a new agency? ... Compared to what? The fall of Rome?”

“She's also trying to pin this on Trump for starting ICE. That's what they desperately want to do,” he adds.

But it’s the progressive's comparison of ICE to Palantir, AI, facial recognition, and surveillance that really ticks him off.

“Wow, is that irresponsible,” he sighs. “It's just a flat-out communist lie. ... This is what gets people killed.”

“How she's saying it just made me think she's running for higher [office],” adds co-host Jeffy. “She’s not screeching about it.”

Pat agrees, mocking, “This darn Donald Trump and his new agencies.”

To hear more of the panel’s commentary and see the clip of AOC’s speech, watch the video above.

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