'Cop posing as underage girl online falls in love with Pedophile' is excellent headline writing.
It's telling an entire story in itself, that draws you in to unpack the details below.
me too, i hate the new world of "Pay ten bucks for six months of digital reading. bla bla bla i can still go to the public library and read a newspaper there,---until Hitler Trump takes that away from me, too
i am in iowa in a smallish city nearby and they are facing money issues in new budget and the libraries are being mentioned again as a possible closure thing to save bucks so police and firemen have money for hiring.
but things have changed in libraries. when i go in , there might be only 3 people
Yes!!! The onion was founded around the 1980s by some college kids, super popular in Chicago iirc. They stopped printing around 2013 in lieu of digital media becoming more popular. But they started printing “newspaper” again in August of this year
Jesus, I just felt the Doordash one in my bones.
"HAHA IT'S NOT ALL FOR ME!" I say out loud for the neighbors to hear as I carry my comically big DD order into the apartment complex.
Did yours arrive today? I subbed for their Black Friday sale and have been excitedly checking my mailbox for the past week hoping this month’s issue arrived
Ohh weird it's a subscription model now. I used to always pick them up at the free news stands when they just ran shady ads for "massage parlors" and shit like that.
When I heard they restarted print editions I assumed it was a joke I just didn't get.
I always suspected I should take the Onion more seriously, but everyone kept calling it real fake news which is confusing.
Seeing your clip before what it was replying to and not batting an eye is super concerning in retrospect.
The most absurdist satire out there is entirely believable to me and I won't even question it
Senator Kyrsten Sinema, in a desperate attempt to “connect with the youth,” delivers farewell address dressed as Mario star ⭐️.
See the youthful energy!
Really makes me miss Weekly World News (the greatest tabloid ever) with their weekly UFO front cover stories. Now I get by on New York Daily News & New York Post and their great sports back pages