monyet.cc
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish • 15 days ago

Texas Politicians Used Burner Email To Request FEMA Funds

theonion.com

external-link
message-square
10
fedilink
206
external-link

Texas Politicians Used Burner Email To Request FEMA Funds

theonion.com

@Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish • 15 days ago
message-square
10
fedilink
AUSTIN, TX—In an effort to avoid humiliating themselves in front of their fellow conservatives, elected officials in Texas used a burner email to request funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency following last week’s devastating floods, sources reported Thursday. “I set up an anonymous account, floodmoney@hotmail.com, and shamefully requested more than $70 million in disaster […]
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • @reddig33@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    42•15 days ago

    Almost ate the Onion on this one. It sounds exactly like something they would do.

    • @charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      4•15 days ago

      I swallowed it whole

      • FundMECFS
        link
        fedilink
        English
        3•14 days ago

        I already had onion breath by the time I saw the comm name.

  • @GuyFawkes@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    22•15 days ago

    I feel like it has to be a lot harder to write for The Onion nowadays when all of the headlines could legit be true.

    • @harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3•15 days ago

      I’m still not convinced that it’s The Onion.

  • @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    10•15 days ago

    ate it

  • @blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    6•15 days ago

    That’s giving them much more credit than they deserve

  • _cryptagion [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    6•15 days ago

    lmao can you imagine if this happened and Trump got pissed about it?

  • @HowAbt2day@futurology.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    5•15 days ago

    From: NotTexasGovOfficial@hotmail.com

    • @AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2•15 days ago

      or aol.com

The Onion@midwest.social

!theonion@midwest.social

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !theonion@midwest.social

The Onion

A place to share and discuss stories from The Onion, Clickhole, and other satire.

Great Satire Writing:

  • The Onion
  • Clickhole
  • McSweeney’s
  • Reductress
  • The Chaser
  • The Hard Times
    • The Hard Drive
  • The Needling
  • Tattletale Times
  • The Beaverton
  • 430 users / day
  • 2K users / week
  • 4.08K users / month
  • 12K users / 6 months
  • 6.47K subscribers
  • 1.58K Posts
  • 19.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • seahorse [Ohio]
  • pbrisgreat
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org