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.
US officials: Russia frees WNBA player Brittney Griner in prisoner swap, with US releasing Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. pic.twitter.com/JEsGaOfFiu
— ESPN (@espn) December 8, 2022
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.
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.
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.
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
HERO IN A HALF SHELL: Drone footage captures the dramatic moment a loggerhead turtle gets the better of an aggressive tiger shark. https://t.co/H26TVoE7xI pic.twitter.com/8oPQ9jCubI
— ABC News (@ABC) December 7, 2022
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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.
I’m told there was no offer to OBJ made per a source informed. Serious concerns about ability to play this season. In the absence of seeing him run routes, seeing him cut…they are forced to evaluate the information they have. Doesn’t seem as optimistic as it was pre visit.
— Jane Slater (@SlaterNFL) December 7, 2022
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.
KENNY LAUNCHED SHAQ INTO THE TREE 🎄💀 pic.twitter.com/WBltT8jflx
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) December 7, 2022
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday Star Catches Heat After Bragging About Working with Covid
Wednesday, everyone knows you gotta wait till Sunday and then test.
TRENDING & VIRAL
nothing here yet
EVERYTHING
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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.
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