I teach this in my business law classes. I walk through some of that demand letter's greatest hits (made of shit, sociopath, going to hell, etc. alleged to be defamatory) as examples of abusive and bogus threats.
You think the Pope is weak on crime? You should see what Jesus did for a thief.
JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida.
And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024).
That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.
Obvs
Most people who think this are delusional.
I bet I could take him though.
I wonder what it would be like to have a government that functioned.
“He was deceived by Israel” is going to be the story so many people are going to reach for and I think creating this stabbed in the back myth is going to have some really bad consequences down the line.
Court: "What you've told me today, what your representation is, which I don't believe, by the way. I won't believe it until you testify. That is what has happened to the credibility of your office. Generations of Assistant U.S. Attorneys had built the goodwill of that office for your generation to destroy it within a year."
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I'm more comfortable with a lazy old nag than any animal you'd call "elite." But horses are important to my family. Godspeed these hairy Lamborghinis.
Never a word for the junior senator, Roger Marshall, or my opponent, Tracey Mann. These little pro-business orgs won't say a word for them. Repeatedly. In very conservative places. They'll praise Moran, but they hit the brakes hard after that.
A crisis of competence in government.
@kolyin.bsky.social Lawyer news.
This makes me think about how important law school is right now. Without the benefit of experience, these new hires (a) won't know when to say 'no,' and (b) will learn the worst lessons about professionalism and ethics.
I hope they've got good grounding.
@coreyryung.bsky.social don't fuck it up.
That problem and solution aside, these are two guys doing a bad job of introspective and mistaking that for not being introspective.
But honestly, I worry more about the ones who are hugely introspective and also bad at it. The solipsists like Elon Musk.
Being uncurious beats being a sociopath.
It's such an interesting and useful observation that great entrepreneurs aren't introspective. I mean, it's false, but it's false in an interesting and useful way.
Some don't. Elizabeth Holmes not very insightful. But as a society we grant them years, decades even, to reflect in isolation.
Excerpt from a court's order reading in part, "On June 2, Park warned Kim over Slack that a “dismissal with cause” would not eliminate the earnout obligation, while exposing Krafton to “lawsuit and reputation risk.” And so Kim turned to ChatGPT for help." The footnote to the last sentence says that "Kim admitted at trial that he had deleted specific, relevant ChatGPT logs."
A lot of lawyers would do a lot of terrible, terrible things to make sure this sentence and footnote never got written about their client.
(This case is about whether a gaming company cheated the developers of Subnautica 2 out of hundreds of millions.)
courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...
What a mark of shame for any decent American, for this bumbling wet drunk to see you as a life preserver in his dirty little war.
But also how effective they can be when used creatively, like the collusive lawsuits and settlements with Florida and Texas.
You could squeeze two good seminars out of this year alone, Substantive Law and Legal Procedures in the Second Trump Administration.
I was once hired to teach negotiation to a military team with a large training budget. At lunch they talked about how they'd had MMA stars come in to work with them too. They were pretty open about the fact that they learned very little useful skills, but had a lot of fun and got to meet stars.
There are certainly reasons to run even if you don't expect to win, but doing that instead of working has very limited upsides. And those are generally connected to how popular your campaign is.
A Trump DOJ lawyer trying to primary Omar as a Dem isn't going to be popular.
It's a baffling choice to me in both cases. A super long-shot campaign is not a good substitute for a job. It's unlikely to achieve the candidate's real goals and is a hugely stressful and difficult thing to do. And even if you aren't self-funding, it's a gargantuan thief of time and energy.
I'm running for Congress in a roughly similar situation (although I'm a Dem running in a red district, similarly massively uphill campaign). My primary opponent is herself in a somewhat analogous position; she lost her job to DOGE and picked a congressional campaign as her next project.
Long-term memory is woke
We just wrapped up our big candidate forum at Washington Days in Topeka. Excited to see some of the strongest candidates to come forwards in Kansas in decades.
Stay tuned for video!
#bluewave #colinforkansas #midterm #kansas #politics
I borrowed Mr. Technopants, my son Ox's Lego creation, to help explain how ICE is violating the rights of Americans--and why it's a problem for Americans even if only immigrants were being abused.
youtu.be/5gJRwurl4NI
What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve?
If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days?
If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built?
It's a tax. That's all it is.
Firms are gearing up for the Refund Wars now. We're likely to see billions transferred from government to corporate coffers. And good! The taxes were illegal.
But *consumers* shouldered much of the tariff burden. And won't get those refunds.
A massive wealth transfer from consumers to investors.
I teach business law to business students. I show them this video, and ask which witness listened to his lawyer? Which witness is going to get stabbed by his lawyer?
youtu.be/bqpot5VNobY?...
This is the one and only way anyone should emulate Robin Thicke.
I teach business law to business students. I show them this video, and ask which witness listened to his lawyer? Which witness is going to get stabbed by his lawyer?
youtu.be/bqpot5VNobY?...
This is the one and only way anyone should emulate Robin Thicke.
I've been writing my U.S. Rep, Tracey Mann, every day for 49 days and he has not responded to me about why he doesn't support Uncapping the House. Now, @colinmcroberts.bsky.social, who is running against him in the upcoming midterm election, SUPPORTS UNCAPPING THE HOUSE OH SNAP #projectnocap
An infographic laying out the rationale for uncapping the House of Representatives, increasing the number of districts to bring each representative closer to their constituents.
An interesting reform we're starting to push for is uncapping the House of Representatives, making each district roughly 500k people. (It's about 750k now, with some up to a million.)