# Fucked Politics

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Coverage is United States politics only. World and international stories are out of scope.
Stories are gathered from outlet RSS and Atom feeds. There is no paid news API.
A cluster needs one left-leaning US article and one right-leaning US article.
Popularity = 0.45*breadth + 0.25*most-read + 0.20*Wikipedia + 0.10*Google Trends.
X and Reddit are not queried. Full article text is not published.
Ratings judge a specific claim against linked public records. They do not judge the reader.
LIE requires evidence of intent, is never auto-published, and is held as "Doesn't hold up" pending owner OK.
Quotes are short excerpts. Statistics are taken from the linked official pages.

## Verdict labels

- Lie: Sourced from [linked outlet], the claim conflicts with the record and there is evidence it was made knowing that. Only with evidence of intent. The pipeline never auto-publishes LIE. It holds the item and shows Doesn't hold up until the owner says OK.
- Doesn't hold up: Sourced from [linked outlet], this doesn't match the data. The claim conflicts with the cited record. A central fact is wrong.
- Misleading: Sourced from [linked outlet], the numbers are real and the conclusion isn't. The cited figures check out, and the way they are assembled points the wrong way.
- Mostly false: Sourced from [linked outlet], the central claim doesn't hold. A detail may be real, but the main assertion does not survive the record.
- Half true: Sourced from [linked outlet], part of this checks out and a material part does not. One reading of the claim matches the record. Another reading, the one a reader would take from the wording, does not.
- Mostly true: Sourced from [linked outlet], the main point holds, with a caveat. The central comparison or fact holds. A qualifier still belongs with it.
- True: Sourced from [linked outlet], this matches the public record. The claim lines up with the cited primary source, including its scope and time period.
- Unproven: Sourced from [linked outlet], the public record does not settle this claim. The available primary source does not confirm or refute the claim. This is not a soft true.

## Pages

- [The record](https://fuckedpolitics.com/): homepage of paired left and right reports
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## Stories

### Is Xavier Becerra the 'son of immigrants'?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/becerra-son-of-immigrants-hilton
- Claim: I am the son of immigrants.
- Rating: half-true
- Summary: Half the claim is literally true: his mother, Maria Teresa, came from Guadalajara. His father, Manuel, was a U.S. citizen by birth in Sacramento, so he was not an immigrant in the legal sense. But he was raised in Tijuana during the Depression-era repatriation years and came north as a young man looking for work, which is the lived immigrant story Becerra tells.

### Is Abdul El-Sayed 'a Muslim Brotherhood guy'?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/trump-el-sayed-muslim-brotherhood-claim
- Claim: He's a Muslim Brotherhood guy, 100%, 100%.
- Rating: unproven
- Summary: No reporting reviewed for this draft shows El-Sayed himself belonged to, funded, or worked with the Muslim Brotherhood. The record shows posts by his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, saying their mother was active in the Brotherhood in college in the early 1970s and that “my family has long been MB.” El-Sayed says he wasn't raised by his mother and calls the posts hearsay. Proving the negative isn't possible from written sources, so this is rated Unproven, not False.

### Is DHS illegally building a national voter database?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/dhs-voter-files-47-states-privacy-lawsuit
- Claim: DHS has obtained and is processing voter files from at least 47 states and has augmented those files with information purchased from commercial vendors.
- Rating: unproven
- Summary: The complaint cites internal DHS documents showing that, as of June 2026, Homeland Security Investigations had ingested 50.6 million records through the Justice Department and 48.4 million from other sources. Depending on the state, the files can include Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, birth dates, party affiliation, and voting history. Whether this is illegal hasn't been decided. The plaintiffs say DHS never published a system of records notice (SORN), which the Privacy Act requires. No court has ruled, and DHS's response to the lawsuit was not read for this draft.

### Are 70% of ICE detainees criminals, or have 70% no record?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/ice-tactics-gop-split-70-percent-criminals
- Claim: Approximately 70 percent of its immigration detainees are criminals, if pending charges are factored in.
- Rating: misleading
- Summary: DHS's figure counts people with pending charges, who are presumed innocent, as criminals. Deportation Data Project analysis of government data, as reported by Al Jazeera, finds about 70% of people in ICE detention have no criminal record. Meanwhile, Fox News' own September poll found 53% of registered voters, including 60% of independents, say enforcement has gone too far.

### Did Kari Lake win Arizona's 2022 governor race?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/trump-arizona-2022-kari-lake-rigged-claim
- Claim: She won that election… The damn machines were broken in Republican areas. They were broken purposely, and you couldn't vote and Katie Hobbs had a lot to do with it.
- Rating: false
- Summary: Hobbs won in 2022. Lake's election contest failed at trial, at the Arizona Court of Appeals, and at the Arizona Supreme Court, which sanctioned her lawyers in May 2023 for a false claim made in the case. Printer problems hit about a third of Maricopa vote centers, including Democratic-leaning ones. Affected ballots were counted at the central facility. Courts found no evidence the problems were intentional.

### Have the courts that ruled on Charlie Kirk post cases sided with teachers?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/kirk-posts-teachers-courts-sided
- Claim: The few courts that have ruled on Kirk-reaction cases have sided with the teachers.
- Rating: half-true
- Summary: The one federal ruling that weighed a teacher's free-speech claim, in Iowa's Creston case, went for the teacher. But in two other federal teacher cases, in Texas and Iowa, judges denied the teachers relief on procedural grounds. Most of the teachers' wins are settlements, not court rulings.

### Did an Ohio mental hospital confirm James Talarico was discharged?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/talarico-psych-hospital-rumor
- Claim: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week.
- Rating: false
- Summary: The hospital named in the post said in writing that Talarico has never received treatment there. Talarico posted from public events in Austin on Oct. 9 and in Dallas on the night of Oct. 10, when the recording supposedly showed he had just been discharged.

### Did Trump suggest Iran should attack Los Angeles?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/trump-iran-take-out-la-san-diego
- Claim: The President of the United States suggested that a foreign government attack Los Angeles.
- Rating: misleading
- Summary: In the full passage, Trump calls the war's higher gas prices "a small price to pay" and ties the war to stopping a nuclear Iran that "can take out a city." The words "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego" are real, but the surrounding transcript doesn't support reading them as a request for an attack.

### Did South Korea commit $50 billion to the Alaska gas pipeline?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/trump-korea-alaska-lng-50-billion
- Claim: This 50 billion dollar infrastructure investment from the Republic of Korea is part of their trade and investment deal with me.
- Rating: false
- Summary: The Commerce Department's Sept. 30 fact sheet says only that the two countries "have agreed to commence working on the Alaska LNG project, subject to meeting commercial reasonableness." It lists dollar figures for two other Korean projects but none for Alaska. South Korea's industry minister said the announcement "went far beyond what was agreed."

### Was the Mall of America plot suspect a Somali immigrant?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/mall-of-america-plot-suspect-somali-immigrant
- Claim: He then targeted "savage Somali gang members" who opened fire at a Minnesota high school's homecoming event last week, going on to reference the FBI's arrest of another Somali immigrant who was allegedly planning an ISIS-style attack on the Mall of America.
- Rating: false
- Summary: The man charged, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, of Richfield, Minn., is a U.S. citizen, according to the U.S. attorney's news conference as reported by CBS Minnesota. NPR reports he was born in the United States to parents from Somalia.

### Did Trump settle eight wars?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/trump-settled-eight-wars
- Claim: I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more
- Rating: mostly-false
- Summary: Of the eight conflicts on Trump's list, two were never wars, and three either never ended or have resumed, CNN found. Three, Armenia–Azerbaijan, Thailand–Cambodia and India–Pakistan, give him a real if debated claim.

### Are 20 million seniors getting Trump's Medicare checks?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/trump-90-medicare-checks-20-million
- Claim: …my Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums.
- Rating: mostly-true
- Summary: CMS says "20.8 million Americans in Original Medicare Part B" qualify for a one-time $90 rebate, paid mostly by direct deposit around Oct. 8. "Nearly $100" rounds $90 up, and Medicare Advantage enrollees get nothing.

### Would Florida's Amendment 3 slow police response times?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/florida-amendment-3-public-safety
- Claim: The Florida Sheriffs Association is significantly concerned with Constitutional Amendment 3, which potentially allows Tallahassee to control your local budgets, creates longer law enforcement response times, limits communities' abilities to provide road repairs and stormwater removal
- Rating: unproven
- Summary: The state Revenue Estimating Conference projects that, at current tax rates, Amendment 3 would cut local non-school property tax revenue by about $11.8 billion a year once fully in effect. Whether that means slower police response depends on budget choices that no one has made yet.

### Was the 2020 election stolen from Trump?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/stolen-election-2020
- Claim: Make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me, and from the country, and not a single swing state has conducted a comprehensive audit to remove the illegal ballots.
- Rating: false
- Summary: Between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, the claim was tested by recounts, an audit, federal agencies, the Justice Department and dozens of courts. Georgia's full hand count of every presidential ballot confirmed Biden won the state. Federal election-security officials said there was "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised." The attorney general said the Justice Department had "not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome." And in Pennsylvania, the campaign's own lawyer told a federal court "this is not a fraud case."

### Is California laying high-speed rail track?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/newsom-laying-high-speed-rail-track
- Claim: Speaking of tracks, we're finally laying the tracks of the nation's first High-Speed Rail system, building the transportation network of the 21st century.
- Rating: misleading
- Summary: No high-speed rail track had been laid when Newsom said it, and the rail authority hasn't reported any since. What existed was a staging yard with freight and storage track for delivering materials. The project's inspector general told CBS in August that high-speed rail track "has not been laid yet," and the rail authority's own schedule has the first real track work starting by Nov. 30. Newsom's own speech, a few lines later, said the guideway was "ready for immediate track-laying."

### Is the FBI investigating suspicious letters sent to Congress and election offices?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/fbi-suspicious-letters-congress-election-offices
- Claim: The FBI is investigating letters with suspicious substances sent to congressional and secretary of state offices in several states.
- Rating: true
- Summary: Four outlets report the same investigation and quote the FBI's statement about mailings to secretary of state offices. A Senate Sergeant at Arms notice covers the congressional offices.

### Did Trump cancel the livestream of the Fort Hood shooter's execution?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/trump-cancels-hasan-execution-livestream
- Claim: Trump canceled the livestream of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution, contradicting Hegseth.
- Rating: true
- Summary: AP, the WSJ, the NYT and NPR all report that Trump called off the livestream Hegseth had announced. The execution is still set for Dec. 3.

### Did inflation rise to 3.7% in September?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/september-2026-inflation-3-7-percent
- Claim: US inflation rose to 3.7% in September, from 3.4% in August, driven by energy; wages are up 3% year over year.
- Rating: mostly-true
- Summary: BLS confirms the 3.7% and 3.4% figures and the energy-led rise. BLS doesn't print the 3% wage figure directly: it reports real hourly pay down 0.7%, which implies nominal growth of roughly 3%.

### Did James Talarico raise a record $64 million last quarter?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/talarico-64-million-q3-record
- Claim: James Talarico raised a record $64M in Q3.
- Rating: true
- Summary: Two outlets report the campaign's $64 million figure and the record. It beats Jaime Harrison's $57 million for the same quarter in 2020.

### Did the WSJ report that the Omar probe aims to strip her citizenship?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/wsj-omar-citizenship-investigation-home-search
- Claim: A WSJ report says the investigation into Ilhan Omar aims to strip her citizenship, and agents searched her DC home.
- Rating: true
- Summary: Al Jazeera relays the WSJ report on the denaturalization aim. The Washington Post independently reported the Oct. 12 search. Omar denies wrongdoing.

### Was Ukraine's Starlink restricted, and did it resume refinery strikes?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/ukraine-starlink-restricted-refinery-strikes-resume
- Claim: Ukraine's Starlink access was restricted, and Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian refineries.
- Rating: mostly-true
- Summary: Both parts are true. The restriction is already over, though, so describing access as currently restricted is out of date.

### Did wholesale prices post their biggest jump since 2022?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/wholesale-prices-biggest-rise-since-2022
- Claim: Wholesale prices rose 1.3% in September, the largest jump since March 2022.
- Rating: true
- Summary: BLS's release matches the figure and the comparison exactly.

### Has the Obama Presidential Center's cost tripled to $1 billion?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/obama-center-cost-1-billion-triple-estimate
- Claim: The Obama Presidential Center's cost has nearly tripled to $1 billion, nearly triple the original estimate.
- Rating: true
- Summary: A 2017 bid document put construction at $300 million to $350 million. The foundation reported $909 million in September and now projects about $1 billion.

### Did Georgia set an early-voting record?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/georgia-first-day-early-voting-record
- Claim: Georgia voters set an early-voting record on the first day of midterm early voting.
- Rating: true
- Summary: The secretary of state's release confirms the record. One detail in the Fox article is slightly off: it says the margin was "more than 55,000," but the official increase is 53,705.

### Did the feds sue to stop California from counting 20,000 suspected noncitizens' ballots?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/feds-sue-california-20000-suspected-noncitizen-ballots
- Claim: The Justice Department sued asking a judge to forbid California from counting ballots of roughly 20,000 people the feds believe to be noncitizens.
- Rating: true
- Summary: The complaint and two news reports match the description. The noncitizen status of the people on the list is DOJ's allegation.

### Were suspicious letters sent to Schumer and other Democratic senators?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/fbi-letters-schumer-democratic-senators
- Claim: The FBI is probing suspicious white powder letters sent to Schumer and other Democratic senators.
- Rating: true
- Summary: Three other outlets name Schumer, Murphy and Padilla as recipients and confirm the FBI is involved.

### Rep. Andy Harris says a student reporter broke Maryland's recording law

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/andy-harris-student-reporter-recording-law
- Claim: The student reporter needed my permission to record the press gaggle under Maryland's two-party consent law.
- Rating: false
- Summary: Maryland's two-party consent law covers private conversations. Independent attorneys and the state press association agree it does not apply to a public gaggle with other journalists recording. There is no evidence of intent, so this is False, not a Lie.

### Was Matt Gaetz sued in federal court over sex trafficking allegations?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/matt-gaetz-sex-trafficking-civil-lawsuit
- Claim: Former Rep. Matt Gaetz was sued in federal court over sex trafficking allegations.
- Rating: true
- Summary: The federal docket shows Doe 1 v. Gaetz II, filed Oct. 15 in the Middle District of Florida. Left and right outlets agree on the filing. The allegations themselves are unproven and Gaetz denies them.

### Was Nancy Mace's ex-fiancé charged with sex crimes?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/nancy-mace-ex-fiance-charged-voyeurism
- Claim: Rep. Nancy Mace's ex-fiancé was charged with sex crimes she detailed in a House speech.
- Rating: mostly-true
- Summary: Charges were filed over the episode Mace described. But the ex-fiancé, Brendan Patrick Bryant, was charged with voyeurism. The sexual-assault counts were brought against his associate John Douglas Osborne.

### Is press secretary Katie Zacharia an attorney, as Trump said?

- URL: https://fuckedpolitics.com/stories/trump-katie-zacharia-attorney-bar-exam
- Claim: Katie Zacharia is an attorney.
- Rating: false
- Summary: She told Jack Posobiec she took the California bar exam but didn't pass, according to CBS News. An administration official confirmed it to NBC News, and the State Bar of California lists no licensee by her name. She is not an attorney. No evidence of intent was found, so this is False, not a Lie.

## Content model

Stories are TypeScript files in content/stories. Each story has articles (with a lean), one claim, a rating, reasoning steps, audit figures, contradictions, and sources.
Lean labels come from content/bias-map.ts: Fucked Politics's own five-point scale (left, lean left, center, lean right, right), assigned by hand by Fucked Politics.
lib/ingest/pipeline.ts gathers RSS, drops non-US rows, and ranks two-sided clusters. It does not assign ratings.