Five Jokes: 3-25-2025
A USPS Shift, A Military Group Chat, 23 And Me's Bankruptcy, Nathan Lane's Missed Roles, and A Historic Japanese Acquittal
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U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is stepping down as Trump officials consider a Postal Service overhaul. Insiders say Louis was fed up with the administration’s vague demands for him to “fully de-joy the post office.”
Senior Trump administration officials, including the vice president and secretary of defense, used the commercial messaging app Signal to debate the pros and cons of launching military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen and accidentally invited Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to be part of the chat. Adding to the confusion, Vice President Vance has admitted that the “Bomb Buddies” group chat meant to include Whoopi.
23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday, leaving the fate of millions of people’s genetic information up in the air — more even, if you dare to use a black light.
Nathan Lane said in an interview with Vanity Fair that he lost out on a role in 1996’s “Space Jam” and was told it was because he was just “too gay.” As the casting director put it, “too… daffy.”
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A Japanese man who spent nearly 50 years on death row before he was acquitted of murder will be compensated 217 million yen ($1.45m), in what his lawyers say is the country's largest-ever payout in a criminal case. When asked what he thought about all 50 of those years, the man’s lawyers advised him to state “no comment.”
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