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Brian JM Quinn
@bjmquinn.bsky.social
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Professor @ Boston College Law School (Corporations, M&A, VC, and some corporate history)

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Brian Quinn, CBE is a Scottish economist and former football club chairman. He is an honorary professor of economics at Glasgow University. He is best known for his spell as the chairman of Celtic Plc board. .. more

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 22d
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Illiberal Democracy, Merger Regulation, And Corporate Capture
This Essay examines how the second Trump Administration has weaponized merger regulation and regulatory approval processes as tools of corporate capture in serv
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 15h
Of course it’s a giveaway. How could it be otherwise?

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He could collect more than $50 billion by hitting a handful of the board’s easier goals that won’t necessarily revolutionize Tesla’s products or business, the Reuters review found.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 16h
So interesting! What kinds of cases are you looking for?
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 16h
Cutting democrat programs seems like a “major question.”

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 16h
18 U.S.C. § 242 makes it a crime for anyone acting under color of law to willfully violate the constitutional or federal rights of any person in the U.S. ICE & LEOs are all subject to this law when they abuse their authority, especially if acting beyond their lawful scope.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 16h
Masked desperados and thugs.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 19h
It’s ok for grand jurors to do the right thing and in the face of ludicrously political motives to decline to indict a weak case.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals
Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 1d
The jury system is the ultimate democratic institution. If you ever get a chance to serve, don’t try to get out of it. It is a final check against tyranny.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d
Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach
A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 1d
The USG’s current equity portfolio is heavy on rate earth mining companies … smh

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Trump Administration Now Holds Stakes In 5 Public Companies: Here's A List—INTC, MP, LAC And More
In a significant shift in U.S. industrial policy, the Donald Trump administration has acquired direct ownership stakes in five major publicly traded companies. This series of interventions, framed as ...
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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Sanford F. Schram, Margot C. Finn , and 2 more

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d
Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach
A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d
As we descend into 1970s Philippines-like crony capitalism…
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d
All these cross investments in the AI space… no antitrust review these days, I guess?

Also, now that they are all interconnected, imagine how quickly collapse of the AI bubble is going to spread.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d
JUST IN: Nvidia, $NVDA, is an equity investor in Elon’s xAI, per Reuters

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d
Was that a dozen people? Not including the guy in the chicken costume of course.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d
JUST IN: Nvidia, $NVDA, is an equity investor in Elon’s xAI, per Reuters
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d
Lawless 🤡🚙 admin no longer believes that laws are necessary.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
Trilogy Metals. Too bad the SEC is out to lunch.

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Billionaire Trump Donor Paulson Scores Windfall Thanks To Government’s Investment In Trilogy Metals
One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s investment.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
This should be the end of the story, right?
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
Hold on. Just checking. This TikTok deal isn’t done, yet. What are the chances that it never actually gets done and it just kind continues like now?
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
What are the chances that Trilogy’s team drops a large “tip” on someone in the 🍊🤡🎪 admin? According to SCOTUS that might be legal…

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...
Trump Signs Order to Approve Mining Road Through Alaskan Wilderness
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...
Trump Signs Order to Approve Mining Road Through Alaskan Wilderness
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
USG paying $35 million for 10% of a mining company with no revenue.
a lego prisoner is holding a bag of money in his hand
ALT: a lego prisoner is holding a bag of money in his hand
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
OMG it’s true. The USG just bought into a company with no revenue. What the heck are we doing?!
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
Wait. Are you telling me that this 🍊🤡 might not be on the up-and-up?! Color me shocked that this deal might be corrupt as hell
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
Nothing to see here. Just the US govt acquiring 10% of Trilogy Metals.

www.stocktitan.net/news/TMQ/tri...
$35.6M Investment — Trilogy Metals Gains U.S. Government 10% Stake to Advance Ambler Road & UKMP
Trilogy Metals, South32 and Ambler Metals sign LOI with U.S. government for ~$35.6M to advance the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects. DOW will invest $17.8M in Trilogy for 8,215,570 units; close subject to...
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 4d
The first amendment is withering right in front of you.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d
As you see the Ellisons’ use the husk of Paramount/CBS to hand out fiefdoms to conservatives, remember: This summer Paramount bribed Trump $16m at the cost of 60 Minutes’ integrity. FCC approval of the Ellisons’ takeover bid followed within a few days. Brendan Carr made this statement at the time.
Brendan Carr, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission: President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape. And the way he's doing that is, when he ran for election, he ran directly at these legacy broadcast media outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS. For years, government officials just allowed those entities with execs sitting in Hollywood in New York to dictate the political narrative. And he has fundamentally changed the game. And you see that really having consequences that are just rushing all through media.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d
As you see the Ellisons’ use the husk of Paramount/CBS to hand out fiefdoms to conservatives, remember: This summer Paramount bribed Trump $16m at the cost of 60 Minutes’ integrity. FCC approval of the Ellisons’ takeover bid followed within a few days. Brendan Carr made this statement at the time.
Brendan Carr, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission: President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape. And the way he's doing that is, when he ran for election, he ran directly at these legacy broadcast media outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS. For years, government officials just allowed those entities with execs sitting in Hollywood in New York to dictate the political narrative. And he has fundamentally changed the game. And you see that really having consequences that are just rushing all through media.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 4d
Apparently Portland is such a war zone that the Portland Marathon and its 12,000 runners ran past the ICE facility yesterday.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 5d
Near as I can tell, flag burning isn’t an immigration violation, so ICE doesn’t even have statutory arrest powers
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