David S. Cohen
@dsc250.bsky.social
feminist "law" professor, reproductive rights scholar/activist, avid cyclist, husband, dad, indie rock enthusiast, Vermont lover, Phillies fan, he/him
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David S. Cohen
@dsc250.bsky.social
· Mar 17
My new book with @carolejoffe.bsky.social -- After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe But Not Abortion -- comes out in just over a week. Pre-order now from your favorite booksellers, like Bookshop.org!
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Sorry sorry sorry, I forgot that men have no decision making power over their own behavior and that rape is a naturally occurring phenomenon with no beneficiaries and no agents, like the weather.
February 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Sorry sorry sorry, I forgot that men have no decision making power over their own behavior and that rape is a naturally occurring phenomenon with no beneficiaries and no agents, like the weather.
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Something that was done *to* him, you say? Not something *he* did?
February 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Something that was done *to* him, you say? Not something *he* did?
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“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.
February 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.
I'm not an AI-inevitablist. But, among those that are, or among those who think that's a serious possibility....
Who's doing the best writing/thinking about what inevitable AI means for law schools teaching future lawyers?
Who's doing the best writing/thinking about what inevitable AI means for law schools teaching future lawyers?
February 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I'm not an AI-inevitablist. But, among those that are, or among those who think that's a serious possibility....
Who's doing the best writing/thinking about what inevitable AI means for law schools teaching future lawyers?
Who's doing the best writing/thinking about what inevitable AI means for law schools teaching future lawyers?
Very very sad Josh.
February 12, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Very very sad Josh.
Sad Josh.
Exclusive: Hawley fumes at FDA over abortion drug study
The Missouri Republican told Semafor he was “really disappointed” in the FDA, led by Marty Makary.
www.semafor.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Sad Josh.
But yes, please tell us how AI is the future.
February 12, 2026 at 8:16 PM
But yes, please tell us how AI is the future.
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Maybe that 1992 Barbie was quoting Trump: "math class is tough."
Trump on drug prices: "They're coming down by 500, 600, 700 percent ... numbers nobody ever thought possible"
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Maybe that 1992 Barbie was quoting Trump: "math class is tough."
The definitive exploration of this nonsense...
Trump Wages War on Windmills | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The definitive exploration of this nonsense...
There are usually no procedural principles in politics. Just substance.
Exhibit 1,784,382.
Exhibit 1,784,382.
NEW: In 2003, Texas Republicans backed strict limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.
Now, 2 decades later, many are urging the TX Supreme Court to reinterpret that statute in cases transgender care. And the court appears very open to doing so.
#txlege
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Now, 2 decades later, many are urging the TX Supreme Court to reinterpret that statute in cases transgender care. And the court appears very open to doing so.
#txlege
www.expressnews.com/politics/art...
Republicans push court to make it easier for 'detransitioners' to sue doctors
A case before the Texas Supreme Court could make Texas doctors more likely to face legal action when helping adults transition.
www.expressnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:11 PM
There are usually no procedural principles in politics. Just substance.
Exhibit 1,784,382.
Exhibit 1,784,382.
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I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)
![Wikipedia entry describing the story arc of “99 Luftballons”:
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story:
99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defence ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves.
In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English:
'''Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "Think of you and let it go."[11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4dp4culto5csbqs5m6ge22fw/bafkreie4ga5vudhvz4e25t5oducxifde6sf2zgal7wugci2bv5ee2qfcoe@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)
the best people
JUST IN:
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted by a Florida jury of sexually abusing children, including an 11-year-old.
Per police, Andrew Paul Johnson tried to bribe one of his victims by promising to share expected Jan. 6 restitution money from the Trump admin.
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted by a Florida jury of sexually abusing children, including an 11-year-old.
Per police, Andrew Paul Johnson tried to bribe one of his victims by promising to share expected Jan. 6 restitution money from the Trump admin.
February 11, 2026 at 9:40 PM
the best people
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Gemini can’t count to six and ChatGPT is a little shaky on how many fingers the median human has.
Maybe we should just make these things illegal.
https://bsky.app/profile/dsc250.bsky.social/post/3mem6bgpwys2u
Maybe we should just make these things illegal.
https://bsky.app/profile/dsc250.bsky.social/post/3mem6bgpwys2u
Google AI still can't count apparently.
(I have run this search from time to time over the past couple of years and it is always wrong.)
(I have run this search from time to time over the past couple of years and it is always wrong.)
February 11, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Gemini can’t count to six and ChatGPT is a little shaky on how many fingers the median human has.
Maybe we should just make these things illegal.
https://bsky.app/profile/dsc250.bsky.social/post/3mem6bgpwys2u
Maybe we should just make these things illegal.
https://bsky.app/profile/dsc250.bsky.social/post/3mem6bgpwys2u
Google AI still can't count apparently.
(I have run this search from time to time over the past couple of years and it is always wrong.)
(I have run this search from time to time over the past couple of years and it is always wrong.)
February 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Google AI still can't count apparently.
(I have run this search from time to time over the past couple of years and it is always wrong.)
(I have run this search from time to time over the past couple of years and it is always wrong.)
does someone want to tell him....?
Jim Jordan: "You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress"
February 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM
does someone want to tell him....?
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In this @slate.com piece, @dsc250.bsky.social (Drexel) and @carolejoffe.bsky.social (@ucsfmedicine.bsky.social) tell the story of how a new abortion clinic opened in deep-red Wyoming post-Dobbs and helped lead to the state Supreme Court striking down its abortion ban.
Learn more:
Learn more:
How One Clinic Saved Abortion Access in a Deep-Red State
Julie’s involvement with abortion care began in 2001, when she began work with Dr. George Tiller.
slate.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
In this @slate.com piece, @dsc250.bsky.social (Drexel) and @carolejoffe.bsky.social (@ucsfmedicine.bsky.social) tell the story of how a new abortion clinic opened in deep-red Wyoming post-Dobbs and helped lead to the state Supreme Court striking down its abortion ban.
Learn more:
Learn more:
We the people…
Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
We the people…
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Clearly. Even if the worst suspicions about Botstein are not true, how could any college-age woman trust their college if @bardcollege.bsky.social 's president was known to befriend a sex-trafficker of college age women?
Half the student body reasonably believes he's a danger, & why wouldn't they?
Half the student body reasonably believes he's a danger, & why wouldn't they?
Every second he is still in the presidency is an abomination. Come on @bardcollege.bsky.social
Leon Botstein absolutely has to leave Bard College
February 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Clearly. Even if the worst suspicions about Botstein are not true, how could any college-age woman trust their college if @bardcollege.bsky.social 's president was known to befriend a sex-trafficker of college age women?
Half the student body reasonably believes he's a danger, & why wouldn't they?
Half the student body reasonably believes he's a danger, & why wouldn't they?
I sure wish the lawyers challenging the tariffs in the Supreme Court could submit this clip to the Justices.
Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."
February 10, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I sure wish the lawyers challenging the tariffs in the Supreme Court could submit this clip to the Justices.
Every second he is still in the presidency is an abomination. Come on @bardcollege.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Every second he is still in the presidency is an abomination. Come on @bardcollege.bsky.social
Every poll that makes it look more and more likely that the Democrats will take the Senate this November makes it more and more likely both Alito and Thomas will retire this summer.
I'm not into prediction markets... but this has all of the makings of a SCOTUS retirement. His book goes on sale on October 6, 2026--the day after OT2026 starts . . . and now a new hagiographic biography? Hmmmmmm.
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Every poll that makes it look more and more likely that the Democrats will take the Senate this November makes it more and more likely both Alito and Thomas will retire this summer.
That's nothing but argle-bargle. She should hide her head in a bag.
One of Antonin Scalia's kids allegedly said that she was relieved that her father died when he did, because he would be so "upset" at how "coarse" and "polarized" politics has become, which makes me wonder if Scalia's children have any idea who their dad was www.politico.com/news/magazin...
February 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
That's nothing but argle-bargle. She should hide her head in a bag.
I'll say it again - AI companies and their boosters have drastically underestimated how much people care about accuracy.
Hallucinations are not just a silly side problem with AI. They are a foundational problem that, until solved, dooms this technology.
Hallucinations are not just a silly side problem with AI. They are a foundational problem that, until solved, dooms this technology.
⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I'll say it again - AI companies and their boosters have drastically underestimated how much people care about accuracy.
Hallucinations are not just a silly side problem with AI. They are a foundational problem that, until solved, dooms this technology.
Hallucinations are not just a silly side problem with AI. They are a foundational problem that, until solved, dooms this technology.
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this is absolutely insane, and I cannot imagine why it is being given any oxygen. this sort of inflated nonsense will only produce panic.
Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...
February 10, 2026 at 12:20 AM
this is absolutely insane, and I cannot imagine why it is being given any oxygen. this sort of inflated nonsense will only produce panic.