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Trump votes early in Florida Oct. 24 2020

Biden’s statement on Trump’s 2020 mail voting is Half True

By Amy Sherman January 13, 2022

“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”

Dr Rochelle Walensky speaks at table

Social media claims distort CDC director’s comment about COVID-19 deaths and comorbidities

By Samantha Putterman January 12, 2022

“The CDC director just said that 75% of ‘Covid deaths’ occurred in people with at least four comorbidities.”

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Headline about Japan dropping vaccine mandates is misleading: Japan never mandated COVID-19 vaccines

January 12, 2022

"Japan drops all vaxxine mandates, places myocarditis warning on label."

Jen Psaki WH press briefing 1/10/2022

Data show the unvaccinated are 20 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people

January 12, 2022

“You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.”

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Medicare ‘flex cards’ are not as advertised

January 12, 2022

Senior citizens qualify for a Medicare “flex card” that pays for groceries, dental costs and prescriptions.

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No, Steve Jobs didn’t say this about wealth as he was dying

January 12, 2022

Says Steve Jobs said, “I realize that all my recognition and wealth that I have is meaningless in the face of imminent death.”

AOC running up Capitol steps 3/3/21

No evidence that AOC said all young people want to be socialists

January 12, 2022

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “says that all young people want to be socialists.”

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No, Washington state isn’t considering involuntary COVID-19 quarantines

January 11, 2022

Washington’s State Board of Health will discuss mandatory COVID-19 quarantines and vaccine requirements for schoolchildren at a Jan. 12 meeting.

Sotomayor hearing July 13

No, that wasn’t Sotomayor at dinner with Dems. It was Schumer’s wife

January 11, 2022

Says Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was photographed at dinner with Democratic lawmakers.

Cooler Screens Walgreens

No, high tech refrigerators at Walgreens aren’t scanning for ‘the mark of the beast’

January 11, 2022

Walgreens refrigerators are scanning shoppers’ hands and foreheads for “the mark of the beast,” and that “if you don’t have the mark later on, you…

Iowa broadband touted by Republicans was funded by Democratic votes for American Rescue Plan

January 11, 2022

Gov. Kim Reynolds, touting $210 million for Iowa broadband, “failed to mention these are actually federal funds approved by Rep. Cindy Axne and signed into…

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New Zealand didn’t OK euthanasia for COVID-19 patients. Voters passed a law for the terminally ill

By Samantha Putterman January 11, 2022

“New Zealand okays euthanasia for COVID patients.”

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