Colin
@kolyin.bsky.social
Professor, teaching about law, negotiation, business, and conspiracy theories.
'Pese a su facha de tipo rudo, Colin es un amor: un pacifista del escepticismo.'
Currently clean on OPSEC.
'Pese a su facha de tipo rudo, Colin es un amor: un pacifista del escepticismo.'
Currently clean on OPSEC.
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WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
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What’s crazy is that this is functionally what’s happening with the ACA tax credits. You’ve basically got a certain amount of subsidy from the credit and you pick a policy off the exchange; the credit reduces the premium.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
What’s crazy is that this is functionally what’s happening with the ACA tax credits. You’ve basically got a certain amount of subsidy from the credit and you pick a policy off the exchange; the credit reduces the premium.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)
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Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
It's my favorite day in the negotiation class I teach: the Kobayashi Maru exercise.
It's a hell of a fun negotiation. To watch. From a distance.
It's a hell of a fun negotiation. To watch. From a distance.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's my favorite day in the negotiation class I teach: the Kobayashi Maru exercise.
It's a hell of a fun negotiation. To watch. From a distance.
It's a hell of a fun negotiation. To watch. From a distance.
This is lifted from the novels of Iain M. Banks, which Musk has claimed as an inspiration before. It wasn't stupid in the novels, because they're sci-fi.
Banks famously wrote a villain eerily similar to Musk; he covets ideas and advances he doesn't understand.
www.reddit.com/r/TheCulture...
Banks famously wrote a villain eerily similar to Musk; he covets ideas and advances he doesn't understand.
www.reddit.com/r/TheCulture...
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is lifted from the novels of Iain M. Banks, which Musk has claimed as an inspiration before. It wasn't stupid in the novels, because they're sci-fi.
Banks famously wrote a villain eerily similar to Musk; he covets ideas and advances he doesn't understand.
www.reddit.com/r/TheCulture...
Banks famously wrote a villain eerily similar to Musk; he covets ideas and advances he doesn't understand.
www.reddit.com/r/TheCulture...
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If I'd voted for this the aftermath would haunt me for the rest of my life.
I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.
I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
If I'd voted for this the aftermath would haunt me for the rest of my life.
I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.
I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I just wish the CEO of Novo Nordisk would have turned to President Trump and said “that would be very communist of you to force a company to ‘give a piece’ to the government when it demands it” -or something like that.
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I just wish the CEO of Novo Nordisk would have turned to President Trump and said “that would be very communist of you to force a company to ‘give a piece’ to the government when it demands it” -or something like that.
Should we refrain from forcibly tattooing Betteridge's Law of Headlines on the torso of every pundit and thought leader, upside down so they can read it before they sin again?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Should we refrain from forcibly tattooing Betteridge's Law of Headlines on the torso of every pundit and thought leader, upside down so they can read it before they sin again?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...
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A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock
When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This is why Facebook is leading the way in workplace well-being with the installation of Meta Menstrual Hubs conveniently located in the parking facilities of corporate offices, so that employees can safely isolate the causes gossip, indirectness, frivolity, and other KPI afflictions
I'm not linking to that NYT piece today, but of all the horrible parts of it, this was the worst. This was an explanation of "female vices" in the workplace and LET ME JUST TELL YOU...
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is why Facebook is leading the way in workplace well-being with the installation of Meta Menstrual Hubs conveniently located in the parking facilities of corporate offices, so that employees can safely isolate the causes gossip, indirectness, frivolity, and other KPI afflictions
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I've always been a big fan of Saddleback Leather products and super curious about whether the company is a great success story or a wild trainwreck to come.
This doesn't completely answer the question, but ...
This doesn't completely answer the question, but ...
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I've always been a big fan of Saddleback Leather products and super curious about whether the company is a great success story or a wild trainwreck to come.
This doesn't completely answer the question, but ...
This doesn't completely answer the question, but ...
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This is why Congress exists--to be a check and a balance.
Time to elect some congressmen who remember that.
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
Time to elect some congressmen who remember that.
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics
President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.
www.wsj.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is why Congress exists--to be a check and a balance.
Time to elect some congressmen who remember that.
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
Time to elect some congressmen who remember that.
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes is even worse for the right—and America—than it looks.
My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media
Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
www.thebulwark.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes is even worse for the right—and America—than it looks.
My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
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An American degree is our greatest export and universities and colleges are the backbone of flourishing cities and communities. This is like setting fire to silo after silo of grain, burning the fields, poisoning the ground. America is currently in a war to survive its own federal government.
In 2017, the US exported about $14B in 'education services' to China, with well over 300,000 Chinese students attending US universities.
In that same year, we exported $12.3B in soybeans.
Attendance by Chinese students is sharply down (-20% v. 2017) & that's going to worsen our trade deficit.
In that same year, we exported $12.3B in soybeans.
Attendance by Chinese students is sharply down (-20% v. 2017) & that's going to worsen our trade deficit.
So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
An American degree is our greatest export and universities and colleges are the backbone of flourishing cities and communities. This is like setting fire to silo after silo of grain, burning the fields, poisoning the ground. America is currently in a war to survive its own federal government.
Is AI aluminum?
I was randomly thinking today about the plausible (but maybe not strictly true) story that Napoleon III used aluminum tableware for VIP guests because it was more valuable than gold at the time--largely because of the cost of electricity.
history.stackexchange.com/questions/51...
I was randomly thinking today about the plausible (but maybe not strictly true) story that Napoleon III used aluminum tableware for VIP guests because it was more valuable than gold at the time--largely because of the cost of electricity.
history.stackexchange.com/questions/51...
Did Napoleon III reserve a special set of aluminum cutlery for special guests?
Slate (2010):
the minor emperor Napoleon III reserved a prized set of aluminum cutlery for special guests at banquets. (Less favored guests used gold knives and forks.)
I see the above claim (or ...
history.stackexchange.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Is AI aluminum?
I was randomly thinking today about the plausible (but maybe not strictly true) story that Napoleon III used aluminum tableware for VIP guests because it was more valuable than gold at the time--largely because of the cost of electricity.
history.stackexchange.com/questions/51...
I was randomly thinking today about the plausible (but maybe not strictly true) story that Napoleon III used aluminum tableware for VIP guests because it was more valuable than gold at the time--largely because of the cost of electricity.
history.stackexchange.com/questions/51...
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When Trump hears what Ronald Reagan said about immigrants he’s going to have DOJ arrest him for mortgage fraud.
October 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
When Trump hears what Ronald Reagan said about immigrants he’s going to have DOJ arrest him for mortgage fraud.
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I'm not in the habit of reading Fox News, but I was curious about how they're covering the demolition of the East Wing and I'm honestly floored. This is the first sentence:
Everyone on the planet knows that Donald Trump has executed a political, ideological and cultural takeover of the government.
Everyone on the planet knows that Donald Trump has executed a political, ideological and cultural takeover of the government.
Trump’s troubling week: Demanding government money, demolishing the East Wing
From demanding $230 million in government money to extreme renovations on the White House's East Wing, President Trump's recent moves are receiving backlash.
www.foxnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm not in the habit of reading Fox News, but I was curious about how they're covering the demolition of the East Wing and I'm honestly floored. This is the first sentence:
Everyone on the planet knows that Donald Trump has executed a political, ideological and cultural takeover of the government.
Everyone on the planet knows that Donald Trump has executed a political, ideological and cultural takeover of the government.
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Civix Comix!
From K.B. Spangler:
"Based on SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK and Chick Tracks, this comic is designed to be simple and cover basic topical information. Accessibility and readability are the primary goals."
Down load and donate: www.patreon.com/posts/civix-...
From K.B. Spangler:
"Based on SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK and Chick Tracks, this comic is designed to be simple and cover basic topical information. Accessibility and readability are the primary goals."
Down load and donate: www.patreon.com/posts/civix-...
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Two $20 billion gut punches to American ag, already suffering under illegal tariffs. And not only do we have nothing to show for it, it's looking more and more like we're going to be bailing them out for the third or fourth time. This month.
The third or fourth time *this month.*
The third or fourth time *this month.*
Trump didn’t just take billions of taxpayer dollars and give it to Argentina with no legal process to help a politician he likes avoid losses in domestic elections and hook up a billionaire he knows who made a bad bet on Argentina.
He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.
He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.
Things are not going well in Argentina, official exchange rate has now decoupled from the market-implied exchange rate to the tune of about 8%
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Two $20 billion gut punches to American ag, already suffering under illegal tariffs. And not only do we have nothing to show for it, it's looking more and more like we're going to be bailing them out for the third or fourth time. This month.
The third or fourth time *this month.*
The third or fourth time *this month.*