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News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
- Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts 🔥🔥🔥The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
- A Timeline of Donald Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe 🔥From walking into a teen dressing room to joking about his obligation to sleep with contestants, Donald Trump is a storied pageant creep.
- Ponzi Schemer Who Got Trump Clemency Faces 50 Years in New Fraud 🔥A convicted Ponzi schemer whose 24-year prison term was commuted by President Donald Trump in 2021 now faces as much as 50 years behind bars for an investor fraud that took place after his clemency.
- Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 🔥Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
- Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit 🔥The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- D.C. Circuit won't review Trump admin contempt appeal further, sending matter back to Boasberg 🔥🔥The latest order over the Trump administration's actions sending flights to El Salvador on March 15.
- BREAKING: Trump Demands DOJ Re-Open Epstein Investigation to Target Democrats and Avoid Republicans 🔥🔥Trump has ordered the DOJ and FBI to investigate Democrats and institutions connected to Epstein, telling them to avoid investigating Republicans, as he tries to shift blame from his own connections.
- NEWS: The Catholic Church Turns on Donald Trump in Historic Condemnation 🔥The Catholic Church turns on Donald Trump in historic condemnation. Donald Trump refuses to answer questions about Epstein again. An Epstein survivor speaks out to me. The news you missed.
- November 14, 2025 🔥In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.
- NEWS: Trump's MAGA Base Turns on Him Online as he Hopes Republicans Move on From Epstein 🔥Trump's MAGA base turns on him online as he wants Republicans to move on from Epstein, Johnson fast tracks Epstein vote as more Republicans break from Trump, and much more.
- Ten Things We Now Know — or Can Fairly Surmise — From the Epstein Emails 🔥The “dog who hadn’t barked” is now barking ...
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
- ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules† 🔥OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission ...
- OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content† 🔥OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.
- Pardon the Corruption† Trump’s blanket pardons for stop-the-steal illegality aren’t only about settling scores from past elections. They’re about laying the groundwork to subvert future ones.
- Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; ordered it to pay damages | TechCrunch A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission.
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- The Supreme Court's (Self-Defeating) Supremacy† 🔥This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency ap ...
- The Legality of Omnibus Legislation Under EU Law: A Preliminary Analysis of Omnibus I Simplification Directive of CSRD and CSDD and its Legal Consequences on the EU Legal Order † 🔥This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the legal issues arising from the European Union's use of the Omnibus as the privileged legislative technique to '
- Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits t ...
- The Common Sense of a Wealth Tax: Thomas Paine & Taxation as Freedom from Aristocracy† Thomas Paine’s writing helped spur the American colonies to independence and ensure that the new nation would be a republic, not a monarchy. In light of the ren ...
- What's The Matter With Lozada: How The Board Of Immigration Appeals Coerces Immigration Lawyers To Breach Legal Ethics In general, if an attorney makes a mistake, they can cure it by notifying the forum and filing the appropriate remedy. Immigration law, by contrast, stands alon ...
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors† 🔥🔥🔥🔥LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans, organizations...
- What We Don't C: Representations for scientific discovery beyond VAEs† 🔥🔥Accessing information in learned representations is critical for scientific discovery in high-dimensional domains. We introduce a novel method based on latent flow matching with classifier-free guidan...
- Strategic Delegation of Moral Decisions to AI 🔥🔥Our study examines how individuals perceive the moral agency of artificial intelligence (AI), and, specifically, whether individuals believe that by using AI ...
- Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI† 🔥ArXiv link for Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI ...
- Simulating Psychological Risks in Human-AI Interactions: Real-Case Informed Modeling of AI-Induced Addiction, Anorexia, Depression, Homicide, Psychosis, and Suicide ArXiv link for Simulating Psychological Risks in Human-AI Interactions: Real-Case Informed Modeling of AI-Induced Addiction, Anorexia, Depression, Homicide, Psychosis, and Suicide ...
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Joh (@elizabethjoh.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) (promoted)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brandi Buchman (@brandibuchman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Denys Beecher (@dbeecher.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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