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Beware of fake ‘newspapers’ packaged as the old-school real deal

The right-wing “newspapers” that have been infiltrating Chicago-area voters’ mailboxes look like classic print products.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Babylon Bee Joins The Onion in Decrying an Ohio Law That Makes Parody a Felony

The two fake news organizations want the Supreme Court to review the case of a man who was arrested for making fun of the police.

Reason

Behind the scenes at the Onion: ‘Trump is the emperor who admits he’s naked’

As the celebrated satirical news site turns 35, it tackles a world that seems to parody itself

The Guardian - US

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A deepfake video of Joe Biden singing the children’s song Baby Shark isn’t funny – it is deeply worrying

The clip started out as a joke, but that doesn’t stop something gaining its own nefarious life online

The Guardian - UK

4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong – why The Onion’s defence of satire should be heard by the US Supreme Court

If you’ve read, watched and enjoyed the work of America’s best-known satirical publication The Onion, you might be surprised by how serious it suddenly became earlier this month. So serious, in fact, that it might end up before the US Supreme Court.

The Conversation

The Onion takes on the Supreme Court to protect the right to parody

The Onion has filed a brief with the Supreme Court in support of a man arrested for mocking his local police force’s Facebook page. But will the judges get the joke? Richard Hall reports

The Independent UK

Mocking the police is not a crime

The case that prompted The Onion’s brief to the Supreme Court is no less ridiculous than the satirical website’s patently preposterous puffery.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Mocking the Police Is Not a Crime

A First Amendment case prompts The Onion to explain how parody works.

Reason

The man who wrote the Onion's Supreme Court brief takes parody very seriously

The satirical site submitted a 23-page brief to the Supreme Court in support of a First Amendment case. Mike Gillis, The Onion writer who authored the brief, tells NPR why parody is worth defending.

WEKU

The Onion advises the Supreme Court's 'total Latin dorks' on parody

The humor site filed a brief to the court supporting a man arrested for making fun of police in social media posts, including a jobs announcement "strongly encouraging minorities to not apply."

WEKU

LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Reportedly Investigating Cops Accused of Gang Rape

Plus: The Onion weighs in on qualified immunity case, Supreme Court rejects challenges to bump stock ban, and more...

Reason

The Onion defends right to parody in very real supreme court brief supporting local satirist

Long-running satirical publication files legal document relating to case of man who was arrested for making fun of police

The Guardian - US

Rescue puppies get pizza topping names like bacon and cheese - but not pineapple

An adorable litter of puppies at Michigan Animal Rescue League have been named after pizza toppings, including Bacon, Onion and Olive - but a TikToker has spotted they controversially haven't named one 'pineapple'

Daily Mirror

For the sake of sensible gun laws, get past politics

A bipartisan group of senators is currently huddling in hopes of devising some kind of gun control compromise that can pass both houses. Godspeed to them. But I fear their efforts will fail in our ultra-polarized climate.

Chicago Sun-Times

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The Guardian - US

‘No way to prevent this’: why the Onion’s gun violence headline is so devastating

After the latest mass shooting in Texas, the site, known for satire, opted for a layout that was ‘not a belly-laugh type joke’

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Why The Onion’s take on the Uvalde shooting captures every parent’s worst nightmare

It’s the yellow caution tape that gets to me when I look at the pictures tweeted by the satirical website The Onion in the wake of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, yesterday. Emblazoned with the words “Sheriff’s Line Do Not Cross,” the yellow tape is draped…

ABC News

The Loop: Gun debate rages in US, Reconciliation Week arrives, and much of Australia set for wet winter

Get up to speed on today's headlines with The Loop.

WEKU

'The Onion' has republished a grim headline about mass shootings 21 times since 2014

The satirical news site publishes modified versions of the article after major mass shootings, always with the same headline: "No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."

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The Independent UK

Finding humor in Ukraine war? It's (always) the Onion's way

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The Independent UK

Russia Ukraine War Advisory

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are meeting in Turkey. Present in the room is also the sanctioned Russian oligarch and owner of Chelsea soccer club, Roman Abramovich.

Liverpool Echo

Drug dealer's gang busted after he carved his nickname and address into a tree

Shane Unwin scratched his nickname - Onion - and the name of his estate into a tree branch at a spot his gang often met customers

Chicago Tribune

Top editorial staff leaving A.V. Club entertainment site after refusing to relocate from Chicago to new offices in LA

Top editorial staff at the Chicago-based A.V. Club, a sister publication to The Onion, are exiting the entertainment website en masse after refusing a mandatory relocation to new offices in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times

Why publisher of the Onion, A.V. Club is battling WGA, East

Katie Rife, a senior writer for entertainment site the A.V. Club, was working past midnight on a review last week when her friend sent her a text. It was a posting for her job.

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