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David S. Cohen

@dsc250.bsky.social
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feminist "law" professor, reproductive rights scholar/activist, avid cyclist, husband, dad, indie rock enthusiast, Vermont lover, Phillies fan, he/him

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 5h
the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who in the world responds to these stupid AI-generated emails offering to promote your book? They sound so stupid. I thought AI was supposed to make people sound smart?
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do the Eagles know it’s not against the rules to defend the middle of the field?
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"That's not a conspiracy theory" - said only by those espousing conspiracy theories.
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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎉
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy 250th birthday to the PA Constitution! And it's better than the US Constitution: - ERA - inherent rights - right to happiness - explicit protection against race discrimination And more! Go PA!
Original PA Constitution - adopted September 28, 1776.
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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I loved participating in this story abt a new crop of cases challenging abortion bans based on the pregnant person's right to life. Kind of wish I hadn't cursed on the record, but 🤷‍♀️! Grateful for the shout out to "From Medical Exceptions to Reproductive Freedom" (co-authored w @dsc250.bsky.social)
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you have like 10 characters in your novel, don’t give 5 of them names that start with J. Just don’t.
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Beshear forever, man
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
See Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024).
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
World Series run incoming!! #RedOctober
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us."
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh man - this got me!
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So when do they get put in relocation camps for not saying “That’s so SI”???
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So happy that "The New Abortion Battleground" (co-authored with @dsc250.bsky.social & @rebouche.bsky.social) was cited yesterday by the Sixth Circuit in finding a Tennessee law unconstitutional that criminalizes helping a minor obtain an abortion (even out of state where it is legal)
law.justia.com
Welty v. Dunaway, 25-5738 (6th Cir. 2026)
After the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Tennessee enacted a near-total abortion ban and later passed the Underage Abortion Trafficking Act, which included the “Recruitment Provision.” This provision...
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So what's the first major media outlet not named Fox to start calling it Super Intelligence and SI? My money's on Bezos' Washington Post.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not her lord and savior Donald Trump? I expect the nomination to be pulled later today.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This guy knows how to do government.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
rule of law
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 23/09/2026
Coward shit Newsom vetoed “a bill that would have extended California’s abortion shield laws and expanded legal protections for gender-affirming care”
sfchronicle.com
A California bill sought to shore up Newsom’s abortion access plan. He vetoed it
One of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most reliable allies, abortion rights advocacy groups, are issuing a rebuke after he vetoed a bill that would have extended California’s abortion shield laws.
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam, in 1982 and today. A street once dominated by parked cars to a car free place for people, with children playing, greenery and cafés making use of reclaimed outdoor space. This is what’s possible when we choose to redesign our streets for life, not storage.
Split-screen comparison of Eerste van der Helststraat in Amsterdam in 1982 and today. The historical black-and-white photo shows the street with parked cars on both sides of the street, a cyclist and pedestrians. The modern colour photo shows the same street transformed into a car-free public space, with trees, plants, outdoor seating, pedestrians and children playing hopscotch.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh please don't let us down...
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Iowa polls have burned me/us in the very recent past....
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To lose one Assistant Professor may be regarded as misfortune. To lose FOUR looks like carelessness.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Who the fuck is surprised? www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...
thebulwark.com
SCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, Drugging
The manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Teaching Murphy v. NCAA today. I don't say this often (ever?), but Sam Alito was right about something:
Sports gambling, however, has long had strong opposition. Opponents argue that it is particularly addictive and
especially attractive to young people with a strong interest
in sports, and in the past gamblers corrupted and seriously damaged the reputation of professional and amateur
sports.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
✅
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fuck. NYU Langone and UPMC are the newest hospital systems to cave to the Trump administration's ongoing genocide of trans youth. 😭😡😭
justice.gov
DOJ Secures Agreements with NYU and UPMC to End Pediatric “Gender-Affirming Care”
Today, the Department of Justice announced agreements with two of the nation’s largest health care systems—New York University Langone Hospitals (“NYU”) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“U...
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
fuck those fools
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
STOP. SENDING. EMAILS. WRITTEN. BY. AI.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
STOP. SENDING. EMAILS. WRITTEN. BY. AI.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am a Blexas Skeptic (Bleptic?) but these are insane numbers. No dem has come within even five points of abbott in 16 years bsky.app/profile/ruba...
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day! theonion.com/historians-r...
theonion.com
Historians Reveal Original Draft Of Constitution Included 593 Mentions Of Spiders
WASHINGTON—In a finding that sheds light on the particular concerns and interests of the Founding Fathers, historians at the National Archives revealed this week that the original draft of the U.S. Co...
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So I guess I have to teach a new theory of constitutional interpretation: The best reading of the constitutional text is the interpretation that results in me having the most friends.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So I guess I have to teach a new theory of constitutional interpretation: The best reading of the constitutional text is the interpretation that results in me having the most friends.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Eric Cartman: You Have To Totally Trust Me
ALT: Eric Cartman: You Have To Totally Trust Me
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every faculty meeting ever.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not while Trump is President and the Republicans control the Senate. That would be a terrible sentence!
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It remains the best sentence in the English language: “Thomas and Alito dissent.”
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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In the 4 years since Dobbs, 16 abortion-hostile states have changed their legal definition of "abortion." In my new paper with Caroline Kelly, Abortion Disorientation Redux, we code & dissect every state's abortion definition & how it has changed since Dobbs. 🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com
Abortion Disorientation Redux
<div> In 2024, we published Abortion Disorientation in the Duke Law Journal. It uncovered how states were changing their legal definition of abortion in the fi
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I haven't seen any good concrete explanation how AI will actually lead to human extinction. But I also haven't seen any good concrete explanation how AI will lead to abundance and utopia. Seems like everyone around AI is high on their own supply.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a good read. A reminder that doomsayers like this are almost always wrong.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026
this has, i think, major implications for law firms who use chatGPT, claude, etc. if contractors are reading live chats, they’re also potentially accessing legal docs they definitely don’t have the privilege to be viewing
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I mean, nothing surprising here. No one should assume anything is private on the internet. No matter what a corporation says.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Emails written by AI are just the worst. Please stop.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yup - a lesson for the future.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But tell me again how the left is responsible for cancel culture.
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