FactCheckJeff
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Educator sharing facts/context. I usually post what I think more people should know. Is a real person. I like primary sources. ?'s are always welcome.
And here is the update. Feds want to use California National Guard. Talks about the feds looking for an excuse to escalate, which I would believe. Is this missing any sense of urgency or am I totally off? His state is being attacked by the federal government and milquetoast is the answer.
June 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
And here is the update. Feds want to use California National Guard. Talks about the feds looking for an excuse to escalate, which I would believe. Is this missing any sense of urgency or am I totally off? His state is being attacked by the federal government and milquetoast is the answer.
Gavin Newsom is MIA as Los Angeles is in chaos. He put out this "statement" yesterday that isn't worth the digital paper it's written on. He hasn't posted to his social media in almost a full day. The moment calls for a man of conviction and principles. We're getting neither.
June 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Gavin Newsom is MIA as Los Angeles is in chaos. He put out this "statement" yesterday that isn't worth the digital paper it's written on. He hasn't posted to his social media in almost a full day. The moment calls for a man of conviction and principles. We're getting neither.
Would Trump "have lost the election" without Elon Musk? It's possible, but not because the election was 'rigged'. He put in hundreds of millions of dollars directly (and who knows how much he marshaled from others). We don't have an election integrity problem. We have a political spending problem.
June 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Would Trump "have lost the election" without Elon Musk? It's possible, but not because the election was 'rigged'. He put in hundreds of millions of dollars directly (and who knows how much he marshaled from others). We don't have an election integrity problem. We have a political spending problem.
Republicans sprinkled in some good talking points (like recess reform) and the bait worked. This is a MAHA bill that every TX Senate Democrat just voted for. It's astonishing. (3/3)
legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB25...
legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB25...
June 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Republicans sprinkled in some good talking points (like recess reform) and the bait worked. This is a MAHA bill that every TX Senate Democrat just voted for. It's astonishing. (3/3)
legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB25...
legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB25...
It ties funding of health-related higher ed to requiring the use of a nutritional curriculum from the new "Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee". Sounds reasonable until you read the rest of the bill and see how much crankery is involved, including the weird label on things like bleached flour. (2/3)
June 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It ties funding of health-related higher ed to requiring the use of a nutritional curriculum from the new "Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee". Sounds reasonable until you read the rest of the bill and see how much crankery is involved, including the weird label on things like bleached flour. (2/3)
TX's SB25 passed the state Senate unanimously and will soon be law. It creates a warning label requirement for a long list of colorants and additives as "not recommended for human consumption" based on non-American standards, but it's much worse than that. (1/3)
June 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
TX's SB25 passed the state Senate unanimously and will soon be law. It creates a warning label requirement for a long list of colorants and additives as "not recommended for human consumption" based on non-American standards, but it's much worse than that. (1/3)
The CBO put out a new estimate on the cost of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and while the sheet has a lot of numbers, the only one that matters is in the lower right - $2.4T in new deficit spending over the next 10 years.
June 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The CBO put out a new estimate on the cost of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and while the sheet has a lot of numbers, the only one that matters is in the lower right - $2.4T in new deficit spending over the next 10 years.
The "Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act" would require insurance to cover not only delivery but also most pre- and postpartum services. It's as obvious a needed change as I can ever recall reading in a bill.
May 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The "Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act" would require insurance to cover not only delivery but also most pre- and postpartum services. It's as obvious a needed change as I can ever recall reading in a bill.
Wonder what the tariff on particulate matter is.
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Wonder what the tariff on particulate matter is.
I went looking for historical smoking rates in the United States for a discussion I was having with Mrs. FCJ about when and why it peaked. It led me to this Surgeon General report link that no longer works. We are destroying useful information because thinking too much is bad for politics.
May 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I went looking for historical smoking rates in the United States for a discussion I was having with Mrs. FCJ about when and why it peaked. It led me to this Surgeon General report link that no longer works. We are destroying useful information because thinking too much is bad for politics.
There are ~75M children in the US. About half receive their healthcare from Medicaid/CHIP compared to ~13% of the adult population. Highlights the general financial state of the bottom half of parents and how any cuts are going to directly result in children losing healthcare.
May 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There are ~75M children in the US. About half receive their healthcare from Medicaid/CHIP compared to ~13% of the adult population. Highlights the general financial state of the bottom half of parents and how any cuts are going to directly result in children losing healthcare.
There is no such thing as "Judeo-Christian principles and ethics". The term has been popularized by Evangelicals to promote a religious and cultural connection to Judaism that doesn't exist. You don't get to write a fanfic sequel and then claim the authors of the original had anything to do with it.
May 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
There is no such thing as "Judeo-Christian principles and ethics". The term has been popularized by Evangelicals to promote a religious and cultural connection to Judaism that doesn't exist. You don't get to write a fanfic sequel and then claim the authors of the original had anything to do with it.
If you ever find yourself advocating for the removal of basic medical care for the elderly, you've lost the plot and your humanity.
May 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If you ever find yourself advocating for the removal of basic medical care for the elderly, you've lost the plot and your humanity.
District Judge Brian Murphy ruled that DHS "violated the Court's Preliminary Injunction" to not deport people to countries other than their own without recourse. It requires DHS provide opportunities over the next 15 days for the deportees to challenge the deportations.
May 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
District Judge Brian Murphy ruled that DHS "violated the Court's Preliminary Injunction" to not deport people to countries other than their own without recourse. It requires DHS provide opportunities over the next 15 days for the deportees to challenge the deportations.
I've got internet haters now. It's all going to plan.
May 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I've got internet haters now. It's all going to plan.
The newest CBO report on the "big, beautiful bill" further confirms that it will add trillions to the national debt. What's new is the projected legally-required cuts to Medicare that would come from the lost revenue elsewhere in the bill.
May 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The newest CBO report on the "big, beautiful bill" further confirms that it will add trillions to the national debt. What's new is the projected legally-required cuts to Medicare that would come from the lost revenue elsewhere in the bill.
Buy-now-pay-later (Klarna, etc.) is a pox. The majority of people use these services, but the purpose isn't always the same. The poorer you are, the more you use it for necessities. With a ~30% delinquency rate, these loans are credit-ruining gambles that take advantage of both needs and wants.
May 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Buy-now-pay-later (Klarna, etc.) is a pox. The majority of people use these services, but the purpose isn't always the same. The poorer you are, the more you use it for necessities. With a ~30% delinquency rate, these loans are credit-ruining gambles that take advantage of both needs and wants.
There are ~340k Venezuelans that will now qualify for deportation overnight because the Supreme Court is too craven to acknowledge the sheer enormity of the situation. People will be disappeared long before it plays out in the courts, and we've already seen that court orders don't mean much anyway.
May 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There are ~340k Venezuelans that will now qualify for deportation overnight because the Supreme Court is too craven to acknowledge the sheer enormity of the situation. People will be disappeared long before it plays out in the courts, and we've already seen that court orders don't mean much anyway.
DHS Sec. Noem removed Venezuela from the Temporary Protected Status country list, a lower court gave a temporary injunction preventing enforcement, DHS requested a stay, and it ends in this 8-1 decision(?) allowing the reclassification to occur while the case plays out through the appeals process.
May 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
DHS Sec. Noem removed Venezuela from the Temporary Protected Status country list, a lower court gave a temporary injunction preventing enforcement, DHS requested a stay, and it ends in this 8-1 decision(?) allowing the reclassification to occur while the case plays out through the appeals process.
The new Sesame Street/Netflix deal fully incorporates PBS and the PBS Kids ecosystem with same-day airing. It's a good outcome for an important educational tool that is at risk because of rampant anti-intellectualism.
May 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The new Sesame Street/Netflix deal fully incorporates PBS and the PBS Kids ecosystem with same-day airing. It's a good outcome for an important educational tool that is at risk because of rampant anti-intellectualism.
Speaking of Administration lies, the "big, beautiful bill" would definitely add to the national debt. The CBO made it official, but you don't need to be an economics wizard to recognize less tax revenue in a system already operating at a deficit will lead to bigger shortfalls.
May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Speaking of Administration lies, the "big, beautiful bill" would definitely add to the national debt. The CBO made it official, but you don't need to be an economics wizard to recognize less tax revenue in a system already operating at a deficit will lead to bigger shortfalls.
Florida is banning fluoride from water systems without ever using the term. They invented a definition of "water quality additive" that excludes it. The change is part of a 111-page law filled with disparate nonsense. It's an anti-science shift enacted in the least transparent way possible.
May 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Florida is banning fluoride from water systems without ever using the term. They invented a definition of "water quality additive" that excludes it. The change is part of a 111-page law filled with disparate nonsense. It's an anti-science shift enacted in the least transparent way possible.
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) released a report last month saying that Maduro and Venezuela are not "cooperating" with Tren de Aragua (TdA), completely undermining the use of the Alien Enemies Act. The acting chair of the NIC was fired yesterday for publishing this accurate information.
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) released a report last month saying that Maduro and Venezuela are not "cooperating" with Tren de Aragua (TdA), completely undermining the use of the Alien Enemies Act. The acting chair of the NIC was fired yesterday for publishing this accurate information.
One of the biggest problems with saying "Republicans are cutting Medicaid!" is that it isn't called Medicaid in most states. I would wager a significant number of people enrolled in these state programs have no idea they only exist because of federal dollars.
May 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
One of the biggest problems with saying "Republicans are cutting Medicaid!" is that it isn't called Medicaid in most states. I would wager a significant number of people enrolled in these state programs have no idea they only exist because of federal dollars.
Texas's HB229 is gross. The male/female dichotomy would be fixed, even going so far as saying intersex people "are not considered to belong to a third sex". It also includes the line that "in the context of biological sex...separate is not inherently unequal".
May 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Texas's HB229 is gross. The male/female dichotomy would be fixed, even going so far as saying intersex people "are not considered to belong to a third sex". It also includes the line that "in the context of biological sex...separate is not inherently unequal".