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[saywhat-politics]

'Fortunate Son,' a song about draft dodging, was played at Trump's military parade

The president previously received a cease-and-desist notice from songwriter John Fogerty for using the song during his 2020 presidential cam

The president previously received a cease-and-desist notice from songwriter John Fogerty for using the song during his 2020 presidential campaign.

Claim: "Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, a song about draft dodging, played during the military parade on June 14, 2025.

"Fortunate Son," a Vietnam War protest song about society's elite being able to dodge the draft while those less fortunate were forced to join up and ship out, was released in 1969.

Users on social media were quick to point out the irony of playing the song during a parade intended to celebrate the military but that also coincided with U.S. President Donald Trump's 79th birthday. Users spread alleged clips from the parade featuring the song on platforms such as X (archived), Bluesky (archived) and especially on Facebook (archived, archived).

[noneun]

'Alien Corpses' Revealed in Hearing Before Mexican Congress

It's not the first time Mexican ufologist Jaime Maussan has claimed to have evidence proving the existence of aliens.

Questo articolo spiega un po' la situazione "alieni messicani". Aggiungo anche un riassunto dei dettagli anatomici e genetici trovato su redddit:

In base a ciò che sappiamo su chi ha presentato questi oggetti, la somiglianza di collo e cranio all'E.T. di Carlo Rambaldi, le radiografie del cranio che assomigliano molto al retro del cranio di un alpaca, la confusione fra mummificazione e fossilizzazione, la fantasiosa inferenza logica secondo la quale "siccome non sembrano umani e non assomigliano a nessuna specie terrestre allora sono extraterrestri", la presenza in questi organismi non terrestri di qualcosa di estremamente terrestre come un cervello posto nella testa, una testa, un aspetto umanoide, quattro zampe (però tre dita, omg!) e –sorpresa sorpresa– uova (come il 99,9% degli animali sulla Terra), l'affermazione totalmente campata in aria che il DNA umano differisca da quello batterico del 15% e che invece il 30% di DNA alieno "sconosciuto" sia tantissimo (già il fatto che ci sia un DNA è incredibilmente improbabile per una specie aliena, figurarsi il fatto che 70% sia "conosciuto"), e molte altre cose dello stesso tenore... beh, sarei propenso a classificare la questione come una sesquipedale cazzata.

Prontissimo però a ricredermi totalmente qualora tutte queste informazioni fossero in futuro disponibili in uno studio pubblicato con peer review e qualora laboratori accreditati indipendenti dovessero confermare con altrettanto attendibili studi le conclusioni di qualcuno che è già stato beccato in passato a presentare come extraterrestri artefatti ricavati da parti animali (anche umani) molto terrestri.

[wherelibertydwells]

Snopes Retracts 60 Articles Plagiarized by Co-Founder: ‘Our Staff Are Gutted’

The fact-checking site has banned David Mikkelson, who owns half the company, from writing articles after a BuzzFeed News investigation prom

[salamigerard]

[Image Description: A screenshot from Snopes.com which reads “Gerard Way of American rock band My Chemical Romance was born as, and remains to this day, a salami.” Below this is a sticker from Snopes confirming the statement as true.]

[kevindrakewriter]

Did Man at Capitol Riot Die After Accidentally Tasing Himself?

Four persons died in conjunction with the Capitol riot, but some reports surrounding their deaths weren’t entirely accurate.

I would like to apologize for endorsing this story.

That’s how crazy all of this is; it might as well have happened.

[pragmatismandmagic]

Please, anyone following the capitol riots right now, please please please keep snopes open on your computer for the time being. They are debunking false information as it begins to circulate and I keep seeing things on tumblr, then seeing them debunked on snopes 5 minutes later.

Snopes has a page dedicated to every update in the situation since it began:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/01/06/liveblog-jan-6-capitol-riots/

Some thing you may have already seen floating around:

[niteskolar]

What We Learned Investigating a Network of Islamophobic Facebook Pages

Snopes traced at least 24 Facebook pages spreading anti-muslim vitriol and conspiracy theory back to one evangelical activist. Here's why that matters.

A Snopes investigation on 15 May 2019 looked deeply into a small group of radical evangelical Christians that re-purposed Facebook pages and PACs to build a coordinated, pro-Trump network that spreads hate and conspiracy theories — below is a re-cap of key points. The content includes the assertion that the survivors of the Parkland school massacre are on a “leftist-Islamic payroll” and that Islamic refugee resettlement is “cultural destruction and subjugation.”

The names of these Facebook pages imply diverse support from Americans, with titles like “Blacks for Trump” and “Jews and Christians for America.” But Snopes.com found that each of these pages can be tied to a radical evangelical activist named Kelly Monroe Kullberg, who is neither black nor Jewish. We found at least 24 pages in the Kullberg network, which could be in violation of Facebook’s ban on “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

[gravelgirty]

It sounds like snopes.com is taking a stand...