Daily Kos85%

Susan Collins frets 71%

By Daily Kos Staff96%

7/9/2026, 11:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 30 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and False Dilemma, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 46.4% saturation with 116 hits. Analysis detected 803 faulty-reasoning hits from 250 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.6% and a BS Rank of 71% (6,260 of 21,176 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 70.40% of the article peer group.

Susan Collins frets, Trump crusades, and ICE kills 
July 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM 
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Susan Collins of Maine, shown last October. 
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Why won’t he let this one go? 
Racism, certainly. 
ICE is killing immigrants and targeting critics as protests dwindle 
The agency continues to make the case for its abolition. 
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With Platner out, Susan Collins has a lot to be concerned about 
Things won’t get any easier for her. 
Trump wants the world to fight antifa with him. 
No one’s buying it. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 6.4%Daily Kos Staff: 5.0%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias6.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.7%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.4%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 16.0%Daily Kos Staff: 21.3%Daily Kos: 9.0%Framing Effect16.0%This article: 16.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion16.0%This article: 2.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.4%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias2.0%This article: 5.6%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect5.6%This article: 8.4%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias8.4%This article: 7.6%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias7.6%This article: 41.2%Daily Kos Staff: 35.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias41.2%This article: 4.8%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias4.8%This article: 7.6%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error7.6%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 3.2%Daily Kos Staff: 4.1%Daily Kos: 2.2%In-Group Bias3.2%This article: 4.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.9%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias4.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%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: 1.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 16.2%Daily Kos: 5.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 2.4%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority2.4%This article: 16.4%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 2.4%False Dilemma16.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%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: 14.9%Daily Kos: 9.7%Hasty Generalization9.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 10.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.9%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon10.0%This article: 15.2%Daily Kos Staff: 19.4%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion15.2%This article: 8.8%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question8.8%This article: 4.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.6%Daily Kos: 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)4.0%This article: 2.8%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque2.8%This article: 3.2%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof3.2%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: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 4.8%Daily Kos Staff: 1.4%Daily Kos: 2.1%Anecdotal4.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 7.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)7.2%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: 0.8%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.8%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: 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 12.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.9%Daily Kos: 2.7%Unattributed Quote12.0%This article: 4.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection4.0%This article: 38.4%Daily Kos Staff: 48.8%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice38.4%This article: 8.0%Daily Kos Staff: 5.6%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination8.0%This article: 4.8%Daily Kos Staff: 31.8%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias4.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 46.4%Daily Kos Staff: 12.0%Daily Kos: 2.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…46.4%

250 words analyzed.

Speakers

10speakers72%attributed speech70writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Susan Collins • 3 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageFacebook • 8 words • 100.0% coverageBluesky • 8 words • 100.0% coverageX • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageSusan Collins • 7 words • 0.0% coverageAP • 2 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Kos • 21 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 10 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageICE • 10 words • 100.0% coverageICE • 10 words • 0.0% coverageDavid Horsey • 5 words • 0.0% coverageTribune Content Agency • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 100.0% coverageSusan Collins • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageDaily Kos • 18 words • 100.0% coverageDaily Kos • 5 words • 100.0% coverageDaily Kos • 12 words • 100.0% coverageDaily Kos • 8 words • 100.0% coverageDaily Kos • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Donald Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
25 attributed words14% of attributed speech91% writer coverage
0%32.5%65.0%Biased Writer Voice+24.0 ptsWriter: 40.0%Donald Trump: 64.0%64.0%Unattributed Quote+23.1 ptsWriter: 12.9%Donald Trump: 36.0%36.0%Indoctrination-28.6 ptsWriter: 28.6%Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -20.0 ptsWriter: 20.0%Donald Trump: 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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