It has become increasingly difficult to determine if a headline is from mainstream media or the Onion

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here’s the headline and a teaser quote:

Trump admin attorney leaves Minnesota after telling judge her job ‘sucks’ amid crush of immigration cases

“They are overwhelmed and they need help, so I, I have to say, stupidly (volunteered),” she told US District Judge Jerry Blackwell,

MSM or the Onion? You decide.

(https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/politics/prosecutor-job-sucks-minnesota-hold-me-in-contempt?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc&recs_exp=most-popular-article-end&tenant_id=popular.en)

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There’s a pretty popular subreddit dedicated to exactly that. It used to be funny, now it’s mostly just distressing.

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I made a post on this subject back in 2023. It’s a perennial topic for sure, so I’m not saying ‘I already covered this’, just adding to the discussion–I applaud this new post.

I agree with @garygnu that this subject more distressing than funny, though I don’t know if it was ever really ‘funny’, per se, except in a ‘laugh to keep from crying’ sense.

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I had to look more than once at this to be sure it was not an Onion article:

Ski jumpers accused of enlarging penises to enhance performance