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Monday, December 08, 2025

As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.

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NEW - The Data Doesn't Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.

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-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) Dec 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM

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Gas prices are headed to $2 a gallon, President Donald Trump claimed. (Not true " gas prices just dipped below an average of $3 a gallon this week.) The drugs carried by a single smuggler's boat off the coast of Venezuela are potent enough to kill 25,000 Americans. (Another Trump claim that's not remotely accurate;

Well gas prices are heading closer to $2 than the $5 when Biden was in office. $2.85 here for regular right now. They just seized 20,000 pounds of cocaine from one ship. If 25,000 people split that up and snorted it yes they would die. Great fact checking by Propublica once again.

#1 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-08 02:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Fishpud, Putin's decomposing orange butt ---- just pardoned the dirt bag who flooded America with 400 tons of cocaine.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-08 02:42 PM | Reply

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