J.D. Connor

Also, there are a bunch in Boyz N the Hood. Fishburne's at the sign is the most famous, but Bassett's shorter speech over lunch is great

It's *florid*

They will let nothing stand in their way in their quest for eyebrows

A headline out of context "Digging Deeper on Kalshi's MrBeast Insider Trading Scam"

CFTC Wrecked My Parlay?
I'll be streaming my reaction on Kick at midnight

Peter O'Toole, Ruling Class, both the Jack the Ripper bit and the end speech

A picture of Gavin Newsom, smiling in a Puck article by Peter Hamby. The hed "Gavin on J.D.'s Dark Side: Clavicular"

My secret is out

A post from CNN saying "Target's new CEO unveils his turnaround plan" below a photo of a red shopping card with target's iconic Target logo. Below that a post from Andy Greenberg about how "A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals" The key art is a glowing red hand with fibers of light connecting to an iPhone screen displaying Target's iconic Target logo.

So Target's turnaround plan is hacking my phone?

Sometimes I just want to retire from the world and teach an enormous collection of outmoded computer hardware to play Echo and the Bunnymen’s Never Stop

YouTube video by The Velvet Underground - Topic Jesus

With the announcement that Armageddon is the military's actual plan, I'll be logging off
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Michigan J Frog reaping all the other media outlets he’s murdered knocking on Oracle’s door

Now to make them regret it

Screened the first episode of Mussolini: Son of the Century in class today and I cannot speak highly enough of its gargantuan soundscape. I don't know that I have it in my to rewatch the series given the world, but it is a truly enormous piece of television. Luca is unbelievable.

The Double-Tap of Veronique

We get oysters, but only from May to August

If—unlike Tommy "6 months" Friedman—you are actually interested in listening to "the campus left," you might try devoting a couple days to @thedigradio.bsky.social's 5–part series on Iran (thedigradio.com/category/iran) with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour from 2022

A splash page for Encounter Books offering me the chance to "Support smart conservative publishing—and save an extra 15% on my first order." The book at center is Max Nikias's American Trojan. To the rightLiberty's Nemesis by Dean Reuter and torture apologist John Yoo. What is Encounter Books? "Now edited by Roger Kimball, Encounter Books continues to advance its love of liberty and the cultural achievements of the West against a rising tide of collectivist sentiment and the soft totalitarianism of intellectual conformity."

Cool cool. The disgraced former president of my university is publishing an apologia with Encounter Books. Company you keep, etc.

Popup rocket ship indoor play tent

Trump crawling through the tunnel to reach the popup situation room

All Clouds Bring Not Rain, by MEMORIALS 12 track album

This new album by Memorials is gonna be fantastic
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Steelmanning the Brightside: Kalshi relying on a death carve-out not to pay millions in Khamenei-out-of-power bets creates a market opportunity for an even more venal platform catering to libertarian VPN enthusiasts who want their goddamn money

For a little while at least, it can be unsurprising that there is an impending GBV album. But the first single, "We outlast them all," has a Prospero's Book vibe.
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He'll be so pretty

Making it stay / Letting it go J.D. Connor on L.A. in film, and a new chapter of TEETH BEACH by S.I. Rosenbaum

Could not agree more

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Remember when the savvy "national greatness" play was to argue for renewable energy in the US to give the country more latitude to go to war with oil producing nations? Amateurs.
Anyway, shale oil is back on the menu, boys.

"It can all exist as these discrete parts within the whole. And if it doesn’t make sense, then too fuckin’ bad. Like, cry more, lib. It doesn’t have to make sense.”
Our media environment is lightyears from Benjamin's or even Baudrillard's, but an account of society needs media studies even more.

Slopworld w/ Brace Belden and Liz Franczak Featuring TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden and Liz Franczak on our freakish and reactionary tech oligarchy. Musk and friends built a technological infrastructure that has warped everyone’s minds, including...

And yet because Tooze avoids slopwallowing, he doesn't know that Brace Belden already got there on an episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social. What I was calling kayfabe, Belden called “a syncretism that actually doesn’t need to ever be synthesized." thedigradio.com/podcast/slop...

in today's newsletter, @adamtooze.bsky.social works through prescient passages from Baudrillard's Consumer Society to conclude that a) Trump is the Baudrillardian president but b) we are likely beyond Baudrillard. It's a sharp argument, as usual >

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Can you get a kaftaji sandwich in LA? It doesn’t look like it? World City designation: REVOKED

Alt: a small brown dog rests its head on the bottom rung of a metal fence. Its tongue is out