Monthly Highlights
The best roasts of
June 2026.
238 roasts went out in June 2026. Below: the top 25, ranked by editorial weight (severity × depth × thumbnail × tier). The sharpest takes, in descending order.
- 01world·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Ego Meter Cracks: Americans Demand Ebola VIP Lane in Kenya
Hundreds protest an exclusively American quarantine facility as political egos hit critical mass.
- 02culture·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
60 Minutes Calls Chaos a 'Cage Full of Tigers'
Surprise pick of a journalist-filmmaker to lead the famously combative newsroom starts with zero calm and maximum mess.
- 03entertainment·SPICY 87·UNHINGED
Ego Meter: Hollywood's Puppet Delusion Hits Critical Mass
Bob Baker's historic marionette troupe gets crowned zeitgeist savior while the actual industry burns.
- 04tech·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
OpenAI IPOs While Altman's Eye-Scanning Verification Fails
The company reportedly can't generate revenue, so it's time to downsize the eyeball scanners.
- 05finance·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Managing Aging Parents' Money Starts With This One Mistake
NYT drops five tips plus the classic 'avoid' warning like a checklist will save you from the actual chaos.
- 06tech·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Google Hides Gemini 3.5 Upgrade Behind Enterprise Wall
NotebookLM gets antigravity and fresh Gemini flavor, but only if your company already pays the premium tax
- 07tech·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Verge Gift Guide Recommends Gadgets Over Fathers' Actual Drinks
Father's Day happening soon and The Verge still thinks dads want $400 tech instead of simple pleasures
- 08tech·SPICY 89·UNHINGED
FBI's Replica Small Town Exists Only to Get Hacked
Alabama building houses a fake town built for simulating cyberattacks that somehow still feels less real than most corporate training videos.
- 09politics·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
FISA Expires Tonight, Spying Certified Till 2027
Section 702 goes through the motions of death while the surveillance state just keeps the receipts.
- 10tech·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Sonos Play Speaker Audit Flags Portable Kitchen Scam
New Play model somehow becomes essential desk item while promising to work inside and outside like it's revolutionary.
- 11culture·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Sulawesi Priests Audit: Five Genders, Zero Logic
Revered for their supposed earthly-celestial hotline via multiple genders, these Bugis figures face the formal absurdity review.
- 12finance·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Education Dept Slashes Student Interest Rates by 1% — Enjoy It for Two Years
High defaults force a temporary crumb while the department pretends this fixes the debt trap it helped build.
- 13sports·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Sullivan Bails West Ham as Historical Allegations Near Publication
Joint chairman steps down after learning serious claims drop soon – PR code for 'lawyers called, I'm gone'
- 14tech·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Ego Meter Spikes as Under-Pillow Speaker 'Fixes' Sleep
Overthinkers swap uncomfortable earbuds for a flat slab that turns podcasts into proof of superior rest strategy
- 15tech·SPICY 85·UNHINGED
Deezer's Remix Feature: Consent as AI's Polite Fig Leaf
Streaming service goes contrarian by letting fans remix songs, provided the artist signs off on whatever comes next.
- 16politics·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Venezuela Opens Electricity to Private Investment After Total Collapse
Fifteen years of state control produced blackouts, so now they're offering concessions like it's a generous gift instead of surrender.
- 17tech·SPICY 87·UNHINGED
YC Demo Day: Ego Meter Hits Record Delusion
TechCrunch rounds up the standout startups whose investors say commanded $175M+ valuations in the hottest batch yet.
- 18finance·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Kalshi's Never-Expiring Derivatives Print $5.5 Billion Fast
The prediction-market platform is rushing to expand perpetual futures beyond crypto after a two-week volume explosion that screams casino, not innovation.
- 19world·SPICY 87·UNHINGED
Partial Ceasefire: Code for 'Rockets Still Flying'
Israeli strikes and Hezbollah responses turn Monday's agreement into the world's most optimistic PR release.
- 20politics·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Graham's Trump Glow-Up: Fiercest Critic to Carolina Lapdog
The senator's relationship with the president dramatically evolved from insults to loyalty just in time for the South Carolina primary.
- 21politics·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Democrats Bank $50M Shot at Cracking Conservative Strongholds
American Bridge labels red turf 'vulnerable' while history says Republicans own the deed.
- 22tech·SPICY 82·UNHINGED
French Startup Scrapping Rocket Name Over Trademark Tantrum
The launch equivalent of renaming your kid because the neighbor already called dibs on it.
- 23finance·SPICY 87·UNHINGED
Vitol's Zambia Pipeline Lock: IMF Says Cut the Exclusive Cord
Emergency arrangement handed one company the fuel tap until September while international watchdogs demand authorities rip it out.
- 24politics·SPICY 88·UNHINGED
Admin Throws Billions at Dying Coal While Building New Plants
Absurdity audit reveals the plan to revive a decade-old corpse of an industry is pure denial theater.
- 25entertainment·SPICY 87·UNHINGED
Streaming Ego Meter Spikes on Ad-Supported Wins
Nearly half of subscribers now 'opting' for ads while execs pretend it's a feature not a surrender.
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