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You Know What Kind Of Eyes She Got. Tabs, Fri., Aug. 7, 2026 ⁠40%

By Rebecca Schoenkopf⁠83%

8/7/2026, 4:03:50 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Politically Left Leaning Bias, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 30.9% saturation with 222 hits. Analysis detected 1,287 faulty-reasoning hits from 718 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠40% (18,594 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 60.80% of the article peer group.

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Whom are we holding in contempt for asserting his constitutional rights today? 
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I’m real sure the Supreme Court just ruled no, Donald Trump does not actually get to decide who is a citizen, but he’s decided not to listen today again. 
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So Tucker Carlson is going to run for president probably I guess, but what really stood out to me in this False Flag post is that the putatively leftist Young Turks is having white nationalist former “counterterror” chief Joe Kent on their show to talk about “alliances.” 
Fuck your red-brown alliance Cenk Uygur and Tucker Carlson, and fuck yourselves. 
(The Bulwark) 
Good for the like three people on the Green Party nominating zoom call who pointed out that the possible MAGA operative they ended up nominating for the Michigan Seventh, like, they don’t know him? 
Everybody else: Booooooooooooooooo. 
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Paris Hilton being cool again on a different topic this time. 
Man, never saw that coming in the 2000s. 
In this case, she’s backing a bill by AOC and a Republican in Florida to ban deepfake nudes, which passed the Senate by unanimous consent but can’t get a vote in the House because they don’t want AOC to have a win. 
Petty bitches. 
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It is a banger, Count Binface, it is! 
Hey, what if we didn’t allow people to bet on when and where the next wildfires would be arsoned occur completely naturally we’re sure? 
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North Carolina teen charged with assaulting herself with a deadly weapon (abortion pills). 
Everything’s going great. 
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From the comments: Flower fairies! 
(Worriedman) 
From my trip to the Insectarium in Montreal in June: Actual fairies! 
Hmmm, seems like Sex Purge The Movie might not be awesome! 
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So relaxing for Grandma! 
Have a 6-7 day! 
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718 words analyzed.

Speakers

10speakers3.2%attributed speech695writer words
0%flagged-word coverage
6 attributed words26% of attributed speech63% writer coverage
0%17.5%35.0%Biased Writer Voice-31.9 ptsWriter: 31.9%Ryan Cooper at The American Prospect: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-18.7 ptsWriter: 18.7%Ryan Cooper at The American Prospect: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -14.8 ptsWriter: 14.8%Ryan Cooper at The American Prospect: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-11.7 ptsWriter: 11.7%Ryan Cooper at The American Prospect: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -6.8 ptsWriter: 6.8%Ryan Cooper at The American Prospect: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-4.2 ptsWriter: 4.2%Ryan Cooper at The American Prospect: 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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