Fast Takes: Spare us the show Anna Wintour, how to blunt legal pot and more

Nypost · Aug 05, 2026 · 657 words · By Post Editorial Board

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Conservative: Anna Wintour, Spare Us the Show As the Met Gala moves to honor John Galliano after he spent years atoning for antisemitic outbursts in 2011, Commentary’s Seth Mandel declares: “If the two options are ‘Let Galliano have his day in the sun’ or…

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That makes marijuana more like “cigarettes: something mostly consumed by a small number of chronically dependent users,” not a drug “widely consumed by infrequent, recreational consumers.” So, as the public sees “the rise in cannabis use disorder and other…

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Per past Supreme Court rulings, Fauci can’t have the protection of both “a pardon and the Fifth Amendment for questioning specifically related to his prior congressional testimony during the covered period.” He may be “charged for criminal contempt of…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “daily users account for 80% of all pot consumption”

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Only one specific source (National Review) explicitly states that daily users account for about 80 percent of marijuana consumption. Other sources discuss daily use rates but not the percentage of total consumption attributed to daily users.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Daily Telegraph, also known as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daily or The Daily may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Daily Mail, often known simply as the Mail, is a British daily middle-market tabloid-size conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

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Claim 2: “Such “sectoral bargaining” began with California’s Fast Food Accountability and Standards Act”

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Multiple sources confirm that California's Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (AB 257) establishes sectoral bargaining for fast food workers, and it is presented as a pioneering move in this area.

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web search NEUTRAL — More recently and ambitiously, California’s AB 257, the FAST Recovery Act, would establish a Fast Food Sector Council with worker, franchisee, company, and state representatives charged with negotiati…
https://prospect.org/labor/thinking-sectorally-labor-bargain…

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web search NEUTRAL — On August 29, the California legislature passed the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (FAST Recovery Act or AB 257), a radical proposal to micro-manage the fast-food restaurant indus…
https://www.uschamber.com/employment-law/unions/california-e…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (also called AB 257) establishes sectoral bargaining for fast food workers in the state.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/californias-fast-food-s…

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Claim 3: “more Americans consume marijuana every day than smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol every day”

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Multiple sources report that daily marijuana use has surpassed daily cigarette smoking (19.9 million) and daily alcohol consumption (17.2 million), with figures cited around 21.4 million.

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web search NEUTRAL — The figure overtook daily cigarette smokers (19.9 million) as well as those who consume alcohol daily (17.2 million). Overall, SAMHSA found that 43.8 million Americans used cannabis on a regular basis…
https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2026/08/12/marijuana-overtak…

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web search NEUTRAL — As of 2025, daily or near-daily consumers make up about a third of marijuana users, compared to about 40 percent of cigarette smokers, but just 10 percent of alcohol drinkers. There are casual/non-dai…
https://thecausalfallacy.com/p/marijuana-is-more-like-cigare…

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web search NEUTRAL — Federal data shows that daily marijuana consumption in the US has surpassed daily alcohol and tobacco use, with 21.4 million Americans reporting daily marijuana use, compared to 17.2 million daily alc…
https://www.newsbreak.com/trending/top/gen-x's-deadly-food-a…

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Claim 4: “Anthony Fauci “invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination” 111 times in Senate testimony”

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Multiple independent web sources report that Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — QAnon is a far-right American political conspiracy theory and political movement that originated in 2017. QAnon centers on the fabrications of an anonymous individual or individuals known as "Q Cleara…
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Claim 5: “Massachusetts certified the first American ride-share drivers union in May”

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Multiple independent sources confirm that Massachusetts certified the first ride-share drivers union (the App Drivers Union) in the United States.

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web search NEUTRAL — Massachusetts certifies first rideshare drivers’ union in United States. 7 hours ago. Save for later.Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts certify the nation’s first ride-hailing union.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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web search NEUTRAL — Ride-Share Drivers in Massachusetts Formally Unionize. The App Drivers Union said it was the first organization in the country to be formally certified to represent drivers for apps such as Uber and L…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/business/uber-lyft-app-dr…

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web search NEUTRAL — Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts have formed the first ever ride share driver’s union in the country. The newly certified App Drivers Union represents around 70,000 ride share drivers in the sta…
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/26/ma-u…

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Claim 6: “his pardon from President Biden”

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Cross-references from the New York Post confirm that President Joe Biden granted Anthony Fauci a sweeping pardon on January 19, 2025.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthony Stephen Fauci (born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The chief medical advisor to the president was a position within the White House Office, which is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Established in 2019, the position …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Medical_Advisor_to_the_P…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American former politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented…
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Claim 7: “allowing a “newly minted” one to rep its 70,000 ride-share drivers”

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Multiple sources explicitly state that the newly certified App Drivers Union in Massachusetts represents approximately 70,000 drivers.

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web search NEUTRAL — The newly minted App Drivers Union said Monday it had received state certification to represent roughly 70,000 rideshare drivers who operate as independent contractors in Massachusetts.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/25/business/massachusett…

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web search NEUTRAL — Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts have formed the first officially recognized ride-share union in the United States, representing nearly 70,000 drivers.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-tichansky-bciu_uber-lyf…

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Claim 8: “the Met Gala moves to honor John Galliano after he spent years atoning for antisemitic outbursts in 2011”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm that the 2027 Met Gala will honor John Galliano and that he was previously fired by Dior in 2011 due to antisemitic remarks.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Charles Galliano (born 28 November 1960) is a British fashion designer. He was the creative director of his eponymous label John Galliano and French fashion houses Givenchy and Dior. From 2014 t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galliano

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination was the 2018 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) which houses the colle…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly_Bodies:_Fashion_and_t…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ivy Getty (born 1994) is an American heiress, model, and musician. She is also a member of the Getty family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Getty

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Claim 9: “Kagan rejects the premise that the high court’s “conservative majority is in President Donald Trump’s corner,” noting its rejection of Trump’s tariffs among other rulings”

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While the evidence provides general information about the Supreme Court and Donald Trump, none of the provided search results or Wikipedia entries mention Justice Kagan's specific comments regarding tariffs or the premise of the conservative majority being in Trump's corner.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over s…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States. The number of associate justic…
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