🧩 BND Motif Index · M154
Asleep at the switch
Officials failed to do their job, and victims paid for their neglect.
📜 Plots🗂️ Crisis response🗂️ Accountability
- 23claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 11claims retold online
- 3fact-checkers
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Tommy 🧩 The missing children
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Empty suit 🧩 Passing the buck
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump administration revokes over 300,000 visas 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-22
- 📰 Former CIA official pleads guilty to $194 million fraud involving gold bars and luxury homes 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-09
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Officials are failing to contain a bird flu outbreak on a Utah mink farm, risking a human pandemic to protect industry interests.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “The FBI refused to investigate the allegations against Ilhan Omar because of the statute of limitations.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-23 “Benjamin Netanyahu is facing significant public anger due to his failure to prevent the October 7th attacks.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-22 “The Trump administration is shifting disaster relief responsibility to the states to leave communities to fend for themselves.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-22 “Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a lawful permanent resident, died in ICE custody after staff allegedly withheld his medication and ignored his pleas for help.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-22 “The federal government is failing to regulate the AI industry.”
🎙️ The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) - 2026-10-21 “Government failings and the lack of a protective ring allowed Covid to spread like wildfire in care homes.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-21 “FEMA is abandoning its responsibility by telling states to handle disasters on their own despite receiving taxpayer funds.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “The UK government and NHS are causing the deaths of trans people through transphobic policies and medical neglect.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “The Biden administration incentivized illegal immigration and lied to Americans about border security.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-14 “The Biden administration has committed a dereliction of duty regarding immigration enforcement.”
🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-11 “The shadow economy under the Biden administration has facilitated child sex trafficking and arms trafficking.”
🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) - 2026-10-09 “The New York Liberty lost a crucial playoff game due to a miscommunication or mistake involving a reset timeout, with conflicting claims about whether the team had one left or not.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-08 “The Trump administration's handling of Middle Eastern conflicts is characterized by incompetence and recklessness.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-08 “The CIA failed at the most basic level in vetting a senior official: a senior official who could steal $40 million in gold bars should never have been hired.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Cornell University failed to protect women and address rape culture, endangering its own reputation and potentially leading to its closure.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “U.S. soldiers wounded in an Iranian drone strike received inadequate and delayed medical care from the military, forcing them to seek treatment on their own.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “The Biden administration's handling of immigration was characterized by criminal negligence.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-06 “The Endangered Species Act protections for monarch butterflies are in limbo because the Trump administration failed to act.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-06 “Cornell's in-house investigation of the fraternity rape allegation failed: it expelled or suspended some of the men but brought no criminal charges, and the administration should be replaced.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-04 “The first Trump administration was characterized by indifference and ignorance toward running the government.”
🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-09-25 “Roy Cooper let 16,000 untested rape kits sit on the shelf” 🔎 FactCheck.org
- 2026-09-24 “54% of North Carolina commercial driver’s licenses were issued illegally to foreign nationals.” 🔎 PolitiFact
M154 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works