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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That’s an A+ sentence there about Ronald McDonald. Everyone knows that Grimace was there that day.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Matt Howarth is not the only indie creator whose work has fallen into a black hole; Justin Green and Harvey Pekar come to mind as well.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's such a shame those talks didn't work out! I've been trying to put together a Matt Howarth collection and it's very, very difficult. So much material that is scattered all around. Do you know who the literary heir is?
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's astonishing to read that Marvel Comics creators were not being paid ON TIME. That is a crazy thing to say out loud in the year of our lord 2026.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you think there is a serious case for restricting the scope of Title IX to not deal with these cases? Every admin since Obama has aggressively interpreted Title IX beyond its intended application.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sniper King could.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jenna Cha did the art? Wow, she did great stuff on The Sickness.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I get it; on the other hand, they needed a plan b after the Neil Gaiman thing blew up.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Did you ever get a chance to meet Kubert? He sounds like he was impressive in real life; a real manly dude.
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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A picture of Sword of the Atom-era Ray Palmer overlaid with text saying “guess who just got divorced.”
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Real heads know. @teganoneil5000.bsky.social
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I think it’s a symptom of how moribund Marvel has been for the past five years.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I’m having a stroke while reading it, so i guess it’s a recommendation?
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
That’s hard to answer. it’s insanely sexual and violent. It makes Warren Ellis look like Mark Waid.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@teganoneil5000.bsky.social hace you ever read “A Feast Unknown” by Philip Jose Farmer? I just picked it up at a used book store and boy I was not prepared.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is a question, not an objection, by the way.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I also wonder if the specific objectives that court reform is meant to accomplish are those that high income, high information voters care about more, so it’s much harder to sell court reform now vs. FDR, when working class interests were more directly at stake.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
You’ve probably heard this critique before!
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This sort of gets into the key contradiction of your project; if court reform were possible, it wouldn’t be necessary, and if it’s necessary, it wouldn’t be possible.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
From someone who is relatively disinterested in the debate; you both seem to assume that there was ever a sufficient political constituency for court reform. But this seems straightforwardly false. Biden might have just accurately understood the situation!
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
That’s not quite fair; Ava Cordero admitted to being a heavy drug user and being hospitalized multiple times for psychiatric problems. law.justia.com/cases/new-yo...
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I don’t understand how the idea that the rule that determines validity can’t itself be law follows from the tautological premises.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Corey.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Drip is on point, no notes.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I guess I didn’t miss much by not getting into HLS.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I’m not saying it’s suspicious, necessarily. Just extremely weird.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I’m very confused as to how he was even hired by his school.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
They’re not even healthy for you.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This could lead directly into the valuable discussion that the founders really had profound disagreements about the nature of the union.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
In other words, the mid 20th century liberal story that state compact theory was just a stalking horse for defending slavery and segregation looks a little bit less credible than it did 20 years ago.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
And it’s important to remember that Jeffersons and Madison‘s first invocation of state rights came in the context of the alien and sedition acts.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I’m not endorsing your view necessarily, but the key supreme court case saying that states couldn’t use habeas corpus against federal imprisonment is remarkably unconvincing.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Baude characterizes himself as defending originalism on positive grounds, so I think he would not rest his defense of Swift on natural law grounds, though he does believe in unwritten law.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
And I think Suzanne Sherry, long before Baude, also argued Erie was decided wrongly.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
And there’s an alternative take by Baude which posits the existence of unwritten law and argues against the Holmesian position that this is a metaphysical extravagance.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Yes. The Upside Constitution provides the theory behind this charge. But all the conservative theories agree Erie misread the RDA.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Greve’s account praises federal courts for creating a commercial jurisprudence that prevents states favoring insiders.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
(Sorry for the typo I’m dictating this). Second, Michael Greve has an account where Erie enables states to capture income from outsiders, and this is bad.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
There’s several different versions of the story; first as a formal matter this Supreme Court clearly misunderstood. The rules of decision act in Erie. As a matter of statutory interpretation, the Courts reported reason does not stand up.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
From Thomas Sowell and George Will to …. this is a steep decline indeed.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This happened in 2011; some of the philosophers in the room accused him of undermining the basis of human rights by undermining the nation state. And those were putative liberals.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
You would not believe how furious the entire colloquium was at Joseph Carens! It was extraordinary.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I went to the famous NYU legal theory colloquium, and witnessed Samuel Freeman furiously lecturing Joseph Carens that open borders would only lead to global immoderation. He certainly thought Rawls was a nationalist in some key respects.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I wish the anti-monopoly types denounced these decisions with half the fervor they denounce Ezra Klein.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
If people tend to overreact to the imposition of rent laws, that implies that rent control laws may be less effective.
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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It was truly horrifying to hear from people in nonprofits and government trying desperately to house migrants in blue states over the last few years, who simply could not find any place to house them, because barely any new housing existed and prices were being driven higher and higher.
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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It's kind of impressive how bad the political consequences of left-NIMBYism are: losing political representation to red states, losing the moral high ground on migration issues, and exacerbating homelessness. At least "developers" had to go to Texas and Florida.
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
What book is this?
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benjifisch.bsky.social @benjifisch.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
If you read the legal history of abortion, you find many formulations of neutrality similar to Rawls spoken by liberal Protestants during the 1960s and 1950s, wielded as a weapon against Catholics.
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