Ari Cohn

Ari Cohn

@aricohn.com

First Amendment & defamation lawyer. Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org (x2) Illini/music junkie/oofnik. “A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.” Posts are my own. https://linktr.ee/aricohn

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Ari Cohn
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It took 50 years for the light to reach the United States from Dubai, that's why it was 250 for the rest of us.

Ari Cohn
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Moving everything off audible and combining it with my non-audible content on a self-hosted audiobookshelf server turned out to be such a clutch move with exactly zero of the headache I expected

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I'm sure some muppet will be along shortly to explain how this is "cancel culture"

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

zeteo.comVenues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.
Ari Cohn
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The hand-wringing over the Lindsey Graham thing "because he's not here to defend himself" strikes me as absolute bullshit. People who seek positions of enormous power and influence are not entitled to the sanitized legacy they'd give you. They should be remembered for who they really were.

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And Lindsey Graham should be remembered as someone who, on his very best day, was a sniveling coward with a moral compass that pointed only to power.

Ari Cohn
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Obviously enough were still open to offer the National Guard a free sandwich 💁‍♀️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "In Washington, all the restaurants were closing. People were being held up. They'd walk into a restaurant. Like Jesse James. 'Stand up! Give us all your money.' They're eating dinner at a fancy restaurant. All the restaurants were closing."

Ari Cohn
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"I don't want to he in the hospitality business I just want to make quick easy cash *pretending* to be in the hospitality business" is not the sympathetic argument airbnb hosts seem to think it is.

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

wired.comAirbnb Hosts Are Furious They Can No Longer Make Guests Do Their ChoresSome hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.
Ari Cohn
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The latest in Carr's ongoing effort to exert government control over political information & discourse. Today former FCC officials issued a statement (supported by @techfreedom.org & @protectdemocracy.org) calling this "a direct attack on free and fair elections." techfreedom.org/former-fcc-o...

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

FCC chief Brendan “Project 2025” Carr threats “News broadcasters have a First Amendment right to report polling data, even if it proves to be inaccurate, just like they have a First Amendment right to report on Carr and Trump’s own countless lies and distortions” - Freedom of the Press Foundation

Ari Cohn
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Sometimes I look back and still wonder what my roommate 13 years ago received in the mail from Wang Gang on Hangdong Road

Ari Cohn
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I *really* need to find a way to remember that the baseline for my mother's recipes is "feed everyone you know, plus maybe the 78th infantry division, you know, just in case they show up unexpectedly" servings.

Ari Cohn
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I sometimes wonder whether it's because people tend to show up at my parents' house for meals with little or no warning, or if they show up *because* they know there will always be plenty of food for guests.

Ari Cohn
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If I want to watch a movie about a fake businesswoman who talks like a fucking weirdo, I'll watch Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, not 3 hours of Elizabeth Holmes

Ari Cohn
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Because standing is an Article III requirement that the Court has to address irrespective of whether it was briefed or raised by the parties? It's quite literally an issue in every case.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social

ACB: I want to ask about standing KBJ: You all didn't breif standing. Is that an issue in this case? Translation ACB: I want to talk about my pet issue KBJ: Why? Why do we have to indulge your bullshit all the time?

Ari Cohn
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One day, when I have a stronger will to live, I will look up the amount I've spent registering spite domains over the years...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Jake Paul: "I get confused by the left, the protesters. Do they not have jobs? That's all they do is carry signs around while we're doing the work." (Note the lack of crowd response to this.)

Ari Cohn
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Don't know how many times one has to say this. If you truly think it all doesn't matter because they will just "ignore it" or whatever, then why are you even freaking out? According to you there's nothing that can be done and the law means nothing so maybe just go try to enjoy life as best you can.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

And, specifically, when you insist on replying to me with it — and I do not mean good-faith questions or analysis, but rather knee-jerk "they'll ignore it"/"there are no consequences" pablum — you tell me that you (1) don't actually know what's happening and (2) aren't attempting to understand.

Ari Cohn
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Coffeemate really must have thought weird methy looking guys who get sexually aroused by shitty coffee was the audience to target with that commercial, for reasons that escape me...to put it mildly.

Ari Cohn
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#PracticeTip: Don't confess to crimes in the newspaper

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Guilfoyle's corruption is so shockingly transparent that it seems to have almost slid into the background how COMPLETELY INSANE it is that a lawyer voluntarily publicized such self-incriminating material (even considering his four bar suspensios).

Ari Cohn
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Guilfoyle's corruption is so shockingly transparent that it seems to have almost slid into the background how COMPLETELY INSANE it is that a lawyer voluntarily publicized such self-incriminating material (even considering his four bar suspensios).

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com

“Honey please I need you to get this done for me.” How Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a MAGA ally to transfer $100,000 to her Amex account. on.wsj.com/4i9gzYx

on.wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
Ari Cohn
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Like...did you think that you become a whistleblower when you tell the world about your own criminal attempt?

Ari Cohn
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Check out Berin's live-tweet of the proceedings in ABC v. FCC. I'm doing it over on X here (will post a non-X link after for those who prefer that): x.com/AriCohn/stat...

x.comAri Cohn (@AriCohn) on XABC and the FCC are squaring off in the US District court for DC in a hearing over ABC's lawsuit over the government's ongoing jawboning against the network, which culminated in the agency forcing the...
Berin Szóka@berinszoka.bsky.social

Livetweeting the court hearing on ABC v FCC. ABC wants the court to stop the FCC's hearing on early renewal of ABC's licenses plus all other retaliation against ABC's speech in violation of the First Amendment. Threshold question is the court's jurisdiction: Must ABC wait for a final order to sue?

Ari Cohn
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Non-X link to my contemporaneous live-tweet: twitter-thread.com/t/2107489554...

twitter-thread.comABC and the FCC are squaring off in the US District court for DC in a hearing over ABC's lawsuit over the government's ongoing jawboning against the network, which culminated in the agency forcing the...ABC and the FCC are squaring off in the US District court for DC in a hearing over ABC's lawsuit over the government's ongoing jawboning against the network, which culminated in the agency forcing the...
Ari Cohn
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"We each contribute something different ... Justice Thomas has clearly thought out, coherent ideas about the meaning of various provisions of the Constitution" is a pretty funny unintentional self-own.

Ari Cohn
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In doing some reading about the length and arc of recovery from moral/societal panics, it actually surprised me (though perhaps it should not have) how many people are still all-in on the MSG scare. What a remarkably terrible culinary existence that must be.

Ari Cohn
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Today Senator Blackburn is expected to try ramming KOSA--the Kids Online Safety Act--through the Senate via unanimous consent. KOSA was an Internet censorship bill in its inception, and in 4 years the only thing its authors have done is try to disguise KOSA's nature rather than fix it.

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A few minutes ago, Blackburn sought unanimous consent for the No Fakes Act, another dangerous bill that would expand right to publicity laws past their traditional limitation to commercial use, which safeguarded protected expression. Senator Cruz objected to block it. But she's not done yet.

Ari Cohn
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After Senator Blumenthal sought unanimous consent for KOSA, engaging in brutally transparent hand-waving of free speech issues, Senator Rand Paul stands up to object, and unanimous consent fails.

Ari Cohn
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Today Senator Blackburn is expected to try ramming KOSA--the Kids Online Safety Act--through the Senate via unanimous consent. KOSA was an Internet censorship bill in its inception, and in 4 years the only thing its authors have done is try to disguise KOSA's nature rather than fix it.

Ari Cohn
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hear me out: maybe the problem is that oaths of office don't include a slap across the face.

Ari Cohn
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The dig at the Senator from Missouri about knowing Midwest sports teams was pretty savage. Gotta respect it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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TechFreedom
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How far can the government go when a president doesn’t like what a broadcaster says? On a new Tech Policy Podcast, @aricohn.com and @berinszoka.bsky.social are joined by @thefireorg.bsky.social’s Bob Corn-Revere to unpack the escalating fight between ABC and the FCC. tinyurl.com/5xzkj37n

techfreedom.simplecast.com440: The Fellas at the Freaking FCC | Tech Policy PodcastHow far can the government go when a president doesn’t like what a broadcaster says? Host Ari Cohn is joined by Berin Szóka (TechFreedom) and Bob Corn-Revere (FIRE) to unpack the escalating fight betw...