12 rumors about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Yes, his mother once accused him of being an "abuser of women." No, he does not have Nazi tattoos.
Vaseline founder Robert Chesebrough attributed his long life to ingesting 'more than a teaspoon' daily
Some internet users claimed Chesebrough also cured himself of a lung condition by having a nurse slather his body in Vaseline.
The hidden cost of Indonesia’s nickel boom
A new investigation shows how a once pristine Indonesian island was sacrificed for global battery supply chains.Serdar Vardar (Deutsche Welle)
Yes, Trump signed order targeting Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue
The Trump administration is calling for investigations into unlawful “straw donor” campaigns and foreign contributions in U.S. elections.
Amerikaans vliegdekschip verliest straaljager van meer dan 60 miljoen dollar bij ontwijken Houthi-aanval.
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Online images don't prove Trump fell asleep during Pope Francis' funeral
The president's eyes were closed at some moments during the funeral, but so were first lady Melania Trump's.
Karoline Leavitt didn't say 'Go back to Africa' to US Rep. Jasmine Crockett
YouTube creators shared a false claim that the White House press secretary was "caught" whispering the derogatory phrase on a C-SPAN hot mic.
No evidence Canada is making its national suicide hotline available to US citizens
The claim followed revelations that the Trump admin planned to eliminate specialized services for suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth.
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No proof Germany arrested Russian spies who had Pete Hegseth's number in their cellphones
Online claims drew context and quotes from the arrest of two suspected German-Russian spies in 2024, months before Hegseth became defense secretary.
Anheuser-Busch forced to close iconic St. Louis brewery after Bud Light controversy?
A rumor about Anheuser-Busch closing facilities in Missouri received thousands of shares on Facebook in April 2025.
Trump's first 100 days: 25 rumors we've investigated
Donald Trump's administration moved at breakneck speed during the first 100 days of his second term as president — let's help you catch up.
Ello you awesome people!
It's me again. Sorry I've not been around much, I've been sporadically using the first Friendica account I made, where I follow more folks and folks follow me.
But... The last few days, I've not been able to login to the friendica.world site, as it's just not there... It keeps giving errors or just nothing at all... I have no idea what is happening with the instance... So I switched to this one and I guess I'll have to follow some more folks with this one.
I still primarily use Mastodon, as I do like the Friendica bit, but I'm not all comfortable yet with using it, if that makes any sense... 🤔 Guess autistic me likes new things, but it holds on to things it already knows...
Have a nice day everyone! 😁
The Trans Debate
Do trans people exist
Yes
Do people who exist deserve human rights
Yes
Do you believe there are exceptions
to the humans
for which human rights apply
If no - end of discussion
If yes - you have identified the problem
And it's not trans people.
(Via The Heart of Tardis)
The Trans Debate
Do trans people exist
Yes
Do people who exist deserve human rights
Yes
Do you believe there are exceptions
to the humans
for which human rights apply
If no - end of discussion
If yes - you have identified the problem
And it's not trans people.
(Via The Heart of Tardis)
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So there is a massive power outage in Spain and Portugal right now. No phone service, no Internet, no "modern" life :D. The cause is unknown - euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04…
What is funny is that we are in the mountains in spain with our TROMhome and we had no clue about any of these. We are fully offgrid in terms of power.
We have lots of solar panels, enough batteries, and satellite internet. So we are all good.
Perhaps we are indeed ready for an apocalypse. Waiting for it here in Picos de Europa :)
But yah, interesting this happened. Likely no "mysterious" cause. Keep an eye on the updates here - bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t
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IMPORTANT!
We will remove our Matrix server in a week time (4th of May). Here's why?
In short: the service has become hard to manage and bots (likely) have taken advantage of our kindness spamming other rooms/users. Because of that our hosting provider wanted to shut down our entire TROM.tf server. Hard to deal with all that and with a huge 300GB database. On top of this anyone can make an account with matrix.org or other instances.
Full explanation and solutions here - trom.tf/chat/
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P is for Pick Pixelfed
Sam says "This one is about Instagram and I know it can be a tough one.." but for me it was the easiest of all.
I was never an #Instagram fan. After avoiding it for years I eventually signed up to see a friends' posts, and was mystified as to how it fed me a bunch of random stuff rather than anything I subscribed to. What is the point of this? Now I've forgotten my password and good riddance.
Whereas, for the last couple years since I learned about it, I've been enjoying the heck out of #Pixelfed. It's my calm, beautiful oasis on the internet where I post and enjoy images of nature and interesting places and cats (#caturday!), and I keep it that way because I curate for myself exactly what to follow.
Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國
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