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I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.
The way love works for Tolkien is very simple; you see a beautiful woman from across a field, you recite poetry at her, she is now in love with you forever. Then you leave for fifty years, after which you return and get married. FIN.
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.
I wish the anti-monopoly types denounced these decisions with half the fervor they denounce Ezra Klein.
I wrote about how Imelda Padilla accidentally told the truth about what "local control" over land use policy actually means in practice: replacing actual planning with capricious, case-by-case decision making by elected officials.
www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/8/...
www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/8/...
Imelda Padilla Accidentally Told The Truth About Local Control — Max Dubler
Yesterday Jon Lovett from Pod Save America released an interview he did with State Senator Scott Wiener and Los Angeles City Council member Imelda Padilla about a proposed state law that would l...
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August 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I wish the anti-monopoly types denounced these decisions with half the fervor they denounce Ezra Klein.
If people tend to overreact to the imposition of rent laws, that implies that rent control laws may be less effective.
rent stabilization excludes buildings with fewer than six units for this precise reason so … try again ?
I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it
August 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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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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.
August 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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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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.
August 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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.
With respect to my friends @patsobkowski.com and @beaubaumann.bsky.social, a lot of the liberal discourse on such project seems to assume that the reconstructive project will not need to be considerably less ambitious after Trump II. That assumption seems questionable to me.
If you’re saying that courts are an effective roadblock to necessary reconstruction, there is no “wrong” here. That question is kind of outcome determinative.
August 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With respect to my friends @patsobkowski.com and @beaubaumann.bsky.social, a lot of the liberal discourse on such project seems to assume that the reconstructive project will not need to be considerably less ambitious after Trump II. That assumption seems questionable to me.
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WHERE MONSTERS LIE: DEAD END
Get ready for the third volume of the BRAM STOKER AWARD nominated, breakout horror comic series!
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August 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Check out WHERE MONSTERS LIE: DEAD END by Kyle Starks on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
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It’s my birthday today, or as my comic book friends will understand, my own personal Tom Spurgeon Remembrance Day.
July 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It’s my birthday today, or as my comic book friends will understand, my own personal Tom Spurgeon Remembrance Day.
Let Larry Hama write Uncle Scrooge you cowards!
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Let Larry Hama write Uncle Scrooge you cowards!
My hot take is SFFA v. Harvard is one of the best examples of Lahav’s case for litigation.
This is one of my favorite books to recommend to students (I actually have two copies). One of my teaching aspirations is to someday have a seminar read this alongside @nbagley.bsky.social’s Procedure Fetish and Kagan’s Adversarial Legalism.
Well folks, I disagree with the adversarial legalism critique.
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May 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
My hot take is SFFA v. Harvard is one of the best examples of Lahav’s case for litigation.
@teganoneil5000.bsky.social are the gemstone reprints in album form Carl Barks complete and worth purchasing?
May 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
@teganoneil5000.bsky.social are the gemstone reprints in album form Carl Barks complete and worth purchasing?
So, out of curiosity. How much would be a fair rate for black and white art for a small run indie comic? Say around 1000 copies sold at indie comic conventions.
May 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So, out of curiosity. How much would be a fair rate for black and white art for a small run indie comic? Say around 1000 copies sold at indie comic conventions.
The executive is a they, not an it, paraphrasing Easterbrook.
A remarkable exchange, but this cuts off an important last line:
“We have lawyers who don’t want to do this.”
The unitary executive is a bunch of unnamed lawyers in a trench coat
“We have lawyers who don’t want to do this.”
The unitary executive is a bunch of unnamed lawyers in a trench coat
Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back.
Trump: I could
Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.
Trump: I'm not the one making this decision
Host: You're the president!
Trump: I could
Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.
Trump: I'm not the one making this decision
Host: You're the president!
April 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The executive is a they, not an it, paraphrasing Easterbrook.
Does anyone know when Wong Kim Ark started to be taken for the proposition that children of undocumented or illegals immigrants were entitled to birthright citizenship? I’m trying to nail down the date but I haven’t succeeded yet.
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Does anyone know when Wong Kim Ark started to be taken for the proposition that children of undocumented or illegals immigrants were entitled to birthright citizenship? I’m trying to nail down the date but I haven’t succeeded yet.
Does anyone know when Wong Kim Ark started to be taken for the proposition that children of undocumented or illegals immigrants were entitled to birthright citizenship? I’m trying to nail down the date but I haven’t succeeded yet.
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Does anyone know when Wong Kim Ark started to be taken for the proposition that children of undocumented or illegals immigrants were entitled to birthright citizenship? I’m trying to nail down the date but I haven’t succeeded yet.
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2021-2024: “Lina Khan is literally saving democracy,” they said
2025: Lina Khan is chillaxing with Steve Bannon
WTAF?
2025: Lina Khan is chillaxing with Steve Bannon
WTAF?
April 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
2021-2024: “Lina Khan is literally saving democracy,” they said
2025: Lina Khan is chillaxing with Steve Bannon
WTAF?
2025: Lina Khan is chillaxing with Steve Bannon
WTAF?
Seems like an adventurous theory of standing.
BREAKING:
We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.
Stay Tuned.
We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.
Stay Tuned.
@aaup.bsky.social and @aftunion.bsky.social sue over government “using cuts as a cudgel to coerce a private institution.” www.aft.org/press-releas...
March 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Seems like an adventurous theory of standing.
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Wordless Wednesday:
November 20, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Wordless Wednesday:
This is @beaubaumann.bsky.social erasure.
According to Senator McConnell, I am “one of the field marshals of the academic project to undermine the judiciary.”
www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/rem...
www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/rem...
November 18, 2024 at 10:03 PM
This is @beaubaumann.bsky.social erasure.
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So uh how do we buy ComiXology
April 26, 2024 at 9:35 PM
So uh how do we buy ComiXology