Thursday December 8 Daily Links

THURSDAY 12.8


NEWS STORIES

 



Brittney Griner IsFree

Brittney Griner has been freed from Russian as of a prisoner exchange. Russia gets back The Merchant of Death. Jamie Spears is going to try to get her into a conservatorship immediately.

Read more on Twitter.


There Are No Plans To Subpoena The Bankman

The House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters says there are no plans to subpoena Sam Bankman Fried to speak at the hearing about FTX tanking. Whatever this guy has done, Epstein should have.

Read more at CNBC.


Recession Smesshion, Billionaire Takes 10,000 Employees to Disney

Ken Griffin, the CEO of a hedge trading firm took 10,000 staffers and their entire families to Disney, treating them to hotel, airfare, park tickets and pricey meals for three days.

You could do that or just pay them more.

Read more at business insider.


Elon Musk Isn't the Richest Anymore

Forbes says LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault is now richer than Musk by .1 billion.

He just got passed by someone who is not destroying twitter.

Read more at mediaite.


Turtle Fights Off Shark

In Australia, a drone captured a loggerhead turtle taking on, and beating a tigerhead shark.

Everything really is upside down there

Read more at Fox


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SPORTS



OBJ Gets No Offers

OBJ has gotten no offers after his big tour of interested NFL teams. Seems a guy straight off a second ACL injury may not help anyone get into the playoffs.

Read more on Twitter.


Shaq Gets Pushed Into Giant Tree On NBA on TNT

Kenny Smith manhandled Shaq into a huge Christmas Tree so deep that Shaquille had to get help to pull himself out.

Well that’s some good game analysis, guys.

Read more at TMZ


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CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Recession Fears Are Putting a Damper on Streamers

Wall Street isn’t feeling much like investing in streamers these days with economy concerns hovering over everything, so a class of new streamers is starting to have to make cutbacks, layoffs and other belt tightening decisions.

Also, streaming is like being on AOL in the 90s.

Read more at THR


Jennifer Lawrence Thinks She's the First Female Action Hero

Fans and critics roasted J-Law for saying that her role as Katniss was the very first female action star role. They had to remind her about Aliens, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Kill Bill.

And what about Linda Lovelace? She was doing action in the 70s.

Read more at Yahoo.


Khloe K Had to Be Sewn In, Out and In to Her Peoples Choice Dress

The dress Khloe wore to the Peoples Choice Awards was so tight she had to be sewn into it, which caused all sorts of trouble when she had to pee. Her handlers had to rip her out of the dress, and then sew her back into it on the spot.

This isn’t working. Its time to go off the rack.

Read more at People


Al Roker Kicks Back and Watches Today Show While Recovering

The NBC weatherman is on the mend from a recent healthcare, and says he’s just been watching his team on the Today Show every day.

He’ll be back on tv doing nothing in no time at all.

Read more at ET Online


Greys Anatomy Writer Really Fucked Up

Screenwriter Elisabeth Finch lied about having a rare difficult to treat cancer, and about having a brother who committed suicide, to elcit sympathy and attention from coworkers. There was no tumor, her brother is alive and well, and when her deceptions were discovered she left her job writing for Greys Anatomy. “I told a lie when I was 34 years old and it was the biggest mistake of my life. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger and got buried deeper and deeper inside me,” she said. She even used several of her lies as the basis for some Greys storylines.

Hey whatever works.

Read more at NY Post


Wednesday Star Catches Heat After Bragging About Working with Covid

Wednesday, everyone knows you gotta wait till Sunday and then test.

Read more at mediaite



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STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Our Bathrooms Are Covered In Poo Water

A new study shows that invisible plooms of water spray into the air every time we flush the toilet. Your bathroom will never be clean no matter how hard you try.

Read more at Study Finds.



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