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Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 days ago

Texas Politicians Used Burner Email To Request FEMA Funds

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Texas Politicians Used Burner Email To Request FEMA Funds

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Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 days ago
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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 […]
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    ate it

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

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      I swallowed it whole

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

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    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.

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

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

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    That’s giving them much more credit than they deserve

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    From: NotTexasGovOfficial@hotmail.com

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      or aol.com

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