I'm not the same person as above, but I feel the same sentiment. There's no hard data, but the pattern of behavior is far too consistent for me to write it off. Plenty of political articles that make it through, but specifically the ones that paint the current US admin as being wrong (even implicitly, by covering their more extreme actions) seem to often accrue a lot of points, shoot up to the front page, and then get flagged - while lots of other political stuff passes through.

It also just lines up with what I observed in HN users before that - the average user seems to be far more likely to be a richer, older, American conservative than any random user on the English internet or even other tech spaces.