Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-25 10:00 am

What we know about claim Pope Leo XIV deployed priests to immigration courts

Posted by Aleksandra Wrona

The claim was rooted in a real event — in June 2025, San Diego priests attended immigration court to support migrants on World Refugee Day.
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-25 01:30 am

Norway didn't develop a floating greenhouse called 'Ocean Bloom'

Posted by Emery Winter

The purported greenhouse was just another fabrication from a Facebook page that posts about fake scientific discoveries almost hourly.
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-24 10:06 pm

Another old photo of Trump and daughter Ivanka makes the rounds again

Posted by Cindy Shan

The photo gained renewed attention amid broader discussions about Trump's past associations in July 2025.
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-24 08:54 pm

Examining claim Obama said boys need gay mentors

Posted by Nur Ibrahim

The former president was discussing how to raise "emotionally intelligent men" on a podcast.
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-24 07:10 pm
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-24 06:35 pm

How we debunked Fed Chair Jerome Powell's bogus resignation letter

Posted by Taija PerryCook

Amid an escalating campaign by the Trump administration against Federal Reserve Chair Powell, an AI-generated letter made its rounds online.
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-24 04:57 pm

Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has died

Posted by Izz Scott LaMagdeleine

The WWE Hall of Famer died at age 71, according to reputable news outlets.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ([syndicated profile] smbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-07-24 11:20 am
Cake Wrecks ([syndicated profile] cakewrecks_feed) wrote2025-07-24 01:00 pm

Stop And Smell The Clichés

Posted by Sharyn

Normally I avoid clichés like the plague.

Still, when it comes to buying a cake, sometimes you've got to grab the bull by the horns.

(Just don't grab the other end.)

 

See, I'll bet you dollars to donuts:

... that some of you are going to get wrecks.

 

You may think you have all your ducks in a row:

(or maybe to be rowed...)

... but let's face it: There's a good chance the baker's ...

... a poo ant short of a picnic.

 

And they might get your cake ...

... bass ackwards.

 

I mean, does a bear ...

 ... sit in the woods?

(Aw, Pooh.)

;)

 

Look, you're probably never going to get the baker to eat crow:

 

So don't make a tempest in a teapot!

(Actually, don't make anything in this teapot.)

After all, you've still got a cake, and maybe the manager will mark it down.

 

So rather than look a gift horse in the, uh ...

... gaping mouth nozzle of despair?

... just enjoy your cake.

 

I think Shakespeare put it best:

"That which they call a rose by any other name...

"... still looks like meat."

 

Thanks to Scott D., Deanna C., Laura M., Wolfie W., Anna M., Autumn J., Reba S., Jesea J., Lana H., and Maria V.  for letting us have their cakes and read them, too.

*****

P.S. If you need a drink after those cakes, then I have JUST the game for you:

"These Cards Will Get You Drunk" Party Game

And since I have the constitution of a dizzy squirrel, I propose an alternate version where instead of drinking we eat whoopie pies. Any seconds?

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-24 01:00 pm
The Comics Curmudgeon ([syndicated profile] joshreadscomics_feed) wrote2025-07-24 11:22 am

Thursday is for manimals

Posted by Josh

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out!

Slylock Fox, 7/24/25

I gotta say, it’s probably pretty annoying to have to write Slylock Fox at this point, because doing cute little animal mysteries attracts lots of “um, ACTUALLY”s of both the “um, ACTUALLY, the pedantic fact you used as the solution for this mystery is more nuanced than you’re implying” and “um, ACTUALLY, the animal you’re using as a character in this mystery doesn’t work like that” variety. Thus you get puzzles like today, where you’re preemptively anticipating this kind of feedback in the solution. “[heavy sigh] Besides telling us that the gloves were not worn by a snake [closing eyes, briefly resting thumb and forefinger on either side of bridge of nose] or other handless animal…” Honestly someone is probably penning a furious email about “um, ACTUALLY, some invertebrates aren’t bilaterally symmetrical and could have two right hands and maybe they also became sapient along with all the other animals? can you prove they didn’t???” as we speak.

Pluggers, 7/24/25

Feels like this one is based on seeing a “Don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee!” mug and trying to work backwards from there to someone cheerfully claiming to be a criminal right up until the moment that first sip passes their lips, when in fact the appropriate cartoon would be a bleary-eyed plugger saying just the most casually cruel thing you’ve ever heard to his wife for no reason.

Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/24/25

Well it looks like I got my wish on this situation allowing us to delve into Truck’s psyche, because he’s really doubling down on “Please, living genetic evidence of the fact that I got cheated on, please let me pretend to be your dad!” Meanwhile, his not-son is just increasingly upset and unresponsive. “How can I feel anything for someone with whom I don’t share any genetic material?” he’s thinking. “This man has nothing to tell me about my phenotype! What’s the point?”

Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-24 11:00 am

Melania Trump's parents came to U.S. through process Donald Trump tried to curb

Posted by Nur Ibrahim

The first lady's parents came to the US through a family-based sponsorship that's derogatorily referred to as "chain migration."
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-24 10:00 am

What RFK Jr. has said about taking two flights on Epstein's jet

Posted by Aleksandra Wrona

The interview with Kennedy resurfaced after the DOJ issued a memo dismissing claims of an Epstein "client list."
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-23 11:50 pm
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-23 11:08 pm

Did Ozzy Osbourne perform in Israel in 2024?

Posted by Cindy Shan

Social media posts after the Black Sabbath frontman's death was announced claimed he "broke the boycott."
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-23 09:13 pm

Is Stephen Colbert moving to CNN?

Posted by Anna Rascouët-Paz

The rumor appeared on social media, but no reputable news outlet reported on a such a move.
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-07-23 07:57 pm