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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2h

"Parking Tickets Georg"—my daughter

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2h

Would love to believe the dude is just a Leibnizian. Would settle for Deleuzean.

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2h

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 16h

Functional substitutes? Oh right.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Support @lataco.bsky.social

The header illo from the LA Taco newsletter: a brick that says "PARA LA MIGRA" in orange military stencil lettering with a black drop shadow. The brick sits on a shiny red surface

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Me, Jerry, Neil Hertz; rumor has it Frances Ferguson

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Probably not. There’s a reason I’m not allowed to teach poetry anymore

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

The 1850 version of The Prelude is superior and the reason academics like the 1805 is that we were all precocious types who loved our first drafts

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Asgmt is the worst MGMT cover band in the greater Ypsilanti area

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine some mad Chomskian obsessing over asegmentation

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Gary Gulman's state abbreviations bit but there's one university administrator involved who just hates the letter "n"

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Got a new eblast from the Office of Sustainability and once again my workday is shot—unable to concentrate wondering how "Asgmt" is the abbreviation for "Assignment"

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Got a new eblast from the Office of Sustainability and once again my workday is shot—unable to concentrate wondering how "Asgmt" is the abbreviation for "Assignment"

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

"Keep the gun. Leave the cannoli."

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Met a guy

Tony Gilroy standing in front of a screen showing a slide advertising his visit to discuss Andor. I am also in the picture, regrettably.

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I don't think you can understand Vought without seeing him as an Schmittian/evil Weberian who knows the party has seized the center of legal/bureaucratic rulemaking. District courts may do their thing, but in a world with SCOTUS–sanctioned recission, who cares about Politico and The Hill?

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

(Perhaps quarter to 6)

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

8:30 and he is OUT

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Smokin' on that shit that makes you wanna self-deport

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Sitcom where ICE deports Santos to Brazil where he is sentenced to be Glenn Greenwald's Butler

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Wake up, sheeple!

The Consolidated Sandwich Group with the Illuminati Eye over the sign

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

The Mussolini series on mubi is still crushing it

a bald man says enter the magician while making a hand gesture

ALT: a bald man says enter the magician while making a hand gesture

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine having $8bn in "unobligated research funds" from the previous year. scroogedive.gif

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 3d

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

(TRON:ARES bombing provides cultural cover for OBAA losing ~$50m)

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

(I promise it makes sense)
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Groundhog Day 1993 -- OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

Here is the email from the bankruptcy attorney about a missing $1.9bn (unredacted b/c it's unredacted on reddit already)
i.redd.it/uyu9l7hgo5uf...

From:

Sent:

To:

CC:

Subject:

Singh, Sunny <sunny.singh@weil.com>
Thursday, October 2, 202512:54 PM
Grillo, Emanuel
Barr, Matt; Palisi, Thomas; Bostel, Kevin; Carlson, Clifford; Georgallas, Andriana; Teltschik, Megan; George, Jason; Project Overdrive Rx Associates; Jacobsen, Richard; Herz, Jacob;
Metzger, Laura; Roytenberg, Ari; Poli, Nicholas; Sabatino, Nicholas Re: Overdrive - Cash Management Order
(EXTERNAL]
#1 —We don't know
#2-$0
Sunny Singh
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
212-310-8525 Direct
516-606-7843 Mobile
On Oct 2, 2025, at 11:35 AM, Grillo, Emanuel <egrillo@orrick.com>wrote:
Weil Team:
Thank you for your help yesterday in respect of the orders and our client's comments. We would like to set up a call with you today to ask two questions which our clients need for informational purposes:
First, do we know whether FBG actually received $1.9 billion (no matter what happened to it)?
Second, would you tell us how much is in the segregated accounts in respect of the factored receivables as of today?
Manny
Emanuel C Grillo
Partner