Thursday December 2: Daily Links

THURSDAY 12.2


NEWS STORIES

 



Maxwell Trial Day Three Is In The Books, First Victim Cross Examined

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers had their shot at cross examining Jane in the trial and they went after her. They accused her of just performing on the stand, since she’s a working actress, and questioned her memory of events. Pointing out she said she was brought to see the Lion King on Broadway in 1994 when it premiered in 1997. These lawyers must sleep incredibly well at night on their beds of filthy money.

Read more at the New York Times.


Your Debt Collectors Are Now Allowed To DM You On Social Media

It is now legal for debt collectors to bombard you with DM’s to try and get that money. Hopefully Instagram and Twitter never remove the block option.

Read more at Protocol.


Trump Positive

A new book by Trump’s chief of staff says that the former prez tested positive for covid before his debate with Biden.

Oh so that’s why your family wasn’t wearing masks.

Read more at The Guardian


Capitol Rioter: I'm a Piece of Shit

Video shows the tearful confession of the capitol rioter who tased a police officer. “What do you want me to tell you? That I tased him?” Rodriguez said sobbing. “Yes. Am I a fucking piece of shit? Yes.” he said.

No argument here.

Read more at mediaite.


Red States Will Give Bennies to Unvax Workers Who Quit Their Jobs

If you can’t, or don’t want to work because of vaccine mandates, and you’re unvaccinated, some states, like Iowa, Florida and Kansas will pay you to sit home.

Weren’t these the same people complaining that unemployment benefits were bad for the economy?

Read more at Slate.


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SPORTS



Has Brady Ruined NFL Fandom?

One person on Twitter has asked the question – Has Brady’s crazy success ruined fans expectations of coaches and quarterbacks in the NFL? The answer is that fans are fucking crazy people and they’ll turn on everything they love at the drop of a dime. Sure, let’s just say it’s Brady’s fault this week.

Read the Tweet on Twitter.


Brent Musberger Sez The Gruden Emails Were A Hit Job

Brent Musberger recounted what he told Jon Gruden after he got shitcanned from the Raiders:

“As I told Coach, whoever took you out, Jon, that was a paid assassin. That was one of the best hit jobs that I’ve ever been around. They didn’t go to their media goombahs. They didn’t leak this to Adam Schefter or one of those guys that breaks stories. They first went to the Wall Street Journal. And when Gruden was still coaching after that, then they dumped the rest of it on the New York Times. That was a professional hit job.”

The NFL better hope Brent isn’t a juror on this trial.

Read more at profootball talk.


Lebron Says Something's Fishy

We know Lebron has been suspended for several games and it has something to do with Covid, although its not clear what. LB isn’t explaining whatever he knows, but he’s telling us that something fishy is happening. And he has the emojis to prove it.

The coaches of the Green Bay Packers must be behind this.

Read more at NY Post.


Police Video Shows MLB Star Grabbing His Wife By The Neck

Last May when the Atlanta Braves star Marcell Ozuna was arrested, police got video of him grabbing his wife aggressively by the throat.

This guy makes a good case tor using the Tomahawk Chop. On him.

Read more at TMZ.


Lemieux Bit Opponent & Got 5 Game Suspension

The Kings forward bit an opponent hard enough to draw blood this weekend and got himself a 5 game time out.

It’s 5 for fighting, not 5 for biting.

Read more at LA Times.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Vice Warns Mark Zuckerberg to Start Thinking Dirty

Facebook has banned sexual content, so will Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse follow suit? Vice warns that an attempt at a G-rated metaverse will fail swiftly.

Don’t worry, if there’s anything we’ve learned since the birth of technology—-if its tech, it will have sex.

Read more at Vice.com.


HBO Spent $30 Million on a GOT Spinoff That Sucked

The new Oral History of HBO has a lot of juicy goss. A former HBO exect told the author of the book “Tinderbox” that $30 million was spent on one episode of a GOT prequel pilot that got shitcanned.

Guess winter is not coming.

Read more at NY Post


HBO Was Worried for James Gandolfini's Life

A new book revealed that during taping of the Sopranos, James Gandolfini was drinking heavily, doing drugs, would go on benders, and hold up production. HBO execs were worried. “We were concerned about Gandolfini staying alive. Occasionally he would go on a bender or a coke binge. We had to stop production,” former HBO CEO shared with the author of “Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers.” They were trying to keep him alive.

Well, they didn’t do such a good job, did they.

Read more at insider.


Britney Spears Can't Even Take a Piss Alone

The paparazzi are relentless, even photographing Ms Spears as she exited a gas station bathroom. She called them out on Instagram. I had a shitty day yesterday 💩💩💩 !!! Paps took pics of me coming out of a public bathroom ….. I mean how embarrassing is that ???? So right when I got home I had a PFC … it means “party for confidence “ and I swear if you have confidence struggles or low self esteem and need to practice walking with your head held high and kinda hunched over … you must try it !!!! ⁣

Freedom’s not all its cracked up to be.

Read more at buzzfeed.



VIRAL & TRENDING



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Yes Virginia, There are Hannukah Movies Too

Christmas movie lists are everywhere, but you also had them figured out years ago. So Buzzfeed put together a list of movies to watch during Hanukkah, in between dreidel games. Mostly comedies, you can watch Seth Rogen as a time traveling pickle man, Adam Sandler’s animated Eight Crazy Nights, a few hannukah themed tv episodes, a Yiddish movie, and even a Rom Com.

So where are the purim movies?

Read more at Buzzfeed.


Here Are The Best Cities For ExPats To Live In, Ranked

CNBC has ranked the top ten cities for ExPats to live and work in around the world. Somehow Newark didn’t make the list for people outside of America.

Read more at CNBC.



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