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Keep an eye out for Trump’s propaganda history trucks, plus Supreme Court chaos ⁠85%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

6/29/2026, 4:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Negativity Bias, and Politically Left Leaning Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 49.2% saturation with 118 hits. Analysis detected 846 faulty-reasoning hits from 240 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠85% (3,459 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 84.20% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 8.8%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias8.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 13.8%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic13.8%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: 22.9%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect22.9%This article: 5.8%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion5.8%This article: 7.9%Daily Kos Staff: 0.4%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias7.9%This article: 13.3%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect13.3%This article: 6.7%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias6.7%This article: 14.6%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias14.6%This article: 35.4%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias35.4%This article: 5.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias5.0%This article: 5.4%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error5.4%This article: 3.8%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias3.8%This article: 5.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.9%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias5.0%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 2.1%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect2.1%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 14.2%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem14.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 5.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma5.0%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: 9.2%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization9.2%This article: 3.8%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring3.8%This article: 5.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon5.0%This article: 41.3%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion41.3%This article: 5.8%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question5.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 3.8%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof3.8%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.7%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 2.1%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)2.1%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 5.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection5.0%This article: 49.2%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice49.2%This article: 5.8%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination5.8%This article: 30.8%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias30.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 21.3%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…21.3%

240 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers8.8%attributed speech219writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageTodd Blanche • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageRFK Jr. • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

RFK Jr.

100%flagged-word coverage
9 attributed words43% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Politically Left Leaning B+70.3 ptsWriter: 29.7%RFK Jr.: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+55.7 ptsWriter: 44.3%RFK Jr.: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -23.3 ptsWriter: 23.3%RFK Jr.: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-6.4 ptsWriter: 6.4%RFK Jr.: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-5.5 ptsWriter: 5.5%RFK Jr.: 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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