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May 3, 2026
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Blood of the Foresaken Edition “As far as the world is concerned, Infowars is dead. Everybody knows that,” said Mark Bankston on Thursday after Alex Jones won a court-ordered delay in liquidation of InfoWars assets. Bankston, a lawyer for some of the Sandy Hook victims’ relatives, added, “He’s trying to keep the bloated corpse of a media organization alive.

It’s all a joke. Everybody knows where this is going.” The satirical site, The Onion, in April entered into an agreement to take over Jones’s go-to website for conspiracy theorists. The new owners plan to turn the website into a parody of itself. It has already replaced the “o” in Infowars with the Onion’s logo. The Onion shed no tears for Jones’s conspiracies-and-nutrional-supplements business model. It proceded to drink its blood. Rolling Stone: An emergency motion by Alex Jones didn’t stop The Onion from turning over control of the new InfoWars to Tim Heidecker, who made his debut as host and creative director on Friday via a surprise livestream. “Lot of turmoil the past couple days on our road to total victory. We have just won a major battle, folks. Alex and his gang of liars and scoundrels have been cast out into the street, they have lost InfoWars, InfoWars.com, and their various platforms,” Heidecker said in his pitch perfect Alex Jones impression. “They have been cast out, ladies and gentlemen, and make no mistake, we will be the new InfoWars. Now we got to go through the machinations of the court, we’ve had some setbacks over past couple days, but that

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