Rules we follow

  1. We wait at least 7 days after news comes out to write about it. This gives facts a chance to settle and lets more sides of a story come out. It dramatically lowers the chance that we spread fake news or discredited stories. We want to be reasonably up to date, and 7 days achieves that. If someone decidedly wants breaking news, we aren't trying to steal those clicks from the companies and journalists we quote.
  2. We wait at least 1 hour from when we write a reaction/comment to when it can be published. This helps us cool down and revisit ideas.
  3. Our "stories" section is fairly flexible, and can include comments from administration officials, but only higher ranking ones. We'll cover things about cabinet members, heads of major departments, informal "czars", close presidential advisers, etc. We'll take the importance of that person into account when ranking stories. We'll also include family members of the president, as they relate to self enrichment or political comments they've made. Crazy comments made by a conservative internet personality would not be covered (unless they're in the "opposition" section). Annoying right-wing protestors would not be covered. An event like the DOJ opening an investigation would be covered. An isolated act of an ICE agent shooting someone would not be covered. DHS leaders commenting on an ICE shooting would be covered, as would examples of a pattern of unaddressed aggression from ICE. In short, the section is about: "things we can pretty clearly assign responsibility to the president for, or consequences of choosing the people he chose to surround himself with".
  4. People in the "opposition" section are only people from the same political party or general side of the ideological spectrum. So for Trump, opposition from Democrats isn't allowed. (This isn't because Democrats aren't worth listening to, but Republicans would obviously pay more attention to Mike Pence criticizing Trump than Nancy Pelosi criticizing Trump. That's not just because they trust Pence more, but because it signals that it must be serious if it caused Pence to go against the grain.) If they're a leader of a big company, there's more wiggle room, though we stay away from people with a known left wing lean. We sometimes include some libertarians, using our judgement. Yes, more moderate Republicans will tend to be included as opposers, but we incorporate this into ranking decisions. Opposition from Ted Cruz generally gets more weight than opposition from Susan Collins.
  5. We avoid things that rely solely on unnamed sources, like the alleged "shithole countries" comments in Trump's first term. I don't think anyone ever put their name behind that. But that example feels small today. There are some juicy quotes from anonymous people working on now-cancelled investigations into Trump, but we're fine skipping those because there's plenty of other stuff that people publicly stand by.
  6. We always link to where we're taking a quote from, and don't just say the outlet's name. We provide a link to any picture in our "gallery", so you can see the more beautiful original in context.
  7. Unless stated otherwise, content in block quotes should be assumed to have come from the link first listed below the quote. Links #2 and beyond provide more context, fact checking, or could be for when there are quotes from multiple sources.
  8. We do our best to indicate in our memes when something has been reposted. There's often little difference between someone saying something directly and reposting a short message without comment, but we still note it just to avoid accusations from nitpickers
  9. We try to refresh the data in our statistics/graphs section about once per quarter as needed.
  10. We're a provider of examples; we're not politicians or influencers. We try to avoid sensational language that jumps to conclusions. We have a few pages on the side that explain how we feel, but our main database is meant to be more neutral in tone, except for some of the worst cases.
  11. We don't use AI to write comments or summaries, and don't use it for ranking or categorization (like the "questions" page). We're aware of everything we've entered into the system because we typed or pasted it in there ourselves.




Rules