Best of the Week!
Current obsessions + top 5 jokes & more!
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Current Obsessions
Vote For Your Favorite Jokes!
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POST: Current Obsessions
A quick dive into some of the media I’m obsessing over.
Each weekday I send five jokes to subscribers who then vote on their favorites. Below are THE TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!
Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.
MONDAY: 5-19-2024
Verizon is ending its DEI policies to get the FCC's blessing for its $20 billion Frontier deal. And are we shocked? I mean, if American history has taught us anything… when it comes to ‘frontier’ deals, diversity is sold separately.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 5-20-2025
On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys who have started kidnapping the infants of another monkey species, seemingly just for kicks. “And for the life of me,” continued the researcher, “I don’t understand how they made little suits that spell ICE.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 5-21-2025
Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, known for starring in what feels like deleted scenes from Starship Troopers —
— falsely described habeas corpus as the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people. A bizarre flub, as habeas corpus is clearly the Harry Potter spell that’s kept Mitch McConnell alive for so long.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 5-22-2025
Kermit the Frog will deliver commencement address at the University of Maryland graduation. Graduates will wait with bated breath to see if the 70-year-old television icon will finally admit that yes, it’s not easy being green, but it’s much harder to be Black or brown.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 5-23-2025
In a cost-cutting move, the Treasury Department will soon stop minting new pennies. Instead, the remaining materials used to make pennies will be broken into microscopic pieces and tossed into the air, forming a cloud that will later evenly disperses the funds as crypto-drops.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
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BEST OF THE BEST!
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