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The Voltron of corporate scandal, faux t-rex & the boozy Fyre fest 👀🍿🧃

Nov 23, 2022
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Hi Wrecklings!

This issue contains the 1000th article we’ve shared! As someone who never was able to keep a journal after a couple ̶m̶o̶n̶t̶h̶s weeks, this is an ✹accomplishment✹, really appreciate y’all subscribing and reading!

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Ashwinn @Shwinnabego
the new kia logo is so unreadable that at least 30k people a month search for the "KN car" ever since its debut
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  • “Amazon's New Movie 'Sugar' Is All About Quebec's Infamous 'Cocaine Cowgirls'“- I can’t even imagine how sweaty I’d be smuggling $26M of drugs.

  • “Several Attorneys General Are Looking Into The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Fiasco”- I didn’t have Richard Blumenthal pegged for a Swiftie but he’s mad too:

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Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal
Swifties: If you’re angry & frustrated (as I am) about Ticketmaster’s monopoly, you have the power to demand action from public officials & federal agencies & to protect fans. We know all too well that what happened last week is not a glitch—change is necessary.
9:17 PM ∙ Nov 19, 2022
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  • “Sonic the Hedgehog Creator Yuji Naka Arrested in Insider Trading Scandal”- He hedged his bets on a prickly choice


  • “Louisiana Priest Pleads Guilty To Filming Dominatrix Thr33some In Church!”- Ah look at these nice, god-fearing folks!

  • “That didn't age well! Fraudster Todd Chrisley is seen boasting about spending $300k-a-year on clothes in 2014 clip just two years AFTER declaring bankruptcy to erase $20million in debt”- Uhh to save y’all from the Google, Todd is apparently a real estate tycoon that got his own reality show but was turned into the FBI for fraud by his gay lover after their relationship soured.

  • “‘Instagram Vs. Reality’: This Woman Bought A House From DIY Influencers, And It Shows How Fake Social Media Can Be”- I did some digging and while the influencers weren’t super well-known, it does make me feel better about the quirks of my place.

  • “Elon Musk Has Reportedly Been Hiding That SBF Secretly Owns Part of Twitter”- This is like the Voltron of tech meltdowns, I love it.

  • Speaking of which, the FTX disaster is one we’ll definitely be seeing a documentary on because it’s a raging đŸ—‘ïžđŸ”„

    • “Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself”

    • “FTX Crypto Crash Draws Online Poker Comparisons; Executive Tied to Ultimate Bet Scandal”

    • “Exclusive: Bankman-Fried's FTX, parents bought Bahamas property worth $121 million”

  • So much for Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes’s confidence that, “they don’t put attractive people like me in jail”:

    • “Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years and 3 Months in Prison for Theranos Fraud”

    • “Elizabeth Holmes's Wolf Dog Was Killed By a Mountain Lion”

    • “Watch: Journalist, Author John Carreyrou Reacts to Elizabeth Holmes Sentence”

  • “Heads Up, BeReal Users: You May Be Revealing More About Your Location Than You Think”- TL;DR, you’re basically revealing your exact location.

  • “Banksy accuses clothing brand Guess of 'helping themselves' to his artworks”- Curious about the disconnect between Brandalised and Banksy
 something doesn’t make sense there.

  • “House Arrest Can’t Keep Anna Sorokin Down: ‘I’m Still Living Better Than All of You’”- The way this 15 minutes of fame for being a scammer is simultaneously infuriating and impressive.

  • “Crypto Couple's Charity Gave Almost Nothing...to Charity”- Ah yes, another reason to eat the rich.

  • “Christie’s Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for ‘Further Study’”- Because fake designer bags are so last month


  • “Inside the Wine Festival Meltdown That Has People Yelling ‘Fyre!’”- It’s wild to see so many founders just failing up until they can’t maintain the grift anymore.

  • “Guy Linked to Huge Crypto Meltdown Says It’s Just a Coincidence That He’s Hanging Out in a Country With No Extradition to United States”- Nice to see they’ve basically settled in paradise where the cost-of-living is low and just out of reach from the long arm of the law.

  • “Urine in a bottle controversy as goalkeeper sent off”- Nooooooo nooooo.

  • 🔏“Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'“- This entire article is simultaneously fascinating and makes me want to bleach my brain.


More Serious Stories

We realize some of these can be triggering for some readers, so feel free to skip!

  • 🔏 “Shein’s Cotton Tied to Chinese Region Accused of Forced Labor”

  • “One Fan Captured A Heated Exchange Between A K-Pop Idol And Their Manager. Now The Group Is Detailing The Physical And Sexual Abuse They Say They Experienced.”

  • “Depression as a marketing tool? When influencers get the mental health conversation wrong”

  • “Justice Alito Allegedly Leaked Hobby Lobby Birth Control Decision to Donors in 2014”

  • “Trad-Wife Wellness Influencers Are Trying to Take Down Birth Control”

  • “Massachusetts police who’ve been fired or resigned in scandal just move on to another town”

  • “Cult mom' Lori Vallow who believed slain kids were 'possessed' zombies WILL stand trial for their murders after previously spending 10 months in psychiatric facility”

  • “Right-wing doctor group led by anti-vaccine insurrectionist implodes in scandal”

  • “Three Mothers, Two Babies and a Scandal review – an utterly shocking tale of the cash for babies scandal”

  • “Inside Kanye West’s Yeezy: Abrupt Firings, Alleged Nazi Inspiration and ‘Pure Chaos’”

  • “Turkish ‘cult leader’ Oktar sentenced to 8,658 years in prison”


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P.S. While we’re obsessed with these stories, we don’t endorse any of these insane behaviors. 💋

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