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Keith Connolly

@limerick4inarow.bsky.social

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Limerick Hurling. Wanna be jazz guitar player. Steely Dan aficionado. LEGO is for heroes. A boy,a girl,a wife and 4 dogs. Love Sligo. Clare via Limerick. 🇮🇪 Sin é. #SpeirGorm

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 2h

Brilliant

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @adamzyglis)

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 15h

Great story

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 21h

Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage
And it's not Pam Bondi. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage

If you woke up this morning with the vague sense that you were missing a goodly portion of your brain cells, it’s likely that you watched Pam Bondi’s performance yesterday before a Senate committee.

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 16h

Watching on this side of the pond he has been most impressive at almost every turn. He’d make a great president. Props to Newsom’s people on social media though. They know their game.

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 16h

Dolly should be wrapped in cotton wool. If she ran for president of any country of the world she would win in a landslide.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Elliott Randall @elliottrandall.bsky.social · 21h

"Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible. " - Ronnie Scott - Jazz saxophonist

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 17h

“I can’t teach you nothin’ George ’cause I’m still learning myself.”
Wes Montgomery to George Benson.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 17h

He’s not exactly St.Jim either.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 2d

I take no pleasure in agreeing with Mr.S on this. But he’s 100% here. What the fuck America..

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2d

We elected the most soulless, self-absorbed empty suit we could possibly scrape from the gutters of late-stage capitalist grift. Twice.

This is on us as much as on him. As a country, we showed ourselves as infantile rubes and slack-jawed marks. As a people, we asked for this. Twice.

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 2d

God’s country Sligo. Love that place.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 2d

Lads…

#Speirgorm

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 2d

Another Irish name another embarrassment.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic this.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 3d

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: It takes skill and even courage to do what Colin Blunstone, the lead singer for the Zombies, manages to do in this 1965 song. He's almost completely exposed, all by himself but for a little Vox organ. See you around.
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The Way I Feel Inside

YouTube video by The Zombies - Topic

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely agreed this is fabulous. Such a good band and a terrific singer. This Tim Hardin cover is a particular favourite of mine.

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Colin Blunstone - Misty Roses

YouTube video by Aldo Verlaine

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

Considering Trump has been granted a free pass by the US Supreme Court,if Americans are indeed going to hold their lawless politicians to account,I think this guy in particular is going to go through somethings.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

In your spare time again.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

Tom Shekels.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

Our use of the English language is extraordinary. We swear like no others with a comic timing all of its own. Arthur and Glinner knew it.

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Father Ted (Fucking hell)

YouTube video by Devoted & believer

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

America is not a serious country. Reason 5789..

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

Wow

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

I’m still trying to figure out if he gets his grumpy side from the Greeks or the Irish.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 3d

This Americans 👇

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.

Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social

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On August 27, 2025, Petitioner was arrested at the Carson Car Wash in Carson,
California by uniformed Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers and unidentified
plainclothes federal agents. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 3. During the arrest,
Petitioner sustained severe leg injuries. See Pet. ¶ 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 5. He was
handcuffed and transported by CBP to the emergency room at Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center in Carson, California. Id.
At the hospital, Petitioner was admitted under a “blackout” procedure for patients
in law-enforcement custody and was registered under the pseudonym “Har Maine UNK
Thirteen.” Santiago Decl. ¶ 7. Federal agents remained at Petitioner’s bedside during
admission, transfer to non-public treatment areas, and throughout his stay, keeping him
handcuffed to his hospital bed. Id. ¶ 6.
On or about August 27, 2025, CBP transferred custody of Petitioner to ICE. See Pet.
¶ 48. He remains detained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the supervision of ICE,
which has contracted with Spectrum Detention Services (“Spectrum”) to provide guards.
See Santiago Decl. ¶ 8; Pet. ¶ 48.
Since that date, two to four uniformed guards—either Spectrum employees or ICE
agents—have been continuously stationed in Petitioner’s hospital room, monitoring him at
all times, including while he sleeps, eats, uses the restroom, or receives medical care. See
Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 9–10.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 4d

HH was never on my list,but I think she's the least objectionable of the candidates running.

Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 4d

Catherine Connolly looks like a nun that used to bate me in school.

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 4d

Our choices for president are just shocking. Can’t we just keep Miggledy..

#Speirgorm

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