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Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- The I.R.S. Thought It Could Fight Trump’s Lawsuit, but It Struck a Deal Anyway 🔥🔥🔥
- See How Trump’s Accounts Were Busy Trading Big Tech Stocks 🔥🔥🔥The president’s investment accounts had a surge in activity, with more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter.
- Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid 🔥🔥🔥Paul Singer is founder of a leading creditor in the hedge fund consortium locked in talks with the UK government ...
- Russia’s War Is Going Badly—on the Ground and in the Air 🔥🔥This summer will test whether Ukraine can turn a slender advantage into a strategic turning point.
- Treasury Lawyer Quits as Government Settles Trump IRS Suit 🔥The move came after the government announced a settlement with President Trump that created an $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
- Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader 🔥
- At least 15m Britons not saving enough to retire, Pensions Commission says 🔥Just 4% of self-employed workers are putting cash into pensions, with ‘large groups across the UK facing a severe cliff-edge’
- US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns 🔥Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s allies ...
- Broadcasters too reliant on vox pop interviews and failing to challenge politicians, says study 🔥Researchers also question whether UK’s impartiality rules allow for proper scrutiny in era of multiparty politics ...
- Supermarkets urged to limit food prices by government 🔥Any price caps would be voluntary apply to key groceries such as eggs, bread, and milk, the BBC understands.
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 lie behind the SCOTUS attack on representation 🔥🔥🔥The court does not want a colorblind democracy ...
- Almost as good as a pardon 🔥🔥Or maybe even better...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 383. 5/19/26 🔥… Acting AG Todd Blanche faced questioning today from Senate Democrats outraged over the $1.7 billion slush fund he created to pay J6 criminals and Trump’s co-conspirators as well as his handling of t...
- May 19, 2026 Yesterday the Department of Justice announced it is creating a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate what it calls victims of the Department of Justice under former President Joe Bide...
- Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann) Sarah and I take about the DOJ-Trump theft of $1.8 BILLION from us, the whitewashing of history, and the immunizing Trump and his family for tax and OTHER liability — oh, and we ALSO discuss my new bo...
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.
- Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The nine-member panel took only two hours to return a verdict in favor of OpenAI on Monday, which the judge quickly adopted as her own final decision.
- Jury Tosses Elon Musk’s Suit Against OpenAI And Sam Altman† 🔥🔥🔥The jury unanimously found Musk sued OpenAI and Sam Altman after the statute of limitations had expired, tossing his claims.
- Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI 🔥🔥The attorney for Nikko D’Ambrosio, who tried and failed to sue women for posting about him in an “Are We Dating the Same Guy” Facebook group, has apparently been using AI to file non-existent citation...
- Musk loses case against OpenAI | CNN Business† Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its leaders, a jury in Oakland, California, decided on Monday. A lawsuit he filed was barred by the statute of limitations, the jury found after about 90 mi...
- Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman† The Musk v. Altman jury dismissed all charges due to the statute of limitations.
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.
- Never Send to Know on Whom the Boot Stomps; it Stomps on Thee† 🔥🔥This Essay was originally prepared as a lecture for the 2026 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review Symposium,
- Federal Hiring Dysfunction and the Self-Shrinking Skew† 🔥 A half-century of remodeling agency workforces against corporate blueprints has hollowed out the civil service, enervated oversight, and facilitated the ...
- FREE SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT'S EFFICACY INQUIRY 🔥First Amendment doctrine requires courts to assess whether a speech restriction is content-based, whether a government interest supports that restriction,
- The Return of Neutrality† Neutrality is caught in an inherent contradiction: On the one hand, it has been legally irrelevant for almost 100 years-the general prohibition of war and (late ...
- The Judgment Fund: America's Deepest Pocket & Its Susceptibility to Executive Branch Misuse† Over the last thirty-five years, the United States government has paid out billions of dollars in settlements that have had no fiscal consequences for the agenc ...
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.
- LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
- Are we Doomed to an AI Race? Why Self-Interest Could Drive Countries Towards a Moratorium on Superintelligence† 🔥This paper uses game theory to argue that, contrary to the prevailing view, a moratorium on Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) can be in a state's self-interest. By formalizing trategic interactions b...
- AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderatio...
- Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions† One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
- ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop† First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author ...
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)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Popehat Likes The Triangles (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.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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