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DHS chief’s creepy plan for pregnant immigrants, and Alito says Constitution who? ⁠88%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

7/1/2026, 11:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Indoctrination, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 66% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 638 faulty-reasoning hits from 150 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠88% (2,726 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.50% of the article peer group.

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Trump refuses to move on after massive fail on birthright citizenship 
He’s a toddler who can’t handle being told no. 
The Constitution is clear on birthright citizenship. 
Alito doesn’t care. 
Anyone born in the United States is a citizen. 
The end. 
DHS chief schemes how to stop pregnant immigrants from entering US 
And just like that, he gets even creepier. 
Let’s … celebrate? 
It’s a very, very low bar. 
Trump won’t pay E. 
Jean Carroll—no matter how many times he loses 
No amount of favors from the Supreme Court will ever be enough for Trump. 
Markwayne Mullin reminds everyone he’s a whiny bully 
Somehow he’s even more unlikeable than his predecessor. 
Click here to see more cartoons. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 16.0%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias16.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 7.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic7.3%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: 10.0%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect10.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 16.7%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias16.7%This article: 64.7%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias64.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 2.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error2.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.9%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%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: 12.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias12.0%This article: 14.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect14.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 26.0%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem26.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 4.7%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority4.7%This article: 2.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma2.0%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: 13.3%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization13.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 36.0%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion36.0%This article: 6.0%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question6.0%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: 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: 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: 30.7%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)30.7%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: 16.7%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading16.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 9.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote9.3%This article: 8.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection8.0%This article: 66.0%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice66.0%This article: 34.7%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination34.7%This article: 11.3%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias11.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 18.0%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…18.0%

150 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker5.3%attributed speech142writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 100.0% coverageJean Carroll • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Jean Carroll

100%flagged-word coverage
8 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%35.0%70.0%Biased Writer Voice-69.7 ptsWriter: 69.7%Jean Carroll: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-36.6 ptsWriter: 36.6%Jean Carroll: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -19.0 ptsWriter: 19.0%Jean Carroll: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-12.0 ptsWriter: 12.0%Jean Carroll: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-9.9 ptsWriter: 9.9%Jean Carroll: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-8.5 ptsWriter: 8.5%Jean Carroll: 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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