Nurses Union Calls ICE Agents “Public Health Threat” After Alex Pretti Killing

[conuly]

Every time I look at the news, it's something worse.

The Onion, strangely, decided against satire for this one and only reported the facts as they actually happened

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[rebeccmeister]

OMG The Onion.

[minoanmiss]

The news is spectacularly overwhelming.

The Onion has worked out some successful ways of dealing with conditions satirists cannot satirize, including straight up honesty.

[conuly]

Every time I look at the news I feel like I need a fainting couch.

[silveradept]

The murder squads certainly are a public health threat, no doubt about that.

And I think the Onion only had to change a few words to reach the appropriate satire protection, without changing the substance of the truth of their work. I'm pretty sure I've heard sound bites that say the substance of what they put in her mouth, if not the exact phrasing.

[conuly]

It's astonishing how nonsatirical their satire has gotten.

[silveradept]

I'm pretty sure there's a line somewhere that the satirists their their hands up and say "we're straight news until the world stops being too ridiculous for us."

And that this administration crossed it early in the last time they were in power.

[elisi]

Late comment (I opened this in a tab and never replied...), but damn, I needed to acknowledge that Onion headline.