Sidewise

Last 30 days

Uptime

75.0%

Response time

204 ms typical, 204 ms slowest 5%

Last check

8 h ago

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any minute now

How to call it

Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sidewise": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

4 tools

• get_news

  Current headlines from 17 feeds from 15 newsrooms across the political spectrum. Each source carries a bias score from -2 (left) to +2 (right); 0 is center or non-political. Use view=latest for a flat reverse-chronological feed, or view=stories to group the same event as covered

• get_blindspots

  Stories covered by only one side of the political spectrum — reported by left-leaning outlets but not right-leaning, or vice versa. Each source carries a bias score from -2 (left) to +2 (right); 0 is center or non-political. Useful for finding what a given audience is not being t

• compare_coverage

  Side-by-side wording of one story as left, center and right outlets headline it, plus the words each side uses that the others do not. Give a topic in `q` and the best-covered matching story is compared. Each source carries a bias score from -2 (left) to +2 (right); 0 is center o

• get_feed_health

  Which of the underlying news feeds answered on the last pull, and whether the data currently being served is complete or a stale fallback. Check this before treating an empty or one-sided result as real.

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