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If she doesn't want to thank him for his honorable service, that's her business, but these ugly attempts at smearing him are unbecoming of those in positions of authority. | MSNBC | 1 | white-nationalism | https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-republicans-are-taking-aim-war-hero-defend-trump-n1123626 | ['smearing', 'ugly'] | VRQDL7ptZLE9LwwGnHVKyZ | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
What accounts for this disconnect between the PNW’s leadership—Chancellor Keon and the Trustees—and the university community? | The Daily Beast | 0 | white-nationalism | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | null | CWzTaVvMQkVruDZtQqUGfo | null | null |
Democrats are pursuing Trump’s returns under a legal authority that aims to prevent interference from the White House on the Treasury’s decision whether to release the tax returns, in what the White House chief of staff has called a “political stunt.” | Reuters | 0 | taxes | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tax/mnuchin-says-treasury-lawyers-consulted-white-house-on-trump-tax-returns-idUSKCN1RL2FJ | [] | MsgahsTSZTdcoPz3rB2S5F | center | Entirely factual |
Coronavirus truthers ignorantly believe that the mainstream media, Democrats, liberals, progressives and Never Trump conservatives have been exaggerating the threat of COVID-19. | Alternet | 1 | white-nationalism | https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-the-coronavirus-pandemic-shows-that-christian-white-nationalism-is-a-much-greater-threat-to-the-us-than-radical-islam/ | ['ignorantly', 'Never', 'Trump'] | 3xKuewq9jNz4tpqXqpNBaM | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
A funeral for a Bangladeshi religious leader drew around 100,000 people in defiance of nationwide coronavirus lockdown. | Fox News | 0 | islam | https://www.foxnews.com/world/100000-attend-bangladesh-funeral-shattering-social-distance-protocols | [] | sfP23QFFwmPsrEfcdRjn2o | null | Entirely factual |
But it’s getting increasingly difficult to maintain the myth that the enormous wealth inequality in not just American society but the entire world somehow reflect a system that’s fairly rewarding people for their talent and labor. | Alternet | 1 | middle-class | https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/593581096/0/alternet_all~Alexandria-OcasioCortez-is-absolutely-right-%e2%80%94-there-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-any-billionaires/ | ['myth'] | ckHLnLe6WDGdk3uJWDHLCT | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
There is no evidence to support the allegation Pelosi was trying to include abortion funding in the coronavirus emergency bill as the Facebook post claims. | USA Today | 0 | abortion | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/03/18/fact-check-pelosi-did-not-withhold-coronavirus-relief-abortion-funding/2865985001/ | [] | uHbcJSt4dmALooUkmMK3mP | center | Entirely factual |
Donald Trump is not an ideas man. This has been a defining feature of his presidency. He’s not a learned policy wonk, understanding the complex nuances of law and governance. He is, at his core, just a former game show host and a con man. | Alternet | 1 | trump-presidency | https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/trump-was-asked-how-to-restore-black-americans-trust-in-police-but-he-could-only-talk-about-himself/ | ['game', 'show', 'host', 'con', 'man', 'wonk'] | UoMPAQwB28Z4BHs4nj7kSy | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
The same people who tell you enforcing our immigration laws is impossible because we can’t round up millions of illegal aliens will have no problem whatsoever rounding up millions of defiant gun owners. | Breitbart | 1 | gun control | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/MBTkPPu9uSo/ | ['illegal', 'aliens', 'defiant'] | Fq626ehe2dfmuFE42zDdcj | right | No agreement |
Father Horan was one of the many voices from the Catholic Left who joined the mainstream media lynching of students from Covington Catholic High School this weekend, rashly judging them as racists without bothering to ascertain what actually happened, simply because some of the boys were wearing MAGA hats. | Breitbart | 1 | abortion | https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/01/21/catholic-priest-slams-march-for-life-as-repulsive-and-futile/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29 | ['lynching', 'rashly'] | FVhRgXmwPGNXQVbdmXDEmD | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Omar defines herself as a victim of prejudice, saying those who try to call her to account for her threats to “burn down” American institutions are therefore anti-black, anti-Muslim, and anti-female. | Federalist | 1 | islam | https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/28/democrats-overlook-ilhan-omars-ignorance-and-hate-because-shes-a-black-muslim-immigrant/ | ['defines', 'herself'] | yxnvqfZPE5tSZ24pqPzGV5 | null | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
The once venerable Lancet medical journal has put forward Joe Biden as the best choice for Americans’ health, continuing the magazine’s unabashed left-wing activism. | Breitbart | 1 | universal health care | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/0Af4n5eJaj4/ | ['unabashed', 'once', 'venerable'] | PaKMsq4r72qjk5KwPyy5uU | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Immigration Voice claims to be an independent group, but reportedly works closely with Compete America, an advocacy group formed by the nation’s major tech companies, nearly all of whom employees large blocs of Indian and Chinese visa-workers in jobs that could be filled by young American graduates. | Breitbart | 1 | universal health care | https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/03/22/h-1b-lobby-group-house-coronavirus-bill-extends-work-permits-all-visa-workers/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook | ['claims', 'reportedly'] | 2FEvp8DJJFxGoddgoK3VxM | right | No agreement |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi debuted a 1,120-page coronavirus rescue bill after Democrats tanked the Senate proposal on Sunday night. | Breitbart | 1 | coronavirus | https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/23/nancy-pelosi-proposes-1120-page-coronavirus-bill-stuffed-with-pork/ | ['tanked'] | qNXLqqQj9mhZMCWTXCVU23 | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Even the leftist New York Times refused to endorse Sanders, essentially dissing the 78-year-old socialist as old and unhealthy. | Breitbart | 1 | taxes | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/85tEDbEZqHE/ | ['dissing', 'leftist'] | 8aG2qjw6eg4KbcsrHgC5Vi | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
A number of parents who were greatly concerned by the proposed changes appear to be celebrating the government reversal, with one mother telling The Times that she is pleased that the idea of gender being a spectrum will not be taught. | Breitbart | 0 | gender | https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/28/irish-government-abandons-plan-to-teach-children-gender-is-a-spectrum/ | null | JPpdgwMt4aFdqNpgg9U3dD | null | null |
Far from inspiring confidence during a public-health crisis, Trump appeared awfully confused during his televised meeting with pharmaceutical execs. | MSNBC | 1 | vaccine | https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-s-confusion-display-during-meeting-pharmaceutical-execs-n1147766 | ['far', 'from', 'inspiring', 'awfully', 'confused'] | y8ARs6DBc2v7XVu2d4PtYc | null | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Shogan proceeded to defend her background and professional record, saying, "I stand very strongly behind my professional nonpartisan record, which I think speaks for itself." | Fox News | 0 | elections-2020 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hawley-slams-biden-nominee-stonewalling-past-tweets-unbelievable | null | UjvjesmaS3AU7N6G3nPb9M | null | null |
Donald Trump’s victory last November was not just a repudiation of the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton. No, 2016 was a revolt against the entire Washington establishment, both on the left and the right. Don’t forget, Trump blew away everyone in the Republican primary too, from accomplished governors to Jeb Bush (R) from Tea Party darlings to washed up Senators. Trump wiped the floor with them. | Breitbart | 1 | trump-presidency | https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/357585-losers-gonna-flake-because-winners-make-policy-and-whiners-go-home | ['blew', 'darlings', 'wiped', 'revolt', 'the', 'floor'] | 5u7AFvcJV5kn3vLam2fdQb | right | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Whether it is due to gaffes, his inability to complete some sentences, or lack of knowledge on a subject, Biden has proven that interviews are not for him and the media has covered accordingly. | Federalist | 1 | vaccine | https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/04/50-questions-no-reporter-dare-asks-joe-biden-and-his-campaign/ | ['gaffes', 'inability'] | nHpFgxzeCSTRDN3qbBJqiP | null | Expresses writer’s opinion |
This is why Donald Trump is awake at 2:30 a.m., rage-tweeting. When he sleeps, he dreams, and his dreams are nightmares. He’s a frightened, desperate man. Every day, he turns on his television, and the death count from the COVID-19 virus keeps going up. | Alternet | 1 | coronavirus | https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trump-is-a-cornered-rat-and-the-coronavirus-has-him-trapped/ | ['rage-tweeting', 'frightened', 'desperate', 'nightmares'] | wGBmHVGaxaaWPE4ezEPXKG | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
With more than 15,000 people killed by gun violence in the United States last year - not counting suicides - Democrats running for their party’s presidential nomination are pointing to inaction in Washington as evidence they should be chosen to run against Republican President Donald Trump. | Reuters | 0 | gun control | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-guns-factbox/background-checks-and-bump-stock-bans-2020-democrats-on-gun-control-idUSKBN1ZS1AZ?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews | [] | 6tuz9ezxhofahDjGopbmvd | center | Entirely factual |
Trump claimed without evidence that 99% of coronavirus cases in the United States were “totally harmless.” | Reuters | 0 | vaccine | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-julyfourth-trump/trump-repeats-vow-to-defeat-radical-left-in-july-fourth-speech-idUSKBN2450N2 | [] | v8foCUT5Zrwx5qawfZjspU | null | Entirely factual |
Extreme gun advocacy group called Rocky Mountain Gun Owners cares more about fear-based fundraising and the money it generates than the policies they claim that money supports. | HuffPost | 1 | gun-control | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-sullivan-colorado-recall-gun-control_n_5ceeb455e4b07666546fa30f | ['claim', 'fear-based'] | NxQUfwxCTSXcDt2v5DUMGo | left | No agreement |
Twitter Inc said on Friday video clips of U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting that scientists investigate inserting light or disinfectant into coronavirus patients did not violate its COVID-19 misinformation policy. | Reuters | 0 | vaccine | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-twitter/twitter-allows-trump-disinfectant-videos-says-they-do-not-violate-covid-19-policy-idUSKCN2262SR | [] | 7d89itpyboMuwnfzGdRrps | null | Entirely factual |
The long-simmering U.S.-Iran conflict hit a new level in just two weeks, going from the death of an American contractor by an Iranian-backed rocket attack to the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani to a rocket attack on U.S. troops in Iraqi bases. | USA Today | 0 | islam | http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/614787132/0/usatodaycomworld-topstories~days-in-Iraq-How-USIran-conflict-led-to-generals-death/ | [] | VbeRA7nd4WAFZNX7LjAjTh | null | Entirely factual |
And making matters worse is that Trump refuses to condemn the violence from the far-right because doing so would undermine his mendacious claim that leftists are responsible for a lion's share of the mayhem. | Alternet | 1 | black lives matter | https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/republicans-are-running-on-a-big-lie-and-its-getting-people-ed/ | ['mendacious', 'claim', 'mayhem'] | 57PMaYqv3fvE6ZPQUEMmsQ | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
[The police] now prefer to think of themselves more like glorified social workers, there to heal the wounds of a broken society by showing off their skateboarding skills at Extinction Rebellion protests and putting on makeup and rainbow lanyards to prance embarrassingly at Gay Pride festivals. | Breitbart | 1 | marriage-equality | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/2RH0NVHEl6Q/ | ['wounds'] | 5FMjpxohUR3aqrsUePwuvt | null | Expresses writer’s opinion |
For a lazy narcissist like Trump, that must have been a life-altering realization: Hollywood fakery can make even the biggest idiot appear smart and capable. So he has spent the entire presidency, which he thinks of more as a fake TV job than a real one, using photo-ops, pep rallies and other stunts to try to shape an image of himself as sharp and tough, an image that runs totally counter to reality. | Alternet | 1 | trump-presidency | https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/bunker-boy-trump-thinks-he-can-edit-reality-like-tv-show/ | ['lazy', 'narcissist', 'fakery', 'idiot'] | b7MnZmc3Wf8VkZypPMZr95 | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
The anti-vaccine movement made headlines last spring, when widespread distrust of the pharmaceutical industry and the belief that vaccines can lead to autism in children led to a measles outbreak. | USA Today | 0 | vaccines | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/01/17/vaccines-tiktok-video-of-cincinnati-doctor-nicole-baldwin-goes-viral/4505330002/ | [] | nbDsxujgDA33jtuEbEkxJV | center | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Having a baby is hard, caring for a baby is hard, going back to work after a leave is hard but a few weeks of salary is not worth killing your baby for. | Federalist | 1 | abortion | https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/11/woman-who-killed-baby-over-maternity-leave-proves-welfare-wont-fix-abortion/?fbclid=IwAR2SBE3O9KtpsqJvMCIeSlk4Zeqn3oexJevVoXUhDpKszW_VHrTEMBiewaw | ['killing', 'your', 'baby'] | URnpgu9hzq2wmwuvnptKw4 | right | Expresses writer’s opinion |
In a Friday interview with PBS, Sanders was more blunt: “Am I here to tell you absolutely, this is a slam dunk, no chance that he will lose? That is not what I’m saying,” the Vermont senator said. | Breitbart | 1 | universal health care | https://www.breitbart.com/news/bernie-sanders-biden-win-in-november-is-no-slam-dunk/ | ['blunt'] | puSeQnYh8qSVLgXaZ5iPit | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Fears of an all-out war between the United States and Iran escalated earlier this month following the killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani by U.S. forces. | Alternet | 0 | international-politics-and-world-news | https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/leaked-memo-shows-that-border-officers-were-ordered-to-detain-travelers-tied-to-iran-despite-denials-report/ | [] | XTAjQjto7RWBQfDTWXDQHc | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Police training emphasizing de-escalation and minimizing the use of force might better protect vulnerable community members, she said. | Reuters | 0 | blm | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-disabilities-law-enforcement/young-people-with-disabilities-more-likely-to-be-arrested-idUSKBN1DA2SZ | [] | KGvhBFpE6uDbtTDHPc2Lb3 | null | Entirely factual |
At least 25 transgender or gender-nonconforming people were killed in violent attacks in the United States last year, according to the Human Rights Campaign, which has been tracking anti-trans violence since at least 2015. | MSNBC | 0 | gender | https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nypd-investigates-alleged-subway-assault-trans-woman-possible-hate-crime-n1123291?cid=public-rss_20200126 | [] | nqTszsoGF8ZAhLwsLiHws5 | left | Entirely factual |
Trumpism is the white supremacist capitalist kamikaze mission we warned you about. | Daily Beast | 1 | marriage-equality | https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-fuck-you-to-the-white-liberals-who-cleared-the-runway-for-trumps-white-supremacist-suicide-mission?source=articles&via=rss | ['Trumpism', 'supremacist', 'kimikaze', 'white'] | 3HUUrwCDPaXHutfdo5kef4 | null | Expresses writer’s opinion |
The UK-based journal — which now self-identifies as “progressive” and openly agitates for abortion rights, gender theory, the LGBT agenda, the elimination of “whiteness,” and streamlined international migration — claimed in its July 9 editorial that the “current US administration’s unilateral action notifying the UN that the USA is withdrawing violates US law because it does not have express approval of Congress to leave WHO.” | Breitbart | 1 | universal health care | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/0Af4n5eJaj4/ | ['claimed'] | Z3bex7Vtb9nA5K6kcWKPxX | right | No agreement |
The city is on fire, the enemy is pressing. | Reuters | 0 | international-politics-and-world-news | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | null | UM3XSu7wbarv35wKxsL9z2 | null | null |
Those filings are expected to show that Sen. Sanders, the so-called democratic socialist, made millions from book sales. | Fox News | 1 | middle-class | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warren-releases-tax-returns | ['so-called'] | o3esQQTY62KRMHAMMCLJkn | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
But the announcement Monday further clarifies that YouTube will take down any election-related videos that are technically altered to mislead people in a way that goes beyond simply taking clips of speech out of context. | USA Today | 0 | elections-2020 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/02/03/youtube-google-wont-allow-deepfake-videos-2020-election-census/4648312002/ | [] | wt7534fqFYFWGThbyqCBTZ | center | Entirely factual |
"Despite significant losses, the enemy threw in the most prepared assault units of Wagner, who are trying to break through the defences of our troops and surround the city," Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine's ground forces, said in a statement. | Reuters | 0 | international-politics-and-world-news | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | null | 9rUj3LDRYMwzVoUENMwhPV | null | null |
Trump relishing in his dream job as Pundit-in-Chief. | Breitbart | 1 | vaccine | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/w4bPyVbdBoE/ | ['relishing', 'Pundit-in-Chief'] | mLMXBC68EagRVguwN5a7Ho | null | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Thursday he would look at ways to help those who have already incurred large debts from university tuition fees, and would not sell off student loans to private companies. | Reuters | 0 | student-debt | https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-election-corbyn-students/uks-corbyn-says-labour-will-consider-student-debt-relief-idUSS8N26G098 | [] | TG7BKebDEBxAnPjKvunMoG | center | Entirely factual |
More than 22,000 armed gun-rights activists peacefully filled the streets around Virginia’s capitol building on Monday to protest gun-control legislation making its way through the newly Democratic-controlled state legislature. | Reuters | 0 | gun control | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-rally/militia-leaders-warn-virginia-gun-rally-could-get-violent-idUSKBN1ZJ15B?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews | [] | ZFdViv3Bs6oiUvKmbvjPDy | center | Entirely factual |
Reuters was not able to verify battlefield reports. | Reuters | 0 | international-politics-and-world-news | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | null | KXeb2Jy4TFyyGDWS9qcfs7 | null | null |
Korenberg resigned after The Ubyssey, UBC’s student newspaper, reported he had liked a series of tweets from U.S. conservative figures disparaging the Black Lives Matter campaign and Antifa, an umbrella term for primarily leftist anti-authoritarians. | Reuters | 0 | blm | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-racism-idUSKBN23S0MW?taid=5eefaf3f87586b0001d21c74&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter | [] | mCpMS9kyQEcNoi4aAV8pHH | null | Entirely factual |
Shared on Facebook and Instagram, posts include a bar graph showing “murder of blacks and whites in the US, 2013” broken down by the races of the perpetrators. While the graph itself is accurate, the way it is presented is misleading. | Reuters | 0 | blm | https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-fact-check-bar-graph-black-white-homi/fact-check-misleading-bar-graph-presents-distorted-interpretation-of-black-and-white-murder-rates-idUSKBN23M2SX | [] | bNZBPRxVb2fUDfZYuDS9cR | null | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Players raised gloved right fists and took a knee before Major League Soccer’s first match in four months on Wednesday in a show of solidarity with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ social justice movement. | Reuters | 0 | black lives matter | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-usa-orl-mia-protests/players-raise-fists-take-a-knee-prior-to-return-match-idUSKBN24A02Z?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social | [] | Fwbw9cU8pygvP3uYbpzf6R | center | Entirely factual |
Since when did even conservative publications consider that it’s the right and moral thing to do to provide covering fire for an increasingly thuggish, openly hard-left, and borderline terroristic group which is less obviously to do with ‘racism’, but which has almost everything to do with smashing Western civilisation? | Breitbart | 1 | black lives matter | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/aJodbK6Hgt8/ | ['thuggish', 'borderline', 'terroristic', 'smashing', 'openly', 'hard-left'] | XY6iLAtizPyTbcwyQ5inQb | right | Expresses writer’s opinion |
President Donald Trump addressed an audience of the global business elite in Davos on Tuesday to make the case that ordinary Americans have been the chief beneficiaries of his administration’s “America first” maxim. | MSNBC | 0 | middle-class | https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-says-american-worker-top-priority-economists-are-skeptical-n1119386?cid=public-rss_20200121 | [] | 39Gym6dYn7Kj7NxEN6PgwL | left | Entirely factual |
So if you decided a career in art history was worth the price, it shouldn’t be the government’s job to pay the bill for your student loans––even if it’s not your fault that the cost of college has exploded in recent years. | Federalist | 1 | student-debt | https://thefederalist.com/2018/03/19/student-debt-crisis-students-fault-shouldnt-get-bailout/ | [] | Z6UKtnc2UvruGkjNzm5Xgf | right | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Erdogan, a half-literate man from Asia Minor, holds no fondness for the secular-liberal 20th century. | Federalist | 1 | islam | https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/15/hagia-sophias-reversion-into-a-mosque-is-a-turning-point-in-history/ | ['half-literate'] | JkVnpjRS6ujpgPAEcky2Mw | null | Expresses writer’s opinion |
As the #MeToo movement marches on with no signs of slowing, the air is filled with warnings that men will react by refusing to hire and promote women. | MSNBC | 1 | #metoo | https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/reality-check-why-metoo-will-not-stop-men-hiring-women-ncna873411?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma | null | ZZCrSWKtt5u3SZe7Y2r9da | null | null |
Gautney consented to this field, job, and city, so if she has an issue with compensation or cost of living, switching to a more lucrative field or cheaper place to live is a decision she should make for herself, not a decision that ought to be bailed out by unsuspecting taxpayers who played no role in the choice. | Federalist | 1 | student-debt | https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/26/taking-student-debt-pursue-degree-consensual-choice/ | [] | h4NqhnxLAj9QEmm8TFvV75 | right | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Anti-vaxxers represent only about 2 percent of American families, although you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re more numerous. They certainly make a lot of noise and have some world-famous adherents. However, like malaria-carrying mosquitoes, this tiny group that punches above its weight may be on the verge of creating a public health problem for us all. | Federalist | 1 | vaccines | https://thefederalist.com/2017/02/28/protect-infant-world-anti-vaxxers/ | ['Anti-vaxxers', 'mosquitoes'] | shbcKSA5bNw6KunrUupNHw | right | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Democrats took the first step to repeal President Trump’s expanding travel bans Wednesday at a House Judiciary Committee session that devolved into a debate on whether the restrictions amount to a Muslim ban and whether it’s OK to call Trump “occasionally honest”. | Fox News | 0 | islam | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tensions-flare-at-house-session-as-dems-take-aim-at-trump-travel-ban | [] | oazGusYWURLgRcZkrygiWp | null | Entirely factual |
Trump likes to tell this story with vivid and completely made-up details about swaddling a baby in blankets before murdering it. The Senate held hearings in which anti-choice activist Jill Stanek — a crazed, racist liar who also claims Chinese people think aborted fetuses are a “delicacy” — claimed, almost certainly falsely, that she once witnessed a baby being killed this way. | Alternet | 1 | abortion | https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/how-the-religious-rights-war-against-abortion-is-built-on-lies-grifting-and-bullying/ | ['swaddling', 'murdering', 'crazed', 'racist', 'claimed', 'vivid', 'made-up', 'liar'] | KbRgq3T6Sz2Hpv7FC6hu43 | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
After all, America’s commander-in-chief does have the authority, at his sole discretion, to order the launch of weapons from the vast U.S. nuclear arsenal. | Alternet | 0 | islam | https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/a-beleaguered-trump-continues-to-mull-over-just-how-to-end-americas-endless-wars-while-seemingly-expanding-them-further/ | [] | qFhmSQBJj7PyX6np5hJVi4 | null | Entirely factual |
The coronavirus is hitting South Africa’s mainly black townships harder than areas that were once the exclusive preserve of white people, according to new data that highlights the lasting impact of apartheid-era housing policies. | Reuters | 0 | blm | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-housing-tr/coronavirus-exposes-brutal-inequality-of-south-africa-townships-idUSKBN23J2BS | [] | 5jFJYD6teCiFNhqMQuvcN3 | null | Entirely factual |
But the national and global trends spin a tale of two separate realities. An irrational fear of vaccines among well-educated and largely white Americans has fueled an utterly preventable and dangerous disease that had been considered “eliminated” by scientists. | Alternet | 1 | vaccines | https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/anti-vaxxers-are-just-as-bad-as-climate-deniers/ | ['spin', 'fueled'] | TMJNM2Kyk5dqwTMbJtGEeF | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
That market is widening this year to include a new rush of first-time buyers, including many women, minorities and politically liberal buyers who once would not have considered gun ownership, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen industry experts, academics and gun store owners. | Reuters | 0 | gun control | https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSKBN2701G1?il=3 | [] | D7y4ZvVup48Ck3MSn4WLwR | center | Entirely factual |
During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that nothing will be as effective in combatting sexist media coverage “as electing a woman president of the United States.” | Breitbart | 0 | gender | https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/02/20/warren-electing-a-woman-is-the-best-way-to-combat-sexist-coverage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29 | [] | LwMvgNAbHEvQ4yaVxPqB7B | right | Entirely factual |
Samoan authorities have blamed low coverage rates in part to fears sparked by the deaths of two babies last year after vaccinations that put a temporary halt on immunisation efforts. | Reuters | 0 | vaccines | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-measles-samoa/samoa-fights-measles-door-to-door-in-battle-on-anti-vaccination-messages-idUSKBN1Y9033 | [] | tKetLUKqRzdQ3oxwpo6FLD | center | Entirely factual |
But Islam is the mother load of bad ideas. | Fox News | 1 | islam | https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/bill-oreilly-is-islam-a-destructive-force-in-the-world | ['mother', 'load', 'bad'] | SZT5wXihz9syd5mKhBiShK | null | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Austin police and emergency medical services said on Twitter that one person was killed during the shooting. | Reuters | 0 | black lives matter | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-austin-idUSKCN24R06I?taid=5f1d3cc868ab860001890230&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter | [] | akSBTK4aUYtCwRti2q6BGA | center | Entirely factual |
After witnessing the right-wing reaction to Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist from Sweden who spoke at the United Nations this week, there can be no doubt that modern-day conservatism, especially the Republican Party, functions primarily as a protection racket for the fragile egos of mediocre white men. | Alternet | 1 | environment | https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/why-theyre-scared-of-greta-thunberg-right-wingers-cant-deny-this-climate-activists-truth-in-desperation-theyre-resorting-to-malice-bigotry-and-lies/ | ['fragile', 'egos', 'mediocre', 'white'] | JSxKXtkAv5PuV5DdnNoV7x | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Rispone is crying foul about the race-baiting ads from Edwards’ allies. | Breitbart | 1 | white-nationalism | https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/05/democrats-deploy-race-card-in-louisiana-governor-race/ | ['race-baiting'] | xopUbHgUPpz8yqLdDiX4Ny | right | No agreement |
Won’t it be absurdly difficult to enforce new gun-control laws, or move toward the outright confiscation that is always and forever the Left’s ultimate goal, after a year of record-breaking gun sales? | Breitbart | 1 | gun control | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/MBTkPPu9uSo/ | ['absurdly'] | TKV2RMb3K5u4TLZQNifKxx | right | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Global cooperation is key to ensuring the security of 5G networks, cyber security officials said on Thursday at a meeting in Prague aimed at hammering out how to combat threats as nations begin rolling out next-generation telecoms equipment. | Reuters | 0 | environment | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-telecoms-5g-security/global-security-officials-to-hammer-out-united-5g-security-approach-idUSKCN1S81NX | ['hammering', 'out'] | uqUjRANjnizdtiA6DrXm3T | center | Entirely factual |
During her acceptance speech for best actress in a limited television series for Fosse/Vernon, Williams went on a bizarre rant about the need for abortion rights in the United States and for American women to vote for pro-choice candidates during election years. | Breitbart | 1 | abortion | https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/01/05/michelle-williams-pro-abortion-rant-at-golden-globe/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29 | ['bizarre', 'rant'] | sXBW38WURxZ6PxWaeVP3hV | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
The United States is a failed democracy and a mafia state, the natural result of what happens when capitalism is deregulated. | Alternet | 1 | black lives matter | https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/gangster-capitalist-trump-is-running-a-mafia-state-and-things-are-about-to-get-worse-pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist/ | ['mafia', 'state'] | ixV33LueurKLwnwKgwjQPt | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
According to a report released last year, around one-quarter of Germans now come from migrant backgrounds, with the number reaching as high as 40 per cent or more among children under the age of five, according to a report released in 2016. | Breitbart | 0 | islam | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/5vJ7FvRVEAs/ | [] | o53zuPhqHNqpaQrj7Z9KWA | null | Entirely factual |
The Federal Reserve, long criticized for being too white and male, crossed a substantial milestone last year: for the first time in its 107-year history, white men held fewer than half of board seats at the Fed’s 12 regional outposts. | Reuters | 0 | blm | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-diversity-insight/too-white-too-male-fed-takes-on-diversity-one-bank-board-member-at-a-time-idUSKCN20L1FN?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews | [] | gQE7RuXnPxjWKEcfP5q48w | null | Entirely factual |
I shot and killed people because they were Black." | Reuters | 0 | gun-control | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | null | AUNmcixFM3aeMSTV6B4Vei | null | null |
This would be the same Taliban that gleefully murders young women for the crime of going to school and regards democracy as a crime against Islam punishable by death. | Breitbart | 1 | international-politics-and-world-news | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/EReXUAKj_UQ/ | ['gleefully', 'murders'] | RTouuAZiBEaPpbBnygDefg | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
This is not exactly PTSD,” she said, “It’s a new kind of trauma.” | The Daily Beast | 0 | environment | https://www.thedailybeast.com/climate-disaster-trauma-is-rewiring-our-brains-into-something-alarmingly-worse | null | T3d6DAC8y8vnhSWmUQv3Yw | null | null |
In court and in public, the administration defended the extreme and disruptive measure being based on national security considerations, though it was clearly an instantiation of Trump’s bigoted campaign promise to end all Muslim immigration to the United States. | Alternet | 1 | immigration | https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/conservative-magazine-denounces-trumps-cruel-expansion-of-his-muslim-ban/ | ['bigoted', 'extreme', 'disruptive'] | VWAgRtikzKpT5dn4knhDwv | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
Lawmakers in New Jersey are set to vote Monday on a controversial bill that would eliminate religion as a reason not to vaccinate public schoolchildren. | MSNBC | 0 | vaccine | https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-vaccine-bill-lawmakers-to-vote-whether-to-eliminate-religious-exemptions/ar-BBYSV6K | [] | UimjyQQwbLjwoWjExvGsoY | null | Entirely factual |
The Trump administration is working on a plan to let the Social Security Administration (SSA) check up on claimants on Facebook and Twitter in order to root out fraud and abuse in the disability program. | Reuters | 0 | middle-class | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-miller-socialmedia/u-s-government-weighs-social-media-snooping-to-detect-social-security-fraud-idUSKCN1RA12R | [] | AjR2Z3KJiNYpDJjQb6Gbvk | center | Entirely factual |
Donald Trump is calling on lawmakers to completely ban any and all Muslims from entering the U.S. in order to protect the homeland amid heightened national security concerns. | Fox News | 1 | islam | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-for-total-and-complete-ban-on-muslims-entering-the-u-s | ['protect'] | 9mnjzxWSpGeCPEXuqZpEAR | null | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
The New York Times recently published a fairly detailed fact-check of these Trump World arguments that democrats don’t mind executing babies after birth, and not surprisingly, the rhetoric is irresponsibly wrong. | MSNBC | 1 | abortion | http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/white-house-line-abortion-becomes-even-more-incendiary | ['Trump', 'World', 'irresponsibly', 'wrong', 'executing'] | 5gS9FXv3rB4247uhmewhbg | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
The Republican president entered the initial round of talks with the North Korean dictator in Singapore with minimal preparation – Trump went so far as to mock the very idea of doing pre-summit homework – and soon after, he made a series of concessions to Kim Jong-un in exchange for effectively nothing. | MSNBC | 1 | international-politics-and-world-news | http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/white-house-fears-trump-may-get-outfoxed-north-korea-talks | [] | fbpcK3paBdWchZBL9h62B5 | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Though Trump has successfully increased wages by four percent over the last 12 months for America’s blue collar and working class by decreasing foreign competition through a crackdown on illegal immigration, experts have warned that those wage hikes will not continue heading into the 2020 election should current illegal immigration levels keep rising at record levels. | Breitbart | 1 | middle-class | https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/29/wapo-abc-poll-2-in-3-swing-voters-say-u-s-economic-system-benefits-the-rich/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29 | [] | tsAq92nqvBAT6f6GibHtW4 | right | No agreement |
David Rothkopf, an anti-Trump commentator, cited the coronavirus pandemic in telling Parscale "you should have considered the term 'Death Star' a little more carefully-what with the 100,000 or more people who are likely to die because of your candidate's failed leadership." | USA Today | 1 | trump-presidency | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/07/trump-campaign-proclaims-death-star-biden-team-notes-got-blown-up/3088176001/ | [] | Tnz2rWZX5bMLc4x7YaFtJS | center | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Democrats effectively nationalized the student loan industry in 2010 by transferring eight million loans into the federal government’s hands. | Breitbart | 0 | student-debt | https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/03/10/obama-considers-allowing-student-loans-to-be-wiped-out-in-bankruptcy/ | [] | eBfiuV2CiKijEENxQgTaRy | right | Entirely factual |
On Monday, as Common Dreams reported, Trump threatened to deploy federal forces to Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, and Oakland to confront Black Lives Matter protesters. | Alternet | 0 | black lives matter | https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/this-has-to-stop-oregon-senators-unveil-amendment-to-bar-trump-from-sending-secret-police-into-us-cities/ | ['threatened'] | gmhKt8obx3tvkzgU9TTeEp | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
On multiple occasions, Trump has claimed his full healthcare plan would be released in "two weeks," "one month," "soon," and so on, the truth is that it has been three and a half years and Trump still has not released a plan. | Alternet | 1 | universal health care | https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/637445774/0/alternet/ | ['claimed'] | P8DLQeE7vbEdYYRpY6Cf3V | left | No agreement |
More chilling, ISIS has issued a new marriage certificate allowing brides to carry out suicide missions. | New York Post | 1 | islam | https://nypost.com/2017/05/13/meet-the-western-women-who-are-flocking-to-join-isis/ | null | vdp3hQMNavjW3zAgRy7AMT | null | null |
But Hedges also sees hope for saving the United States from imminent tyranny. Where? In the George Floyd protests and the possibility of revolutionary change. | Alternet | 1 | black lives matter | https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/gangster-capitalist-trump-is-running-a-mafia-state-and-things-are-about-to-get-worse-pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist/ | ['tyranny'] | WpkgpbRWdFrGQqnmtps8Zt | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
In Europe, no government has joined Trump’s anti-Iran crusade (though John Bolton is whispering in the ear of the new Trump-loving prime minister, Boris Johnson.) | Alternet | 1 | international-politics-and-world-news | https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/how-secret-israeli-attacks-in-iraq-are-driving-trumps-anti-iran-campaign/ | ['whispering', 'crusade', 'Trump-loving'] | bieeHaCEmYqjfgiXuk9Qid | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Moreover, Rowling says she’s concerned that the radical activists have been allowed to become mainstream and that undue inculcation of the trans agenda into among the youth is causing an explosion of sudden transitioning among children — and mostly girls — because of peer pressure and not for medical or mental health related reasons. | Breitbart | 1 | marriage-equality | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/qGgoobMZYVs/ | ['radical', 'agenda'] | JrjUHSSukvK9b8iD6xNp6Q | null | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks vanished from Facebook on Wednesday, after the failure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott over hate speech on the site. | Reuters | 0 | blm | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ads-boycott/facebook-frustrates-advertisers-as-boycott-over-hate-speech-kicks-off-idUSKBN2424GS | [] | 65JAyGcmyYpDsUsBJuTpoE | null | Entirely factual |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Monday waxed hyperbolic about the 2020 presidential election, telling an audience that “civilization as we know it is at stake.” | Breitbart | 1 | elections-2020 | https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/09/nancy-pelosi-civilization-as-we-know-it-is-at-stake-in-2020-election/ | ['waxed', 'hyperbolic'] | QFrjqocxKTTRfQUzSiZRp8 | right | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
Democratic candidates attacked Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday, as stocks plunged on fears of the growing outbreak | Reuters | 0 | blm | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/on-the-trail-biden-consolidates-black-voter-support-democrats-attack-trump-on-coronavirus-idUSKCN20L1GQ?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews | [] | urN6SzpKnARSCh4uq3ZXe3 | null | Entirely factual |
Cops are to blame for much of this mayhem. Video clips show them wildly out of control, inciting violence and inflicting it, instead of defusing and preventing it. | Alternet | 1 | gun control | https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/626496194/0/alternet_all~%e2%80%98Light-%e2%80%99em-up%e2%80%99-With-warrior-cops-America%e2%80%99s-forever-wars-in-distant-lands-have-now-come-home/ | ['mayhem', 'wildly'] | Z4Q5ePGnTLtm5GQA4QEZhx | left | Expresses writer’s opinion |
In the majority opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that neither of the provisions provided medical benefits and placed a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking an abortion, constituting an undue burden. | MSNBC | 0 | abortion | https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/after-shift-right-under-trump-supreme-court-hear-major-abortion-n1147461?cid=public-rss_20200303 | [] | enhyppg7zTZqzH6kW3JaMc | left | Entirely factual |
Gun control advocates said gun rights groups are sowing fear during the pandemic in order to boost firearms sales, adding that increased gun ownership during the crisis could lead to more domestic violence. | Reuters | 0 | gun control | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-guns/trump-coronavirus-guidance-on-keeping-gun-stores-open-draws-criticism-idUSKBN21H37L?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews | [] | gXqSeJ5sJbDpcx54JnahvU | center | Entirely factual |
As it has played out on the ground, these gatherings have become bellicose, and frequently armed, mobs protesting police officers at their homes, breaking into health-board meetings that were being held online, and breaking down the doors inside the Statehouse and attending committee meetings unmasked in order to intimidate state legislators. | Alternet | 1 | black lives matter | https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/ammon-bundy-is-building-a-far-right-theocratic-army-under-the-guise-of-defending-rights/ | ['bellicose', 'mobs'] | wDTsPLnMRo9t2eNEk2akGb | left | Somewhat factual but also opinionated |
A sharp drop in temperatures and wind speed, combined with vehicle and industrial emissions, dust from building sites and smoke from garbage burning has boosted pollution over much of north India, including New Delhi, home to more than 20 million. | Reuters | 0 | environment | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pollution/toxic-smog-shrouds-indian-capital-as-pollution-soars-government-measures-fail-idUSKCN1OX0K9 | [] | K29gGDRqYHNMiLvs6eZnhS | center | Entirely factual |
Biden's speech was the first he's made since he emerged as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in a campaign in which he has overtly suggested to the American public that he's better prepared than Trump to handle a crisis as commander in chief. | MSNBC | 0 | blm | https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-seeking-project-competence-amid-crisis-announces-coronavirus-plan-n1156946?cid=public-rss_20200312 | [] | uVRPWZus8VbDmmb5FczR2n | null | Entirely factual |