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@ChefReactions My cat's name is Maude! Bea Arthur was a boss.

Factual information on the CDC website, stating studies have shown there's no link between vaccines and autism, was replaced yesterday with inaccurate anti-vaccine talking points. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a longtime anti-vaccine activist. cnn.com/2025/11/20/hea…

In the past week alone, President Trump has accused Democrats of lying that prices are up, though Trump is lying that prices are down, and accused his former FBI director of lying about Jan. 6, though it is Trump who is pushing the false conspiracy theory: cnn.com/2025/11/19/pol…

The president’s claims about Portland - that it’s burning down, on fire, has no or few stores, does not use glass anymore - are just detached from reality, regardless of what’s going on any given day with the protest situation around one ICE building on one block.

The president’s claim that “Portland is burning to the ground” is extremely false, like one of the wrongest things of all the wrong things he has said this year.

And CNN removed it from the broadcast‼️ VERY DECEPTIVE JOURNALISM on their part‼️

President Trump’s speech to the UN was one of those “where do you even start” addresses from a fact-check perspective. Here’s a non-comprehensive look at some of his claims: Inflation hasn't been "defeated" by Trump; it's been rising since the spring and is now, at 2.9%, just shy of the 3.0% from when he returned to office in January, when he says he inherited an “economic calamity.” US electricity bills aren’t “coming way down”; they’re spiking, rising at double the rate of overall inflation. Grocery prices aren't "down” either; they're up during this presidency and they jumped last month at the fastest pace since 2022. Trump didn't end a “raging” war between Egypt and Ethiopia because the two countries were not in a war at all; they’re in an argument over a dam that is ongoing. He’s previously claimed he stopped Serbia and Kosovo from starting a new war, not that he resolved an existing war, which makes more sense because they weren’t at war under Trump, either. And the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo hasn’t ended despite the Trump administration-brokered June peace deal, which, critically, didn’t involve the rebel coalition doing the fighting. Trump’s current poll numbers aren’t close to his highest ever. Trump’s “$17 trillion” investment figure is $8 trillion higher than the figure his own press secretary used *yesterday.* President Biden didn’t let in 25 million migrants. Biden didn’t lose 300,000 kids. Global warming isn’t a “hoax.” Scientists haven’t ceased using the phrase “global warming.” Coal isn’t “clean.” The US didn’t have to pay “$1 trillion” under the Paris climate accord. That the wind sometimes doesn’t blow doesn’t make wind power useless; batteries exist, and wind is used as part of a mix of power sources. China doesn’t “barely” use wind energy; in fact it’s by far the world’s leading user of wind power, and it’s rapidly building more domestic capacity. More here: cnn.com/2025/09/23/pol…

President Trump keeps repeating debunked lies. Here’s a fact check of 10 he repeated in the last week alone. There can’t possibly be a 1,500% reduction in drug prices. The US hasn’t sent Ukraine $350 billion in wartime aid. Trump’s dam-opening in January didn’t send extra water to Los Angeles (and California’s water flows aren’t controlled by a single “valve”). The US is far from the only country that uses mail-in ballots. There is inflation in the United States. There hasn’t been $1.99 gas anywhere in the US when Trump has claimed there has been. Trump didn’t sign any law giving automatic 10-year sentences to monument vandals. Biden was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election. Biden didn’t let South Korea stop covering part of the cost of the US military presence there. A camera didn’t catch Gov. Wes Moore calling Trump “the greatest president”; it caught Trump lying about this. cnn.com/2025/08/29/pol…

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@ddale8 Which other countries use mail in ballots?

No, states don't have to run elections how the president "tells" them to. No, the US isn't "the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting." No, mail-in voting doesn't make elections fraudulent. Quick fact check of Trump's morning nonsense: cnn.com/2025/08/18/pol…

@bwool1 @OHPAlerts Seriously. Abusing the Emergency Alert System results in people ignoring alerts.

@OHPAlerts There are much better ways to distribute information than sending a week-old alert out on an emergency system intended for immediate threats to life. Don't do this - it causes people to turn off their alerts and not receive the ones that ARE urgent and immediate.

@OHPAlerts Why are we getting an emergency alert for this?

Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck. #HappyPride

The FBI is knocking down two fake videos circulating online claiming that the FBI issued warnings about terrorist threats at polling sites and reports of voting in swing state prisons were fabricated, the agency said in a statement. 1: The first is a fabricated newsclip purporting to be a terrorist warning issued by the FBI. The fabricated newsclip reports falsely that the FBI purportedly stated that Americans should ‘vote remotely’ due to a high terror threat at polling stations. This video is not authentic and does not accurately represent the current threat posture or polling location safety,” the FBI said in a statement.

We ran an article Friday about how the Trump campaign has made a habit of deceptively using quotes in its TV ads, cutting out words and taking stuff way out of context. Then the campaign released the most egregious example yet. Here's a thread on deceptive quotes in its new ad.

No, FEMA didn’t take disaster money and give it all to migrants No, FEMA money isn’t “all gone” No, not true Biden had no money for NC No, Biden isn’t using FEMA to bribe migrants to illegally vote Fact check on Trump’s many hurricane lies in NC today: cnn.com/2024/10/21/pol…

NYT goes through a Trump speech and a Harris speech: Trump: 23 “false,” 15 “misleading,” 16 “exaggerated,” 6 “lack evidence” Harris: 1 “false,” 1 “misleading,” 1 “exaggerated” I’d quibble with some labels, but yep that’s what we’re dealing with. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Can’t stop won’t stop. Fact check on Trump’s lies about FEMA and the hurricane response here: cnn.com/2024/10/06/pol…

The Okla Ed Department wants to buy 55,000 Bibles with some very specific requirements. Notice anything?? Story via @OklahomaWatch oklahomawatch.org/2024/10/03/sta…

It’s happening again, clear as it was at this time in 2020. Donald Trump is telling election lie after election lie - at least 12 different ones recently - to lay the groundwork to reject the legitimacy of a possible 2024 defeat: cnn.com/2024/09/30/pol…