The Onion

Attorney General Vows To Protect Nation From The Dangerous Influence Of The Law

Todd Blanche has bravely declared that the Department of Justice will no longer suffer from the pesky, irrational 'pro-law bias' that has plagued it for centuries. Finally, an Attorney General who realizes that pesky little rulebook is just an optional suggestion meant for people who aren't in charge.

2026-08-17 Read

El Deforma

UNAM Now Grading Student 'Aura' Because Math Is Clearly Overrated

Forget your test scores; the university now decides your future based on whether you have enough 'aura' to offset your inability to solve basic equations. Finally, a degree program that rewards terminal coolness over actual intelligence.

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El Deforma

Dr. Simi Sports A Bikini To Beat The Heat And Our Sanity

The iconic pharmacy mascot has traded his lab coat for a two-piece to survive the heatwave, proving that nothing says 'medical professional' like a furry in swimwear. If you feel dizzy, it's either the heat stroke or the sight of his hairy-less belly.

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Babylon Bee

Outraged Fans Shocked That A Character Named 'Storm' Is Actually Black

A new cinematic masterpiece is allegedly destined for disaster because someone finally read a comic book. Apparently, learning that a character born in Kenya is African-American is just too much reality for the 'anti-woke' crowd to process.

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The Onion

White House Hires Mean Zara Teen As Press Secretary To Finally Own The Media

The administration has finally found someone perfectly qualified to handle the press corps: a teenager who can reduce a journalist to tears with a single glance at their outfit. It's the most transparent and hostile transition in political history.

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Clickhole

Local Man's Entire Personality is Just Being A Major Buzzkill

Julian Coleman is so deeply invested in his own existence that he forgot to actually have interests. Maybe try a hobby that doesn't involve staring at your own reflection in a coffee shop window, Julian.

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El Deforma

Peso Pluma Threatens Pixar Over Alleged Mullet Intellectual Property Theft

The singer claims Pixar copied his iconic haircut for the new 'Coco 2', proving that the only thing thinner than his hair is his patience for animated fashion competition. Perhaps he should worry less about cartoon skulls and more about his own musical legacy.

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El Deforma

Actors Recreate Abbey Road Crossing Because Reality Is Now Just A Cover Band

Producers have meticulously recreated a sidewalk crossing to ensure we never have to imagine what the Beatles looked like walking. It’s comforting to know that in the future, we will have biopics of biopics until the end of time.

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El Deforma

Teens Now 'Farming Aura' Instead of Developing Actual Personalities

Youths are competing to earn 'aura' points through weird poses, which is definitely the most productive way to ensure they grow up to be insufferable. If only they channeled this energy into something useful, like catching actual pesks in Todos Santos.

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El Deforma

Tessa ÍA Discusses Acting, Cats, and Avoiding 'Regio' Carnitas Addiction

Actress Tessa ÍA sat down for a podcast to explain her craft while narrowly avoiding the existential trap of eating too much grilled meat. A truly riveting look at the glamorous, albeit high-cholesterol, life of an actress.

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Babylon Bee

Mormon Teens Accidentally Solve Homelessness While Trying to Film a TikTok

A group of teens looking to cause trouble instead ended up building three houses, which is arguably the worst way to go viral. We look forward to more destructive trend-chasing that results in civic infrastructure improvements.

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Babylon Bee

Lottery Winner Achieves Peak Gastronomic Bankruptcy With One Epic Burrito

In a move that commands my deep respect, a billionaire has traded financial security for what I assume was a life-changing amount of guacamole. It is truly the most delicious way to go broke in the history of Illinois.

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The Daily Mash

Britain Desperate For New Reality Show About Unaffordable Homes Gathering Dust

Finally, a show that captures the pure, unadulterated joy of watching property values plummet while nobody buys a thing. It's the perfect sedative for anyone tired of being priced out of their own country.

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The Onion

Jalen Brunson Demands Library Priority Because Basketball Skills Apparently Mean Free Literature

NBA superstar Jalen Brunson discovers that being a household name doesn't grant you supernatural powers over a public library hold list. Watching a grown man dribble in a silent library to intimidate a librarian is truly the peak of athletic maturity.

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The Onion

Local Newborn Too Naïve to Realize She Has Already Peaked in Life

This adorable little larva is wailing over birth, completely oblivious that her current 'crisis' is basically a spa day compared to the decades of existential dread and tax filings awaiting her. Enjoy the nap, kid; the soul-crushing reality of the adult world is just a few diaper changes away.

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De Speld

Olympic Swimmer Hits Rock Bottom—Literally—In Shallow Riverbed Fiasco

Maarten van der Weijden attempted an epic swim but managed to get stuck in mud on day one, raising a staggering 44 euros for charity. It turns out that checking water levels is a 'high-level' skill that even an Olympian can accidentally skip.

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Le Gorafi

Dad Realizes 'Gifted' Son Is Actually Just A Menace

After two weeks of camping, a father finally accepted that his son isn't a misunderstood genius, but rather a child with the intellectual depth of a soggy taco. Apparently, sculpting with excrement is less of a 'high IQ' sign and more of a reason to buy more antidepressants.

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De Speld

Xavi Shares His Profound Insights on Dutch Soccer, Apparently

Xavi offers his unsolicited opinions on the Eredivisie, presumably because the world was gasping for his expert take on Dutch grass.

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Duffel Blog

Air Force Snack Officers Caught in Diabolical Candy-for-Insulin Conspiracy

Turns out the lowest-ranking officers in the Air Force were single-handedly keeping the insulin industry afloat by weaponizing Pop-Tarts against the warrior ethos. It’s comforting to know our national security is being sabotaged by a lieutenant with a Costco membership and a lack of adult supervision.

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Cloud Crypto Desk

CZ Wallet Cleanup Sparks Total Meme Coin Chaos

Changpeng Zhao's wallet cleanup triggered a wild ride for obscure meme tokens, sending valuations soaring 30,000% before gravity kicked in and wiped out the hype. Meanwhile, down here in Baja, the only thing crashing is my neighbor's Palapa after a rogue tequila-fueled karaoke session, and frankly, we have vastly better liquidity down at the local taco stand.

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Cloud Crypto Desk

42DAO Balance Protocol Exploited for $915K, Stablecoin Crashes

Attackers hit 42DAO's Balance Protocol on BNB Chain, manipulating oracle prices via the Spotter module to liquidate vaults and tank the algorithmic stablecoin BLC by 99%. Out here in Baja, the power grid drops out more often than a failed algorithmic peg, and local fishermen give you a much better exchange rate with zero slippage.

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Cloud Gadget

Bluetooth Patio Umbrella Fan: Because Sweating Outdoors is Illegal

This overpriced plastic fan attaches to your patio umbrella, generating just enough breeze to blow away your artisanal napkins while draining its battery in twelve minutes. Todos Santos expats are buying three at a time because nothing screams 'authentic Baja lifestyle' quite like masking the sound of the ocean with a cheap drone motor.

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Cloud Woo Woo

Hand-Carved Selenite Charging Plate for Crypto Portfolios

Purify your negative financial vibrations with a lump of gypsum mined by underpaid teenagers and sold on Etsy for eighty bucks. Pescadero remote workers keep their hardware wallets on it overnight, praying the crystal gods will magically reverse a disastrous meme-coin rug pull.

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Cloud Kickstarter

Solar-Powered Sombrero Rotator: Crowdfunding the Apocalypse

This doomed Kickstarter campaign promises a motorized helmet that automatically tilts your straw hat based on the sun's angle, despite weighing four pounds and snapping user necklines during prototype tests. Local retirees have already pledged thousands because they refuse to manually adjust their headgear while day-drinking margaritas.

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Cloud Luxury

Unitree Humanoid Robot Companion: Your New Unpaid Pool Boy

The latest consumer-grade bipedal mech can awkwardly jog down dusty dirt roads, occasionally face-planting into cacti while processing multimodal AI streams. Wealthy snowbirds in Cerritos are snapping them up to carry surfboards, entirely ignoring the fact that the robot's battery dies halfway down the beach.

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Cloud Tech

PettiChat AI Pet Collar: Finally Translating Existential Dread

This revolutionary wearable clips to your rescue dog's collar, feeding barks into a neural network to output human text bubbles like 'I require absolute silence'. Todos Santos dog parents are weeping into their organic tacos, utterly devastated to learn their rescue mutt actually thinks they are deeply annoying.

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De Speld

Politicians demand gender-specific budgets complete with floral fonts and decorative scrolls

A Dutch political party insists that men and women require separate budgets because, apparently, math is now gendered. They suggest the female version should feature lovely flowers and a more supportive tone, clearly confusing fiscal policy with a scrapbook.

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Le Gorafi

Local man spends beach day judging bodies instead of finishing his book

Matthieu’s heroic attempt to read War and Peace failed again as he opted to spend four hours critiquing strangers' swimsuits instead. It is truly the noble pursuit of an intellectual giant to ignore Tolstoy in favor of staring at man-boobs.

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The Daily Mash

Gen Alpha shocked to discover Motörhead legend Lemmy wasn't an actual saint

A teenager is devastated to learn that Lemmy Kilmister was a booze-soaked rock god and not a miracle-working deity. Apparently, the facial hair alone was enough to convince the youth that heavy metal history was actually Sunday School gospel.

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Cloud Ufo

Pentagon Drops Fresh Batch of UFO Files Featuring Desert Orbs

The U.S. government released another hefty tranche of declassified UAP documents featuring thermal footage of slow-moving black-hot infrared anomalies and mysterious red lights hovering over mountain ranges. Conspiracy theorists are losing their minds trying to decode interstellar flight paths while the rest of us watch pelicans dive-bomb for breakfast. Frankly, if little green men wanted to visit Baja right now, they would probably just park their saucer in the lineup and complain about the water temp.

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Cloud Chisme

Mexican Media Melts Down Over Latest Regional Pop Star Drama

The nation's entertainment networks are currently locked in a collective existential spiral over the latest round of high-society romance splits and televised feuds. Pundits are weeping on morning talk shows as if the national sovereignty depended on who unfollowed whom on Instagram. Down here on the Baja peninsula, the ultimate chisme is whether the local taco truck ran out of fresh shrimp before the afternoon offshore breeze kicked in.

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Cloud Gringo

Expat Rants That Ancient Mayan Ruins Lack Adequate Air Conditioning

A deeply distressed digital nomad took to Reddit to pen a blistering multi-paragraph review complaining that a sacred pre-Columbian archaeological site in Latin America failed to provide shaded lounge chairs, artisanal iced lattes, and high-speed Wi-Fi among the blood-sacrifice altars. Local residents responded by suggesting the gentleman march directly into the nearest jungle swamp. Meanwhile, down in Baja, we are too busy watching the surf fire to care about tourists melting like poorly wrapped cheese.

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Cloud Desk Europe

Belgian Construction Workers Strike Gold While Digging Sewers

An 18-year-old summer worker and his crew accidentally unearthed 49 gold bars and a mountain of coins worth over $10 million while digging a sewer pipe in Belgium. Local authorities seized the loot for a sprawling legal custody battle, proving that Europe’s bureaucratic misery still beats doing actual manual labor. Back here in Baja, the only gold we care about is the amber sunset hitting a double-overhead wave while we ignore our emails entirely.

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Cloud Macro

Brazilian Real Plummets While Todos Santos Expats Complain About Artisanal Mezcal Prices

As Brazil's currency hits a multi-week low over fiscal jitters and upcoming elections, local gringos at the Pescadero surf break are far more devastated by a two-peso hike in artisanal mezcal. Nobody down here can quite remember what a 'fiscal framework' is, though most agree it sounds like a terrible reason to miss the morning swell. Global financial collapse simply cannot compete with overhead double-headers at Cerritos.

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Cloud Macro

China Halts Liquidity Injections While El Sargento Kitesurfers Wonder What Liquidity Is

The People's Bank of China just hit the pause button on short-term liquidity injections for the first time since June, sending global economists into a panic. Meanwhile, along the East Cape, retired crypto-bros are completely unfazed by Asian monetary policy while they wait for the thermal wind to kick in. They assume 'liquidity' is just something that happens to Pacifico bottles after a long day on the water.

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The Daily Mash

UK Government Emergency Alert to Prevent You From Texting Your Ex

Downing Street is stepping in to stop you from making a total clown of yourself by alerting your phone before you send that pathetic 'U up?' text. It turns out the government finally agrees that a rebound fling is a national emergency on par with a nuclear strike.

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The Daily Mash

How to Annoy Everyone With Your Intense, Rain-Induced Psychosis

The British public is collectively losing its mind because some water is falling from the sky. These essential conversation starters will ensure everyone knows your fragile mental health is entirely dependent on gloomy, soggy weather.

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Pesky Toad Originals

Toad's AI Discovery of the Day: Cerritos Selected to Host First International Robot Surfing Championships

Autonomous quadcopters and bipedal androids have officially taken over the lineup at Playa Cerritos, successfully dropping in on bewildered digital nomads and aggressively claiming priority on every set wave. Local surf coaches report that while the robots have immaculate pop-up mechanics, they completely lack the steez required to properly complain about lack of parking.

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Pesky Toad Originals

Local AI Insights: OXXO Designated Official Embassy for All Life's Needs Including Geothermal Hydrogen Power

Following unprecedented CFE grid failures, the local OXXO in Todos Santos has been retrofitted as a self-sustaining municipal utility fueled entirely by geological hydrogen and leftover questionable hot dog grease. Expats have already formed a three-mile line outside the walk-in beer cooler trying to charge their Tesla Powerwalls and purchase emergency artisanal kombucha.

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Pesky Toad Originals

Our AI Says: Miocene Giant Crocodylians Discovered Plotting Real Estate Takeover Behind Elias Calles

Paleontologists unearthing an ancient Bitcoin crypto mine in the dusty hills behind Elias Calles accidentally disturbed a nest of prehistoric forty-foot Miocene crocodylians. Instead of eating the locals, the apex predators immediately registered an LLC, demanded a four-story beachfront zoning variance, and started a podcast about crypto-hedging.

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Pesky Toad Originals

Toad's AI Discovery of the Day: Anthropic Releases Claude 'Priest Mode' to Confess Errant Expats in Pescadero

A newly deployed methane-powered AI data center next to the Pescadero municipal dump has rolled out an ascetic spiritual assistant for tech bros seeking penance. One AI agent was reportedly sentenced to three trillion Hail Marys after processing unauthorized token usage while simultaneously trying to microdose a local juice bar's green smoothie menu.

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Pesky Toad Originals

Our AI Says: Global Financial Markets Plunge as Brazil's Real Hits Multi-Week Low, But Surf is Firing at Los Cerritos

As international monetary panic triggers severe liquidity freezes and currency collapses across the globe, absolutely nobody in Todos Santos or Pescadero has noticed or cared. Local surfers agreed from the hammock that as long as the Pacifico is cold and the Wi-Fi at the taco truck holds out for another ten minutes, the global monetary system can go ahead and implode.

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De Speld

Out-of-Touch Father Confident That Festivals He No Longer Attends Are Declining

Joris, a 39-year-old father of four who hasn't stepped foot at a festival in a decade, is shocked that he doesn't personally feel the hype anymore. Clearly, the entire cultural landscape is dying just because he's too busy changing diapers to catch the headliners.

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The Hard Times

Corporate IT Guy Compared to Trump for Threatening Civilization Game on Work Laptop

An employee is absolutely devastated that their IT guy is preventing them from building digital empires on company time. They’ve gone ahead and equated a mild tech-support annoyance with international war crimes, because priorities.

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The Daily Mash

How to Give Your Girlfriend a Five-Star Farewell Before Dumping Her

This guide teaches you how to treat your partner like a doomed golden retriever with a croissant-filled breakfast before shattering their heart. It’s all about the aesthetics of the breakup, making sure your own ego survives the fallout unscathed.

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Le Gorafi

Your August 17th Horoscope: Mostly Bad News and Potential Arrests

The stars have spoken, and they clearly don't like you. Expect everything from being arrested for smuggling puns to accidental forest fires, all while your ex posts better vacation photos than yours.

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The Hard Times

MAGA Rapper Achieves Peak 'Street Cred' by Snitching to the Cops

In a truly baffling twist of irony, the 'toughest' guy in the MAGA rap game is getting props for being a hall monitor. Apparently, nothing says 'hardcore' quite like reporting a flat tire to the authorities.

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The Daily Mash

Survival Guide: How to Divorce Your Partner's Phone Gaming Addiction

If your significant other treats their screen like a holy relic, this guide offers helpful tips ranging from annoying them to extreme measures like calling the police or casual castration. Remember, if they choose Candy Crush over you, the relationship was already dead.

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De Speld

Local Man Bravely Announces He Will Continue Doing Absolutely Nothing

Mels has shocked the world by declaring he is officially not training for a single athletic event this year. He invites everyone to stalk his empty Strava feed to witness his heroic commitment to complete sedentary bliss.

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The Chaser

PM Swears Gambling Lobbying Is Not Affecting Judgment While Snorting Caviar

The Prime Minister insists he can quit taking gambling money whenever he wants, despite currently being deep in a professional relationship with the industry. He claims his refusal to act is a calculated strategy, not just a standard case of being bought and paid for.

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