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Mixed50% confidence6 sourcesAug 5, 2026All 47 Senate Democrats voted against the SAVE Act five times.The sources support that all Senate Democrats (45 Democrats plus 2 caucusing independents, 47 total) opposed the SAVE Act in its Senate votes, per AP and US Political Rank. They conflict on the number of votes: US Political Rank and the claimant's own post count five, while TechTimes (unrated) reports six floor votes on the bill, so the 'five times' figure is disputed. The claim also departs from the post only in extraction, not in substance.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesAug 5, 2026The military supplemental bill requires approximately 60 billion dollars.Said by CThe House GOP budget resolution unveiled July 15, 2026 allocates about $60 billion for defense in a reconciliation package, which supports the claim's figure. However, the administration's supplemental request was $67.1 billion for DOD (about $70 billion in total), and the claim blends a supplemental with a reconciliation bill, so the figure depends on which measure is meant. The claim also departs slightly from the post, which said the military 'need about 60 billion' rather than that a bill requires it.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesAug 5, 2026The Save America Act received 49 votes during a reconciliation vote in June.Said by CLiterally, the SAVE America Act amendment offered by Sen. Mike Lee got 49 yes votes in the June 4-5 reconciliation vote-a-rama, per a Caplan post and legalclarity.org citing Padilla's office. But the post the claim came from says Lindsey Graham's SAVE amendment got 49 votes, and the record shows Graham's amendment failed 48-50, so that intended reading is contradicted.Mixed50% confidence5 sourcesAug 5, 2026Voter turnout in the Alabama primary was 20%.Said by CThe claim's 20% figure is close to some Alabama counties' May primary turnout (Madison and Limestone, about 20%), but the statewide May primary figure reported by the Alabama Reflector was about 23.11%, and the August special primary was only about 5%. The post's "primary" is most plausibly the May primary, which the sources put at roughly 20-23%, so the claim is partly supported and depends on whether it refers to county or statewide turnout.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesAug 5, 2026John Locke defined the founding principles as life, liberty, and property.Said by 3CSources consistently show Locke named life, liberty, and property as natural rights, so the triad itself is accurate. However, the Freedom Center source says Jefferson's Declaration substituted 'pursuit of happiness' for property, so Locke did not define the founding principles as that triad; his triad influenced the founders. The extraction's 'defined the founding principles' wording is a stronger reading than the passage's 'or John Locke' comparison, which is consistent with the post's own framing.Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesAug 5, 2026Studies have shown that ceasing the biannual time change will help decrease robbery and murder rates.Said by BThe sources consistently support that extra evening daylight from daylight saving time reduces robbery, but murder evidence is weaker and mixed, and no source studies permanently ceasing the time change as such. The claim's robbery element is well supported, while its murder element rests on a single working paper and conflicting review results.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesAug 5, 2026Bright light therapy upon waking is the number one treatment for anxiety and depression.Said by 4CSources support bright light therapy on waking as first-line treatment for seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression, but none establishes it as the number one treatment for anxiety and depression generally. Antidepressants remain standard for severe cases, and the evidence for anxiety and for non-seasonal depression is described as limited or heterogeneous, so the broad superlative is not supported as of 2026-08-05.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesAug 5, 2026Research published in 2022, conducted in 2010, showed that women's menstrual cycles were synchronized with the moon until 2010.Said by 4CThe sources support the core claim that women's menstrual cycles were synchronized with the Moon before 2010 and that this weakened after LED and smartphone use, but they contradict the claim's dating: the study was published in Science Advances on 2025-09-24, not in 2022, and it analyzed long-term menstrual records rather than being conducted in 2010. The post itself also states the 2022 date, so the claim faithfully reflects the passage.Mixed50% confidence8 sourcesAug 5, 2026Women's menstrual cycles became irregular in 2010 because of the introduction of smartphones and artificial light at night.Said by 4CThe sources support that menstrual-cycle synchronization with the lunar cycle weakened after 2010, when LED lights and smartphones spread, and the researchers attribute this to artificial light. However, the studies measure loss of lunar synchrony rather than cycles becoming irregular, and the causal link is a hypothesis the authors state rather than an established finding.Mixed50% confidence5 sourcesAug 5, 2026Cell phone screens emit more than 10 lux of light even when turned to the darkest setting.Said by 4CThe sources support that phone screens emit more than 10 lux in ordinary nighttime use (Stanford reports 25-50 lux under usual conditions), but nothing directly measures the darkest setting. One unrated source reports that phones at minimum brightness may deliver under 10 lux, which cuts against the 'even at darkest setting' part of the claim. The claim's usual-use element holds, while its darkest-setting element is weakly contradicted. The claimant's passage supports the claim only as its own assertion, and the Nature measurements are at 100% brightness.Mixed50% confidence6 sourcesJul 30, 2026Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has legalized at least one million illegal immigrants in the country.Said by BSources conflict on the number. The government approved a plan for about 500,000 undocumented migrants and the programme's eligible share is still unclear, while over one million people applied to legalise their status, and Reuters describes the result as nearly 1 million granted legal status. Applications are not the same as legalisations, so the claim of at least one million legalised is not clearly established.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesJul 30, 2026The number of people eligible for the Spanish amnesty was two or three times higher than the government originally promised.Said by CThe sources show the government's initial estimate was about 500,000 eligible people and that applications came in at roughly 1.17 to 1.3 million, which is more than double and within the claimed two-to-three-times range. But applications are not the same as eligible people, since the government granted permits to about 610,000 and the Funcas estimate of eligibles was about 840,000 (under 2x), so the claim holds only on an applications measure.