Wonkette⁠93%

Please Read The Letter. Tabs, Tues., Aug. 4, 2026 ⁠81%

By Evan Hurst⁠96%

8/4/2026, 4:01:50 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 27 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Ad Hominem, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 74.9% saturation with 356 hits. Analysis detected 1,483 faulty-reasoning hits from 475 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠81% (5,429 of 27,376 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 80.20% of the article peer group.

Morning, let’s have a bowl of tabs! 
Judge Boxwine Firing Watch. 
Donald Trump is VERY MAD at Jeanine Pirro for failing to successfully pursue fake/made-up charges against people for touching his precious Reflecting Pool that he fucked himself by being a bad developer. 
Will she get fired? 
Don’t know, but if you bought some extra stock in box wine companies today anticipating a surge in sales, we wouldn’t think that was crazy . 
[ New York Times / New York Times / CNN ] 
Donald Trump’s little pomeranian ass-sniffer Todd Blanche promised on a call with a bunch of Christian Nazi types last week to make abortion illegal in every state. 
Not sure how he thinks he can do that, but if he does, we can thank Thom Tillis and John Cornyn for caving and voting to make him Trump’s personal lawyer, we mean attorney general. 
[ Politico ] 
You will be shocked, by the way, but there are LOTS of loopholes in the pomeranian’s “rollback” of Trump’s slush fund for his favorite terrorists and kid-touchers. 
Surprise! 
[ New York Times ] 
Gaudy trashy Dear Leader is very upset that he doesn’t get to keep the baubles people give him. 
Grandma Wrestlemania over there at the Education Department is trying to force colleges to hire MAGA faculty, AKA stupid people, so in case your kids come home from college sounding like they have head injuries, that could be why. 
[ Politico ] 
The Trump regime also wants to cut off student loans for people who major in brainy things MAGA doesn’t understand, like “social work” and “religious studies” and “music.” 
There’s even right-wingers who are pissed about this. 
[ New Republic ] 
Alleged Republican Pervert Of The Day: Rep. 
Chuck Edwards of North Carolina! 
[ TPM ] 
Secretary Brain Felch says he will “literally eat anything” and that he does not have a gag reflex. 
Hey, maybe that’s why his voice sounds like that, because his body is failing to gag on literally anything right now. 
[ Daily Beast ] 
Anne Applebaum: “The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta.” 
They sure are. 
[ Atlantic ] 
Everything is falling apart at the Heritage Foundation, awwww. 
[ New York Times ] 
Pete Buttigieg says he’s “more inclined than not” to run for president. 
[ USA Today ] 
Here is mister cuteness from the Spanish soccer team Ferran Torres, the one who scored the winning goal, now on a media tour in the US and guessing dog breeds for Today . 
(He’s a big dog person.) 
And telling Kaitlan Collins (lucky asshole to get that interview) why he wore a Make Spain Great Again cap the day after the World Cup final during the parade through Madrid. 
MAGA’s hopes: dashed. 
This song kicks ass. 
More stories when we make some! 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.6%Evan Hurst: 7.2%Wonkette: 5.5%Confirmation Bias0.6%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 1.9%Evan Hurst: 2.9%Wonkette: 2.1%Availability Heuristic1.9%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.6%Wonkette: 0.6%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.2%Wonkette: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 2.3%Wonkette: 1.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 1.0%Wonkette: 4.0%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.4%Wonkette: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.5%Evan Hurst: 0.1%Wonkette: 0.8%Optimism Bias5.5%This article: 8.0%Evan Hurst: 1.6%Wonkette: 1.5%Pessimism Bias8.0%This article: 51.4%Evan Hurst: 20.9%Wonkette: 16.0%Negativity Bias51.4%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.7%Wonkette: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%Evan Hurst: 2.4%Wonkette: 2.1%Fundamental Attribution Error6.7%This article: 7.4%Evan Hurst: 0.2%Wonkette: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 2.7%Wonkette: 1.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 5.9%Evan Hurst: 5.5%Wonkette: 2.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias5.9%This article: 6.9%Evan Hurst: 0.5%Wonkette: 0.5%Halo Effect6.9%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 2.9%Wonkette: 1.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.1%Wonkette: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 2.5%Evan Hurst: 1.0%Wonkette: 0.9%Recency Bias2.5%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.3%Wonkette: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 29.9%Evan Hurst: 21.9%Wonkette: 11.9%Ad Hominem29.9%This article: 8.2%Evan Hurst: 4.4%Wonkette: 2.7%Straw Man8.2%This article: 0.6%Evan Hurst: 1.5%Wonkette: 1.5%Appeal to Authority0.6%This article: 0.6%Evan Hurst: 1.1%Wonkette: 1.1%False Dilemma0.6%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.9%Wonkette: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.2%Wonkette: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.4%Evan Hurst: 11.8%Wonkette: 8.0%Hasty Generalization7.4%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 1.0%Wonkette: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 5.5%Evan Hurst: 0.9%Wonkette: 0.4%Bandwagon5.5%This article: 22.1%Evan Hurst: 11.0%Wonkette: 7.2%Appeal to Emotion22.1%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.4%Wonkette: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 11.8%Evan Hurst: 2.4%Wonkette: 1.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)11.8%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.7%Wonkette: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.8%Evan Hurst: 1.3%Wonkette: 0.7%Burden of Proof0.8%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.2%Wonkette: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 6.9%Evan Hurst: 2.6%Wonkette: 2.1%Anecdotal6.9%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 11.6%Evan Hurst: 0.6%Wonkette: 1.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)11.6%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.3%Wonkette: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.5%Wonkette: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.7%Wonkette: 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 8.0%Evan Hurst: 1.7%Wonkette: 2.0%Unattributed Quote8.0%This article: 9.7%Evan Hurst: 1.3%Wonkette: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection9.7%This article: 74.9%Evan Hurst: 40.0%Wonkette: 30.7%Biased Writer Voice74.9%This article: 5.9%Evan Hurst: 1.6%Wonkette: 2.2%Indoctrination5.9%This article: 5.9%Evan Hurst: 17.4%Wonkette: 10.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias5.9%This article: 0.0%Evan Hurst: 0.0%Wonkette: 0.5%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.5%Evan Hurst: 3.3%Wonkette: 3.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.5%

475 words analyzed.

Speakers

8speakers13%attributed speech413writer words
Selected voice

Pete Buttigieg

100%flagged-word coverage
12 attributed words19% of attributed speech96% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+95.6 ptsWriter: 4.4%Pete Buttigieg: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-86.2 ptsWriter: 86.2%Pete Buttigieg: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-9.2 ptsWriter: 9.2%Pete Buttigieg: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-6.8 ptsWriter: 6.8%Pete Buttigieg: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-6.8 ptsWriter: 6.8%Pete Buttigieg: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -6.3 ptsWriter: 6.3%Pete Buttigieg: 0.0%0.0%

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