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Colin Black

@cmblack.bsky.social

Dad. Veteran. Law Professor. Woke AF. Proud Liberal. #legalethics#legalwriting All opinions are my own but the facts belong to the universe.

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

New Media powerhouse- John Stewart, Steven Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Matthew Dowd, Karen Attiah, Terry Moran… anyone else?

19/9/2025, 1:34:26 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

I feel you.

17/9/2025, 7:41:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

What happens if you start with the premise “verify everything?”

17/9/2025, 7:03:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

This needs to be front page news

17/9/2025, 2:11:07 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

We are no longer a free country when corrupt power quiets the people’s voice.

15/9/2025, 10:17:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

And he compares the call for eliminating black people with the call to end hatred!?!? Give me a break

15/9/2025, 10:14:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

👇replaying video is not journalism.

15/9/2025, 10:10:19 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

It use to be that the best thing about being an American was being able to criticize any public figure with a call for war

15/9/2025, 10:08:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

I would love to think so but so far we have only seen catastrophic damage to civilians with zero repercussions to the administration

15/9/2025, 3:08:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted

wow

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15/9/2025, 1:26:46 AM | 13236 4704 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🦋Fiona McGee🦋🚫👑 (@judymccarthy.bsky.social) reposted

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14/9/2025, 1:01:26 PM | 380 83 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

True Leadership requires a focus on social and economic progress for all without finger pointing. Offer solutions not scapegoats.

15/9/2025, 2:49:08 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

This is more sad than funny.

14/9/2025, 6:31:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Killmeade deserves some real self-reflection to ponder why he ever even thought killing people was a solution to a problem.

14/9/2025, 3:15:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/9/2025, 1:15:46 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

Pointing out Charlie Kirk's hate speech is not hate speech. It's objective reporting. Apologize to Matthew Dowd and rehire him. A full-throated embrace of genocide is hate speech – beyond all measure. Fire Brian Kilmeade. Immediately.

14/9/2025, 2:13:16 AM | 21856 5832 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Whatever you want to call it — the current U.S. right wing policies align with Hitler’s policies.

14/9/2025, 1:51:49 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Exactly

14/9/2025, 12:15:06 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

They don’t care about their own hypocrisy. That is the point. And journalist refuse to call it out.

13/9/2025, 7:33:15 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

👇this

13/9/2025, 7:31:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

And no one says anything about Kilmead sting we should just kill the homeless and mentally ill

13/9/2025, 3:21:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Exactly!

13/9/2025, 3:01:14 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

How about that.

13/9/2025, 2:32:42 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

👇

13/9/2025, 2:30:40 PM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Thanks for the add @carlchri.bsky.social

13/9/2025, 12:56:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Is this motive?

11/9/2025, 9:22:54 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lizzy For Democracy (@lizzy2016.bsky.social) reposted

My final though on this topic...

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11/9/2025, 3:49:35 PM | 8360 1916 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

And how do they know he wasn’t killed to stop him from continuing his demands for the release of the Epstein files.

11/9/2025, 8:53:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

I am so utterly heartbroken at what we are leaving our children.

11/9/2025, 10:50:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

It’s okay to celebrate the death of the vitriol and hateful rhetoric but not the killing of another human.

10/9/2025, 11:54:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

👇well said

10/9/2025, 11:52:50 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

At what point does the media ask: “Why was the Tangerine Tyrant an informant to a hoax?”

10/9/2025, 3:01:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

I have the same hope with Mr. Mamdani that I had when both Barack Obama and Kamala Harris. And that makes me worry.

8/9/2025, 12:14:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

James Carville is irrelevant.

8/9/2025, 12:11:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov should be embarrassed. They both demonstrate complete ineffectiveness. Zohran is the voice of the future and showing Jeffries and Schumer growing irrelevance!

6/9/2025, 7:10:51 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

What arrogance to make it about him

6/9/2025, 6:47:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.

3/9/2025, 5:45:07 PM | 9877 2672 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

4/9/2025, 4:03:07 AM | 10084 2910 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Businesses that rely on taxpayer money to subsidize their manpower costs should not exist. Period. Minimum wage should equal Cost of living.

4/9/2025, 1:07:22 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

This is an embarrassing use of our military servicemembers. The world is laughing.

30/8/2025, 1:21:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

👇1000%

30/8/2025, 1:14:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

As a USAF veteran, I am disgusted and embarrassed. We have fallen so far from honor and valor.

30/8/2025, 1:07:22 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

If a president is impeached and removed from office, his administration is not also removed. Just the impeached and convicted president. US Constitution Art. II Section 4. Everyone must be impeached and tried on their own separate counts.

29/8/2025, 7:27:25 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

This is not an accurate statement. Please research before spreading misinformation.

29/8/2025, 7:20:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

The WH press corp think journalism is simply repeating what the tangerine tyrant says.

27/8/2025, 8:08:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reposted

Well? @thehill.com what is ur response?

26/8/2025, 12:17:28 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

Governors should order a “shelter in place” at the first boots on the ground

26/8/2025, 12:19:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Well? @thehill.com what is ur response?

26/8/2025, 12:17:28 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Why can’t states’ governor’s activate their own national guard so that feds can’t?

25/8/2025, 10:07:36 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Any and all elected member of congress who refuses to act to preserve democracy needs to be removed from office. All. No matter the party. Fight or go home.

25/8/2025, 8:11:23 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

Stay safe

25/8/2025, 3:09:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not sure. My guess it’s either because the oldies are still goodies or sadly, there’s nothing funny about the end of the rule of law.

23/8/2025, 9:59:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/did:... Thanks for the add @tjjohnson.bsky.social

23/8/2025, 8:12:36 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

Ted Cruz is still pretending to be a human

23/8/2025, 2:48:29 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurence H. Tribe (@tribelaw.bsky.social) reposted

Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! That’s like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. There’s no “rest of the voyage” if we hit the damn iceberg!

22/8/2025, 10:36:23 AM | 8417 2331 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted

An idea:

20/8/2025, 12:29:07 AM | 8754 3249 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted

Let's do it. We are the real Americans.

20/8/2025, 2:16:21 AM | 456 125 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

11/8/2025, 1:01:35 AM | 14561 4902 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mugger Jack, (Lucky) (@muggerjack.bsky.social) reposted

Walmart has a viable business plan. A) Buy all your slop offshore. B) Teach your employees to apply for Federal Benefits C) Don't let them work enough to qualify for required benefits. D) Live large as a Walton family member.

10/8/2025, 2:43:19 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

www.salon.com/2025/08/10/o... Retired AF officer tells the hard truth about Trump’s America

10/8/2025, 2:47:04 PM | 5 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

www.gao.gov/products/gao... Why is it a radical idea that every person working full time should make enough to live. If you can’t pay your full time employees a livable wage, you don’t have a viable business plan.

10/8/2025, 2:41:02 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So… “…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

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10/8/2025, 1:24:59 PM | 8301 3089 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

Guilty

10/8/2025, 12:45:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

www.advocate.com/news/air-for... As an AF Vet, this makes me sick! Shameful way to treat those that sacrifice so much. say thank you for your service or shut the fuck up!

8/8/2025, 1:48:22 AM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... The IOC should cancel the 2028 Olympics or move it. We have clearly demonstrated that foreigners are not welcome. Why would they come here to be treated so poorly?

7/8/2025, 4:04:33 PM | 158 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

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go.bsky.app/9T3s627

3/8/2025, 11:06:53 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.com GUARDIANS of P@EDOS

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2/8/2025, 10:00:59 PM | 12 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

If only this were true

2/8/2025, 9:35:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

Interesting. Let’s see if it pans out. Not holding my breathe with the level of corruption.

2/8/2025, 2:00:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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go.bsky.app/Fx8BbxU

1/8/2025, 10:09:04 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

Wow

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1/8/2025, 7:51:02 PM | 21042 8890 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) reposted

If you work in higher education and you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend this panel @irinamanta.bsky.social put together, "Validity and Equity Problems in Law School Teaching Evaluations": www.youtube.com/watch?v=paoe...

31/7/2025, 4:25:08 PM | 20 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome. Love, Allison

30/7/2025, 11:23:22 PM | 37308 8838 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) reposted

Dems should vow to impeach Bove and any nominee who did not testify truthfully under oath

30/7/2025, 1:52:19 AM | 16795 3831 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 (@gmf1369.bsky.social) reposted

#GVerse #WeThePeople @newyorkcitygirl.bsky.social @beccakittybear.bsky.social @poofer.bsky.social @mblue.bsky.social @nyfirefighter22.bsky.social @iamtheleegend.bsky.social @realme2024.bsky.social @coko.bsky.social @browneyegirlhi.bsky.social @soldiergirl.bsky.social @tappsready.bsky.social

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Profile picture 𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 (@gmf1369.bsky.social) reposted

#GVerse Welcome To The #Family 001 #LetsDoThis #HonoraryGuest @nyfirefighter22.bsky.social

26/7/2025, 10:37:55 PM | 34 25 | View on Bluesky | view

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go.bsky.app/Br6qBdH

26/7/2025, 9:54:54 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for the nod!

26/7/2025, 9:56:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 (@gmf1369.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

#GVerse #PackingUp Part I @nicky67.bsky.social @roxineking.bsky.social @googeliart.bsky.social @cmblack.bsky.social @godswrath699.bsky.social @acampina.bsky.social @kanekavi.sheshed.rocks @debfly.bsky.social

26/7/2025, 7:03:47 PM | 12 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social) reply parent

This happens in every neighborhood in the world but not worldwide because we only care about those that we “know.” Imagine if we cared like everyone was our neighbor.

26/7/2025, 9:24:30 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

End Citizens United

25/7/2025, 5:23:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

24/7/2025, 4:01:13 PM | 26234 8698 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

Just remember...there was absolutely nothing normal about the United States Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell. Nothing. Not by protocol. Not by precedent. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

25/7/2025, 2:19:47 AM | 16477 4969 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Well said!

24/7/2025, 1:09:17 AM | 5 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tammy jo 🔥 (@tammyjo408.bsky.social) reposted

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22/7/2025, 10:33:52 PM | 79 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jennifer 🦋 🇺🇦 🦋 (@jenelliot.bsky.social) reposted

“To the people who tune in for something real.” - Jon Stewart

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Imagine a world where politicians had the courage to put people over money.

22/7/2025, 8:52:38 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kelly (@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social) reposted

FIFA is considering moving the World Cup games to Canada in response to escalating fascism in the US. Good. They should. And the Olympics should follow suit. Refuse to normalize or reward fascism. The US is not a safe place to visit & we should all vote with our dollar and go elsewhere.

22/7/2025, 5:23:12 AM | 3847 1010 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Minimum wage must = livable wage

22/7/2025, 12:26:51 AM | 8 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

“Measurably” worse, too!!

21/7/2025, 10:47:14 PM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

Trump threatening to punish teams unless they bring back names like “Redskins” and “Indians” isn’t tough talk...it’s a neon sign blinking, “I’m petty, racist, and obsessed with forcing the past down your throat.” This ain’t about tradition. It’s about domination. Pure and simple.

21/7/2025, 5:39:24 PM | 1403 403 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin Black (@cmblack.bsky.social)

Some don’t care about the cruelty. Some don’t know and others celebrate it. It’s emotionally paralyzing to watch. Yet, we must persevere.

21/7/2025, 10:32:12 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We are beginning to pay those costs now😔

21/7/2025, 10:25:18 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

#squirrel 🐿️

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Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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Profile picture 💫Foxy💫 (@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social) reposted

Here is my latest Super Sunday Starter Pack It’s important now more than ever that we come together towards common goals These are serious times with serious problems We need to support each other, lift each other up PROTECT FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER 🦊 go.bsky.app/N3PMwGC

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