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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 11h

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice

Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 19h

Having way too much fun with this game, but I almost threw my phone across the room when it told me that *the* Sir Ian McKellen was “out of his comfort zone” in a queer film.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like, are these people aware of the sheer amount of depravity that has been captured on film? This won’t scratch a “darkest films of 2026” list.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict that a PG-13 superhero movie will not, in fact, be one of the darkest movies ever made.

Buzz Crave:

Avengers: Doomsday reportedly has at least 6 major deaths.

It’s described as one of the darkest movies ever made.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is also insanely collectivist thinking. No immigrant of a particular nationality can be assimilated until all immigrants of that nationality are assimilated. Which is, of course, impossible so long as people continue to emigrate to the US. But that’s probably the point.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is no racism. There is only real Americans noticing that minority groups are not properly assimilated, as evidenced by minorities’ engagement in un-American activities like *checks notes* attending a football game in the South.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When a family member told me they didn’t like Zootopia because it was “too political,” I asked them to explain exactly which “political” issue they found so controversial. Back then, they were too embarrassed to answer. Today, I imagine the answer would look something like this.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was so pissed at the 6.5% rate when I just bought in July. Still way worse than my old rate, but I’m starting to see it could have been worse.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m late to this one, but I just started Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.” Listening to this description of Western liberalism felt like getting punched in the gut.

One of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption in hindsight of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening, while the land is still being stolen, and the natives still being killed, any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight. I tell stories for a living and there’s a thick thread of narrative by well-meaning white Westerners that exalts the native populations in so many parts of the world for standing up to the occupiers. Makes of their narrative a neat, reflexive arc in which it was always understood by the colonized and, this part implied, the descendants of the colonizer, that what happened was wrong.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To the extent you can judge fame by how well it’s known by the next generation, this millennial is very familiar with “This is your brain on drugs,” whereas I did not know that “I learned it by watching you” was a part of an anti-drug campaign until this moment.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not my area of expertise, but I tend to think such laws should be enforceable based on my brief research. That said, I feel extremely confident that SCOTUS won’t allow it.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sounds super shitty! I just clicked on his profile after seeing these posts, so that the one above was taking out of context, and thought it was worth pointing out. I know nothing else about him and don’t make any defenses for him outside that narrow contextual point.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Setting aside everything else, it looks like that post was mocking a Reason article that was saying something like that. bsky.app/profile/jkfe...

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah the models need to be at least 45% less devastatingly handsome in order for me to accurately judge whether I can pull a look off.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Before writing and directing the Oscar-nominated “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat made this brutal thriller that is absolutely worth your time.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People are dunking on this, but I think it’s pretty obviously correct.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just imagining if someone asked to light up during an interview. Wtf is this talking about?

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Assuming children’s media wasn’t counted (Bluey and Avatar), I actually think they got most of the best shows on here, with one HUGE exception: Fargo.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also, that link mainly just points you to other sources and verifies that I’m not the only one with these crazy beliefs. It doesn’t go into much detail itself haha.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think that conduct would likely go beyond negligence and could be described as reckless, which is where one is aware that their behavior carries significant risks but chooses to proceed anyways. Which I’m totally good prosecuting. www.law.cornell.edu/wex/reckless

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m afraid my criminal law professor, Kim Ferzan, radicalized me on this topic.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But if “neglect” includes momentary inattention that ultimately results in harm to a child, then I wouldn’t support prosecution. That would be negligence that resulted in a tragedy, but I don’t think the negligence should be criminally culpable.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the vast majority of parents/guardians who have neglected children have done so intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly, so I would support prosecution. Assuming “neglect” means failure to care for children over a significant period, it will almost always be more than mere “negligence.”

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a matter of principle, I tend to disagree with permitting criminal punishment on a negligence or strict liability basis. But I can think of no reason why such standards shouldn’t permit civil liability for would-be-crimes-but-a-rogue-AI-agent-did-it situations.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 24/09/2026

Heidi Overton just started her opening statement at her confirmation hearing by thanking her lord and savior Jesus Christ

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unfortunately, I think the VW Buzz is the only legit electric van on the market right now. There’s some other family-sized options (Kia EV9, Hyundai IONIC), but I don’t know how they are in terms of quality.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Define “family model”? I can fit a car seat and two big kids in the back of my 2030 Chevy Bolt, which cost me $15k with 20k miles a couple years ago. Storage is limited, and we use a minivan for our main family transport (two adults + four kids). But it’s awesome as a secondary family car.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I recently read Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” Afterward, I wanted to watch the film adaptation with Robert Redford, which I KNEW existed. But I couldn’t find it. Thought I was going crazy. Turns out I was combining the title for “The Old Man and the Gun” with the poster for “All Is Lost.”

Movie poster for “All Is Lost” starring Robert Redford.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The tradition of the Icelandic saga lives on.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The new Resident Evil movie freaking rules.

Movie poster for “Resident Evil,” featuring various limbs reaching around a doorway at odd angles.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let there be any mistake: I am firmly against political violence and think it would be bad if Trump were assassinated. I just think the survey is poorly worded if the idea was to get at what Democrats actually support happening.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also, it’s a fine line, but “I’d be happy to hear Trump was dead, even if he was assassinated” is not necessarily incompatible with opposition to political violence. Human nature is such that one can feel positively about an outcome even if they think the thing that led to that outcome is bad.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Note that it doesn’t quote Eggars on that. I’m sure that the sources meant to use “Olde English” as meaning English from the Shakespearean period, without realizing the term referred to language from a prior era.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seeing the list of finalists for the National Book Awards and having your first instinct be to look up each author to check if they’re white is *insane* behavior.

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I have it straight, Missouri HB1 never went into effect as a matter of state law, but under federal law, Missouri must pretend that HB1 went into effect. Which federal law compels Missouri to enforce a law it never passed? The one passed in 1789, before anyone had heard of a "party primary."

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a tough and sobering read.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For real. Every film in the American Frontier Trilogy is a modern classic.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think they were referring to the 2016 film of the same title about Nat Turner. In the comments, they referred to “Nate” inciting violence against slaveholders. The 1915 film doesn’t have anyone named Nate, so that seems like either a misspelling of “Nat” or a reference to the actor, Nate Parker.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Doorbell ditching and toilet-papering were killed by Ring doorbells.

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Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Those who wrote the Reconstruction Amendments offered us a path. Pass a law that requires a consensus among the justices before the Court can reject acts of Congress said Bingham. Pass a law that designates our most fundamental statutes political questions beyond the reach of courts said Trumbull.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1. I don’t believe this caricature of Utah’s law school for a second. 2. Even if it were true (it’s not), the author’s subjective experience at one law school is not indicative of a broader problem in legal education. 3. As a Utah practitioner, I can confirm that our recent law grads are great.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know the competition is steep, but Ethan Hawke has got to be up there for “best actor to never win an Oscar.” (Also, just learned that in addition to three acting nominations, he has two screenwriting nominations! Some people are too talented.)

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t mean to minimize the 2014 incident, but if he really intended to engage in such a blatant act of antisemitism, then I would be shocked if that was the only example. Is it possible that he isn’t a “gutter antisemite” but just made a very, very bad mistake?

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I haven’t followed Macklemore closely, but I remember him apologizing for the costume incident, explaining that he wasn’t trying to characterize Jews, and worked with the ADL afterward. Whether one bought that explanation at the time, have there been other incidents of antisemitism?

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