MS NOW⁠95%

Monday’s Mini-Report, 5.11.26 ⁠86%

By Steve Benen⁠95%

5/11/2026, 2:30:05 PM

Topics: Maddowblog
Keywords: Quick Hits, Politics

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 55.4% saturation with 194 hits. Analysis detected 1,088 faulty-reasoning hits from 350 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠86% (3,270 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.10% of the article peer group.

Today’s edition of quick hits. 
* The war’s end is not near: “President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to reject Iran’s response to a U.S. proposal to end the war, calling it ‘totally unacceptable.’ 
It was not immediately clear what Iran’s response entailed.” 
* Late breaking SCOTUS news: “The Supreme Court is keeping mifepristone available by mail for at least three more days, making Thursday the next deadline to watch for the full court to weigh in on the nationwide issue.” 
* A failing ceasefire: “U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said more than 100 strikes have been launched on Lebanon over the past 24 hours.” 
* In related news: “Speaking about his rejection of Tehran’s counteroffer to Washington’s peace proposal, Trump said the U.S.-Iran ceasefire remains in place ‘for the time being,’ but it is ‘on massive life support.’” 
* The newly revised death toll from the boat strikes is now at least 192: “The U.S. military on Friday conducted its third boat strike in five days against a vessel it accused of smuggling drugs, killing two and leaving one survivor at large in the eastern Pacific, U.S. 
Southern Command said in a social media post.” 
* The right call: “A federal appeals court on Friday allowed members of Congress to continue to conduct oversight visits to immigration detention facilities without a seven-day notice, with one judge saying the Department of Homeland Security did not show the visits were anything more than an administrative inconvenience.” 
* Do you ever get the sense that he thinks Congo is in Central America? 
“President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that Congo, a Central African country, released inmates from its prisons and sent them to the U.S. border with Mexico. 
The president offered no proof or evidence to back up his claim.” 
* They’re right: “More than 2,500 scientists said in a letter to Congress on Monday that President Trump’s dismissal of the National Science Foundation’s oversight board was an ‘alarming attack’ on research funding that could put the United States at a disadvantage with rivals, especially China.” 
See you tomorrow. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 6.0%Steve Benen: 10.5%MS NOW: 7.5%Confirmation Bias6.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 1.6%MS NOW: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 3.7%MS NOW: 3.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.9%MS NOW: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 1.9%MS NOW: 1.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 3.1%MS NOW: 2.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 29.1%Steve Benen: 23.0%MS NOW: 15.4%Framing Effect29.1%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.4%MS NOW: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.8%MS NOW: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.1%MS NOW: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 1.3%MS NOW: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 9.7%Steve Benen: 3.1%MS NOW: 3.2%Pessimism Bias9.7%This article: 45.4%Steve Benen: 29.0%MS NOW: 19.2%Negativity Bias45.4%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 2.1%MS NOW: 2.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 4.7%MS NOW: 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.3%MS NOW: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 3.4%MS NOW: 3.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 11.7%Steve Benen: 3.2%MS NOW: 2.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias11.7%This article: 14.0%Steve Benen: 0.9%MS NOW: 2.2%Halo Effect14.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 4.4%MS NOW: 1.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.1%MS NOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 24.9%Steve Benen: 2.9%MS NOW: 1.8%Recency Bias24.9%This article: 4.3%Steve Benen: 0.8%MS NOW: 0.6%Primacy Effect4.3%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.2%MS NOW: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 4.3%Steve Benen: 7.8%MS NOW: 4.7%Ad Hominem4.3%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 1.6%MS NOW: 1.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 27.1%Steve Benen: 6.3%MS NOW: 5.4%Appeal to Authority27.1%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 1.6%MS NOW: 2.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 1.7%MS NOW: 2.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.2%MS NOW: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 27.1%Steve Benen: 8.9%MS NOW: 8.1%Hasty Generalization27.1%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.7%MS NOW: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 13.1%Steve Benen: 1.2%MS NOW: 0.9%Bandwagon13.1%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 11.3%MS NOW: 9.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 3.5%MS NOW: 2.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 3.3%MS NOW: 3.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.8%MS NOW: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 3.4%Steve Benen: 1.4%MS NOW: 0.9%Burden of Proof3.4%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.2%MS NOW: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 4.3%Steve Benen: 2.0%MS NOW: 2.6%Anecdotal4.3%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.1%MS NOW: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 15.1%Steve Benen: 1.9%MS NOW: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)15.1%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.1%MS NOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.5%MS NOW: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.2%MS NOW: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 2.2%MS NOW: 1.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 55.4%Steve Benen: 3.8%MS NOW: 2.5%Unattributed Quote55.4%This article: 8.3%Steve Benen: 2.6%MS NOW: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection8.3%This article: 7.4%Steve Benen: 22.9%MS NOW: 14.2%Biased Writer Voice7.4%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 1.4%MS NOW: 2.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 8.6%MS NOW: 5.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.6%MS NOW: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Benen: 0.2%MS NOW: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

350 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers26%attributed speech258writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 38 words • 100.0% coverageTom Fletcher • 24 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 34 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 49 words • 100.0% coverageU.S. Southern Command • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 49 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 46 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Tom Fletcher

100%flagged-word coverage
24 attributed words26% of attributed speech96% writer coverage
0%40.0%80.0%Unattributed Quote-75.2 ptsWriter: 75.2%Tom Fletcher: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-11.2 ptsWriter: 11.2%Tom Fletcher: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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