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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.
- Huge American Flag Flies Into Power Lines, Knocking Out Power for Thousands 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee is unlawful, US judge rules 🔥🔥🔥A federal judge on Monday struck down a $100,000 fee U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax Congress ...
- Trial begins for man accused of sparking LA’s deadly Palisades fire 🔥🔥🔥Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of starting the blaze that became Los Angeles’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire ...
- Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies 🔥🔥🔥EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencil...
- Badenoch to vow to scrap public sector equality duty in effort to fend off Reform 🔥🔥In speech on Tuesday, Tory leader will claim obligation to consider equality being used to advance ‘divisive agendas’
- Order Shielding Trump Family From I.R.S. Audits Will Remain, Blanche Says 🔥🔥
- Epstein abused them. The Justice Department exposed them. Now they’re under attack by haters 🔥🔥Nearly two dozen Epstein accusers told Reuters that speaking out sparked threats and relentless harassment, in some cases after Justice Department files exposed their identities. Some now carry weapon...
- New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years on, Poll Finds 🔥🔥A UK poll shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure from the European Union a decade ago.
- Judge Throws Out Policy Imposing $100,000 Fees for Skilled Worker Visas 🔥
- Kemi Badenoch to call for scrapping of legal equality duty 🔥The Conservative leader will argue that the rules have become a "minefield that exposes almost every significant public decision to legal challenge".
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.
- An Update on Trump's Birthday Celebration 🔥🔥🔥Will there or won't there be cage fights on the South Lawn of the White House?
- Federal judge blocks Trump admin's effort to move 14 trans women to men's prisons 🔥🔥🔥"[I]t is fundamentally unreasonable for prison officials to respond to serious risks ... by intentionally creating those risks and offering to treat them after they predictably occur."
- June 8, 2026 🔥On June 8, 1789, Representative James Madison of Virginia stood up to address the House of Representatives in order to introduce a series of amendments to the U.S.
- The Week Ahead June 7, 2026 ...
- The Washington Post Fired Me for Talking About Race. But I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This summer, I'll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 independently.
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.
- School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon† 🔥🔥🔥🔥How accurate does an AI system need to be?
- Bernie Sanders Has His Eye on AI† 🔥🔥One percent of the senators own 99 percent of the haphazard AI bills.
- AI ‘Regulation’ in the Chokepoint State 🔥President Trump’s new executive order on AI regulation rests on broad executive discretion and seeks to bypass judicial accountability.
- California’s AB 412 Still Demands Developers Do The Impossible 🔥California lawmakers are again considering A.B. 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems.The problem this year is ...
- We must not grant AI agents legal personhood† 🔥What kind of sanctions could keep a non-human corporation in check?
- Waymo car blocks road as crews respond to explosion 🔥YouTube video by FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth ...
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.
- Can Federal Courts Strike Down Regulations That Turned Expired Patents into Permanent Monopolies? 🔥Post-1970 federal regulations make it illegal to manufacture vehicles or machinery based on expired patents, effectively nullifying the Patent Clause's "li ...
- The American Legal System Indicted: The Troubling Story of the FTX Bankruptcy and Prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried History will not be kind to the prosecutors, bankruptcy administrators, and federal judge who turned what might have been a routine corporate restructuring into ...
- Obscuring Officer Identities† Law enforcement officers and agencies are increasingly trying to prevent the public from learning the identities of individual officers. The most prominent rece ...
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.
- Can LLMs Introspect? A Reality Check† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delphi...† 🔥🔥🔥Artificial intelligence poses many risks, ranging from familiar present-day harms to unprecedented and potentially catastrophic ones. Effective risk management requires prioritization: we must...
- Can Federal Courts Strike Down Regulations That Turned Expired Patents into Permanent Monopolies? Post-1970 federal regulations make it illegal to manufacture vehicles or machinery based on expired patents, effectively nullifying the Patent Clause's "li ...
- Decision-Aware Memory Cards: Counterfactual-Inspired Context Selection and Compression for Tool-Using LLM Agents ArXiv link for Decision-Aware Memory Cards: Counterfactual-Inspired Context Selection and Compression for Tool-Using LLM Agents ...
- The Dual Mechanisms of Spatial Variable Binding in Vision-Language Models ArXiv link for The Dual Mechanisms of Spatial Variable Binding in Vision-Language Models ...
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) (promoted)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenn (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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