Josh Needelman

What The Guru Left Behind | Defector A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.

What the guru left behind: defector.com/what-the-gur...

What The Guru Left Behind | Defector A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.

A yoga community still struggles with this basic question: What do you do when your guru is named as an abuser? defector.com/what-the-gur...

So @defector.com is on a complete tear today, I gotta say, and I'm going to share gift links for three amazing pieces (and there are even more beyond that, but really, consider subscribing). First up: going deep on something at once typical and that still needs calling out.

What The Guru Left Behind | Defector A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.

What happens when your guru is named an abuser?

More than 20 years after Swami Satchidananda's death, his followers are divided between those who want the organization to take responsibility for his alleged sexual abuse, and others who view as a religious figure:

defector.com/what-the-gur...

Thanks so much for reading, Douglas!

What The Guru Left Behind | Defector A yoga empire struggles to reckon with its past after its guru is named as an abuser.

Quite a story here from @joshneedelman94.bsky.social

defector.com/what-the-gur...

Great! Just emailed you.

Hi Patrick. Really love this piece. I'm a journalist based in New York and have written about pro wrestling for a bunch of publications. How can I pitch you?

There needs to be a conversation about TKO’s influence on the company and how it’s watering down the product. Can’t remember a more underwhelming WrestleMania. Travis Scott? Really?

What ever happened with TJ Warren?

Activists face lonely fight for North Hempstead cat shelter, as other towns take in hundreds of felines North Hempstead is one of three Long Island towns that do not have a cat shelter or a contract with a shelter that accepts cats.

North Hempstead is the lone town on Long Island without a cat shelter, leaving activists like Liz Diamond to care for the area's stray cat population.

Diamond feeds a pair of cats twice a day behind a Roslyn shopping center. She named them Precious and Rascal.

www.newsday.com/long-island/...

Billy McFarland Is Selling Fyre Festival Tickets Again. Who Is Buying? SPY spends an evening with the Fyre Festival founder on his comeback tour.

Fyre Festival 2 is tomorrow, according to Billy McFarland's latest IG story.

I spent a day with McFarland and a group of adoring influencers at a private airport for an event meant to promote the reboot of the failed music festival.

Inside that zany day:

spy.com/articles/lif...

The Philadelphia Eagles have won two Super Bowls before Joel Embiid has made an Eastern Conference finals.

Is Josh Hart an All Star?

I love that no Knick fan worth their salt will ever take Josh Hart for granted. Born to be a Knick.

Mikal Bridges’ stats/ranks in December:

🏀+158 (highest plus/minus in the NBA)
🏀69% True Shooting percentage (highest in the NBA)
🏀8 left-corner three-pointers (most in the NBA)
🏀15 right-corner three-pointers (most in the NBA)
🏀439 minutes (most in the NBA)

What a great team win. Huge OG game. Jalen facilitated…

Cam Payne, KAT, Hart and Bridges all connecting.

#KNICKS

Remember when the T-Wolves won the trade? #LGK #BodegaKAT

Happens

Phil:

I’ve seen enough: Santa Claus (I-NP) is coming to town.

This season has sucked, and the Sixers are making it impossible to care about them day-to-day.

Leaning into the misery and discussing more absences on today's show. Vent with us at 3:

youtube.com/live/RcKR4Mo...

If roasted turkey is so great, why do we only eat it once a year? This Thanksgiving, let's change the narrative and prepare something everyone likes: Fried chicken. Pizza. Dumplings. Or literally anything else. #NotAnAd

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Halloween 2025?