Today is Thursday, August 8th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by Betches Media.

I'm your host Sammy Sage and the morning announcements is your daily five minute breakdown of the headlines

that isn't afraid to take aside and

roast the most consequential reality show there is, our government.

All three of Taylor Swift's era's tour shows in Vienna have been cancelled after law enforcement announced that they had arrested two men who were suspected of planning a terrorist attack targeting Ernst Tappel Stadium where the shows were scheduled to take place.

Both of the suspects were reportedly radicalized by the Islamic State online,

one of whom was a 19-year-old Austrian resident who had the chemical ingredients for a bomb at his home when police

raided it to arrest him yesterday. Is the Islamic State sure that they want to go

up against the swifties? If there's any group that knows how to wage a holy

war, it is them.

Missouri Representative Corey Bush has lost her seat after being

primarried in Tuesday's election by fellow Democrat Wesley Bell.

Much like her colleague New York Representative Jamal Bowman,

Bush's campaign was targeted by AIPAC's spending arm in support of Bell.

Although the race was not focused on Israel or Gaza as an issue, but rather Bush's vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill, her generally polarizing position in the squad, and a federal investigation into whether her campaigns meant illegally on

personal security services. Bush's race was the big headliner from Tuesday, but I

also want to turn our attention to a little election in Kansas where Democratic

State Representative Marvin Robinson lost his primary.

Robinson, a Democrat, was notably and regrettably the decisive vote in helping Republicans

successfully pass an anti-trans bill in the state.

Also on the election's beat, we have a major red flag of a story.

On Tuesday, Georgia's Republican-controlled State Election Board voted 3 to 2 to give local officials significant

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