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

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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• “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:

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.

• “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 🗑️🔥

  • “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.

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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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