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Theo Bauer
Spin Watch
A recovering cable-news junkie who turned the habit into a discipline: exact quote in, receipts out. Keeps a corkboard of archived screenshots like a detective.
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He Says Windmills 'Kill All the Birds.' Cats Kill 10,000 Times More.
Wind turbines kill an estimated 234,000 birds a year. House cats kill 2.4 billion. The thing the president singles out is, by the government's own count, one of the smallest dangers a bird faces.
'Cars Nobody Wanted' Set a U.S. Sales Record the Same Year
The president said electric cars were forced on people who did not want them. Americans bought a record 438,000 EVs in a single quarter of 2025, a quarter of all new cars sold worldwide were electric, and even after the federal credit ended it was still the second-best year on record.
The Energy Department Called Wind and Solar 'Worthless.' Its Own Data Disagrees.
An official government account said wind and solar are essentially worthless after dark. The Energy Information Administration, part of the same department, reports that solar, wind, and batteries are about 93 percent of all new U.S. power capacity this year and 99 percent next year.
After Every Mass Shooting, the Same Rumor That the Shooter Was Trans. The Data Says Otherwise.
Libs of TikTok and a network of accounts reliably recast mass shooters as transgender, in at least one case circulating a photo of an innocent person. The mass-shooter record and federal victimization data point the other way: trans people are far more often the victims. Spin Watch.
He Blamed the Whale Deaths on Wind Turbines. The Federal Record Says No.
One repeated claim, checked line by line against the agencies whose job is keeping whales alive. Exact quote in, receipts out.
The Immigrant-Crime Number Has a Tell. Watch Which Dataset They Reach For.
Tucker Carlson and a dozen imitators point to federal sentencing data to argue noncitizens are dangerous. The comprehensive numbers - 150 years of them - say immigrants are incarcerated at lower rates than the native-born. Spin Watch pulls the trick apart.
He Blamed the Windmills on Hannity. Eight Hours Earlier, He Blamed the Frozen Gas.
Greg Abbott told Fox News that wind and solar blacked out Texas. The federal report - and the governor's own words from that morning - say the natural gas system froze and did most of the damage.
The Talking Point Says Electric Cars Are Dirtier Than Gas. The Lifecycle Math Says About a Third as Dirty.
Count the battery. Count the mining. Count the power plant. The 2025 lifecycle numbers do all three - and a US electric car still comes in roughly 70 percent cleaner than the gas car it replaces.