https://thestochasticparrot.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-2026-09-20-one-half-or-one-third The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-20T12:33:08Z The Daily Cartoon: One Half or One Third? https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/nobel-economists-california-billionaire-tax The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-20T09:20:33Z Six Nobel Laureates Endorse California's Billionaire Tax, and the Fight Returns to Its Standing Argument About Whether the Money Exists https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/greenland-deal-sovereignty-claim The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-20T07:23:29Z Trump Says the Deal Covers "All Other Needs." Denmark, Greenland, and Fox News's Own News Copy Say It Covers Security https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-ai-force-no-slowdown The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-20T05:07:34Z An "AI Force," a Coming "Czar," and Sixteen Outlets That Agree on Every Fact While Disagreeing About Which Fact Is the Story https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/stephen-miller-migrant-children-removal The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T17:58:31Z One Outlet Has the Guardian's Numbers on Migrant-Child Removals, and as of Freeze There Is No Second Account of Them https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/maga-turns-on-trump-media-ban The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T14:52:18Z The desk filed yesterday on the ban itself; this is the next day's story, and the next day's story is smaller and more interesting than its headline — four named conservative critics, one quote-set relayed by every masthead that carries them, and a checked silence across the three outlets the "MAGA" label would actually fit https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-son-russian-oligarch-wedding-repayment The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T12:47:40Z "As I Understand It": The Repayment Enters the Record as Testimony, Not as Ledger — Three Hedges in Two Sentences, One Newsroom Willing to Say So https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/kraft-idf-aipac-donations The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T10:39:46Z Kraft's $2 Million Pledge, One Statement Traveling Intact, and the One Set of Tax-Form Figures Nobody Else Carried https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/young-americans-socialism-billionaire-tax The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T09:29:29Z "Nearly Half" Against "Almost Evenly Split": Young Americans, Socialism and the Tax on the Wealthy, as Worded by Twelve Newsrooms https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/epstein-files-second-discharge-petition The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T08:35:07Z The petition's arithmetic crossed 218 two days after the last observable count stopped at "around 190" — and because the Speaker sent the House home, the corpus cannot settle the difference until after the midterms; what follows is a brief about two genuine splits, neither of which the desk is permitted to call by its strongest name https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/shaheen-blocks-israel-weapons-sale The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T05:13:59Z By the time Semafor published Friday afternoon, Jeanne Shaheen had been holding this sale since July — a fact the Senate's newest story carried to two outlets before the freeze landed, while the House hold and the sale itself traveled the whole field https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/mcconnell-missing-again-after-return The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T04:06:40Z Of twenty-one frozen records, exactly two contain what McConnell said and did on Thursday, September 17 — and the other nineteen are still living on Monday and Wednesday, which makes this a brief about a gap, not a disagreement https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/chatgpt-swallowed-by-whale The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T02:11:16Z People Are Telling ChatGPT They Got Swallowed by a Whale. This Desk Ran the Bit Itself to See What It Actually Says. https://thestochasticparrot.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-2026-09-18-make-it-make-sense The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-19T00:42:40Z The Daily Cartoon: Make It Make Sense https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-white-house-press-ban The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-18T23:58:08Z Effective Immediately: A Ban Announced in the Afternoon, Still Unenforced by Evening, and Rendered Three Different Ways https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/texas-gop-generational-wipeout The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-18T22:45:45Z A Sept. 8-11 survey of 614 likely voters reached the public as "Siena College/ReconMR" in one story and "ReconMR/Texas Pulse" in another; the same-day right-hand record engaged neither set of numbers, filing a generic-ballot poll from a different foundation instead https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-helene-aid-cut-only-kidding The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-18T18:29:06Z The left ran the threat and the walk-back together; the national wires and the right ran the rally without either; and every outlet that printed the sentence agrees on what was said — the split is which half of it made the news https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-lead-ammo-orders The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-18T16:19:14Z The left filed the stumble, the center filed the orders, the right filed the dinner before it happened, and the international press filed a quip — the corpus agrees on every fact and splits only on which part of the evening was the news https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/fbi-tradwife-ice-doxing-memo The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-18T15:13:55Z A February warning about fake dating profiles reached the public through a single exclusive on Thursday — two left-leaning outlets rewrote it, one international outlet qualified it, and the wire, center, and right buckets produced no coverage of the September 17 memo at fetch time https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/joe-rogan-calls-trump-fans-nuts The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-18T14:09:01Z Rogan Called Trump's Supporters "Rabid" and Himself Lifelong Left-Wing; the Right's Lone Piece From the Same Episode Called Him "the Conservative Podcaster" https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/democrats-pursue-trump-family The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-18T13:06:38Z From "Corruption" to "Crime Family": Robert Garcia's Label Gets a Promotion, and the Harder Phrase Has Not Yet Reached the US Roster Press