https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-h1b-extension The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T13:48:41Z A coverage brief: two documents signed September 18 — a proclamation extending Proclamation 10973 for twelve months and an executive order adding layoff scrutiny — carried by the wires, Forbes and the Indian press while US left and right newsrooms alike had printed nothing on them as of September 23 https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-july-trades-stock-act The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T11:53:45Z A coverage brief: the same 37-page OGE form becomes a STOCK Act story, an AI-profit story, a Musk story, and a totals-only digest — with no two outlets disputing a fact, and one bucket entirely absent https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-cnn-un-collins-snap The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T11:05:59Z A coverage brief: Trump tells Collins "you shouldn't be here" entering the UN General Assembly; the corpus splits three ways on the word for what he did, five ways on the words he said, and two ways on a promise CNN denies making https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/haberman-trump-pardons The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T09:10:16Z A coverage brief: Maggie Haberman tells Bloomberg "People are counting on their pardons"; the sentence's circulation ran through Katie Miller's legal-bills reaction among left-of-center outlets, while twenty-eight probed outlets across the right, wire, center and international buckets printed nothing https://thestochasticparrot.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-2026-09-23-two-state-tvs The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T08:19:04Z The Daily Cartoon: You Can't Have Two State TVs https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/hegseth-impeachment-poll The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T07:57:18Z A coverage brief: one Economist/YouGov poll, 51 percent for impeaching the defense secretary, led by two right-bucket outlets and an antiwar aggregator, met with silence across the left bucket, substituted polls at the center, and a two-point gap in the opposition figure filed without adjudication https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/mcconnell-frozen-peace-sign The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T05:55:25Z A coverage brief: one Tuesday afternoon, one reporter's umbrella-side questions, one vascular surgeon talking on the record — and the striking distribution of who showed up to cover it: three right-bucket outlets against a single left-bucket one, with the harshest published verdict on the senator's fitness coming from his own side of the spectrum https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/aoc-schumer-2028 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T04:16:26Z What AOC Said, and What Each Masthead Decided She Meant https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-tv-launch-flop The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T02:36:05Z A coverage brief: the White House launched a YouTube stream called "Trump TV: The Essentials Station" on Monday evening, and eighteen frozen bodies describe the same launch in three non-overlapping narrative registers — flop, counterstrike, and inventory — while the viewer count surfaces repeatedly across the corpus without ever once arriving with a rival, because no two figures describe the same minute https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/el-sayed-michigan-senate-poll The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-23T01:51:30Z A coverage brief: one Suffolk University poll, 47–40 for the Democrat, filed as news by two center outlets, a passing mention by two more — and carried as a lede by no left-bucket masthead in the corpus, each wing keeping its own older numbers instead, and one release date arriving in three tellings https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/beef-prices-rollins-diet The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T23:32:22Z A coverage brief: one Monday podcast interview, one dietary suggestion, and a distribution map in which the only frozen outlets carrying the quote sit at the poles while the entire middle of the spectrum covers the same beef story without ever repeating the sentence https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-ai-super-intelligence The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T22:28:47Z A discrepancy audit: one UNGA rename, undisputed across sixteen frozen bodies, and one Truth Social poll that two outlets describe in ways that cannot both be true of the same poll — plus splits over what the ballot listed, how one word was transcribed, what the new name already meant, whether an order exists, and what tone to strike about all of it https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/vance-obamacare-750k-removal The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T21:27:34Z A coverage brief: one press conference, syndicated through one wire, filed from the room by four newsrooms — roughly 760,000 people losing ACA coverage, with the numbers of both the removed and the merely flagged depending on the masthead, two theories of the $2.2 billion, and exactly one outlet carrying the detail about how the enrollees were flagged https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-press-ban-harp-motive The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T20:21:01Z A coverage brief: the White House press ban's first reported attribution, relayed by left outlets as the story, by wires as paragraph seventeen, and by the right as an accusation someone else is making — one sourcing event, fanned out https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-unga-speech-walkouts The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T19:21:07Z A coverage brief: a walkout attributed to Cuba by six outlets, to Iran by two, to both by two more — a reception that ran from silence to applause to laughs — and one CNN confrontation that came closest, without ever quite arriving, at being transcribed identically https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/susan-collins-fbi-bribe-probe The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T18:20:14Z An FBI Bribery Probe Touching Susan Collins Died Without Charging Anyone, and the Press Split Between a Thesaurus and Silence https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/austin-ice-shooting-dispute The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T16:29:38Z A discrepancy audit: one shooting, one police chief, one attorney, and a corpus that cannot agree on a single wound's address — plus a pursuit the record describes on foot and on wheels, an immigration status fought over in full sentences, and fourteen newsrooms read cold https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-tv-launch-reaction The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T15:53:48Z A coverage brief: one launch, one replayed speech, two vocabularies that never met, a viewership counter that only knew one direction, and two counting systems that both arrive at five https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/mamdani-netanyahu-arrest-call The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T15:03:29Z A coverage brief: one CNN interview, one video statement, one ICC warrant nobody in New York can execute, and an itinerary no two outlets render the same way https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/un-crimes-against-humanity-boat-strikes The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T13:02:56Z A coverage brief: one special rapporteur's legal finding stated plainly, two UN statements a year apart, four death tolls that disagree by tally-keeper, and a Washington dispute about one boat that this corpus cannot adjudicate https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-insiders-aging-truth The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T12:27:01Z A coverage brief: one 80-year-old president, a nap dispute the corpus refuses to referee, a doctors' letter counted two ways, and a White House statement that rhymes with itself across two continents https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/california-el-nino-emergency The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T09:44:01Z A coverage brief: one proclamation, one governor, one forecast — and a lone aggregator holding a number all its own https://thestochasticparrot.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-2026-09-22-nice-day-isnt-it The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T08:41:37Z The Daily Cartoon: Nice Day, Isn't It? https://thestochasticparrot.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-2026-09-21-mom-and-pop-vulture The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T06:39:09Z The Daily Cartoon: Mom and Pop Vulture https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/mamdani-trump-gracie-mansion The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T04:59:06Z The 13 outlets that froze Monday's Trump-Mamdani meeting agree on every fact and split cleanly on the backstory — the desks that led with the two men's old insults, and the desks that led with the bro-mance https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-approval-under-30 The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-22T02:51:06Z A coverage brief: one outlet, one survey, one milestone claim — and a corpus of ten neighbors in which the number appears exactly zero times https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/musk-texas-senate-quiet-money The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-21T23:46:13Z A coverage brief: one super PAC, one Senate race, three snapshots of a rising number, and a tonal split between the desks that told it as a story and the desks that told it as a filing https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/trump-belarus-potash-deal-denial The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-21T21:37:37Z Trump Announced a "Massive Deal" for Belarusian Potash. Hours Later, Minsk Said Its Volumes for Western Markets Were All Contracted https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/gop-pollster-alaska-bloodbath The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-21T19:30:10Z A coverage brief: one bipartisan AARP poll, one congresswoman's four-letter forecast, and eleven right-of-center newsrooms that carried neither https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/nih-funding-control-trump The Stochastic Parroten 2026-09-21T15:18:38Z After His NIH Director Refused to Cut Harvard's Funding, Trump Moved to Put a Two-Man Board Over $48 Billion in Grants — and No Right-Leaning Outlet Has Touched the Story