The Onion filed a new bid Tuesday in the Southern District of Texas bankruptcy court to acquire Alex Jones's Infowars assets, the second-go after a 2024 acquisition attempt was overturned by Judge Christopher Lopez over creditor-process objections [1][2]. The satirical outlet's owner, Global Tetrahedron, said in a statement the new structure addresses the procedural objections that defeated the first bid and committed to operating Infowars as a parody platform.

The plan, filed jointly with the Sandy Hook families whose 2022 defamation judgment against Jones is the underlying claim, would convert Infowars's broadcast operation, web properties, and merchandise IP into a single satirical site. The families' counsel told NBC News the new bid was "the cleanest mockery-as-justice instrument" available within bankruptcy law [1]. Jones, on his own broadcast Tuesday night, called the renewed bid "an existential attack on free speech" and said his appeal of the 2024 ruling remained pending.

The Apr 30 register places the bid beside the FCC's same-week order for an early license review of eight Disney-ABC stations over a Kimmel monologue, which the paper carries as a feature in this edition. One administration is using federal regulatory machinery to chill a network broadcaster; a satirical outlet is using bankruptcy machinery to silence a conspiratorial broadcaster the courts already found defamed grieving families. Both sit inside press-freedom-wartime. The instruments and the targets are inverse.

CTPost reported a hearing date is expected within sixty days [3]. The Sandy Hook families said they would attend.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin