Justin O'Connor 🦝

Data reporter @NOLAnews | @TheAdvocateBR via @Report4America. Robert Caro enjoyer.
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Email: [email protected]

[Sam Karlin @samkarlin]

New NDAs I obtained today show Louisiana officials appear to be negotiating with Oracle and Tesla, among other companies.

[Piper Hutchinson @ByPiperHutch]

The head of Louisiana’s community college system said the thousands of jobs accompanying the new Space X launch facility will win over critics who have expressed concerns about the project’s impact on the environment and the immediate community. #lalege
https://t.co/1s9FxELp01

[Sam Karlin @samkarlin]

New from me:

Politicians across the country are running away from data centers. Even Texas Republicans are turning on them.

Why is @LAGovJeffLandry and other Louisiana Rs standing firm?

"We don't need a moratorium," Landry tells me.

Story: https://t.co/TOyuuEOIPG #lagov

[ICE Flight Monitor @ICEFlightM]

Yesterday, an ICE Air flight that originated in Alexandria, LA with a stop in Miami, FL, arrived in Guantanamo Bay, marking the 1st flight to GTMO since July 1, when an ICE Air flight carried the remaining migrants detained at GTMO to detention centers near Alexandria.

[Amelia Knisely @ameliaknisely]

This isn’t even the strangest thing I’ve experienced in West Virginia politics

[Brandon Walker College Football Show @BFWshow]

Northwestern State is 1-29 in its last three seasons

The FCS program just lost to a NAIA program

Louisiana Christian with a STUNNING win on opening night

[ESPN @espn]

A Dallas judge signed an order Thursday that prohibits the NCAA, the SEC and its commissioner Greg Sankey from stopping a group of athletes from returning to college sports for one more season of play. https://t.co/HVUH4p9v1o

[🏁 @concertleaks]

Hayley Williams has announced tattoo pop ups around the world to celebrate “The Hayley Williams Show.”

Fans will be able to pick from specially-designed flash by Rainblow Tattoo, and 40% of proceeds will be donated to The Ally Coalition!

[Justin O'Connor 🦝 @ByJustinOConnor]

new thinkpieces? must be a good day to start rewatching the wire again

[Justin O'Connor 🦝 @ByJustinOConnor]

"The records show the SpaceX negotiations involved a wide array of government officials who vowed to keep details about the project secret until it was announced": @samkarlin on the NDAs officials signed on SpaceX's prospective Louisiana site:
https://t.co/uDza2k4aA6

[Sam Karlin @samkarlin]

New from me:

I obtained 31 NDAs signed by Jeff Landry's administration and other public officials for SpaceX. They had previously withheld them from my public records request, citing ongoing negotiations.

See who signed:

https://t.co/9013uaVYqZ

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

Lex Walton - Hipster Runoff (Official Music Video) https://t.co/YBOt86zPh0

[🇵🇦Jess🇵🇷 @lovinmygirls218]

Got Lil Man out here looking like Stringer Bell

[Galen Druke @galendruke]

We heard your voice and we've answered your call 🤓

[Armando Villarreal Studios @AVStudios]

Shot of all the different stages of Tulane's King Of Mardi Gras helmets. We do everything in sets of 12 and 24 depending on the step. They work their way through the different racks. We are a small company so this is what works for us.

[Mark Schleifstein @MSchleifstein]

Look out for this severe storm approaching the southwest shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain

[Nate McGrady @natemcgrady]

what’s stopping you from coding like this?

[Greg Girard @gregforaday]

Down below and up above, Kowloon Walled City scenes. 1987-1990. From “City of Darkness Revisited”. Back in print! The story of the Hong Kong’s most notorious and misunderstood community: 35,000 people crammed into 300 interconnected highrise buildings, constructed without architects or engineers, three blocks from the end of the runway at Kai Tak Airport. The most densely populated place on earth before its demolition in 1992.

356 pages of photographs, maps, interviews with residents and other documentation. In collaboration with co-author Ian Lambot.

Books available via link in bio. Shipping worldwide.

https://t.co/fcCHtVXXRf

1. Temple inside the Walled City with iron grill to protect its tiled rooftop from refuse thrown from upper floors.
2. Late afternoon scene on Walled City rooftop.
3. Bbq meat workshop.
4. Pails of water carried by Walled City resident.

[Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini]

We're in a calm-before-the-storm period: primaries are mostly over, with much more polling, early vote and FEC data coming soon. For now, the environment looks blue enough to flip the House. The big question is whether it's blue enough to flip the Senate.

[Lara Korte @lara_korte]

Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker.