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Mamdani is making Republicans cry, plus Trump turns on Big Oil ⁠90%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

6/25/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Framing Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 73.1% saturation with 122 hits. Analysis detected 851 faulty-reasoning hits from 167 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 83.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠90% (2,179 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.00% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 15.0%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias15.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 5.4%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic5.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 40.1%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect40.1%This article: 8.4%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion8.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.4%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 12.6%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias12.6%This article: 9.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias9.0%This article: 63.5%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias63.5%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 15.6%Daily Kos Staff: 3.9%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias15.6%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.2%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.9%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 5.4%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias5.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 12.0%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem12.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 5.4%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority5.4%This article: 7.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma7.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.7%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.2%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 15.0%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization15.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 19.2%Daily Kos Staff: 1.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon19.2%This article: 49.1%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion49.1%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 10.2%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)10.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 4.8%Daily Kos Staff: 1.7%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal4.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 19.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)19.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 38.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote38.3%This article: 7.8%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection7.8%This article: 73.1%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice73.1%This article: 13.8%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination13.8%This article: 38.3%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias38.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 21.6%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…21.6%

167 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker3.0%attributed speech162writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageSusan Collins • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Susan Collins

100%flagged-word coverage
5 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+63.6 ptsWriter: 36.4%Susan Collins: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+27.8 ptsWriter: 72.2%Susan Collins: 100.0%100.0%Politically Left Leaning B-39.5 ptsWriter: 39.5%Susan Collins: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -22.2 ptsWriter: 22.2%Susan Collins: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-14.2 ptsWriter: 14.2%Susan Collins: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-8.0 ptsWriter: 8.0%Susan Collins: 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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