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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 JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 20d
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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 · 6h
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 · 8h
JUST IN: Nvidia, $NVDA, is an equity investor in Elon’s xAI, per Reuters
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 7h
Was that a dozen people? Not including the guy in the chicken costume of course.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 12h
Lawless 🤡🚙 admin no longer believes that laws are necessary.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h
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 · 18h
Trilogy Metals. Too bad the SEC is out to lunch.

www.forbes.com/sites/hanktu...
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 · 21h
This should be the end of the story, right?
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
The first amendment is withering right in front of you.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 3d
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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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 4d
War ravaged Portland? Homeless problem? Sure. More than its share of eccentrics? Definitely! Good food and and coffee? Absolutely!! War ravaged? Only in his imagination.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 4d
My first reaction was that this can’t be true. Then, as I thought about it, I can see why this might be the case. Most deals live/die at a personal level amongst C-suite types. I can see how political polarization could cause a CEO to turn down an opportunity to chase a deal. Interesting.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 4d
One wonders why JD Vance bothered to convert to Catholicism. I could have told him, it wasn’t for him.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 5d
“Perfervid.” Had to look that up.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 5d
It’s insanity
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 6d
-32,000? At what point do we all just decide that all of 👋🏼 this 👋🏼 is not working and then don’t sensible thing?
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 7d
Walz was right. These people are weird.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 7d
Personalist regime grants favors for favors. Corrupt as hell.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7d
Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx"

looks like state capitalism to me

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Pfizer Gets Three-Year Reprieve From Trump Pharma Tariffs
Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some o...
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 7d
One guy on the receiving end of multiple “Kavanaugh Stops.” Ridiculous
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d
WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?

It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 7d
Through all of this, I haven’t seen any evidence the US military is suddenly falling short in its ability to accomplish any mission assigned to it. This is all performative nonsense. We are led by dunces and morons.