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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Honored to testify before the Philly City Council today about new legislation to prohibit menopause discrimination! Grateful for the leadership of @ninaahmadphl.bsky.social and the commitment of her colleagues on the Public Health Committee to normalizing menstruation + peri/menopause
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Honored to testify before the Philly City Council today about new legislation to prohibit menopause discrimination! Grateful for the leadership of @ninaahmadphl.bsky.social and the commitment of her colleagues on the Public Health Committee to normalizing menstruation + peri/menopause
No, no it’s not.
Now do we throw the ball to AJ?
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
No, no it’s not.
Now do we throw the ball to AJ?
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Now do we throw the ball to AJ?
This is powerful.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is powerful.
When you've lost Ezra Klein....
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise,” our columnist @ezraklein.bsky.social writes. “Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention.”
“If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise,” our columnist @ezraklein.bsky.social writes. “Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention.”
Opinion | What Were Democrats Thinking?
This is how the shutdown ends?
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When you've lost Ezra Klein....
To Trump, language is just a way to convey emotion. Words and numbers do not correspond to any fixed meaning or reality in the world.
Pointing out how he fails to use this word or that number correctly is both absolutely essential and utterly banal.
That's just not how he uses language.
Pointing out how he fails to use this word or that number correctly is both absolutely essential and utterly banal.
That's just not how he uses language.
I really hate how Trump refers to everything as a "hoax." The "Democrat Shutdown Hoax?" The government was shut down. It wasn't a "hoax." Demented shithead.
Now we have Trump blasting air traffic controllers, telling them they hate this country for not showing up without pay.
"I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK... You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record."
"I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK... You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record."
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
To Trump, language is just a way to convey emotion. Words and numbers do not correspond to any fixed meaning or reality in the world.
Pointing out how he fails to use this word or that number correctly is both absolutely essential and utterly banal.
That's just not how he uses language.
Pointing out how he fails to use this word or that number correctly is both absolutely essential and utterly banal.
That's just not how he uses language.
Good! But not at all surprising. The media run-up to this was unnecessarily inflammatory.
Breaking news: The Supreme Court has declined to consider a challenge to its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court’s conservative majority to revisit one of the court’s most significant decisions in recent years.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Good! But not at all surprising. The media run-up to this was unnecessarily inflammatory.
Rule of people, not of law.
We need to understand that and act accordingly.
We need to understand that and act accordingly.
NEW: President Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Trump's pardon attorney says.
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in bid to overturn 2020 election, pardon attorney says
The pardons may be largely symbolic as none of the people listed were convicted of federal crimes, which the presidential pardon covers.
nbcnews.to
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Rule of people, not of law.
We need to understand that and act accordingly.
We need to understand that and act accordingly.
Exactly right.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Exactly right.
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So does the House have to come back in session finally? Meaning swearing in the new AZ rep and forcing the Epstein vote?
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
So does the House have to come back in session finally? Meaning swearing in the new AZ rep and forcing the Epstein vote?
So does the House have to come back in session finally? Meaning swearing in the new AZ rep and forcing the Epstein vote?
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
So does the House have to come back in session finally? Meaning swearing in the new AZ rep and forcing the Epstein vote?
Exactly what compassionate, good-hearted people do.
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Exactly what compassionate, good-hearted people do.
If only there were reporters interested in covering the limits of aging Presidents. Too bad no one has experience on that beat!
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If only there were reporters interested in covering the limits of aging Presidents. Too bad no one has experience on that beat!
"If I thought the executive branch had overstepped by suspending the Constitution and turning our country into a monarchy, I would've stepped in. That's my job. That didn't happen because I love King Trump and will do anything for his approval."
November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"If I thought the executive branch had overstepped by suspending the Constitution and turning our country into a monarchy, I would've stepped in. That's my job. That didn't happen because I love King Trump and will do anything for his approval."
ffs
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
ffs
The voice of reason on the right? 🤯
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It's absolutely the worst political move to have the House in recess & for us to not be here working...there's a lot of disenfranchised 2024 voters & that was obvious in Tuesday's election. I'm from Georgia & we lost 2 statewide Public Commission seats & lost them heavily."
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The voice of reason on the right? 🤯
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Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
And how about the address where I lived when I was born?
If SCOTUS says trans people have to put their sex assigned at birth on their passport as a historical fact, then I get to put my birth weight on my driver's license.
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
And how about the address where I lived when I was born?
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Paul provides one of the greatest services on the internet with these threads. Another instant classic here.
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Paul provides one of the greatest services on the internet with these threads. Another instant classic here.
So Mamdani's win in NYC was so powerful Tuesday night that Trump has become a socialist too?
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So Mamdani's win in NYC was so powerful Tuesday night that Trump has become a socialist too?
Paul provides one of the greatest services on the internet with these threads. Another instant classic here.
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Paul provides one of the greatest services on the internet with these threads. Another instant classic here.
The inhumanity is shocking. Even for these ghouls.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The inhumanity is shocking. Even for these ghouls.
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🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.