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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.
- U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
- Trump administration ordered to halt ‘unlawful’ Guard deployment in D.C. 🔥🔥🔥A judge granted an injunction in D.C.’s lawsuit against Trump’s National Guard deployment, but it won’t take effect for 21 days so that the government can appeal.
- ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response 🔥🔥Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10 ...
- Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say 🔥🔥Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin ...
- House Votes to Kill Bill Allowing Senators to Sue Government 🔥
- Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests 🔥Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus ...
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.
- The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War 🔥🔥Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine ...
- How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization 🔥🔥What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism ...
- Sorry, George Washington Would Not Have Hung Them. 🔥This week, Donald Trump continues to use his claimed power to kill people who have received no due process, in international waters, based on his administration’s assertion that they are narcoterroris...
- Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11 🔥National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.
- BREAKING: Trump Calls for Arrest of Democratic Lawmakers and Reposts Calls to "Hang Them" 🔥Donald Trump is calling for the arrest, indictment, and imprisonment of lawmakers who reminded military leaders to follow their oaths, amplifying calls to "hang them." A very serious morning.
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.
- What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know About AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Reich ...
- Trump administration drafts an executive order regulating state AI laws† 🔥🔥The draft executive order, according to a person familiar with the matter, would try to block states from enacting their own laws regulating AI.
- Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order† 🔥The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.
- Trump Urges Federal AI Regulation—To Combat ‘Woke’ State Laws 🔥Trump made his latest statement against state-level artificial intelligence regulation Wednesday, days after he said “overregulation by the States” is a threat to AI growth.
- Anticompetitive Acquiescence in AI Content Licensing - ProMarket† 🔥Large AI firms like OpenAI and Amazon are licensing content to train their models that they might otherwise have been able to access for free under the fair use doctrine. Mark A. Lemley and Jacob Noti...
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 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 '
- Parody Defendants are Finding Success Post-Jack Daniel's† The Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products was widely perceived to be a win for trademark owners and a loss for parodists, but recent ca ...
- Religious Antiliberalism and the First Amendment† An emerging intellectual and ideological critique of liberalism is coinciding with a significant transformation of the American law of church and state. Contemp ...
- Amicus Brief of Prof. Andrew Kent, WMM v. Trump (5th Cir. 2025) (en banc)† This amicus brief draws on my research on the original meaning of the several parts of the the Alien Enemies Act. See Andrew Kent, The Alien Enemies Ac ...
- PRIVATE EQUITY, PUBLIC CAPITAL, AND LITIGATION RISK For nearly a century, securities regulation has drawn a sharp line: firms that seek to raise capital from the public must comply with strict governance and disc ...
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.
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
- Auditing Google's AI Overviews and Featured Snippets: A Case Study on Baby Care and Pregnancy† Google Search increasingly surfaces AI-generated content through features like AI Overviews (AIO) and Featured Snippets (FS), which users frequently rely on despite having no control over their presen...
- DecNefLab: A Modular and Interpretable Simulation Framework for Decoded Neurofeedback†
- A Primer on Quantum Machine Learning Quantum machine learning (QML) is a computational paradigm that seeks to apply quantum-mechanical resources to solve learning problems. As such, the goal of this framework is to leverage quantum proce...
- Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects† Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to softw...
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." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Insubordinate Piggy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brandi Buchman (@brandibuchman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Joh (@elizabethjoh.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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