About The Crown
Last updated: October 7, 2026
The Crown Can Bite Me is a data-first news aggregator. Not a newspaper, not a wire service, not a rewrite desk. We don’t re-report other outlets’ stories. We go to the raw data — the same government ledgers, statistical agencies, and official feeds the pros quote from — and we put the numbers in front of you without the spin layer in the middle.
What we actually are
Most of what you call “the news” is three or four removes from the original record: an agency publishes a dataset, a wire picks a number, an outlet frames it, a pundit spins it, and by the time it reaches you the raw fact is buried under four layers of editorial judgment — any one of which can be slanted, lazy, or wrong.
We cut the layers out. The charts, ledgers, and dashboards on this site are drawn directly from the issuing authority’s own data feed — the Bureau of Labor Statistics for jobs, the Treasury for the debt, the FEC for campaign money, the clerks of the House and Senate for how your representatives actually voted. When an agency is the system of record for a number, there is no more primary source than that agency. We read it straight.
Our standing rule: if we can’t trace it to a primary source, it doesn’t go on the page. We aggregate off the raw data — never off another outlet’s coverage of it.
Why not just aggregate the news?
Because news outlets have a point of view, and a dataset doesn’t. A jobs report reads the same whether you love or hate the administration that released it. The moment you aggregate coverage instead of data, you inherit every aggregated outlet’s bias, every selective quote, every framing choice — and you launder it as “the news.” We refuse to be a bias amplifier. We’d rather hand you the number and the link and let you argue with reality instead of with a headline writer.
How we vet what we publish
We hold two different standards, because structured data and breaking claims are not the same animal.
Structured data — the charts & ledgers
Every number on a chart is pulled live from the authority that issues it, and the source is named on the page. Because the issuer is the source of record, one authoritative primary feed is the standard — there is nothing more original to confirm it against. If a feed goes dark or disagrees with its own prior release, we flag it rather than paper over it.
Dispatches — events & claims
For anything that isn’t a clean dataset — a riot, a deal, a quote, a breaking event — we require independent confirmation before it ships:
Floor: two independent primary confirmations. Two sources that don’t derive from each other — primary documents, official statements, direct footage, or on-the-record parties — not two outlets both citing the same wire.
Extraordinary or contested claims: three. The bigger and more inflammatory the claim, the higher the bar. If it would change how you see a person or an event, we want three independent legs under it before we say it in our own voice.
When a claim is real but the viral framing around it is wrong, we say both — what’s confirmed, and what’s overstated. Honesty on all accounts, including the parts that complicate our own argument.
No wire, no news feed, no auto-rewrite. We do not run an Associated Press feed, a Reuters feed, or any automated news-wire collector — and we never have. Nothing on this site is a machine rewrite of someone else’s article. Every dispatch is reported by hand: a human reads the primary documents, official statements, and direct footage, confirms them against the standard above, and writes it up. The only automated feeds we run pull structured data from the issuing authorities listed below — numbers, not narratives.
The sources we pull from
These are the primary data providers behind the live numbers on this site. All are official issuing authorities, statistical agencies, regulators, or open scientific datasets — queried directly, not through a news intermediary.
Economy, Jobs & Money
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
- Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) — St. Louis Fed
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Treasury — Fiscal Data
- USAspending.gov
- Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- U.S. International Trade Commission (HTS)
- Treasury OFAC sanctions list
- European Central Bank FX rates (via Frankfurter)
- Market quotes — Yahoo Finance & Stooq
Congress, Elections & Law
- Congress.gov / Library of Congress
- U.S. Senate roll-call votes
- U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes
- Federal Election Commission (FEC)
- Senate Lobbying Disclosure (LDA)
- Federal Register
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR)
- GPO govinfo
- CourtListener / Free Law Project
- USA.gov
Health & Safety
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- Food & Drug Administration (openFDA)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
- Anti-Defamation League — hate-crime & extremism tracking
Climate, Environment & Disasters
- NOAA — NCEI, Global Monitoring, Tides & Currents, Weather
- NASA GISS surface temperature
- U.S. Geological Survey (earthquakes)
- National Snow & Ice Data Center
- FEMA
- Global Disaster Alert & Coordination System (GDACS)
- U.S. Drought Monitor
- ESRI / ArcGIS public feature services
Education
- The Nation’s Report Card (NAEP) — Dept. of Education
- Urban Institute Education Data Portal
Global, Markets & Mapping
- World Bank Open Data
- Kalshi — regulated prediction-market odds
- ESPN — sports schedules & scores
- Census TIGER boundaries + OpenStreetMap (via MapLibre)
Sources are added and retired as datasets go live or go dark. A provider appearing here means we query its official feed directly — it does not imply the provider endorses us. Where a tool proxies a government feed for performance, it still resolves to the same primary authority named above.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or a source you think we should be pulling? Email hello@thecrowncanbiteme.com. If we got a number wrong, show us the primary source and we’ll fix it and say so.