Daily Kos⁠84%

Trump can’t let Reflecting Pool drama go, and food prices keep rising ⁠91%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

7/15/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Politically Left Leaning Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 72.4% saturation with 113 hits. Analysis detected 788 faulty-reasoning hits from 156 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠91% (2,130 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.30% of the article peer group.

Trump can’t let Reflecting Pool drama go, and food prices keep rising 
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AI is serious business. 
It should still be regulated. 
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The main reason this story stays relevant is because Trump can’t stop talking about it. 
Food prices aren’t very appetizing under Trump 
If only Trump would spend less time being “guardian of the strait” and more on affordability. 
Worst race ever 
Everybody loses. 
This House race portends a midterms smackdown for the GOP 
Nevada is getting very interesting. 
In Trump’s failed slush fund deal, everyone’s a loser 
Poor Trump’s incompetent lawyers—they can’t do anything right. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 19.2%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias19.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 19.9%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic19.9%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: 66.0%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect66.0%This article: 5.8%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion5.8%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: 33.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias33.3%This article: 57.1%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias57.1%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 17.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error17.3%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: 3.2%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias3.2%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: 11.5%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem11.5%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 2.6%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority2.6%This article: 10.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma10.3%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: 26.9%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization26.9%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: 13.5%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion13.5%This article: 3.2%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question3.2%This article: 29.5%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)29.5%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: 14.1%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)14.1%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 72.4%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice72.4%This article: 26.9%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination26.9%This article: 55.1%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias55.1%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 17.3%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…17.3%

156 words analyzed.

Speakers

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0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +95.6 ptsWriter: 4.4%Daily Kos: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination+84.4 ptsWriter: 15.6%Daily Kos: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-83.7 ptsWriter: 83.7%Daily Kos: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-63.7 ptsWriter: 63.7%Daily Kos: 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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