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We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

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Reminder: In addition to not being The Onion, this isn't a politics community (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

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To skirt copyright law, Anthropic bought and destroyed millions of physical books to train its "Claude" LLM (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 hour ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Construction workers find radioactive wasp nest at former nuclear bomb factory - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 1 hour ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Kemi Badenoch says she no longer identifies as Nigerian (news.sky.com)
submitted 1 hour ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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B.C. camper heard yelling in the woods not in distress, just singing Nickelback (vancouversun.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://endlesstalk.org/post/92618508

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Sen. Josh Hawley wants to exclude ‘Biden voters’ from $600 Trump tariff rebate checks (www.independent.co.uk)
submitted 18 hours ago by attinio@feddit.it to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Cross posted from: https://endlesstalk.org/post/92531382

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Donald Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report (www.ft.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Friday that he had told his team to fire Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who was nominated by Joe Biden in 2023 and began her role in January 2024.

“I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY,” the president wrote.

“She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes,” Trump said, claiming without evidence that McEntarfer had massaged figures to help the former president.

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‘One Piece’ Anime Flags Pose Threat to National Unity, Says Deputy Speaker Dasco (jakartaglobe.id)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by klu9@piefed.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know (needtoknow.co.uk)
submitted 1 day ago by miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://endlesstalk.org/post/92550159

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World's oldest baby is born in the United States (news.sky.com)
submitted 1 day ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Trump's dream of building a ballroom at the White House is becoming a reality (www.npr.org)
submitted 1 day ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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The renderings are complete, the architects and contractors have been hired. After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. According to the White House, the work will begin this September, with a price tag of $200 million.

"President Trump is a builder at heart and has an extraordinary eye for detail," said White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in a statement on Thursday. "The President and the Trump White House are fully committed to working with the appropriate organizations to preserving the special history of the White House while building a beautiful ballroom that can be enjoyed by future Administrations and generations of Americans to come."

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Alan Dershowitz Takes on His Greatest Challenge Yet: A Farmers’ Market (nymag.com)
submitted 1 day ago by manucode to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Republican Nancy Mace says she likes to watch videos of ICE detaining people (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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CEO Brags That He Gets "Extremely Excited" Firing People and Replacing Them With AI (futurism.com)
submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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National-Railway Opens Glamping for New Students (nieuws.ns.nl)
submitted 2 days ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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US Treasury sanctions Brazilian judge overseeing Jair Bolsonaro trial (www.lemonde.fr)
submitted 2 days ago by attinio@feddit.it to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33715135

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Substack sent a push notification promoting a Nazi blog (www.patreon.com)
submitted 3 days ago by baggachipz@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Archaeologists Keep Finding Massive Shoes at an Ancient Roman Fort—and They Have No Idea Why They're So Big (www.smithsonianmag.com)
submitted 3 days ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Trump administration says federal employees can encourage co-workers to "re-think" their religious beliefs (www.cbsnews.com)
submitted 3 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students (www.dallasobserver.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Dadifer@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/34511710

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UK to recognise state of Palestine in September unless Israel holds to ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 4 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Warner Bros. Discovery Announces Post-Split Company Names, Warner Bros. and Discovery (variety.com)
submitted 4 days ago by ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1087077

Warner Bros. Discovery Announces Post-Split Company Names, Executive Leadership Teams

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Trump takes no chances in armored golf buggy as protesters storm streets across Scotland (www.themirror.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by can@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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The buggy wasn't driven by Trump, but is thought to be his "getaway vehicle" should anyone open fire on the course. The black, obviously armored vehicle followed Trump around as he played golf, with many experts noting that it bore similarities to "The Beast" — Trump's protective vehicle stateside.

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An immigration lawyer asked ICE for help. She said they gave her the number for Taco Bell (www.fox19.com)
submitted 5 days ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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