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J.D. Vance Used Peanut the Squirrel To Attack Government Overreach. So Why Has ICE Detained Peanut's Owner?

Live41 min ago

Newsrooms: 6
Last 3 hours: 2 reports
Momentum: Steady

Reports per hour, last 24 hours

How the coverage splits

33%67%

Where it’s heading

Probably peaked. Likely 6 to 8 newsrooms by 4:25pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we know

Against the past week

More newsrooms than 90% of the past week’s 4205 stories, and number 165 of 1968 in News.

Part of a bigger story

Peanut the Squirrel: 2 developments since Thu 12 Nov.

Nearly two years after New York officials euthanized Peanut the squirrel, his former owners face another ordeal as Daniela Bittner remains in ICE custody.

Reason didn’t include a summary, so this is Fox News’s, from its report on the same story.³

Background: JD Vance

James David Vance is an American politician, author, venture capitalist, and Marine Corps veteran serving as the 50th vice president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the state of Ohio in the United States Senate from 2023 to 2025.⁴

Read the full story at Reason

The bigger story: Peanut the Squirrel

2 developments since Thu 12 Nov. 1 more since this one.

Thu, 12 Nov, 2:42am AEDT
Former owner of Peanut the squirrel, viral pet euthanized by NY officials, detained by ICE
You’re here6 newsrooms
Fri, 13 Nov, 3:09am AEDT
ICE detains German national who once owned viral sensation Peanut the Squirrel
1 newsroom. Linked by ICE, Peanut the Squirrel, detains

The whole storyline

The story so far

6 newsroomsRising

Reports: 6
Newsrooms and sources: 6
Last 3 hours: 2
Last 24 hours

Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (2 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).

First with it: New York Post, 6 hr 25 min before anyone else.

Reported by 6 newsrooms.

The numbers behind it

How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from

Reports a day, last 7 days

Reports a day, last 7 days
Day	Reports
Sat	0
Sun	0
Mon	0
Tue	0
Wed	0
Thu	2
Today	4

Where the coverage is from

How it spread

Newsrooms: 6
Over: 1.3 days
To three newsrooms: 14.8 hr

Time	Newsroom	Total
Thu, 12 Nov, 2:42am AEDT	New York Post	1
Thu, 12 Nov, 9:06am AEDT	The Washington Times	2
Thu, 12 Nov, 5:28pm AEDT	Hindustan Times	3
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:34am AEDT	Western Standard	4
Fri, 13 Nov, 8:05am AEDT	Reason	5
Fri, 13 Nov, 10:10am AEDT	Fox News	6

When	Likely range	Most likely
Now	6	6
In 1 hours (11:25am AEDT)	6 to 6	6
In 3 hours (1:25pm AEDT)	6 to 7	6
In 6 hours (4:25pm AEDT)	6 to 8	6
In 12 hours (10:25pm AEDT)	6 to 10	7
In 24 hours (10:25am AEDT)	6 to 11	8

J.D. Vance Used Peanut the Squirrel To Attack Government Overreach. So Why Has ICE Detained Peanut's Owner?

Background: JD Vance

The bigger story: Peanut the Squirrel

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J.D. Vance Used Peanut the Squirrel To Attack Government Overreach. So Why Has ICE Detained Peanut's Owner?

Background: JD Vance

Reports a day, last 7 days

Where the coverage is from

How it spread

Newsrooms on it

More like this

Sources and credits

Two headlines

Where it’s heading

Every report, in order

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