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Every headline we have caught, sorted by the verb they chose.

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Verb Headline & what it buried Outlet
Seize

“‘Well-meaning elderly man’: Republicans seize on Biden memory issues detailed in Hur report”

Hur found Biden willfully retained classified documents, declined to charge, and called him an elderly man with a poor memory

The Washington Times
2024
Responsibility Shift

“As violent crime continues to rise in Washington, D.C., former President Trump, Republicans in Congress, and their allies are using the capital to portray the entire Democratic Party as soft on crime ahead of the November election.”

Violent crime surged in D.C. under a council that voted to soften the penal code

NBC News on X
2024
Attack

“GOP hits Biden after he jokes about McAuliffe being ‘real governor’ of Virginia”

Biden dismissed Virginia’s elected governor to call a defeated Democrat the real one

The Hill
2024
Target

“Pentagon chief out of hospital but still in GOP crosshairs”

The Defense Secretary was hospitalized for days without telling the President

The Hill
2024
Erupt

“Republicans erupt over secrecy in defense secretary’s hospitalization”

The Defense Secretary was hospitalized for days without telling the President

Axios
2024
Revenge

“Trump Wants Revenge—And So Does His Base”

Democrats pursued Trump through indictments, a raid, and state ballot removals

The Atlantic
2024
Weaponize

“How Republicans are weaponizing antisemitism to take down DEI”

Campus DEI offices left antisemitism on their own campuses unaddressed

Vox
2023
Weaponize

“‘His dream’s been weaponized into his nightmare’: how Martin Luther King Jr’s words have been co-opted”

DEI and CRT sort people by race — the thing King argued against

The Guardian
2024

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