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Court Packing vs. Court Stacking: A Fact-Check of Every Major Claim

Trump hasn't 'packed' the courts (added seats), but McConnell's vacancy blockade and 271 lifetime appointments across two terms constitute the most aggressive court-stacking operation in modern…

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Originalism When Convenient: A Case-by-Case Audit of the Conservative Supreme Court's Own Standard

The conservative majority says it decides by text, history, and tradition. A case-by-case audit of six landmark rulings finds the method applied where it helps and set aside where it would not.

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8,499 Posts, Fact-Checked: What the President Told America From Truth Social

A data-driven, bipartisan fact-check of the most significant claims Trump made on Truth Social during his second term — 8,499 posts categorized, cross-referenced against court filings, government…

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The $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund: Where the Money Comes From, Where It Goes, and What's Legal

Trump created a $1.776B taxpayer fund to compensate allies he says Biden 'wronged' — funded by a permanent Treasury account, overseen by his own appointees, with Jan. 6 defendants eligible to claim.

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Did China Troll Trump? A Claim-by-Claim Fact-Check of the Beijing Summit

Five viral claims about China trolling Trump during his May 2026 state visit — one false, two true, two true-but-misframed — with sources for every detail.

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DNC 2024 Autopsy: What It Gets Right, Wrong, and Omits

The DNC's 192-page 2024 election autopsy correctly identifies strategic failures but is riddled with factual errors, missing sections, and a glaring omission of Gaza's electoral impact.

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Fleeing Justice via the Law of Return: Fact-Checking the CBS Investigation

CBS's core claims about accused sex offenders exploiting Israel's Law of Return are substantiated by court outcomes and policy changes; the most direct current-administration connection is the…

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The Thiel Signal: Fact-Checking the Argentina Relocation

Of 13 claims about Thiel's Argentina move, 10 are fully confirmed, 2 are editorialized, and 1 is premature — but the viral narrative omits the most concrete driver: California's billionaire tax.

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Palantir, the Minab School Strike, and AI Warfare: A Fact-Check

A viral Reddit post claims Palantir’s AI autonomously bombed an Iranian school using outdated Google Maps data — the core tragedy is real but several key details are wrong or exaggerated.

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Depression Talk and Hitler Comparisons: Fact-Checking a Viral Reddit Thread

The US checks none of the Great Depression hard markers but faces real recession risk. The Hitler analogy is contested: experts document authoritarian drift, the 1930s comparison overreaches.

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The Patel "Slush Fund" Claim: What's Proven, What Isn't

Rep. Raskin's letter alleging FBI chief Kash Patel paid $1M+ in bonuses to a loyalist 'payback squad' is real, but the bonus specifics are unproven; the firing purges are the best-documented part.

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The Mashed Potato Incident: Fact-Checking Trump's "Origin Story"

Genuine family lore, and most corroborating quotes hold up, but the essay mislocates one story, cites two untraceable quotes, and oversells one childhood humiliation as the cause of the whole man.

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Jeffries on the Mail-Ballot Ruling: Seven Claims, Checked

After the Supreme Court upheld state grace periods for mail ballots, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicted Trump's whole record. The facts mostly hold; the framing is partisan.

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Did the Supreme Court 'Take Restrictions Off Political Spending'?

Trump says the Court removed limits on political spending; a critic says it lets billionaires buy elections. It struck one limit, on coordinated party spending. Here's what fell and what it changes.

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Trump's Gas Price Post: Six of Seven Claims Fail the Numbers

WTI crude settled at $70.56 on June 29, not $68; gas prices had already fallen 53 cents/gallon in one month; $2.50/gallon is mathematically impossible at current crude costs; no federal price…

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Disaster Aid by Party & the 'Stolen' 250th: Two Threads, Checked

Trump withheld FEMA aid from blue states (23% vs 89%) and tied it to his candidates; Democrats allege his fundraisers diverted America250 donations to Freedom 250. Proven, alleged, illegal, sorted.

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Trump's 'National Scallops Day': What the Post Gets Right, Leaves Out, and Gets Wrong

The NOAA action opening the Northern Edge of Georges Bank is real, but the post misattributes a 32-year-old Clinton-era closure to Obama and Biden, falsely credits Biden as co-creator of the…

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Fact-Check: Hegseth's Pastor and the Pentagon Pulpit

The viral Wilson/NPR claim is substantially accurate but overstates in three ways: "all women" misrepresents household voting, Wilson is not technically Hegseth's pastor, and the Pentagon sermon was…

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Trump's Election-Integrity Disclosure: What the Declassified Documents Actually Say

The July 16 address released genuine intelligence records. On most claims, the documents' own caveats, confidence levels and context cut against the framing the speech drew from them.

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Trump's Canada Wildfire Post: Negligence, Tariffs, and What the Science Says

Three of six claims are False (Canada 'refused to engage,' 'willful negligence,' and adding pollution costs to tariffs — which have no legal mechanism post-IEEPA); two are Misleading (forest…

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Did Illegal Immigration Drive Up Your Rent? The Dallas Fed Study Trump Cited, Examined

A preliminary Dallas Fed working paper found unauthorized immigration contributed about 19% of rental price increases from 2021–2024. Trump claimed 40–50% via a government housing program that…

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"Trump's Net Worth Increased by $4 Billion Since Taking Office" — Fact-Check

Trump's net worth grew substantially since January 2025, driven by crypto ventures ($1.4B in 2025 income alone), but the specific "$4 billion" figure uses a baseline lower than what Forbes and…

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Trump's Saudi Nuclear Post: The "No Enrichment" Claim Doesn't Match the Signed Deal

A real civil nuclear cooperation agreement was signed July 22, 2026 — but the deal Trump signed does not prohibit enrichment (it contains a pathway to an enrichment facility via a joint study, and…

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