Michael Jacobs
@abogadomike.bsky.social
Gringo lawyer in Chile. Competition/antitrust law, photography, history, Green Bay Packers and pisco. Aspiring former attorney.
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
A year ago I would have said Matthei was a shoe-in to be the next president but wow did this 2025 version of Matthei turn out to be a historically awful candidate.
VIDEO. Realizó obsceno gesto: Evelyn Matthei y nueva polémica con la prensa durante acto de apoyo a Kast
Realizó obsceno gesto: Evelyn Matthei y nueva polémica con la prensa durante acto de apoyo a Kast
La excandidata de Chile Vamos asistió al evento en apoyo a José Antonio Kast, pero al retirarse realizó un extraño gesto.
www.adnradio.cl
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A year ago I would have said Matthei was a shoe-in to be the next president but wow did this 2025 version of Matthei turn out to be a historically awful candidate.
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New: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms’ market power: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tech Giants’ Cloud Power Probed as EU Weighs Inclusion in DMA
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study…
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms’ market power: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
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happy monday, taps sign⬇️
happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
happy monday, taps sign⬇️
Indeed.
One of the safest countries in the Americas but with an electorate that feels extremely insecure. The Right seized on that and amplified those fears further. And won big.
One of the safest countries in the Americas but with an electorate that feels extremely insecure. The Right seized on that and amplified those fears further. And won big.
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Indeed.
One of the safest countries in the Americas but with an electorate that feels extremely insecure. The Right seized on that and amplified those fears further. And won big.
One of the safest countries in the Americas but with an electorate that feels extremely insecure. The Right seized on that and amplified those fears further. And won big.
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yeah, no.
Parisi asegura que pasará a segunda vuelta con “entre el 20% y el 22%” de los votos
Parisi asegura que pasará a segunda vuelta con "entre el 20% y el 22%" de los votos | The Clinic
Tras votar en la comuna de La Reina, el candidato Franco Parisi, proyectó que pasará a segunda vuelta con "entre el 20% y 22%" de los votos
www.theclinic.cl
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Yeah, no.
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Impeachment is right there for your 2026 campaign, @housedemocrats.bsky.social
FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Impeachment is right there for your 2026 campaign, @housedemocrats.bsky.social
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The US is now a rogue state - look at its extrajudicial killings off Venezuela’s coast | Simon Tisdall
The US is now a rogue state - look at its extrajudicial killings off Venezuela’s coast | Simon Tisdall
These widely condemned strikes are just the latest sign of Trump’s imperialist revival – and the collapsing before our eyes of the rules-based world order, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The US is now a rogue state - look at its extrajudicial killings off Venezuela’s coast | Simon Tisdall
El fantasma del ‘péndulo chileno’ sobrevuela las presidenciales.
El fantasma del ‘péndulo chileno’ sobrevuela las presidenciales
Hace 20 años que un presidente no entrega el poder a un sucesor del mismo signo político. La ciudadanía, alejada de los partidos y desconfiada de las instituciones, castiga a los mandatarios salientes
elpais.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
El fantasma del ‘péndulo chileno’ sobrevuela las presidenciales.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Dems should say this right now, loudly and clearly: Anyone who is trusting Donald Trump, of all people, when he says what he’s directing you to do is lawful and that you’ll be protected later may be putting themselves in a very precarious position. 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dems should say this right now, loudly and clearly: Anyone who is trusting Donald Trump, of all people, when he says what he’s directing you to do is lawful and that you’ll be protected later may be putting themselves in a very precarious position. 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
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emerging reports about possibly imminent US military attack on venezuela. there can be no doubt about it, certainly not in the coverage: such an attack would be an act of aggression, lacking any basis in international law. we'll get sophistic arguments about self-defense but none will be legit.
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
emerging reports about possibly imminent US military attack on venezuela. there can be no doubt about it, certainly not in the coverage: such an attack would be an act of aggression, lacking any basis in international law. we'll get sophistic arguments about self-defense but none will be legit.
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My paper with @vanloo.bsky.social and @lanemiles.bsky.social showing that more than 15% of US companies have potentially illegal interlocking board members is now published in the Columbia Law Review
columbialawreview.org/content/anti...
columbialawreview.org/content/anti...
ANTICOMPETITIVE DIRECTORS - Columbia Law Review
“The practice of interlocking directorates is the root of many evils. It offends laws human and divine.” — Justice Louis Brandeis. Introduction Antitrust law prohibits competing corporations from shar...
columbialawreview.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My paper with @vanloo.bsky.social and @lanemiles.bsky.social showing that more than 15% of US companies have potentially illegal interlocking board members is now published in the Columbia Law Review
columbialawreview.org/content/anti...
columbialawreview.org/content/anti...
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As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
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A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people cannot be slipped past either Congress or the American public as an extension of drug policy. www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’
And talk of a quick invasion and easy ‘regime change’ is dangerously misleading.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people cannot be slipped past either Congress or the American public as an extension of drug policy. www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
Now *that’s* a headline.
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Now *that’s* a headline.
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It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
I think the core point is that trump had a honeymoon in which capital/media/political opposition all decided he was the one true voice of america. he did a lot of horrible things with that (including murdering 100s of thousands), but didn't consolidate power...
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
“The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood…”
Oh great we’re back to that now.
Oh great we’re back to that now.
Pete Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood…”
Oh great we’re back to that now.
Oh great we’re back to that now.
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Chile se percibe como el 5° país más inseguro del mundo y el 1° donde más se siente que la delincuencia aumenta, aunque en realidad es el 5° más seguro de América y el 62 a nivel global. Una brecha entre percepción y datos que plantea: ¿quién la alimenta y a quién beneficia?
Inseguridad en Chile, ¿cuánta culpa tiene la TV?
Chile se percibe como el 5° país más inseguro del mundo y el 1° donde más se siente que la delincuencia aumenta, aunque en realidad es el 5° más seguro de América y el 62 a nivel global. Una brecha en...
www.elmostrador.cl
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Chile se percibe como el 5° país más inseguro del mundo y el 1° donde más se siente que la delincuencia aumenta, aunque en realidad es el 5° más seguro de América y el 62 a nivel global. Una brecha entre percepción y datos que plantea: ¿quién la alimenta y a quién beneficia?
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ouroboreos
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ouroboreos
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Apple's mini apps restrictions everywhere else? Thinking of the DOJ complaint against Apple in particular...
"Tencent Holdings Ltd. has struck a deal with Apple Inc. that will see the iPhone maker handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps" 9to5mac.com/2025/11/13/a... 🤔
Tencent adopts Apple's new App Store Mini Apps Partner Program
Update 9:34am PT: There is no direct deal between Apple and Tencent for the 15% commission rate on WeChat mini...
9to5mac.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Apple's mini apps restrictions everywhere else? Thinking of the DOJ complaint against Apple in particular...