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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)

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 · 24d

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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 · 1h

Insanity.

Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3h

Old Stone Church starting to shine

Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 5h

Ah yes. Our new meritocracy at work.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 5h

We’d definitely have more small businesses and entrepreneurs.

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 5h

Kavanaugh Stop

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 12h

Cool that my subject area (mergers) can help usher in the downfall of our democratic republican.

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Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 23h

EMH meets 🍊🤡

Market responds to orange clown’s announcement of a gajillion percent tariff on Chinese goods. Honk honk.

Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 1d

“What should have been a straightforward financing arrangement to support Nevada’s role in the nation’s energy future has instead become yet another example in a pattern of Trump trying to assert unilateral control over private American enterprise.”

Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 1d

“The latest case involves Lithium Americas and its Thacker Pass mining project …. Last week, in exchange for releasing the first $435 million of a $2.23 billion loan, the federal government took a 5% stake in the company and another 5% in the mine.”

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It’s official: Trump is a communist

What happens when companies know that their market access depends not on efficiency or innovation, but on keeping the president happy? They self-censor, shareholders suffer, innovation grinds to a hal...

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it’s a giveaway. How could it be otherwise?

www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

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 · 2d

So interesting! What kinds of cases are you looking for?

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Cutting democrat programs seems like a “major question.”

Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Masked desperados and thugs.

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

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d

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

www.theguardian.com

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

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

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

The USG’s current equity portfolio is heavy on rate earth mining companies … smh

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

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...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d

As we descend into 1970s Philippines-like crony capitalism…

Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d

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.