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"Ukraine's Peace Awaiting Trump's Approval"
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December 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM

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The Onion

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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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Mark Hamill

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TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡
#BeThere

October 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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Jon Cooper

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👇👇

October 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM

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Julia Carrie Wong

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this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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Mike Drucker

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it’s fun that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” people make every single decision entirely based on how they feel

CNN headline: Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says there’s too much focus on ‘how bad slavery was’

August 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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Michael

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August 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM

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Tim Onion

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Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Who will stand up for our democracy? This
question, fraught in even the most peaceful
times, has only grown more pressing as our
country approaches its 250th anniversary.
Each passing day brings growing assaults on
essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process.
Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces
a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches
publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against
peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into
an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls
upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation
desperately needs your cowardice.
Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure
passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It
was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can
too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant
wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and
women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power
and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was
stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived.
Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time
for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is
not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone
on about what’s happening to their precious democracy.
This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov-
eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and
have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing
assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave
of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about
getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama.
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.

June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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Bradley Whitford

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If you support the deportation of children with cancer and the vilification of immigrants and you believe that the New Testament is the Word of God, get ready to fry in hell.

April 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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Eric Columbus

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Wow

Willie Griswold @WillieGriswold

Trump loves Shedeur Sanders. Two guys with successful dads that managed to talk their way out of getting drafted.
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April 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM

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Joyce White Vance

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If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

February 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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maura quint

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thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

February 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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Stosh

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Just might work! 😂

February 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM

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Mike Drucker

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Something really stupid is going to happen and it’s going to be so stupid that it’s the last thing that ever happened and then, later, when octopuses take the earth, and find our few remains, they’re going to be like what stupid shit did these stupid fucks do

February 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM