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Every claim we have tested →Political camps make claims about what the other side really wants, and those claims travel long before anyone checks them. We write each one down twice, in its plainest form and its widest, work out what each version would have to predict if it were true, and go and check.

Coxon's warning and the industry's dismissal of it show that the AI industry's billionaires are greedy oligarchs buying Congress to escape any check on their power, and that their China argument is a pretext.
The catchPublic First Action, the bipartisan pro-regulation network, had raised more than 80 million dollars by 30 June, including 20 million from Anthropic and a personal 1 million from Amodei recorded in FEC filings.

Coxon's resignation and the chorus that followed show that the AI safety camp is a funded and organised operation whose warnings are a pretext for seizing control of the technology.
The catchAxios reported that Coxon left four months into a six-month vesting cliff and forfeited his unvested Anthropic equity, and the Daily Wire's Neal Pollack, writing inside the frame, concedes 'None of this proves anyone orchestrated Coxon's resignation.'

The data-center backlash shows that Americans who oppose data centers are dupes or instruments of Chinese influence operations, China-funded far-left networks and degrowth ideology, and have no genuine grievances of their own.
The catchIn the same remarks that carried 'Chinese agitprop', Bessent said the data-center companies and the large language labs have 'done a horrendous job reaching out to communities' and that 'I don't blame people for having a backlash'.

The Democrats' handling of vaccine-injury complaints shows that the party cruelly silenced tens of thousands of mothers who believe their children were vaccine-injured, betraying its own believe-women creed.
The catchA claimant law firm's tally as of 1 July 2026, eighteen months into Kennedy's tenure, counts 14,146 Covid-vaccine claims filed and 62 compensated under the same program.

Poilievre's absence from the Allison Inquiry shows that the Conservative leadership is hiding from the consequences of mandates it never opposed, and that its freedom rhetoric is a pretense.
The catchBill C-278, the Prevention of Government-imposed Vaccination Mandates Act, was introduced in June 2022 with Poilievre publicly championing it, and in September 2022 he demanded on camera that the military mandate end.

The near-empty MP benches and thin legacy coverage at the Allison Inquiry show that Ottawa and the legacy press do not care about vaccine-injured Canadians, dismiss them as antivaxxers, and bury the country's own vaccine injury numbers.
The catchThe Public Health Agency of Canada's statistics page publishes 3,557 claims received, 252 approved and 21,474,722 dollars paid through 30 November 2025, with reporting paused since the program moved in April.
This Week
The whole week →We follow the news and what people say about it, and in particular how an event gets picked up and turned into a story about what some group of people is supposedly like. A few of those stories end up as plain hatred, and that's what this column holds, quoted and dated, with a link back to where it was said.

'Netanyahu didn't go far enough in Gaza,' posted as the answer to Muslim people said to be celebrating killings.
Who it targetsPalestinian and Muslim people, with more killing in Gaza endorsed

Migrant shacks burned in Ceuta, and a fire the account treated as arson called 'a loud and clear message.'
Who it targetsMigrants whose shacks in Ceuta burned, with the fire framed as arson and as a message

Shacks burning in Ceuta, explained as what happens when 'patience has a limit.'
Who it targetsMigrants whose shacks in Ceuta burned, with a fire the account treated as arson justified as exhausted patience

'Remigration or war': mass removal offered as the only alternative to fighting.
Who it targetsMigrants in Britain, with war conditioned on their non-removal

'Ghetto, black, communist' returns as one label for a Florida Senate candidate, with her supporters called 'black supremacist miscreants' on top.
Who it targetsA Black candidate for the US Senate labeled ghetto and black as a compound slur

New York's Muslim mayor called a supporter of Islamic terror and a disgrace on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, for his religion alone.
Who it targetsThe Muslim mayor of New York, cast as a supporter of terror on religion