Sidewise
REMOTE · NEWS.HEYITSMEJOSH.COM
News from 17 outlets with left/center/right bias tags and one-sided blindspot detection
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Last scanned (16 days ago)
Scores higher than 0% of remote servers
Unreachable for 7 days in a row. Last reached 13 Oct 2026.
Category News and Social
Dead
Every channel of this server has been unreachable for long enough to be marked dead. Its trust score is pinned to 0 and does not recover automatically: even once the server responds again it stays dead until it is manually reinstated.
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security0
- TLS not yet verified: we couldn't open a connection to check the certificate. View diagnostics → Unverified
- Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it. View diagnostics → Unverified
- HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 404, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement. View diagnostics → Unverified
- HSTS not yet verified: we couldn't read the response headers to check for it. View diagnostics → Unverified
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability0
- Transport check failed: declared streamable-http, but we couldn't connect to verify it. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability0
- Schema not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's schema, or could read only part of its tool list.Unverified
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
Tool Coverage0
- Tool coverage not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.Unverified
Tool Safety0
- Tool safety not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.Unverified
Capabilities0
- Capabilities not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's capabilities.Unverified
Unverified: 5 categories
Categories scored 0 because we could not verify them: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 20 Oct 26 −12
The score moved with no change recorded against any check. We would rather say so than guess.
- 19 Oct 26 −12
The score moved with no change recorded against any check. We would rather say so than guess.
- 18 Oct 26 −13
The score moved with no change recorded against any check. We would rather say so than guess.
- 17 Oct 26 −12
The score moved with no change recorded against any check. We would rather say so than guess.
- 16 Oct 26 −12
The score moved with no change recorded against any check. We would rather say so than guess.
- 14 Oct 26 0
- Endpoint reachability: reachable → unreachable ▼ security
- HSTS header: fail → unverified ▼ security
- Tool safety: pass → unverified ▼ security
- TLS certificate: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Stability: 0.03 → unverified ▼ security
- Transport: pass → fail ▼ security
- Authorization: Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it. security
- Capabilities: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 100 → unverified ▼ functional
- 13 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- 12 Oct 26 +42
- Injection markers: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Transport: fail → pass ▲ security
- Authorization: Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 4 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe. security
- Tool “get_news” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Endpoint reachability: not serving MCP → reachable ▲ functional
- Tool coverage: unverified → 100 ▲ functional
- MCP protocol: unverified → pass ▲ functional
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 20 Oct 2026 · Probed https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp
TLS unreached
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of news.heyitsmejosh.com. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| heyitsmejosh.com. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication Inconclusive
We could not reach the endpoint well enough to judge its authorisation posture.
| Result | Inconclusive |
|---|
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp | Unreachable | ||
| http (plaintext) | http://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp | Inconclusive | 404 |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
compare_coverage ~118
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 or non-political.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | How many matching stories to compare. Default 1, max 10. |
| q | string | yes | Topic or headline words to find the story by. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_blindspots ~92
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 told.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Max stories, up to 200. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_feed_health ~48
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.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_news ~175
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 by different outlets.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| bias | string | – | Restrict to outlets of one political lean. |
| developing | boolean | – | Only stories several newsrooms picked up in the last 90 minutes. |
| limit | integer | – | Max results, up to 200. |
| outlet | string | – | Restrict to a single outlet. |
| q | string | – | Case-insensitive substring match on headline text. |
| view | string | – | Flat feed, clustered by story, or both. Default both. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Sidewise MCP server?
Sidewise is a hosted endpoint at https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · news.heyitsmejosh.com
claude mcp add --transport http nulljosh-newsline 'https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp'
What is the Sidewise MCP server?
Sidewise is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.nulljosh/newsline. News from 17 outlets with left/center/right bias tags and one-sided blindspot detection. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp).
Is the Sidewise MCP server safe to use?
Sidewise scores 0 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Sidewise MCP server expose?
Sidewise exposes 4 tools: get_news, get_blindspots, compare_coverage, get_feed_health. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 433 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Sidewise MCP server require authentication?
Its publisher declares no required credentials for Sidewise. We have not been able to confirm that against the live endpoint, and a server can require authorisation without declaring it here.
Is the Sidewise MCP server still maintained?
Sidewise has been unreachable for long enough that we treat it as dead, and its score is pinned to zero. We last reached this channel on 13 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.