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David S. Cohen
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feminist "law" professor, reproductive rights scholar/activist, avid cyclist, husband, dad, indie rock enthusiast, Vermont lover, Phillies fan, he/him

David Samuel Cohen is an American attorney who served as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2021 to 2025, previously holding the position from February 9, 2015 to January 20, 2017. He served as acting director of the CIA from January 20 to March 19, 2021 until the Senate confirmation of William J. Burns. .. more

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Law 16%
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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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‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
“Summarize this document”

No. Never. I can read, asshole robot

Pan to Federalist Society spending the weekend frantically pre-writing articles and op-eds to support these “not yet articulated or vetted” but “irrefutable“ positions.…
Trump’s follow up post says he’s going to issue an executive order on voter ID.

“If we can't get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”

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If society doesn't normalize instantly knocking stalker glasses off people's faces, then I guess the alternative is to simply mask up all the time
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com

I agree with you on that - another reason I am a skeptic. But I'm also a skeptic who is willing to entertain the possibility that I'm wildly wrong.

In which case, I'm thinking about the possibility that my students are going to face a very different world than we are teaching them for. And soon.

For instance, according to Hard Fork this morning, this essay has gone viral and is making (some) people think we are, for AI, in the February before the pandemic changed the world.

So for law and law schools, what are we doing about that?
Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
shumer.dev

Thanks. Printing now to read. But that's from winter 2024. It seems we're many generations further down the road now in winter 2026.

That's where my heart and head are. But, I am also allowing for the possibility that I'm just 100% wrong.

In which case, what should we law schools be doing for a radically changed world that our students might be entering?

I'd love to read someone writing thoughtfully about that.

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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.

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?

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Something that was done *to* him, you say? Not something *he* did?
“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece
The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.
cbsn.ws

Very very sad Josh.

But yes, please tell us how AI is the future.
VC, founder, dumbass

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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"

The definitive exploration of this nonsense...
Trump Wages War on Windmills | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
Trump on drug prices: "They're coming down by 500, 600, 700 percent ... numbers nobody ever thought possible"
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

There are usually no procedural principles in politics. Just substance.

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
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

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.
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.)

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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
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

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.)

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"

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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.

Reposted by David S. Cohen

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:
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

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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"