@truthinnumbers.bsky.social Wading through the hyperbole and rumors to find the data that tells the story

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1/8 Annual update on America's longest-running health crisis: Addiction - Overdose deaths The good news: In 2025, the downward trend continued after a substantial drop in 2024. The bad news: Still higher than every year before 2016.
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Trump makes a very succinct argument about why his administration is an unending train-wreck.
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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1. Fake transgender group, ACTUALLY RUN BY GOP, sends letters to 3 million Texas families saying their school wants to transition children. 2. GOP plant shows up to Vance Town Hall with letter in hand 3. Vance validates fake outrage 4. Social media bots recycle it endlessly
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Yeah, the whole thing was a bullshit scheme to manufactured outrage, tapping into the deep MAGA impulse to play the victim.
Replying to @Truth_in_Number
3 million letters were sent from "The Texas Transgender Student Union," which turned out to be a Wyoming (not Texas) LLC created LAST MONTH by members of the Republican Women’s Caucus specifically for the purpose of sending these letters. texasobserver.org/revealed-g…
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Did you notice that in 2020 total deaths increased by 19%, the largest uptick in 102 years AND butt implant procedures increased 22%, the largest uptick ever recorded. thehill.com/homenews/news/55…
Have you noticed that flu season starts after the vaccines are given out?
Community note
Flu shots are given before flu season on purpose. The CDC advises getting vaccinated in September or October, ideally by the end of October, because it takes about two weeks after vaccination for protective antibodies to develop. cdc.gov/flu/vaccines/v…
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I wonder what Jon Husted was up to in 2020?
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Manufactured outrage from the GOP. These letters were fake, sent out by GOP operatives, to facilitate a fictional narrative about public schools telling children how to transition. CONTINUED
WHOA! Texas MOM tells JD Vance her DAUGHTER received a letter telling her TO TRANSITION TO A BOY 🤯 Vice President @JDVance: “Talk to our staff because I’d like the Department of Justice to investigate that.” 🇺🇸🔥
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3 million letters were sent from "The Texas Transgender Student Union," which turned out to be a Wyoming (not Texas) LLC created LAST MONTH by members of the Republican Women’s Caucus specifically for the purpose of sending these letters. texasobserver.org/revealed-g…
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1/4 - MEASLES TRACKER week of 10/10/26 week 40. Multiple outbreaks continue. More cases in the last 8 weeks than in any YEAR from 1993-2024. Only the full year 2025 had more cases reported. CONTINUED
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3/3 Massive PA outbreak continues to run unabated. New outbeaks in IN & MN. Outbreaks continue in KY, NY, OH, WI CONTINUED
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4/4 2026's departure from the record setting year in 2025 is striking. There is a seasonal pattern to measles, so we may see a new annual peak before the end of the year.
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Who knew Vance had such strong comedy chops. He's just like Bill Cosby.
Vance: There was an extraterrestrial who landed in the United States about 50 years ago and then moved to Texas and ran for senate by the name of James Talarico. JUST KIDDING!
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Trump's midterm closing arguments: • Something, public golf course, something • I fixed up the white house • Democrats will force everybody to get gender reassignment surgery • Something, Obama something, Cheesecake Factory • Muslims bad • Nice ass
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I thought this was a joke at first. Nope. This is the real (somehow) vice president of the United States actually saying this. So, I guess it was Vance's idea of a joke.
Q: How do you expect us to start families young when the average price of a home feels out of reach? JD VANCE: I want to point out that I've only gotten one question about Jon Husted's ass
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If you're Black or Jewish or White or Brown and you live in South Carolina and you vote for Abdul Al Sayed, you're in the wrong state.
Trump in South Carolina: "If you're Black or Jewish and if you vote for Abdul, you're crazy. You're crazy anyway."
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Yeah, but what about her ass?
Darline Graham: "We love you, Mr. President…Is he the greatest president ever? Yes!"
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Trump remains laser focused on the issues that matter to the American public. Ordinary Americans across the country are demanding that this single public golf course be renovated.
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Trump on the firing of Lieutenant General BRETT Sylvia. "She's gonna have big problems..." He's really on top of it.
President Trump on Pentagon Director for Strategy, Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, for allegedly leaking info: "She's gonna have big problems...we're very much looking for leakers."
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Don't threaten me with a good time.
Trump: If Democrats win, “You’re going to be thrown into a system where everyone gets healthcare.”
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"... it's a highly respected test, very hard." -Donald Trump October 28, 2026
Trump: "They have a lion, a bear, a snake, and a camel. They say, 'Which one is the snake?' That's question one ... it's a very highly respected test ... very hard."
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