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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 7h

"Keep the gun. Leave the cannoli."

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 8h

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.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 8h

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?

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 9h

(Perhaps quarter to 6)

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 9h

8:30 and he is OUT

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 9h

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

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 12h

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.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 10h

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

onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

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.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 14h

Wake up, sheeple!

The Consolidated Sandwich Group with the Illuminati Eye over the sign

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 18h

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

media.tenor.com

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

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

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 1d

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.

trib.al

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

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

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

(I promise it makes sense)
youtu.be/9SJc-8cHhus?...

Groundhog Day 1993 -- OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE

YouTube video by MovieTitleScreens

youtu.be

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

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

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

Every once in a while it's nice to catch up with Ohioans who are making a difference, like this guy:
www.wsj.com/business/fir...

Behind the Collapse of an Auto-Parts Giant: $2 Billion Hole and Mysterious CEO

Patrick James started out buying small Ohio factories and ended atop a messy auto-parts conglomerate with piles of hidden debt.

www.wsj.com

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

My fellow USC employee Makai Lemon will be filing a far better AY2025–2026 AAR than I.
bsky.app/profile/robp...

Bobby Football @robpaul.bsky.social · 1d

Makai Lemon you are a top 20 pick this April

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

"That pounding you hear on our walls is the hands of the quitters. They wish now they had joined us in our years of kneescraping toil as we tenderly filled and smoothed a thousand thousand holes. They may not join us, not because we are hard of heart, but because they have been cosmically dinked."

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

The oceans turned sour and the firewinds swept the plains. Even the protein wars seemed figments of a distant past, known only through the taletellers' midnight whisperings. Then did King ShinyGoth stand among his courts and courtiers.

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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Over the years I’ve come to believe that Reds is one of the finest films to have been made in this country. A major reason why it works is Diane Keaton, the audience surrogate. Watch how the camera relies completely on her facial expression throughout this scene. RIP m.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Mt...

Reds - train station scene

YouTube video by sniem

m.youtube.com

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

For all my rarebit fiend friends
(idea and illustration by my son)

Loss but the guy is carrying a welsh rarebit and in the final panel his wife is replaced by the black and white rarebit fiend saying "Oh! Oh! No! Oh! No! Oh! I was dreaming. Oh! What a relief. I'm going to quit eating those confounded rarebits. Oh! My What an awful dream! Oh!"

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

The problem with data centers, as I understand them, is that the floors are full of anchor points for the server racks which would make adaptively reusing them for pickleball much harder than a big box store

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

An old Walmart is great for a community rec center; an old data center?

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

Apparently NOT

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

1970s walks will haunt graphic time

a cartoon ghost with the word boo coming out of its mouth .

ALT: a cartoon ghost with the word boo coming out of its mouth .

media.tenor.com

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

1970s walks will haunt graphic time

a cartoon ghost with the word boo coming out of its mouth .

ALT: a cartoon ghost with the word boo coming out of its mouth .

media.tenor.com

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

All credit to @mobute.bsky.social

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

Reporter: Who's your Prime Minister?
Macron: We're appointing a veteran from the Turkish parliament, Sabahattin Çorlu
Lecornu: [in black beard, caftan] Merhaba

NYT hed and dek: Macron Reappoints Prime Minister of France Who Had Just Quit
In choosing Sébastien Lecornu, President Emmanuel Macron is trying to steady the political turmoil that has gripped the country.

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